R.I.P. X-Factor Traffic

BUT - Before it's GONE FOREVER, I'm giving you treat.

Nope…not a miniature-chocolate or a home-made popcorn ball.

Not even a candied-apple.

This year I'm giving out what you need most…

MORE WEB TRAFFIC.

Does Your Website's Traffic Look Like a Graveyard?

In the spirit of Halloween I'm giving you a very special collection of the Top Traffic Tactic's of World's Best Web Marketers.

These 21 Lessons will save even the most ghostly-website.

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BUT - Don't forget…You only have until MIDNIGHT TONIGHT!

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Getting THIS much traffic is scary!

- Matt

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We interrupt the "Financial Mistakes" series for some very important and time-sensitive news (the series will continue right after this)

Nitro Marketing & Trafficology have discovered the Top 10 most effective totally free web traffic tactics of all time.

The #9 Totally Free Traffic Tactic of all time is

"Joint Venture Traffic"

Many professional marketers consider JVs to be the Top Traffic Tactic of all time.

AND many of the biggest names on the web use Joint Ventures as the sole source of traffic behind their million dollar online marketing empires.

Yep - JVs can be an extremely potent source of absolutely free web traffic, but the truth is (shockingly) they are only the 9th most powerful method.

(Yes…there really are 8 even more powerful and still absolutely free traffic tactics.)

Q: "Exactly how do I flood my website with swarms of high-quality traffic using just Joint Ventures?"

There is actually a very specific science to creating the ultimate traffic producing Joint Venture Deal.

AND in X Factor Traffic I spend 10 Full-Pages and over 2-entire hours teaching you step by step exactly how to do it correctly.

(including 21 advanced JV traffic tips and answers to the 27 most pressing JV questions)

While it's impossible to teach you everything right now, this is what I can tell you…

When thinking of joint ventures, consider how you can approach someone who has a large list, a busy website, terrific contacts or credibility, and then how you can convince them to work with you.

You are really looking for ways to:

1) Leverage Other's Lists of Subscribers

2) Leverage Your Own List of Subscribers

3) Leverage Other's Website Traffic

4) Leverage Your Website Traffic

5) Form Strategic Partnerships And Alliances

6) Leverage The Relationships Of Others (JV Brokers And Friends Of Friends)

At first glance these 6 points are not earth shattering.

But there is a subtle science behind combining these 6 items in a way that creates the perfect storm of online profits.

The truth is with JVs, like many things in life, the missing key to success is NOT OBVIOUS.

The answer you're looking for is counter-intuitive.

And even when I reveal it to you, it may not make complete and total sense at first.

In fact I've already told you the answer.

It's right there in those 6 points above, but unless you've already mastered the art of joint ventures you probably can't see it.

Don't feel alone…even though there have been dozens of eBooks and courses published on the topic, most people always miss the secret key.

So…what is the secret key to JV success?

Two words: Approach & Leverage

Most people try to hit the home-run JV right of the bat. They try to find the biggest list or the site with the most traffic and line up a JV.

BUT it never works.

Never start at the top.

The key to creating a swarm of JV Traffic is Approaching & Leveraging your way to the top.

It's just like that guy who traded a paper-clip for his dream house.

He didn't go around asking people with a house to trade for his paper clip.

And you can't go around asking people with all the traffic to do a JV with you.

Just as the paper-clip guy found innovative ways to Approach and Leverage his way up in the world, you too need to find creative ways to Approach and Leverage your way up to the top of your own niche.

Like I said, this is just the tip of the iceberg.

In X Factor Traffic I spend 10-full pages and over 2-hours teaching you step-by-step the scientifically proven method to creating massive JV traffic, absolutely free.

X Factor Traffic will teach you the only 10 traffic tactics you'll ever need.

X Factor will reveal the Top 10 Totally Free Traffic Tactics of ALL-TIME

X Factor will show you step-by-step, exactly how to drive 100s or even 1000s of highly qualified visitors to your website every single day (absolutely free)

X Factor Gets Traffic Faster.

Get X-Factor Traffic now before October 31st at midnight:

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Enjoy!

- Matt

PS: Get The top 10 totally free traffic tactics of all time before October 31st at midnight Pacific time, because after that, they are gone forever:

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We interrupt the "Financial Mistakes" series for some very important and time-sensitive news (the series will continue right after this)

Nitro Marketing & Trafficology have discovered the Top 10 most effective totally free web traffic tactics of all time.

Drumroll please….

