Free Way to Find Leads & Customers

As a business owner, it is very important to be proactive in looking for customers. One cannot just sit still and wait for customers to come looking for you.

Leads are crucial to businesses. Those who are already experienced with network marketing, mlm, insurance or even real estate understands that leads are like a lifeline to their business. Without leads, there are no customers and no sales. This also applies to small businesses who have difficulty getting new customers.

Often, business owners or marketers would

1. advertise to get new leads – which can be expensive;
2. request leads from friends and families – which often runs out;
3. search through phone directories to get leads – which oftenleads to annoying leads;
4. apply search engine optimization and other internet marketing strategies to get new leads – which can take some time to achieve

Now, you will be glad to know that there is actually a Free way to find leads online, which is to browse through classified ads sites online where people from all over the world post up their ads looking for products or services. Some of these classified ads sites are also categorized into countries and states which can help you find leads in your area.

The 4 main classified ads sites that you can get leads from, are:

1. Craigslist.com
2. BackPage.com
3. GumTree.com
4. Kijiji.com

However, one must admit that browsing through these huge sites can be a daunting tasks, if you were to do it manually, it can take hours to find one lead and you will soon get tired of it.

Instant Lead Magnet Software

That’s when internet marketers develop software to automate the task to search through these classified ads sites for hundreds of targeted leads (using keywords) within seconds.

The software known as Instant Lead Magnet allows you:

• To retrieve tons of targeted leads from the three most popular online classified ad sites in almost any niche you could think of within a couple of seconds.
• Find ready-made prospects who are interested in your CPA offers.
• Collect email addresses of the leads generated and email them directly using the in-built email feature
• Simply use the software to seek out offline job offers or use it when buying/selling houses

Now, I was skeptical about this method of collecting leads since you may be wrongfully spamming these people when you are contacting them or sending them email offers. However, the software developer made a good point that:

“since these people are putting up classified ads looking for sellers, then they are in fact expecting people to contact them with product offers or services.”

Hence it will not be considered spamming.

Watch this video to see a live demonstration of the software in action!

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Here’s an interesting research result:

Nielsen Online and Ad:Tech joined together to create a landscape report looking at the global online media. The report compiles Nielsen Online data in the areas of online video, social media, audience, mobile, and more.

Typically, the online space doesn’t change dramatically from month-to-month or even year-to-year.  But according to Charles Buchwalter, the Senior Vice President of Research Analytics at Nielsen Online, in the past 5-6 years, “this industry has transformed itself.”

The growth is evident not so much in the number of users, but where users are spending their time and how much time they are spending. Not surprisingly, the two biggest areas of growth over the last 2-3 years are online video and social networks. The significant growth of these two areas proves that innovation is still happening despite the current economic climate.

Additionally, there are other areas that are showing positive developments in the midst of the recession. Healthcare, packaged goods, and telecommunications were big spenders in traditional media and were slow to come online. However, those industries are now stepping up their efforts on the Web.

This report has indicated that more and more users are going online, using the social networks including online video. And that they are spending more time on these networks. Hence it is important that businesses adopt social media as part of their marketing strategy to market to the consumers online.

The report even highlights that big spenders in traditional media has realized the potential of social media and are stepping up to increase their presence in the social media online world.

View the growing list of social media sites in this free copy of Social Media Directory or learn about how to use the latest buzz in social media Twitter in twitter-video” target=”_blank”>Twitter Marketing Videos

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A Free Quality eCommerce Script to Download

Whatever business you are doing right now, it is crucial that you start bringing your business online, be it a simple product sales, information site or service provider. It is very easy to set up a website online to market your product or services all over the world on the internet.

The only difficult task would be to carry out transactions online. There are many eCommerce scripts that are offered online and prices range from $99 to thousands of dollars depending on customizations needed.

The good news is, I have just received a notification from John Delavera of Turbo Membership that he will be releasing his latest eCommerce platform on May 17, 2009 and will be giving away for FREE up till 24 May 2009.

Yes, FREE!

In his email, he stated that this is his new flagship script and is based on his very successful JV Manager and Fantasos and will be known as DELAVO, a grandma-friendly (that means easy to be used even by your granny,) powered by the Fantasos’ machine, accompanied by manuals, videos and lifetime upgrades at no cost.

Delavo will be delivered to the Internet Community for FREE and until May 24, 2009 but ONLY to the subscribers of the notification list that can be found at Delaverian Marketing

DELAVO is an ecommerce platform you can trust, that allows everybody to sell unlimited products online through Paypal and Clickbank, run unlimited affiliate programs that offer 1 or MULTIPLE and/or UNLIMITED tiers, and can manage memberships on any server.

