As I’m sure that you realize, not all online marketing
experts are the same. Some are only interested in your
money, and they know that the quickest and easiest way
to get it is to sell you “the dream.”

Many so-called experts have never done what they teach.
They come online, survey the landscape, and decide that
teaching is easier than doing. So they hire a ghost
writer to write an ebook, or worse, they write an ebook
filled with their theories. Then they roll this ebook out
with lots of fanfare, selling it to unsuspecting newbies.

Buyers of the above ebook, read maybe half way through it,
spot another shiny object, and are off to try what sounds
like a faster, easier way.

So how do you avoid falling into this and a dozen other
traps? There are two ways that I’ll recommend.

1) Use tools such as the search engines to investigate
the marketer or company before spending a penny with them.
The internet is very inter-connected AND transparent. It’s
nearly impossible to have a serious online presence and
not be very visible in the search engines. For example, if
you were to “google” my name, you would find over 2 million
returns, and most of them would be me!

If I googled someone, or a company’s name, and couldn’t find
it, I’d definitely ask why. I’d also probably start running
in the opposite direction as fast as possible, with one hand
on my wallet.

2) Follow the experts who actually do what they teach. If
you can’t see that they do what they teach, there is a good
chance that they don’t, and the reason may be that they are
not sure that it will work. As you look to see that they
are actually doing what they teach, also put it through the
common sense test.

As an example, many of my friends and mentors teach that
your business cannot grow beyond a certain point with
you trying to do everything in your business. When you
first read that, you may ask yourself if this is just a
sales ploy. So you observe top online marketers and notice
that they have copywriters, programmers, operation managers,
affiliate managers, webmasters, graphic artists, ghost
writers, email managers, virtual assistants, etc., working
for them.

Then you shift to the offline world and notice that in the
most successful restaurants, the owner is not in the back
washing dishes, cooking, or supervising waiters. He is not
on the cash register or waiting on tables. Instead he may
be wandering the floor and “hob knobbing” with customers,
making them feel important. He may be just observing his
business, looking for areas that can be improved and places
where employees may need more training.

I’m sure that you’re beginning to get my point now. You
often wonder if a marketer recommends that you do something
because it will make him a profit, or if he really believes
what he is recommending. Observing that he is actually doing
it himself… that he believes in what he teaches enough to
use it in his business, is very powerful.

As a personal example, I preach that you should outsource
as much as possible, and focus on growing and managing your
business. I know how to do many of the day-to-day tasks of
running an online enterprise. After 14 years I’ve tried
doing many of them, and become very good at some of them.
However, I personally outsource most jobs related to graphics,
copywriting, webmastering, programming, building mini-nets,
keyword research, and customer service.

I have full-time people working exclusively for me, who
handle most of these tasks. It took a while, but I finally
realized that these people don’t cost me money, they make me
money.

I do what my good friend Maria Gudelis calls engaging in
talent arbitrage.

Maria has a very in-depth, yet inexpensive, course on being
an offline consultant. I’ve gone completely through that
course a dozen times, and have it memorized, AND do what she
teaches. One of the things that she teaches is that you land
offline consulting clients, and define what they need, etc.,
but that you don’t do most of the work. You pass it off to
outsourced talent as soon as possible, but you pocket most
of the fees collected at the same time. I follow Maria
because I can see that she does what she teaches.

By the way, I encourage you to check out Maria’s course
in being an offline consultant. You’ll find it at:
http://timic.org/Maria

I mentioned earlier that you should check out the person that
you’re following. Another way that I do that is by looking at
whether or not what they teach agrees with what other verified
experts teach. One of my favorite experts is Dan Kennedy, and
Maria’s teachings totally agree with what Dan teaches as far as
how to leverage your business, and which segment of the market
you should go after. Incidentally, you should go after segments
of the market that HAVE money and are willing to spend it on
you and your products or services.

I’ll wrap up this article, but share more of my thoughts and
observations soon. In the meantime, develop the habit of
really noticing whether your favorite guru actually does what
he teaches. That could make a huge difference in your bottom
line.
———————

Willie Crawford is founder of The Internet Marketing Inner
Circle, a membership site where some of the world’s sharpest
marketing minds gather to network, brainstorm, and jointly
grow their businesses. Join The Internet Marketing Inner
Circle today for $1. Complete details at: http://timic.org

These are people actively searching on your keywords
at the search engines.

I can only do this for a limited number of people and
I expect the slots to fill up FAST.

Check it out now: http://cheapverytargetedtraffic.com/

Thank you,
Willie

All online marketers eventually realize that a steady
flow of targeted traffic is the very life’s blood of their
online business.

At that point some decide to focus on generating free
traffic via methods such as article marketing and search
engine optimization. That’s how I generated most of my
website traffic for many years.

Other marketers look at the time and effort involved, and
decide that using traffic from paid sources is more
cost-effective. Given that I now manage dozens of my own,
and clients projects, and a dozen virtual employees, I’ve
evolved to where buying traffic often makes more sense.

