By Sharron Dozal


Leads are an indispensable ingredient in creating any sort of business effectively, whether it is a typical bricks and mortar company or an online company. A dependable lead generation process is vital to the monetary success of any sort of company, whether large or small.

You may think a lead is a lead, but you are wrong. Getting a cold lead and a highly focused lead might cost the exact same, but the second is clearly much better.

Throughout the selling process there needs to be a way to differentiate the qualified leads from the other, lesser leads that are not as targeted. Your conversion rates will be discouraging otherwise, you will get frustrated, and your business might fall to pieces. Don't fall into that trap.

Lead generation is going to be something you have to do every day, and you have got to find out the best ways to generate quality leads efficiently. Offline you will invest numerous hours meeting leads, driving to and from appointments, and making phone calls. If one of your systems of prospecting is gathering paper forms and fliers, all this info will need to be shifted through and placed into a database. More details to your leads in the form of sales brochures has to be mailed, and then there's the qualifying process that needs to occur, adding additional time and cost. After all of this, you then need to make a successful sell to that lead. That's the more conventional method, let's explore how it can be done today.

Article Promotion as Your Lead Generation Process

First off, using a lead generation process online gives you access to a vast number of people world-wide. Still, you should narrow it down to individuals who are most likely to be interested in what you have to offer.

You require an autoresponder. This will allow you to automate the follow-up process with your leads, and you will not need to constantly call your leads. This is an essential, must definitely have business tool. If you are not developing your own list, you are not building your business.

You require your own site or blogging platform so you can post your articles. You want to develop good quality articles that include useful info, information that your readers will find useful. You also want to target particular keywords in these articles. You will need to learn to shape your posts around these keywords, while still making them flow well for your readers.

At the end of these articles you want to have a transition paragraph and a call-to-action. This call-to-action will include a link that leads to your capture page.

Promote your article to rank on the search engines, and share it on social media sites such as Facebook, Twitter, Google plus, etc.

It will take money and time to promote your company effectively. Like I discussed earlier, you'll have to buy your marketing tools (especially an autoresponder).

Too many people in internet marketing merely quit too soon, and join the great majority of others who've failed. They then find themselves right back in a job, or worse, unemployed. So stick with it, and take enormous action over an extended period of time.

Let's do a short recap.

- Target certain keywords that individuals are entering into the search engines, and that make sense for your business niche

- Develop outstanding content that has your keyword sprinkled throughout

- Use a call-to-action at the end of your content that links to a lead capture page and has your autoresponder tied into it

- Promote your content to rank on the search engines

Why utilize this lead generation process? Because the internet runs on search, and this will give you better targeted leads that boosts your chances of getting a sale; and it will develop your list.




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