Marketing is always a marketing be it link marketing or any other regular marketing. Strategies applicable for regular marketing are very well and equally applicable for link marketing so you need not struggle reinventing the wheel.
The main objective of marketing is always to make people aware of your business or product and compel them to act. In link marketing too, you make the customers refer your business or product to their acquaintances online. Customer is always a king and kings are always smart. They will not fall for your product easily until and unless you display a compelling reason to go for your product or business. However, one should realize that the customers could not be kept by force. Any promotion strategy deployed should draw your customers naturally. To get started and attract robust traffic, exposure and good rankings, try to analyze and measure your link marketing scheme.
For successful link marketing, a well-planned strategy is must. In order to scale your link building strategy, focus on the following:
Delineate your marketing scheme into its various components. The detailed scheme assists you in managing the marketing components more easily and effectively. Screen the possible troubles and remediate them immediately. If making relationship with other sites is an integral part of your scheme, break the marketing components into its sub components. List out the likely sites and study each site separately for evaluating whether the site is the best fit for your marketing plan or not. For an effective scaling, a specific task should be assigned to a specific trained individual. A dummy run should follow this in order to spot any overlooked obstacles. It is a human tendency to forget things over time therefore develop a training manual or a simple checklist for easy reference.
Follow the above simple yet effective method to measure your link marketing strategy for an effective exposure.