I was online for SIX YEARS before I attended my first internet marketing seminar (in December 2002), yet attending that first seminar was the catalyst that started my already successful business growing exponentially.

I probably would not have even attended that first seminar had I not been invited to speak, so “luck” played a part in my discovering one of the most-powerful online success secrets.

My circumstances were different than many of my contemporaries though in that I still have another year to serve in the U.S. Air Force at the time. Attending seminars meant scheduling live events, and indeed building an internet business, in a way where it didn’t interfere with my being a full-time soldier.

What happened was that at that seminar I was exposed to some really amazing people who were doing what I eventually wanted to do, and doing it at a much bigger level than I had previously allowed myself to even imagine possible.

At that seminar I discovered that some of the best learning happened after-hours. I discovered this when I was walking down the hallway with Ramon Williamson (one of the speakers) and he asked John Reese (one of the attendees) if he had time for a little “brainstorming.”

John said yes, and Ramon suggested we could hang out in his suite. Ramon orders a few snacks from room service, and from around 9pm that night until 4am the next morning, Ramon and John bounced ideas off of each other, and I sat listening in amazement.

I won’t repeat what they said, only that they had income goals at least 10 times as big as mine… and they clearly explained HOW it was possible.

That seminar was where I also discovered “the joint venture” and the back end. Prior to that event I viewed EVERYONE as my competitor.

At the seminar, I discovered about 20 people who were genuinely NOT afraid to share with me what was working as long as I was willing to do the same for them.

They taught me to drop the poverty mentality, and that together we could make the pie bigger for everyone. Over the next few years I did projects with most of the speakers and several of the attendees!

After I spoke, they all openly critiqued my business model, knowing that it would help the other attendees. I basically had one product that represented 90% of my income and I had no real backend product to offer after that first sale. They FIXED that.

I left that seminar so pumped up that I was ready to explode. I had driven the dozen hours from Eglin AFB, Florida to Hawk’s Cay down in the Florida Keys. All during the 12-hour return drive, I planned my next step.

Within a month of attending my first seminar, I boldly decided that I was going to host my own seminar, and began putting it together.

Four months after attending my first ever live event, I hosted a seminar in Pensacola, Florida (in April 2003). It wasn’t huge but it was a HUGE step for me.. one of many that I would take in relatively rapid succession.

Speakers at the first seminar included Dr. Bob Silber, Ramon Williamson, Fred Gleeck, Armand Morin, Tony Blake, Stephen Pierce, Gary Knuckles, and myself. Stephen was the first speaker, and I can still tell you to this day exactly what he said. In fact, I can tell you to this day what ALL of my speakers said.

I could go on forever with how attending my first seminar surrounded me with movers-and-shakers, and totally energized me. I honestly became close friends with MOST of the speakers at that first seminar. Jonathan Mizel even called me the day before I hosted my first seminar to both wish me luck and to give me a few tips.

My first seminar set in motion a chain of events that made all of the really BIG things that I’ve done since then possible. It enabled me to start developing the relationships that would have never happened had I not gotten out and actually attended a live event.

My conception of what IS possible would probably be relatively constrained had I not been around mentors who taught me to think bigger.

If you want to meet mentors and friends you are invited to join my friends and I in my InternetMarketingInncercircle.

To help you succeed Willie has created The Internet Marketing Inner Circle, a membership site where he frequently brainstorms solutions to problems such as those discussed in this article. Join that discussion for your success at TheInternetMarketingInnercircle.

Back when I first started using computers in my Air Force job, in 1982, they had a strict rule against eating or drinking around the machines. I recently discovered why eating at your computer is so dangerous.

I was eating a piece of lightly browned wheat toast, with some cream cheese on it, when I felt a distinct lump. Upon closer examination, I discovered that one of my teeth had sheered off. The tooth had broken at an angle with the missing part going fairly deep into the socket.

I quickly deduced that “this could get painful” so I scheduled an appointment with my trusty dentist.

He looked at the tooth, informed me that we needed to surgically extract what was left, and then maybe stick in an implant.

It all made sense to me as he showed me the dental x-rays. He showed me the thickness of the bone where he would stick the implant, and why he needed to build up the bone before putting in the implant. He also show me how the bone had thinned where I had previously had teeth extracted.

