Great Site Promotions

Conversion rates shouldn't be measured by just revenue transactions. Your site conversion rates could be measured in terms of new subscribers to your newsletters or a submission to Facebook, MySpace, Stumbleupon or a referral on LinkedIn. So, how do you get your visitors to click-through? Promotions.

Promotions don't have to be "You Won a Million Dollars". The prize could be a post on your blog (backlinks), free/discounted services, or an E-book. However, there are some inexpensive promotions too - like reward cards (ranging between $5-$25 dollars), gift certificates to a national chain, or a small donation to the winner's favorite charity.

Key Elements of a Promotion

• Make it fun
• Deliver what you promise
• Start small
• Be innovative

After you've run a few promotions you should see the process gets easier. Your traffic should increase and sales too, because your visitors will start directing other visitors to your site (Viral Marketing).

On March 3^rd - 7^th the visitors with the most comments on any Yin Yang Data Report post (comments can be placed on multiple post - spam will be deleted and not counted) and the answer to these questions (On the post titled "3 Techniques to Gain More Traffic" what are the 3 methods and On the post titled "Entrepreneur Spotlight - Yvette Stokes" what are the names of the articles and the dates they were posted/published) will win. Send answers to support@ysdata.com with "Answers" as the subject.

The prize is a featured post on my blog "Yin Yang Data Report", Hubpages, and Squidoo with backlinks (approved featured post topics - Online Marketing, Small Business Matters, Web Applications, Information Processing, Networking, or your Entrepreneur story).