Mixdowns are too Quiet

Hello,
I have a Macbook 2010 model, with iLife 11 garageband as the program I'm using to create .mp3 mixdowns of tracks.
The issue I am having is my mixdowns are simply too quiet.
I mix them using some Samson headphones and mix them in the program. I get all the effects and whatnot to the level I like. There is for example an instrumental followed by dubs or voice overs.
Once I create the mixdown however, the .mp3 quality is really reduced and everything is just quieter.
On my PC, I used a program named Cool Edit, and when creating a mixdown, and I never had a similar issue.
When I play them in garageband, they sound louder, but when I play the mixdown back in itunes, it sounds very quiet when compared with any other .mp3 file downloaded on itunes or synced with itunes.
Any ideas as to what is wrong?
Appreciate any help guys, thanks.

If you do clip a little bit, the auto normalize function works well for this.
That's definitely wrong. The normalization is done after the mixdown. So if you have a clipped signal already, it will just become softer, but still have the ugly clipping sound.
To make clear what auto-normalization means: It maxes out the loudest signal in the whole recording - one single spike can throw off the whole song. So if your auto-normalized song sounds too quiet, you should try to bring down those spikes with compression or limiting.

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