I have personally experienced the power of JV manager & Fantasos through several membership sites and eCommerce sites that I have joined and purchased and I am sure DELAVO will deliver as promised. And anyhow, John is kind enough to give it away for FREE.

What’s the catch?

The DELAVO that is offered for FREE is a basic version of a powerful eCommerce platform. There will be additional features or plugins that one can purchase to upgrade to. However, the basic version is powerful enough to run an eCommerce site and more powerful than many eCommerce platforms offered elsewhere.

Well, I say we have nothing to lose to register now for a Free Download of Delavo

Here’s a list of features of DELAVO:

• MiniSites (say… “Butterfly”)
• JV Products
• Shopping Carts
• One Time Offers
• Questionnaires
• Taxes
• Shipping
• Customized Forms (Order & User registration)
• Bans
• Coupons
• Export
• Pieces
• Rewards
• User data API
• Short URLs
• 3rd party scripts support
• Promo Generator
• Sponsorships
  Special Users
• Affiliate Downline
• Import Users
• Affiliate Series
• Internal Subscriptions
• Packages Pro
• Products Pro
• Roles
• InvisionPB Integration module
• phpBB Integration module
• SMF Integration module
• VBulletin Integration module
• Contepass Integration module
• Turbo Download Manager Integration module
• Testimonials
• Follow Up Manager
• Dynamic Pricing
• Pagseguro Payment gate
• Brandible PDFs
• PDF Invoices
• Short URLs Pro
• JV Event Manager
• Link Directories
• Custom tags
• Banner Rotator
• Affiliate Instant Bonus
• Quick Resell
• Labeling
• Pages
• Blog Publisher
• Geo Tracking
• Mass User Operation
• News feed
• Drupal Integration module
• WordPress Integration module

Download Delavo

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How To Turn Visitors To Buyers

Websites are like a retail outlets especially if you have an ecommerce site or even a simple website selling products, books or services. Many companies have realized how cost effective a website as a store is, since websites can operate 24 hours a day selling to all over the world without much overhead costs.

However, the downside of a website is that there is No human interaction in the sales process to read the minds of how customers are reacting and serve them what they need. Over the years, internet marketers try to overcome this by developing new scripts to present their products better, improve interaction and “read” the behavior of these prospects that visit their website/store.

You can now see many websites have a well developed video product presentations and maybe even offers samples to download for visitors.

But the sad truth is that even if a website has a very good converting sales page, 95 out of 100 visitors leave the site without taking any action. And out of the visitors who DO decide to purchase, 60% of potential buyers still abandon a website when they reach the shopping cart or order form.

Without having a sales person to serve these customers and prevent them from leaving, these web stores can lose a lot of potential sales. This is when internet marketers and software developers came up with the idea of creating a new script to prevent this from happening.

Do you remember at any time when you are about to leave a well managed retail store without purchasing anything and a friendly salesperson offers you something else? Or comes up to you and ask you to leave a phone number or sign a guestbook so that they can send you more information?

This is exactly how this script works and will do for your website. There has been many versions of such script developed and offered over the years and this new one is a simpler and easier to apply known as Exit Splash.

Exit Splash claimed to prevent website abandonment by up to 325%, send prospects to another website to offer another product or ask them for their email so that you can follow up with your prospects to provide more information and aid in the sales. Watch the video on how the script works here and Try to exit the website and see how the script works.

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So what exactly is Twitter?

Twitter is one of the fastest growing social websites online today. Everyone is jumping on board the twitter craze from individual bloggers, professional internet marketers and even corporates.

If you notice on Twitter, you will see international retail companies like Starbucks, international media like CNN, international hotel chains and Airlines all having a twitter account and twittering news and happenings around their companies.

Anyone and everyone on earth should now have their own twitter account, even celebrities have their own Twitter! There are many benefits of having a twitter account, apart from the social aspects of keeping up with friends. Twitter has been used as a site for keeping twitter followers informed of news and promotions of companies. It has been said that many of the latest news comes from individuals who twits in their Twitters account. Twitter can also be used to create loyal followers, drive traffic to main websites and ultimately increase sales.

I have personally tested Twitter, learning from the Twitter Marketing videos on how to use Twitter to attract thousands of followers and drive traffic to my websites. It is truly an internet revolution and has an amazing impact on my business.

I have applied many of the Twitter marketing principles and have been able to collect thousands of followers for several of my business twitter accounts. You can see an example of a Twitter account I recently set up for GDI Tips.

