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Here’s a simple lead generation technique that works well not only to produce leads, but to generate quality content and traffic to your website, page, or blog.
We all know the importance of generating traffic on the web. If you’re serious about making sales in whatever business you’re in, you want more, and NEED MORE Traffic. It’s the simple truth. There are times when you journey on the Internet is frustrating, there are times when it’s thrilling.
I can tell you from experience, the frustration of building a website that is beautiful, but yet nobody really comes to it. It’s disheartening to pour your time, sweat, and money into something that just doesn’t work. Day after day you wait for the big payback that never comes.
Using this technique, you will begin to see traffic and leads start trickling into your business, sometimes in as little as a day or two. This will give you confidence and encourage you to do more of the same. As you start putting the puzzle pieces together and learn how to start getting a trickle of traffic to a website, your mind starts going toward how to turn that trickle of traffic into fresh qualified leads who are eager to speak with you, and see you as the expert solution provider they are looking for.
Positioning yourself within any industry is a process of knowing the simple steps you must take to:
- Target an audience that wants or needs what you’re offering.
- Stake your territory (where most folks get stuck because of a liack of skills or confidence). They don’t realize that the Internet is almost infinatly large and multidimensional. You can find hungry buyers if you learn where and how to look.
- Build your voice. Be yourself and “attract” likeminded folks to you, your website, and your business.
- Make an offer. This is not “selling”. Making an offer is getting people to read your web content and to agree with what you’re saying (offering).
- Have people ask for more information. (Opt in to your list).
- Proper follow up. (Nurturing your leads).
So what’s the technique? You’re probably asking yourself. The technique is pretty simple. We come up with an idea that drives us, is a passion for us, and we write about it with as much passion and vigour as we can. We attract “likeminded” folks to us via the search engines, and then we send them to a keyword optimized lead capture page so they can join our list and receive communication from us.
Your going to want a simple optimizable lead capture page. Optimizable means you can change the content, metatags, title tags, of a specific webpage to suit your needs. The network marketing leads system from the Veretekk network offers some high quality free lead capture pages that work really well.
So what do you want to say to your prospect? Talk about what you’re going to do for them. Make them feel better, or make their life easier. THis is about your prospect, not you at this point. Make people understand that you’re offering an excellent solution that they’d be crazy to pass it up because it’s exactly what they’re looking for. They’d be crazy not to want to communicate with us.
Why do they want to communicate with us? Because we’ve targeted their needs, wants, desires, and we’re offering them a solution to their problem. It’s that simple: for the leads you generate it’s solely out of their self-interest that they offer their e-mail address, or corespond with you at all.
But when you position yourself wisely in your marketplace you run the show. You work with people who want to work with you, buy from you, learn from you, etc. If you’d like about 50 more lessons on how to market effectively using the Internet and little or no budget check out the Renegade University.
I hope this helps,
Be well,
Jesse Boland
I know there are many aspects of running a successful business online or off. But for those who run their businesses solely online (like me) effective lead generation is so important to your success that I don’t think there is anything else the new marketer should focus on, until they’re getting a steady flow of leads.
In my own opinion, MLMers and network marketing professionals should not even join a network marketing company until they’re comfortable generating leads and talking to people on the phone.
Why do I think this way?
Because, in the beginning of your business it’s hard enough to turn a profit, running your business cheaply online. The added pressure of having to “sell” an opportunity often confuses the new network marketer and causes them to lose focus on what the task at hand really is. . . generating quality leads for no or very little money. For the network marketer who spends 1 dollar a day promoting their business and returns 10 dollars a day to their business can be considered successful.
This is the objective when you’re starting out. Return money on your investment first, then scale your business forward toward success as you build the skills you need to always bring a return on your investment.
Because your ability to generate leads and lead conversion are the cornerstones of a successful MLM business.
What’s the other piece of this puzzle? If you said proper training and mentoring others to replicate your success you’d be right.
People join others in their network marketing business based on the knowledge, or the assumption that the person doing the recruiting will help the new recruit replicate the same success they are having in their own business. Ask yourself: if you were actually going to join a network company, would you join under someone who knows what they’re doing? Or would you join the brand new representative? You know the answer to that.
