If you are into an Internet business, you most definetly have heard about the concept of website traffic. Essentially, traffic means the number of people that visit your website. It is equal to to the concept of shoppers in a mall or a supermarket. It is quite easy to understand why traffic is important.  The higher the number of people that visit your website, the greater the the chance of success that you have.

However, it is not all that easy. When we speak about Internet traffic, what’s most important to us is to know the difference between cold and hot traffic. Cold traffic is a term used to describe everyone that comes to your website. People who have accidentally stumbled upon your site by a search engine result constitute cold traffic. These people don’t have any preconceived notion about your website and they aren’t actually interested in you. They are just curious about what your website is about. It is highly unlikely that these people will do any business with you.

What’s infinitely more important is hot traffic, also known as targeted traffic. These are the people who have come to you by actually hearing or reading about you somewhere. Probably they read an article you wrote, got impressed by it, and then clicked your website link below it. Or probably they read your blog and liked it. They might have visited your social networking profile and thus got interested in your website. Such people definitely matter more to you. They already like something about you. They are more likely to do business with you.

It is necessary for an online business entrepreneur to understand the difference between cold and hot traffic. It is of no use if you have a million fleeting visitors a month if they are just going to drift away without doing anything. But if you have even 100 visitors who actually do something that you want them to, your online business is a success.

Hence, your efforts must be directed at getting hot traffic to your online business website. Write articles, blog, make yourself generally popular on the Internet. This is what will bring the right kind of people to your online business website, people who will really matter. As your popularity increases, your name and the name of your business will act as direct draws in bringing these people over to your website.

It’s vital to get the right Internet Network Marketing Training.  I recommend subscribing to Learn the InterNetwork Marketing Secrets SEVEN Steps to Getting YOUR System Setup Quickly.

Jerry

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Let me ask you a question. Who are the tax laws designed to benefit?

If you answered – businesses, then you are CORRECT.

The tax laws and deductions in America were designed, and created, to benefit and stimulate business growth – which equals job creation – which equals economic stimulus.

This leads me to the ultimate fact of life in America. EVERYONE should have a home-based business to take advantage of the tax breaks given ONLY to businesses. I do not care if you sell cotton candy out a window of your home, you need a business to create tax savings and that equals more money in your pocket.

Please don’t take my word for it. Do a Google search on tax benefits of a home business. Please! I beg you to. You will see eye opening facts.

I have a gift for you from one of the leading tax advisors in the world. In fact, he is a iLearning Global faculty member. His name is Sandy Botkin, CPA.

The gift is “What the Economic Stimulus Act Means to YOU” is valuable information on tax deductions you are MISSING without a home business. Just click the link and you can download the PFD.

I cannot stress to you how important it is to you and your family to begin a home business immediately.

That being said, there is nothing like the home business opportunity of  iLearning Global. I encourage you to do your research and find out if this is right for you.

Where else will you find a 68% commission payout on a product you do not have to stock and is delivered electronically over the Internet?

Where else will you find a product that everyone needs and will benefit from daily?

Let me know.

Live long and prosperous,

Jerry Clark
InterNetwork Marketing Consultant

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Who is this Jerry Clark anyways? Find out here

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Tips to Get Repeat Web Traffic

1. Update the webpages on your website repeatedly. Stale sites are withdrawn by some search engines. You can even put a date counter on the page to show when it was last modified.

2. Offer additional value on your website. For affiliates and partners you can place links to their sites and products and ask them to reciprocate. You can also advertise their books or videos, if these products relate to your industry and are not in competition with your own product.

3. You can permit customers to ‘opt in’ to get discounts and special offers. Place a link on your site to invite customers to ‘opt in’ to get a monthly newsletter or valuable coupons.

4. Add a link to your primary page with a script ‘Book Mark or Add this site to your Favorites’.

5. Add a link ‘Recommend this site to a Friend’ so that the visitor can email your website link, with a prewritten title, “Thought you might be interested in this”, just by clicking on it.

