Big Seminar Report

Here is something that completely blew me away - Ryan Deiss (one of the speakers at the Big Seminar) spoke about niche marketing and how to start a profitable Internet business based on specific markets.

However, the really interesting thing that I learned had nothing to do with finding a profitable market. What really caught my attention was when he spoke about traffic generation.

He listed off a few ways to get traffic to your website, namely:

-affiliates (your own affiliate program)
-Google Adwords
-banner ads
-ezine advertising
-search engine optimization
-article marketing

He then asked the audience: “Which of these methods do you think works best for me?”

I thought it would be his affiliates, others thought it was Google Adwords.

Can you guess which one it was?

Give up? Ok, I’ll tell you. It was banner ads!

When Ryan Deiss said this the audience was shocked! “Aren’t banner ads dead?” is what everybody was thinking and mumbling to their neighbors.

Ryan then went on to say that banner ads had never died, they were just never used properly by most marketers.

This completely threw me for a loop (and I get a lot of traffic to my websites every day WITHOUT using banner ads).

So, today at 11am I am having a meeting with my intern where I am going to train him on the steps that Ryan laid out to driving massive traffic through banner ads. I will have him test out the ideas and then I will report on my results.

If all goes well I will probably be adding a video to Your Traffic Videos describing the process.

What is that process?

Tune in tomorrow and I’ll let you know!

Matthew Glanfield

P.S. Please post your comments on what you think about this “new” idea.