But how do you train new distributers to replicate your success? You have to offer people a standardized training that offers them the flexibility to learn without your needing to teach them. The standardized training must be useful, easily customizable to the new rep’s skill set and knowledge, and must be straight forward enough for the new person to get started and see results without a whole bunch of prior knowledge.
This is where the term scalability comes in. . . you have to scale your business, scale your training, and scale your organization in order to reap the rewards of MLM success. The best training education I’ve ever found for this, I found at Renegade University. The university offers, college-level marketing instruction and click-by-click videos from Professor Mike Klingler on how to scale your marketing and expand your network at the same time. It also shows you exactly how to multiply your income with multiple-streams-of-income, how to generate leads for any network marketing or MLM company.
It is the highest level training I’ve found to help new reps I’ve recruited, plug in to the same system I use to build my business. Check out Renegade University to generate leads and acheive MLM success.
I hope this helps you,
Be well,
Jesse Boland
I forget who said it, “nothing happens until somebody sells something.” I have to disagree, nothing happens until you generate a lead. That’s the true test. The lead is the seed that drives sales and marketing; careers are won and lost on your ability to generate a lead. But not for the most obvious reason.
I started my career in sales door-to-door, cold calling, real belly to belly old school style sales.
I was selling lawn care, so basically you could say I was a shit-salesman. I absolutely sucked at it. I hated knocking doors, making telemarketing calls to strangers, there was a point where I seriously questioned my sanity. One day the regular inquiry rep got sick and there was nobody to cover his territory for the day, my boss handed me about 10 leads and appointments. There was something about holding those leads in my hand that totally changed the way I thought about my prospects.
I closed 7 out of 10 of those leads that day, and within the week I closed another account from those 10 leads. I felt comfortable talking to those folks, I felt like I belonged, I felt like I was doing them a service rather than pitching them on something they wouldn’t want, or need. Remember I was selling fertilizer and weed-spray. I just kept wondering how I could get that rep. who was sick to stay away. Or get my boss to give me a couple leads everyday. There was no way I could go back to punding cold doors, or picking up that 100 pound telephone.
I soon realized that thether you have leads or not, the game doesn’t change, you’re still in sales; but sales with a lead in your hand versus cold-calling, knocking doors, etc. changes your perception of who and what you are. Rather than being a nusance, you’re an invited guest. At least that’s how I’ve done it. Even though I’m no longer a fertilizer “salesman” we’re all in sales.
Being an invited guest changes your mindset, and allows you to help your prospect find and qualify their needs prior to you ever saying one word to them. It’s kind of like a greased slide that keeps going down, and you keep going faster and faster until there’s hardly any friction between the lead generation system and the sales process. They work synergistically together, qualifying, pre-selling, and positioning you as an expert consultant rather than the starving salesman.
Being the consultant brings clients and sales to you, being the salesman puts you in the position to chase. I know which position I’d rather be in.
Running a business online isn’t that much different than selling lawn care door-to-door. For me, it’s easier in fact, I don’t talk to people until they’ve qualified for my time and energy. If someone wants to talk to me they’ll figure out a way to get ahold of me. This is a far cry for selling shit, and I love it.
Be well,
Jesse Boland
If you’ve been in an MLM business for any length of time you’ve wondered about network marketing prospecting and effective lead generation. How do you get started setting up your own lead funnel to pump out qualified leads for your business?
This is something I had a hard time putting my head around when I first got online and started trying to figure out how I was going to keep my business afloat. I was not trained in business, I was a firefighter by trade.
The fact was I was working really hard to earn money, but I wasn’t getting leads flowing to me day after day like I wanted. I got frustrated and I wanted to figure out how these online “Gurus” were doing it for their businesses.
But that’s where I got stuck. I didn’t have the kind of money to pay these guys upwards of $2000 bucks for some “system” that wasn’t even guaranteed to work.