The #10 Totally Free Traffic Tactic of all time is:

 "Recapturing Misdirected Traffic"
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While numerous webmasters struggle with getting enough traffic everyday, millions of people click on links everyday and don't get what they are looking for and would have happily paid for.

You can fix that by simply focusing on Recapturing Misdirected Traffic.

Two quick and easy ways to do this are:

 -> Re-direct your own traffic
 -> Re-direct other people's traffic

To re-direct your own traffic, simply spend time looking at your log files.  Figure out what keywords they are searching for that are not properly targeted.

Identify pages that people are trying to find that they are not getting.

You can also create a custom 404 error page.

But not one of those lame "Sorry - Page Not Found" ones.

Instead make it useful…add a search box, a site-map, links to your most viewed pages or most commonly purchased products.

There are even tools out there you can use to automatically figure out what the visitor was looking for and then re-direct them to the page they were really looking for.

You can learn all this and much more about how to Recapture Misdirected Traffic in Trafficology's new course X Factor Traffic.

(Including a quick and easy way to  Re-Direct Other People's Traffic)

X Factor Traffic will teach you the only 10 traffic tactics you'll ever need.

X Factor will reveal the Top 10 Totally Free Traffic Tactics of ALL-TIME

X Factor will show you step-by-step, exactly how to drive 100s or even 1000s of highly qualified visitors to your website every single day (absolutely free)

X Factor Gets Traffic Faster.

Get X-Factor Traffic now before October 31st at midnight:

 http://www.xFactorTraffic.com

Enjoy!
Matt

PS:  Get The top 10 totally free traffic tactics of all time before October 31st at midnight Pacific time, because after that, they are gone forever:
http://www.XFactorTraffic.com

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Two weeks ago the entire Nitro team attended Eben Pagan's $10,000 per person Altitude Event.  We've been to a LOT of marketing related seminars but this one was truly amazing.  Between everyone on our team, we have over 131 pages of notes!

If you missed the event, don't worry - they captured the whole event on DVD and will be releasing those soon.  You'll still be able to get some of the amazing concepts and systems that will allow you to rapidly grow your business to $1 million, even $20 million a year or more.

But right now there is a free teleseminar that Eben is doing for everyone that missed the event.

Click here to register for this free training call

~ Matt

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Regardless which of the three approaches are right for you, one tactic you can use to speed up the process is becoming a subject matter expert and "hiring out" your services to other people.

For example, you could spend a week studying how to write effective press releases and how to use press releases in the marketing of an online business. You then write several press releases and go through the process on your own. They could be for meaningless things.

Right now you are just focused on developing the skill, NOT on producing results. Those are two totally different objectives.

Next, it's time to move onto producing the results.

If you are doing any kind of business online, you should have developed a number of contacts who know, like, and trust you.

Tell these people you will do some press release marketing for them for free. All you ask in return that they work with you to track the results, they provide a testimonial on the results they received and the quality of your work and if they know anybody else who would benefit to refer them to you.

Now you have proven yourself to be able to provide this service to others.

The next step is to focus on referrals, use the outsourcing sites to generate work, and remember this is designed to replace your time-for-money job with a time-for-money part-time business while you are building up your real business that is based on producing leveraged results.

This is just one example. Think of the hundreds of activities an online business owner needs, every one of them could be a topic you can develop a skill for and provide other website owners. And it comes with the added benefit of being a skill you can use to build your own business.

The next mistake, #6, is an interesting one and I bet you are doing it right now in your business!

~Kevin

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This is the 5th Mistake in the "13 Financial Blunders Newly Successful Internet Entrepreneurs Almost ALWAYS Make" series.

5) Going Full-Time And Quitting Your Day Job. 

This has the potential to be a very controversial subject because everybody has a different opinion.

And it is also a topic that interests virtually every Internet Entrepreneur.  It’s our dream to go into the bosses office, prop our feet up on his desk, lean wayyy back in the chair and say, "Sorry boss but I just can't fit you into my schedule anymore and I have to fire you!"

If you follow a proven system to start, launch and grow your online business then going full-time and quitting your day job is definitely a reality.

I'll first tell you what I did. Then provide you the 3 most common paths people take. Finally, in the end, is up to you to identify which path is the best fit for you.

And I will also give you an innovative approach.

My journey is a bit unique.

While attending college majoring in accounting I realized my sophomore year that if I did that for the rest of my life I was going to be miserable.

Luckily the Internet was just becoming popular with the release of the Netscape browser (and free high speed internet access at the college!)

However, unfortunately, there was all of ZERO training or information on doing business online. This was before pay-per-click. The main form of advertising was $100 CPM banner ads.

