You can have the best looking site in the world along with a fantastic product but without visitors, it is all a complete waste of time.

When it comes to making money some things never change, and most likely never will. One of those things is the fact that without visitors to your website, your site might as well not exist!

This is even truer if you have a site selling a product or blog that operates off of advertising, because without visitors, there is no way your websites ever to going to produce an income.

I’d even venture to say that getting traffic to your website is probably the single most important aspect of running a business online.

I am the worlds worst about following up with potential customers. I normally give them a quote, if it’s an email I move them to another folder and if it’s a phone call, I don’t even get their name and information.

They asked me a question and I answered it, what more do they want?

The other day I went back through a couple of the old emails from potential clients. I played with them for a couple hours and sold three new jobs. With thousands more to look at, this got me to thinking about the money being lost daily because of not following up with potential clients.

But I don’t have time to do it and I really hate to hire more people then what I’ve already got. This got me to thinking about autoresponders.

Autoresponders have great potential for increasing your sales or simply saving you a lot of time. And let’s not forget that the more contact you have with both potential and existing customers the more trust you build with them and the more likely they are to buy.

I am about to start playing with a new autoresponder right now and hope to have it all set up and working before the end of the weekend.

Most my conversations with potential clients start way before breakfast.

I have videos on YouTube as well as a presence on FaceBook, MySpace, linked in and all the major social networking sites. I encourage people to follow me on twitter, friendster and the likes. We have over 20 blogs running in parallel to our website. We are open to feedback, discussions and conversations with people because we know and understand that this is the most important part of our business.

Conversations are the key that opens the doors to people’s minds and hearts. I honestly believe that more than anything else, marketing thrives on communication. You get to meet people, know them and find out what that want.

Popularity is not achieved by the number of people that you talk to every day you have to be one with the people, bond with them and most importantly listen to them.

You make your business a success from the conversations you have with people.

There is no such thing as a worthless conversation, provided you know what to listen for.

We should know in advance what people want and expect. The main reason we engage in conversations is to build trust.

Trust is one of the most underrated things in marketing. If people do not trust you, they will not believe anything you say and you will have a hard time convincing them otherwise.

The basis of any relationship is trust and trust has to be built on daily. You don’t want buyers you want permanent customers, so never break the trust.

Buy a Silicone Wristband

I’ve been working with Donny, the owner of a silicone wristband website, for about 4 years now. I’ve learned a lot and I’ve enjoyed working with him and it has allowed me to get better at not only getting traffic to a site but in converting that traffic as well.

The techniques that I’ve learned from marketing and designing his site have also allowed me to make changes on my own site in hopes of increasing the traffic and sales that we make with our web design business.

The reason for this post is that I wanted to see if an off topic post would rank for a keyword that is off topic to this blog. I know if the topic is non-competitive enough it will rank but what if the keyword is slightly competitive like buy a silicone wristband?

Of course if this thread does rank then I need to send the traffic to the correct website.

So you can head to my silicone wristband affiliate site and buy a silicone wristband.

A find it pretty funny and sad when the President of the United States of America (a black man) wants to stand up and cry about racism. He should try being a white man walking through Atlanta Georgia after midnight on a Saturday night.

Here’s the basics, a woman sees a man who looks like he is breaking into a house. She calls the cops. The cops arrive to investigate the report of a burglary. The homeowner is inside and insists it is a misunderstanding and that this is his house .. no one was trying to break in. The cop demands identification. The homeowner refuses and gets upset.

The homeowner is black. The cop is white.

So the homeowner accuses this cop of racism. The cop arrests him and he is charged with disorderly conduct. The charges have since been dropped.

I can almost promise you that if you decide to burglarize Mr. Gates’ home there isn’t a Cambridge police officer who would respond to the call. You’ll have pretty much a free shot at all of the professor’s stuff until he gets home. At that time you’ll have to endure a screaming tirade about “this is what happens to a black man in America” and that you are a “racist burglar.”