There are some things no one ever teaches. I think that we were lead to believe that the Internet was the way forward when it came to business. And while it is, it is only that way if you know what you are doing…and we didn’t. I’m not just saying that.
We took the time to craft a really impressive business website. If you own a service company, there are not a lot of ways to build a brand and get your name out there. So, we took the advice of the man who ran the lead generating workshop and we built a website.
Build a website, get the business. Only…the business never came. We had the site up there for about a year with little results. We tried to blame it on the timing of the launch. We tried to blame it on the economy. We tried to blame it on everything but the real reason nothing was happening. We didn’t know what we were doing.
Web design isn’t like Field of Dreams. Just because you built it, doesn’t mean anyone is going to visit it. You have to have traffic. And I had no idea how to generate any of that. I had done the usual, optimize the site with some keywords that would express and explain just what it was we did. And I submitted the site to all the major search engines. And I watched and I waited.
We tried Google AdSense. We figured that with a little pay per click advertising, we’d be just fine. Only we weren’t. So we hired SEO experts who promised to get us qualified leads. Qualified leads are good. Only that didn’t really happen either.
Finally, we turned to a program created by Todd Lamb, GoogleTraffic Pump. I have to admit, I was skeptical. Let’s face it. We have tried various programs and products and methods and suggestions. We had spent a good deal of money, even paying one company as much as $500 per month. Our savings were gone. Our bills were due and we had to wonder whether or not we could even trust a product that sold for $27. What could it offer that the professionals charging almost twenty times as much had not?
At the same time, we were at the point where we had nothing to lose. The directions were simple…five little steps. And one of them we had inadvertently completed on our own. We already had a Gmail account. So, we watched the videos…my husband is not a reader…and we implemented the program and we waited. It worked.
We have more traffic after using the Google Traffic Pump than we used to have in a month each day. And the traffic translates to ranking, which translates to those mystical qualified leads I’d heard so much about. Mostly, I try not to kick myself for all the money we wasted in the past. Who knew $27 could change our life?
Check out the Google Traffic Pump at http://www.googletrafficpump.com.
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