If you’re like most you love leads…and you really, really love FREE leads.

In this short video I’m going to show you exactly how to generate more leads WITHOUT having any more traffic than you currently do and show you a simple  tip that can throw your conversion rate numbers through the roof.

There’s 2 things I REALLY enjoyed about this.

1.  It’s truly “set and forget” set it up once and walk away.  Literally.

2.  It allows your prospects to find what’s important to them FASTER – which, in turn, also puts money into your pocket faster.

I’m in the process of “kicking-off” my newest report and to say I’m STOKED would be a huge understatement. This is something I’ve been quietly working on for the past 3 weeks or so.

What makes me giddy is not because of how much I love it, but what I know it’s going to do for you. 20 pages of meat and potatoes…REAL STUFF you can begin using right now to build your empire.

Click on the image (it’s completely f-r-e-e!)

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Here’s just a couple of things you’ll learn…

1. What we can learn from pro (or even amateur) fisherman (this simple concept will give you a complete paradigm shift as to how you look at your business.

2. Why “traditional” techniques taught to network marketers don’t work for the average distributor.

3. Why opportunity seeker leads are an absolute waste of money – and what you should be looking for.

4. The future of the home-based business industry (hint: these past 3 years or so has been a WILE ride – the next 3 are going to be even WILDER and there’s a killing to be made for those who understand this “shift” that’s just starting to take place).

Here’s the MUST READ report.

5. The only 3 things you need to make it and make it BIG in this industry (and it has nothing to do with goal setting, “dream-boarding” or positive thinking).

6. The single, biggest mistake that most networkers make (and how to avoid it).

7. The IMMENSE power of social media and why you should be making this one of your TOP PRIORITIES…RIGHT NOW.

8. And SO MUCH MORE.

This is a GAME CHANGER.

Oh, and you need to read it from top to bottom.

I have done the UNTHINKABLE and included MY REAL CELL PHONE NUMBER NEAR THE END OF THE REPORT.

I’m not sure what I was thinking, but I do know it’s a great read and you’re going to get a lot out of it.

All the best,

Terry Duff

P.S. I’m REALLY proud of this piece. There was a lot of blood, sweat and tears that went into this thing. Let me know your feedback too after you’ve read it from top to bottom.

It’s about 20 pages long and will take about 25 minutes to really get at the underlying message it contains. Close your office door, shut down your cell phone, turn off your IM and let’s do this!

With all the “google” stuff floating around lately and all the changes being made I want to take a few minutes to discuss what it REALLY means to you.

Here’s the “official” Google blog post from 2-24-11.

Fair warning: This post, although not intended to, will likely hurt a few feelings, piss a few people off and maybe even offend a few. My main mission is that you LEARN from this piece of information.

Here’s what’s up…

A bit over a week ago, Google drastically changed their algorithm in an effort to eliminate irrelevant and useless content from search results. This change had a major impact on organic search results – instantly.

This WILL impact you if you’re writing articles, submitting press releases, doing video marketing, ebook syndication – and practically every form of marketing online if it relates to organic traffic. This change has nothing to do with their Pay-Per Click side of things.

Google knows if they want to keep their dominance they must lead the pack and not follow. Since the middle of 2006 (the first official “Google Slap”) their message has been pretty consistent and clear “Provide the end user with a pleasurable and relevant search experience.”

Simply put, they’re trying to clean up search engine results to more accurate results to what we’re looking for.

Good for them. That’s what they should be doing if they want to keep their “edge”.

There’s a lot of pure garbage online in the form of content and they’re trying to clean things up. There’s also a lot of REALLY good content – things that people are trying to discover that actually provide answers and help solve problems.

Here’s the dilemma.

Google, who employs more PHd’s than any other company or institution on the planet, must find a way to determine what’s “good” and what’s “not so good.”

But do it at a massive, massive scale and automate as much of the process as they can.

Always keep in mind what their mission is…to provide a pleasurable search experience to the end users. Their focus is not to line your pocket or mine with Benjamins.

At the end of the day, both are possible. It’s possible to keep Google happy, satisfy the end user and make a ton of money at the same time.

With change comes opportunity. This is one of those times.

One thing’s for certain when marketing online.

Change is CONSTANT. Change doesn’t stop – it can’t. That’s a good thing too – for everyone.

