Site Traffic or the amount of visitors you can attract to  your site is crucial. In fact if you are not spending at least 30 minutes per day on trying to generate traffic then you are going to struggle to make money online.

There are many ways you can use to get visitors to your site, PPC, PPV, SEO but the quickest and easiest ways to get traffic to your site is by using bookmark sites.

Sites like Digg, Reddit and Propeller can send hundreds of visitors to your site each and every day.

If you use the following method I can guarantee you will see an increase in your site or blogs traffic.

Just put a post on your blog or add some content to your site and then post it to the book mark sites.

If you was going to do this manually this would take a while but there is a couple of free tools you can use and either one of them will do the job for you.

The first one is www.socialmarker.com and the second one is www.onlywire.com

Onlywire is the easiest and quickest to use. You have to download the onlywire submitter which lets you send your submissions from your desktop.

All you have to do is select which book mark sites you want to post to, but obviosely you have to have registered with the book mark sites first.

You enter the title and URL of your post, add your tags (keywords) and just click the submit button its that easy.

Onlywire then posts to as many social network sites that you are a member of. This is so easy to do and takes only a minute or two but people forget how powerful this is.

I have actually seen the traffic to my site double in just 24 hours using this simple method.

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Like most people who have looked at the internet as a way of making money I jumped from one offer to another in the hope of learning how to make money online. Let’s be honest with ourselves here, most of us have done this at some stage or another.

When I first started out I did not know about the KISS technique. For those unfamiliar with KISS, it stands for Keep It Simple Stupid. When I went back to the basics I started to make money, and continue to do so right up to the present day.

The simple way of earning money online is to use a technique called “Bum Marketing” this term was coined by Travis Sago, or rather his wife gave this technique its name. Travis developed a method that uses free techniques to earn money on line.

The basics of this system is that you find a niche in a low competition market, so instantly you need to stay away from niches to do with internet marketing and weight loss. I am not saying that you will not make money in these niches, but these are probably two of the most competitive niches you could choose.

Once you have found your niche and you have checked that there is a market to sell to, you then need to do keyword research for that niche. You then need to find a product to in your niche to sell as an affiliate. You can do this by going to clickbank and selecting a product based on popularity and how good the sales page is.

Once you have the product and your niche you need to do some detailed keyword research to find at least 30 keywords, and then you use these keywords to write at least 30 articles.

Once you have wrote your articles you need to create a landing page for your product you are selling. You can use pages from sites such as Squidoo, Hub Pages, or Blog Spot. You then post your articles on articles sites such as Ezine articles and Go articles.

You then find another low competitive niche and do the same process for that niche as well. You will at some stage start to make sales of your affiliate products, and then it is just a question of sticking with the products that sell and advertising them some more by writing more articles about them.

The products that do not sell you just drop them, or replace them with products that do sell. This strategy sounds more complicated than it actually is. Some bum marketers will tell you that you have to write 30 articles per day, and if you want to get things up and running fast this is true.

However you can also do it by writing 5 articles per day which will mean it will take you 6 days to be ready with your 30 articles, but it is up to you how fast or slow you want to do this. That is the beauty of bum marketing, you do it at your own pace and everything you need to implement this technique is free.

Also you can make a residual income from the articles you are writing using the Warrior forums, but more about that at a later date. To learn the full bum marketing method click this link here This will take you to Travis Sago’s own site and he will show you how to do Bum marketing properly and he does that for free, so it will not cost you a penny.

Bum marketing does require commitment and hard work but unlike some of the methods on sale on the internet, Bum marketing works and will allow you to earn money online.

Most affiliate marketer’s are always looking for the successful market that gives them the biggest pay check. Sometimes they think there is a magic formula that will make them better affiliates. Actually, it is easier than they think,  it is  mainly just good marketing practices that have been proven over years of hard work and dedication.

There are tactics that have worked before with online marketing and is continuing to work in the online affiliate marketing world of today. With these top three marketing tips, you will be able to  increase your sales and survive in affiliate marketing online.

The Three Tips

1) Using unique web pages to promote each separate product you are marketing. Do not lump 3 or 4 products together just to save some money on web hosting. It is best to have a site focusing on each product.

