39 CommentsThe “Article Stat Tracking” paid upgrade module for the Content Spooling Network is soon to be released. This will give detailed article marketing stats… from the Google rank of your promoted keywords to the number of visitors coming from each article submission.
Once this releases, I’m gonna have some resources available for an additional project… but I need your help to point me in the right direction. I’m trying to determine the best way that I can serve you in the coming months.
I’d appreciate it if you can take the following 1-question poll…
What is the most pressing need for your online business?
1. Finding an online business model that you will stick with.
2. Creating a product to sell.
3. Getting more traffic to your site.
4. Increasing your conversion rate.
5. Managing your business systems to decrease your workload.
6. Finding ways to reliably outsource some of my workload.
7. Other
Comments are opened. Add a comment to this post with the response that best represents your most pressing need.
- Chris
None of the questions matter one iota without #3. Once you have solved #3, you need to address #4. Without those being sufficiently address and resolved, the rest do not matter.
5 and 6.
as above 3 & 4….
Number 3 for me.
3, 4 & 6
My main concern is #3. You can’t never get enough good, decent quality traffic. Although, most of my traffic comes from Joint Ventures, I still would like to snag some traffic for myself.
#2
#2/1/3/4 !!! If you don’t have a product to offer what good is the rest of it?!?!?!
You could have a billion surfers coming to your “EMPTY” store and
no sales, because you don’t have a product.
I’m with Jay…all the other options pale in comparison to #3. When you have a ton of traffic, then the other stuff matters but who cares how many products you’ve created or high high your conversion rate is if you’re not getting much traffic?
Hi Chris
#3 and 4 obviously but I would add what’s the point of more traffic if you are not converting it so maybe #4 is more important than #3 in that respect. But yes we all want more traffic.
#1 and #2 are again of major importance because if you don’t have good products and business plan then you won’t sell anything.
I love the idea of #5 but using #6 can be risky unless you know what you are doing.
Regards
Chris
3 and 6 for me Chris. I need to remove some of the bottlenecks through being a 1 man band!
Number 1, Number 3 provided it is targeted and Number 4.
#3 and #6
3 - with an additional part- my goal is listbuilding- via the squezze page on my site- so traffic that converts into a list first -just like you used a list to get me here
#4, I’m pretty good at #3.
# 5 & # 6 for me
Chris,
Personally, conversion is more important, as traffic is less of a mystery to me than it once was. But, that said, I don’t think that my situation or VRE/Consulting business is what you should tailor a new product/service to.
Traffic is the money magnet. If in your marketing, of said product/service you are able to detail and describe how organic traffic converts into real, spendable money in someone’s pocket, best guess, this would be most successful of the options listed.
It’s sure as hell easy to write sales copy with all the right dangling carrots in place, turning something free into cold, hard cash. January and February are HUGE months online, bigger than “Christmas”, especially for the information pusher (of which I’m one), so get crackin’!
Rob - you know who (don’t cha?)
Hey Chris,
At this point in my business I’m mostly interested in expanding my network of quality outsourcers. I’m using some now but I realize that the more I outsource, the more I make.
-Kevin
# 3 is the tops then from there all of them must be watched carefully
Chris,
6, 3, and 4 in that order.
3. Getting more traffic to your site.
Lets hear another one for #3
#2
I already have lots of information on how to accomplish the other things. In fact, I also have info on creating a product to sell, but in reality, that’s easier said than done. Suggesting that we go out and interview experts (hit them up at seminars, etc) doesn’t work so well. The experts are getting hit up by lots of people for that same thing and I don’t blame them for being tired of it. And selling the same old PLR products that everyone else is passing around isn’t very good either (though this is not really “creating” a product to sell anyway.)
Hire a ghostwriter or programmer to write an ebook or software package for you? Ok for some, but what about the people who are on a minimal budget and can’t purchase those kind of services?
Grab a video camera and/or camtasia software and record a “how to” product. Sounds great, but if your market is Internet Marketing, what “how to” content can you do that hasn’t been done (or worse yet, beaten to death.)
Do a survey/poll like you’re doing; but what if you don’t have a list to poll?
When it comes to creating a product to sell, I believe more people get stuck on the part of WHAT information to create rather than the medium (video, ebook, software, podcasts) used to physically create the product.
My problem is #4. Increasing your conversion rate. With some of the PLR e-book that I bought, my target keywords (and some articles) for them are #1 in Google but very few sales. Something wrong here.
If I get this stright: Managing your business systems to decrease your workload.. the rest would come in swiftly… Need to integrate all the info I get from HITAIL for 60 domains, THEMEZOOM, backlinks (three way and one way that I purchase) plus Content Spooling articles, with info from tracking systems for all my domains, to be able to specialize each for a separate market niche… and reap the benefits of swallowing my market whole, with my own products
6. Finding ways to reliably outsource some of my workload.
#3 and 4
90% #3 and 10% #4. I am perpetually looking to create more traffic.
4 & 5 for me
To everyone who thinks more traffic is the answer - what is better, 9% conversion of 100 visitors or 1% conversion of 1000 visitors?
Now run the calculation again assuming each visitor costs $0.10; depending on your conversion profit, that 1% could actually be costing you money! It’s all about Return On Investment (ROI).
Sort out your conversion rates before worrying about your traffic, then automate as much as possible. Rinse and repeat.
Pete
Hi Chris,
#2 and #4.
No 1 for me…
Definitely #3.
#4 is the one I’d be most interested in.
1. A Passion with an online business model to stick with.
2. Creating a C.B product to sell.
3. Getting more traffic to web-site and ongoing.
4. Increasing our conversion rate big time.
5. Managing a better business system to decrease workload.
6. Finding a likeminded forum to share what works.
7. Time Managment, life was not meant to be a struggle
All my best to you and your goals
Phillip Skinner
3 & 4 is what we need.
There are all linked together but in sense of priority I would say
3,4, and 5
3 and 4, they’re the most musical to my ears - kaching, kaching.
All the rest are okay, but you need cash to outsource, so those are the two for me.
Creating your own products can also help immensely with traffic if you get plenty of affiliates, but then you need to know how to get them going with traffic and conversion. That’s the bottom line
4. Increasing my conversion rate seems to me to be the most pressing, because even low traffic figures will score sales! Then it’s #3. incr. traffic to reap the certain harvest.
Outsourcing : finding quality reliable people is a next important need area.
#3 TRAFFIC