I plugged away at it while in college and built up a small content site that was making a few hundred dollars a month.

Then I started doing the senior year job interviews and it became even clearer that having a corporate job being an auditor for a big accounting firm was not what I wanted in life.

I ended up taking an internship with the owner of the North Texas Subway Development Office. He had the rights to find and oversee all of the Subway franchises in his territory and receive a royalty of their sales volume.

When I went full-time…

When college ended I turned down their full-time job offer and decided to go full-time as an Internet entrepreneur.

My reasoning was if I could focus all of my time and energy on my business, then it would naturally be more successful.

However that didn't change the fact that I was still making less than $1000 a month, eating ramen noodles and living off of debt.

I obviously chose the first approach, which is also the riskiest - Head First.

The other two are the "Almost There" and the "100% Sure" approach.

The 3 Approaches to Going Full-Time And Quitting Your Job:

Head First - This is the aggressive, risk taking approach. You jump right in despite the fact that every logical reason would say it’s not a good idea. You generally have a half-baked game plan of what you are going to do, you have unrealistic assumptions of what you can accomplish in what time and you have no Plan B if it doesn't work out.

Although this sounds like a stupid approach, you would be surprised how many successful entrepreneurs went this route. It is like the Conquistadors who sailed across the Atlantic Ocean to find gold in the new world. When they landed they burned their boat to the ground so none of the members thought about giving up. Us "Head First'ers" have a "its going to work no matter what" mentality.

Recently I discussed this topic with other multi-million dollar information marketers who are in the Dallas mastermind group I am part of.  And every one of them used this same approach.

I'm definitely not saying it is the one I recommend. And in fact up to that time I would tell people to follow the 100% Sure approach. However, one person's comment made me think.

He said, if we didn't do what we did would we have ever been able to make it work? And by telling people to do something different, to "protect them" are we only holding them back?

Some interesting questions indeed.

100% Sure - This is the (ultra) conservative approach and the exact opposite of the first one.

You are making as much if not more than your current job income and have been at that level for at least several months (so you know it will continue). You have enough in savings to last you for 3 months in case something bad happens. And you know exactly what your 3, 6, 12 month plan is now that you are full-time in your own business.

If in doubt this is the approach I recommend following. And I know a number of very successful entrepreneurs who followed this route, including Mike Filsaime and Perry Marshall.

It is the longer approach, but also the safer approach.

Almost There - This is the middle of road approach. Going full-time is not a sure thing, but you have replaced most of your monthly job income with your monthly business income. And you also have a game plan already figured out how you will use the new found time to grow your business and get it to the level it needs to be.

Most people will fall into this category. They are not extreme risk takers that jump right in without a safety parachute, but they also do not have the patience to take the slow and steady long term approach. So you get "close enough" and then pull the trigger on quitting your job.

Some factors to consider and tips to use…

1. Determine which approach is right for you and your life situation. If you have a family than you have to take them into consideration. Also, if you are a complete "100% Sure" person than using the "Head First" approach would be suicide to follow and vice versa.

2. Have a game plan for where you are going, how you plan to replace your income, in what time frame and also what exactly will you spend your time doing with this new found time.

3. However long you think something will take, double it. Even then, it will probably take longer.

4. Explore the possibility of going from working full-time to working part-time at your job as an intermediate step. Read Tim Ferris excellent 4 Hour Work Week book for ideas in this area.

5. Use the extra money you earn from your business to give your self small rewards, reinvest into your business and build up your savings in addition to pay down debt. Don't use it to increase your lifestyle and monthly personal expenses.

This way, when you do go full-time you are in a much stronger position with your savings and debt and have developed some great habits.

Finally, a GREAT solution…

Tune in tomorrow to find out what it is!

~ Kevin

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This is the 4th Mistake in the "13 Financial Blunders Newly Successful Internet Entrepreneurs Almost ALWAYS Make" series.

4) Not Diversifying Within Your Business 

This one has two parts to it.

The first part was discussed briefly yesterday in Mistake #3. That was the mistake of always pursuing the next opportunity rather than focusing on one business or project until it is successful.

Robert Allen made this a popular topic with his book and training on Multiple Streams of Income.

Many people took this to mean in the online world they should have multiple web businesses, and would start one business or site after another. And like I mentioned before, always chasing great opportunities but never building a real business.

Another common thought people have is…

"If I am making $200 a month from this one site, if I have 50 sites in 50 different markets I can make $10,000 a month."

