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Old 04-02-2009, 12:48 AM  
Paul Markham
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Originally Posted by CarlosTheGaucho View Post
Why?

the more traffic you own the more traffic you keep residual,

the more traffic you can market in diverse ways - the more traffic you upsell to your other assets, the more exit traffic you monetize, the more upsell traffic you monetize, the more viral traffic you get, the more traffic forgets to cancel, the more maniacs you get to get addicted with your product

Please explain

(in simple words - FAIL)
In simple words why does your method fail. Or more to the point why has it failed so far. Because it has failed.

The cost of driving more traffic is so high today and the return so low the money for it has to come from somewhere else. The most likely place is from the content, quality and quantity. Plus you have to build and run your sites to the demands of those driving traffic and not the demands of customers.

Once we started down that road we were always at risk of people adapting a system that does not rely on driving thousands of people to get a few sign ups. To continue down that road without fixing what we have is not going to work. Because the money you invest in "traffic" has to profit long term.

To just keep saying "more traffic" is pointless unless you know the profit and loss on "more traffic" and that so many people ignore today.
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