Make Money Online With Sales Lead Generation

There are thousands of ways to become successful online. Sounds like it's easy, right? Trouble is, there are millions if not billions of ways to NOT become successful online. If you're jumping into this blind, you're pretty likely to be following one of the ways that won't work!

Imagine you want to bake a cake. You could go to the store and buy a bunch of random ingredients that you guess might make a good cake. But unless you're an experienced baker, you're likely to create a disaster instead. What's that? 1/2 cup of Nutmeg is too much? I should've added eggs? I guess adding all that salt was a bad idea...

Of course, the best way to do it is to follow a recipe! Someone has spent lots of time already perfecting a great cake and has written down step-by-step instructions on how to do it! Of course they'll only work if you follow them to the letter!

Lots of people starting out in internet marketing are kind of in awe of all the possibilities. They learn a bunch of different things and try to glom them all together as they go. Well, that's not gonna work so well! You can't just pick and choose various aspects of several systems either, because what you end up with is still an untested, untried, "mutant" system. And it's probably gonna be one of the billions of techniques that doesn't work.

So while you're starting out, treat your business like you would a cake. Don't invent your own untested recipe. Don't combine half the ingredients of an angel food cake with half the ingredients of an ice cream cake. Don't throw a quiche in there. Just stick to one recipe that's proven to work. Follow it to the letter! I bet you'll be pleasantly surprised!

1. Buy a domain

Consider buying a domain with a keyword for your niche in it. Domains are cheap, under $10 a year, but having one is essential.

2. Get an autoresponder account

An autoresponder will allow you to create a form to collect names and email addresses. It will also house the data for you, and handle confirmations and unsubscribes. This is extremely important, as you don't want to break any SPAM laws. Plus, it's just more efficient. This will cost you between $20 and $50 a month, depending on the company you choose.

3. Create a giveaway offer

You can use articles about your niche that you gather from one of the online directories, as long as you maintain the author's information. In other words, you have to give the authors full credit for the articles, but you can add an introduction, as an editor, and give the report away in exchange for people's names and email addresses.

4. Create a squeeze page

A squeeze page is nothing more than a headline, 3 - 5 bullet points that outline the benefits of your giveaway report, and an opt-in box, where people enter their names and email addresses.

5. Drive traffic to your squeeze page

There are many different ways that you can drive traffic to any page online. Blogging, writing and posting articles in directories, podcasting, search engine optimization, and Web 2.0 sources, like Facebook, Squidoo, and Twitter are only a few. Send as much traffic as you can to your squeeze page and build your list as quickly as you can.

Sometimes people ask me - if all this sales lead generation is as easy as you say, why isn't everybody a millionaire? Well, it IS easy - compared to just about any other way of making money. But it still requires a lot of dedication. The sad truth is, most people get distracted, or run out of steam, or just plain give up. There's a famous story about the mine owner who worked his mine for years looking for gold and never found any. Finally he gave up and sold the mine. Only a few days later the new owners struck gold there - if he'd just stuck with it a little longer he'd have gotten rich instead of them!

Sure, it can be hard to keep focused and do what needs to be done. But keep your mind on the way it's going to pay off down the road, and believe me it does.

You've got to stick with it and really focus if you want to build a successful business. So the thing to do is to make it as easy for yourself as you possibly can.

The first thing to do is to sign up for my quickstart training course. I've already got this system figured out, right down to the web page templates, so all you need to do is implement the techniques in the videos and you'll be on your way!

Ok so how do you get there? Wel, break up the whole thing into tiny steps - commit to watching one video a day and following the instructions. Each video is only a few minutes long, and following the instructions in each video should only take an hour or so at most. So one a day will be super-easy. And before you know it you'll have gotten through all of them and you'll be up and running with your list!

If list building is the hidden secret to making money online, then joint ventures are the hidden secret to list building. Now, there are all sorts of joint ventures and the topic is nearly endless. The kind I'm referring to here is the simplest form of joint venture, a cross promotion. That's where you contact someone in your niche who has a list of about the same size as yours, and you promote each other's lists to your lists. If you arrange a cross promotion properly, you can multiply the size of your list overnight!

Note that you need to have a few subscribers first, otherwise it won't be worth the time of your potential partner. The idea is to find someone with a similar size list.

