The Money is in the List, the money is not in our websites, the money is not in our keywords, the Money is in the List. You need traffic to your blog to build a list, traffic comes before the list. Traffic, traffic and more traffic is the key to success, especially organic traffic. I have long been anticipating this module of Alex Jeffreys Marketing with Alex Internet Marketing Course for the obvious reasons, as we all know, without traffic there is no business on the internet. Our focus is always on list building. I must make this statement my mantra. 

Unfortunately, I was on vacation with my entire family for Traffic Tornados and did not have an internet connection available, so I am getting this critical information from the recording of the session. I do not understand organic traffic, my websites or blogs have never been graced by the prescence of any organic traffic, I have created a few blogs, written and published a couple of articles, I desperately tried to write entertaining and informative material. I added wordpress plugins to my blogs for SEO optimizing (?), still no traffic, so after several months of writing my blogs and articles, I am, by definition, an Organic Traffic Virgin. I really do need this module to lift me out of the depths at the bottom of my oil rig.

It is going to take me some time to organize my thoughts and implement what Alex covered in the Traffic Tornados module. First I must absorb what he covered and then figure out exactly how and what traffic generating methods I am going to implement of the many options he described in the Traffic Tornados module.

I see my plan of attack as threefold;

(1) Article Marketing and Press Releases; I have already written several articles all around three thousand words each and I may have already made a misstep in this area. Ezine Articles is the largest and most popular article publisher on the internet and they do not accept duplicate copy, in other words, if I already submitted it to another article publisher and I have, they will not accept it. Actually it is probably a good idea to rewrite these articles so that they are keyword oriented anyway, so nothing lost 

(2) Video Marketing, the newest and biggest traffic capture method on the internet. I know I will have a greater learning curve in video production, but I expect the time I invest will be paid back 10 fold. I am serious enough about this marketing venue to have invested $3500 to purchase an Apple Mac Pro for the video capabilities and to cut down on my learning curve. I plan on video being my highest performing advertising method.  I must not forget that Alex Jeffreys provided an exclusive interview with the ‘Video Marketing Queen’, Maria Andros and I have that recorded interview for reference.

(3)  Forum Posting, I have to admit I don’t enjoy mucking about in forums, I see it as a gigantic waste of time and energy. Forum surfing eats my time like nothing else and for this reason I have been unwilling to spend the time that I should spend to build career long relationships using the forums as a means of introduction and sharing. Alex Jeffreys started in forums, learning and building relationships, so I know it does work and that I need to invest whatever time it takes toi get the job done.

Obviously, I did not include blogging in the three points of my Trident, because it needs no validation or special initiative. It is the foundation on which I will build my internet business.

If your ‘Focus’ is affiliate marketing, my business structure may not look much like yours, my primary focus is a neutraceutical company named ‘TriVita’, which has a business structure known as ‘Cooperative Marketing’. This will force me to lean in other directions when building my list. My focus will be on building a list of prospective business partners as well as a list of potential customers. I am expecting the video marketing arm of my marketing efforts to be the point of my Marketing Trident.

 When it comes to generating traffic, Alex covered everything from soup to nuts in the Traffic Tornados module and he gave us some handy tips on keyword research, tips on finding sites for article submission, and finding high ranking blogs in our niche for establish backlinks.