He explained that most people who have teeth removed don’t replace them, and sensing that all that bone isn’t really needed, the body decreases the amount of bone in that spot.

As we talked some more, I discovered that the dentist was retire Air Force – just like me. We had even both served in Hawaii. For some reason, that bit of info bolstered my confidence in him, and I was actually ready to do whatever he suggested.

As we talked about our post-Air Force careers, I told him what I did on the internet. He and his assistants seem intrigued. They realize that they were still trading time for money… though the money wasn’t too shabby.

As we chatted I confided that I didn’t realize that unused jawbone atrophies. We both commented that sometimes we just don’t know what we don’t know… and that we are perfectly happy not knowing what we are missing out on… until we know.

I related to him that when I first started my internet business I was still flying C-130′s as a navigator out in the Pacific. One of the things that I didn’t know back then was the power of networking, doing joint ventures with others, and attending live events where you actually get a feel for who you really want to form business relationships with.

I didn’t know anyone who had attended a live internet marketing seminar. I didn’t meet anyone who attended seminars regularly until 2002. Prior to that time, I communicated with other internet business people almost exclusively by email. Practically ALL of the people that I chatted with regularly were aircrew members… planning how they would land an airline job some day.

My knowledge of what you should do for a problem tooth was similar. Back when I was a child, and on into young adulthood, the answer to a toothache was to “pull it out.”

I simply didn’t know what I didn’t know about alternatives that made a lot more sense in so many ways.

When my dentist enlightened me, I opted for an implant.

Then he explained that he wanted to add some bone, give that time to grow, and then stick the implant in.

I paused for a second before timidly asking, “Where is this bone coming from?”

I sort of expected him to say that they take it from some other part of your body, much like they do with skin grafts. Instead he said, “We keep a supply on hand.” He went on to explain that it was real human bone that had been treated in some way that make the procedure “work like a charm.”

I didn’t ask any more about where this bone came from – satisfied in knowing that I had learned something useful that would serve me well in the future.

My first seminar was a similar experience. When I got there, many of the attendees and speakers gave me feedback on my business model, and many of them also suggested doing joint ventures.

Of the attendees and speakers at the very first seminar that I attended, I ended up jointly creating products with Marty Foley, Dr. Bob Silber and Frank Garon. I also worked on projects with or was mentored by Fred Gleeck, Armand Morin, Ramon Williamson, and Jonathan Mizel.

I very quickly learned at that first event that I really had missed 90% of growing a really successful internet business. I had completely missed even noticing the ONE thing that would offer the greatest leverage – networking with, jointly creating products with, and joint venturing with other internet marketers.

As soon as I recognized what I had been missing, and started really getting to know other marketers who were happy to partner with me in jointly growing our businesses, my business literally skyrocketed.

The other thing that happened at my first seminar was that being surround by so many really successful online marketers TOTALLY energized me. A late night brainstorming session with John Reese and Ramon Williamson showed me that my goals were WAY to small.

I left that first seminar truly understanding the power of being in a room filled with super-achievers. I was so convinced that ALL of my contemporaries needed to discover “what they didn’t know” that on my drive home, I committed to hosting a live seminar.

Four months after attending my first live seminar, I hosted a seminar in Pensacola, Florida. My speakers include: Armand Morin, Dr. Bob Silber, Gary Knuckles, Tony Blake, Ramon Williamson, Fred Gleeck, and Stephen Pierce… speaking for his very first time. John Reese, and a number of other notables, were paid attendees.

That seminar changed lives, and created many partnerships, and many life-long friendships.

You are invited to join my friends and I in my InternetMarketingInncercircle.

To help you succeed Willie has created The Internet Marketing Inner Circle, a membership site where he frequently brainstorms solutions to problems such as those discussed in this article. Join that discussion for your success at TheInternetMarketingInnercircle.

According to this article in USA today, YouTube has 5.5 billion streams and 58.1% of the online video market: http://tinyurl.com/WhyYouTubeMatters

That means that if you use video in your marketing, you definitely want your videos on YouTube. Having your videos on YouTube, when properly submitted, often gets you top positions for your keywords.

Like many marketers, I submit to a variety of video sharing sites. Yet, just as with search engines, only a handful get the vast majority of traffic.

As an Internet marketer, we’ve been conditioned to focus on quantity. That is, submitting to as many sites as practical. However, that may not be the best approach.

