Marketing In Difficult Times: Improve Website Traffic

Posted on February 27, 2009 @ 5:00 pm
by Michael Fleischner

Marketing online takes a good deal of experience. This is especially true as marketing budgets become smaller and are asked to do more. Internet marketing requires skillful management of multiple audiences, campaigns, and more. By using the proper data analysis, and implementing some best practices, you can get more from your online marketing.

If you are an established business, chance are you already have a website or blog. In fact, you may also have tons of visitors coming to your website each and every day. The key is to leverage your visitors and build long term relationships that can pay dividends.

I have developed a number of methods to best leverage the traffic I receive to my website. With smaller budgets for PPC and other forms of online advertising, getting visitors to convert is more important than ever. These techniques are simple to implement and can really improve conversions.

Provide an informational giveaway. When visitors enter your website, provide some valuable information in exchange for a name and email. This capture of information is essential for marketing your products to web site visitors. Once they offer their information communicate with them on a regular basis.

Use an auto responder. Communicate with your website visitors on a regular basis. This is a great way to convert your browsers into customers. After users sign up for your free information or download, use the auto responder to send messages on a regular basis. Auto responders are very inexpensive and can provide a significant boost to sales.

Create a compelling reason for website visitors to return. One great way of creating a strong reason to visit your site again is the production of a weekly contest, information exchange (like a forum) or some other type of event. Keep things new and you will see more and more repeat visitors.

Think about other resources you can produce on a regular basis to pull browsers back to your website. One common method is a newsletter. After individuals sign up for your newsletter, you can have a dialogue with them on a daily, weekly, or monthly basis. Make sure to save copies of your past newsletters online and require registration to view them.

In a tough economy, you need to do what you can to get more from your website visitors. The only way to do this successfully is to first offer something of value. After you’ve made the first move, many browsers will be willing to share some information about themselves. Put your thinking cap on and consider new ways to attract website visitors. Once you have found something that works, stick with it.

As you experiment and find new ways to convert your visitors, communicate with them regularly and continue to create value. Over time, these individuals will convert into full paying customers.

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