How can I make more money?

[David_ Bowie]

Greetings everyone, it seems that my websites are not recession proof. Since the first of the year, I have lost 60% of my online income. I am OK for now but want to find new ways to market my products. I mainly deal in marketing tools.

I am looking for suggestions for new and innovative ways to advertise my business. I have been online for seven years and in the past have had some success. My business partners are in a panic and I keep telling them, not to do anything rash.

Please let me know if you have some suggestions.

Thanks,
David Bowie

[Rick2]

Yea, I think all of us in the US are headed in that direction. Maybe target other countries with better economies. UK for instance.

[laver]

这里都是黑人吗？

[cyber_world]

Originally Posted by laver

这里都是黑人吗？

what do you mean ?

[x3mario]

Originally Posted by cyber_world

what do you mean ?

According to google translate. Chinese to English and Japanese to English.

Metropolitan这里whether or黑人吗?

[lifeplayer]

Originally Posted by cyber_world

what do you mean ?

"这里都是黑人吗？" is chinese, mean " Are you all is black?"

[MrCat]

Originally Posted by David_ Bowie

Greetings everyone, it seems that my websites are not recession proof. Since the first of the year, I have lost 60% of my online income. I am OK for now but want to find new ways to market my products. I mainly deal in marketing tools.

I am looking for suggestions for new and innovative ways to advertise my business. I have been online for seven years and in the past have had some success. My business partners are in a panic and I keep telling them, not to do anything rash.

Please let me know if you have some suggestions.

Thanks,
David Bowie

Does this also indicate a decline in your traffic?

How are your rankings for your keywords in SERP?

What are the ways you have been doing to market your site?

Just some more info we would need in order to advice you accordingly...

[David_ Bowie]

I have took a slight dip in traffic which has cost my rankings to suffer also. Right now I am primarily posting to groups. I use several safelist, forums and a few traffic exchanges. I use free solo ads.

I do understand that what used to work yesterday, may not work today. I also understand that I need to expand my network. I was using google adwords but did not see much results.

I do like the idea of targeting traffic in the UK. I can not read what you wrote laver but it looks cute.

David

[Brad Gosse]

Where does your traffic come from?
Do you live on search engines alone?
What have you done lately that is new for your surfers?
Do you have a traffic buying strategy? If so is it profitable?

[David_ Bowie]

Originally Posted by Brad Gosse

Where does your traffic come from?
Do you live on search engines alone?
What have you done lately that is new for your surfers?
Do you have a traffic buying strategy? If so is it profitable?

My Traffic mostly comes from the U.S., I also get traffic from China, UK, Canada and Mexico. No, I do not depend on the search engines alone. I have added a powerful Search Engine Submitter and some others toys for my members to play with.

Do you have a traffic buying strategy? If so is it profitable? Yes, I own a traffic network and yes it was very profitable up until about two months ago.

[corneo]

The economy isn't having problems, the crazy money bubble popped and things are going back to normal. Companies gave credit to people who shouldn't have gotten credit, that's why your seeing people cry and fuss because the have to repay things and they can't.

Google and all PPC's companies are in the same boat as everybody else here. They were living high on the hog making the crazy money and now they're freaking out.
All PPC's have raised their click prices and lowered their payout for the clicks. The problem with doing that is: nobody has the mad money they had to spend, so they won't pay the prices. Hence your click payouts are becoming less and less. The ad companies have to show a profit or their stock prices fall and they lose more money. (Google stock prices have fallen over $400 a share this year)

If you watch the large sites "perezhilton," "MySpace" you will see they don't use PPC's companies any more. The only way you can get an ad on their sites is to pay them directly.
So I would say the only way at the current time to make good money on your site is: Sell banner spots on your site.

The good side to this is: You get all or most of the money.
The bad side: If you have a site that has nothing to offer, nobody will advertise on it.

How do you find people to advertise on your site? Send out a load of emails and hope for the best or find a company that specializes in selling banners on your site. (not PPC's) They take a small percentage, but they have the customers that are looking for sites to advertise on in their niche.

How do you figure out what to charge? Take a current banner that is currently running on your site, figure out what it made. Sell it for that price. or set a price and see who bites at it. If nobody does, lower the price.

[rakeshmosaic]

every problem has a different solution... We are getting great customers these day and are now doing even more marketing.

Now along with online marketing we will be doing some print marketing is well...Targetting UK.

BTW, i think Lavor is trying to say that chinese ecomnomy is booming...Lavor even Indain economy is rising too. US is a superpower...

[knslms]

No matter how bad economy gets there will always be customers. Look at your competition and do it better! I know its much easier written than actually doing (trust me) however thats what all of us are going to have to do - sink or swim

[blitzer]

Originally Posted by knslms

No matter how bad economy gets there will always be customers. Look at your competition and do it better! I know its much easier written than actually doing (trust me) however thats what all of us are going to have to do - sink or swim

I'm tempted to sink - cause I hate swimming, seriously though you are so right - it is easier said than done, but if we don't want to sink - then we have to be 3 steps ahead of the competition. The beauty of the internet is that things can be adjusted quickly.

[dvduval]

This next few months is going to be interesting. People may not be so free to spend their money. I think now is the time to to work on building your next plans while business is slow. It will pick up again for sure, and you want to positioned to be on the leading edge of profit trends when the economy picks back up (and let's hope soon!)

[Hamish60]

Well there are definitely strategies that work out there. Have you looked at all the posts that have been posted in this forum? I created one not so long ago showing two tips how to increase your traffic.

The best way to gain traffic these days...Videos!

Video's are booming at the moment, I get the majority of my traffic from videos on my topic. Helping people understand and become successful in the same area.

You just need to do some research and you should start to discover some new strategies that will work.

Goodluck

-- Hamish

[kcking]

If the site had a good content then will get more trafic...My opinion is the contetn is the king at all...

get yor site content usefull furst before we think about the earning ...what do you think?

[orfeus]

David_ Bowie , I have sent you an PM never know maybe will be usefull

Cheers

[nishu]

Get loads of traffic ...
convert it well
Thats all I guess !

[RyanCrest]

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