Traffic does NOT equals Money

If you ask any marketer “What’s your biggest headache in Internet Marketing?”.

Their answer will be “Getting traffic”.

I’ve personally asked quite a number of people, asked my subscribers with same result.

All of them had TRAFFIC problems.

And to say, this is one of the things that has been holding you back succeeding online. Your unconscious knows that you are not good at generating traffic and it holds you back.

You schedule your time and sit down in front of pc to do productive work, which often converts into 1 hr of email checking, 1/2 hr of stats checking, couple of hours of blog reading and may be 15 minutes to think about how the hell you are going to get traffic.

And by now you’ve ‘worked’ for at least 4 hrs without any productive result. And this goes on and on.

That’s why today’s blog post is about Traffic does NOT equals money.

It’s important to learn this lesson. You can generate business with even small amount of traffic. I bet you aren’t as bad as I was when I started to work on getting traffic. Less than 100 uniques per day. Sigh…

If you remember my story, I was getting less than 100 uniques per day (somewhere around 70–80). Even then I turned my blog into $20/day and then converted into $80 a day in about 2–3 months of testing.

Yes, I became far better at converting my low amount of traffic into money. Though I was trying to generate as much traffic as I could. I wasn’t getting any success at all. And this blog was in Highly competitive market.

In the end, I resigned and decided, I was far better in getting people to buy than getting traffic.

Become better a converting visitors into buyers.

Proper planning and approach, you can turn losers into winners. It’s not easy but when you start testing, it becomes like a video game. You test many things and plan many routes as possible to defeat the current level to jump into next level.

By step by step, you’ll start seeing how things are different in your blog/website.

You’ll understand what kind of voice you need.
You’ll understand what kind of content your visitors prefer.
You’ll understand what kind of stuff people are interested in buying.
You’ll understand how to motivate people to buy the stuff.

When you start thinking about results, you’ll start thinking differently. And you’ll be able to generate a decent income from even a paltry sum of traffic.

Remember One important conversion Rule : You cannot make other people buy your stuff. You can only help or guide them. Buying is their decision. And you do not have choice to make their decision. Ultimately, they’ll make the decision.

So get working on improving your conversion. Google’s Web optimizer is your friend. It’s far better than using hosted scripts (often they are pain in the ass to install).

Regards

Varun Pratap

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About the Author

Varun Pratap is working in online business as a pro blogger from 2004. His blog on Imbasics (Internet marketing Basics) is all about making money online ethically without resorting to tricks, techniques and gimmicks.

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