...ell it. I soon realised that building thewebsite was only half of the challenge for my customers, andgaining traffic was the next. The three main ways that we'lltalk about are paying for traffic, sending an email to yourmailing list (that itself takes time to build) and lastly tojoint venture with another website owner. This means they sendyou traffic, and you split profits with them 50:50. You can usesoftware to track the number of hits produced from theirmailouts.1. By buyi...

...ng traffic, you can target the people already lookingfor your product. The biggest player here is Google. I'm sureyou know them well  For those new to this industry,whenever you run a google search, the listings that show up onthe right hand side can be bought by anyone. You pay 5 cents andupwards for each click. You can have traffic showing up to yourwebsite 5 minutes after setting up a Google Adwords account.Other search engines also offer this 'pay-per-click' (PPC)service. The next step after paying for traffic is to monitorresults. You can track the number of hits from various sourcesto focus on those that are producing sales. Let's say you had 4different advertising sources producing a total in sales of $200and you spent a total of $80. That's a profit margin of 250%. Ifyou were able to see that the $20 you spent with PPC advertiserA produced 0 dollars in sales and the same for advertiser B.Advertiser C brought in $20 in sales but advertiser D brought ina whopping $180 in sales. That's 900% profit and you could thenfocus your advertising dollars on that source to maximiseprofit. Every type of advertising must have a tracking systemwith strong accuracy.2. Emailing a list is the next method that becomes your greatestasset with time. There are no overheads and you can create ahuge rush of sales everytime you send an email. In a previousarticle I mentioned that a signup should be between 10 and 33%.That is the percentage of visitors you can expect to sign up toa mailing list. By having autoresponders, you can attract thesevisitors back to your website again. There's a good chancethey'll buy the second time around. If they leave, you can sendthem another email to ask them to return and make them keepreturning until they eventually buy.Knowing how often to send emails to your list is also important.The key here is to add value and send regular free content.Imbetween asking them to buy something, send something free thatis of value. Generally, once a month is an appropriate timeperiod between emails, or more often depending on your market.Some people send emails three times a day and it works for thembut here's what works for my mentor so that's the best of myknowledge. 3. Joint Venture.The strategy is simple, other websites send out emails and placestrategic links on their website to attract visitors to yourwebsite. YUou only pay them for the sales produced from anyclicks. Generally 50% of the profits is the best since it's anequal share.The key here is to make it as easy as possible for you JVpartner. Create emails for them, banner ads and any otherpromotional material that will help them.JV deals allow you to create a lot of traffic to your site in ashort period of time and for you to build your mailing listsvery quickly. You can receive JV support from all of theestablished companies in the field you wish to enter if youapproach them correctly.To find out more about how to do Joint Ventures and for morepowerful concepts, visit http://www.internetprofitmentor.com.Here I found a wealth of useful and free information with over12 hours of video and a 120 page e-book. There's also acomprehensive free course, that explains all about building yourown profitable websites.