Ways To Generate Free Leads For Your Business

Every business needs leads to allow it to succeed and expand. In order to grow your business you need to increase your sales by attracting more customers. Many business have accomplished this by taking advantage of the internet. The internet can be used in different ways to generate leads. Using industry websites and global marketing software such as Viral prospector are two ways to generate quality leads. Several others include your local library, Chambers of Commerce.

Conducting a web search for websites related to your specific industry can be quite valuable in generating leads; specifically if there are any industry associations. You can narrow your information by the region you service. The member directory can give you names, address and phone numbers of members who could be potential free leads.

An afternoon at your local library can lead to an untapped resource of new leads. Libraries contain volumes of market research data both in print and electronic format. You can access specific company research information and directories that related to your business. You will also find business directories, reverse directories and telephone listings that will help you generate leads for your business. You will have to find a way to organize the data to maximize the benefits to your business and your leads.

The question how to get free leads can be answered by contacting the Chambers of Commerce, if possible become a member, join the clubs and committees. This will give you more exposure within the community and will increase your networking opportunity. You can log on to the Chambers of Commerce websites, locate the members directory where the members will be listed along with their area of business. You can get the contact numbers and addresses from which you have to sort the ones suitable and helpful for your business.

Using a global marketing system such as Viral Prospector allows you to generate quality leads. The software does this by having industry related information products available for purchase, half of the proceeds from these purchases can go towards quality leads for the network marketer. This makes the system free. The system allows the purchasers to build trust in the marketer and gives the marketer genuine leads. The system is a win, win for both the purchasers and the marketer and is free.

Viral Prospector makes using the internet to market your services easier. It helps you generate more quality leads and increases your site traffic. Site traffic is the word of mouth of the internet. Getting your service out to quality leads increases your sales potential.

Marketing strategies are key to the success of a new business. To market your business successfully on the internet you need to generate quality new leads with the potential to turn into new sales. If you take proactive steps towards these goals then you will be able to watch your business grow.

Using the methods stated above will generate free leads to help grow your business. Maximizing your information and exposure will also maximize your leads. More quality leads if handled properly can result in more sales and bigger profits. Allowing you to fulfill all your dreams for you business

15 StumbleUpon Tools and Resources You Can't Live Without

3 weeks ago, i wrote on a tutorial on how you can stumble without your mouse and i am guessing everyone loves to know a little trick when their mouse is faulty so that they will still be able to actively stumble! This tutorial have also pulled in 5,340 visitors in a short span of 3 days and constantly brought in hundreds of pageviews constantly. It was one of my most successful written tutorial. I am actively involve in stumbling so i need a list of tools to work on. Below is a list of 15 tools and resources that is actively used.

Stumbling Tools & Scripts



Stumbleupon Video Widget - You are able use the small snippet code to add on your blog and share your list of stumbled videos with your fellow readers.

Stumbleupon Tool Button - To make it easy for those who does not have the toolbar you can add your own stumble button for other surfers to stumble your article.

Stumbleupon Auto-Code Creator - This form allows you to create a bookmarklet that will automatically insert your personalised layout into any StumbleUpon text box.

wySUwyg - This Firefox extension will give you more freedom with your StumbleUpon account by letting you alter the format of any text area you view. You can install wySUwyg from the installation page. Right now, it's available only for Firefox.

Facebook Stumbles - Don't you want to share your stumbles with your facebook friends and family online? Now you can by adding on to this application you are able to show webpages that you give a thumbs up too.

Blog Platform Stumbles - Stumbleupon have not forgotten all blog platform with simple embedded codes that you can add so that each and every article can be stumbled on the page by your readers.

StumbleRank - If you have hit a respected amount of stumbles with thousands of fans, why not submit your profile to this page which shows a list of top 100 craze stumblers!

Stumble with your Preferred Browser



Internet Explorer - One of the 2 official released add on browser available that can be downloaded from stumbleupon website. You can now stumble with a toolbar which have many options allowing you to stumble better.

Firefox - I am a current firefox user and the toolbar came in hand to help me stumble better and to my preference which i can change my preference over time.

Opera - I have not used this browser before but there is an unofficial add on for opera users which should be pretty similar to both IE and FF.



Guides That Are a Must to Read





Beginners Guide to Stumbleupon

This is if you are still new, after reading you could read my comprehensive guide that i have written months ago before the rest of the article below.



How to Use StumbleUpon for Your Business

I have seen too many comprehensive stumbleupon guides, but Tamar wrote an exclusive for business setup and shows you how to use stumbleupon for your business.



Stumbleupon can get your AdSense Account Banned for Invalid Impressions Fraud

No complains were heard with massive stumble traffic yet, but we have heard of invalid impressions for those who got dugg hard and received almost 30,000 visitors at a go, not only did it crash their server but also lost their income.



5 Tactics For Driving Traffic From StumbleUpon

A stumble profile may look like a bookmarklet to you, but you might not realise that others are actually following your profile, stumble useful webpages and create a respectable stumble profile.

How to Become a Top StumbleUpon User

If you are crazy to become one of the top stumblers, then you got to work real hard to achieve that status but with hardwork and great stumbling you might become one of the top 50 stumblers.

Important Blogging Tools

Now you have setup your first blog and you would like to keep statistics of your visitors and also someother addons which you would like to put on your sidebar. Apart from my Firefox Addons one and two which covers plugins for your firefox browser to give you a much easier way to navigate around the net.