However, what they don't realize is each new site increases the amount of time and effort to maintain those results.  And by the time you end up with a dozen of them you are completely overwhelmed and they are all suffering.

Some people may say, "But this business is limited in opportunity." And in some cases that may be true, but I am sure you are seriously underestimating the amount of opportunity that lies in your business.

For example, my buddy Jermaine Griggs has built a business that does over a million dollars a year teaching people how to play the piano by ear, over at www.hearandplay.com.  The reason he was able to do that was because of this next part…

The second part of this mistake is…

The "one trick pony" businesses.

These are web businesses that depend on the weakness of one. They have one source of traffic, one source of new customers, and/or one source of revenue or product.

Then, when one of those sources goes bad, the business is in serious trouble.

We saw an example of this in the past when the Google Slaps happened. MANY people were totally dependant on Google Adwords to generate traffic to their site. Then when Google made a change and said they would no longer let them advertise that way, they were out of business, literally overnight.

Another example is somebody who has only one product. They then have to spend more and more time, effort and cost to keep finding new customers to buy their one product.

Like the great marketing minds in the past have said, it is as much as 10 times easier and cheaper to sell another thing to an existing customer than to find a new customer.

Over time these people can't keep up. They either can't find enough new customers to maintain the volume, or their competitors become better, smarter and faster and they can no longer compete. Then they wake up one day and realize this great little business really wasn't a business, because it doesn't work anymore.

What's the solution?

Having multiple streams of traffic and revenue within your business.

So instead of relying on just one traffic source such as Adwords, you also have affiliates, email marketing, search engine traffic, social media traffic, offline traffic, banner advertising, CPA networks, etc.  In total we have a list of 23 different traffic methods broken down between The Big 3 (PPC, SEO & Affiliates) and then 20 more Traffic Enhancers.

Then, you have multiple ways to build your email list, multiple front end products, multiple backend products, a monthly continuity program (we call it P3 - a Predictable Profits Program) and a number of other sources of income.

The Nitro Blueprint System we developed for our use and our clients over the years is based on having multiple sources of traffic at the top of the funnel, multiple front end feeder products, multiple backend products and other sources of multiple revenue streams.

And they all feed off of each other. So the work that is put into creating a new traffic source feeds into all of the revenue sources.  And the new revenue source is fed by all of the traffic sources.

I call it the "Empty Box Principle" and everybody I share this concept with tells me it has changed their entire way of thinking.  After we finish up this series of Financial Mistakes I will create a video for you sharing the Empty Box Principle we use, so you can implement it as well.

The take away from today's mistake…

Instead of trying to have multiple businesses, have one business and build it out so it is diversified by how it generates traffic and revenue.

On Monday I will share Mistake #5. This is a VERY controversial topic that up until now has been ignored. However, it is a topic that needs to be addressed because I guarantee you have either faced it already or will face it in the future.

~Kevin

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This is the 3rd Mistake in the "13 Financial Blunders Newly Successful Internet Entrepreneurs Almost ALWAYS Make" series.

3) Income Opportunity Focused vs Business Focused

In our Nitro Blueprint System training coming out later this year I say, "Build A Business, Not An Income."

Most people when starting out in business are focused on generating income and lose site of their long-term objective of having a successful, sustainable business.

Logically it makes sense. You need money to pay the bills. And for you to eventually quit your day job you need the income from your business to exceed your job's income. (The "going full time" is plagued with problems as well and is one of the upcoming 13 mistakes we will be covering.)

However if you are only focused on building an income online, you will always be chasing the next income opportunity and never build a true business that provides for you over the long-term.

For example, the previous few years the common form of Mistake #3… Read more

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The goal of this series is to not only share with you "The 13 Financial Blunders Newly Successful Internet Entrepreneurs Almost ALWAYS Make" but also give you some ideas to make sure you avoid these VERY costly but easy to make mistakes.

I will admit it. I made some HUGE mistakes when I first started to see some financial success in my Internet business ventures.

And over the years have seen friends, clients and other up and coming Internet Entrepreneurs make these exact same mistakes too.

And I would wager you either have made or will make several of these 13 mistakes yourself.

My goal is to make you aware of these mistakes so you can avoid them from this day forward because they can be VERY costly and negate the success you are creating.

Today we will focus on two of the biggest, then over the coming days I will share all 13. I highly recommend "subscribing" to the RSS feed for this blog so you do not miss any of the 13 blunders.

1) FUTURE SPENDING

This one will "seem" very simple and it will be easy to blow it off and say "this doesn't apply to me". However I have seen even the smartest people I know (myself included) come under this spell and months, even years later they have formed bad money habits and really compromised their financial situation.

