Tips For Beginners To Get Customers/Traffic To Your Business

by Jesse Carr Banned
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I decided I want to help some of you out there that may be struggling with starting a business or scaling a business. Maybe you do not know where to start or how to scale and here are a few tips that will definitely help you out.

Now, what is one thing all businesses have in common? They all need customers, they need customers to make money of course.

The first way to get customers and a free way I might add is social media. It is great for engaging with people that are interested in your niche. By posting frequently on social media and engaging with people you will for sure grow. However, this will take some time so have some patience.

If you want to go start with social media and have some money to spare, try Instagram influencers. These influencers post other peoples content and have a ton of engaging followers so it is perfect. Just make sure the page is related to your niche. For instance, if you own a restaurant find a page that takes pictures of food. Influencer shoutouts typically cost $20 for 24 hours.

Next and probably the most important is email marketing. You can create a simple $5 ad on Facebook and collect peoples emails and build a list. If you build a list of let's say at least 100 people which is not hard at all, those are then 100 potential customers that you can turn into buyers. Email marketing is, in my opinion, the #1 most important thing in a business. It is the meat and potatoes.

Lastly is create a business alliance. Basically its a group of businesses that help each other out, so if you are a landscaper, for instance, you may want to network with a real estate agent. That way if the real estate agent gets a new homeowner they will recommend you as their landscaper and you will get business. In return, you will recommend your real estate agent whenever you find potential clients for them, see what I mean?

That is pretty much it, I wanted to make this short and sweet since I know no one wants to read a post for hours haha. If you would like to contact me to talk to me a little bit more feel free to email me at jcarrbusiness8111@gmail.com

Hope this helped!

-Jesse
#beginners #business #customers or traffic #tips
  • To get free social media traffic, follow this 4-steps FB prospecting formula:
    1. Join FB Groups with same interests.
    2. Find & add more friends.
    3. Focus the topics on them and build rapport.
    4. Ask for permission to share your offer.
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    • Profile picture of the author Pablo Visconti
      Originally Posted by InternetMarketingMadeEZ View Post

      To get free social media traffic, follow this 4-steps FB prospecting formula:
      1. Join FB Groups with same interests.
      2. Find & add more friends.
      3. Focus the topics on them and build rapport.
      4. Ask for permission to share your offer.
      I think it's a bit more effective and less time consuming to "flip the process". Basically, making your profile a "lead magnet" of sorts, instead of talking to cold leads 1-on-1.

      Asking for permission to share an offer, is actually something i've seen quite a lot, so pretty common. Personally i don't like asking for permission to share the offer unless you know them very very well, (and even then...)
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      • Profile picture of the author Learning++
        So, in what scenarios do you share your offer?
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    • Profile picture of the author GivGivGivAsk
      Thanks for the help IMMEZ. But would you mind clarifying what you meant by #4. Sharing 1-on-1 or sharing to the group?
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    • Profile picture of the author okayservers1
      That was great insights. You can post offers in FB groups as well, to get traffic to website.
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  • Profile picture of the author savidge4
    Originally Posted by Jesse Carr View Post

    The first way to get customers and a free way I might add is social media. It is great for engaging with people that are interested in your niche. By posting frequently on social media and engaging with people you will for sure grow. However, this will take some time so have some patience.
    Wondering if you could expand on this? engage where? my page, on other pages?
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    • Profile picture of the author Jesse Carr
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      Sure! You want to engage with your fans (become friends with them) while you are growing they are more likely to share your page and be more engaging in return. Engage with other pages in your industry as well, liking commenting and following them. Also, engage with posts that are related to your industry that are getting a ton of traffic. Just get yourself out there, the more people that see your page hence in likes, comments etc, the more likely they will check you out. You can also look into DM groups to get quick growth. You can find them on an app called Telegram if you would like me to explain them just let me know ! Hope this helped!
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  • Profile picture of the author ninosem
    100% agree, building a list is basic of every business...

    Heres all you need to do to make money in this business.

    1.) Pick/generate a hot converting offer

    2.) Stick with that offer until you make it successful.

    3.) Drive traffic (blog, videomarketing, paid traffic....) to a squeeze page and build your list.

    4.) Build relationship with that list, market to it, share helpful tips and focus on 80% value 20% promotions.

    5.) Take profits, reinvest, scale up

    Thats it!!

    Make it simple and don't complicate too much...