This is a list of 14 useful tools which you can use on any blog platforms, regardless you are on wordpress,blogger,livejournal or movepad.



Traffic Counter/Analytics

1. Amung.us - Amung is a real-time traffic analytics widget for your blog. It tells you and your readers how many readers are online at the moment and there are also other functions which allowd you to see where your visitors come from and which page are they reading right now.
   
   
   
   
   
   


2. Sitemeter - If it is an extensive traffic statistic which you are looking for then sitemeter provides you with Follow-up on latest referrals, entry/exit pages, visitor details, visits/pageviews ratio, and a lot more.
   
   


3. Statcounter - One of my favorite real time traffic analytics which tells me unique visitors, page loaded and also how many returning visitors which also can be converted from numbers to graphs if you need them for comparison.
   
   


4. Google Analytics - One of the best free service traffic analytics which covers also everything you need to know about your blog, from the referral traffic and direct,organic visitors and also which site is providing you with the most traffic. Graphs that are able to tell you more than just visitors which is why it is the most comprehensive traffic analytics which you need.
   
   


5. BlogRush - This is a very interesting concept of using other blogs to help generate for your real time traffic. The more traffic you gain and give out from the blogrush widget, the higher your number of credits you earn which can be converted into good referral traffic.

Mobile Blog Service

1. Feedm8 - Having your blog viewed by millions others on their mobile? It is possible now with feedm8 and it is easy to create an account and have your blog seen by many others.[Read on what Feedm8 can offer..]
   
   
   
   


2. Mofuse - It's just so simple nowadays to get your blog on mobile version and mofuse allows you to do that with your Rss Feed address and your blog is on other mobiles who subscribes.
   
   

Optimized Ad Network

1. PubMatic - PubMatic is focused on serving the needs of publishers by providing an industry leading platform that allows publishers to maximize their revenue while simultaneously reducing complexity.It scans multiple ad networks (Google Adsense,casalemedia ValidClick, etc.), penerates into ad performance reports and shows ad units with highest payout and performance. It’s completely free, there are no charges or commissions.
   
   


2. Rubicon Project - The Rubicon Project is the new online advertising standard that makes it effortless for websites to generate the mad cash they've always dreamed of. And, it’s free to join. [Read on Rubicon Project..]
   
   
   
   

Miscellous Tools

1. Zoho Creator/Kontactr/Contactify - All 3 services provides you with an online web contact form function, which you can easily embeded them on your blog.
   
   
   
   
   
   


2. mybloglog/Blogcatalog/Bumpzee - I am sure you are already in one of these 3 popular social blog community, if you are not then signup to get your free account and mingle around with the crowd.
   
   


3. Madcast/Sharethis/Addthis - All 3 of these services allows your visitors to bookmark your post on various social bookmark sites or they can also link and forward to their emails.
   
   


4. Web2PDF - You can now save my list from a HTML format to PDF and have it printed for your reference over time.
   
   


5. Entrecard - Entrecard is a social advertising community which is free to use and what you need to do is visit others who have entrecard widget and drop them a note, recevie credits and use them to advertise your banners.

Recycle Your Blogging Content

If you have more than five hundred post written under your name, it is time you evaluate whether you should turn your blogging content into a profitable business. A handful of bloggers have published their own hard copy book and ebook which provides comprehensive data collection of enriched content found on their blog.

Would you like to recycle your blogging content and create something profitable out of it? Before you think about making a profit, these are some of the tools that you will need if you want to sell your products like hotcakes.

Autoresponders. You need a strong list of readers subscribed to your weekly newsletter which you deliver to them without fail with a set of tips or release of your new products.

Landing Page. You will need to have your product Landing page to be ready so that which your book is for sales, the readers can be directed to the right place to purchase the book.

Soft-launch. You will need to do a soft-launch to respectable bloggers and Forum moderators who already have authority in this field and get a testimonial from them which you have prove as evidence to your potential buyers that your product is no hoax.

Getting your graphics right. It might not be of any concern to your sales but good graphics used attracts potential buyers like how bees source for pollens. If you are no designer, then source for one which their service is not expensive.

Any Freebies? If you do have third party products given for free to your buyers, it might boost your sales, since everyone loves the word free and telling them how much it is worth could give them a rough guide how much they are only paying for this product in return for another exciting product.

 

Remember that these five steps will only aid you in selling your ebook but having your ebook clustered into one requires more than five steps to turn this into a profitable business.

Compilation of Contents. Compiling your top 100 written post is the primary step. Breaking it down into different section and categories which can form a content table.

Generating Subscribers List. Extract a few articles to be your promotional give aways to entice your buyers, that is where your autoresponders comes in place, in order to download this exclusive article, you need to signup in my weekly newsletter and that is how you generate your subscribers.

Lead Product. Use your free content as a lead in product for your fee based content or private site. Allow them the option of up grading to the paid version which generates another source of income.

Repackaging Your Content. Your Post could be repackaged into various form of business, like Audio lessons, speeches, class lessons and video tapes.

Attracting Subscribers. You need more subscribers turn potential buyers to increase the sales level of your product. You could have already submitted tons of free publish articles which requires the other party to leave a mini resource box with the publishersname and website which can in turn mark up your sales.