Top 3 Ways To Generate Low Cost Website Traffic
(c) Copyright 2006 by Steve Casteel

Did you know that...
there is only one hard and fast rule in generating income for your website:

A steady flow of website traffic.

If no one goes to your site, it stands no chance of
generating any income. It takes money to maintain an income
generating site;

But, how do you generate website traffic without busting
your wallet? The big hitter sites are spending tons of money
to drive the traffic to their sites. They invest in many
advertising campaigns and different forms of marketing
schemes. This works great for them because, well, they are
what they are, high earning, big hitting websites with huge
advertising budgets.

I am going to share with you the top five low cost ways that
I use to generate a substantial amount of traffic. They all
take time and essentially what you are doing withthese
traffic methods is trading time for money.

Tip #1 Exchange Links
Exchanging links with similar themed websites is a sure and
proven method of generating traffic to your website. You
will get two direct and powerful benefits from having a
robust link exchange program.

The first is that your page rank will increase as the number
of other sites linking to you increase. Your increasing page
rank will have a dramatic effect on your search engine
ranking, and as your search engine rank increases your
traffic will also increase. There is no better traffic than
the traffic you receive from search engines. It is highly
targeted and it is free! As far as traffic goes, it doesn't
get any better than that!

The second benefit of a strong linking strategy will be the
traffic that actually receive from the links pointing to
your site. Developing a reciprocal linking program is the
best thing that you can do with your new website to increase
your traffic.

Tip #2 Write and Submit Articles
With all of the websites, newsletters, and ezines out there
searching for content, writing and distributing articles are
another great way to get quality traffic to your website.
You should make sure that your articles are well researched,
and relevant to the theme of your site. If you are not
comfortable with your writing ability you hire a ghost
writer to write articles for you or take advantage of the
many private label rights websites that have sprung up
lately.


Tip #3 Join Online Communities and Forums
Being active in online communities forums in your niche
market is an excellent way to get traffic to your site. If
you are not familiar with online forums they are communities
of people sharing common interests on all types of
subjects.

You advertise your website or prduct with your signature
file that is placed at the end of every post that you make
in the forum. Spend some time reading other members posts
before you start posting. An effective method is to find a
common problem in the community and provide a solution to
it. This will also allow you to establish yourself as
someone knowledgeable about the subject which will help your
credibility in the community.

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By using the methods outlined above you can begin to
generate a substantial amount of quality traffic to your
website for little or no cost. Once you begin to get traffic
sales will follow and with sales you will have money to
start advertising to generate even more traffic.

Don't wait. Put these methods into action now and sooner
than you think you may be one of the big hitter websites
that everyone is loking for!

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About The Author
Steve Casteel is the webmaster and owner of The Online
Business Center where you can fnd many more tools, tips and
resources to start or grow your online business.
Visit The Online Business Center
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The 5 Benefits Of A Funded Proposal

What Is A Funded Proposal?

A funded proposal is a type of marketing where you market a low cost, but very useful product on the front end in order to get prospects or leads and then selling a more expensive product on the back end. It is an incresibly effective and smart marketing method and is used by all of the big money makers in the network marketing industry. A funded proposal allows you to make immediate profits so you can afford to pay for advertising.

Funded Proposal Benefits

1) The sales of your low cost product allows you to increase your cash flow immediately so that your expenses are dramatically reduced.

2) Sponsoring an exisiting customer is much easier and cheaper than than trying to sponsor a stranger. You should never try to sell a prospect on your business opportunity the first time you meet. Instead, pitch them on your inexpensive front end product which will help as well as build the level of trust that you must have with prospects in order to be successful.

3) Funded proposals allow you to position yourself as an expert with your prospect by offering them a solution, a system and your help.

4) You get a chance to educate your prospects that might just might be future business partners instead of just trying to sell them on hype and a dream which in the long run is extremely short sighted. Why not sell them a product that will turn them into a better business owner right from the start?

5) Funded proposals also allow you to get your newest reps into positive cash flow almost immediately. This create confidence and momemtum in your team which can't ever be anything but positive.

As you can see using, a funded proposal marketing system can really make a difference in your bottom line. If you are not using this method in your business now you may want to think about starting. It can make a huge difference for you.

If you like to learn more about funded proposal marketing systems take a look at Pay It Forward 4 Profits and get the real skinny on how to use funded proposal marketing systems to turn around your network marketing fortunes.

Funded Proposal Marketing

4 Hot MySpace Marketing Tips

MySpace is the second most popular site on the net behind only Yahoo. Its 100 million registered users generate over 35 Billion page views a month! And contrary to popular belief not everyone on MySpace is a teenager. MySpace has become mainstream with half of its users being at least 35 years old.

With this many people gathered in one place on the net, finding an ethical way to get your products in front of as many qualified MySpace users as possible should be the focus of every savvy marketer.

Tip #1

The money is still in the list. In this case your MySpace friends list. Since MySpace is a networking site focus on building a network of friends. Don't waste your time adding every Tom, Dick, and Harry to your friends list. Your goal should be to concentrate on adding people to your list that are actually interested in the products that you are marketing. A friends list containing 100 people that are widget users is much more valuable than a list of 100,000 friends that have no use for widgets!

Tip #2

Build a relationship with your list of friends. The whole purpose of MySpace is to interact with each other. Use the many communication tools available to be an active member of the MySpace community. Avoid letting your list become stale.
The key to converting MySpace users into paying customers is by staying in constant contact with them, and providing them with a good reason to read the marketing messages you send.

Tip #3

Provide High-quality, relevant content. You can post audio & video, send people messages and comments, deliver bulletins to all your friends...
you can even post blog entries and make comments in a forum.

There are a lot of ways to share your content with fellow MySpace users.
But, the only way to get them to visit your site and buy your product is if you provide them good information that solves a problem, or fulfills a need they are currently experiencing.

Tip #4

Use the power of curiosity to drive people back to your site and get them in your follow-up marketing system.

MySpace Marketing is still very new, and the rules of the game constantly change. Therefore it's essential that you find a way to draw people away from MySpace and integrate them into your proven marketing campaigns.

There is no denying that MySpace Marketing works and it's simple, free, and effective. Go ahead and try it... You've no reason not to.

Steve

Welcome To Funded Proposal Profits!

My name is Steve Casteel and I plan to use this blog to document and share my experiences with my Funded Proposal Business Franchise

I am have been involved in a number of Network Marketing business opportunities and have had my share of ups and downs while learning how to be a good maketer.

Now that I am finally starting to see some success I would like to share the things that I have learned so hopefully others can avoid making the mistakes that I have made.

Until the next post,
Steve

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