Flashing back a few years, there were many search engine submission services that offered to submit your url to over 1000 of the top search engines. The reality was that there were fewer than 10 search engines that mattered, and submitting to many of the other low quality places could actually HURT your ranking in Google (or the top search engines at the time).

YouTube has become such an excellent source of traffic that many marketers have begun marketing too aggressively, and YouTube is striking back. This blog post by Jeff Schechter explains the problem nicely: http://tr.im/UToob

Basically, YouTube is noticing that a lot of users completely ignore their terms of service, “by creating multiple accounts, overloading tags and keywords at the expense of content, using ‘friend getter’ type softwares, and a host of other ‘black hat’ tactics.”

Many top Internet marketing, and network marketing trainers have taught using these aggressive tactics. So have many of the leading video sharing sites. In fact, according to the blog post above, the top dog in automated video submissions, Traffic Geyser, has gotten many YouTube users’ accounts shut down.

Now, I use automated video submissions myself. In fact, I am part owner of an automated video, audio, article and press release submission service. That service is called Easy Push Button Traffic. I became part owner because I loved how easy and reliably the software works.

I also wanted to give my clients an affordable tool that WOULDN’T get them banned.

I noticed that many of the other services were encouraging users to do things like “spinning” content or submitting the same video repeatedly, only giving them different titles and descriptions.

You may ask what’s wrong with that? It harms the video sharing sites by decreasing the quality of user experiences (driving users to other sites). A person watches a video on a topic, and then looks for related videos. They watch a second video with a different title and description, only to discover that it’s the SAME video. Those users naturally complain to the video sharing sites, and the video sharing sites naturally strike back BANNING those who submitted the videos.

At Easy Push Button Traffic, we owners took a different approach. We insisted on protecting our customers even if they don’t know that they need protecting. We use what Jay Abraham calls his “Strategy of Preeminence” – putting the client’s best interest FIRST!

It’s absolutely CRIMINAL to us to allow one of our users to spend weeks or even months setting up a video campaign to generate traffic and brand their products, only to have YouTube and the other sites delete their work when they notice blackhat tactics.

We insisted upon being 100% white hat… even when our customers often asked for blackhat capabilities.

Easy Push Button Traffic bucked the trend in another area. While many video submission services were adding as many submission sites as possible, we insisted on ONLY submitting to the top sites that matter and generate traffic for our target market.

Just as the search engine submission services advertising that they submitted to over 1000 places often submitted to link farms, or free-for-all pages on porn sites, many of the video sites also cater primarily to porn, reality television type material, and stuff that primarily interested teenagers.

Having your video on many of these sites will actually HURT your Google ranking. Google owns YouTube incidentally, and their algorythm does consider where your videos are streamed from!

What matters most when using an automated submission service is how many quality sites will actually accept and publish your submissions. It’s also important how much traffic those sites get.

We’ve subscribed to most of our competitors services, just to test them out. We often submitted videos, articles, etc., and then logged in a day or two later to see which ones actually were displaying our content. With some of the leading services, less than HALF of the sites that we had registered for, and properly submitted to, accepted or displayed our submissions.

We had to wonder why none of the other customers of these services didn’t notice that they were largely buying vaporware. If their submission weren’t going through and the customers weren’t even noticing, we had to conclude that they merely logged in to the control panel at the services, glanced at the “submission records” but never confirmed that the submissions were actually physically on the sites!

One of the difficulties with automated submissions is keeping up with the changing submission rules, and the interfaces at the various submission sites. That’s actually a full-time job, and probably why many of the submission from many of the leading submission services don’t go through. They don’t keep up with the changes.

Most of these sites are set up for individuals to manually submit. They often don’t mind automated submissions, since they need the content for their users, as long as the submissions are within certain guidelines.

Easy Push Button Traffic actually uses propriety software and technology that was under development for a VERY long time, and Our team of programmers are constantly updating it. This allows us to submit to the video, podcast, article, and press release sites in a way that makes it look the same as an individual visiting the sites.

If you are using a video, article, podcast or press release submission service, you ABSOLUTELY should physically visit some of the sites peridically and verify that your submission are physically there.

What you discover may shock you.

One of the other things that shocked us as we set up Easy Push Button Traffic, and studied our competitors, was how over-priced they were. We could only conclude that they charged such ridiculous prices because they had no real competitors. When you have no competitors, you can charge monopoly prices.