So I really started applying myself to figuring out how to produce traffic to my websites, by getting inpointing links, using social networking sites, and building a network of people who would critique my work, give me advice, and let me know if there was something I could improve.
The important thing was to keep the entire system as low cost, or free, if possible (at least until I was making a decent profit and could reinvest in my business). I think building a business this way builds a huge amount of self-respect and independence for the marketer because you’ve truely done it yourself (or at least I did). I’ve yet to find a cookie-cutter approach to business. Yes business principles apply but in reality you have to build a business that works for you, based on what’s important to you and your goals.
It took me awhile to really figure out the synergy of building a great marketing funnel to generate MLM leads, but I’ve done it. Things are much easier now once I figure dout how to apply a systematic process to building a marketing machine. By machine I’m not talking about something that any total idiot could do, by machine I mean really getting into marketing myself and my content online and putting it all together in a way that makes sense, and a way that works well for the people I teach how to do the same thing.
And that’s the real acid test whether a “system” works or not is whether it can by replicated by someone else. If someone else can take the same elements of a system and put them together in their own unique way, and still get amazing results I know the system works.
That’s what I found with Veretekk and applying the principles of attraction marketing to my network marketing prospecting. Having a good system in place allows the freedom for you to target specific markets in order to bring in leads for your business, and then also the freedome to scale your business forward to allow for growth.
When you do your prospecting this way you build a relationship with your prospects and you also make a profit on the front end of your business because your prospects are paying you to work with them first. This is reverse the typical network marketing approach to building a business. In the old way you’d go out and pitch your friends and family, hang flyers, talk to people in line at the bank. All in all the whole network marketing prospecting process didn’t work well for most people.
But the power of the Internet has changed that. No longer do you have to be an outgoing socialite, if you can write just a little, and use a little creativity you can ”attract” a ton of your own network marketing leads with the Veretekk system. I really hope you will check it out, it’s free for life for a silver account, and it will be a powerful weapon for your busniess to start generating leads and building your prospecting list.
Be Well,
Jesse Boland
There is a lot of crap on the Internet. This is a double edged sword because if you can build a nice looking blog (like this one), lead generation becomes much easier. The fact is, that this isn’t a strategy that works overnight, but you can make it work quickly for you without being a “sleezeball” used-car salesman.
Using a blog as your prospecting tool is very powerful, especially when you start combining social media marketing, replicated websites, and various “white-hat” SEO/SEM (search engine optimization) that works to drive your content up the search engines online. Within three months I have changed the face of my business, automated the entire process, and started generating leads from various sources.
Running my business this way has changed my life, made it so much easier, and helped me build a network of friends that help me build my business. This is true synergy in business. The blog is the hub of your enitre prospecting system. It drives leads, it answers questions, it allows people with similar interests to ask me questions, and maybe most importantly it allows people to get to know me before they ever make contact.
If you’ve ever tried building a network marketing business the old way, you probably struggled with the same problems I did. You found it hard to find people to talk to, you questioned whether network marketing was a scam. I know this because I’ve been there. When you don’t know how to generate leads via blogs and various no-cost Web 2.0 technologies.
This will change your business and your life check out how to build a blog that generates leads, presells your prospects, and injects your business with cash flow right away. Discover the secrets of lead generation and blogs here. Just follow the dots and help for your business is on the way.
Be well,
Jesse Boland
Many people don’t know how to get started with network marketing and lead generation when they first start a business. They don’t know how to make their content stand out in a crowded marketplace, they don’t know how to link their content together in a big web of sticky content.
That’s how I see the content you produce in oreder to generate leads. When you do it right you don’t even raise people’s hackles, they just simply read what you have to say and it makes sense. There’s really no “selling” involved in creating content that gets people to take action. It’s making sense and appealing to folks who are searching for a solution to their problems.
For me, I’ve chosen a certain market to speek to, someone else might take a different market, or a section of my market to target. That’s fine with me. I can’t speak to everyone. I can only work with so many people at once, and I want people to get the help they need in their network marketing business. Generating leads is the easiest approach to making a profit in your business, and as you bring more cashflow into your business, and reinvest it the quicker your business grows and the simpler it gets.