One very important note is to remember that Twitter is just like any other social sites like blogs, forums etc, which should be treated with care and NOT TO SPAM Twitter with too much advertising. You should try and contribute by twittering and sharing your ideas or your new blog posts to your followers.

You can read more on how to set up your Twitter account below:

How To Set Up Twitter Account

Setting up Twitter Account tand o have your own account is easy, but there are a few things that you should be aware of when organizing your account.  This can apply even if you already have an existing twitter account too, so consider these tips and it can improve your entire Twitter experience.

The first thing to do if you don’t have a twitter account is go to twitter.com which is the main page of Twitter.  You will be asked to either login or register. If you don’t have an account, then of course you will need to register for onw.  So let’s go through the registration process and explain it all here.

How to Register Twitter Account

The Twitter screen will ask you for your first name and last name and will then check this is entered correctly.  A green tick will appear next to the box.

The next screen asks you for a user name and this is where you need to consider how you are going to present yourself on Twitter. You should remember that you can set up more than one account on Twitter, but you will need a different email address for each one.

Now this is where the thinking bit comes in.  The first account you register should always be in your own name if you can get it.  Naturally, common names like JackSmith (there are no spaces in usernames) will already be taken.  However it is possible to get variations on your own name such as Jack_Smith, or Jack_Smith23 or some variation like that.  You can only use an underscore in a username. Hyphens are not permitted in the field.

It isn’t absolutely critical that you register your own name, but I would advise you do if you can, particularly if your name is a special one.  I’m sure the last thing you want is someone else impersonating you on Twitter, or anywhere else for that matter.

If you wish to register a business name, then you can do that of course, but make sure you use your own name in the sign up process so you are identifiable and connected with the company name you register.  The concepts and reasons for operating under each type of registration will be discussed later.

You are now asked for your email address. Email addresses are linked to accounts and you will only be able to use your email address once. For every account you register, you will need a different email address.

The last thing to do is to fill in the Captcha letters and then click on Create My Account.
The next screen will ask if you want to add any of your friends from the popular web based email programs.  You can do this later if you wish.

The next screen presents a short list of people who Twitter asks if you would like to follow. Choose some if you like, but I wouldn’t bother. I prefer to find my own friends on Twitter.

When you click Finish, you will then be taken to your very own Twitter account.  You are logged in and ready to go!

So, head down to Twitter.com and set up your own twitter account now and start twittering

To learn more about How to use Twitter to market your business and drive traffic and sales to your business, take a look at these Twitter Marketing Video Tutorials

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Can You Really Make Big Money from Google Adsense?

I am sure many of you have heard of online marketers making money from the Google Adsense program with the pay per click revenue model for web publishers, but can you actually make good money from it? This is a popular question from many new online marketers and you will find the answer below.

What is Google Adsense?

Briefly, for those of you who are still new to Google Adsense program, it allows any website publishers to paste a simple code in their webpages and immediately shows google text and image ads on their websites that pays the publisher when visitors click on the ads that appear on their websites. Many individual and private website publishers has benefited from this program since it saves them the effort of looking for advertisers to place ads on their websites.

Even large companies especially media publishers such as Bloomberg.com are using Google Adsense to monetize their website and earn advertising revenues without having to have a marketing department to search for advertisers. Other popular large sites that uses Google Adsense includes Blogger.com and YouTube.com which are both now owned by Google.

So how much can you make from Google Adsense?

It really depends on how popular your website is and how many visitors it received daily. The more visitors you have to your website, the higher your potential revenue will be.

Many website publishers and internet marketers sees the huge potential of making money from this program and has build a business of publishing websites with their main revenue from Google Adsense.

To give you an idea of how much you can potentially earn from Google Adsense, you may view the video below from JP, creator of NichesinABox whom recently recorded a  video on 05 April 2009 showing his adsense account LIVE with over US$680 of adsense income per day. You can view the actual video below.

video from NichesinABox

Of course, it should be noted that achieving such high level of adsense revenue is not an easy task, you must either have A LOT of visitors to your website or have A LOT of websites that are monetized with Google Adsense.

Although, I am very certain that you will need to create or own A LOT of websites to actually achieve the same result as shown above. However, there is good money to be made for individual website publishers and many bloggers are already making a good living out of the Google Adsense program.

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Winning the New Wave Marketing Award

Remember my last post about New Wave Marketing? Where Hermawan Kartajaya – the Asian Marketing Guru explained the new marketing principles of New Wave Marketing. There was a competition to promote the concept and conference event using the keyword “New Wave Marketing”

The winner is determined by achieving the highest ranking in the search engines – Google for posts and YouTube for video. I wanted to prove to myself that I could get some results within a week to the dateline as I received the message late. So I went ahead to enter the competition doing some SEO to my posts and video for New Wave Marketing and here’s the winner

Always try your best in everything you do!