So, while buzzle.com, ezinearticles, mahalo.com and a host of other content rich sites are found quite a bit deeper in search results, we need to ask ourselves….”Is our current marketing working and what, if anything, should we be changing?”

Before I dive into that…

Understand that changes typically go to one extreme or another. I believe this is one of those times. Google has a TREMENDOUS amount of talent and nearly $35 BILLION dollars in liquid cash as of their most recent quarter.

Umm…yeah, that’s A LOT of resources.

It’s my belief that this change has gone to one extreme – an over reaction. As their engineers and techies scour the data (CTR’s and bounce rates of the revised search results), changes will be made. Hopefully, in the coming days and weeks they’ll find a better balance and perhaps even a different system all-together that identifies specific junk…rather than what’s currently being used and placing entire directories or anything associated with a domain into a “junk” category. We’ll see.

Bottom line for now…if you’re doing anything that is “content” related to get traffic naturally, you’re likely feeling a hit right now and the foreseeable future.

As marketers and as I see it we have 2 options.

1. We can bitch and moan about what “those guys” did to us…

Or…

2. We can expand our methods of getting traffic and let this change MOTIVATE you.

I’ve always been a preacher of getting your “traffic octopus” on and using at least 5 or 6 different sources. And, no single source of traffic should account for more than 30% of your total traffic.

As an online marketer, without traffic, essentially you have no business. Sure, you can work your list for a while but it won’t be easy sailing without bringing in new blood to your marketing funnel.

It will also be short lived. That’s not a sustainable business model.

There’s still a lot of different things we can do to get traffic. Here’s short list (feel free to add to it):

1. PPC via Bing/Yahoo (25%+ of all internet traffic is nothing to sneeze at)

2. Facebook Advertising (even with bid prices rising drastically over the past year, it’s still silly not to be there – IMHO).

3. Solo ads

4. Blogging (cause it rocks!)

5. Joint Ventures (I’m always interested in ideas that benefit everyone – especially the end user).

6. Video distribution (can you say “cake” traffic?)

7. Direct mail (and Google can’t touch it)

8. You can (and should) still be writing articles and press releases – just understand, at least short term, they’ll be less effective than what we’re accustomed to…not INEFFECTIVE.

9. Banner ads

Lots of others too. Any ideas I left out? Throw ‘em in the comment box below.

In my opinion, those who lose out the most with these recent changes are the newbies and those who are just getting stated online.

It takes more knowledge and study than EVER before to progress online. At the same time, that’s always been the same – those who have the right knowledge win the game…those who don’t – they’ll find an excuse that justifies their “way out”.

No biggie – the strong survive, just like in anything else.

The game has changed folks. No doubt about it.

Side note: What we’ve seen in this industry over the past year or so that relates to big product launches isn’t likely sustainable at the scale that’s taking place currently. Here’s why…most industry leaders who are doing launches are essentially sharing lists – with minimal activities that relate to building lists. So, over time, you can only market to the same people over and over again until results begin to dwindle.

You’ve seen this in the IM niche for several years now…the “big dogs” at the top basically sharing databases. Now, with their launches you see them sending more and more emails and they’re having more JV partners send mail to generate the same (or less) results that they did just a couple of years ago.

With little or no list building taking place (I’m generalizing here quite a bit), it’s not a sustainable business model.

Now, back to our scheduled broadcast…

The days of 5+ years ago of slapping something online and leads get generated are done.

Now, we’re moving into a NEW era with new problems. Most importantly…

An era with NEW OPPORTUNITY.

The good news is that Google isn’t the only game in town. They own the game as it relates to “search” traffic, but there’s still a WHOLE NEW world that’s been little explored by most that relates to “non search” traffic (think favorites on your browser, sites you frequently visit that you already know of and all the other sites you visit that you don’t search for).

We can either whine and moan about things or we can step-up and BE THE SOLUTION TO THE PROBLEM.

What camp are you in?

At the end of the day, everyone has a role in this process.

At the core of the issue, this must be addressed internally. With how we view our businesses…and business models.

Do you have a business model built on quicksand?

Change starts with you. It starts with me. It starts today.

Let me know where you stand on this topic. Submit a comment below and let’s chat about this…

All the best,

Terry Duff

If you’re looking to build a massive organization, the name of the game is having leads…and LOTS of them. In the late 90′s when I first started marketing online it was SUPER easy to generate leads organically…almost too easy.

