The Most Targeted Traffic You'll Ever Get

Ask any expert and they'll tell you that there are two keys to a successful internet business: Solve A Problem and Get Targeted Traffic. 1. Solve A Problem First of all, you must have a product, or products, that solve a problem. Millions of people search the internet everyday, and hundreds of thousands log on for the first time everyday, all searching for answers to various problems. These problems can be on anything from how to improve your golf swing, to how to make dog biscuits, to how to improve your teaching. They can be software products, information products, or hard goods. In the end though, the most successful internet entrepreneurs are those who have created products that solve a particular problem. The best news is that you can actually find out what products people are actively searching for through programs like Wordtracker (http://www.money-teacher.com/newsletter006.htm. However, once you have found that niche market, you need to make sure your product(s) solve a problem. Remember, people will pay you money to have their problems solved. 2. Get Targeted Traffic Unfortunately, once you have your niche market and your product that solves a problem, you are not guaranteed success. You need to drive traffic to your website (or, of course, a website you are affiliated with). But more importantly you need to drive "targeted" traffic to your site. Making money on the internet is not just about bringing mass numbers of people to your site. It does you no good if your visitors are not buying anything. You need to bring "targeted" traffic to your site. You want people to visit your site who are already interested in your niche market and people who are already looking for a problem to be solved. (A problem that your product has the answer for.) There are many ways to bring targeted traffic to your site. One of the easiest is to simply buy it. That's right you can actually pay list building companies to have people opt-in to your free newsletter and then use your newsletter to drive traffic to your site. Most list building companies charge roughly .29 cents per lead and you can purchase hundreds of leads per month. These are double opt-in leads (meaning people had to sign up and then confirm their sign up-therefore they are more motivated to receive your information). For example, one way I drive traffic to my website is through my newsletter, The Money Teacher's Home Business Tips Newsletter. I set a monthly budget and pay a company like ListOp (http://www.money-teacher.com/getresponse.htm) where they begin to receive my newsletter without me every clicking a button. However, buying leads is only one way to get targeted traffic, and it is definitely not the best way. One immediate problem is that most of these list building companies deal only with building lists for internet marketing newsletters like my own. However, if you are truly going to be successful by solving problems within a niche market then you will probably want to stay away from internet marketing. I am not saying it is impossible, in fact, people like Stone Evan's have made it much easier to get started in internet marketing (