Free! More Web Traffic and Sales
Posted on October 26, 2007
Filed Under Making Money Online, Marketing & Advertising, Product Promotion |
Want to see your web site traffic explode? The word ‘free’ can be an effective marketing strategy that can result in a flood of new and repeat web visitors. Offering freebies on your site can increase your web traffic and overtime can result in more sales.
People can’t resist the lure of receiving something for nothing. Whether it’s ecards, music, software, ebooks, or templates, The word ‘free’ is the most powerful word in marketing and has a hypnotic effect on people.
Freebies can take a number of forms. Free products can range from a free ebook download to a free product with an order. There are no rules to follow when it comes to freebies. You can offer free ebooks, free reviews, anything of quality to your visitors that they would find beneficial.
Giving a way Free eBooks
Giving away an ebook on your website is a great way to increase long term traffic to your website. Don’t have time or the patience to write your own ebook? You can do a google search and harvest a collection of free to reprint/give away ebooks. It’s that simple, all you have to do then is give it away for free on
your website.
WebSource - Offers free ebooks focusing on Internet Marketing, Advertising and Internet Business
Free Ebooks - Offers hundreds of ebooks in many categories such as fashion, economy, beauty, health and more.
Free Trials or Previews
Free trials or Previews is a great marketing tool many companies use to entice customers to purchase. For example, many software companies offer free downloads of their products for a 30 day free trial. Membership sites offer a free trial period for visitors to ‘test drive’ their services. The objective here is to ‘hook’ the visitor to your site, product, or service.
Free Product with Purchase
Offering a free product with the purchase of an item can increase your web sales. Remember, customers love to bargain shop. Your free product can be as small as a free report or as large ‘by one get one free’.
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