As we looked at pricing, looked at the fact that many of our client would be struggling entrepreneurs trying to get a business off the ground so that they could quit a 9-to-5 job that they hated, we decide to charge a more reasonable rate. In fact, we decided to initially price our service at roughly 1/4th of what the big dogs charged for their lower-priced options. We crunched the numbers and saw that we could still make a profit doing that.

I’ve rambled on long enough, but did want to encourage you to check out Easy Push Button Traffic. You will discover that it is the very best value for the money. Your submissions will get through, they’ll be on sites that send you relevant traffic, and if you’re one of the next 750 clients, it will only cost you $27 per month.

Do your business a huge favor – take a minute now and check out: http://ibmm.com/epbt

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Willie Crawford is an internet marketing and traffic generation expert. He often distributes content (articles, videos, podcasts, and press releases) to generate highly targeted website traffic. To do that efficiently he uses the automated submission service that you’ll find at http://ibmm.com/epbt

To help you succeed Willie has created The Internet Marketing Inner Circle, a membership site where he frequently brainstorms solutions to problems such as those discussed in this article. Join that discussion for your success at TheInternetMarketingInnercircle.

Without traffic to your websites you have no customers.

Without customers, you have no sales, and really aren’t in business.

So the question becomes, “What really works in generating website traffic?” Let’s look closely at a few proven method.

1) An email newsletter is a quick way to generate repeat traffic, but building a list takes time. There is a popular saying in the Internet marketing community – “The money is in the list.” That’s a true statement. With a responsive list, you can generate sales with the click of a button.

If you are not building a list right now, then you should start. Offer an email newsletter or a free ebook or piece of software to get people onto your list. Then follow-up with them, delivering valuable information, and when you offer them products, they will buy.

If you are relatively new to list-building, I recommend that you start out by contributing one of your ebooks to a free list-building giveaway. You can find current ones which are free to join at: http://FireSaleLegend.com/blog/

2) Pay per click programs (such as Google AdWords) can generate immediate traffic, but if it doesn’t convert, you can waste a lot of money. As soon as you set up your pay per click account, and set up a campaign, you can start to see traffic within minutes. The problem is that, depending upon your niche, each click could cost you several dollars.

You pay for each visitor, and there’s no guarantee that any of them will buy anything!

3) Joint ventures are a risk-free way to generate tons of quick, quality traffic, but it takes time and lots of effort to build joint venture relationships. Most online marketers that I know prefer dealing with friends, or people that they actually know, like, and trust. Building those relationships takes time and a concerted effort.

That’s not to say that you shouldn’t use joint ventures to drive traffic to your offers, you just need to start building those relationships today. A good place to start is The Internet Marketing Inner Circle.

The Internet Marketing Inner Circle is a community that I started back in 2006 as a place for people from numerous niches and experience levels to work together. It’s a place where members brainstorm, do joint ventures, coach/mentor each other, and even jointly create products.

Members of The Internet Marketing Inner Circle also get a free Gold Membership in The International Association of Joint Venture Brokers. IAJVB is a membership site where members share information about upcoming product launches and orchestrate joint ventures. Gold members can enter ALL of their projects into the full-searchable database. This is an EXCELLENT way to recruit affiliates/JV partners practically hands-free.

You can join TIMIC and IAJVB at http:TIMIC.ORG Remember, TIMIC members get a free year in IAJVB

The truth about joint ventures is that unless you DO start networking, you’ll be an outsider who’ll often find it hard to get JV partners.

4) Creating content that discusses problems and shares solutions to those problems is one of the most reliable ways of generating quality free traffic.

That content should include articles, videos, podcasts, and press releases since your audience members prefers consuming information in different modalities. Some prefer reading articles. They often print out an article and make notes as they read it.

Some prefer watching videos that show them rather than just telling them. Many of your audience members have spent a LOT more time watching television than reading, and are conditioned to learn via watching.

Some prefer listening. They may have hectic schedules and consume your information by downloading a podcast and then listening to it while out exercising, or on their long commute to that job that they hope to leave soon.

Press releases are also an excellent way to get your concise message into the hands of the right people. The search engines as well as the media frequently comb press release sites making press releases an excellent tool for search engine optimization, and to get free media exposure.

