Hello everyone,
Background:
I've been absent for a while as a result of working on this strategy. Now that it has born fruit I wanted to share it with you.
It's really simple, you probably already know of it, I sure did. But it wasn't until I experienced for myself the power of this strategy that I got completely hooked on it.
What's one of the biggest problems once you've set up a new website selling a product?
Traffic, or getting enough people to visit your site so you can start making sales.
I remember when I built my first website and sat back thinking, 'That's all the hard work done, now get ready to count the money!!' - LOL.
In the past I've used blog posts and web 2.0 materials like facebook, twitter and posterous to generate free traffic to my money site and about a month ago I reached the 100 visitors a day mark. But this has taken a LOT of hard work. I mean there's only so much you can write about some subjects.
Plus I was only bringing in about £300 a month, nice, but not enough to live on and support my family =)
The Strategy:
About 6 weeks ago I started to make a real effort to form relationships with other people in my niche who already had 'a big list'.
First by asking them questions, and second by trying to be as helpful to them as possible.
Well, as I direct result of that work, I logged onto my site on 15th March to find that my Micro Continuity site had jumped from 7 members to 179! Over a 5 day period this has climbed to 293 new members.
All as a direct result of 1 'big list' owner notifying his members as to my site.
Fine print:
Lessons:
Bottom Line:
If you're having difficulty with traffic, try finding someone in your niche who has a big list and form a relationship with them. I have found LinkedIn a great tool for this as the big players are easily approachable (through the groups they've joined) and, in my experience happy to answer questions.
Hope some of that is useful to someone. It's hard to beat that feeling of logging into your account and seeing that sales have gone through the roof:smx9:
Bye for now
Marcus
Background:
I've been absent for a while as a result of working on this strategy. Now that it has born fruit I wanted to share it with you.
It's really simple, you probably already know of it, I sure did. But it wasn't until I experienced for myself the power of this strategy that I got completely hooked on it.
What's one of the biggest problems once you've set up a new website selling a product?
Traffic, or getting enough people to visit your site so you can start making sales.
I remember when I built my first website and sat back thinking, 'That's all the hard work done, now get ready to count the money!!' - LOL.
In the past I've used blog posts and web 2.0 materials like facebook, twitter and posterous to generate free traffic to my money site and about a month ago I reached the 100 visitors a day mark. But this has taken a LOT of hard work. I mean there's only so much you can write about some subjects.
Plus I was only bringing in about £300 a month, nice, but not enough to live on and support my family =)
The Strategy:
About 6 weeks ago I started to make a real effort to form relationships with other people in my niche who already had 'a big list'.
First by asking them questions, and second by trying to be as helpful to them as possible.
Well, as I direct result of that work, I logged onto my site on 15th March to find that my Micro Continuity site had jumped from 7 members to 179! Over a 5 day period this has climbed to 293 new members.
All as a direct result of 1 'big list' owner notifying his members as to my site.
Fine print:
- The offer to his list was a $4.95 two trial of my 22 week home study course (material delivered online)
- This week I get to see how many people 'stick' after the trial. They will then pay $27 a month, for 5 months. Or until they unsubscribe.
- I set up this as a clickbank recurring product. Mr big list gets 75% of each sale. I get the rest after clickbank takes its cut (so about $6 - yeah, I'm not that excited about it either).
Lessons:
- If you do something like this, you better have good customer service skills and be prepared to be busy. I was swamped with people who screwed up their registration or experienced other problems.
- A major regret I have is that I get such a small amount of each sale. I have realised that in order to benefit more from this next time I need to have more 'back end' products available to sell. Or, increase the price point of the product.
- I have been amazed at how many people have bought the other products I sell, as a direct result of trying out the $4.95 trial. As mentioned in the point above, just wish I had more to offer them! So before you set up these relationships, make sure you've got your 'back end' in order.
- I have found it's a lot less work finding potential partners and building a relationship with them, than it is creating lots of unique, quality, free information to drive traffic. I made more money in 5 days from this venture than I did in the previous 4 months. And I can't wait to see what the stick rate is for this project!
Bottom Line:
If you're having difficulty with traffic, try finding someone in your niche who has a big list and form a relationship with them. I have found LinkedIn a great tool for this as the big players are easily approachable (through the groups they've joined) and, in my experience happy to answer questions.
Hope some of that is useful to someone. It's hard to beat that feeling of logging into your account and seeing that sales have gone through the roof:smx9:
Bye for now
Marcus
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