6. Brand your website so that visitors always know they are on your site. Use consistent colors, logos and slogans and always provide a ‘Contact Us’ link on each page.

7. Create a ‘Our Policies’ page that clearly defines your philosophy and principles in dealing with your customers. Also post your privacy policy as well so that clients know they are secure when they visit your site.

8. Create a FAQ page which addresses most of the doubts and clarifications about your product or your company that are likely to be asked. This helps to resolve most of the customers doubts in their first visit to your site.

8. Ensure that each page on your website has appropriate titles and keywords so that your customer can find their way back to your site if they lose the book mark.

9. Never spam a client, who has opted for newsletters, with unsolicited emails. Later if they decide they want to ‘opt out’ of the mailings, be sure you honor their request and take them off the mailing list. They may still come back if they like your products. But they will certainly not come back if you continue to flood their email box with mails they no longer wish to receive.

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Achieving the Mindset and Mental Space to Start Your Work at Home Business

People say that you don’t need many things to get involved in a Internet business, but these people are mostly forgetting out on one of the most important things that you must have – the right attitude. Without gearing up your mind for such opportunities, you aren’t going to succeed with these businesses. You need to have the drive and the true desire to succeed.

The main essential here is to build up your mental focus on the activity that you are planning to take up. One of the ways you can do that is by ascertaining that the opportunity that you are getting involved with meets with your likes and interests. If you are excited about what you are doing, you will do better. If you get into something just for the money, it is going to fizzle out soon. Keep this point in mind.

It is also important to do the right amount of research and find out what the affair is really about. If you know the ins and outs of it, there won’t be disappointment and frustrations in the future on and you will be able to stay motivated in the venture.

Since a lot depends here only on you, it is important that you stay interested. You have to keep the mindset. You can do that by enjoying the early successes that come your way, even involving your family and friends into them by throwing parties. This is like a pat on your back that you have done something well, and the admiration that you get from everyone will keep you going as well.

One more essential factor that you must have when you are planning to begin your own home business is that you need to have the proper mental space. This means you have to have the mental freedom to focus. Since you are going to be working from home, there are bound to be a lot of interruptions. You are going to have, and probably take, a lot of freedom with your work. This should not happen. Self-disciplining yourself to work is vital.

It is perfect if you can create an area of your own within your home. This is like a home office for you, and you brook no distractions here. Set yourself time frames. Speak with your family about this so that they help and even assist you.

Without preparing yourself mentally, you aren’t going to go far with your work at home business opportunity. First set these things right and you will see everything falling into place by itself.

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The World Wide Web or the Internet is an information superhighway. Information in many formats is available on-demand 24 x 7, 365 days per year. Most information is read using web browsers because it’s mostly text.

On the Internet,  audio and video are quickly gaining popularity because of it’s great quality experience versus plain ol text.  Audio and video is much more appealing than text.

But how do you use web video in marketing?

The simple answer to this is “to educate your viewers”. Decisions are made much easier when the user is educated.  The decision does not have to be a buying one.  Many people browse the Internet to find a solution or for research.  A web video is the best way to help the viewer to get educated about his subject.

Why is video preferred more than text base information?

It’s quite obvious, because a video shows a proof that real human beings can solve their problems by using the information in the video. Most people only believe things they personally have seen.  If your video is successful in presenting them proof of their achievements using a particular book, machine, service then it can quickly create emotional triggers into viewers mind to make a buying decision.

An impulse like “hey, it worked for him, even want to try it” makes it possible to convert a viewer into a “customer”. On the other hand it is also possible that after watching a video a viewer may say, “no, this is not what I am looking for”.

So you see, “education” makes a person capable of making decisions quickly and can guide him towards the your product or service.  If your product doesn’t solve his problem then you have saved yourself from the misery of an unsatisfied customer and web video is the easiest way to do this.

