Friday, May 6, 2011

Power Up Your Traffic!

Power Up Your Traffic By Running A Contest:
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For sure, a lot of your customers may be looking for the type of product or service that you
offer. So, how will you attract those buyers who are not yet familiar with your site and those who
you want to have come back again?
How will you gain visitors and drive traffic to your site?
One answer is to run a contest. And not just an old contest. It must be crafted to keep them
coming back to your site. Lots of clever people will say that running a contest will help, but they
won’t give you tips on how to do it.
Benefits of holding a contest
One of the biggest benefits of running a contest is traffic. A contest can help you increase
traffic to your site. Studies show that a contest, if held during a full month, can gain 500-5000
visitors and more. So, imagine that opportunity!
Your potential consumers may even tell their friends about your site and it’s also a chance to
boost your sales.
Some affiliate programs online may also be curious of the number of visitors and page views
you have. And one way to increase this is to run a contest.
Contests also help if you plan to sell ad space on your site.
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Generally, if you write a monthly or weekly newsletter, running a contest and asking those who
enter if they want to subscribe to your newsletter will usually result in about 1/3 of them signing
up.
And lastly, those who have a business but don’t have a website can also benefit from a contest.
The types and rules might be different, but running a contest would get you noticed and get
people to come to your site again and again

Wednesday, April 20, 2011

The Top 10 Reasons I Will Not Follow You in Return on Twitter

the Top 10 Reasons I Will Not Follow You in Return on Twitter
1. You have no user avatar
or your user avatar is neither a personalized photograph nor reflective of a brand.

2. You list no location, no website, or no bio

3. Your “website” listed is a MySpace profile

…or, far worse, an AngelFire “page.”

4. You’re following over 1,000 users, have 20 followers, and no updates
follower-ratio…or, worse, one update that includes a shamefully ill-constructed mention of Jason Calacanis.

5. Your profile features any variation of “Internet expert”

…or “social media expert” and you have very few and/or insubstantial updates.

6. Your updates clearly indicate that your Twitter activity is always, only, about pushing your own service/product

7. Your following and my return follow result in a poorly-constructed auto-DM reading, “Thx for the follow! How can I help you get to a 4-Hour Work Week?”

8. Your most recent updates make references to any need to achieve “more Twitter followers”

…or “enough new followers to reach 10,000 followers by midnight!”

9. Your Twitter stream indicates a propensity for consistent arguing

10. You do not engage your Twitter followers