What is Lead Generation and Why Do You Need It?

When you start a blog or online business, you will have to start your lead generation sooner rather than later. But the first time you come across this term, there remain many questions about what lead generation includes, why you need to do it, and how it is related to email list building, sales funnel, and sales. Source: Wikipedia Just…

4 Most Important Ways to Get Leads from Twitter

Leads from Twitter? Really? Does that work? I have heard this or a similar remark over and over again. But the truth is that Twitter is a great place to get leads. And people are using Twitter for lead generation in almost any niche. For our first business – the publishing platform exploreb2b – we got 80k registered users based…

What’s Wrong With Your Lead Magnet – And What You Need To Generate Subscribers Like Crazy

If you are trying to grow your email list (and you definitely should), you need a lead magnet – or a freebie or whatever else you want to call it. A lead magnet is something that you offer on your website in exchange for the email address of your website visitor. The more valuable your freebie offer is to your…

How You Can Get An Unfair Advantage For Blogging And Online Business Success

Simplified, most online sales is done via a simple sales funnel that is based on driving traffic to content, capturing leads and then nurturing the leads with emails and finally selling them your product. One of the most important things to learn for a successful sales funnel is to learn how to lead your prospects to the funnel for optimal results. …

7 Simple Ways To Get Those Precious 100 First Subscribers For Your Email List

So you are new to online marketing, blogging or your business simply does not yet have the traction you are looking for? Whatever else you do: Don’t put off starting and growing your email list for later. Don’t use excuses like you will wait until you have more traffic, or you have more sales, more blog posts or whatever. Starting…

The Ultimate Guide To Generating Leads Through Social Media

The following is a guest post by Michael Akinlaby. Akinlaby is a freelance writer and SEO expert. He’s the founder of RankRain, an Internet marketing agency that specializes in Search Engine Optimization. “Social media” is a term almost everyone knows today. Today, you can sit in the comfort of your home, read and analyze the news, shop, connect with your…

How To Create A Social Media Quiz For Lead Generation

The following is a guest post by JP Misenas. JP Misenas is the Content Marketing Director & Audio/Visual Technician/Engineer of Interact, a place for creating entertaining and engaging quizzes that generate email leads. He writes about innovative ways to connect with customers and to build professional long-lasting relationships with them. Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jollibeats    Twitter Handle: @jollibeats @tryinteract Ever since content marketing has…

How To Generate Perfect Leads To Fill Your Sales Funnel

The following is a guest post by Sayed Shahnoor. Sayed is an IT professional and expert in digital marketing, SEO, online customer acquisition, customer service and business automation. R & D associate and consultant @Zestapps How do you define sales? Not a very tough question but if I ask you to define “how to make a sale” it may get a bit tricky…