Would you like your site to appeal to people of another language? How about many of the Spanish speakers online? Or German? Or French. If your products or services can truly be sold to the world - regardless of language - then think of the sales you're missing out on by just having your site in English!
Here's the idea. Choose a foreign market and language you would like to target. Let's say, for the sake of argument, you would like to market your products to Spanish speaking people. Find a company based in one of the Spanish speaking countries that already has a website, has both English and Spanish on their site already, and that complements but does not compete with your site.
Make sure that on the Spanish version of your site, there
is a link back to your site for Spanish people who would prefer
to read the site in English. In return for doing this, you
could grant them exclusive rights to sell your products to
Spanish speakers, perhaps on a commission basis.
Thus, you will have expanded your operations to another part of the world, increased sales of your product, and you will inevitably see additional traffic come from your other site!
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