Traffic is the golden key to unlocking treasure chests full of cash online…
If you can get traffic, money comes at will.
So with that said, here’s a run down of my top 10 favorite traffic methods for 2012…
Some of these apply to affiliates. Some apply to product owners. But ALL of them work…
1. Joint ventures and ad swaps.
If you have an opt in e-mail list, you can *leverage it* by offering to swap ads with other list owners. They run your product ad, and you run theirs. It’s literally that simple!
2. E-mail list traffic.
This is obviously related to #1. You need a list! Most visitors to your site won’t buy the first time. They’ll buy after repeated exposure. Or, they’ll buy a *different* offer from you, more suited to their needs.
But the biggest benefit is that with a properly “groomed” list (where you offer VALUE to your subscribers and treat them how you’d want to be treated), you can make thousands of dollars with a single e-mail, in just 24 hours or less!
It’s quite likely the easiest money you’ll ever make in your LIFE. And people just like you are doing it every day.
3. Affiliate traffic.
This is why it’s so critical that you become not just an affiliate, but a *product owner* as well. You can have dozens, or hundreds, or even *thousands* of affiliates promoting your product for a commission…
You only “pay” for the traffic when an affiliate makes a sale. I’ve had a SINGLE affiliate send me over 6 figures in sales!
4. Solo ads.
Don’t have an e-mail list of your own? You can STILL benefit with the power of e-mail marketing by “renting” somebody else’s e-mail list for a day. This is typically done by purchasing a “solo ad”, where the list owner sends out your e-mail promotion to their entire list for a fee.
I made my very first sale ever online by running a solo ad, and they’re just as popular as ever today!
5. Warrior Special Offers Forum.
If you have an Internet marketing related, or “make money online” related product, the special offers section of Warrior Forum is an *awesome* place to get it in front of a “captive audience” of thousands of prospective BUYERS—for only $40.
If you run an affiliate program, you can have your affiliates promoting your Warrior Special Offer, and amass even more sales that way.
Not long ago I ran a Warrior Special Offer that grossed over $30,000 in just a few days! And results like mine are happening *all the time* at the forum.
6. Pay-per-click.
Pay per click traffic, such as that through Google AdWords or Facebook Ads, is another *proven* method where you pay “x” amount of cents for every click to your website or blog…
The key here is to TEST small, until you’re profitable, and THEN go big.
If you can make $2 for every dollar you spend, how many dollars would you spend?! ;-)
7. YouTube/video traffic.
The key to getting traffic from videos is to create a “channel” dedicated to one niche, or one topic, and then producing *consistent*, quality videos for that channel day by day and week by week…
The point is to get subscribers to your channel, who will be alerted to every video you post. In this way, it’s very much like the benefits of an e-mail list, except that you’re uploading a video rather than sending an e-mail message.
8. Article marketing.
Write an article, and use it in EVERY way you possibly can! Submit it to your blog. Submit it to the popular article directories. Convert it to video! Compile related articles into reports and e-books and submit them to doc sharing sites. Etc!
Obviously you’ll want a “resource box” attached to the bottom of each article you write, that links to your website or offer. Check out other articles for good examples. Look for the resource boxes that make YOU want to click, and model after them.
9. Viral marketing.
There are countless ways to take advantage of viral marketing. If you can write a report or create a video that is “shocking enough” or “valuable enough” or “entertaining enough” to go viral, you can get more FREE traffic than you ever imagined! You’ve already seen the *proof* of this over and over again on YouTube and elsewhere.
Here again, take queues from, and model after, that which is already working—content that has already gone viral.
10. Forum and community marketing.
Participate in forums related to your niche market (such as Internet marketing, golf etc.), and become recognized as an expert on your topic…
The traffic comes from including a forum “signature file” that automatically appears after each forum post…But another “hidden benefit” is that forum threads can be indexed by search engines, meaning even one post or thread can get traffic for years to come, long after it’s been “buried” on the forum!
Master even ONE of these methods and you’d have to screw *everything* else up in order NOT to make cash *at will* online!
Don’t forget, have FUN at making money online—the way it should be! :)
Bryan Winters is the architect of the free list building website, 5iphon Hardcore, that gets you 5 *more* subscribers for every ONE you bring in.