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Shoestring Marketing - The Low Cost Route To Millionaires Club

By Gary M Bailey

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Published: 29Mar2009
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No matter whether you are starting an new online business, or a traditional bricks and mortar enterprise, all new businesses have one thing in common - they need customers! You could have the smartest premises and the best product in the world, but unless people visit you - failure is just a matter of time. But how to create that traffic when you are on a limited startup budget?

The simple answer is that there is no easy way to create a successful business - if you are looking for an easy ride, then I suggest you stick to playing the lottery - your chances of success are slim, but at least you won't be putting much effort either! But if you are reading articles like this one, then I suspect that you are not content with that kind of life - and you probably realise that in order for things to change, you need to put something into that process.

The good news is that you are not the first person to start a brand new business - and what one man can do, another can do - so it is absolutely possible for you to be successful here. The main ingredient is going to be your willingness to learn - from mentors, from videos, from reading and also from failing. What you need to realise about failure is that it is a tremendous learning experience - you really don't learn anything from success except that you were right!

What's all this got to do with creating traffic? Well - chances are that you are in competition with other businesses. If you are in a big market, then you might even be up against some of the brightest, best and highest-budget names in the game - which means that they will have all of the easy, big traffic methods nailed down. But don't panic - if you have some perserverance, then you can still create a tremendous stream of traffic to your business because, no matter how bright or well funded, the internet is an enormous place and there are an almost infinite number of markets out there - all you have to do is find "your" market.

Let's assume you are marketing some revolutionary new vitamin - it could be anything, but this is a good example. Now - if you try and tackle the "vitamin" market then you are going to come up against some serious competition! That means your adwords costs will be high and any kind of bum marketing will likely just get drowned. Worse than that - if anyone does actually click onto your site, the conversions into customers will likely be pretty poor because you are using such a generic lead into your business.

Don't despair! Let's start getting focused - which is really all a niche is. What if you had "kids vitamins"? That's a bit better - though still likely to have a lot of competition out there. How about "pre-school kids vitamins"? Now we're getting somewhere - and you've also likely reduced your target audience. Who's likely to be looking for pre-school kids vitamins? New mothers! So now you know a lot more about not just what your visitors are looking for, but also who they are likely to be.

This is an approach that you will hear about a lot in adwords training, but it applies to everywhere in your business. If you are writing articles - now you have a focus for those articles. If you are forum posting - now you know which forums to target. And so on - in short, taking the time to get really clear on your target audiences and then to create a tight advertising campaign for each one will not only enable you to take on AND BEAT the big players, but you will be able to pay much less for your advertising because of the lesser competition. Bingo - now you've got a successful business, built on a shoestring!

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