It’s said that money does not grow on trees, but I think you can grow it on a much better thing! You will have to create your own website to give your money tree a place and a home to grow. Here are some basic steps for creating your own website:
Pick a domain name. Make sure the name relates well to your website information. If you can, make it short and easy to remember.
Create your website using WordPress, there are many videos that will help you do this.
You will need to sign up for a hosting account to get your website online.
Next, you will need to plant the money tree seed by developing your product so it can grow:
The fastest and easiest way to create a product to sell on your new website is to create an information product (e-book, audio, etc.). It’s very low cost or free to create, and everything is automatic and electronic. That means there is no overhead and no products to ship!
You may also want to consider borrowing some seeds while you make your own. You can do this but signing up with other companies that sell information products and selling their products for a commission. This is a great way to get started and test the markets to see what’s selling. You also build relationships with companies and that very well could be a marketing advantage after you finish your product.
Finally, you will need to nourish your tree by watering it with traffic.
There are three main ways to get traffic to your website
You can buy traffic through sites like Google. With this method, you pay each time someone searches for your keywords and click on the link to your site. Through Google, you will be paying $.05 for each click and up.
You can email you mailing list you made over time. Send out a promotional email and get your previous traffic coming back. Just be careful not to send out too many, or they will become annoyed and turned off to all your other emails.
Partner up with your competition. You can get your competitors to send out your promotional emails by offering them a commission. Your competitors can become one of your best assets!
Maintain your tree by watering it with plenty of traffic for easy traffic try this, and give it plenty of love by updating your material! Follow these easy steps and your money tree should be ready for harvest in no time.
If you run an online business, you should know about the most popular search term people use on the internet. Knowing what it is and using it to its fullest extent can literally boost your sales.
The all important word is FREE!!!
There’s nothing better than something for free. No one wants to pay if they can get something for free. FREE is the word that shows up in searches more than anything else.
Think about all the times you have searched for something on the internet. No matter if it was information, a service, a product, or anything else. Did you just type in the description, a keyword or a phrase, or did you use the word free? When the search engines generated your results, I’m pretty sure they gave you a list of ‘related searches’ containing the keywords you used with ‘free’ in front of them if you omitted the word free.
The benefit of giving something away for free.
If you offer something for free as an online business, it can really pay off.
Having your website optimized for the word has amazing benefits. It’s typed in more than any other word, so it will boost your search engine rankings.
When a customer finds you in their search results, trying to give them something free will draw them in even more. In fact, giving them something for free is such a huge attraction that I can’t emphasize how important it is.
How giving something for free can make you money.
When someone visits your site to claim their freebie, several things can happen.
To get their free product, they have to give you their name and email address. This is the #1 reason why we’re offering it.
First time visitors are unlikely to buy anything, so unless they have a really good reason to come back, they’re unlikely to return.
Having their email address lets you send them emails to remind them about your site. You can send them ‘special offers and affiliate sales too.
We all know that it takes 7 contacts with a customer to get them to buy anything (sales pitches, reminders, offers, etc…). So let’s stick with the topic at hand. There are tons of reasons for this, but I’ll put them in another article.
When you keep in touch with your customers, you’re more likely to get them to buy from you.
The customer learns to trust you, he or she becomes familiar with you, and that’s what usually makes the sale.
So, that’s how you make money by giving away something for free.
The quality of free.
There has to be quality in the item that you’re selling, whether it’s an ezine subscription, an ebook, a report, or software.
When your customers get their freebie, and it’s bad quality, they won’t come back.
It doesn’t matter if you’re the best website in your niche, offer the best deals because they won’t come back.
If they’re impressed by their free gift, they’ll visit your website again and again. Offering high-quality, useful products is key to making a freebie offer work.
How you can drive traffic to your website using ‘free’.
You can drive traffic to your website with classified ads. Make sure the headline and description are about “what’s in it for me”. That means giving them a freebie.
Post classifieds for free. Just type ‘free classifieds’ into the search box and pick from the thousands of results that the search engines generate. Submit your ads often and traffic will keep coming.
Other ways to drive traffic using ‘free’.
You can use it anywhere your ads appear. If you write articles, reports, or ebooks, put the offer in the resource box. If you pay per click, use the offer in your ad copy. If you’re advertising in ezines, you can use your free offer as a resource box, whether it’s your own, an affiliate or bought.
Choose carefully.
The most important thing to remember when deciding what to give way is this.
Your free item should be appropriate for the audience you are targeting. Stick to the theme no matter what niche you operate in.
If you offer an ebook on ‘how to make money online’ and your business sells woodworking course, you will be heading for a problem.
The customer will visit your website to get their ebook. They will download it and probably be very pleased if it contained high quality information on ‘Making money online’. When you contact them via email with for example a ‘special offer on wood tools’, unless by some highly unlikely, random chance that they are building a shed. In that case, they will not visit your website again.
No matter how many emails you send them, their interest was Make money online, not woodworking. Why should they visit your site again? The fact is they won’t.
So be mindful of what the niche you are targeting wants and give it to them.
In conclusion, the more freebies you offer, the more money you will make.
It is one of the most effective traffic drivers and is a straightforward concept.
Now that you have this gem of information, get to work. Plan what you could offer to whom, when, and where.
Decide on something you can legally give away. Make it something your niche market will use. Advertise it everywhere you can and your opt-in list will grow fast. After all, it’s the list that drives business.
Below is a perfect example of the ‘free’ offer. I didn’t make it up, it’s for real and it works.
