Traffic = Money

You know that, I know that, everyone knows that.  However, most people out there cannot consistently drive traffic to their offers.  Most out there fail to drive traffic.  They fail to master even ONE successful avenue for generating traffic.  They just cannot do it.  They cannot figure it out.  Something is missing, and it’s TRAFFIC.

These are the same people who are not making any money either.  It’s the common denominator.

Most out there who are NOT making any money online are not succeeding because they just cannot get the traffic.  Without eyeballs viewing your offers, there’s no money to be found.  It’s the MOST critical aspect of making money, period.

So why do so many people fail to make money — and generate traffic?

Well, my opinion is they are focusing in the wrong areas.  Most out there are afraid to spend money on traffic, so they try all these schemes and free tricks, and free avenues to generate traffic.  And, they may get some traffic… but not enough to make any kind of significant financial difference in their lives.

I mean, a few hundred clicks a month is not going to make a dent in anyone’s bank account.

But, people out there continue writing articles, posting on blogs, posting on forums, posting on web 2.0 platforms, spending countless hours on social media sites, and so on…

They do this forever, month after month, or even year after year… and yet they keep wondering where all the money is hiding at.  Perhaps they become jaded and furious at the gurus and so called experts who promise the world, but deliver nothing but hopes and dreams.

Try this blog software, try that web 2.0 site, write a dozen articles tonight and submit them until your eyes bleed.  Then, do that again and again for the next six months to a year.  Keep going, don’t quit, have faith… because six months or a year, or ten years later, money will show up.  Just keep going…… they say.

WRONG

Most out there do not have the stamina to keep rolling like that forever without any results.  It’s a recipe for disaster… and QUITTING.  Most do not have long term thinking and hard-core faith in themselves to stick it out like that.

But, lets say some do.  Some spend months submitting articles and whatnot.  And then, magic happens.  All of a sudden, traffic starts coming to their offers.  Presto!  Now, they get excited and can even start counting the money that’s sure to flood in.

WRONG

They find out later that their offer does not even convert!  All those months of sending traffic, only to find later the thing does not even convert.  Now it’s time to tweak and get those conversions up.

All of that is a recipe for disaster (and for becoming jaded).

But, almost every single person I know who makes a lot of money online, does it with paid traffic or joint ventures.  They do one of the two, or both.  Sure, they may dabble in free traffic means (articles and blogs and such), but their money comes from JV’s and Paid Traffic mostly.

And, to me, that’s the great separator.  It’s what separates those who actually DO make money online and those who don’t.   Very few make the big bucks with free traffic means.  I’m not fully knocking free traffic methods at all, I’m just saying that most out there fail because of those free traffic methods.

I even did a video about this very topic.  You can watch it here: video

I explain all of this on video.  Check it out.  And, whatever you do, if you are not getting traffic to your offers, start planning on participating in paid traffic avenues and/or JV’s.  You will not get it down perfectly at first (who does?).  But, you should get it down eventually and it sure is a beautiful thing when you can flip a switch and get tons of traffic flooding your offers.

Because you see, even though it takes some time to get paid traffic down to where you’re good at it, it’s still MUCH-MUCH quicker than waiting and waiting for free traffic to finally kick in – if ever.

~Eric Louviere

PS — Here’s the video again