Reinvest For Success

Many people when they start to make some money online make
the mistake of spending any profits they make. Now obviously
we all have living expenses which should of course be taken
care of, but any surplus profits left over from your online
ventures should be reinvested back into your business to
achieve long term success.

I always think your primary aim as an online business should
be to build a large database of subscribers, who you can
contact over and over again for as long as they're
subscribed to your ezine or newsletter. If you can build up
a good relationship with your subscribers, over time they
will become very receptive to your offers, and actually look
forward to receiving your emails, meaning increased
long-term profits for you.

This should be your main focus. Getting traffic to your site
is something you should aim to do, but a large percentage of
those people who leave your site without purchasing anything
may never return to your site. However, if you encourage
them to sign up to your newsletter by displaying a prominent
sign-up form, or maybe creating a pop-up form, you can send
them follow-up messages over time and increase your chances
of making a sale.

Therefore you should reinvest any profits you make, and your
time, which is also a valuable commodity, back into your
business with the aim of increasing your database of
subscribers.

What are the best ways of doing this?

Well I've always had great success with writing articles and
submitting them not only to all the major article
directories, but also directly to ezines relating to the
subject of my site. This doesn't cost anything and is
something I do regularly to generate a lot of traffic to my
sites, which usually take the form of an opt-in page where
subscribers can sign up to my newsletter, or the home page
of my site which prominently displays the opt-in form.

In addition to this, you can also guarantee inclusion in an
ezine, if they accept advertising, by paying the ezine owner
to run your advert. This can take the form of sponsor ads,
top/middle/bottom ads (top ads usually get seen the most so
they obviously cost more than middle or bottom ads), and
solo ads, which I've always found to be the most effective.

You could also invest in pay-per-click campaigns. This is
also another effective form of advertising as you can use
highly targeted keywords which ensures that any visitors are
pre-qualified and will already be interested in your site
when they click on the link to your site.

There are many other forms of paid advertising such as
buying text links or banner space on other sites, as well as
many types of offline advertising methods you could use.
However, in my opinion getting your articles and paid
adverts seen in related ezines, and using pay-per-click
advertising are the most successful forms of advertising.

Whatever types of advertising you decide to persue, just
keep reinvesting your profits (and your time) into your
business and focus on growing your online business. You will
reap the rewards in the long run.