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This is not a sales letter. Merely an introduction. Website traffic is changing due to the increased user interest in Web 2.0 - (social and interactive web properties). My name is Laura Childs and I run my online business while living deep in the countryside of Ontario Canada. Have been for 11 years now and I wouldn't trade it for all the glitz and glamour the world has to offer. During that time I've never punched a time clock or worried about the length of a commute. I wake to the rooster crowing, the horses running past my bedroom window (they actually make quite a racket!), and I get myself to work - three doors down and to the right - the home office! Over the years, through contact on various websites around the internet, I've had hundreds, perhaps thousands of people write to me and tell me I'm "living the dream". Some days feel just like that. That my life couldn't be any more ideal... The 'Run An Online Business' DreamBut I do have a secret to share that began back when I almost 'gave it all up' and threw in the towel of online business... Sales were slumping, and traffic declining even though I knew more people were coming online every day. I knew I could just coast and learn to live more carefully off the money my online business was making, but I like to fight. I admit it. I wanted my sales and website traffic back! So I hit the books (so to speak) and dug into the numbers... And at the end of that dark journey of research and discovery - right before I returned to raising horses and painting murals for a living - I discovered a fount of new website traffic sources. I know it's hard to believe, that the shift in online activity could be so different than it was just a year ago (even more drastic if you look back two years) but it most certainly has changed. And, if you want to keep your online business in the black you've got to learn about it. This is the traffic that saved my business. Here's how the story goes: In 2004 I came upon an awesome discovery about using RSS Feeds to drive a stampede of traffic to any website (well nearly any website - we couldn't spin an RSS Feed for one fellow and his unethical business offers). I shared my findings with Dr. Joe Vitale and performed a few short tests on his site. The results were so good that Joe and I wrote a book about it and kept customers updated through a Member's Area for two years before we closed the doors. That was the old Stampede Secret. I stopped selling the old Stampede Secret when the techniques inside stopped working as well. And, as I said, I was ready to just give up completely on online business. Where Has All The Traffic Gone?I didn't understand it. I had been a master at getting free website traffic for years and still held many coveted #1 spots in Google and Yahoo. But even with those top search engine spots, the traffic had slowed to a fraction of it's former glory. All the niches I had tucked away under a separate name, all the sites I had spent the last three years testing traffic techniques on - the whole works was going to go! But there was one more traffic theory to try. An inkling of a source so special, no one else could (or would) ever share it with me. And business got better. A lot better. I know that is hard to believe. But I promise you it’s true. In fact, I’ll tell you one of those secrets... "Why," I asked, "hasn't any other traffic expert been sharing these secrets?" So I began to write and share. I posted those Web 2.0 traffic sources on my general internet marketing blog. Before I knew it, well, everyone was talking about capitalizing on the Web 2.0 craze for traffic! I'm sure it was just a matter of timing - after all the internet has been logging citations of Web 2.0 for years. 9 million results were listed on google alone back in 2005. This stuff isn't new - I don't care who tells you it is. I've since taken most of those posts down - you'll still find a few, tucked away in cobweb corners on my website marketing blog - but many had be deleted, page rank and all! The old Web 2.0 content was, in a sense, misleading people who did not have direct contact with me. Far too generic to work effectively. "What's needed," one of my subscribers wrote, "are the answers for the rest of us..." So I dug deep and kept better notes. I banged out, and re-tested my theories across multiple niches. I kept close examination of everything I'd done to make a drastic difference to my website traffic. Most of my traffic sources had been right under my nose the entire time. Some of them would only show themselves through intense and relentless research. Still more came about as a result of quiet and careful contemplation. (Think strategically.) Increase Your Traffic - Save Your BusinessListen, I’ve been online creating websites since my daughter was 3. She is now just a few months away from 14. I’ve been relatively private about the work I do or the niches I target. Usually when I make one of my niche websites known or special traffic sources public, I end up with cut-throat competition in my market and somehow the dirty players will find a way to get that site blacklisted. The Scoundrels Sucking People In...Take note, the 'experts' in this industry are very good at what they do - in fact I heard one of the most respected Web 2.0 authorities publicly state on an audio last month that "we (marketers) are not bound to any moral or ethical codes..." The thought of that just makes me sick to my stomach. Thousands of people are being sucked in by this person without really knowing the person they're blindly following. So I've been keeping to myself to steer clear of the wolves. Keeping my sites and traffic stats private. In fact some of my sites, my husband doesn't even know exist! And there's only one other marketer I trust enough to even know the name I have my business tucked away under... I know that some of the 'big' names in marketing will show you their money makers, or screen captured versions of their income - but for those of us who wouldn't even consider sinking so low as to damage a fellow entrepreneur's reputation, we need to keep quiet. Because we also don't know how to protect ourselves. Let's get back to talking about traffic. Web 2.0 TrafficTraffic that is highly targeted to your market. "The magic of targeted traffic is all in the strategy, not in the..." Grunt work. That's what many traffic ebooks and courses today have you doing. Grunt work that the big dogs instructed their freelancer to write about, perhaps test and track - then again, perhaps not. What if you knew how to get website visitors without working like a monkey? What if you knew a smarter way to double your traffic by defining, then employing, an actual strategy? A strategy that no one else seems to want to share...a strategy that works in the new Web 2.0 world! It's not geek-power, it's not even hour-power, (and it sure as heck isn't spamming!), it's simply a matter of putting your brain to use once you learn the strategy. And it should double your traffic, month after month if you keep working it, with no more than a few hours of your time. Furthermore it's worked across multiple niches, even in some very competitive markets, on old and newer sites alike... Here's one of my test-throw-away sites I was talking about once I used the strategy I laid out for it. It's a screenshot from a third party (you can even go check it yourself right now...)