While most people think of pay-per-click traffic such as
Google AdWords, I actually focus on MUCH cheaper paid
traffic which offers a much higher return-on-investment.
That’s what I’d like to teach you to do today.

Before we get into a few simple and easy methods, let’s
establish a few rules that you should always follow. They
are:

1) Make sure that the traffic you buy is targeted. These
should be individuals actively looking for what you have
to sell. They should be in a buying mode.

2) You should know your source. Do your due diligence and
actually check them out. Google their name or their company
name and see what is being said about them. Contact people
who gave them testimonials and see how satisfied they are
with that buying decision today. Look their site up on
“The Way Back Machine” at http://Archive.org and see
how their business has evolved over the years and get a
feel for how long they have actually been in business.

3) Know specifically how this traffic is generated. You
want to know both the methodology and the general
demographics of the traffic.

Several years ago, one of my subscribers who violated all
three of the above rules, lost $4000 in about a month. He
was promoting a network marketing “opportunity,” and was
advised to buy leads. So he went to an online company
and plopped down $4000 of his retirement fund for some
guaranteed traffic.

He did indeed get the guaranteed visitors (several thousand)
of them but not a single one of them converted (joined his
team). Some did fill in his opt-in form for more information
but they were just curious.

It turns out that the way the company he purchased the leads
from, delivered that was traffic via pop-unders. A person
would visit a site pertaining to something they were marginally
interested in, and while they were reading a page, another
pay would load underneath. When the surfer closed the top
page, he saw my subscriber’s page.

The problem was that most of these surfers had absolutely
no interest in what my subscriber was offering. The
curiosity seekers who filled out the form basically sent my
subscriber on a wild goose chase as he followed up with all
of those who left a phone number. NONE of them proved to be
really interested.

Now that you know not to fall for that or similar scams,
let me tell you FIVE ways that I generate a flood of
highly-target website traffic, often for less than a
penny per click.

1) I buy keyword-rich domain names to capture type-in
traffic. These can be brand new domains or they can be
aged domains that may even be still indexed in the major
search engines. Even if they are not still indexed, some
search engines seem to favor aged domains which are
readily available.

Many surfer, looking to buy a product, mistakenly type their
search term into the browser bar rather than the search box.
If you happen to own that term (as a domain name) the traffic
will often be redirected to your site. Even if the surfer
enters the search term in the search box, your site will
often be shown in the results provided your site is properly
optimized and indexed.

If you use this method and average a mere 10 visitors per day,
that’s 3650 targeted visitors per year. Assuming these visitors
are searching on a term that you’d have to pay $1 for at the
pay-per-click search engines, and that the domain name and a
full year of hosting cost you $25, you’ve just saved
($3650 – $25 = $3625). I do get my domain names and hosting
that cheaply

Imagine having a dozen domains each targeting a different
keywords, and I’m sure you’ll understand why I personally
love this traffic generation method so much.

2) Offering a free gift to get the visitor to your site and
then requiring them to join your mailing list before they
can access the gift. After they opt-in, you give them
the gift but also tell them about some other product that you
want to call their attention to.

I find this method very effective when posted on social
networking sites, or even run as ezine solo ads.

Done properly you not only generate traffic, but by
building a list, you also build-in a way to call them back
to your site periodically.

3. Buying links from other sites. In many niches, there are
webmasters who haven’t figured out how to monetize their sites
yet. You can approach them offering to pay for a prominently
displayed link pointing back to your site, and many will sell
you these links very inexpensively.

You do need to shop around, and since there is a rumor that
the major search engines MAY frown upon this practice, I do
it in a way that it’s not so obvious.

4) Funnel traffic via “mini-nets.” In a mini-net, you have
one main site that you really want to funnel traffic to. That’s
often referred to as your “money site.” You build other sites
on domains that you purchase, web 2.0 sites, and what are
often referred to as “parasite sites.” These are sites offered
by companies that will give you free hosting on their network.

You have links from most of the domains that you purchased,
the web 2.0 sites, and the parasite sites, all pointing to
your money site. Some people build a network of sites
pointing to their peripheral sites. The idea there is that
if you can get the peripheral sites to rank higher in the
search engines they will command more respect and boost the
ranking of your money site too.

There are many complex linking patterns that you can use –
as many as there are people who consider themselves experts
on the topic. I personally keep things as simple as possible,
and often rely upon the experience and expertise of webmasters
that I often outsource the mind-numbing, tedious tasks to.

6) Build backlinks and RSS feeds by bookmarking. Many of my
WordPress blogs are configured so that every post is
bookmarked. I also use software to bookmark every page on
some of my content sites and mini-sites. This both pushes
them up in the search engines, and places links that
highly-qualified visitors can follow back to my sites from all
over cyber-space.