One of the greatest benefits of web video is that it can be played “on-demand”.  The video resides on your server or at a video portal and anyone interested can view it anytime he/she wants. That is why web video is becoming the new age marketing vehicle for marketers around the globe and you must give it a try, without any hesitation.

Plus the biggest benefit of web video is the search engines index it at a higher ranking than keywords in the body of your website text.  So if you’re looking to gain traffic to your website, posting videos on all the video sites will be a benefit to you.

Stay tuned because we will be focusing a lot of this topic in coming posts.

Jerry

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http://www.secondstreamincome.com

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What is Internet Network

Marketing?

Internet Network Marketing is a method used by MLM business associates (distributors) to build a network marketing organization using the internet.

These methods primarily focus on how to prospect distributors for your network marketing business online.

There are three strategies that make up internet network marketing.

Each strategy is a completely different approach to internet network marketing.

Because these strategies are all referred to as internet network marketing they are often confused with one another.

The first strategy is email prospecting.

With this strategy you use the internet as a communications tool to communicate with people / prospect online about your network marketing business.

How does this work?

Let’s say you meet a prospect at the grocery store.

You exchange business cards.

You then email the person your company web site so the he / she can take a look at it.

Another example, let’s say you purchased some business opportunity leads. You load the leads up in an auto-responder. The auto-responder sends people emails encouraging them to go to your web site.

This is email prospecting.

Email prospecting is probably the most basic and crudest form of prospecting.

In this form of prospecting you are still relying on traditional network marketing strategies to build your network marketing business.

The only difference is that you are using the email and internet to support your marketing efforts.

The second strategy is internet advertising prospecting.

With this strategy you use the internet as an advertising tool to promote your business to prospects and generate leads for your network marketing business online.

How does this work?

Let’s say you create an ad on the Google pay per click search engine network promoting your business opportunity.

The ad includes a link to your network marketing company’s replicated web site, which contains a video promoting your business opportunity.

Another example, suppose you purchase a banner ad on a high traffic web site.

When people click on that ad, it takes them to a web site which promotes your business opportunity.

This is internet advertising prospecting.

Internet advertising prospecting is obviously more advanced than email prospecting.

In this form of internet marketing, you are actually using the internet as a lead generation tool.

The benefit is that you are now taking steps to get prospects to come to you instead of chasing prospects.

However, it’s still not the ultimate form of internet network marketing.

The third strategy is internet attraction marketing.

With this strategy, you use the internet as a prospecting, qualification and revenue generating tool to generate prospects for your network marketing business.

How does this work?

Let’s say you add friends to your profile on Myspace.

On your profile page you offer a free report that teaches how you made $1000 last month in your network marketing business without sponsoring anybody.

Another example, suppose you posted to a discussion board about network marketing with a link at the bottom of your post promoting a free video that reveals “Why the leads companies hate your guts and would do anything to put you out of business.”

This is internet attraction marketing.

Internet attraction marketing is the best method of internet network marketing.

In this form of internet marketing, you are able to limit your time to talking to the best prospects for your business.

This is because you use the information products as a sorting and pre-qualification method.

Prospects that take the time to request free content related to building their business are more serious prospects than prospects that respond to a generic ad promising to show them how to make more money.

Prospects that actually PURCHASE information related to building their business are even more serious prospects than any other type of prospect you could come across.

So make sure you understand the difference between the different ways you can prospect using internet network marketing.

If you prefer to use one of the most effective ways, you should use the internet attraction marketing method.

Best,

Jerry

http://www.secondstreamincome.com

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One of the keys to driving traffic to your website or BLOG  is  to post the audio files on the Internet.

