Slide Notes
So let's just say you're a budding entrepreneur. You've gone into business for yourself and setup that all-important website. It's your digital storefront. No need for that brick-and-mortar store anymore. No need for the random person to patronize your shop from the street. Today, all you need are those virtual visitors -- people that are keenly interested in buying what you're selling.
But how do you go about drawing them in?
The problem that most people face isn't about how they can setup a website or even start a blog; it's about how they can actually drive traffic to that digital destination floating about in the bits and bytes of cyberspace. If you're not a seasoned digital sleuth yourself, you've likely struggled with getting the proverbial word out through a variety of forms of online marketing.
Why? Today, we're faced with a plethora of disinformation and misinformation, crafted and concocted by clever minds looking more to extract money from you than help you to earn it. That latest "proven traffic system" that you just plopped down $997 for isn't going to bring you the results you expected. That new video series by the latest raving internet marketer on how you can drive "unlimited" traffic to your website? Nope. That isn't going to work either.
So where do you turn? What do you do? How do you get people to notice you in a sea of abysmally overwhelming digital overload? In an ever-crowding space, the truth is that it's becoming increasingly difficult to get noticed. It's become a monumental undertaking to drive traffic to any website simply because there is just so much noise.
To rise above that noise, you need to understand some basic principles. This isn't just about implementing the latest secret for driving traffic or hacking your way to the top of Google's search results pages. No. This is about instituting tried-and-true methods that the biggest online marketers use to create authority and drive traffic over time.
Authority? Yes. If you don't have authority, then you don't have Google's trust because trust breeds authority over time. If Google doesn't inherently trust you, which it won't do in a matter of months, then where do you turn? Simply put. It doesn't happen overnight, so don't expect it to.
However, there are ways that you can drive traffic to your website and actually churn a profit as long as you understand some of the fundamentals behind just how traffic works. We're talking about things like SEO, social media marketing, email marketing and so on and so forth.
While traffic itself is great to have, it will literally be useless if you're not capturing those people as leads through a free offer and dropping them into your sales funnel, which can help you to sell your products and services on autopilot.
As you come to understand some of the rules behind what drives consumers to purchase from you, you'll better absorb some of the methods for driving traffic to your site, blog, squeeze page to your latest info product or wherever.