Hmmm, you may muse. AM I a one trick pony? Whatever hell that is. In fact, Just what Is good old uncle ed getting at?

Hmmm...Oh well, you don't have time to figure out what Mr Lazy Dude is asking you... You've gotta a lot of work to do. After all, Your sales are flat. Your old newsletter members are un-subscribing. Your New newsletter subscribers all have free email addresses.

And every damn person you hear from is broke and looking for a handout...Sorry, uncle ed, you've got other fish to fry.

Does above sound a little like your Home Grown Biz these days? Are you feeling economic downturn? Are your tactics, ads, offers, sales letters not getting response they did just a few months ago?

Are you in a scramble to find new affiliate programs? Are you looking for something, Anything, that works? Have you even considered buying email blasts? After all, isn't that why you have your junk email accounts?

Am I making you a little nervous? Am I hitting close to where your Home Grown Biz lives? Well, don't feel like Lone Ranger. There's plenty of this going around.

So what's happening here? Is it really just fallout from much ballyhooed slowdown? Perhaps it is. Then again, perhaps it's because you, like so many of us internet marketers, have become a stale One Trick Pony.

Do you realize that many websites display banners from banner exchanges on their home page only to lose potential customers before they have even settled in?

Your objective on a website should be to encourage visitors to not only visit once but to return again and again. Some of best websites with highest traffic have something that attracts visitors over and over. They have a traffic magnet. Do you?

Some traffic magnets include: Discussion Boards. One of my friends has a discussion board that attracts close to a million page views a month! These discussion boards are fantastic traffic magnets because people become almost addicted and check back day in and day out to see what everyone is talking about.

I know other people who have an article library that attracts tons of repeat traffic. They offer free articles and relevant tips that their audience would have a particularly strong interest in knowing about. The key is to offer something useful that people want to visit and refer to again and again.