Traffic Tactic 7 : Building an Avalanche like momentum
Like I always propose, “Traffic building starts the moment you decide to build a website”. If you think and change your mindset in this way, you’ll see different results. Why?
Because, your planning will depend on :–
What kind of market you are in?
What kind of keywords you are going to target?
What kind of promotion strategy you’ll use? or
What kind of customer retention techniques you’ll use?
How you’ll increase consumption of the product?
Every single questions needs to be answered if you are interested in getting loads of traffic.
Create An Avalanche Like Traffic
To build an ever growing traffic you need to work on your strategies, tactics as regularly as possible. If you remember from my old posts about Active and Passive techniques of getting traffic. Implementing those techniques will surely help, but you need to go beyond that.
If you take an example of avalanche, it starts with a tiny flake of snow and it all starts from there. As the time passes, it grows into a HUGE storm of snow with a huge potential of creating a disaster. This is what your image should be of getting traffic.
To make that tiny flake into Huge Storm.
One of the Techniques that you can use is called “Viral Marketing”. Mark Joyner termed this phenomenon and is pretty much god father when it comes to Viral Marketing.
Mike Filsaime is another person who’ve used something like this with great effect. He created FREE membership sites (with a Paid Upsell) and build his sites and list tremendously. Of course, It’s going to be hard to discuss his strategies in this blog.
But there are 3 things you can always consider from Viral Marketing.
1. Easy to Consume – If you can produce something which is easy to consume without any hassles then the chances of going viral is tremendous.
2. Reason to promote – You have to think Why people should promote your stuff. You have to give them reason, reasons good enough to make them get off their asses and write an email or may be an article or may be create a blog to promote it. Is it easy? Nope. Can it be done? Oh yes.
3. Ease of promotion. If you can make it easy to promote by providing stuff and examples then you further increase changes of getting your name out. In Mike filsaime’s case, anyone could promote his products/membership sites provided they had an email account. Now you tell me who doesn’t have an email account at this day and age?
Viral marketing and Words of mouth advertising is one of my favorite way. Because it pushes you to think beyond your current capability. Most often you’ll see that you’ll have high percentage of failure for these campaigns, but when they succeed, they’ll bring and create a HUGE momentum towards your site. All you have to do is capture this momentum and ride along.
How Just 15 minutes Added Extra $100 per day?
If I told you, just 15 minutes per day can add Extra $100/day, would you believe it?
Well, If I told myself this about 3 years ago, I never would.
As things, circumstances and mindset changes, so does perception. One of the good thing about building your own business is that you see miracles happening in front of your eyes. It’s like magic.
So The question remains, How can you add an extra $100 per day?
The answer is deceptively simple, by Adding more products to your catalog.
I helped one of my apprentice with creating her product catalog.
Like I always My advice was very simple and She stuck to it and followed it. I told her…
“Just spend 15 minutes per day, talking and recording your thoughts on XXXXXXX. In a month, You’ll have couple of products ready to sell. You can add it as an upsell, downsell, or just sell them stand alone, no matter what, it’ll add to your bottom-line.”
That’s exactly what she did. But she took my advice a bit far than I expected.
She spend more than 30 minutes per day (damn that woman, how dare she do more than what I advised?? 
).
She said, “I just couldn’t stop after 15 minutes, I needed to get things out of my mind so that it gets recorded and I was able to finish the product in 7 days”
So she just couldn’t stop herself after 15 minutes?
Of course, that’s what I was expecting from her. I baited her to do the speaking for 15 minutes and I knew, after 15 minutes, she’ll have so many ideas floating in her mind, she won’t be able to suppress them.
And I knew, if she makes a habit out of this, in a month, she’d have to worry about what to do with so much stuff. Guess what??? It worked.
That’s what I do in my life. That’s how I build simple habits to overcome any obstacles.
I am starting Effortless Writing Workshop which will show you how to write anything be it articles, sales letters, emails or web content effortlessly. There are few seats still left open, I highly recommend you to register your seat now.
Varun Pratap
Aim for that peak like mad.
Shadow Such people and Cheer Them On.
Getting Into the Zone
Just 10 minutes ago, I was banging my head on my table.
You see for damned reason, my neighbor decided, he doesn’t like his building, He tore it down and started re-building it.
Personally I am pissed about it for 2 reason
1. He’s making his guys work 24/7.
2. My bedroom is closest to his plot.
oh… how could I forget the 3rd reason.
3. He’s using some big ass machine to drill for god knows why.
Yup. to say I am irritated is an understatement.
Now I am worried about not sleeping properly as couple of Yoga Nidra (Yoga sleep) can take care of restless-ness, mild head irritation.
The reason I am irritated is because I am having problem with focusing on my work. I just couldn’t concentrate with all the noise.
Then 10 minutes ago, I realized something to my horror, I was making this same mistake for last couple of weeks. It was such a simple error that anyone can miss it unless pointed out.
Damn. Thank god, my irritation helped me find this before it becamea bad habit.
It all started with when I caught cold at the change of season. 4 days of cold, few bad habits creeping up and become permanent.
What happened with cold that my mental state changed and it became droopy-relaxed and I started going through motions of doing things rather than taking care of my state.
Now your state matters A LOT when you are working. If your mental state is good, it’ll show through your work, no doubt.
So if you are working on anything, you have to take care of your own state. That’s YOUR RESPONSIBILITY. Noone else will tell you if you should do your work with motivated state.
Because people (Your boss, wife, kids, friends) just want the thing to be done.
NO, it doesn’t work that way, when you want to succeed online.
You have to manage your state All the time.
There’ll be time when negative thoughts, patterns, feelings creeps up and instead of just sighing and reaching for anything sugary, you jump up and change your state.
Now after I realized this, I Stood up. Paced around the room for a minute. Sat back down and started typing. Now I am telling you about the State of Your Mind and it’s effect. And it has A LOT to do with your success.
Manage your state before you sit down to :-
Write
Create Video
Create new strategy
Work on new ideas.
Everything will stem from your state. Bad state = Bad Product = Bad result.
As I am nearing the end of this post, I have written pretty close to 550 words in about 14 minutes. This happens when you are in this state. Everything flows. Ideas, thoughts, expression, everything literally pours out and gets into the paper (or rather on keyboard) effortlessly.
And that’s the state I always tell others to achieve. Sure you can go in this zone like state in and out but constantly doing it on command it completely another thing.
Well my friend, this all I have right now. Have a great weekend and Happy Diwali (For those Of you who don’t know about Diwali, you can google it. It’s my favorite festival in India).
Best Regards
Varun Pratap
P.S. To get into the Zone, First have the Desire. Second, get the knowledge. Third Preserve
Until you succeed. If you are willing to do above success is yours to taking.
P.P.S. Effortless Writing Workshop http://www.imbasics.com/eff-write.html
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