Hi Everyone!

Penang is an island off the western coast of Malaysia near the southern Thai border. Though it never snows here, winds brought in from the Straits of Malacca can be really chilly. In the daytime, the sun beats down on the island with scorching intensity. It is from this climate that I am writing this blog (and because I couldn’t think of a good intro :P).

We just had an Alex Jeffreys Coaching Session last Friday. :)

And it’s about creating traffic, hunting for traffic, shmoozing for traffic, funnelling traffic, and begging for traffic. Things near and dear to my heart. :) I’ve never wanted traffic more in my life! :D

Mea culpa! Internet marketing has become an obsession for me. It’s so much fun, don’t you agree? I don’t think I could ever stop doing this.

Also, something amusing came up, I’ll be posting it after this blog. :)

Now, on to business…

Alex Jeffreys Coaching Module 5 Overview

As I said, our Sir Alex Jeffreys Coaching Session was last Friday January 09. It was about traffic, and since I’ve known about some of the parts, it was more of validation on my part.

At the start of the webinar, Alex reminded us to stop pimping ourselves. And as far as internet marketers go, we’re a bunch of enthusiastic experimenters. So Papa Alex had to step in and lay down the smack.

He would rather we concentrate and focus on the plan we set up.

In a nutshell, including creating traffic, Alex Jeffreys wants us to:

- focus on creating good content for the blog to attract the fish

- keep on positioning ourselves as an authority figure

- stop chasing the money

- stop pimping ourselves on the social media networks like Twitter; and to

- stick to the plan we set for ourselves

And he’s right. the plan is the most crucial part of this system. That’s why I spent a week trying to come up with a plan I can work with.

Now, I might slip now and then, but if I didn’t have a good plan, I wouldn’t know how bad it was! :D

The Recommended Alex Jeffreys Traffic Generation Methods

There were several methods we could use to create traffic. Each have their own strengths but if used in conjunction with the other methods, they help increase visibility to any lowly blog.

To name a few methods:

- Blogging - Your essential oil rig platform. The repository of all knowledge of your theme. When you blog, you create unique content of which some people may be interested in leaving comments, linking you back to their blogs, referring you to friends, etc.

- Forum Marketing - A place where you meet people of the same interest. You target forums after you have identified the important keywords your fish congregate. Forums are not places where you leave inane remarks that make you sound like a robot so don’t do it!

- Article Submissions - Spread the net far and wide, the article submission methods is known to be slow, but it lasts forever. Once done, you can submit your articles to the myriad article directories online, such as  EzineArticles.

- Press Releases - write your own feature article and send it to a press release site such as PRWeb. It’s bound to create a lot of traffic if you do it right.

- Giveaways - Join giveaway events and watch your sign ups spike.

Through in a free product of your own to an ever-growing pot of free products in a joint venture with other internet marketers to attract a wider audience of targeted consumers. It works because the accumulative nature of all the lists of participating internet marketers combined with a common voice.

- eBay - If you are not aware of it, eBay has a section for marketing “Information Products” under its ubiquitous “Everything Else” category. You can use this to sell your ebooks and other info products you are planning to practically give away so you can generate some traffic. :)

- Social Media - Social media is about relationships. The point behind social media is mainly to drive relationships first and to drive massive traffic once people decide you’re cool and human. :)

Unless you lived under a rock for the past 10 years, you’ve heard of these online portals for social media: Facebook, Friendster, Twitter, MySpace, Flickr, Squidoo, Hubpages, and more.

Social media is more about community and sharing information. Be careful about where to pimp, if you intend to pimp.

Depending on the social media site, you could sell, but you have to know which site to do that. Blatantly selling your product on the wrong site will get you flamed, unfollowed, ignored, and blocked by its denizens. So do your homework.

- Video Traffic - Video is positively one of the best ways to get you traffic! Just ask Her Royal Highness, the Video Marketing Queen: Maria Andros about it, and she will, in no uncertain terms tell you why now is the perfect time to get into video marketing!

Google absolutely loves Youtube and puts videos on the top ten results all the time in its search results.

- Twitter - Now, I’ve known Twitter since forever, but it’s only recently with Alex Jeffreys’ Coaching Session that I discovered the TRUE POWER of Twitter! Where else can you send a message to up thousands of your followers online, REAL TIME and for FREE!

Here is where pimping is most prevalent. And the experts (Alex Jeffreys, Perry Belcher, Maria Andros, etc.) all agree that Twitter isn’t for MEGA pimping, it’s for building better relationships! You can find most of the experts on Twitter tweeting away with no hangups.

And… that’s about it.

Yes, There’s Another Contest

And being the smart coach that he is, Alex Jeffreys put up another $1,000 USD up for grabs for the blog owner whose site hits the top of the Google results by Feb. 05, 2009!! His criteria for the competition is quite simple:

- has to be on top of the keyword search result “alex jeffreys”; and

- must use the traffic-building strategies shared above.

Simple, izzit? Maybe. I suspect another steep learning curve again. Hehe! :)

So one request, folks!

If you like what I wrote, please bookmark any post you like from me, recommend or email your friends and family about me. It’s real easy. You just go to the end of the post and you’ll find some links to your favorite social media sites. :) Would really appreciate the share. :)

It’s going to be a fun ride, folks! See you at the top! I’ll keep you posted.

All the Best!

Regards,

Erwin Chua
Internet Marketing Advice & Smart List Building
w/ Alex Jeffreys & Erwin Chua! – Winning To Win!
http://winning2win.com
http://www.twitter.com/waywalker0101

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