There are many other techniques that I use to generate an
absolute flood of traffic to my websites and those of my
clients. I’ll share more in future articles.

————–

Willie Crawford is an online marketing and website traffic
generation expert. Over the past 14 years he’s developed
tactics and techniques that allow him to generate more than 1
million hits to some of his sites. Get him to send you highly
targeted, buying website traffic for as little as a penny per
visitor at: http://cheapverytargetedtraffic.com/

—————

Actually, I just noticed that I have several iPods
sitting near my desk, including a brand new 8gig
iPod Touch still shrink-wrapped. So, I decided to
give it away.

I’ll give it away tomorrow night (Saturday Aug 28th)
at 9pm CST, in a random drawing. Actually, what I
will do is look at how many entries I have, and use
a random number generator to pick a number between
1 and however-many-entries-I-have. The person who
was the “x” person to qualify, will win the iPod
Touch.

I’ll get it in the mail to you on Monday.

To qualify, all you need to do is post the following
on Twitter:

#ipodWillie is giving away an iPod Touch 28Aug 9pm CST
You could win just by RT’ing. Visit
http://timic.org/iPod for complete details.

After realizing that I have more iPods than I can use, I
also realized that I could use giving one away as a way
to raise awareness on one of my pet projects.

You see, I’ve been online since late 1996, and during
those years I’ve come across countless individuals
(many of them who are still online) who just didn’t
seem to get the fact that the money really IS in the
list. So they struggle needlessly!

I’ve been steadily building numerous lists, across
numerous niches, since 1996. Most of my list growth
has occured in just the past 2 years though. Much of
it has occured after I started watching one mentor…
Bill McRea.

I’m rapidly approaching a database of 1 million
subscribers! Most are NOT in internet marketing

Since Bill is such an effective list-builder, I wanted
to get YOU, and anyone who doesn’t have the size list
that they want, to take a look at Bill’s list-building
training. It’s at:

http://timic.org/FreeCoaching

That training includes a year of coaching from Bill.

If you are really serious and jump into Bill’s training,
I’ll also give you a 1-hour personal telephone consult.

Bill will let me know if you are in his training as a
result of my prompting, and I’ll contact you to schedule
the 1-hour consultation which can be on ANYTHING related
to internet marketing.

So, go ahead and post that tweet. The #ipodWillie
hashtag will allow me to pull up all of the tweets
containing it and find the winner tomorrow night.

Go ahead and do it now so that you don’t miss out.

Willie

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Willie

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When I showed a slide with that same screen capture on it…
showing nearly 300,000 subscribers in one of my four accounts
at http://ProfitAutomation.com at the recent NAMS workshop,
jaws dropped.

Today I actually decided to increase the capacity of that
account to 1/2 million. Here’s a screen shot of the account
now:

Now the question becomes how long will it take me to max
out that capacity

To say that I understand list-building is not bragging, it’s
just stating the facts.

If you’d like to turn your list-building on hyper-drive, check
out “The Never Fail Listbuilding System” by my good friend Bill
McRea.

Bill is one sharp dude. We hung out together last January on
“The Marketers Cruise” and while I didn’t physically take
notes, we had some very deep marketing discussions.

Check him out here and find out how to get free coaching from
him: http://timic.org/FreeCoaching

Willie

The Never Fail Listbuilding System is just about sold out.

Bill just told me he is not sure if it will last until Monday.

So now’s your chance to get SO much for so little.

To speed things up Bill’s even giving you 1 year free coaching!

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This won’t last much longer! You have to act NOW

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Willie

P.S. It may already be to late…sorry it took so long to get
you this email.

P.P.S. Get serious about building your list now and I’ll also
throw in a 1-hour consultation. I normally charge $800 for this
unless you’re one of my clients on a monthly or annual plan. Bill
will let me know that you’re eligible and I’ll even contact you

http://timic.org/FreeCoaching

Now imagine you did it with TOTALLY automated sites…

Sites you can set up in just 7 minutes or less…

I’ve never seen anything like this.

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If you can’t make money with this kind of personal help…you
never will.

Live Access to Bill (the “7 figure traffic ninja”) awaits you
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Now…

For your family’s sake…

For the sake of your dreams…

Please don’t push off watching this video until the end.

It’s THAT important.

Willie

P.S. The coaching bonus isn’t even mentioned in the sales video
yet. . .Bill just announced this! Go get it.
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I guess everyone wants a huge responsive list of buyers.

Go figure!

Thousands of people signed up for the Early Bird list and
we had only 500 spots available. I’m not sure how long it
will be before they are all gone!

We are selling out faster then grandma’s Sunday morning
pancakes.

Go Now!

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Willie

Steal his ENTIRE 7-figure system here:

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The video is life-changing.

The system is game-changing.

You will forever kick yourself if you don’t at least give this
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It’s a COMPLETELY unfair advantage.

Willie

P.S. Your competitors will HATE you when you use this…it almost
make this “game” unfair.

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