    You can master process or outsource anything (copywriting, webinars, technical stuff) you hate doing along the way.
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    • Profile picture of the author OptedIn
      Originally Posted by ninosem View Post

      100% agree, building a list is basic of every business...
      Building a list is basic for many businesses, but not all.
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    • Profile picture of the author Dina Marais
      100% spot on ninosem.
      Just one thing, there is an art to promoting and selling and launching your products/programs/services so that you get huge sales and income injections and not just hope marketing.
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    • Profile picture of the author cgeorg07
      Originally Posted by ninosem View Post

      100% agree, building a list is basic of every business...

      Heres all you need to do to make money in this business.

      1.) Pick/generate a hot converting offer

      2.) Stick with that offer until you make it successful.

      3.) Drive traffic (blog, videomarketing, paid traffic....) to a squeeze page and build your list.

      4.) Build relationship with that list, market to it, share helpful tips and focus on 80% value 20% promotions.

      5.) Take profits, reinvest, scale up

      Thats it!!

      Make it simple and don't complicate too much...

      You can master process or outsource anything (copywriting, webinars, technical stuff) you hate doing along the way.
      Completely agree with @ninosem. Spamming FB group is an age-long practice that seems to doesn't work anymore. Admins, Mods, and even group members have watched hundreds of spammer before you.

      So, be creative, find a good offer, stick with it unless you can make some money.
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  • Profile picture of the author msulcs
    To add to this:
    1) Be active on Forums in your niche. Build rapport. The more people will see you, the more they will likely listen to you.
    2) Answer questions as an expert of a niche on Quora
    3) Engage in conversations on Reddit. Make valuable posts from time to time. Reddit is massive in terms of traffic.
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  • Profile picture of the author ryanbiddulph
    Hi Jesse,

    Making friends in and out of your niche makes your business explode. I get ample business through referrals by buddies in my blogging tips niche.
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  • Profile picture of the author portland7
    Wow I wish it was so easy to get customers, I am trying solo adds with UDIMI no luck so far, its hard to reinvest when you dont make any money
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    • Profile picture of the author Dina Marais
      ads are tricky, you really need to know your audience and how to define it for adverts AND to do market research so that you know what their top-of-mind problem is that you solve AND that they are prepared to pay for it and of course your lead magnet must be a precursor to the product/program/service you wish to sell and something they want.
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    • Profile picture of the author Jesse Carr
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      I don't really know what UDIMI or I may just not remember haha but do market research. Test ads that work and stop ads that don't. You can usually tell if it is not working within 2 days. Look at your competition as well and use what is working as Picasso said "good artists copy Great artists steal" so look at what is working and apply it to your ads and make it better. Lastly, one secret trick for you on facebook you can go on to a businesses page related to your business (competitors) and on the left side at the bottom of the menu it should say "Ads" click that and if they are running ads you can see their exact ad! If it has tons of engagement and views that means they are paying a ton of money on it and they wouldn't be paying money if it wasn't converting. Hope this helps!
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    scaling a business?

    sounds fishy
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  • Profile picture of the author Jafor Rockman
    I think the social media is the best option for marketing. Other media also good but not as the social media.
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    • Profile picture of the author dana67
      Originally Posted by Jafor Rockman View Post

      I think the social media is the best option for marketing. Other media also good but not as the social media.
      Social Media (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc.) is a great way to get quality traffic to sites and blogs. But remember it is not the only way.

      Lots of great tips in this thread.
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  • Profile picture of the author Rob Sandancer
    What will be the best link building strategy for gambling site?
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    • Profile picture of the author Jamel Hassell
      Link earning from high authoritive sites is the best way to go in my opinion.Google will penalize yoursite for having low quality links .
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    • Profile picture of the author Art of Asset Profit
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      Originally Posted by Rob Sandancer View Post

      What will be the best link building strategy for gambling site?

      Probably Hotels with Casinos, Lotteries, Addictions


      Art
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    • Profile picture of the author Jesse Carr
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      You could call it motivation, but you really have to just do it and not procrastinate. We would have tons and tons of success in this world (more than we do now) if people did not procrastinate.
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  • Profile picture of the author Niveda John
    Social Networks:This is one of the best and free ways to promote your app or business by posting about your new business to your friends and family on social networking websites like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Google Plus, LinkedIn etc. On this, social website there is a lot of groups, app installs and promotion groups which you can join and share your apps or business there for free. Using forums like Quora and Reddit is very important. This requires a ton of creativity, as you can't just go around promoting your business.
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  • Profile picture of the author AmyFoxss
    Social media is getting messy day by day still good source of traffic but way more complicated for let say a fish seller.
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  • Profile picture of the author Shanks88
    There are four ways to get customers/traffic fast:

    1. Paying (PPC, Display ads, Influencer ads, Email marketing)
    2. Communities & answers & dms & guestposts & chats
    3. Phonecalls
    4. JV with influencers (affiliate program & shop required) or some type of alliance as the one you describe but I don't know what kind of beginner starts his business career with a landscraper.

