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Selling Traffic

by James D. Brausch
Are you an affiliate of Commission Junction, Clickbank or another network or individual program? If you are, you are already in the traffic selling business. You are selling traffic in return for commissions when a sale is made (or a lead generated).

So, why should you expand to selling traffic directly? There are several reasons:

1. You get the email address of any customers who buy directly from you. You don't get the email address of the customer you send the traffic through an affiliate link. The merchant does. With that email address (and the customer's name), you can send them other offers in the future. Your customer list is priceless for this reason. You can never have a customer list unless you sell something yourself.

2. Selling traffic is residual. Once you make a customer happy, they will pay you month after month and you never have to do any more work. Residual income is very nice!

3. There are a limited number of affiliate relationships that are possible within your market (ie: the subject of your site) using just affiliate programs. So; how can you expand? By selling traffic directly.

4. You don't have to wait for a sale. Generally, you will be selling traffic on a flat rate basis (flat charge per month) or on a PPC basis (pay per click). So, you don't have to wait for the merchant to make a sale; you just have to deliver what you promised. It is up to them to convert the traffic (although you do need to keep your traffic very high quality to get long-term repeat customers).

5. You will be building a customer base which just happens to be other webmasters in your subject area. Once they are your customers, they will be very open to joint ventures with you.

OK; so you agree... You should be selling traffic directly. Let's get started. First you need to decide how you want to sell traffic. Here are some options that I recommend (in order):

1. You can sell links at a flat rate every month. A popular way to do this is to sell a link at the very top spot in one of your directories for $5/month. If you have 100 directories, your potential monthly income from this type of sale is $500/month! If you have 10 sites, that's $5,000 per month. An advantage to this type of traffic sale is that you don't need to track the traffic you send. You just put their link in the top spot and leave it there as long as they pay $5/month (or whatever rate you decide to charge monthly).

2. You can sell links in your directory for a flat rate per click. We do this for 10 cents per click. To do this, you will need a tracker program. We have used OrbitCycle.com and highly recommend them.

3. You can sell your home page for a flat rate per month or per click. We do this for 15 cents per click on our sites.

Now, you need a way to collect the money. I think the easiest way is PayPal. They have a subscription program where they will automatically deduct the $5/month (or whatever you want to charge) monthly from your customer's account.

Another option is to get your own merchant account and shopping cart. I recommend this long-term because a higher percentage of webmasters will purchase from you if you have a real merchant account and shopping cart. For now, PayPal is fine.

That's all there is to it. Before you carry on with the rest of today's work... Get a page on each of your sites offering to sell whatever forms of traffic you decide.

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The author, James D. Brausch, is the coach and webmaster of QuitThatJob.com, a site dedicated to providing step-by- step instructions to start your own profitable Internet business and Quit That Job! For more info, please visit: http://www.QuitThatJob.com/

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Title: Selling Traffic
Author: James D. Brausch

Are you an affiliate of Commission Junction, Clickbank
or another network or individual program?  If you are, 
you are already in the traffic selling business.  You 
are selling traffic in return for commissions when a 
sale is made (or a lead generated).

So, why should you expand to selling traffic directly? 
There are several reasons:

1. You get the email address of any customers who buy 
directly from you.  You don't get the email address of the 
customer you send the traffic through an affiliate link.  
The merchant does.  With that email address (and the 
customer's name), you can send them other offers in the 
future.  Your customer list is priceless for this reason.  
You can never have a customer list unless you sell 
something yourself.

2. Selling traffic is residual.  Once you make a customer 
happy, they will pay you month after month and you never 
have to do any more work.  Residual income is very nice!

3. There are a limited number of affiliate relationships 
that are possible within your market (ie: the subject of 
your site) using just affiliate programs.  So; how can you 
expand?  By selling traffic directly.

4. You don't have to wait for a sale.  Generally, you will 
be selling traffic on a flat rate basis (flat charge per 
month) or on a PPC basis (pay per click).  So, you don't 
have to wait for the merchant to make a sale; you just 
have to deliver what you promised.  It is up to them to 
convert the traffic (although you do need to keep your 
traffic very high quality to get long-term repeat 
customers).

5. You will be building a customer base which just happens 
to be other webmasters in your subject area.  Once they 
are your customers, they will be very open to joint 
ventures with you.

OK; so you agree...  You should be selling traffic 
directly.  Let's get started.  First you need to decide 
how you want to sell traffic.  Here are some options that 
I recommend (in order):

1. You can sell links at a flat rate every month.  A 
popular way to do this is to sell a link at the very top 
spot in one of your directories for $5/month.  If you have 
100 directories, your potential monthly income from this 
type of sale is $500/month!   If you have 10 sites, that's 
$5,000 per month.  An advantage to this type of traffic 
sale is that you don't need to track the traffic you 
send.  You just put their link in the top spot and leave 
it there as long as they pay $5/month (or whatever rate 
you decide to charge monthly).

2. You can sell links in your directory for a flat rate 
per click.  We do this for 10 cents per click.  To do 
this, you will need a tracker program.  We have used 
OrbitCycle.com and highly recommend them.

3. You can sell your home page for a flat rate per month 
or per click.  We do this for 15 cents per click on our 
sites.

Now, you need a way to collect the money.  I think the 
easiest way is PayPal.  They have a subscription program 
where they will automatically deduct the $5/month (or 
whatever you want to charge) monthly from your customer's 
account.

Another option is to get your own merchant account and 
shopping cart.  I recommend this long-term because a 
higher percentage of webmasters will purchase from you if 
you have a real merchant account and shopping cart.  For 
now, PayPal is fine.

That's all there is to it.  Before you carry on with the 
rest of today's work... Get a page on each of your sites 
offering to sell whatever forms of traffic you decide.

***************************************************************
The author, James D. Brausch, is the coach and webmaster 
of QuitThatJob.com, a site dedicated to providing step-by-
step instructions to start your own profitable Internet 
business and Quit That Job! For more info, please visit: 
<a href="http://www.QuitThatJob.com/">
http://www.QuitThatJob.com/</a>

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Summary:	Are you an affiliate of Commission Junction, Clickbank or another network or individual program? If you are, you are already in the traffic selling business. You are selling traffic in return for commissions when a sale is made (or a lead generated). So, why should you expand to selling traffic directly?