Every once in a while you'll hear a story about somebody that went from $0 to $1,000,000 in one month. Number one, that's a 1 in 1 million shot, or maybe even 1 in 5 million. The odds of winning your local lottery are better than hitting it like that. The second thing to remember is that normally when something like that happens, the person is very well-connected. They end up doing some kind of a joint venture with somebody who is very well-connected, may already have a list of 100,000 people and it makes it very easy to generate that higher dollar. If you're doing this on your own and you don't already personally know someone that's making a million dollars a year online, it's not going to happen overnight. You're going to have to do it the hard way, and that means you're going to have to build a website, you're going to have to build subscribers, and you're going to have to create products that meet their needs.

The second myth is the myth of free traffic. This becomes more important to me every day because we hear all of this about free traffic. You can do this to get to get free traffic; you can do that to get free traffic. People even say that article marketing is free traffic, and for me it's not free traffic. It costs me $4000 a month. Even when I was writing them all myself so they didn't actually cost me dollars, I spent 20 or 30 hours a week on my article marketing and I could've been out working a full-time job making $100,000 grand a year. Really, those articles cost me $5000 a month even when I was writing them myself because I chose to write articles full-time to generate traffic rather than work a day job.

Any sort of traffic that you have, it's not free traffic. Even search engine traffic - people make such a deal about how search engine traffic is free. Search engine traffic's not free! You have to spend time and energy and money building links into your site. You've got to get Google to recognize you. You've got to get Yahoo! to recognize you. You've got to get the other search engines to recognize you. Whether you spend money or you spend time, you're spending something. Whether you spend $1000 a month generating traffic or you choose to forego getting a part-time job in the evenings and instead you work online generating traffic, either way it's costing you something. It's costing you time which is money or it's costing you real money. Don't get me wrong. I generate 18,000 or so visitors every single month, and maybe 200 of them I didn't really have anything to do with those people coming there except for the fact that I've 17,800 other visitors and when you do that you have some spillover. That traffic's not really free anyway. The price of it is absorbed in all of the other traffic that I do.

Sean Mize is an internet marketing strategist who teaches internet marketers how to increase their income by creating high ticket classes and coaching programs.

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For one thing, you do not want your slideshow to be the plain old everyday type piece that sparks no interest whatsoever.

Certainly you would agree that if your website is just going to sit there and not attract visitors, you may as well not have one.

The creation of a slideshow to use for advertising your company will help to get you the traffic you need to be an online success.

How can I use slideshows to improve my business, you ask?

One thing that will work like a charm is to create a slideshow to advertise what you have to offer. If your business sells products, this will work. If you provide services, it will work.

No matter what your website is about, a slideshow will enhance it and make more people interested in what you have to offer.

People love to watch slideshows that are interesting and have lots of good information. This will allow them the time to be introduced to a new company and find out what this company does that they might benefit from.

If you have a live presentation available to give out, you may want to use a slideshow to explain what it is you are offering.

Create slideshows that have sound. This makes them more interesting. Getting prospective client's attention is the first step to making sure they will come back.

If your slideshow includes pictures of places and things that grabs visitor's attention, you are halfway there.

If you want to make sure that people will return to your website, create slideshows that have offers of a free CD for the viewers.

A free offer will get them every time. Use a little of your creative side and make a slideshow that includes digital photos. Put together something that is unique and talks about the point you want to get across.

The best way to get someone's attention is to start with something they do not expect. When you do this, the initial work is completed and all that is left is to get them directed to your website.

You will be surprised at how well this works to get people to go to your website.

Getting them there and keeping them interested is what your business is all about is your main challenge. Try it out and see how this simple method will work for you.

Richard Gorham is the founder and President of Leadership-Tools, Inc. His web site, http://www.leadership-tools.com is dedicated to providing free tools and resources for today's aspiring leaders. Offering high-quality tools in the areas of Business Planning, Leadership Development, Customer Service, Sales Management and Team Building.

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So you have the squeeze page up, you have the sales page and the order page ready to go. You've set up the auto-responder and the links to the free stuff to get your email list excited about doing business with you. You even have the upsell products ready to go. The problem is nothing is happening.

Where is the traffic? The dam has not broken and all those eager buyers have not overwhelmed your server. What's wrong? You decided to let your pay per click ads to the work for you?

We're going to look at a strategy to reach your goal. First let's define your goal.

Do you want to get 600 sales? Ok, let's use that as our goal. What do we do first? If you've read any of my articles, you know that we start with a list. How many interested prospects would you need to have on your list to meet this goal in a campaign? If you consider a 3% conversion (to very conservative) you'll need to establish a list of 20,000 names. Now would be a good time to go back to Google to check the search stats on your product to see if you've got enough willing prospects.

Here is the strategy for your high targeted traffic blitz. Give yourself 90 days to ramp up.

Online ads

For quick traffic to the site to get you started, get a Google Adwords account for pay per click and an Adbrite account for targeted website ads. Make your keywords highly targeted. You want to stay in your niche for instance if you sell hair restoration products, target "hair restoration" not "baldness". You'll get less clicks but more targeted clicks in the category you're looking for.

Ezine ads

There are thousands of ezines out there. Do a search in your category to find the ones that will offer you the most targeted traffic for advertising. You can check the popularity of the ezines in Alexa to be sure that you'll be getting a popular ezine. Place ads regularly and tack the results.

Blogs

Go to Technorati to find blogs in your category to start contributing replies. Get to be a blogger and set up your own at Blogger. Don't forget to create back links to your squeeze pages.

Articles

This is an essential component to blasting targeted prospects to your squeeze page. I know you'll freak out when I say this because it seems like a lot of work but you need to have at least 100 articles out in circulation on the Internet before you can benefit from article marketing. I wouldn't stop there. Articles have a cumulative effect. You can literally ad thousands of subscribers to your list in a year through articles.

Press releases

>Send out a press release at least every two weeks. It is important that you get your brand out in the public eye. The media will take a while to recognize you. If you're in their line of sight consistently, you'll begin to get results after several attempts.

List Exchange

Find partners with whom you can exchange free products or special offers. This is a great way for them to add extra value to their own offers. Embed your links in your free information product. Be sure to create a highly useful product, not a cheap 10 page sales letter. The product must be able to directly benefit the reader. You can generate massive increases in your list this way.

Viral Videos

You can generate tremendous traffic with viral videos. If you have the skill to put three to five minute videos on Youtube and Myspace, you can bring in targeted traffic.

When you have a hit product, a great list, or a popular website, don't stop promoting. Continue to add more content, products, and prospects. Many people slack off when they achieve a measure of success in their business. There will be plenty of time to relax once you've put away a year of income. Most expert Internet marketers work like crazy to reach a level of financial security. They tend to love what they do and continue to help others gain success.

Dennis Morales Francis is a consultant and coach for business professionals and wellness practitioners. His website, offers its members online coaching on building Internet income and automating their marketing on and off the web. Dennis is the author of "Double My Revenues In 12 Months or Less".
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