    Which portal is better depends where most of your audience is located but I suggest to focus on very few or even one portal before mixing others. Also, I suggest NOT to mess with some forms of paid advertising unless you are an expert, it's better if you outsource it to a specialist. Building a list through engaging paid ads & opt-ins is probably fine, cold sale on the other hand isn't.

    There are other ways too to do effective email marketing if you don't have a site like paying a proffesional who has the business contacts you need or buying email lists yourself from a trusted seller or scrapping them(if you are a hacker). There are also sites like d7leadfinder.
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  • Profile picture of the author be4morgan
    The use of the social media channel is really helpful in driving traffic to an e-commerce website that I am working with. It is easier to get a prospective client.
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  • Profile picture of the author ashwinsd
    Use social media like Facebook and Youtube.
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  • Profile picture of the author Suraj Ukarde
    Use social media channels as well as Q & A sessions
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  • Profile picture of the author rohinidubey
    try to get more leads with various platforms such as
    facebook,
    instagram,
    LinkedIn,
    social bookmarking
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  • Profile picture of the author Freenancial
    A really appreciate the effort to share this information, but I feel it's way more complicated. I'm right now trying to outreach my online business with almost no investment (because is a case study, not because I couldn't do it), and it's pretty dam complicated.
    Networking is to me the possibly best situation, but I don't really find the place to do it online (and I live in Spain and my business is for English speaking people!! :-( )

    Don't you think that this post makes things appear easier than they really are... or is just me?
    Thanks anyway... I really value the effort.
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    • Profile picture of the author OptedIn
      Originally Posted by Freenancial View Post

      Networking is to me the possibly best situation, but I don't really find the place to do it online (and I live in Spain and my business is for English speaking people!! :-( )
      I feel you need to think long and hard about that statement.
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      • Profile picture of the author Freenancial
        Which one statement? Could you please be more specific? Thanks.
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  • Profile picture of the author mckinley55
    Hi, thanks for sharing this very interesting informations but it's true that the article gives the impression that things are easy.

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    • Profile picture of the author Jesse Carr
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      It is not that it is in a sense difficult to do. It will take time and money but if you stick to it, it is not hard at all. People just overthink it and make it more difficult than it really is. So I will clarify it is not hard it is time-consuming and you got to be willing to go all in learning and applying as much as you can if that makes sense.
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  • Profile picture of the author Brent Stangel
    Don't you think that this post makes things appear easier than they really are... or is just me?
    It's not just you.

    It's inexperienced people restating generic information.

    Welcome to the Warrior forum.

    Brent
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    • Profile picture of the author OptedIn
      Originally Posted by Brent Stangel View Post

      It's not just you. It's inexperienced people restating generic information. Brent
      I prefer the word, 'regurgitating,' but very on point.
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    • Profile picture of the author Freenancial
      Thanks for answering! I'm just starting here and I try to be honest and give some value from my humble experience... I hope this forum has more value than the one you're pointing ... finger crossed! Jeje
      Cheers
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  • Profile picture of the author ZackZ
    Can anyone help me with the next following steps?

    I need to put an advertisement on IG using IG influencers. I have the ad made. I found an influencer and have agreed upon a price. Do I DM them the picture and what to write for the subheading? Do I post it myself on my stores IG account and ask them to copy it? I'm confused on what's the most most used way of giving them my advertisement. Always thanks for your help!
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    • Profile picture of the author LEE BYRON
      What sort of product you are selling? If it is a physical product, I advise let the influencer post in their way firstly then tag your account. After that you repost it with some compliments to this influencer as well as tag the influencer.
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  • Profile picture of the author anamikapower
    Sir this is the superb discussion. I like the strategy of getting emails from Facebook. I will definitely try this. thanks for sharing.
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  • Profile picture of the author Suraj Ukarde
    To Generate Traffic do Social Media Marketing On different channels like FB, Twitter, LinkedIn, Pinterest etc. as per business requirement. participate in Different Forum Activities with respect to your niche. participate in Q & A sessions and do social bookmarking.
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  • Profile picture of the author skylikemake
    Well, I think that this is something everyone knows already
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    • Profile picture of the author toydistrict
      Originally Posted by skylikemake View Post

