Setting up your marketing funnel is really the only way to drive traffic to a website, offer your services, products or business opportunity to your visitors and succeed in running a profitable turnkey online business from home. This is easy enough to do, despite what some ‘gurus’ may tell you.

Let’s start off by quickly descibing what a marketing funnel (or lead funnel) actually is. Obviously, a funnel is wide at one end and narrow at the bottom. Only some visitors will buy your stuff, so your funnel will start with every visitor you get and then sort them out to the percentage who will buy your product or decide to do business with you.

Follow these 3 easy steps to quickly create an effective marketing funnel.

To begin with you want visitors coming to your website. A basic truth but that is where it starts off – by marketing your services. You need to market or advertise your online presence so that people interested will know it is there and look at the offer you have.

There are many ways to do this. Some you will have to pay for but there are many other ways to get traffic for free or very low cost. I won’t cover this in detail here but pay-per-click, ezine ads, article marketing and free classifieds are just a few that you could use.

The second thing to do is after a visitor has seen your site, you want a way to get them coming back as not many will actually decide to buy from you on the first time. You therefore want your marketing funnel to teach your visitors about you and your services.

You want a branded website that gives good information and a way to capture their contact information so you can continue to feed them good information by using an opt-in form and getting them onto your list. That way, they will continue to get good information from you, even after they have left your site.

Finally, the third section of your marketing funnel is when your prospects and subscribers have made the decision that they know what you what you can do to help them. They are wanting to talk to you or just buy from you or partner with you in your turnkey online business opportunity. It goes without asying that the numbers will be a lot less than the original number of visitors that looked at your site.

So it must be a priority to get as much traffic to your website as possible. They are the driving force behind your business and without them at the beginning of your funnel, there will be no prospects to buy from you at the other end. Your marketing funnel also brings high quality visitors so your funnel will filter visitors so you only end up with traffic that is ready to buy.

The aim of your marketing funnel is very simple – getting sales and cash into your bank account. Bring traffic to your website and turn them into repeat customers.

Discover how you can generate a 6 figure income by setting up an effective marketing funnel. As seen on Google, Yahoo and Bing, Ed Hodgson can show you step by step what you need to do. If you want to escape the rat race and make more money working from home, then visit his website at www.ExtraIncome2Freedom.com for your free report and mini-course now.

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As the name implies, what YourNetBiz offers is a complete system to teach and retrain people to become successful internet marketers. This puts YourNetBiz head and shoulders above similar businesses because of the emphasis on training, giving them the tools and skills to market any product in any niche and to be able to build an internet business of their own. It effectively retrains people who are looking for an alternative way of generating an income.

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The need to increase traffic by using search engine optimization is essential to a successful website and online business.

SEO is the use of keywords within your site’s content to increase rankings in the search engines. This is not only limited to the content of a website. It could be the content of an article, a blog post or even a press release.

This is not a comprehensive list of things to ensure you do for your site. However, the following points should be a part of your toolkit in ensuring that your website content will increase traffic by using search engine optimization to bring you maximum profits.

1. Keywords. Make sure to include your top keywords in the first 25 words of your site to increase your search engine optimization. Then include them evenly in your page content. Don’t overdo this though! Your keywords should flow naturally within your site content.

2. Make sure you choose your keyword after doing some research. What is your visitor looking for? If you were looking for what you are offering, what would you type into the search engines?

3. Within your website settings, you will find a box to insert metatags. By inputting your keywords here, they will make a big difference to your traffic by increasing the search engine optimization.

4. Your page is sure to rank higher and sooner if you actually submit it to the search engines. This is simple enough to do. Just do a search on Google for a suitable service. Make sure you do this as soon as possible after publishing your website for best results.

5. Spy on the competition. Using your chosen keyword, do a Google search and see what sites are appearing at the top of the natural results. These are the ones on the left hand side of a Google search results page. One of the reasons that they hold the top positions will be down to good search engine optimization. Visit them and see where and how they are using that keyword on their site.

6. Writing articles and submitting them will also help a lot with SEO. Each article that you submit will have your backlinks within your resource section. The more backlinks you have pointing to your website, the better.

Keep these key points in mind and, apply them, to benefit the most from search engine optimization, increase traffic, ranking and conversions for your website.

Ed Hodgson works as an online marketing mentor with the Turn-Key Marketing Group. He offers free resources and advice on how to make money online and offers hworks as proven marketing system to those who are looking to build a profitable online business of their own.