21 Ways To Get Free Online Leads

This is a truly exciting and amazing point in time for businesses, entrepreneurs, and online network marketers. The possibilities to grow your business online have never been better, and they are about to make a giant leap.

You see, in 2001 there were one billion people online. The 2 billion mark was hit in 2007. The 3 billion mark should happen in early 2011, less than 1.5 years from now.

Free Online Leads

At that unique point in time, 50% of the world’s population will be part of an online global marketplace, the largest economic engine in all of history. Currently, there over 70,000 new online users each and every day.

This is an unprecedented time. As distinguished author Tom Hayes says in his book Jump Point, “Technology, culture, and economics are all coming together in just the right way to create the biggest, most dynamic wealth-creation network the world has ever known.”  Those businesses that don’t react quickly and adapt to the new online marketplace will vanish in an instant.

To help you get started or expand your online marketing efforts, here is a list of 21 ways to get free online leads:

  1. Article Marketing sites – eZineArticles.com, ArticlesBase.com, etc.
  2. Twitter
  3. Social content sites – HubPages, Squidoo, etc.
  4. Social networks – Facebook, MySpace, etc.
  5. Online video – YouTube, Revver, etc.
  6. Blogging
  7. Leaving blog comments
  8. Forum postings
  9. Get other people linking to you
  10. Online classified ads – Craigs list, etc.
  11. eBay
  12. Mini-sites – Weebly, etc.
  13. Online press releases – PRLog.com, 24-7PressRelease.com, etc.
  14. Podcasting – Podcast.com, etc.
  15. Online Presentations – Slideshare.net, Scribd.com, etc.
  16. Safelists
  17. Meetup groups
  18. Joint ventures
  19. Affiliate programs
  20. Instant messaging
  21. E-mail marketing

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You’ll learn the strategies I used to get my website in the top 99.7% of all websites in less than 2 months. And the best part is it took less than 30 minutes per day.

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3 Barriers To Online Success

If you don’t avoid these 3 common barriers to online success, the reality is you don’t have much of a chance to make money online. Many people think online marketing is a piece of cake.

After all, everywhere you turn there are sales letters telling you how you can get thousands of highly targeted leads to your website with the snap of your fingers. Or how you can have hundreds of prospects chasing you down with their credit card in hand. They make it sound oh so easy.

3 Online Success Barriers

Unfortunately, it’s not quite that easy and there are some pretty big obstacles that sabotage most people and they end up spending more money online than they make and then they give up. The good news is it is very possible to grow a huge business and income online, if you avoid these 3 barriers to online success.

1. Giving up too early. It’s going to take some work and your early efforts may not succeed. You’ve got to learn from your early mistakes, adjust, and keep trying until you get results.

You need to be persistent and can’t quit at the first sign of failure. Don’t quit if your first few pay-per-click (PPC) campaigns fail. Keep testing and tweaking until you are successful, even if it takes 15 campaigns.

2. Not being consistent and jumping from one strategy to the next, or one opportunity to the next. Many people try pay-per-click (PPC) marketing for a month, lose a bunch of money, and then say it doesn’t work and quit.

The next month they try social networking. Then the next month search engine optimization (SEO). Or maybe they hop from opportunity to opportunity.

When most people hit a road block or don’t get instant results they give up. This is a sure path to failure. You need to get proficient before you make money with an online marketing strategy, and proficiency doesn’t happen overnight.

You need to be 95% proficient to break even, and 99% to make money. It can take 6 months to a year for this to happen, contrary to what most sales letters will tell you. This is the cold hard truth.

You need to pick a strategy and stick with it, overcoming all obstacles, until you are making money with it. Then you can add another strategy. This is the path to being successful online, it is the only way.

3. Not using a proven online marketing system. Your fastest path to online success will come by getting the most detailed, proven, online marketing system that you can. Mentoring or coaching is essential.

You can get tons of free information on the internet, but you’ll spends months or years trying to fit it all together into a system that works. You’ll get overwhelmed and not know what to do next. You won’t have anywhere to turn when you have questions.