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Fujitsu Launch World’s First Color Ebook in Japan

Electronic Book will become more and more popular as supported by the launch of the world’s first color display e-Book by Fujitsu.

Dont be mistaken, this is not the eBook that are circulating around online in pdf format, but in physical electronic forms like a notebook computer as seen in the picture below.

The Fujitsu eBook When used with a separate memory card, the paperback-sized gadget dubbed the ‘FLEPia’ can store the equivalent of 5,000 conventional books.  It weighs 385 grams, is 12.5 milimetres thick and has a 20-centimetre ‘electronic paper’ display that can show 260,000 colours.

Equipped with Bluetooth and high-speed wireless LAN, it can operate 40 hours when fully charged, the company said. Online sales began on Wednesday, priced at 99,750 yen (USD$1,000). The company aims to sell 50,000 units in two years in Japan alone.

The world of internet has made electronic books popular, with many individuals publishing their own ebook since it is very easy to compile your own book and create pdf files out of the content. There is no production costs of printing and hassle of distribution. We have even seen many popular magazines being published into electronic forms by Zinio

The launch of such physical electronic books by Fujitsu further highlight the growing importance and popularity of eBooks and that businesses especially publishers should seriously consider adapting to this new market trends. Anyone can learn how to create an Ebook easily and publish them in electronic format which can also be read in the new Fujitsu EBook!

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Increase Traffic to your Websites by Submitting Blog Articles to Blog Carnivals

Article Marketing is a very important traffic generation method that have been discussed all the time. We have also heard of Blog and RSS feed Submitter to get traffic. But this is something really new that I have just come across, the concept of getting traffic through Blog Carnivals.

What is a Blog Carnival

As explained in Wikipedia, a blog carnival is a type of blog event. It is similar to a magazine, in that it is dedicated to a particular topic, and is published on a regular schedule, often weekly or monthly. Each edition of a blog carnival is in the form of a blog article that contains permalinks to other blog articles on the particular topic.

Blog Carnival posts are generally collated by the author by soliciting relevant contributions from interested people. The author collects links to these submissions, edits and annotates them and publishes the resulting round-up to his or her blog. Many carnivals have a home page or principal organizer, who lines up guest bloggers to host each edition. This means that the carnival travels, appearing on a different blog each time.

Blog Carnival Traffic

Communities of blog readers, writers, and edition hosts form around specific carnivals. The carnivals provide an aggregation of recent posts by the community on a given topic, and the host provides a level of editing and annotation that helps readers find posts they are interested in. Writers who submit their articles to blog carnivals are rewarded with traffic (if the host decides to give them a link and, perhaps, a positive review).

Blog Carnival List

Blog carnivals are being launched all the time from different blog owners for different topics. You can find the list of updated blog carnivals at BlogCarnival.com

Browse through the huge list and find suitable carnivals, with related topics with your blog and submit your related blog post to these carnivals. Since there can be many blog carnivals with similar topics occurring at the same time, you will want to maximize your effort by submitting to as many of these blog carnivals as possible. However, the process of going through the list of carnivals and submitting your blog posts to each and everyone of them can take an awful lot of time.

I was lucky to come across this new Blog Carnival Submitter Software which has a function that easily lets you find related carnivals using a keyword search and lets you submit your articles to ALL the related blog carnivals ALL at ONCE!

What to Submit to Blog Carnivals

Submitting content or articles to Blog carnivals are a little different than submitting articles to Article Directory. With article directories, you do not really need to host your article in your own website or blog and simply include a link to any websites you wish.

With Blog Carnivals, you will need to actually submit articles that are hosted in your blog/website. In other words, you are not submitting articles but submitting a link to your blog posts that contains the articles.

You can enter the URL of your blog posts into Blog Carnival Submitter and submit them to ALL related carnivals all at once hence saving the repeating time consuming process of doing it one by one. You can also submit more than one blog post to ALL carnivals ALL at ONCE.

“Picture: Email response of Receipt of Blog Carnival Submission”

OverUse Warning:

Remember not to make the mistake of submitting too many articles to the same blog carnivals at once. On my first attempt of using carnival submitter, being too excited with the new software and didnt actually think it could work. I submitted more than 10 articles/blog posts to several carnivals. The process took only “seconds” to complete.