Then, Google came along 8 years ago and drastically changed the game. At that time, you could literally have your own monopoly owning both paid and organic search. So, when someone typed in a keyword phrase, nearly any result they clicked on would lead to one of your websites.

Ahhh…and then 2006 came. The first “smacks” took place. Competition got pretty intense…everyone and their brother began bidding on keywords with all the big platforms and organic traffic intensified too.

Those who sharpened their pencil made the cut…those who didn’t – well, they’re floundering right now trying to play “catch up” with all the changes that have taken place (and will continue).

Those who understood the relevance of “always wanting more traffic” THRIVED during these times because they knew that having only 1 source of traffic wasn’t in their best interest.

Here’s a screen shot of one of my Google campaigns for a month’s worth of traffic earlier this year on the content network.

Screen Shot Of Google Content Network

672 leads at $2.39 a piece. Not shabby…

Then came “Google Knockout” around August of this year. They changed the game again. More marketers, that didn’t keep their pencil sharp, were once again scrambling for sources to generate leads.

The savvy marketers had already been using FaceBook, article marketing, solo ads, ezines, other PPC networks, etc for months or even years prior to the big Google KO. Not because they’re any more “gifted” or intelligent than you, but because they know it’s MISSION CRITICAL to be well rounded and have multiple streams of traffic.

Traffic is the lifeline of your business. Without it, the Internet becomes a hobby to play on FB, twitter and check email.

If you’re serious about using the Internet as your personal ATM machine, don’t just get proficient at understanding how traffic works, let it be one of your PASSIONS.

Get REALLY good at understanding the “traffic game”. Your business, family and checking account will thank you for years to come.

This is the single, biggest variable that separates the “DOERS” from the audience members.

Here are some of my top traffic sources that I’m currently using. This is like having a “sneak peak” into my business. Understand that without traffic, you don’t have a business – don’t just read them, USE THEM:

1. Article marketing

2. Video marketing (hint: record your articles using camstudio.org and don’t be surprised when they get indexed by Google within a couple of hours).

3. Bing/Yahoo PPC

4. FB Advertising

5. Solo Ads/Ezine Marketing

6. Organic/SEO traffic

Those 6 traffic sources drive about 85% of my total traffic. The reality is that without visitors, one really doesn’t have an online business.

Remember, not all traffic is created equally. Some sources of your traffic will convert prospects into leads at a much higher percentage. Same with converting leads into buyers – all traffic will convert differently depending on how it was generated and the variables that are associated with that specific source.

For example, articles typically convert from a % standpoint by about a 2 to 1 ratio compared to PPC, but PPC drives a lot more traffic.

This is about balance. Take the good with the bad. There is NO perfect source of traffic or the “Holy Grail”. Traffic is traffic is traffic is traffic…and it’s REQUIRED for your business.

Get really good at one source of traffic…get it dialed in, run some tests – then expand your “octopus” and add an additional “tentacle” to your traffic stream. Rinse and repeat this process.

Some sources are certainly better than others, but the important thing is to CONSTANTLY be tweaking, refining and improving it. ALWAYS look for more traffic.

If it sounds too good to be true, it is. Simple as that. Don’t use guaranteed traffic services, spam or any type of traffic that won’t drive TARGETED visitors to your site.

If you’re looking for the ins and outs on how to systematically build your business you need to get this. It breaks down the most important aspects of your business and shows you how to MAKE MONEY and get yourself moving in the right direction as quickly as possible.

If you’re not in business to have a hobby and your committed to understanding what marketing is all about this is MUST KNOW information for you to have.

All the best,

Terry Duff

One of the most underground techniques for how to market an MLM business, that practically no one discusses in this industry, is the power of using the media to build your business.

To put things in the appropriate context before we dive into this topic, it’s essential that you know and understand a couple of things.

First, you must understand that when people come into your business, they are buying YOU . . . more than the product, the company or the opportunity. They could have joined any number of people’s businesses who were promoting the same products, but they chose to join yours. So when you are thinking about how to market your MLM business, this is something you should always keep in mind.

It is also important to know that people will always rather buy from experts than from trainees. So with that said, you need to get that it is essential to become an expert in whatever niche you’re marketing. All of these things must be the basis for how to market your MLM business.

One of the best ways to accomplish and include these objectives in your marketing, is to incorporate and use the media to distribute your message.

Why?

Incorporating the media accomplishes two major things: (1) It positions you as the expert; and (2) It instantly establishes your credibility. The value of these two things cannot be underestimated.