I actually teach that you should start with an article, turn that same content into a podcast, and create a video from the same content. With a little creativity, you can also do press releases related to the topic of your articles.

Next you need to distribute your content. There are literally tens of thousands of places where you can distribute your content, but in each category, only a handful get significant traffic.

Focus on submitting to the top 10-25 sites in each category (article, video, podcast and press release).

You can submit manually, but in order to really get noticed in many niches you need to crank out a LOT of content. Manually submitting dozens of articles could become a full-time, incredibly tedious job. Instead, I recommend using an automated submission service that complies with the terms of service of the sites that it submits to.

I personally do my submissions using Easy Push Button Traffic, and recommend that you do the same. The proprietary software and method that Easy Push Button Traffic uses ensure that the sites that you submit to accept and display your content.

EPBT is at http://ibmm.com/epbt

The truth about traffic is that you have to figure out where it’s at and stand in front of it. All of the methods described above allow you to do that. For the average marketer, creating and distributing content is the method that’s easiest to implement, and that makes the most sense.

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Willie Crawford is an internet marketing and traffic generation expert. He often distributes content (articles, videos, podcasts, and press releases) to generate highly targeted website traffic. To do that efficiently he uses the automated service: http://ibmm.com/epbt

To help you succeed Willie has created The Internet Marketing Inner Circle, a membership site where he frequently brainstorms solutions to problems such as those discussed in this article. Join that discussion for your success at TheInternetMarketingInnercircle.

During my 12 1/2 years online I’ve heard numerous people say “There are no secrets in Internet marketing.” They say that primarily because they haven’t discovered any that radically changed their world.

I believe that there are internet marketing secrets… things that the really successful marketers know and do that average and failing marketers don’t. Many of these can be readily observed, so while they are secrets they’re not hidden.

Often, it’s those things staring us right in the face that are the biggest keys to success. The key is that successful people don’t discount those things just because they are obvious.

So, what IS the biggest secret, or key to online success, that I’ve discovered in the past 12 1/2 years?

It’s that people really do buy from people that they know, like and trust.

They also do joint ventures with people that they know, like and trust.

The secret is that we all like to help “our friends.” That also means that the secret is to be a genuine friend.

The secret is that while you may be trying to reach as many customers as you can, if you don’t actually form some deep one-on-one relationships, your business probably won’t grow very much.

In an email, a year ago, a well-known internet marketer predicted a shakeout in the industry. His ominous warning was that the key to your survival would be to form strategic alliances.

Fast-forward a year, and an internet marketing friend that I had coffee with recently commented with disdain on “the guru club.” Like many, this friend had noticed that unless you are a member of that circle, it’s very difficult to get them to promote one of your products.

A core group of top Internet marketers has formed a strategic alliance and do promote mostly each other’s products. It’s not impossible for an “outsider” to get a product promoted by them but it IS difficult.

What’s the solution to that problem?

It’s really quite simple. You spend time getting to know a few like-minded Internet marketers and you form you OWN “guru club” or “mastermind group” or just a group of marketers who share similar values. Then, you work together on projects where appropriate.

That very concept is what caused me to start a membership website called “The Internet Marketing Inner Circle” back in 2006. I actually interviewed most of the top internet marketers of the day, asking what their success secrets were. I also asked them very bluntly, how does an unknown get to joint venture with them.

Every single one of those very successful marketers indicated that the key is to form a true relationship with them first. They all admitted that, like most humans, they preferred helping their friends.

How do you REALLY get to know other online marketers anyway?

The single best way is to attend seminars or mastermind sessions with them. I’ve probably attended over 50 Internet marketing seminars since 2002. December 2002 was when I attended my first one. That event completely changed my Internet marketing path. I walked away from that seminar CONNECTED with Dr. Bob Silber, Marty Foley, Ramon Williamson, John Reese, Fred Gleeck, Jonathan Mizel, Frank Garon, and a few others.

Those individuals all mentored me, teaching me things that it would have taken me a very long time to discover on my own. Many of them also did joint ventures with me… I co-created products with many of them

So, the secret is to get out and actually meet a few fellow marketers face to face. Look a few people in the eye, and get a feel for whether or not they are the people that you’d like to form long-term business relationships with. Then follow-up with them and build those true relationships.

