Build a Thriving and Profitable Audience for Your Website or Blog

There is something seriously wrong with the typical advice about building an online audience.

It’s popular these days to talk about social media or SEO as if they’re magic solutions that will make any website an overnight success. If you’ve tried the typical advice but don’t have a huge audience of raving fans, you know it doesn’t exactly work that way.

In this clear-cut 8-page report, you’ll find out the real reason your site isn’t attracting enough visitors and how to start building a real, sustainable and thriving online audience. You’ll also learn:

• Why the “magic” powers of social media have disappeared
• How a simple three-step formula has attracted billions of visitors consistently since the beginning of the Web
• The audience-building secret behind the fastest growing Internet company of all time
• How to make your online competition irrelevant
• Which technique will continue to build audiences for decades to come without relying on any hot new trends or tricks

We’re offering this free report in preparation for re-opening the Traffic School program next week.

Head over to the Traffic School site to get your free report now.

You can get this report free right now, no opt-in required.

(Note: this report will only be available until Tuesday, April 17 at 9am Eastern)

If you haven’t heard about Traffic School yet, I’ll tell you that it’s probably the most effective online audience-building program on the planet.

Our alumni include success stories like:

• Danny Iny (Firepole Marketing)
• Sibyl Chavis (The Possibility of Today)
• Scott Dinsmore (Live Your Legend)
• Kathy Sprinkle (Bliss Habits)
• Vic Magary (VicMagary.com)
• Natalie Sisson (The Suitcase Entrepreneur)
• Charlie Pabst (Charfish Design)
• Benjamin Jenks (Adventure Sauce)
• and our own Caleb Wojcik (Pocket Changed), who I hired after meeting him as a student in the program

These and many more are the kind of people you will meet in the program if you join us (my apologies for any alumni I didn’t list here, there’s not enough space for all 225 of you ).

Last time we opened the doors all 100 spots in the program sold out in 36 hours.

This time we have some exciting plans for our new members.

If you’re interested in finding out what we have in store, head over to the Traffic School site and put your name on the priority notification list. We have some special free goodies to share over the next week.

You won’t hear anything more about Traffic School at this site, so be sure to put your name on the list if you want to learn more.

Cheers,

-Corbett

April 11, 2012 — 10 awesome comments

This is a guest post from Maneesh Sethi of Hack The System.

[Note from Caleb: Maneesh is giving away special goodies, scripts, and reports for Think Traffic Readers at his site Hack The System. Read till the end of the post to find out how to get them.]

Email marketing is all about sex appeal.

A couple years ago, I was relaxing in Florence, Italy with a friend. He and I were chatting about email marketing campaigns and I believed that pure text emails would have a better conversion rate, while he believed that graphical emails would perform better. Eventually, we turned over to a girl at the table next to us.

“Excuse me,” I asked. “Quick question—if you were to receive a subscription email with images, versus one with just text, which would you be more likely to open and click?”

The girl thought about it for a few seconds, replied, ‘Hmm…I like pretty images. But I think I might click on the text one more. I’m not really sure.”

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April 10, 2012 — 36 awesome comments

Last weekend I was re-reading through The Thank You Economy by Gary Vaynerchuk and I realized that most bloggers start off with the wrong intentions.

Most people focus in the beginning on how they can make their first dollar online. Oh, how wrong that is!

This, more often than not, leads to spammy tactics like covering their website with advertisements and using pop-ups to get people to sign-up for their mailing list which in turn scares away potential fans before they even read a single word of their content.

When all you are focusing on is monetization you are failing to take the first essential step towards getting people to trust you enough online to spend money: start a relationship with as many visitors as possible. [Continue reading…]

April 3, 2012 — 49 awesome comments

What is the real difference between the blogs that have a huge following and the ones that struggle to get anyone to care about them?

In this post we’ll explore the single most important thing you can do to get people to take notice of what you’re doing online: be blunt about why you are different.

We’ll do this by showing you six examples of successful blogs that other people have created and four examples of how we use our own blogs to stand out online.

Let’s jump right in.

1. I Will Teach You To Be Rich

Within our Traffic School course we have an interview with Ramit Sethi where he talks about why he actually encourages some people to stop reading his website.

Ramit is very blunt about the fact that if you think you get too many emails on his mailing list, don’t agree with his opinion, and are just going to hate on what he writes that he doesn’t want you as a reader.

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March 29, 2012 — 33 awesome comments