Always include product reviews on the website so visitors will have an initial understanding on what the product can do for them. Also include testimonials from users who have already tried the product. Be sure that these customers agree to allow you to use their names and photos on the site of the specific product you are marketing.

You can also write articles highlighting the uses of the product and include them on the website as an additional page. Make the pages attractive compelling and include calls to act on the information. Each headline should attract the readers to try and read more, even contact you. Highlight your special points. This will help your readers to learn what the page is about and will want them to find out more.

Use images and graphics to highlight the product. Include a picture of the product this will help to give the product relevance and will also break up the text. The old saying still stands “a picture can say a thousand words” and it will make your page look more appealing to the eye.

2) Offer free reports to your readers. If possible position them at the very top side of your page so it they simply cannot be missed.  Once you have them subscribed to your list you can use your autoresponder messages to increase the chance of them buying from you. According to research, a sale is closed usually on the seventh contact with a prospect.

Only two things can possibly happen with the web page alone: closed sale or the prospect leaving the page and never to return again. By placing useful information into their inboxes at certain times you will remind them of the product they thought they wanted. Be sure that the content is directed toward specific reasons to buy the product. Do not make it sound like a sales pitch.

Focus on important points like how the product can make their life easier, and more enjoyable. Include compelling subject lines in the email. As much as possible, avoid using the word “free”  in the title of the email, because there are still older spam filters that dumps those kind of contents into the junk before they get read. Convince those who signed up for your free reports that they will be missing something big if they do not purchase your products and services.

3) Get targeted traffic, if the person who visits your site has no interest whatsoever in what you are offering, they will move on and never come back. Write articles for publication in e-zines and e-reports. This way you can locate publications and readers that may need your product.

Try to write a minimum of 5 articles per day, with at least 300 – 400 words in length. By continuously writing and maintaining these articles you can generate as many as 100 targeted readers to your site in a day. Once you have posted 30 articles and you have not made a sale it may well be worth moving on to a different product.

Always remember that only 1 out of 100 people are likely to buy your product or get your services. If you can generate as much as 1,000 targeted hits for your website in a day, this means you can make 10 sales based on the average statistic.

The tactics given above do not really sound very difficult to do, if you think about it. It just requires a little time and an action plan on your part.

Outsourcing your marketing task tends to be thought of as something that only top marketers can actually afford to do, but this is not the case.

The truth is that there are a lot of tasks any marketer can outsource and it does not need to cost you very much.

One of the first things you could look to outsource is article writing. We all know that article marketing is great for SEO and for driving targeted traffic to our sites or blogs. The problem is that article marketing is very time consuming.

To outsource your article marketing you can go to sites like ellance.com or try one of the marketing forums such as the warrior forums. The warrior forum is a better option as you do not need to pay any fees to advertise a job. In the warrior forum there is a section where warrior’s offer their skills for hire.

You can usually get a article written for you for about $5 or less. You could then maybe even negotiate a price say for 10 articles and get each article for $3 each. Never pay for your articles in advance always wait until you have read the article first.

Another site you can use is fiverr.com this site is where people offer to do tasks for $5. You can get anything from an article written for you, to having someone post comments on your blogs, or even get testimonials for your products.

The other tasks you could look to outsource is link building, traffic generation and any task that you have to do on a daily basis. If you use fiverr.com for the cost of just $5 you could save yourself hours of work each day, or you could just outsource the jobs that you hate doing.

This will leave you plenty of time to concentrate on the important things like making more money.

Outsourcing is just as accessible for the newbie or small marketer as it is for the so called gurus, and it does not have to cost you hundreds of dollars per week to do it.

One of the things I use to be guilty of doing or in this case not doing, was planning my time to be more productive each day. This has now changed and I now get more done each day and this is a simple strategy that anyone can do and I would like to share with you how I do it.

I am sure that there are tasks that you do each day to improve your site ranking with seo or posting articles or creating products.

The simple way to maximise what you achieve is to give yourself a time limit to get each task done. For instance if you normally spend some time writing articles each day set a  time limit to do that. So you could set 9am – 10am each day for writing articles.