So how do you go about arranging a joint venture? Start off by doing a google search for the keywords in your niche. Go through the sites that come up one by one, and look for someone who's got a place to sign up for their mailing list. If you find one, great! This means that this person has a list! You'll probably want to opt in so you can get more of an idea about their business. Besides, it can't hurt to learn all you can about your niche - maybe they've got some great info to share with you!

Now, if you're selling a specific product, you can certainly arrange a cross-promotion with someone selling the same product, but it's probably going to be better to find someone with a similar product that's not in competition with yours. Remember, it's all about the niche - the group of people you're selling to. You definitely want to find someone who's got the same target audience as you, otherwise you'd be wasting your time and theirs.

For example, let's say your niche is pet turtle owners. You happen to be selling little hula hoops for the turtles, and you find someone who's selling a "teach your turtle to hula" instructional course. Well, that's perfect!

Next, try to find some contact information for this person. Hopefully they have a phone number, or a support link. Ideally you want to contact this person directly, but if you have to go through their support team, that might end up working, too.

OK, now it's time to actually contact them and make your proposal! Remember the important thing is to start off by telling your potential JV partner how this will benefit THEM. That's easy because it definitely will! It'll increase the size of their list and multiply their business' revenue. And all you ask is that they do the same for you. Also make sure to tell how many subscribers you have on your list so they know if it's worth their time the same as it's worth yours. If their list is much larger than yours they may not feel it's worth their while to do.

The key thing to note here is that if you want to be successful with JVs you need to do this many many times. Go through every site you can find and write down the contact information for every person in the same niche who has a list. Contact all of them. Most won't respond, or will turn the offer down, at least when you're just starting out. Usually marketers who have a list substantially larger than yours won't feel it's worth it. But you'll probably find a few marketers who are willing to take you up on it.

Awesome! Once you've got a couple of these mailings lined up, you're good to go and you'll see your list growing like gangbusters! Plus, now you've got some JV allies in your niche, and you can build a business relationship and continue to cross promote and help each other out long into the future!

Cross-promotion is just one of the many tricks I can teach you to build a huge list and make tons of money online. I'll be adding all sorts of other tips to this lens, so be sure to bookmark it and check back regularly!

If you just can't wait for more proven techniques to get your internet business off the ground, go grab my amazing video quickstart course here: ListFormula.com

Are you rockin' a squeeze page yet? If not you should check out my free quickstart video course because squeeze pages KICK BUTT. I've been doing this for a while and I can tell you that there's nothing better for lead generation than a squeeze page.

It's too bad that search engines don't like squeeze pages as much as us internet marketers do! See, search engines are really into pages with a lot of content, and content that gets updated frequently. A good squeeze page has very little content, just a few teaser bits of information about all the great stuff your visitors will get when they sign up. So how do you get massive search engine traffic to go to your squeeze pages? Easy! Build some pages to link to your squeeze page that are search engine magnets. They freakin' love this stuff. Check it out:

Tip 1: Build a Wordpress blog! Wordpress blogs are total Google magnets. They're dynamic, and they're totally optimized to the gills to be noticed and ranked by Google. Of course, then you need to fill your blog with all sorts of handy tips about your niche. And update it frequently! Make sure you have a link to your squeeze page on the blog somewhere really prominent, like up at the top of the sidebar. And you can also link to your squeeze page at the end of your posts - when it makes sense.

Every time you write a post to your blog, be sure to bookmark it using the major social bookmarking sites. I'm talking about Digg, Propeller, Reddit, Delicious, StumbleUpon, and Mixx. There are many more - feel free to sign up for and use as many as you can. You'll get better results with some than with others, but they're all free, and it only takes like 10 seconds to bookmark your page with each one, so it's totally worth it.

Tip 2: What's another great way to drive traffic to your squeeze page? You're lookin' at it! Squidoo is an excellent way to build a ton of traffic. It generally takes a bit longer for some serious traffic to build than with blog traffic, but if you have a good lens on your subject that you update regularly, you should start to see some mega traffic to your squeeze page within 6 months. One important note: Squidoo has a policy limiting the number of links you can put to one domain. So it's important to limit the number of links to your squeeze page to nine, no more than that. You can make those links as big and dramatic as you want though :-)