Latest Coaching Program Update - 23 Expert Traffic Tactics

Stephen and the Smart Marketing Coaching Club team definitely deliver on their promises.

It seems like almost every week there's something extra for coaching club members and the latest is a series of webinars on creating FREE Traffic. That's right, none of that wasting time and money on Google paying for traffic that my other coaches encouraged me to do. We're talking using smart effective ways of finding people who want what we've got!

The goal is to get everyone up to getting a minimum of 100 unique visitors a day. I've already achieved that goal just using some of the Social Bookmarking techniques Stephen teaches and I still learned HEAPS from the very first webinar, let alone the other 2 he did last week.

Now Stephen had us promise not share the details so you're just going to get teased with the headlines. This list of 23 Expert Traffic Tactics wasn't covered in one session - each one of these is explored in detail, giving us a map of the whole process for each one plus examples and websites.

23 Expert Traffic Tactics
 Affiliate Traffic
 Article Traffic
 Banner Traffic
 Black Hat Traffic
 Blog Traffic
 Classified Ad Traffic
 CraigsList Traffic
 Directory Submission
 eBay Traffic
 eZine Traffic
 Facebook Traffic
 Forum Traffic
 Joint Venture Traffic
 Linking Traffic
 MySpace Traffic
 Podcast Traffic
 PPC Traffic
 Press Release Traffic
 Search Engine Traffic
 Social Networking Traffic
 Social Shopping Traffic
 Squidoo Traffic
 YouTube Traffic


Stephen said we'd be spending roughly 45 minutes on each one but we spent well over an hour, even an hour and a half on these.

We did 3 of these last week (one a day) and will be doing more next week when Stephen returns from overseas. He's just left Australia where he presented at Mal Emory's event and is now about to present at a Christopher Howard event in the UK.

Week 5 statistics & Update to Coaching Program Review

Here's an update to my review of the Stephen Pierce coaching program. This update is on the numbers - how what I'm learning is actually working. Given that I'm still pretty much a newbie, I had some financial targets I wanted to achieve but I didn't have any clear goals initially on how much traffic I wanted to be generating. Now that I've been doing this for over a month now, I'm a bit clearer on my outcomes and I'm now focussing on the traffic numbers instead on the financial goals.

Right now the target is on increasing free traffic and then I'll tweak my sales processes to generate more income. At low traffic levels, it's difficult to see what difference changes have to the site.

The ways my blog generates income (so far):
1) adsense
2) clickbank advertising

In the future I'll also develop my own products but right now I need to know that I can win in my choosen niche.

It's now been just over 5 weeks since my site, http://www.organiclivinglifestyle.com/, first went live (5th August). I went through Stephen Pierce's new addition to his coaching program, PRI$E, as you would have seen me mention previously. Since my last update, I've been busy writing articles and doing social bookmarking activities (technorati, stumbleupon, reddit, facebook etc). Right now I'm learning about RSS feeds.

I had a bit of a problem with the last step of the initial PRI$E training (the RSS feeds) which delayed me finishing but I am excited that I've almost finished the newbie part.

Stats - week 5
First 10 days of September:

• 650 hits a day (average) vs 341 in August
• 37 visits a day (average) vs 27 in August
• people in 16 countries have visited my site
• my unique visitors total is now at 231 for the first 10 days of this month (September)
• 35% of visitors come from search engines and social bookmarking vs 1.1% in August

My unique visitors total is almost exactly what I had for August (26 days) and we're only 10 days into September. Based on this I expect to at least triple the figures from last month, that is get to about 700 unique visitors for September. If I can keep tripling this figure every month, that would be awesome. That would mean 2,100 unique visitors in October, 6,300 in November and 18,900 in December. Momentum is what it's all about!

The number of pages sending traffic to my site has decreased but given that links from external pages represents 1.1% of my current traffic (down from 4.1% in August), this will be something for me to work on soon. I also need to work on building my database too now that my traffic is growing.

At the moment, I'm working with a small focus group on our social bookmarking and so in a few weeks I expect I will be quite proficient in this area very soon. There's so much to learn!

Celebrating 2 weeks in coaching program - My Statistics so Far...

It's now been 15 days since I started this journey & 10 days since my site first went up.