Whether it’s in the form of being published in a newspaper or magazine, or being featured on radio or television, having the media help to promote your business is a very simple yet overlooked technique by many network marketers.

Here is how simple the process is to incorporate the media into your plan for how to market your MLM business.

You write a press release and submit it to the major directories. Be sure to include a telephone number and an email address, so that people can contact you after they’ve read it. When this is done properly, you will produce two key results: (1) you will generate leads/prospects; and (2) you can have media outlets contacting you wanting to do a story based on one of your press releases.

The latter is golden . . . and really what you’re trying to accomplish by using press releases as a way to market your MLM business. Yes, you will most certainly get leads from doing this. More importantly, though, you’ll get a far greater reach when the media contacts you and gives your press release attention.

Now it is important to understand that there often is not immediate success when someone first starts doing press releases. You may write five press releases before any media outlet even contacts you.

Here’s the key though. You never know how big a distribution from one media outlet will be or to what it might lead. It could be more than worth the wait . . . and then some.

Playing the media game is very much an “insider’s game,” and using press releases is a good way to get “in” with this group and to get access to their contacts . . . all without spending a dime!

3 critical things that you need to know about bringing targeted traffic to your website…

Think all traffic is created equal?

1. Your conversion rates from both prospect to lead and from lead to buyer will be significantly different based upon how someone found your lead capture page.

Here’s what I mean…

Someone who finds your lead capture page as a result of seeing an article you have out there is more than 200% likely to optin to your site compared to say someone finding your site on Yahoo PPC.

In this case, not only are they more likely to become a lead, but the likelihood to spend money with you is substantially higher as well.

Sounds weird, but remember that every form of traffic you can surmise will have a different footprint and “genetic makeup”.

2. At the end of the day, there’s really only 2 forms of traffic.

A. Free

B. Paid

And there really is no such thing as “free” traffic – most free traffic comes at a cost….your time. It’s also true that some of the best traffic you’ll ever get is the free stuff.

Think joint ventures and list sharing…

If you’re marketing a product that helps people suffering from weight related issues and you contact another marketer in your niche and offer to send an email promoting him/her to your list and he/she agrees to do the same for you…that traffic rocks.

They’re already on a list that pertains to what they’re looking for…they’re also continuing to look for solutions. Doing a list exchange like this isn’t difficult and it’s a great way to generate leads quickly…and lots of them – without costing a dime.

Look for people in your niche market…create relationships with them. You never know what will come from it.

3. Don’t forget some of the most targeted, yet underlooked sources of traffic.

Think banner ads are dead? They’re alive and well…better now than ever before (not that they were ever “dead” – they just had a bad wrap for a while).

This is another simple and dangerously effective way to generate consistent leads…without breaking the bank.

If you’re marketing funnel leads around the primary benefit of weight loss. Go to google.com and type in “weight loss blog”, “weight loss information”, “weight loss forum”, etc – anything that would likely pull up a content rich website that discusses information about losing weight.

Click on every link in the search results for page 1 and 2 (no need to click on sponsored listings). What you’re looking for is popular websites that allow you to buy ad space on their site.

There are sites with tens of thousands of visitors every month (some had hundreds of thousands of visitors every month) that will allow you to run an ad(s) there.

Simple yet dangerously effective.

I just placed an ad at carlocab.com a couple weeks ago. It cost me $77/mo and that site has around 700 visitors a day. Not a bad value proposition.

If there’s one thing that every home based business owner should strive to get really, really good at it’s about getting targeted visitors to a site.

It’s one of the most valuable skills one can ever learn to master. It’s right up there with the importance of copy writing and the power of trading written words for dollars.

If you’re looking to drive more traffic in a week than most drive all month, you need to check this out.

This is the exact same information I use to drive, on average, 700 visitors a day to one single website…

It’s Not About Me Though – It’s About You…

Click Here To Learn How To Do The Same For Your Website(s)!

All the best,

Terry Duff

P.S. In all honesty, I’m absolutely nuts for giving away the information that I have at this price point. It’s less than a mediocre dinner for two. Grab it now before reality sets in and I double the price.

There’s no doubt about it…the money’s in the list – or more accurately, it’s in the relationship that you establish with those on the list.

The reality is without a list an offer can’t be made (well, you can make an offer, but you wouldn’t have an audience)

List + Relationship = money in the bank.