I’m hosting the ideal gathering to get you started the weekend of March 27th – 29th, in Orlando, Florida. I’m turning 50 years old, and many of my friends will be gathering for a HUGE birthday celebration. A dozen of my friends, people like Stephen Pierce, Lynn Terry, and Mark Hendricks, will be actually teaching some of their secrets formally… from the stage.

You are invited to this gathering where I will facilitate as many introductions as practical.

You’ll leave that weekend knowing several hundred online marketers, and more importantly, several hundred online marketers will know you.

If you don’t appreciate the power of that, let me share that when busy people don’t know you, it’s difficult just getting their attention. When they really KNOW you, your emails jump out at them in their inboxes, and they happily read them.

Isn’t that true of how you read emails. Don’t you read those from your friends with a smile on your face?

So, to harness “The Single GREATEST Internet Marketing Secret” RSVP for my birthday bash now at: http://WillieCrawford.com/BirthdayBash/

It’s only a week away, and we’re trying to get a final count to plan for a roast among other things. Go ahead and sign up now: http://WillieCrawford.com/BirthdayBash/

I’ll see you in Orlando. Bring business cards, a digital camera, and your projects. Come prepared to form some true business relationships

Willie Crawford has been helping others build successful internet businesses since 1996. Many of today’s leading marketers are his students. Tap into their collective wisdom and friendship at http://WillieCrawford.com/BirthdayBash/

To help you succeed Willie has created The Internet Marketing Inner Circle, a membership site where he frequently brainstorms solutions to problems such as those discussed in this article. Join that discussion for your success at TheInternetMarketingInnercircle.

One Summer, back when I was a college student, I sold reference books door-to-door working for a company named “Southwestern Publishing Company.” My territory was some fairly rough neighborhoods in Baltimore and Philadelphia.

That Summer taught me a lot about sales, and a lot about “the price of success.”

A recent trip to the Philippine, where we all took cold showers, brought back memories of that Summer job.

You see, one of the expressions that I memorized, and lived by while selling books door-to-door was “Successful People Do Things That Unsuccessful People Don’t Like To Do.” So to get ourselves accustomed to doing things that many people didn’t like to do, we forced ourselves to take cold showers every morning.

There is a lot of truth in that saying, so let’s look at it a little further.

First of all we have to admit that many of the things that unsuccessful people don’t like doing are also things that successful people initially don’t like to do. They Simply force themselves to do them over and over again until they become habit.

One such thing is risking rejection. Most of us don’t like having our feelings hurt, so we don’t ask for things as often as we should out of fear of rejection.

Successful people learn to risk rejection and not to take it personally. For example, an internet marketer may need to ask numerous “bigger named” marketers for a joint venture, realizing that MOST of them will say no. He has to learn not to take that as a rejection of him, but as just a rejection of his offer.

Most of us don’t like being ridiculed, yet successful people learn to attempt things that might lead to them being ridiculed. They are less afraid of taking calculated risk, and realize that ridicule might be one of the prices of success.

I had a coach once who pointed out to me that most well-known authors first wrote several books that flopped. It was often not until that third book that they had a best-seller.

He taught me that if you study many of the most successful people you can think of, you’ll discover that they had several failures along the way. When I did this, I saw how true that was. Many of them had bankruptcies, failed projects, and often even spent time homeless, on their way to success.

When you see these big successes’ pictures plastered all over television and magazine covers, most people have no idea what it took them to get there. They had to take numerous big risks to get there, and not all of those risks turned out favorably!

My coach and mentor taught me that since I know a failure or two is likely on my way to massive success, I may as well get those out of the way. He used the expression “fail forward fast.”

When I look at the cost of mega-success I see two requirements:

1) Mega- successful people are not satisfied with being average. Average people just get average results.

2) Successful people often have to stretch their comfort zone. Since this entails doing something that is NOT comfortable, it also means that you have to learn this behavior. You learn it by taking little, uncomfortable, calculated risk time and time again.

You don’t take foolish risks, but you do have to force yourself to do things that average people won’t do. That is often the price of being above average.

Now, that you know the price of success, to include Internet marketing mega-success, you have to ask yourself, “Are you willing to pay the price?”

