Day 6: Generating Your Own Leads

Just as there is a right way and a wrong way to purchase traffic, there is also a right way and a wrong way to get leads. The wrong way is to use software that harvests email addresses. Usually when you buy traffic from a service sells lists of

So just what is email harvesting software? Well, let’s take the typical business website, for example. Business websites want you to trust them, and will usually place contact information – including one or more email addresses – on the company “Contact Us” page.

An email harvesting program crawls the Internet looking for email addresses on web pages. When it gets to the company website’s “Contact Us” page it grabs any string of text that looks like an email address and puts that text into a database. Later, the person who used the email harvesting software can section off the list of addresses and sell thousands at a time to people who think they’re buying legitimate leads.

In actuality, all anyone ever buys from these email harvesting companies is an invitation to be branded as a spammer. Your ISP (Internet Service Provider) will close your account once you start sending out messages in bulk to a list of people who never asked for your information. After all, they didn’t agree to receive information from you in the first place. They’ve never even heard of you – or the company that harvested their email address.

There is, however, a legitimate way to build a list of leads quickly, easily, and a lot cheaper than dealing with list harvesting companies. People have been using this method for years to build lists. In fact, this is still the single best way to find people who want to make money working from home.

This simple but powerful method involves blasting a short advertisment (usually in text format) to billions of classified ad sites and search engine directories. And since it’s all done online through website advertising portals, you never get in trouble with your ISP for sending unsolicited email messages.

One of the best portals for blasting your ads to the Universe (literally!) is Leadsomatic. It costs nothing to blast your ad to over 2 billion sites. But for a small monthly fee you can generate thousands of leads every thirty days while enjoying a residual income when you recommend Leadsomatic to other advertisers. After all, everybody needs easy access to lots of interested leads.

Homework Assignment: Create a few short ads to promote the gift you created on Day 3. Create a simple email follow up series that showcases similar affiliate products and services and load these messages into your autoresponder. Use Leadsomatic to blast your ads once a day. In about 30 days you should have all the leads you can handle.