This is where a lot of networkers struggle…and I personally believe this is the most important aspect of any business.

Lead generation…there are a lot of ways of generating leads, but today I’m going to break down a few effective ways to generate more leads while keeping the investment low…or even not spending a dime.

Warning: Even though there are several ways of getting traffic without spending a dime, there is NO free lunch. Your time…your most valuable asset is being used – so while technically it doesn’t cost you anything out of your wallet…there is a cost associated with “free” traffic.

1. Video Distribution: Doing short videos are a GREAT and free way of getting targeted visitors to your website. Realistically you can do a video (with powerpoint and camstudio.org -or Camtasia, which has a lot of cool features) in less about 20 minutes from top to bottom. Sprinkle a keyword phrase in the title and description and submit the videos to YouTube.

Videos are really a gift that keep on givin’…

In a blog post I did a while back, I break it down into a 7 step process – click here for more specific instruction on video marketing.

2. Article Marketing: This is hands down, bar none, my MOST favorite form of traffic. I’ll explain why in just a second…

Article marketing is nothing more than picking a topic that you have knowledge of (or you’re passionate about) and writing 300-400 words about that topic…then make sure you’ve got the keyword phrase in the article about 2% of the time and make sure it’s in the subject line.

For example…let’s say you were writing an article about “how to lose weight” – well, that topic’s too broad and way competitive…so, here’s an alternative. Either identify a subset of that niche or choose a keyword phrase that’s less competitive…say, “cannot lose weight”. Just taking a quick glance at the Google External Keyword tool (excellent free tool), I can see it has about 5400 monthly searches…and it only has 33,400 competing websites.

Here’s what I mean…

When you find a keyword phrase that you think is a good fit for an article, before you start writing about it, take that keyword phrase and put it in parenthesis at google.com – the number of results it comes back with will tell you how many other sites are competing with that keyword phrase.

I like to see less than 40,000 competing sites. You can go higher, but low hanging fruit is ALL OVER THE PLACE. This isn’t a game of working harder…pick up the low hanging fruit and get page one search results on Google (and the other search engines too).

One of my ezinearticles.com accounts…

2248 FREE URL clicks. I didn’t pay a dime for them. And I’ve only got 41 articles in this account!

Here’s why article marketing is tough to beat from a bottom line results stand point…

Look at the process one goes through before they’ve become a lead.

They do a search online…looking for a solution to a problem they have.

They come across your article and click on it.

They then continue to read/scan 300+ words.

They click on the link inside your resource box which takes them to your squeeze page.

They then decide to either submit their details or leave the page empty handed.

They already have a vested interest…they’ve already spent at least 5 minutes on YOUR STUFF!

2 things take place with good article marketing…

1. Your conversion numbers from prospects to leads is SUPER HIGH…typically above 50% because by the time they get to your capture page, they’ve already invested a fair amount of time/energy. The likelihood of them leaving empty handed is pretty slim.

2. Even more important than number one…a greater percentage of leads become BUYERS – also as a result of what they’ve gone through. My products line ranges from about $30…up to $2500.00 – the greatest % (by a long shot) of the buyers (especially for the high end coaching) comes from article marketing.

A little elbow grease goes a long way.

I wrote an 11 page report that covers all the ins and outs on article marketing – if this is a source of traffic that you’re considering (and I would HIGHLY recommend), check it out right here…

Just remember…article marketing is about being consistent. It’s not about shooting a handful of articles out there and watching the leads pour in. Try to write 3 a week…every week. It won’t take but a couple of months and you’ll consistently be generating leads daily from those articles.

As with any source of traffic…ONLY focus on that source of traffic until you get proficient at it. Ramp it up, then either outsource or do it yourself and add another stream of traffic.

Far too often, I’ll see one tackle a form of traffic only to throw in the towel 2 days later saying, “it didn’t work”. I probably sound like a broken record, but your ability to generate leads and create an audience IS THE SINGLE MOST IMPORTANT ASPECT OF YOUR BUSINESS.

No audience = no revenue. Doesn’t matter how good you are as a presenter, your ability to write good copy doesn’t mean anything…you get the idea.

Site traffic should resemble an octopus…

Multiple Streams Of Traffic...Tentacles

Oh, and don’t don’t forget to share your thoughts and submit a comment!

