“This is one of the “golden questions” to internet marketing! If there was an easy answer to it, we would all be making a killing online.

Website traffic usually is generated in three ways:

1) You Pay for It – In my experience, the quickest and highest quality traffic you can pay for is simple Pay-Per-Click (primarily Google Adwords, Yahoo Marketing Solutions, and MSN Adcenter). I’ll talk about this more in another question, but it is good, targeted traffic folks! Don’t poo-poo it too soon! Advertising and banner ads can be effective, too (they are not as simple to manage, though).

2) You Generate It – This can be done with Search Engine Optimization (SEO) to generate free traffic in the search engines. Article marketing is another way to get people to find you and your website. Social marketing is a great way not only to generate traffic, but increase your conversions, as well. I use all of these effectively and it produces more than 50% of my traffic to a majority of my websites. This can take time and effort, but most of this can be done for free. (If you have the financial resources, this can be outsourced, to some extent).

3) Have others give it to you – but other people are usually not going to send you traffic without compensation. Join an affiliate network or even a CPA Network (Warning! CPA networks can bring in a LOT of traffic but can be rather costly!). Partnering up with others in your niche is a great (and extremely effective!) way of getting traffic to your site. Make sure, though, that you can offer your partners enough to make it worth their while!”

If you own a family business, as I do, you go through the days overwhelmed by the sheer magnitude of the number of goals and tasks you’re trying to get done in your business in one day. I could easily let fear and frustration take over, because I may be missing something that could make or break my ability to live in the style to which I’ve become accustomed.

I’ve discovered there’s a secret to overcoming this paralyzing fear. There’s a way to get back to the basics of enjoying your life, your business, and achieving your goals. That secret is to give up the notion that everything on your to do list for today has to be done. I can hear you now saying, “if I don’t do it, who will?!” Here’s something for you to consider.

How many times have you gotten to the end of a day and finally given up getting through your goals and your to do list, because there is just no way everything can get done to your satisfaction? How many times have you looked back later and realized that is was good some of those things didn’t get done, since circumstances and events changed that made it unnecessary for you to do them in the first place? This has happened to me more times than I can count. So, I came to this conclusion, some things on your list aren’t meant to be done when you think they should be.

I believe there is a right time for everything to occur – a time when synchronistic events line-up to make the completion of goals and tasks easy and effortless. When you find yourself stressing and straining, that is a sign it’s not the right time for that particular task to be completed. That’s when it is time to step back, leave it mentally and physically for a while, and see how life’s events unfold naturally; and they will if you learn to trust in the natural order.

A few years ago, we were in the middle of this process once again, building a new home, with our then current home on the market. I knew the ideal buyer for us would be one who did not want to move in right away, but still wanted to buy the house and close quickly. As time went on, I kept this ideal scenario in the back of my mind, while other less than ideal potential buyers looked at our house.

After several weeks of progressing on our new house and waiting for ours to sell, the absolute perfect buyer finally came along that not only paid us a fair price, but because of their tax situation wanted us to rent our house back for however long we needed to finish our new home. This scenario was orchestrated so perfectly I could not help but believe it was one of those amazing synchronistic events that show how circumstances can unfold if you get out of the way and quit pushing against life, trying to make things happen in your timing instead of the “right timing”.

While the world may tell you that you need to set goals and stay focused on the steps to achieve them, I have found you can also use another system to get from Point A to Point B.

- Know what you want.

- Stay focused on what you want.

- Take the steps you are intuitively led to take.

- Let circumstances and events unfold in their right timing.

- Do what you need to do to be happy while you’re waiting for this natural unfolding to take place.