I didnt realize I have made a huge mistake until I saw the result of my submission in my email (seen in the picture above). Each line of email response is for one blog carnival topic, as you can see the submissions are instant and can easily be OverUsed. In addition to the email responses above, I also received a frustrated response from the carnival owner receiving too many blog posts submissions to her carnival. It was really my own fault to have done that. My deepest apologies if you are reading this

Blog Carnival Submitter Review

Having used and seen the results of the new Blog Submitter software, it is proven that the software can save us a lot of time in submitting our blog articles to blog carnivals events.

But remember to use the carnival submitter as a tool to submit good articles / blog posts to blog carnivals and DO NOT overuse it to spam the carnivals. If you have submitted a good post, you will be rewarded by carnival owners with a link back to your blog post and generate unlimited traffic for years to come.

Hence it is definitely a good tool to have to enhance your article marketing, search engine optimization and traffic generation effort.

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Source Code Gold Mine V8 (SCGM8) Fast Action Discount Code Coupon

There are many product launches online that offers solutions with books, videos and audios for the eager buyer. But there are only a few that actually offers products and softwares that buyers are able  to put their name on the products as creator or author known as Private Label Rights.

Private Label Rights is an internet marketing solution for internet marketers. Since it can take a huge amount of time to keep creating new products for the market. Similar to business outsourcing, marketers outsource product creation to third party, then sell the rights (PLR rights) to share the cost of production with a limited number of people.

Jeremy Burns has been successfully created and sell Private Label Rights products package for many years and as you can see this is “version 8″ of the package.

In this latest V8 release, there are 10 New PLR products with full Private Label Rights that you can brand them with your name as the creator or author. The package is currently offered at $197, if you could get the $97 off using the coupon below in time, the package will come to only $100/10 products = $10 / PLR product. This is an absolutely good deal for any of the products offered.

Here’s the Discount Code for Source Code Goldmine V8 = FASTACTION97OFF

Click Here to use it and get instant $97 savings!

*Coupon only valid for first 200 early birds*

Here are some short descriptions of the Product Release from Jeremy:

#1 Auto Blog Feeder – this very sweet little Word press plugin that will drip feed any content you wish into your blog for the next 8 years straight.

#2 Web Video Builder – this software will allow you to create the sales page videos that until now have only been available to the big budget marketers.

This software is setup for you to give away for FREE to build a massive list of leads and then there is an up-sell in place on it that you will sell and keep 100% of the sales on. It”s pretty cool to say the least.

#3 The Twitter Effect – This is a short and sweet video tutorial that walks a newbie through how to setup a Twitter account and then start using it in their marketing efforts.

You will get the nitty gritty on using Twitter even if the only thing you know about Twitter so far is that it helped get the current US President Elected.

# 4 Internet Marketing Contact Manager

This is one of those types of software that I always thought were only for big companies, not someone that just works from home like me.

The truth is, after looking this over I know a million ways it will help me keep better track of my business.

How many times have you met someone on the internet that you ended up speaking on the phone to a few times but then lost contact with?  Then a few years later you end up with them on the phone again and when they call, you barely remember their name, let alone the reason you previously spoke.

Think about how cool it would be if you could just click a button and have ”Total Recall” on not only what you spoke about the last time you talked, but also what their kids names were, and what grades they are in.

How impressed would your customer or potential JV partner be when you ask them… “Hey how is little Sarah doing, wasn”t she just getting ready to star in her First grade play, ”Annie” the last time we spoke?”

Your customer responds “That was 2 years ago, you remember that!”

Internet marketing is all about contacts and making friends.  The more people that you know the stronger your business will become.

Internet Marketing Contact Manager will keep track of all these kinds of things and more for you.

Your customers birthday, their hobbies, their favorite vacation spot, their spouses name, the names of all the products they have ever purchased from you, where they went to College.

The possibilities are endless, and when you remember these kinds of details about your customers and JV partners, they will come to think of you as an Internet marketing rock star.

Everyone loves to talk about themselves, so just ask everyone you come in contact with a few questions every time you talk and add that information to your database.

The next time you are on their FaceBook page or their Twitter page and they mention something interesting and unique about themselves, add that to your database.

Before you know it you will be an expert on everyone of your customers and JV partners and the next time you email them, Twitter them, speak to them on FaceBook you will be armed with everything you need to totally WOW them.

This is a great way to show your customers that you really do care about what they are interested in, and that you are not just interested in them for the financial aspects of it.

There are 3 more useful products offered in the package and you can  read MORE HERE, use the Fast Action Discount code = FASTACTION97OFF to get $97 instant savings for first 200 buyers.

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