Want Tons Of Free Traffic? Use A Marketing Funnel
June 27, 2009 6:30 am Online PromotionWhat's a "Marketing Funnel"? Why would I want one?
If you have something to sell online, such as a product, service or business opportunity, the "marketing funnel" is a tremendous strategy to generate a huge amount of free traffic to your website. It's one used by many top marketers across the net.
Let me explain the analogy. The narrow end of the funnel is your opt-in page or website, where prospects enter their email address and go through to make a direct sale. The wide end of the funnel is the catchment area, for all the potential online traffic coming from a wide variety of sources. If you build a very large, far-reaching funnel, you can drive an enormous amount of traffic.
So what exactly makes up the wide end, the catchment area, of the funnel?
Mostly, this will only be limited by your imagination and how big you want the funnel to be.
A powerful and productive funnel would certainly include some of the following areas: -
- Social Media sites such as Facebook, Myspace, Twitter and Orkut
- Video Media channels such as YouTube, Metacafe, Viddler and Revver
- Article Sites such as Ezine Articles, Article Base and Buzzle
- Blogs, eg. Blogspot, Wordpress and Wikis
- Social Review Sites, eg. Squidoo and Hubpages
In addition to this, you may also want to consider the following;
- Press Release sites such as Free-Press-Release.com
- Picture sites like Flickr and Zoomr
- Social Bookmarking and linking sites like Delicious, Digg, Stumbleupon and Propeller
Due to the huge amount of people using these social sites, you can generate all the traffic youll ever need simply by establishing and maintaining a presence on them.
It's all about putting out regular content to as many places as possible, always linking back to your opt-in page.
This strategy will boost your appearance as an authority figure, build your online presence, and expose you to a never-ending supply of prospects for you business. And you can effectively leverage your time. For example, just one article can provide you with an incredible amount of content for all these different networks.
An additional benefit of this system, is that due to all the back links, your search rankings for your main website in Google, Yahoo and others, will massively improve.
Once youre set up, the time required will become considerably less and less. But yes, it does take some time initially in setting up a quality social media traffic network.
The biggest amount of time spent will be in the initial set up of your accounts. After that, you'll just want to schedule your time to add content on a continuous basis.
This is obviously not something that can be mastered overnight, but the more of it you do, the bigger the pay off will be. As you gradually build your funnel, you'll become very proficient at it, and you'll see results super fast.
The more you do, the more you'll learn. You'll also find faster and easier ways to accomplish your main goals.
With being on the networks for a longer period of time, there'll be a snowball effect. You will accumulate a gigantic amount of credibility and followers.
Naturally, followers who like and trust you equals tons of traffic, which will ultimately lead to tons of sales and huge profits. Which is of course, the name of the game!
Wishing you Great Success, Graeme Stuart YourSuccessNetBiz.com
About the Author:
Graeme Stuart is a successful internet marketer and financial freedom mentor. To learn more about his most effective online wealth strategy and to receive a complimentary online marketing course, visit YourSuccessNetBiz.com