As requested here are my stats - not sure if you can quite make them out but I've had over 5,000 hits & 364 visitors ( yes a bit over half of those are me working on my site) but I'm pretty thrilled that people are already finding my site without me doing any real active promotion yet.

I love these stats. Any real internet marketers please ignore this paragraph - I'm a newbie who gets excited over all aspects of success! Or you can have a listen to what Stephen Pierce talks about how the Wright Brothers at Kittyhawk celebrated even the smallest amount of success. (If you don't know what I'm talking about check out my previous posts about Momentum Mixx mp3s and the You Tube videos.) You just know I'm going to go crazy the first time I get a check, don't you!?!

Stats - 3 weeks

• 5,000+ hits
• 122 unique visitors without any active promotion (that's the step I'm currently working on)
• people in 11 countries have been reading what I've written (and as you can tell, I love to write :)
• www.organiclivinglifestyle.com is linked from 19 external pages! And from sites I don't even know about!!

I was so excited tonight, I was looking for organic blogs as part of my research and I was absolutely thrilled to see that my site has made it to the 2nd page of Google already (search "organic living + blog") Ok, I know that's a pretty defined search but hey, I'm celebrating the baby steps!

My main goal in time for next Thursday's Mastermind meeting is to come up with an idea to really get the word out there about my site... Some way for it to become viral and really take off and build my list. I want this to really take off so by Christmas I've hit my first milestone.

Thank you everyone for your wonderful feedback! How awesome to be featured on SMCC's blog http://www.smartmarketingclub.com/blog/?p=29#comment-8 Tanady, I'll keep coming back and posting my stats for all to see. I don't claim to be anything outstanding - I haven't spent much time on this during the week, lost my focus a bit but I'm determined not to be one of those people who will still be whinging weeks from now. I very much want to be one of the people that are so excited about what they're doing that they don't have time for complaining.

I've gotten a bit bogged down the last week on fiddling with my site, changing different aspects, adding plugins. A few days ago I didn't even know what a plug in was and now I'm finding myself going through the SMCC forum looking for everyone's great tips on which Plugins are most valuable for preventing Spam, robots etc as well as helping people who are looking for info on organics to find my site.

Enough sidetracking though! I'm going to finished Phase 4: Promotion of the new PRI$E system by my 3 week anniversary. That then just leaves me Phase 5: Cash Injection System and then I'm finished PRI$E.

From there, I'll go back into Stephen's normal course and go through those steps. There's something called SOP that I've heard several times but don't really know what that's all about yet.

Day 5 - Market chosen & Passive Residual Income System Extreme set up in progress

"Don't let what you can't do interfere with what you can do"

This saying of Stephen Pierce's is deceptively simple. It's been going around and around in my head for the last two days since my last update on the Smart Marketing Coaching Club. It's now day 5

When I was stalled on working on my project I was frustrated because the hosting company hasn't uploaded my new domain. Until then I have been so excited. After going through Stephen and Alicia's mindset and creativity modules, I finally chose a market (one I'm passionate about naturally) and found a great affiliate product to promote. One that Stephen himself has researched and endorsed.

I chose a domain name ($9.05) and set up the hosting ($9.95 a month). I also learned how to transfer the domain name to the hosting company which impresses me. Yes, I am very much a newbie.

I've been going through the new cd, Passive Residual Income System Extreme - PRI$E, (thank you again Roy Phay for your detailed Camtasia videos) and learning lots. Now I have a blog, installed & configured WordPress, installed PlugIns, (whatthe?!) Smart PPC and now I'm installing Smart Profit Feeds. As you can tell, I still don't know exactly why I'm doing some of these steps but I'm just faithfully following each one and it's really coming together. I even felt confident enough to upload files to the server and I installed a different blog template than the standard version. Wow, I'm really feeling like I know some of this technical stuff now.

Only problem is I can't see it!! Agh! I keep getting the message that it will take 24-48 hours to have the domain up.

So this is where Stephen's quote "Don't let what you can't do stop you from doing what you can do." Although I can't see for certain that everything is working fine I can keep going on with the steps and learning. Even if I have made a mistake and something has gone wrong and I have to redo things, I've still learned so much that will make it faster doing it next time. And I always planned on creating multiple sites so this is valuable experience for me.