If you want to build your business, getting customers to come to you will maximize your revenue potential in many ways.

Here is a  list of 12 different ways that you can use to motivate customers to come to your website to buy your stuff,  get on your email list or call you for an appointment.

1. Search Engines.

Key: Get on the first page in search engines, by optimizing your site with high traffic keywords, and building a ton of backlinks to your site.

Best Search Engine – Do I really have to say?  Google.

2. Video.

Key: Make the video as funny, outlandish, shocking, colorful as you can make it – then optimize it with keywords, put a strong call to action, and send it to multiple video sites.

Best Video Site to use: You Tube (third largest search engine next to Facebook, and Google).

3. Article and Blog Marketing.

Key: Write keyword rich, and informative articles and submit them to hundreds of free article sites.

Best article sites to submit to: Ezinearticles.com

4. Press Releases.

Key: Write keyword rich press releases that make an announcement about anything great happening in your business or website – Make sure to tie in children, pets, women and holidays.

Best free press release site – PRLog.com

5. Social Networks.

Key: Put great content on your site that people can access only if they become your “friend” or follower.

Best social networks to use: Facebook (of course) and Twitter.

6. Social Bookmarking.

Key: Write a great blog, article, press release that taps into anything with children, pets, women’s issues, the holidays or popular current events – and bookmark it.

Best social bookmarking sites: Delicious, Digg, Reddit, Stumbleupon.

7. RSS (really simple syndication).

Key: Submit your blog’s, article’s, website’s RSS feed to as many pertinent RSS Feed Aggregators as you can.

Best RSS Feed Aggregator: Feed Burner

8. Free Classified Ads.

Key: Submit a benefit, and keyword rich classified ad with a strong call to action.

Best Free Classified Ad to use: Craigslist or Backpage.

9. Free Business Directories.

Key: Add as much benefit driven information as possible, use keywords in the title, and add a call to action.

Best Free Business Directory to use: Merchant Circle

10. Email List Building.

Key: Write or buy a report or ebook of a topic that is in high demand.  Request people give you their emails in order to get it.  Then use an email service to deliver great content as well as promotions over time.

Best Email Provider to Use: Aweber, or Mailchimp because its free.

11. Photo sites.

Key: Take some funny, shocking, beautiful, or meaningful photos (especially of kids, pets, attractive women and landscapes) and optimize it with keywords in the title and description.

Best photo sites to use: Photobucket, Flickr, Google images.

12. Event Promotion

Key: Write some benefit driven content with a strong call to action, and put it on every online event promotion site.  Direct them back to your website for more details.

Best online event promotion site: Eventbrite, Zevents.

Again these are only a few of hundreds of other traffic sources.  For instance, I have not had time to mention about, forums, contests, free software, CPV and affiliates.

But look out for these in the coming future.

Good luck,

Will Pena, MBA

Small Business Consultant

Sapient Business Solutions, Inc.

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