Sunday, October 5, 2008

Online Lead Generation for Network Marketers: How to Do It Right

By Ray Freez

There are a lot of different methods of online lead generation for network marketers. As you're well aware, leads are essential to any network marketing business. Without a consistent stream of interested, pre-qualified prospects to call on, there's no way you can build a business. To get you started out the right way, here are some of the top methods of online lead generation for network marketers, as well as a method you should always avoid.

Creating your own landing page with a contact capture form is one of the best ways to acquire leads. You'll just place a short form on your page that asks for your visitors' names and email addresses. This information will then go into your auto responder, and you can send the new prospect information via email, since the person will have agreed to receive this information. Of course, you can't just ask for contact information without giving something in return. You should be offering extraordinary information on your website that the visitor has to "register" to see, or giving away an ebook or report that requires contact information for you to send it.

If you have a website advertising yourself, you can include your email address somewhere on the site, inviting interested visitors to contact you for more information. You may not get as many leads this way, but the ones you get will be highly targeted leads (which are the most valuable). People who go to the trouble of sending you an email will already be interested in your business, so you won't have to try quite as hard to sell to them.

You can also partner with another network marketer to exchange leads, or to barter for access to the leads of the other marketer by providing that marketer with a service that's beneficial to his business. The beauty of the internet is that you can do all of this online over email or through instant messaging, so the person you trade with can be literally anywhere in the world.

If you have a full website advertising yourself, you can include your email address someone on the website, inviting interested persons to contact you for more information. You may not get as many leads this way, but they will be highly targeted leads, which are the most valuable. People who go to the trouble of sending you an email will already be interested in your business, so you won't have to try quite as hard to sell to them.

One method of online lead generation for network marketers you should absolutely avoid is buying leads. Leads that you purchase are often of very poor quality, and usually out of date. It may sound great to be able to buy hundreds of thousands of names for just a few dollars, but it's really not worth it in the end. You'll just end up wasting your time and your money on worthless leads.

One of the problems with buying leads from lead companies is that other network marketers will be sold the same list. So you won't be the only ones calling them, maybe you will be the first or the fifth. Some program promote buying lists because they also have a downline and pay you for your referrals. That doesn't make the list any better quality.

The Internet has made it possible for almost anyone to achieve success as a network marketer. It's not like the old days when you had to go approach strangers in the grocery store and annoy your family and friends with sales pitches. Today, you are able to find interested, qualified prospects anywhere in the world. Using the best techniques of online lead generation for network marketers, you can achieve success you may have never dreamed of.

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