By setting a specific time you will find that you will be more focused to achieve that task in the allotted time.

There are however certain jobs as an online marketer that you must do each day. Whatever tasks you set yourself I would recommend putting the following 2 tasks as the first thing you do each day.

Traffic Generation
Getting traffic to your site or blog is crucial for your success online. I spend the first 60 minutes of each day doing things to drive traffic to my site.

These will include, forum or blog posting, article posting, PPC in fact whatever it takes to drive traffic I will give it a try and I will do some form of traffic generation every day at least 5 days per week.

Answering Comments
I always make sure that everyday I answer any comments that appear on my blog and answer any emails I receive from my subscribers. Doing this simple task helps to build a good relationship with your visitors and subscribers.

It also shows them that you are interested in what they have to say and that they can rely on you to give them feedback if they require it.

So if you are not allocating a specific amount of time to each task you need to do why not give it a try. I am sure you will be surprised at what you manage to fit into the time slot for each task.

Share with us how well it worked for you by posting a comment, or maybe you have another strategy for getting your tasks done each day that other visitors may want to hear about. Why not leave a comment and share it with us all, not only that buy by putting a link to your blog or site at the end of your comment will get you a back link for free.

As I mentioned in the previous post that it is important to try different ways of maximising opt in. One the best ways to increase opt ins is to actually remove something from your squeeze page.

No usually you would be looking to make a change or add something more to your squeeze page to increase opt ins, but one of the ways that will increase the number of people who sign up is by removing part of the opt in box itself.

Normally you would have a place where people have to add their name and main email address. If you remove the box where you ask for their name you will more than likely find your opt ins increase.

This is because people do not like to give away private information so by not asking for their name they feel safer and more comfortable in just giving you their email address.

Personally I prefer to have someone’s name and email address as I think you give a more personal touch to emails or newsletter if you use their first name.

Do not be put off by trying this though because if you find yourself really struggling with getting subscribers the above trick can give your email list building a boost to get you going again.

Testing the ways you present something as an Internet marketer is essential. If you are taking part in add swaps to help build your list then you need to test different versions of your squeeze page.

Yo could try altering the order in which you have the opt in box,s. If your opt in page has the email opt in box above the name one, try changing them around and see if that increases the amount of people subscribing.

You could try a different lay out to the page or try different bullet points. Try changing the background colour. You need to maximise your sign up rate with your squeeze page so that you get the most amount of sign ups possible.

When doing split testing it is important though to only change one thing at a time, and to keep a record of what works best. By doing this you will eventually be able to maximise your opt in rate.

Here is one of the best ways to increase your opt in rates when doing add swaps. Change the free report you are offering every couple of months.

Sticking to the same free gift every time you do an add swap will cause the number of opt ins to decrease over time.

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Well I am pleased to say that it looks like the summer months have finally arrived in the UK. I am sat in the garden with the thermometer just into the 70′s, that’s Fahrenheit by the way!

Here in the UK the first bit of sunshine and everyone goes mad throwing off jumpers and coats and replacing them with thin tops and t-shirts and shorts.

So what has this to do with summer time sales? as well as times like Christmas and Easter the lead up to summer can be a great time to get some boosts to your marketing sales. Most of us want to look good for the summer and the number of weddings taking place in summer months rockets.

If you are in the health and fitness niche then this could be a great time to really start pushing out those summer bargain offers regarding weight or fat loss programs, or workout programs for creating that toned and firm look.

If you are in the making money online niche then you could be looking to drum up sales by asking if your potential customers would like to be more finacially secure before the winter months set in, or target those that are already saving up for holidays or Christmas.

As a marketer you should be looking at every opportunity to make the most of different times of the year and be planning for the coming seasons  well in advance.

I am already starting to lay down some strategies for maximizing my Christmas sales later this year!

The biggest step you can take in internet marketing is the step from doing nothing to taking action. If you are not taking action every day then you are not moving forward. There is a saying that goes

“You can only fail if you do not try”

And if you are taking action by planning sales in advance then you cannot fail.

Right time for me to get back to my book and soaking up all this lovey warm sunshine which does go to prove that the saying is true about only mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the midday sun…..