How We Transformed A Dull, Zero Traffic Web Site Into a Profitable Internet Marketing Tool
Five years ago, our web site was probably a lot like yours. As a new small business, we focused exclusively on writing the best software for our clients. We assumed business would just start coming our way, simply because we were more skilled and did a better job than the other guy.
We looked around at other web sites and made ours just like everyone else’s, thinking we would model our site after existing “successful” businesses. And just like everyone else, we told the world about our company and processes, talking all about the technical details about what we do... And we waited...
Then we started to notice something strange. We just weren’t getting any visitors to our website.
Lesson One: A Web Site Does Not Attract Traffic on Its Own
We invested hundreds upon hundreds of hours researching and testing ideas for drawing traffic to a small business web site. And the visitors arrived… in droves. For a while, our site attracted more traffic than 99.8% of all other sites, (ranked 38,000 out of 5 million according to Alexa.com).
But still, for some reason, even with all those visitors to our website, it failed to drive any new business our way. Then, it hit us – when we modeled our site after everyone else’s, we failed to realize...
Lesson Two: Most Websites Are Not Profitable
According to Kevin O'Connor, the Chairman and CEO of DoubleClick, a vast majority of websites simply cost more money to develop and maintain than they bring in.
Your website’s success depends on the balance of four crucial elements that few web design, web programming, or internet marketing firms truly understand. Missing any one of these elements, your website will simply fail to perform.
Lesson Three: You Don’t Want a Web Site
Since web sites, as most people build them, lose money - do you still really want a web site? After creating a number of profitable web sites, we’ve noticed an interesting trend. It seems that small business operators don’t really want a web site at all. Instead, what you really need is an Internet marketing sales tool that makes your business more profitable. You want that sales tool to:
- Attract More Clients,
- Reduce Costs of Doing
Business,
- Improve Customer Service, and
- Generate Goodwill in your community.
Lesson Four: You Need a Solid Internet Marketing Strategy
Building your internet marketing sales tool demands more than just a good product, graphics, and web traffic. It requires a solid Internet marketing strategy. Beyond the essentials, a solid internet marketing strategy consists of the following:
- Strong marketing direction
focusing your internet marketing on your most
responsive prospects
- Search engine optimization
bringing highly targeted traffic to your web site from
the world’s largest free traffic sources
- An effective message
captivating readers and compelling them to take action
- Web programming to
- test, track, and tune your
marketing efforts
- capture prospect
information
- deliver promotional materials without taking up your time
- Interactive marketing
bringing visitors back again and again
- Web site design integrating all of these factors into a complete internet profitaility tool
We have laid out the steps necessary to reproduce what required years to learn in a complete internet marketing system we call our “Four C Web Marketing System”™. And you will learn exactly how we make this happen.
But first, you'd probably like to hear if this stuff really works. Don't take our word for it, listen to what some of our clients have to say:
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“Instead of having to cold
call, for the first time ever, prospects have
been calling on a regular basis, simply because
they found us on the web...” |
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Mike Eberhart CEO of Sure Talent, Inc. |
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“Our business has
picked up five-fold since you reworked our site. We're getting calls
even during what traditionally were the 'slow' times of the year.
We have always had great products. But we finally
realized that having a better mousetrap just wasn't enough. Now we have a solid
marketing strategy that brings us steady stream of prospects
who are practically sold already.”
- Mike Eberhart, CEO of SureTalent, Inc., providers of enterprise background investigation
tools.
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“You guys are more like a partner than a vendor...” |
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Chris Calloway, Marketing Director
WayOut
Marketing (Tampa,
Florida) |
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“When I first asked you about how to
successfully market with web sites, your
non-stop flow of powerful ideas and suggestions
was like trying to drink from a fire hose. In
all honesty, I was thinking I’d just gather a
few nuggets of wisdom, and take them back to
make money for our customers. But before an hour had
passed, you taught me more about web marketing
than I thought there was to know.
At that time, I was selling my web marketing services to our clients, thinking I really knew my stuff. After that conversation with you, I think you’ve probably forgotten more about
web marketing than most people ever really know
about it.
After setting up
our site to use
just one
of your internet marketing ideas, we've been getting a
non-stop stream of qualfied leads from our
web site. The hardest part for
us has been making the time to call on
all of them.”
- Chris
Calloway, Marketing Director of WayOuy Marketing, Inc., providers of marketing services for mortgage
brokers.
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“You go far beyond just building web sites. Your insight into getting our business off
of the ground has been invaluable...” |
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Kevin LaFata , President
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- Kevin LaFata, President of High Orbit, Corp., Business Process Automation Consultants.
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Our Special Internet Marketing Report -
"Revealed! Secrets of the Web Masters - How
to Make Your Web Site Profitable"
uncovers...
- Our tried and true
"Four C Web Marketing System"™ that creates new
customers out of thin air and brings them to you
with open hearts and wallets, ready to buy
- even if you have an offline business
- One single
word that will easily double the appeal of your
web site - it's missing from nearly every web
site, and is probably missing from yours (I'll give you a hint: it's not "free" or "please")
- The five traffic myths
exposed and debunked - save your money for
the stuff that works
- The one
question burning in the mind of every visitor to
your web site - if you answer this one question
correctly, you have yourself a new client
- Four ways to grow your
business using the internet so you can start
profiting from 21st century technology - while
your competition sleeps behind the wheel
- Which handful of search engines are the ONLY ones that
matter so you can invest your time and energy
wisely
- The big name search
engine that will actually penalize you when
you submit your site using their online form and
how to get around it
- Solutions to fifteen real
world web site problems that small business
web sites currently face
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