Now I know full well that 2,000 visitors won't put more horses in your stable, but given that this site went from under 300 website visitors a month in August, to 2100 in February, with just a piece of the strategy, you'll see why I'm so excited. (A word of caution for anyone who considers surfing over and reverse engineering the work I'd done on, or to, that site since December...forget it. I back-peddled nearly everything and if you follow what's showing there you'll be no richer in traffic for your efforts. I didn't do this to be rude, but to save people who believe there are shortcuts to the glory.) I don't want you guessing when you could be knowing, thinking, and devising a strategy that makes sense in the long term. Look: if you want to flood your website with eager readers and buyers, if you want higher search engine ranking without much extra work (yes I did forget to mention that added benefit), if you want to double, triple or more, your targeted traffic then remember this word. Strategy. Not Grunt Work. Strategy. Smart business ownership. No more chasing rainbows. This is something that very few marketers teach - heck I'm not even sure all that many even think about it. Let alone how to employ strategy to make money ethically. As you’ll see, this is about to set new standards in online business and change the way you think about your business forever. Because no one else is talking about this stuff in a manner that makes sense to your business - unless you're in the same business they are. Yet it is the very core of all you do for your online business - from targeted traffic to sales, to subscribers. Think about it, most of them are telling you to head over and spam MySpace, then go 'digg' your articles, then set up multiple free accounts over here, and oh yes, you must buy this software to automate the entire process...and, and... Ugh. No matter how you slice it, it's grunt work. It's hours of your life. And I'm still not convinced that any of it works in spades - outside of the geek, gadget or marketing crowd. Tiffany Dow (at right) is referencing a work that I wrote early in 2007. That product included personal consultation. For six months I sold it right here on the page you're reading now. But life changed again. And I couldn't devote as much time to my subscribers and clients as I've been able to in the past. You see I have an open door policy. If my customers need me - to bounce ideas off of, to create a strategy with, or to help unearth the Web 2.0 traffic that they were looking for - I'd be there. Right now I just don't have that kind of time. But when I do have a few moments to spare I will continue to post Web 2.0 traffic techniques within these pages and I will announce new sources of niche traffic websites that may appeal to your business. Remember, it's all about you and your target market. Not what your fellow entrepreneur is doing in their market. I want to see you 'market smart' not blindly follow. Now that you know 'who I am', who I try to steer clear of, and why I want you to be so mindful of your online business, I do hope to see you 'inside' where you can learn about, read about, and uncover your own Web 2.0 traffic sources! Truly,
Laura Childs
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Want to Know What Possibly Was Shared That You Didn't Already Know About Online Business? I'll let Tiffany Dow tell you since she's the first person I shared the strategy with. Tiffany, if you don't know her already, spent years as a ghostwriter for Rich Schefren, John Reese, Jimmy Brown and other marketing gurus. The woman knows her stuff so well that the masters in this business pen their names to her work!
Andy Beard (a highly respected blogger and content reviewer) also read the work and said...more But please understand, it's no longer for sale at any price... However,
a rewrite is in the works. A guide that is more affordable and accessible to
all niche market website owners looking to grab some lucrative Web 2.0, social
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