Direct Marketing Strategies - Generating Leads on the Internet - By: Jim C Green

In this article, we provide some ideas on where to find leads for MLM or any type of business using the Internet. We'll follow the advice of some of the best Internet marketers in the game today, the creators of My Lead System Pro, in an inside look at their training system. They have one of the most complete listings of the latest marketing methods, techniques, suggested lead sources available today on the Internet. This is our overview of their suggested methods:

* Facebook/LinkedIn/MySpace - Social media are hands down the most interesting source of leads for your business, where you can choose from millions of potential prospects. The most amazing feature offered by these sites are availability of profiles of people worldwide who need your product or services. The new Advanced Search functionality on Facebook, as well as MySpace's more extensive search capabilities can rapidly find affinity groups, location, age, and other demographics to promptly find candidates who need what you are offering.
* Video Marketing - Videos on YouTube can be one of the quickest ways to develop viral content. Video marketing not only can be used to publish your informational content to hundreds of highly-ranked sites, but also creates backlinks to your primary website or blog.
* PayPerClick Marketing - This is a paid strategy using Google, Yahoo, and Bing paid ads. This strategy requires advanced training and should be entered carefully, since it can quickly get expensive. It can also be the quickest way to generate business leads.
* Blogging - This is a core strategy, especially with Wordpress.org self-hosted blogs, which are popular in personal branding for marketing purposes and easy to get quickly ranked using search engine optimization. JimGreen.us is an an example of using blogging strategy and is ranked for many keywords, although it has only been in existence about 8 months currently.
* ListBuilders - Special paid memberships can both attract a following for your personal list as well as provide an opportunity to send your ads to thousands of other subscribers each week.
* Ezine/Solo Ads - Ezines, or electronic magazines, provide a mechanism to include your ad, or devote an entire issue to your offer. A solo ad can sometimes generate over one thousand leads from a single blast to the list. Using this method, you can choose a highly targeted audience that has been pre-qualified and receptive to the type of offering you represent.
* Forum Marketing - Many high-profile marketing forums exist on the Internet, such as Mike Dillard's Better Networker, the Warrior Forum, freelancemom.com/forum and others. High quality content can be published in these forums including your signature file.
* Content/Article Marketing - Hundreds of online directories of articles exist which accept short articles from 300 to 1,000 words. Most allow the inclusion of two backlinks, e.g., to your blog and funded proposal in exchange for the content you provide. Submitting duplicate content can be minimized and the submission process automated using tools such as Automatic Article Submitter.

The Internet offers a fertile environment for the serious marketer, and has many excellent tools allowing the process to be automated. At first, it is best to choose one method and learn/perfect it befoe incorporating additional strategies.

About the Author

Jim Green is an internet marketing and advertising strategist and proponent of attraction marketing systems, tools and training. Further information on generating high quality leads is available via his training and mentoring systems.

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