
Today I want to go over the 3 sources of traffic that you’ll ever have to drive into your Marketing such as websites, funnels and offers. In any business you want to aim to get traffic from all 3 sources and as you’ll soon learn, each source actually supports the others.
Organic traffic is any traffic that you get organically or naturally, without having to pay for it. There are tonnes of examples but some of the biggest include:
The best part of this source of traffic is because it’s FREE. However there are a few obstacles that may stand in your way of this traffic source bringing you lots of traffic:
As you can see to truly benefit from organic traffic you already need good brand awareness and following. So how do you get these if you’re just starting out?
This is where paid traffic comes in. Paid, as the name suggests, is traffic whereby you have to pay for it! Examples include:
Obviously the downside to paid traffic is you have to pay for it! However it outweighs all of the problems you’d get with organic traffic.
Paid traffic is definitely key for new startups, but it’s also key to any busy that relies on getting steady, consistent traffic. Overtime organic traffic can definitely contribute, but paid traffic will remain top dog.
That is, until…
Your database or list as some people prefer to call it is all of the people who have submitted their info to you on your website, ads etc via either Organic or Paid traffic.
This has some beautiful advantages:
However, it also has a few downsides:
So as you can see — it’s an amazing long term source of traffic that will only keep getting better. But in the short term, you have to rely on organic & paid.
Which source of traffic should you use?
There’s definitely arguments that every business should use all types, and I do that myself. However there are some you want to focus more on than others, depending on your new business.
New Startups
Focus on paid traffic supported slowly by organic — once you have a database of 1,000+ you can start utilising that.
Established Small And Medium Sized Businesses
Organic and your existing database should be more effective — however long term you can’t rely on this, and should keep some paid traffic going.
Big Business, Big Brand
You will be able to run entirely on organic traffic and your database as that should be massive. However, you always want to keep a trickle of paid ads to make sure your band doesn’t fade out.
Dan
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