      Well, I think that this is something everyone knows already
      Yes, common sense. The "linked removed" says it all really.
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    • Profile picture of the author OptedIn
      Originally Posted by skylikemake View Post

      Well, I think that this is something everyone knows already
      Is there anything in this thread that everyone doesn't already know? This is one of those, "I love to hear myself talk," threads - which unfortunately have become the norm in the past few months.
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      • Profile picture of the author savidge4
        Originally Posted by OptedIn View Post

        Is there anything in this thread that everyone doesn't already know? This is one of those, "I love to hear myself talk," threads - which unfortunately have become the norm in the past few months.
        The irony with this statement... the OP only posted the OP and nothing more.. I think you have said more in this thread than they did. hmmm
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        • Profile picture of the author Jeffery
          Originally Posted by savidge4 View Post

          The irony with this statement... the OP only posted the OP and nothing more.. I think you have said more in this thread than they did. hmmm
          Personally, I think that is a good thing. Why, because the Original Poster was totally wrong after posting..


          The first way to get customers and a free way I might add is social media. Blah Blah Blah

          and you know it! How do I know you know it? Because you yourself have posted many a time the correct "first way."



          I am not defending or endorsing Opted-in in any way shape or form.. I was raised better than that
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            Originally Posted by Jeffery View Post

            I am not defending or endorsing Opted-in in any way shape or form.
            Translation: "I love him, but some things should remain private!"
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    The "linked removed" says it all really.

    No - all that says is that mods felt the post was worthwhile - but a new member had not read rules about links so link was deleted.
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    • Profile picture of the author toydistrict
      Fair point.


      Originally Posted by Kay King View Post

      No - all that says is that mods felt the post was worthwhile - but a new member had not read rules about links so link was deleted.
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  • Profile picture of the author davidricherd
    Content Marketing & Social Media Promotion are the best Digital Marketing techniques to increase your website/blog traffic.
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  • Profile picture of the author Volt
    Thanks for the tips.
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      Originally Posted by Arun Nagiana View Post

      hope it may helps you ba
      SPAM link, reported!
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  • Profile picture of the author Varun121
    Social media creates more online branding presence for your business. The content played a vital role and it should be engaging one with attractive image.
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    • Profile picture of the author OptedIn
      Originally Posted by Ram Major Singh View Post

      There are many more ways to increase the traffic. few of them are
      Placing SPAM links in your post is NOT one of them. Reported as SPAM!
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  • Profile picture of the author RuthFrench
    Search for subscribers, buy them, advertise your page everywhere. And there will be the success.
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  • Profile picture of the author Digital Karnam
    Email marketing, FB marketing is ok., But what about youtube marketing
    can some one give me some tips for youtube marketing?
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    Everyone is going digital, so conventional methods of promotions are declining. Just do Digital Marketing to your products'
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  • Profile picture of the author portland7
    As anyone tried fiverr for a million emails, that's a lot of emails but I think its just spam however what is the difference with Udimi other than the amount, is that also spam? I do realise they are more selective in people and places. Interesting!
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    • Profile picture of the author Pablo Visconti
      Originally Posted by portland7 View Post

      As anyone tried fiverr for a million emails, that's a lot of emails but I think its just spam however what is the difference with Udimi other than the amount, is that also spam? I do realise they are more selective in people and places. Interesting!
      Don't you think that if you had 1 million emails, you wouldn't just be abe to send it yourself and make a BUNCH more than $5?

      Those emails are probably either not confirmed optins, they might be from different countries, from different niches...and only god know how they were obtained in the first place.