But you have to learn lead generation first. There are many different roads you can take, you can use splash pages, blogs, comment marketing, SEO, social networking, etc. THere are so many roads you can take to reach your ultimate goal that’s it’s easy to get a little confused. I try to teach the folks I’m working with to take it slow, learn how to attract the right people to you and your business, by speaking well, writing well, and taking a consultitive approach to lead generation.
I also encourage my team to build their businesses one aspect at a time, branching out when they feel comfortable and they are seeing results from their marketing activities. This is important because they don’t get freaked out by a huge expense right up front. They can work slowly ”attracting” people to them and their content online, talking to people, having other people make the first move. It’s really important, to the new marketer’s self-confidence to see success early in the process.
If you’re looking to bring more, better quality prospects into your business I can help you put together a marketing machine that works for your time constraints, budget, and expertice level. I can help you just check out my network marketing lead generation system and follow the dots.
I look forward to seeing your success.
Be well,
Jesse Boland
I get asked the question all the time how I generate leads for my network marketing business using social networking applications like Facebook, Squidoo, Hubpages, and others.
I tell people it’s really not as hard as they might think, especially when you’re clear about what type of people are in your target market.
That’s the beauty of social networking, generally people are very clear about who they are and what they’re looking for. This makes generating leads a whole lot easier when you do it right.
So how do you target a market and be influential, but not be a sleezeball sales guy? It’s pretty easy. Using the power of Web 2.0 technologies, you can add to the conversations going on all over the Internet, answer people’s questions, ask more questions, debate, generally act just like you would in real life and still generate quality leads for your network marketing business.
When people sense that you’re a real person who’s trying to be helpful (which hopefully you are) their defenses go down and they really start listening to what you have to say. If you’ve targeted the right market, people who are reading what you’ve said already have an interest in your offering (why would they be reading in the first place?).
Generating leads isn’t something that just happens overnight, especially in the beginning. I know there’s a lot of stuff on the web about how some guy went from nothing to 100 leads a day on some of the testimonials out there, but these people are either lying, or they already had a ton of traffic in place. If you’re just starting out trying to generate your own leads, I’d set a goal of generating one lead a day for an entire week.
This is a reasonable goal. If you’re really serious about getting a lot more traffic and generating a lot more entwork marketing leads from your business, I recommend you look at Veretekk’s Lead Generation system Not only is it an amazing value, but it also helps you leverage all the content you’ve already built on the web, you can use it to promote any program. It’s very powerful and I recommend it very highly.
I hope this helps. Be well.
Jesse Boland
Generating the perfect network marketing leads is not an easy process. There is a lot of thinking, planning and optimization that goes into generating a lead funnel that works to pump out leads day and night, 24 X 7.
After thousands of hours, I’ve finally come up with the perfect way to prequalify my prospects and create a lead generation sytem that pays me on the front end to do my prospecting, and also helps me give my team the success doing the same thing. It hasn’t been easy. In fact it’s been one of the hardest things I’ve ever done.
But it can be done. I think one of the hardest things Internet marketers do is creating a system that works perfectly for their personality. I don’t like to spend a whole lot of time on the phone prequalifying, following up, and trying to persuade people. To be really honest, I suck on the phone. I hate calling leads, but I love teaching people.
That’s how I’ve set up my lead generation system with Ann Sieg’s Renegade Network Marketer ebook and the Veretekk Network Marketing Leads System
Why does it work? It works because by itself the Renegade System salesletter is simply a replicated webpage.
The search engines like Google, ignore it completely, so in order to get eyeballs on that sales letter you really have to get traffic to it, by paying for it, or doing SEO, press releases, blogs (like this one), etc. . . all the various tedious aspects of marketing. But when you combine the traffic and lead generation of the Veretekk marketing system promoting The Renegade Networker, it creates the perfect network marketing lead because it does all the prequalifying, SEO, autoresponder follow up, and doubles that with multiple income streams for my business, whether or not my prospects want to join my business or not.
