Thread: New Business Direction

Not sure on the first 2.

For the 3rd one I would be concerned if I waited a long time to get to 1000 as the first people probably have moved on to other things.

Not sure how you would go about say people who signed up this week get the first newsletter in 1 week, next one 2 weeks etc.

Then people who sign up next week same thing so they are a week behind.

You missed one....
Section 2a - get lots of traffic

and just how do you plan on doing that?

Originally Posted by PatrickP

Not sure on the first 2.

For the 3rd one I would be concerned if I waited a long time to get to 1000 as the first people probably have moved on to other things.

Not sure how you would go about say people who signed up this week get the first newsletter in 1 week, next one 2 weeks etc.

Then people who sign up next week same thing so they are a week behind.

Yeh I think I would have to start offering newsletter right away instead of waiting around for a certain amount of people to sign up before I start sending emailing newsletters out.

I guess I'm wondering is that how other people out there who have started there own business' FROM SCRATCH through creating a blog/gathering a list/selling products have done it?

Originally Posted by healthstatus

You missed one....
Section 2a - get lots of traffic

and just how do you plan on doing that?

Hahaha!!

Yeh Good question!

Well, first thing I gotta be doing is creating really awesome content! Offering lots of value!

A few other ideas are other things like syndicate this content around, tap into social media, blog carnivals, guest blog two or more times a week, solo ad's in other peoples subscriber lists, writing super hot content/article for someone else's newsletter (related to the niche), post in related forums really helping people, word-of-mouth, ranking for some lower competitive keywords, etc

Its all gonna take time I know... and I'm new to this too so Im still learning =)

Oz

Originally Posted by healthstatus

You missed one....
Section 2a - get lots of traffic

and just how do you plan on doing that?

Not meaning to hijack the thread, but this is basically what I asked in someone else's thread a week or so ago and got mega-flamed for it, haha.

This is truly the biggest piece of the puzzle for any website. Have traffic - easy to make sales. Have little to no traffic - hard to make sales.

Originally Posted by kwerner

This is truly the biggest piece of the puzzle for any website

I agree.

Do you have any information on building traffic?

I found this post quite helpful: » 21 Steps to 1,000 Visitors Per Day

Originally Posted by ozbuck

I agree.

Do you have any information on building traffic?

I've found that instead of trying to create traffic where little to none exists, it's better to go where the already existing traffic is and set up shop there.

Originally Posted by kwerner

I've found that instead of trying to create traffic where little to none exists, it's better to go where the already existing traffic is and set up shop there.

Does this also include going to where traffic already exists in my niche (popular blogs/websites/pages/subscription lists,etc) and gather traffic from there to MY blog by guestblogging, guest articles, advertising, etc ?

Is this one example of that approach?

I guess it could be, but what I was specifically referring to was trying to compete for keywords that are getting tens of thousands of searches a month instead of a couple / few thousand searches a month.


Pretend that your website is a roadside billboard.

Do you think you'd get reach more customers and generate more sales by putting your billboard...

Here:



Or Here:


Stick your billboard where the traffic already exists and you won't have to work as hard to make sales.

Yeh fair enough.

Even if it takes any extra 6-12 months to compete for those highly competitive keywords it's still worth it in the end

Originally Posted by kwerner

Have traffic - easy to make sales.

Where is the BS meter when you need it?? I have little sites that have really good conversion rates, my big site with lots of traffic has HORRIBLE conversion rates. Buyer traffic++ info seeker traffic--

Originally Posted by healthstatus

Buyer traffic++ info seeker traffic--

applause++

Originally Posted by ozbuck

I agree.
I found this post quite helpful: » 21 Steps to 1,000 Visitors Per Day

12 will get you banned from Google based on the latest update, and many of those (like the rocket deal) don't work without traffic. At this point in time on the Internet, other than spending money, I don't think anyone can give you a sure fire way to quickly rank and pull traffic. Six months ago that was a different story, I helped a few people around here and they got some lift, then the Penguin update hit a couple of them. Watch the recommendations you follow, especially from tactics more than a month old as they can easily get you the opposite result you wanted.

As to the post about going where the traffic is, this is excellent and current advice, answers.yahoo.com has a large health section and lots of traffic, advertise on other health websites, make youtube videos, livestrong.com has an excellent health forum. Search for your keywords, find the sites that rank and go find out how you can be part of the community.

Originally Posted by healthstatus

Where is the BS meter when you need it?? I have little sites that have really good conversion rates, my big site with lots of traffic has HORRIBLE conversion rates. Buyer traffic++ info seeker traffic--

I guess I left out mentioning that as long as your keywords are 'buy phrase' keywords, having traffic - easy to make sales, I figured that was assumed.

But even with your site that gets lots of traffic, you're still able to get sales in the forms of advertisements, correct?

Yes, once you hit a couple of million page views a month advertising can pay some bills, but if you get 50,000 visitors/month, and say 150,000 page views, you "might" make $400.00 a month on CPM advertising (unless you spend a lot of time selling your advertising slots and you make $1200.00). 100,000 visitors of buyer traffic is worth WAY more than you can ever achieve just on the ad side. I only jumped in because a lot of newbies assume any traffic is good traffic.

Originally Posted by healthstatus

but if you get 50,000 visitors/month, and say 150,000 page views, you "might" make $400.00 a month on CPM advertising

Wow, I didn't realize it was *that* bad! Thanks for the info.