1. If you want to add in your Network Marketing affiliate link at the end of the audio, you can use this free audio tools. http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
   
2. Speak and record your Network Marketing affiliate link URL using Sound Recorder. It’s available for free in all Windows based computer. You can record something like – “This audio is brought to your by “www.secondstreamincome.com” Once done, save the audio into your computer. If you don’t like Sound Recorder, you can also use Audacity to record.
3. Open up Audacity software and mix your Network Marketing audio and your recorded audio together.
4. Export it as mp3. You may need additional plugin. Just follow the instruction mentioned.
5. Once done, submit your Network Marketing audio mp3 to the sites below.
6. Get ready to receive targeted traffic to your Network Marketing site.

   http://www.apple.com/itunes/store/podcasts.html
   http://music.aol.com/radioguide/podcasting
   http://digg.com/podcasts
   http://www.podblaze.com/
   http://www.podcastingnews.com/topics/Add_Your_Podcast.html
   http://www.podcastalley.com/add_a_podcast.php
   http://www.podfeed.net/add_podcast.asp
   http://www.digitalpodcast.com/
   http://www.mirpod.com/addpodcast.php?lang=en
   http://www.idiotvox.com/index.php?spid=7
   http://canada.podcast.com/home.php
   http://www.podcastblaster.com/directory/add-podcast/
   http://www.blubrry.com/createaccount.php
   http://www.ibizradio.com/add.html
   http://www.pod-planet.com/suggest1.asp
   http://www.godcast1000.com/
   http://www.audials.com/en/music_download_videos/index.html
   http://www.everypodcast.com/modules.php?name=
   Web_Links&l_op=AddLink
   http://www.audiofeeds.org/submitfeed.php
   http://www.amigofish.com/catcher/user/login

I hope this post was helpful because it does work wonders.

Pass it on!  Pay it Forward.

Jerry Clark

www.secondstreamincome.com

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InterNetwork Marketing is the ability to create content that you can post on the Internet that will invite people that are looking for a business to your website.  Sounds simple, and it really is.  By posting articles on network marketing or teaching how to drive traffic using the Internet helps Google find your site. 

The biggest frustration the majority of network marketers faces is such that they are not getting enough prospects and leads to join their business opportunity.

If you are still cold calling your families, friends or strangers, it is time to wake up.

It’s the Internet Age!… The methods for cold calling, doing hotel meeting and chasing after strangers are NOT working as effective any more.

This is the reason why we created Second Stream Income Team

Here’s just a small taste of what Second Stream Income Team can do for you :

1. ATTRACT hoards of new prospects and leads to your business opportunity
2. Quickly propel you into a “Network Marketing Guru” status even if you are new to the industry
3. Send your website or blog to the top of the search engine rankings
4. Create useful bonuses that you can give to your prospects or members

With that said, here’s how you can attract prospects and leads to your network marketing business.

1. You can post the articles to your website or blog. You can load up all the articles to your blog and pre-set it to publish every 2 days. This way it will free up your time and the articles can last up to one month.
2. If you want to submit the articles to the Article Directories (I suggest you to), you would need to re-write the articles. You can either do it yourself or get someone to do it for you. You can outsource your articles at http://www.GetaFreeLancer.com(Please do NOT submit the articles without re-writing it)
3. Once you have re-written your articles, submit them to the Top Article Directories:
   

   a)	http://www.EzineArticles.com
   b)	http://www.GoArticles.com
   c)	http://www.Buzzle.com
   d)	http://www.IdeaMarketers.com
   e)	http://www.ArticleDashboard.com
   f)	http://www.ArticleAlley.com
   g)	http://www.Articlecube.com
   h)	http://www.Amazines.com
   i)	http://www.EasyArticles.com
   j)	http://www.ArticleBiz.com
   k)	http://www.ArticleCity.com

4. Get ready to receive targeted traffic to your site.
5. Another way to drive hoards of visitors to your website is to look for websites that accept author content contribution. Beside article directories, there are other websites out there that constantly want content. Look out for sites like this and submit your contents to them.

I will post even more Article Submission websites in a subsequent post

Get started today!

Jerry

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