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[H916]How To Buy Leads

by Tyrone Swainson, Tyr

Email leads , for instance, are a big waste of time. Most people will never open an email from someone they don't know. Just think of your own email habits. When was the last time you opened an email, from a complete stranger, and actually bought something? Once people see an email from a stranger they usually hit the delete button. It's like an automatic response to spam.

Cold calling phone leads is an even bigger issue. Before you go out and buy any more phone leads open up a phone book and cold call as much people as you want. It's pretty much the same as buying phone leads as you'll get pretty much the same result.

The problem with phone leads is that you're calling people who don't know who you are or why you're calling them. On many occasions these people don't even remember requesting information for a business or product. You'll have to become a master at handling rejection if you intend on cold calling phone leads all day. Plus, if you 're like 97% of home business owners that feels like crawling under a rock every time someone says no to their opportunity, cold calling phone leads isn't your gig.

Postal Leads are perhaps the most recycled leads of the bunch. Much like emails but far more costly. Large corporations use direct mail marketing because they market products that

A)Have mass appeal (internet, phone etc)

B)Have a very high profit margin

C)Are very affordably priced (most home based products aren't)

Most home based businesses don't have products that match all three criteria. What's even worst, though, than prospecting for customers through mail is prospecting for business downline.

The truth is that mailing out postcards and prospecting for downline is the biggest money loser there is. You will literally spend thousands of dollars mailing stuff to unqualified people who have little to no interest in your business opportunity.

Therefore, before you buy leads again you should ask yourself two very important questions.

1)How were theses leads generated?

2) What information was used to target them?

If you can't answer these questions chances are then that these are only generic, unqualified leads and the only people that benefit from generic leads are the companies that sell the them.

The key, therefore, to getting good qualified leads is to generate them yourself by using a system that can pre-qualify your leads for you. The greatest thing about generating your own leads is that your leads are exclusive to you and they can be pre-qualified for your business or opportunity before you ever pick up the phone and call them.

If you take the time to learn a system that could generate leads you will reap massive rewards. If you don't take the time to learn a system you will go broke buying leads before you know it.

Building Opt-In List is an essential part of Internet Marketing. Every successful marketer online has a personal list of subscribers and is using it to profit online. Building personal list may sound easy – you just purchase an autoresponder service, create a few messages, place subscription form on your site and drive visitors to your subscription form.

Although these steps are very true and simple, unfortunately building list is not that easy. Someone inexperienced in web promotion will have difficulties in driving traffic necessary for building an opt-in list. Traffic can sometimes be a problem even for a more experienced people.

Getting enough traffic for list building is not the only problem. Many people overlook the importance of keeping constant contact with all members of your list. People tend to be forgetful and if you don't contact them often, they can easily forget that they even subscribed to your list!

Therefore, to solve problem with traffic many people decide to simply buy leads. Buying leads can save a lot of time necessary for list building. They can also avoid the second problem by creating enough pre-written messages to keep up with their leads for a longer time, or they can use broadcast option often. The idea of buying leads is great and many marketers are using this method, but there is a catch.

Many people don't like the idea of their e-mail, or other contact info being sold. And once when they subscribed, there probably was a privacy statement saying that their contact information is safe and will never be rented, sold, or used for any purpose whatsoever. It is possible though that they were lied to, or tricked. Subscription forms without privacy statement have a lot lower conversion rates and very often these subscribers are not very responsive.

Other very important reason why leads shouldn't be bought is because you can never be really sure if you are purchasing a safelist. People willing to profit quickly can easily sell blacklists. They use spam robots to collect as many e-mails as they can online, but instead of sending spam, they decide to earn some money by selling those e-mails. This is even worse because marketer who purchased this list will be accused of spam! Although this probably won't happen since leads are not just e-mail addresses but also names and other contact info, it is possible!

A successful Internet marketer knows a true value of responsive leads and will not sell them. He has worked hard in building his list and creating a certain relationship with all members of that list. It isn't likely that he will risk his reputation and trust by selling a responsive list. It is more likely that you will get a non responsive list of leads.

On the other hand it is possible that these leads are fully aware of selling and that they agree with it. In that case buying leads is ok, but you never really know…

If you are interested in buying leads, always use your due diligence whenever you come across some lead selling offer. Make sure you are buying opt-in leads (double opt-ins are even better) and that all of them are aware of a new list owner. If you are not sure of the latter, approach your new leads carefully and even consider asking them to confirm their subscription again. You can lose some leads this way, but it's much better than to risk spam accusations.

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