I get a kick out of people when I ask them what they do to promote their site and they tell me something like, “Oh, I do a little of this and that…some article marketing, a little PPC. It’s good enough.” Now don’t get me wrong. If you’re spending $300 a day on PPC and making three times that much in income, then you probably don’t need to be reading this article anyway. But if you’re struggling to get traffic to your site, you might want to read what follows.

There are more ways to generate traffic than Carter has liver pills. The problem is, most people either don’t know about these methods or they’re just too lazy to put them into use. Sure, I can go and list all the common ways to generate traffic, such as PPC, article marketing, SEO, social bookmarking and blogging and pinging, but there is a world out there that is beyond this that most people don’t consider or even know about.

Let’s start with something as simple as a press release. Now, press releases are a little different from your standard promotional method. A press release actually should not be promotional. It should talk about what your product, site or service is and how it benefits people. What makes it unique? What makes it something that will be of interest to people? Also, it should be objective and not read like an ad. A good press release can bring in tons of traffic to your new site.

What about social networking? Twitter is all the rage today. Well, why not start a following on Twitter composed of people with similar interests. Not everybody on Twitter is an Internet marketer and maybe there are plenty of folks there who are interested in YOUR niche and YOUR product. Imagine putting up a blog with useful info about that niche and sending tweets to your followers that include your blog URL. For that matter, you can include useful info in the tweets themselves.

Then of course you have forums. Believe it or not, there are forums in just about every niche. Why not go to one and share what you know with the other members? Don’t promote your site. Don’t post ads. Instead, look for questions that you can answer and actually answer them. Do this long enough and other forum members will begin to respect you.

And the above only scratches the surface of what you can do in addition to the standard stuff like article marketing, PPC, SEO, social bookmarking and blogging and pinging to promote your sites. There is offline advertising too. When was the last time you took out a small ad in a local newspaper?

Point is, you can never do enough to promote your business.

To YOUR Success,

Steven Wagenheim

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