      You can try...but i wouldn't expect anything. I haven't searched up the gig, but the reviews are probably fake too. It's the only way people get noticed on fiverr nowadays...
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  • Profile picture of the author Jordan Sanders
    I read a lot of good advice here. I wanted to add that use cold outreach. I saw there were answers against working with cold leads. I think you can't ignore this way of getting your first customers. Of course, it's a long way of heating lead to the purchase. This way more preferable for pr purposes and bloggers outreach for reviewing your tool. Email marketing can't be ignored. I always for trying to connect with new people that can test my product and give fair feedback, searching emails with finders and making email campaigns with Snovio, Reply or other tools. If I fail to connect in Facebook, Linkedin or Twitter I go on finding their email with any mail finders and so on.
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  • Profile picture of the author William Rose
    Please let me know - Do Blog commenting still works for Google Ranking ?
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  • Your suggestions are good for a beginner. But you did not say anything about wave content. The buyer will not be attracted if there is no good wave content.
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  • Profile picture of the author boborsabags
    Hi, How do you get peoples' email addresses from Facebook?
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  • Profile picture of the author ganang
    I would like to suggest to use quora by answering peoples question related to your business, that way you get credibilty and exposure and not mention you will get a lot of traffic from that
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    quora in this case
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  • Profile picture of the author emrannk
    Send an email to your friends, family, and professional connections and ask them to help spread the news.
    Sending an email to your existing networks is a great way to leverage your existing relationships to get the word out. Remember that 92% of people trust referrals from friends, so the referrals can really help you drive some new traffic and/or customers.

    It's easy, just send two batch emails: 1) for your family and friends and 2) to business connections. (Tip: use BCC in your emails so you don't share your entire email list with everyone). Don't forget to put a note in the email explaining what you're hoping to achieve with your website. Ex. I've just launched my new site to help me grow my collaborative law practice or I've just hired a new crew and we're looking to take our business to the next level.

    I think you'll be surprised at how supportive your existing network will be in helping you get the word out, and at the very least you'll receive a nice spike in website traffic.
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  • Profile picture of the author Niveda John
    Thanks for sharing this . Use better social media sites for high traffic. Facebook , twitter , tumblr , pinterest and reddit are the best 5 sites .
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  • Profile picture of the author stevesmith01
    Thanks! For your Valuable information!. It helps me a lot in my business.
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  • Profile picture of the author Art of Asset Profit
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    Great contributions to learn from is more important that the OP got banned for whatever reason.

    These threads hold alot of great free info people are paying for but sometimes it is up to us to find the missing pieces on our own to turn into weapons in are marketing arsenal.

    I recently realized before you send out any Message or email read and re read your message because the way you intend it may not be the way it is perceived. That is critical.

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    • Profile picture of the author OptedIn
      Originally Posted by Amy Sheikh View Post

      An good online business needs an email list and many income streams in order to progress and develop his own business.
      Reported as SPAM! Merry Christmas!
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  • Profile picture of the author Amy Sheikh
    An Affiliate Marketing Business for beginners to set up is difficult however you can use various methods like;

    Paid Traffic
    Social Media (One to One) including Quora, Facebook and Youtube
    Make a Video and publish on Youtube
    Write an Article
    Write a Blog
    Make an Ebook and Share it for free
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  • Profile picture of the author ifmcinstitute
    Social media is the best way to get traffic for your business.
    If you are beginner, started a new business and want to attract more customers then share your business to the social media groups. It is a great way to get quality traffic to sites and blogs.
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  • Profile picture of the author Stephannie Baker
    Seems fair enough information. I guess this thread has a lot of good replies with people sharing their own thought. Thanks guys, I really enjoyed reading all of it. It was really helpful and I guess now I can start marketing my mom's business online. I think I'll need to book mark this page to remember all the points. Thanks again
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  • Profile picture of the author michaelmith1
    Thanks, IMMEZ. Such a great sharing. It is really helpful. Actually, I am a Business Consultant in U.S and familiar with finance, accounting, tax planning, and Business Consultation services.
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  • Profile picture of the author souravjns
    Thanks for sharing this info. But my question is, most of groups are closed groups and now a days, they are not allowing links. So what is the suggestion on this circumstances?

    Thanks and regards.
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  • Profile picture of the author amuro
    Hi Jesse, thank you for your info and tips.

    The best type of traffic - from my view and upbringing in my country Singapore - is social traffic be it on-or-offline.

    As in a group of people who KNOW, LIKE and TRUST you.

    Especially when you are promoting info products.

    But when it comes to physical products say Amazon, AliExpress or Shopify, you need to invest in paid advertising and reliable email marketing platforms.