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Willie Crawford is an internet marketing and traffic generation expert. He often distributes content (articles, videos, podcasts, and press releases) to generate highly targeted website traffic. To do that efficiently he uses the automated submission service that you’ll find at http://ibmm.com/epbt

To help you succeed Willie has created The Internet Marketing Inner Circle, a membership site where he frequently brainstorms solutions to problems such as those discussed in this article. Join that discussion for your success at TheInternetMarketingInnercircle.

I’ve been in business online since 1996, and have tried dozens of website traffic generation tactics. I’ve written ebooks on the topic that others have purchased the rights to so that they could create courses from them. Those course each generated multiple six-figure incomes!

I’ve also discovered that when you try to focus on too many different traffic generation tactics, you master none of them, so I only really, really focus on a few. I’ve mastered writing and publishing articles, and have personally written over 1300 – because they work.

I’ll make no secret of the fact that article marketing is my favorite free website traffic generation method. The reason is simply because webmasters, article directories, and ezine publishers all love giving their visitors quality, useful content. So they happily publish your articles – with your bi-line in the resource box.

Articles have worked for me long-term because when you write and publish a good article, it will be published in many places, and the search engines will also discover it posted online. That article then generates a steady stream of website visitors for you, sometimes for years.

As the internet evolved, and bandwidth became more affordable, audio and video also grew in popularity. I decided to repurpose many of my articles, creating podcasts and videos from the same content.

Sometimes I just read articles, turning them into MP3′s.

Sometimes I just created slides of the key concepts in articles. Then I turned those narrated slides into PowerPoint presentations which I recorded and turned into short videos.

I submitted those podcasts and videos to leading podcast and video sites that get millions of visitors.

I did create many original, new audios and videos, but I wanted to make the point that once you have the content you can just output it in different formats. I’ve done that numerous times. Do the work once and then use it over and over again.

Some people prefer reading, others prefer listening, and still others prefer watching. If you don’t give the content to them in their preferred method of consuming it, you miss a huge portion of your audience.

As video grew in popularity, something else also happened… Google often rated videos on a topic higher than articles on the same topic for a given keyword. That increased my use of video.

While studying how Google ranks content, it was also pointed out to me that Google ranked “news” such as press releases very high. Press releases often out-ranked article, podcasts, and videos for the same keywords. So press releases often appeared at the very top of the listings. My mastermind team deduced that it may be because Google considers news time-sensitive.

That increased my use of simple, to-the-point press releases, that also told my audience of my expertise on a give topic (keyword).

I’ve discovered that creating article, press releases, podcasts, and videos generates a steady stream of free highly-targeted, long-term website traffic – VERY effectively.

This traffic is targeted because, when someone clicks-thru after consuming your content they are pre-sold on you. You’ve already demonstrated your expertise to that visitor. They arrive wanting more – and ready to follow your suggestions.

It’s free traffic as oppose to you having to pay as much as several dollars per visitor when you use pay-per-clicks. This traffic is, in my opinion, better than pay-per-click traffic because, again, they arrive pre-sold on you.

As I ramped up my use of articles, press releases, podcasts, and videos, I also looked for ways to automate my submissions. Visiting dozens of sites each time I wrote an article, created a podcast or video, or wrote a press release was simply too tedious.

I did consider outsourcing content distribution, but found that using sites that allow you to automate the distribution yourself allowed the degree of control that I insisted upon.

While my content is created with search engine optimization in mind, I write primarily for my readers. I’m seeking to demonstrate my expertise and then attract website visitors pre-sold on that expertise – buyers.

After trying numerous solutions, I now use and highly recommend Easy Push Button Traffic. EPBT submits to numerous sites in a totally white-hat method that will get you lots of inbound links and traffic long-term. On top of that EPBT costs only 1/4th as much as it’s nearest competitor which uses many “questionable” tactics.

You’ll find EPBT at http://ibmm.com/epbt

I’ve just shared with you my favorite, most effective free website traffic generation method. After being online since 1996, and trying “the latest and greatest” numerous times, I’ve not discovered anything better.

It’s free, effective, and something anyone can do. It also doesn’t come with the risk of methods such as pay-per-click (where you can lose thousands of dollars on a campaign if you’re not careful).

Now that you know my “secret” all you need to do is use it too. Website traffic generation need not be complicated.

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Willie Crawford is one of the world’s leading internet marketing experts, and a proven expert at website traffic generation. You only need to “google” his name to verify his expertise. For easy traffic generation, Willie highly recommends http://ibmm.com/epbt

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