You need to learn from others that have been successful and that have spelled out step-by-step what you need to do for results. And then you need someone to turn to when you have questions or when things are working for you the way they should.

One such system is Autopilot Wealth Institute. They have a proven system, detailed step-by-step training, and mentors to help you through the numerous challenges of building an online business.

Watch this free video to see if Autopilot Wealth Institute is right for you.

Your Partner in Online Success,

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Choosing A Biz Domain Name – 5 Mistakes To Avoid For Online Success

One of the early tasks you’ll need to do for your online success is picking a biz domain name for your website and avoiding some common domain name mistakes. This task should not be taken lightly. It is important to take the time to do this step right, no matter how long it takes.

You want your biz domain name to be congruent with your brand, to generate maximum web traffic, and to get top search engine results.

I personally like to brainstorm with a couple of people to get a long list of possible names. Then eliminate biz domain names that are already taken. GoDaddy (www.GoDaddy.com) can provide this information. Many of your best ideas will probably be taken, which is why this step can be difficult.

Biz Domain Name Mistakes

Here are 5 common biz domain name mistakes to avoid when choosing from the remaining names:

1. Picking a name that is difficult to spell or say. When you tell someone your domain name, there should be no ambiguity in how to spell it, and they should be able to remember it easily.

2. Not registering variations of the domain name such as plural and hyphenated versions. If you don’t, your competitors will and they will steal some of your traffic. Domain names are inexpensive, don’t skimp here!

3. Not getting a .com extension. Don’t settle for .net, .info, .ws, .bz, etc. If the .com version is not available, pick a different biz domain name.

4. Not using your main keyterm in your domain. You’ll get a higher relevance score from the search engines if your main keyterm is in your domain name. Higher relevance means more traffic.

5. Not owning your name. In addition to any other domain names you purchase, make sure to get your name in the form FirstLast.com. Even if you don’t need it right away, it’s better to get it before someone else does.

Your biz domain name is a very important aspect of your online success. Avoiding these 5 domain name mistakes is well worth the time you will spend to choose the right name.

Your Partner In Massive Online Success,
Karen_Sielski_Sig
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How To Use Twitter Marketing To Promote Your Blog or Website

If you are trying to figure out how to correctly use Twitter marketing to promote your blog or website, watch this video. You’ll learn step-by-step how to get started, what tools to use, and what not to do. Enjoy!

To Your Twitter Marketing Success,
Karen
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Social Media in 10 Minutes a Week

Social media is a great way to establish yourself as an authority in your industry or niche. It gives you credibility and exposure. It can also open the door for opportunities with partners, affiliates, and JV’s.

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The more credibility you have, the easier it is to get more sales and more clients.

But you have to be very careful because social media can be a huge time sync if you don’t manage what you do and how you do it.

You can plan your social media updates in about 10 minutes a week using the following system.

Ask yourself some questions about your week and give the answers to your assistant.  If you don’t have an assistant in your office, you can get an internet virtual assistant for around $5 an hour!

Here are the questions to answer

1. What projects am I working on?
2. Am I doing any teleseminars, webinars, or public speaking engagements? Provide details for each such as a website link, date, time, location, topic, audience, etc.
3. What valuable content or tips do you want to share with the social media universe this week. This can be a link to a blog post, article or video, a news event, a quote, a tip, etc.
4. Is there anything you need help with this week?
5. What books are you reading?
6. What events are you attending – teleseminars, webinars, in person events, etc.  Specify details such as date and time.
7. Are there any major business or personal celebrations this week?  Any fun activities you will be doing?

Do this first thing on Monday morning as part of your weekly planning and hand it off to your assistant to do the tedious and time consuming task of scheduling the updates on the appropriate social media sites.

You will need to take some time to set this up by documenting your social media account information and the steps the assistant should take but it will save you countless hours every month.

The key to autopilot online success is creating systems and leveraging your team.  Everyone has the same 24 hours in a day, its what you do with those hours that sets apart the massively successful entrepreneurs and business owners.

Take Action Now For Online Success!

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