No-Cost Web Page Leads For Your New Nutrition Supplements Business, Day After Day

If you're wanting inexpensive ideas to generate prospects for your new complementary therapy business, particularly if it has an online shopping cart, the perfect way is Article Marketing because it's free and the traffic keeps coming, month after month, from one piece of work. So if you are looking for product launch ideas read on.

Article Marketing isn't a fast way to get started online, but it's a low-cost, risk-free method anyone can adopt. First let's compare it with some other ways to get Internet traffic. Let's take the example of promoting a new shopping cart.

A traditional way of bringing customers to your new site, taught by many on-line marketing training, is to contact other website owners asking for a link exchange. This can be successful, but it's a slow process and you need to take care who you target. For instance, if I sell dog collars by post I may be happy to do a link swap with someone who runs dog training classes, but not someone who is promoting dog collars.

Another method is posting on forums in your subject area, with your URL in your signature. Also effective, but time-consuming.

In theory a Pay-Per-Click (PPC) campaign is easy to set up and you could see prospects the same day. In practice unless you're experienced at these campaigns, you can spend ages testing for the optimum settings and exhaust your budget without making a single sale. I did! And being of a suspicious nature , I often wondered how many clicks were by my competitors, to use up my money!

Alternative online launch ideas include FFA (Free For All) sites and traffic exchanges where you view other people's sites, in return for them viewing yours. This strikes me as a waste of time. I want to sell, not buy, so why sit heedless, clicking on other people's websites so that they will sit bored clicking on my site? They probably never even see my site. With tabbed browsers the temptation is just to open the following tab to click on the advert, without reading the adverts.

These ideas are time-consuming and ineffective for a serious product launch.

Offline marketing methods include networking to swap cards at business clubs. Time-consuming, costly and again in general, people are attending to sell, not to buy.

In contrast, article marketing targets people who have shown that they are interested in the subject your website targets. Choose good keywords and visitors will be actively intending to buy, not sell.

The idea of article marketing is that you draft an article and submit it, with your website details, to article directories from which publishers can take content for newsletters etc so long as they include your website details with your article. Then when interested parties read your article, they can click through to your website.

The article you have produced in an hour or so stays (theoretically) online forever and you have the potential to receive focused traffic from it in perpetuity.

For instance, I submitted an article in October 2005 and 4 years later it is still generating traffic, with no extra work, and had received 28,897 lifetime views, with 5,961 clicks through to my website. How much would that have cost in PPC? Another advantage is that the best article directories send you a report showing the keywords from which your article is being found.

My belief is that article marketing has so many advantages over alternative methods that I cannot imagine why it would not be one of your marketing strategies.

Much of my success with article marketing was learned through trial and error. With a little free, or low cost, training I would have seen rewards much earlier.