    However 2 free methods I do recommend - if you are on tight budget is Carousell and Gumtree ads I have been using for a long time now.
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    • Profile picture of the author souravjns
      This works only for Singapore? Or could work other countries?
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  • Profile picture of the author Suraj Ukarde
    Write attractive content and follow magnet CTR method
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    • Profile picture of the author souravjns
      Would you please tell a bit more about magnet CTR?
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  • Profile picture of the author jasonbailey
    From my point, the best way to attract customers traffic to a website is to create great content. You must create a content strategy and use different variations: texts, videos, images, infographics. Also, start learning link building, because it's a great way to increase website traffic.
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  • Profile picture of the author Liam Jose
    I am not exactly a beginner however, I always make new website, experiment with it to see how it goes.

    Let me give you my strategy.

    1, Research keywords using Ubersuggest(I am not promoting Neil Patel or anything.I just like this tool)
    2,Find out the least competitive keyword with at least 800 hits per month.
    3, Now you're gonna get a couple of these keywords
    4,Type those in the google trends tool and see the trend and select the appropriate keyword.This trick is simple but most people don't do it.
    5,Write content using that particular keyword.
    6,Your content should be better than the competitor(Again the tool I mentioned before will help you see the SERP), which simply means lengthier, should provide more clarity and actionable steps with amazing pictures and videos.
    7,Do the on page SEO (Now please do not just repeat that keyword everywhere.Just use three.One in the heading if you can and also title and sprinkle in the article).Also use three tags in your wordpress and one category.Yoast SEO plugin will help you to make sure that other things are alright.
    8,Promote it in all the social media forums.When you do this, you shouldn't come off as spam so my strategy is to post a top 1 article in that particular social media before I share my article.
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  • Profile picture of the author kriyapatle
    There are many way to get traffic on website. all are given bellow:
    Social media marketing is best way to increase traffic on website. There are many platform to increase traffic we have to select according our business. Likewise FB, Instagram,
    Twitter,Pinterest
    Social bookmarking
    Forum submission
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  • Profile picture of the author arohi56
    To get more traffic you need to maintain your online presence. Social media is now vastly used and taking over the internet, businesses have the opportunity to reach thousands of customers instantaneously. By using social media, you are allowing yourself to reach a wider range of target customers.
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  • Profile picture of the author rafimahmudbd24
    Utilizing these eight stages all together gives you that center.

    Be straightforward. ...

    Organize and choose to change those things that aren't working first. ...

    Bond. ...

    Assemble. ...

    Use retail deals preparing so your group can move instead of agent your stock
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  • Profile picture of the author immwit
    Absolutely Right!! Sharing Post regarding products and services on Social Sites is a Good Idea but make sure it should not be promotional, should be User-Friendly. As Google does not support the promotional contents. The Marketing in Social Media is an art to state your Products or services to tons of users and Niche customers.
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  • Profile picture of the author Modern Streaming
    Social Engagement is the best way to get unique traffic.. & it all depends your shareable content. Your content must be unique and easy to engage with user.
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  • Profile picture of the author rohinidubey
    thank you for such valuable tips
    I would like to add that you can get more traffic through
    1>facebook
    2>twitter
    3>linkedin
    and joining groups also helps in various ways
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  • Profile picture of the author kkll78
    I have had some great success with FB groups in my niche and locating targeted people...
    I figure out my target market/people and go after groups that they are in and build my own group and page. You take them from being cold leads to warm leads once you do this.
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  • Profile picture of the author michaelmith1
    Really helpful. Your thoughts are valuable. Thank you for this post. Yes, the post is too long but it is helpful.
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  • Profile picture of the author Sagar Rathod
    I also follow these steps, generally Instagram influencers not work pretty well, we will not get quality traffic or leads by that, their are chances we might increase bounce back rate.

    Instead of that, there are more platforms so that you can get more traffic easily do the digital marketing.

    For that you can get help from Google Adwords, Facebook Ads, Twitter campaign, email marketing as you mentioned.

    And all the other stuff you explained pretty well.

    And if you need any further help with your business be sure to look into this >> Leo TechnoSoft's BOMT (BUILD-OPERATE-MARKET-TRANSFORM).
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    • Profile picture of the author DURABLEOILCOM
      Free Traffic Generation:
      Utilize all social media take advantage of hashtags, groups, friends and follow others.
      Facebook
      Instagram
      Twitter
      LinkedIn
      Make sure to utilize YouTube by creating great videos, Help people by answering questions related to your niche on Yahoo Answers and Quora. Be sure to post on all Forums, and Free Classifieds like Craigslist and Backpage. You can also do Blog Commenting for traffic as well. Creating great content like Infographics is also a great way to get traffic.

      Remember that all though these methods do not cost money they cost a lot of time and effort.
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