All the best,

Terry

In this quick tip…

“How to get laser beam targeted traffic for FREE using a SIMPLE video marketing technique”

If you love getting laser beam traffic…and lots of it without spending a dime, this is for you.

One of the best ways of getting traffic if you’re on a shoe string budget (or even if you’re working with a substantial marketing budget) is to harness the power of video marketing…

It goes like this…

1. Grab the video desktop recording software at camstudio.org – it’s a watered down version of Camtasia and doesn’t cost you a dime – it’s also COMPLETELY sufficient for this simple system I’m sharing right now.

2. Create a 2-5 minute video using either Powerpoint or create a slide presentation using Google Docs (you can setup a free account at docs.google.com). Keep it SUPER simple…don’t have it professionally done or anything – keep it amateur and remember, you’re looking for traffic. Nothing fancy is necessary here to make this work effectively.

3. Use Google’s keyword research tool (it’s free) – all you need now is an Adwords account (again, free) that you can setup in 5 minutes at adwords.google.com.

4. This step is key – you’re looking for keyword phrases that have at least 1,000 searches per month and have less than 40,000 competing sites. To discover how many competing sites you’re going up against, take a keyword phrase that you’re researching to google.com – type it in the search box, using parenthesis. This will tell you how many other sites are using that phrase. The smaller the number, the easier it is to get ranked well on the search engines and get placed on page one (of organic results).

5. Once you’ve isolated a keyword phrase and you’ve recorded a short video using the desktop video recording software, now we need to distribute the video to a few video sharing websites. To keep things simple, we’ll submit the video to metacafe.com, youtube.com and dailymotion.com – there are lots of others you can submit to as well, but it’s not necessary…you’re looking for organic search traffic with the search engines and just focusing on these 3 will allow that to happen).

6. When you submit the videos at each location make sure that keyword phrase you’ve discovered and met the parameters is mentioned in the title of the video (once) and in the description twice.

7. Make sure you tell them in the video to go to xyz.com and promise to give them something to create the urgency for them to head over to your data capture page (in exchange for them submitting their information (the lead) give them a report, content filled video, some sort of “cheat sheet” that relates to your niche…but most importantly, give them sweet content that helps them!).

Example…let’s assume a big benefit for one of your products is “weight loss” and you’re going to optimize it for the keyword phrase “safe effective weight loss”.

Your video title might be “Safe Effective Weight Loss – 3 Easy Steps”.

The description of the video might read, “Safe effective weight loss technique. Short video discloses 3 safe and effective weight loss techniques”.

You get the idea – this is just an example.

So the objective here is when someone goes to do a search at any of the big search engines (yahoo, bing, google, live – or search their video results, depending on the search engine) and they type in the keyword you’ve optimized the video for, your video will show up in the results for that specific search.

Wait a day or two then type in the keyword phrase you used over at google.com and find your video!

That’s it!

Crazy simple…yet super effective technique.

The cool thing here is that you can “ramp up” with relative ease. Don’t just do this for one or two keyword phrases…you can knock out and submit each video in less than 20 minutes. Block out a few hours and have some fun.

Not only will this get you targeted traffic, but you’re getting quality leads without spending a dime. And it’s crazy fun too!

Get out there and make it happen.

Committed to your success,

Terry Duff

Ultimately, at the end of the day, there are only 2 types of traffic. Free and paid – I’ll dive in a bit deeper in just a moment, but the real point of this post is not only explaining the different forms of traffic, but to also instill the importance of keeping it super simple…

Let’s break down these 2 categories of traffic…

Free traffic consists of things like:

Article marketing
Forum posts
Classified ad postings
Answer sites (like answers.yahoo.com and wikianswers.com)
Press release submissions
Blogging
There are several others, but this is a good starting point.

Sources of paid traffic:

Banner advertising
PPC (yahoo, google, facebook advertising, MSN, Adbrite.com, etc)
PPV (pay per view – examples: zango.com, clicksor.com, etc)
Buying ad space on a site or blog
There are a lot of forms of paid advertising, these are a few of the common ones that I use or have used.

Is one better than the other?

The short answer is “No”, however, they each have their own positives/negatives.

With “free” advertising (really no such thing as free), there is a cost associated. With free traffic, you’re essentially trading time for traffic. Free traffic can be very time consuming, but does produce results. You can spend say 45 minutes in writing and submitting an article to directories and in the coming days, weeks and months, maybe get 5 or so leads from that one article. Not much leverage here, but a little…you spent 45 minutes to generate about 5 leads (note: this number could be higher or lower – I’m just using some “rough”, yet realistic numbers here).

