How To Monetize Your Traffic So You Get The Most Out Of It

Establishing your own E-commerce site is not like what it used to be. There are thousands of competition that is all too willing to get a bigger share of the pie. Every scheme and method you can find to augment your sales would be very beneficial.

We have got to admit to ourselves. Most of us are into it for the money. We are not going to waste our time and effort just for the fun of it. Many sites would not wait until hell freezes over just to see their profits. While there are some who takes things lightly there are always those who would rather see profit any given day.

It is common knowledge that without traffic we have no business. Like any business, without any customers you don’t get sales. Traffic represents all the people that gets a chance to see what you have to offer. The more people who see your products the more people there would be to buy them.

Nobody puts up an E-commerce site that doesn’t expect profit. We have a startup capital that needs to be regained. With a consistent traffic, we at least have a fighting chance to achieve that probability. Monetizing your traffic would optimize your chances of making the best out of it.

Making Money out of your Traffic

The best and most proven method of making a profit out of your traffic is using advertising. The internet generates hundreds of thousands upon hundred of thousands of traffic everyday. Most of them are searching for something. While some are just looking for information there is also a good percentage that is looking for something that they need.

The internet has proven to be a very reliable source in finding what was deemed to be a very unsearchable product. The internet has made the world a smaller place; you can advertise a product from the depths of Istanbul and still find a buyer from the center of Philadelphia.

Generating traffic is not an easy task. You have to contend with a great number of sites to generate a good number of traffic flow. But if done successfully this could open up a Pandora’s Box of possibilities. One of the benefits is monetizing your traffic flow.

So, to get to the core of it the more traffic you generate the more likely you are considered as a desirable, desirable, in a sense that a good traffic flowing site is easily convertible to profit. Basically traffic equals profit. Advertising is the name of the game; with the good advertising scheme you can use your traffic flow to your advantage.

When you have good traffic you have a good number of potential customers, customers that are willing to pour money into your coffers. Other than that these are also traffic that can be redirected to sponsored links that are willing to pay you for a sizeable portion of the traffic that you have generated.

This scheme is called “pay-per-click”. With every click a visitor of your site makes on an advertised link you will be paid. The more traffic you generate and the more clicks that happens would spell to more profits.

Affiliate Programs

Another method of monetizing your traffic are affiliate programs. You can link up with other tried and tested sites and online companies and monetize your traffic by having a percentage of sales generated by traffic coming from your site.

The basic idea is, traffic generated from your site will go to another site that can offer a product that you do not carry. Many programs can keep track and make records of transactions that was made possible because of site linkage.

When purchases are made by customers that was led by your site to their site you get a percentage of that sale. Affiliate programs would give you the benefit of monetizing your traffic without the actual need of carrying or promoting a certain product.

There are so many ways and methods to monetize your traffic. All it takes is a bit of hard work and the desire to successfully launch a profit-earning site. The internet is a veritable source of information, many tips and guides are offered everywhere in how to monetize your traffic and make your site a good profit earner.

Ironi kapal pesiar

Bagi para petualang bahari yang gemar berkeliling dunia dengan kapal pesiar atau perahu layar bertiang tinggi,Indonesia adalah "surga". Negeri ini punya pesona seperti, gulungan ombak,tradisi budaya dan etnik, tarian, makanan, hutan, dan lainnya. Akan tetapi, ternyata hanya puluhan kapal pesiar yang menyinggahi Indonesia. Wisatawan yang menggunakan kapal layar bertiang tinggi pun hanya mau datang saat digelar Sail Indonesia. Padahal, Singapura, Malaysia, dan Thailand setiap tahun dikunjungi ratusan kapal pesiar mewah dan ribuan perahu layar bertiang tinggi.

Ada sejumlah hal yang menjadi penghambat. Pertama, perahu layar dan kapal pesiar asing diharuskan mengantongi izin masuk ke wilayah Indonesia (Clearance Approval for Indonesian Teritory/CAIT). Izin itu diterbitkan empat pihak: Badan Intelejen Strategis (BAIS), Direktorat Jenderal Perhubungan Laut, Kementerian Luar Negeri, dan Markas Besar TNI. Proses perizinan memakan waktu minimal satu bulan.Kedua, pemberian visa kunjungan ke Indonesia hanya berlaku selama dua bulan. Padahal, kecepatan perahu atau kapalpun terbatas, sementara perairan Indonesia sangat luas. Malaysia dan Thailand memberikan izin visa kunjungan untuk turis minat khusus ini selama satu tahun. Ketiga, ada peraturan Menteri Keuangan tahun 2006 mengategorikan semua sarana atau barang yang dibawa wisatawan asing ke Indonesia sebagai barang impor sementara. Itu berlaku juga terhadap wisatawan minat khusus.Sebagai barang impor, otomatis perahu layar dan kapal pesiar juga dikenai Pajak Pertambahan Nilai (PPJSJ), Pajak Penjualan atas Barang Mewah (PPnBM), dan Pajak Penghasilan (PPh). Total ketiga  jenis pajak itu sekitar 52 persen dari nilai barang. Jika harga perahu layar Rp 15 miliar per unit berarti turis asing itu harus menyetor Rp 78 miliar sebelum masuk ke RI. Uang jaminan itu dibayar ke kas negara melalui bank dan nantinya diambil kembali saat hendak keluar dari Indonesia. Masalahnya, proses pengambilan kembali uang itu seialu memakan waktu lama dengan birokrasi yang berbelit. Pemerintah RI juga mensyaratkan adanya bank garansi negara asal turis asing untuk tinggal selama beberapa bulan di Indonesia. Persoalannya adalah tak ada bank bersedia menjamin warga suatu negara untuk tinggal di negara lain. Kelima jika para petualang bahari ingin bebas dari berbagai ketentuan itu harus mengantongi surat jaminan dari pejabat eselon satu di Indonesia atau agen perjalanan. Masalahnya, tak ada agen yang bersedia.

Regulasi ini yg menjadi penghambat utama bagi kapal pesiar dan perahu layar tiang tinggi milik asing untuk masuk ke Indonesia. Biaya yang harus dikeluarkan untuk memperoleh izin masuk wilayah Indonesia jauh lebih mahal dibanding ongkos berwisata. Maka, rencana kunjungan ke Indonesia terpaksa dibatalkan. Mereka kemudian mengalihkan perjalanan menuju ke Malaysia dan Thailand. Di sana, mereka diberi berbagai kemudahan yang membuat wisatawan asing itu ingin tinggal lebih lama. Jadi, penghambat utama bisnis pariwisata adalah pejabat kita sendiri. Amat ironi!

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