Lead Creation Is The Key To A Profitable Internet Home Business

You’ve built your website. You’re getting visitors. But…nothing. What you want is to create great leads, and you can’t begin creating great leads unless you get people to stick around your website and stay a while.
And to do that you have to give them more than just a pretty website.

One of the best ways to create good leads is to have a newsletter that people can sign up for. Show them a copy on your website and make certain it’s packed with interesting information that they’ll need and be able to use.  Don’t worry that you’re giving something away for nothing. In the end, your potential customers will be happy. They’ll have a chance to sample a product and can decide from there whether or not to buy.

Now they’re intrigued and they’ll want to learn more. You’ve almost got ‘em. They sign up for the newsletter and, voila, you just got yourself a pretty good lead. The key now is to let them learn more about your product or business opportunity; send them an e-mail asking if they’d like to learn more. If you don’t get a response, it’s okay to be patient.

Remember, they signed up for your newsletter, so you know they are interested in your product. Chances are they will eventually take the next step---especially if you don’t come across as desperate.
 
Some e-mails are so aggressive that they turn people off. Sending off an automatic and immediately “thank you for your interest” e-mail is likely to be far more affective. Another terrific way to generate good leads is to create a page that visitors must sign in to see. Entice them with learning more about a product by simply filling in their e-mail address. And make certain that whatever you put on that page in interesting and lively. Now you have their e-mail address, and another lead, because you know this person was interested enough in your product to look further into your website.

Blogs can be another way to generate leads. People visit blogs all the time to learn more about a particular subject. This is where the soft sell comes in. You don’t want to hit people over the head with the product you are selling. For example, if you sell home improvement e-books, you’d want to talk about home improvement projects on your blog, with a link to your website, and not about your e-books.

If you do start a blog, it is important to update it frequently and offer relevant information that people actually are interested in.

If you have a questionnaire on your site as a method of determining whether or not a lead is potentially a good one, keep it as simple as possible. Most people don’t like giving away their life story, and either won’t fill it in at all or will fill it in with erroneous information that’s no good to you anyway.

This might be obvious, but it’s a good idea to keep your website up to date and relevant…and appealing. If your website doesn’t look professional, a potential lead just might navigate away to someone else. Keep your pages simple and clean with easy-to-read fonts.