There may be many of the internet marketing strategies that you have already tried out right from PPC ads, affiliate programs, freebies and whatnot but what really got in the results for me was article marketing.
After trying out most of these methods with moderate success, I decided to have a go at article marketing quite by chance when I noticed so many people giving free content and wondered that is what I can do and it isn't even going to take any investment.
I wrote up some articles and started to submit them to article directories.
I started doing this on a daily basis and keep repeating this while submitting my article to as many as 70-80 different article directories.
I also set up tracking links by grouping these article directories to be able to tell the success of this new-found formula.
I was taken aback to notice that a large chunk of my traffic was being generated by certain groups of these article directories.
I started to further zero in on the directories that really got me the traffic and started to write still more articles, as many as 20 per day and submitting them to the high quality directories.
Voila! Today I have a huge traffic base hat have turned into readers of my article which I now offer for free on my site and in the form of an e-book to a subscriber list.
It is difficult to really explain how I went about building my business by just using articles and I understand that can be a little difficult to believe too but that is how it is.
Targeted articles cater to a certain market and this market is exactly what I wanted to tap into and I have achieved this with incessant article marketing.