"Just when I thought I was becoming a smart cybermarketer, along comes a humbling lesson I'll never forget..."
I live in the snow belt of Rhode Island, USA. No, it's not Siberia but so far this year we've received our share of heavy snow. Which leads me to today's marketing tip...
About half-way through each year I like to take a close look at my stats to get a handle on my best traffic sources. My websites receive thousands of visitors a day and WHERE the traffic comes from is always changing.
I started marketing on the internet before it was cool. Back in early 1996, the "commercial internet" was just beginning to fully emerge.
Recently, I received the following message from one of my faithful BizWeb Gazette subscribers:
Late last Friday afternoon I made one last email check before leaving for the weekend. Much to my surprise there were nearly 1000 email messages waiting in my inbox. And little did I know at the time, there would be thousands more over the next few days.
So, I'll bet you're excited to learn this new promotion method that brought in all this email right? Well, before you get too excited, let me tell you this... it's one you should never even consider using.
What follows is a proven, step by step formula for driving highly targeted traffic to any website; for pennies. Recently, I've been sampling new promotions methods to drive fresh traffic to my website. I had been reading quite a bit about goto.com and how other webmasters had been getting great results with it, so I decided to give it a try.