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Never underestimate your customers/subscribers and never neglect to give
them all the value you possibly can.

They are your gold and you’ve probably heard of the ‘back-end profits’.

You treat your customers and followers correctly and that’s money you can
take to the bank…forever.

When all is said and done you spent hundreds of man hours and quite possibly
thousands of dollars to acquire your subscribers and customers.

SO why would you neglect them?

Too often I talk with client who get focused on all the wrong details. Traffic, Traffic,
Traffic.

First, noone likes to be thought of as traffic. You are dealing with people here so
keep that as your mindset and your site and work will reflect it.

Think of your website as catering to visitors, honored guests, and viewers. Hopefully,
you are developing some useful, instructive, demonstrative how-to video content because
with all the cool camcorders out there you have no excuse not to.

Many are dead simple to use and offer 1 click upload to youtube, myspace.

So take care of your customers, viewers, blog readers, and subscribers. When
you do that it’s like having your cake and eating it too because they’ll take care of you.

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The Pareto Principle Presently…

You may have heard of the 80/20 rule which was made famous by a very smart Italian
guy during the time of the Renaissance (middle ages).

Pareto was doing some research on how things happen in life and made a startling and
accidental discovery.

He found a pattern, which was as good as gold, to the way things occur in nature and with humans.

As luck would have it he saw 80% of results coming from only 20% of the efforts.

This has a couple of implications.

1. 80% of your effort is in essence ‘wasted’
2. 20% which is very little effort gives possibility for a massively successful business

I’ve come to believe a more winning combination today is 90/10. Because it seems to me 90% of my
results come from only 10% of my efforts.

The tricky part, the results alchemy, is figuring out which 10%-20% of your efforts yield the lion’s share
of your results and profits.

Each business is different in which activities lead to the profits. But basically your customer acquisition
and customer retention activities will be the highest ROI in your business. Of course, you have to find
quality products they want to buy or develop them yourself.

Take it from me, talk is cheap and discovering your true 10%-20% activities will make you more profits
and free more of your time for family than you ever dreamed possible.

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I believe strongly that you should have a few core activites on your list.  Paid and free traffic should be on it. Paid traffic is without doubt the fastest way to get visitors to your site, test you sales process, and ultimately make money.

Also, you should definitely start thinking of them as visitors or viewers. Traffic is a very unpleasant thing to be stuck in and noone likes being called traffic. When you change your mindset it shows through in the content and connection your website has with people.

Back to the topic at hand…

So beware the gurus who speak in absolutes. “this is the only way to go, this is all you need, one traffic tactic fits all.” Because it is always (my use of absolute) a good idea to spread your risk. I can think of no instance (absolute) where maximum risk in only 1 ‘basket’ is a good idea but invite you to prove me wrong on this absolute.

Having only 1 stream of website visitors can be very hazardous to your business health. So get out there and use both free traffic and paid traffic methods. Imagine it like the idea of “multiple streams of income”. Instead you want “multiple streams of web visitors” from different sources to spread your risk.

However, you should know how to do each method and if you don’t hire someone who’s expert in that method. Don’t waste your time learning “57 different methods”. Just get good at 1 and put it to use to make some money. Then once that is producting steadily learn another method and add it into your funnel.

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