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All this traffic and I can't catch a ride

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From: Marketing Magician
Date: Sat, 03 May 2008 17:18
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I know exactly how you feel.



You've set up a fantastic website with a product

 or service that can make you rich beyond your

dreams, if only people knew about it.



"If you build it- they will come" is a myth.

 So how do you get the word out?

How do you actually get people to visit,

 and use, your website?



There are hundreds of services that promise

 to swell your traffic by offering: search engine

optimization, e-mail mailing lists and other

nebulous ways of increasing your visitors.



But the dirty little secret is that most of them

give you the same result: nothing!

If you've been involved with e-commerce

for any length of time, then you know

exactly what I mean.



However, there is a way to get your message

into thousands of inboxes, without being deleted.

The secret is to make your message a hitchhiker.



Typically when people check their emails it's in this order:





1.      First they delete all the unwanted mail,

which unfortunately probably includes your ad!



2.      The second thing they do is open social emails.

It could be a joke, a picture, a spiritually uplifting

message.  Anything that has been forwarded to you

by your friends and coworkers.



3.      The third thing they do is that they forward

these emails to all of their friends and coworkers.



And the process is repeated over and over.

How far does a social e-mail go?

It's hard to say, but is not unlikely that it'll end

up in hundreds of thousands of inboxes.



These social emails are your free rides

across the Internet and with very little effort

you can make your ads hitchhikers

on the information superhighway.



Find out more at: 
http://petertimm.com/TheHitchHikersGuidetoInternetMarketing.htm
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