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7 Traffic Generating Sites You Never Heard of But You Should Be Using Now

There are tons of free traffic generators you can use to build traffic to your site. Some are better than others, but before you go signing up for 50 accounts, let me give you a couple of tips, as well as seven sites I think do the job better in getting you the traffic and sales you want.

My joint venture partner, Steven Boaze, http://www.boazepublishing.biz, gave me this one:

BUILD YOUR LIST. Everything traffic generation method you use should be geared toward building your list. It's far easier, and a lot more profitable, to market to a list of receptive customers than it is strangers.

Give before you get. If you want to get people to your site, don't shove a sales pitch down their throats. Offer them a valuable freebie to say thank you for visiting your site.

Although there are plenty of freebies out there, I think it's best to make your own, whether it's an ecourse, ebook, or report. Just give your visitor something useful and capture that email.

Below is my list of the best ones I use. (They are in no particular order).

http://www.10khits4u.com - This site offers a newsletter, as well as an ecourse to teach you how to make the most of free traffic generators. Work smarter, and not harder on your traffic generating efforts, and you'll see more traffic and sales. This site will help you do that.

http://www.traffichoopla.com - Want a great start page rotator, as well as a selection of the best safelists and traffic generating pages, look no further. They offer a terrific, and inexpensive upgrade, which will tell you the results they get with each program they test.

http://www.advertisingknowhow.com - If you want a site that allows you to do more than one thing and do it well, go here. You can submit your articles for publication, surf for traffic, and build your list. There's also a terrific newsletter. Offers an upgrade.

http://www.allnetsuccess.com/blaster2.htm - Who knows? Maybe this is a gimmick on the part of the site owner, but all you have to post is post your subject and ad, and, according to the site, your ad will be sent out in 24 hours to millions of people. Test your ad. Worth a look, and it's free.

http://www.r9dlc.com/ - This site calls itself the "Ultimate Online Business Mega Portal". It offers quite a few nice tools including email, traffic exchange, banner exchange, web site maker, mailing lists, and a messenger. Offers an upgrade, but the free version is a pretty good place to start.

http://www.surfquestscreensaver.com - This guy is a genius. Although the idea of using screensavers to promote your web site isn't new, this one comes with a kick. Sign up now, and you'll get 5,000 credits to start you off, and you can earn 200 - 300 bonus credits at a time. I racked up about 11,000 credits the first day in about 30 minutes. (I have 11,000 because he's actually giving away 9,000).

http://www.virtualtrafficjam.com - Ever heard of Gary Danko? You should. This guy made $1,000,000 by the time he was 23. Although that was a little while ago, Gary has never looked back.

He has been online since 1996 and understands how to really drive traffic to your site. You can pick up 100 credits just for joining. Hey, if you want to make a million, why not learn from a millionaire? Unlike a lot of other traffic exchanges this one really shows you how to multiply your efforts>

Free traffic generators are popular now, and a lot of these sites are ranked in the top 100,000 on Alexa. If you want maximum traffic and sales to your site though, you'll choose traffic generators that work.

Test your efforts, and you'll see results.

And here is another random article you might be interested in...

How Do You Put a Value on Your Time?

As a small business owner, does the following paragraph sound familiar to you...?

"Other than doing the technical 'fix-its' with my computer...I do it all! I have found that this keeps me very limited in growing my business and taking on new clients. I wish I had someone to help but how can I justify hiring someone when I can do the work myself...when I have the time?"

This is a very common issue for many small business owners. All the work, whether revenue generating or not, needs to be done to keep the business running smoothly.

We need to reconnect with our goals for our business and our vision for its future. We need to focus on why we started this business in the first place. Focusing includes deciding how much our time is worth.

But, how do you put a value on your time? How much is each hour of each day worth, especially when you are doing projects that are not generating revenue or increasing your customer base?

Is your time worth $25, $50, $100 per hour....or more? When you get busy doing those tasks that don't directly generate revenue, consider how much it is costing you.

For example:

You charge $75 per hour for your services/time. You spend a total of 5 hours trying to catch up on your correspondence...entering information into a database, typing and re-typing your letters and preparing them to be mailed.

$75/hr X 5 hours = $375.00 of your valuable time and profit

If it would cost you less to outsource, why not do it? Why not allow a professional to handle some of your tasks leaving you with more time to generate revenue?

$25/hr (sample cost to outsource) X 5 hours = $125.00

$375 - $125 = $250 + the $ of the contract you signed while a professional took care of the non-revenue generating tasks.

Although you are spending some of your hard earned money, you are gaining so much more. Outsourcing gives you professional assistance, which in turn saves you both time and money...the two things that most small business owners need more of.