Since the early 1990s and the introduction of the internet into the public domain, the way business is carried out has changed dramatically. Initially, people thought that an online presence was not worth the time and effort compared to a tangible company; how wrong they were. Today, the internet is an immense marketing and sales medium that businesses ignore at their peril. New marketing techniques have had to be developed to organize the mass of information that is available on the internet, and you can have your piece too, if you know how to exploit it.
Marketing has always relied on certain tried and tested methods of lead acquisition, though over the last few years these methods have had to be adapted for their use in the World Wide Web. With a vast mailing list of leads, a business can use marketing techniques to try to convert as many leads as they can into sales. The question is how to get those leads? What lead generation methods are popular now?
Social Media – Over the last few years there has been a massive, unprecedented increase in the number of users of social networking websites such as Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter. Here is a fantastic opportunity for a business to create valuable leads just by signing up and adding friends. The secret to success in the use of social media for lead generation lies in creating a sense of trust and sociability between your business and the contacts generated. It is important to befriend potential customers before you give them the marketing pitch otherwise they will see no value in the products or services that you are promoting.
Landing Pages – A landing page is a web page that is displayed when an internet user clicks on an advertisement or a search engine result link. Landing pages, sometimes referred to as lead generation pages, have to be optimized in order to tempt the user to enter their details into your database to create a lead. The landing page is critical as you are trying to persuade a potential customer to invest their time and energy in understanding your offer and fill in their contact details whilst risking unwanted spam since you are asking them to share their details.
Mailing Lists – Mailing lists have been used for decades in lead generation, way before the advent of the internet. Though with the massive increase in internet users, comes ways to access the contact details of those users and, more recently, software that enables businesses to download huge mailing lists and filter details into potential leads; simple, but effective.
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This post was written by Mark Walters on December 13, 2010




