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How To Get Leads For Your Home Based Business

How To Get Leads For Your Home Based Business
By Brian Rooney

This article is designed to show you how to generate the best leads available for your home based business... your own leads.

The most basic definition of a "lead" is contact information for people that are interested in your business opportunity or the product or service you are offering.

The challenge of every marketer is to make sure they get a constant flow of the best leads available.

There is a virtually endless debate about the use of the words "fresh" or "stale" when describing a lead. Some say that a "fresh" lead is the best because it recently requested information while a "stale" lead is someone that requested information a long time ago.

What you want... regardless of "fresh" or "stale" is a lead that is responsive... someone that will respond to your offer.

The next question is "How do you generate leads for your offer or opportunity?".

There are really two ways to go about getting leads for your offer:

Purchase Leads: This can be a quick way to get started and you can find quality lead generation services. The risk is that your are sharing these leads with other marketers that are buying leads and your offer can be somewhat diluted. Many marketers do have quite a bit of success using purchase leads.
Generate Your Own Leads: Without a doubt, this is the most effective way to get leads that will be responsive to your particular offer. The key is to think of your web site as a "funnel" and then set up as many different ways as you can to feed that funnel with fresh responsive leads every single day.

Here are some different ways you can generate leads for your offer:

Use Pay Per Click Search Engines to build your own mailing list
Use Pay Per Click Search Engines to get visitors directly to your web site.
Advertise in newspapers and magazines
Advertise on television and/or radio.
Use direct mail such as postcards.
Host a contest or drawing.
Start your own newsletter.
Build a web site with useful content.
Participate in discussion forums with meaningful contributions and use a signature line.

Leads are absolutely critical to the success of your business. You will make a significant investment to generate good leads so be sure to not let them go to waste. Follow up with your leads consistently and keep your message in front of them as often as you can. If you are using online leads, be sure to use email autoresponders to follow up with them. If you are generating postal leads, be sure to use frequent postcard mailings or letters.

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Brian Rooney is the founder and a Managing Member of TrafficWave.net LLC. TrafficWave.net LLC provides tools, training, and resources for small and home based businesses throughout the world. Visit TrafficWave.net LLC online at http://www.trafficwave.net.

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