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Starting Internet Business 101:
Three Essential Promotion Strategies for Generating Traffic, Increasing Conversions, and Maximizing Sales

Online marketing strategies for starting Internet business owners often require wearing many hats -- especially in the early days of running your business. One day you might be a web developer and content writer, the next, a search engine specialist and email marketer.

Some days, it might be difficult to know which hat to put on...

Starting Internet business owners often wonder what tasks they should focus on first? What Internet marketing strategies are most important RIGHT NOW?

Even if you outsource the majority of your tasks, it's still important to know your dollars are being spent wisely.

In our experience, there are three major promotion areas where an Internet business start-up can net HUGE rewards! (In fact, these areas are equally important when growing your business.)

Let's take a look at each in chronological order:

  1. Attract tons of targeted traffic to your website. No matter how great your website or how wonderful your product, if no one can find them, you're not going to be successful!

    One of the best starting Internet business strategies for getting your site maximum exposure is to pack it full of fresh, quality content. A great way to start building content for your website is with your keyword phrases. "How to" phrases related to your market can give you a good topic to work with.

    Your content pages don't have to be long to be effective, either -- somewhere between 400 and 800 words is all you need. Building a content archive may seem like a lot of work, and it does take time to build up an archive of valuable web content -- but we guarantee it'll be worth it!

    For one thing, the search engine spiders LOVE a range of fresh content, so your site will rank higher for your keywords. Higher search engine rankings mean more people will find your site and be wowed by the value your knowledge provides.

    Plus, you'll be able to modify this content and re-use it to generate even more traffic: in your blog, your newsletter articles, and on article distribution sites like www.ezinearticles.com.

  2. Increase number of visitors who BUY. Once you're getting over 1,000 unique visitors to your site, you'll be able to find out how well your site turns those visitors into satisfied, paying customers.

    Only by testing, tracking, and re-testing your sales process will you discover exactly what areas of your website need improvement.

    If the bulk of your visitors spend less than 10 seconds on your website, for example, your headline likely needs a revamp. Wherever your problem areas, testing will tell you exactly where your site could be better converting your visitors into sales.

  3. Build a list of qualified opt-in subscribers. Even with an airtight sales process and a high visitor-to-sale ratio, any Internet business start-up can easily increase sales with email marketing.

    Email is an ideal way to maintain contact with visitors who might otherwise sail away from your site forever. But before you can send email promotions, you first need a qualified list of opt-in subscribers!

    There's more to building your opt-in list than setting up an opt-in form, however. These days, newsletters are a dime a dozen.

    So you need to give people an extra compelling reason to give you their email addresses -- like a valuable free report or whitepaper, for example.

Once you put these three critical areas of any successful starting Internet business to work for you, we guarantee you'll see more sales... and you'll have laid the groundwork for advanced business-growing strategies that will take your business to the next level.

Want to learn more? Read even more "start Internet business" strategies -- and find out how IMC protégé Darren Salkeld used them to make over $11,000 in one day!

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