Same type of logic would apply if you were using Yahoo Answers, submitting press releases or posting in forums or creating classified ad listings at places like Craigslist or Kijiji.

So, generally speaking, free traffic comes at a price…it’s typically slower at generating traffic. The good news is that you can generate SUPER targeted traffic and it didn’t cost you anything financially.

With paid traffic, you can generate more visitors…faster. Plain and simple. Although I’m not any more attached to one form of traffic compared to another, the important thing to understand when you’re generating visitors to your site is to keep it simple and start with ONE form of traffic…then ramp up once that technique has been mastered.

Bottom line…it really doesn’t matter HOW you get traffic, but it’s a MUST if you’re looking to generate an endless supply of leads with prospects that are looking for what you’ve got. Pick a starting point…dive in and go for it. Make no mistake…when you live in a state of “lead abundance” you can literally write your own check.

Now, it’s a point of monetizing that data. And that process is much easier than learning how to generate an avalanche of leads every day.

Think of this like an octopus…you start off with one tentacle (source of generating visitors), get good at it…then expand and create more tentacles. After several months, you should be getting traffic from several different sources.

Eventually you’ll have a “virtual machine”, generating you traffic (and leads) on almost autopilot – 24/7. The great thing about traffic and websites is that when used properly THERE IS NO OTHER LEVERAGING TOOL EQUALLY POWERFUL relative to the time you put in. They don’t call in sick or tell you they can’t “work” today because they have an ingrown toenail…they’re constantly on the front line…driving you visitors and generating leads. Every day like clock work.

In closing, start with one form of traffic…get REALLY good at it. Then expand your “octopus” and begin using other streams to bring additional visitors to your site. By “staging” this process it will also give you ample time to dial in other areas of your campaign (follow up emails, webinars/teleconferences, etc) to appropriately handle the “ramp up” process.

Never stop learning. Success truly does boil down to applied knowledge.

Committed to your success,

Terry Duff

A big part of your success boils boils down to getting targeted visitors to your website(s). Lots of traffic = lots of leads. Pretty simple formula. When you generate a lot of leads, you can generate a huge number of signups…and quickly into your business.

The formula goes like this:

Targeted traffic + good squeeze page (collecting data of your prospects) = a big list with lots of prospects that you can build relationships with using technology, then host teleconferences or webinars and turn your list into a recruiting machine and add more reps in a month than most do in an entire year.

Here’s a few good places (and somewhat underground – that you don’t hear about much) to check out that can drive a TON of targeted traffic your way…and quickly:

1. Pulse360.com

2. tattoomedia.com

3. adbrite.com

4. Adsonar.com

5. facebook.com/advertising

These are a few good places that can bring targeted traffic your way. Build your list, build a relationship with those prospects and you’ll grow your business faster than you ever thought was possible.

I share these locations because these are a few spots I use to generate as many as 2600 leads in a given day. I want you to have this information as well. I truly only wish that I had someone share this information with me years ago so I didn’t have to learn from the “school of hard knocks”.

When you’re in a position of “lead abundance”, building your business becomes a whole lot easier. No mistake about it…this should be at the top of your priority list.

Here’s a screen shot of one of my websites that averages over 1200 visitors a day (this screen shot is as of Friday, Feb 26, 2010).

Key: You’re not looking for just “any” traffic or what’s known as “run of network” – you want people who are seeking what you’ve got. Just because something is “cheap” doesn’t mean it’s going to work – usually there’s a cost associated with it…wasted time and dollars as well.

That’s exactly why I created Lead Tsunami – it’s the leading resource for network marketer’s who are looking to flood their website(s) with quality traffic…people who are looking for what you’ve got.

This is the same formula that has been used by thousands before you who have used the information to generate dozens…even hundreds or thousands of leads every single day. I’m handing some of my most coveted and closely kept traffic secrets to you on a silver platter so you too can enjoy what it’s like to experience “lead abundance”.

Check it out right here.

I’m committed to helping you succeed in this great industry.

I’ve “been there and done that” a time or two and truly know how frustrating it can be when you’re working your tail off, but not really gaining any ground. I’m here with one purpose…to help you connect the dots and live life to the fullest on your terms. It’s time to release the shackles.

All the best,

Terry Duff