This creates the perfect storm for my business. It leverages my time and efforts and also the system gets better over time, with the innovation of the Veretekk designers and the more inpointing links I create. I really recommend checking out this system I’ve put together, I know it will work for you to create more leads and paying customers for your business, and help you create leaders for your network marketing company.
You will become a master marketer, I can promise you that. Check out how I’ve combined the Veretekk and Renegade Marketing Systems here, for free.
Generating network marketing leads is a matter of mind and mindset. It’s doing the right thing for yourself and your prospects, and helping people by giving them a solution to their problems, needs, or desires.
I know when I started in network marketing I wanted to “pitch” people on my products or services. I think in this world where we’re bombarded by so many marketing messages we tend to emulate or copy those messages almost unconsciously. This is death when it comes to working on the Internet.
To generate leads via a blog (like this one) or to use one of the hundreds of other venues to build your network marketing business via the internet, keeping your ultimate goal in mind is huge to creating better content and influencing more people. When you operate from this “success position” generating leads become much easier because your brian is geared toward success rather than the contrary.
Watch this video by the master of positive thinking and see the huge role of mindset’s relationship with success:
So how do you think you can use these tactics in your own business. When you go about creating the content you put on the web, do you operate from a “success” mindset or a failure mindset?
Before you start seeing a tom of success it can really be difficult to keep yourself motivated for the long haul. Once you begin seeing consistant results in your business you’re encouraged, motivated to press on toward more and more success. Have you written down your goals? Have you written down how you plan to achieve them? If not, why not? What do you have to lose anyway.
Many of us are afraid of failure, but I think more people are scared of success. I know when I started my business I would work really hard to begin generating leads and make sales, I was determined to succeed. But as soon as I began making sales, I stopped what was bringing me results. Why? I have to believe it was because I was afraid of success.
So what’s holding you back in your business, what’s holding you back from the success you know you can achieve with the right gameplan? Do you have a gameplan to generate network marketing leads? If you don’t, check out this page and start building the business you know you can today and generating your own network marketing leads today.
I look forward to seeing your success
Be well,
Jesse Boland
Want more network marketing leads? Of course you do, we all would like more people interested in what we’re offering. The sticking point is finding out where to start in order to become more successful generating your own leads, what to say to your potential prospect, and postitioning yourself as an expert in your market.
The truth is, generating more leads isn’t as hard as you might think right now. Be ”real” with your audience and be willing to teach people with no expected reward. This is the key to success in any business.
Why do you think people offer free samples, complementary services, and trials? It’s not so they can “sell” you their product, it’s so you can sell yourself on the pruduct and then buy it because it meets your needs.
The lead generation system I use in my business works much the same way. I encourage you to try a similar system for your business too. For me (like 99% of my readers) I don’t have an original product to sell, the only original product I have is my mind and my ability to help my readers solve their lead generation dilemas.
That is my product, I am willing and able to help people put together a leads funnel that works 24 hours a day 7 days a week churning out fresh, targeted, and paying prospects. I have spent nearly 3 years of trail and error, perfecting how to generate better quality leads for my business.
I can help you do the same thing. If you’re not getting enough leads. Or the leads you’re generating are not buying, or the tend to be dragging their feet when you do get on the phone with them, there’s something wrong with your lead generation funnel. Don’t worry, it can be fixed.
What does it take? Not a whole lot surprisingly. I’ve seen people go from generating 0 leads a month to hundreds just following this simple formula. And honestly it’s not even my formula, it’s what I’ve learned just by attending simple attraction marketing trainings.
How much did I have to pay for these trainings? They were totally free. Yep, I learned attraction marketing for free. The lead generation funnel you’re going to learn won’t cost you one red cent.
How’s that for a good deal? It’s an amazing deal. Imagine waking up tommorrow to 5 fresh targeted and paying leads (yes your prospects will really pay you first). It’s not a dream. . . so if your really want to generate more quality leads for your business follow this link and your will discover how to generate tons of network marketing leads for free. Just click on the tab that says sign up and you’ll be blown away by what’s beneath the hood.
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