Future Spending is when people base their current spending on what they expect to make in their business in the future.

The justification they make to themselves is, I am doing $X amount right now and just by doing these things I will increase it to $Y level.

So they start spending today as if they are already making the $Y amount. That means they are spending money they don't have yet (and may never have.)

The problem is more times than not they don't reach that higher $Y level as quickly as they think, unexpected events come up that require more money than planned, or in some cases they never reach it or it takes months even years.

Yet they are still spending as if they are already there!

To avoid this is simple, although not always as easy as it sounds because Future Spending can be VERY alluring. Just be honest with yourself on what you are currently making and base all financial decisions on that CURRENT amount.

You definitely still want to stay focused on where you are heading and what you want to achieve, but you celebrate those successes and benefit from them when they ACTUALLY happen.

Remember a key philosophy of a successful marketer or life in general is to recognize the way things are, not the way you want them to be.
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2) INCOME TAXES

This one really screwed me up and it took almost 3 years to finally recover from this one BIG but VERY common mistake.

As an employee taxes are automatically taken care of. The IRS takes it right off the top of your paycheck and you never even have an opportunity to sniff that money.

However, as an entrepreneur that automatic deduction does not happen with our paychecks because we are no longer an employee. We are governed by an entire new set of rules.

These rules can be very lucrative because it opens up dozens of legitimate tax deductions
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that can slash our income taxes in half or more.

However if you do not have a plan to save cash every month (or at least quarterly) to pay your taxes, then when April 15th arrives you will have a BIG surprise.

For me, I combined Mistake #1 (Future Spending) with this second mistake and thought I would pay my taxes when they came due out of the profits I made from business at that time. Again I was spending money (for taxes) that I never had.

So when my $30,000 tax bill came I didn't have a single penny set aside for it.

Luckily the IRS let's you pay it off in monthly installments for up to 1 year (plus interest and penalties that add up quickly).

So now I had to pay an additional $3000 a month in unexpected expenses and I had to try and save for next year's taxes too. I was getting hit from both sides — the IRS was practically getting every penny I made for awhile!

It took me 3 very un-fun years to finally get caught up and for awhile now I have consistently been putting away my expected income tax as well as my house property tax every single month.

How to earn interest on your tax payment:

I use ING Directs's online savings account http://www.ingdirect.com/ that pays a 4.5% interest rate so I am earning a decent return on my money while it is sitting in a bank account waiting to be paid to the IRS for income tax or the city for property tax.

Hopefully you will take this advice and USE IT to avoid 2 of the biggest financial blunders most newly successful entrepreneurs make.

And be sure to come back to the blog and read all 13 blunders as they are revealed over the coming days.

~Kevin

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Have you ever had so many great ideas that you are just about to explode? You have at least 13, number one best selling ideas… now if only you could implement them. Then, as if by magic, number 14 pops in your head and you are off running in that direction?
 
I recently attended a seminar for internet marketers and it seemed that about 90% of the people were suffering from a phrase I coined while there, “Entrepreneurial ADD”, it just seemed that there was no other way to describe it. And believe me; if they didn’t arrive that way, they left that way.
 
The problem is not with the ideas themselves, but the way in which you react when you have the idea.
 
One very successful marketer I know used to have a slew of ideas all day long, and her desk and brain looked like the wires behind my TV…with the TiVo, stereo, TV, DVD, PS2, Wii and god only knows what else all making one huge rats nest on the floor. Really, I dread getting a new TV because I have will have to figure what wires go where, there are probably wires that aren’t connected to anything, but are just back there adding to the
mess.
 
She eventually decided that manila folders were the way to go, and would write down everything and make files for future projects, ones that would parallel what she was working on, etc, this way nothing was lost.
 
Sometimes when she would go back through the file she would find the “cable that was not connected to anything” and either get rid of it, or send it to a place for later use. You just have to be careful you don’t unplug the TV, or none of the other cords matter, because though the DVD player may be functioning properly, it doesn’t really matter if you can’t hear the sound or see the picture.
 
If your ideas are not laid out in an organized fashion, you will not have been able to go back and implement them.
 
I personally happen to be a list maker; my family laughs because I sometimes have a list of my lists.
 
Now I am not saying that manila folders or lists longer than Santa’s are the way to go for you, but figure out what works to keep you on task.
 
Just because you have a great idea today does not mean you have to drop everything and act on it right away.
 
Remember everything in its own time…and not everything’s time can be today.
 
- Meredith

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