Use FREEBIES to LURE visitors to your site

Freebies always work. Most people love a freebie and what better than a freebie to lure someone to your site? A freebie can be something relatively small and insignificant yet troublesome or time-consuming to make. Take a simple example: you are running a site on cooking with lots of your own recipes. Consider making a series of downloadable pdf calendars showing 1-2 recipes per month that visitors can print out. You can even sneak in a way to make money here - offer to send visitors a printed color version for a nominal fee. Before you know it, you can even start selling printed copies of your online recipes. A freebie can also be something a visitor normally has to pay for but which he might not want to. E-books would be one category example. It might be an e-book you write yourself or even one of those you buy. Many of those you buy give you resell rights and instead of selling them, you can choose to just give them away for free (if it is allowed). But of course, if you can put together something neat yourself, that would be most ideal. E-books are so easy to make - you just need to spend some time writing them. A freebie can also be a product or a sample of your product. For instance, you are selling coffee beans. Visitors normally need to buy them from you in packets of 500g or 1kg. You can consider giving out small packets of 3g each so that potential buyers can try out your beans. You might even get creative here and put them in pretty sachets - so that instead of using them to make coffee, they can choose to use them to make the room smell better. A freebie can also... well, there is really no hard and fast rule to a freebie. Strip it down to the bare bones, it must be something you can offer and something a visitor to your site might want. Time for you to get innovative! =)