quarta-feira, 16 de janeiro de 2013

A Tested Lead Generation Process that Does the Job

By Darren Trotta


Leads are an essential factor in constructing any kind of business effectively, whether it is a conventional bricks and mortar company or an online company. A good lead generation process is critical to the economic success of any type of company, whether large or small.

You might think a lead is a lead, but you are wrong. Getting a cold lead and a very focused lead might cost the exact same, but the second is undoubtedly 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 company 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 learn ways to bring in quality leads effectively. Offline you will invest lots of hours meeting prospects, driving to and from meetings, and making calls. If one of your systems of prospecting is gathering paper forms and fliers, all this data has to be shifted through and placed into a database. Even more info. to your leads in the form of leaflets needs to be mailed, and then there's the qualifying process that needs to happen, adding more time and cost. After all of this, you then have to make a successful sell to that lead. That's the more traditional way, let's look at exactly how it can be done today.

Article Promotion and Marketing as Your Lead Generation Process

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

You need an autoresponder. This will enable you to automate the follow-up process with your leads, and you will not have to always call your leads. This is an essential, must have business tool. If you are not creating your own list, you are not building your company.

You require your own site or blogging platform so you can publish your articles. You want to develop good quality articles that contain helpful information, information that your readers will view as useful. You also want to target specific keywords in these posts. You will have 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 contain a link that leads to your capture page.

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

It will take time and money to promote your business effectively. Like I mentioned earlier, you'll need to purchase your marketing tools (especially an autoresponder).

A lot of people in internet marketing merely give up prematurely, 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 massive action over an extensive period of time.

Let's do a swift recap.

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

- Create wonderful content that has your keyword spread 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 use this lead generation process? Because the world wide web runs on search, and this will deliver you better targeted leads that increases your odds of getting a sale; and it will build your list.




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