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Business Opportunity Leads Tips – Ezine Articles

Do you know the power of Ezine Articles? They are a great way to generate Leads for your business. Writing is not easy at first, but it does become easier after a while.

Why would you want to put all this effort into writing articles? Well, here are ten benefits of submitting articles to ezines:

1. You will brand your website, your business and yourself by submitting articles to ezines. You can include your name, your business name, your credentials, your website address and your email address in your resource box.

2. You will become known as an expert on the topics you write about. This will give you and your business extra credibility which will help you compete against your competition. The most important aspect is to offer benefits and solutions to offer suggestions on how to help them with their Work From Home business.

3. Your article might also be placed on the publisher’s home page. This will give you some extra exposure as well as powerful backlinks to your website.

4. You will get extra exposure if the ezine publisher archives their ezine on their site. People might want to read the back issues before they make the decision to subscribe. And this generates more backlinks to your website.

5. You will get free advertising. This will allow you to spend your profits on other forms of advertising. You could buy advertisements in other ezines that don’t publish your articles.

6. You might get extra income from people wanting to hire you to write other articles, books, or even ask to speak at seminars. This is a great way to multiply your income.

7. You could allow ezine publishers to publish your articles in their free ebooks. Since people give them away, your advertising could multiply all over the internet.

8. You will get your article published all over the web when you submit it to an ezine publisher that has a free content directory on their website. They will allow their visitors to republish your article. More backlinks….

9. You will gain people’s trust. If they read your article and like it, they won’t be as hesitant to buy your product or service or to contact you for information.

10. You could get your article guaranteed to run in an ezine. You could agree to run one of their articles in your ezine if, in exchange, they run yours in their ezine. It’s a win/win situation.

Good, relevant, keyword-rich content is the key to getting yourself known on the internet today. Submitting articles to ezines is one way of achieving this goal.

Just start writing and in time if you make it a daily habit, you to will have success in time.

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Bill Brine-Lead Generation Master
PO Box 121, Amherst, NS B4H 3Y6 Canada
Ph: 902.667.0798
Fax: 760.280.8685
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Traffic Generation Techniques: Using Traffic Exchanges

Have you ever heard about traffic exchanges and the importance of them? Properly used, Traffic Exchanges can be another source of free traffic to your website, but you have to use them correctly. Here are a few tips.

The concept is simple. In exchange for you spending some time (usually 15 to 20 seconds) viewing someone else’s promotional page, your page gets displayed to someone else who is using the traffic exchange.

Your Promotional Page

Keep in mind that people are seeing your page for only 20 seconds or less. That is barely enough time to read what’s on the page. This time will be shortened if your page contains a lot of graphics or other things that make it slow to load. Also, if the page needs to be scrolled, your viewers will probably never do that.

For these reasons, you should never just insert an affiliate page or a long sales letter. Your page should be short and to the point, load quickly, and should be designed to fit within an 800 by 600 pixel screen, as this is the smallest screen that people can use.

Use a Traffic Exchange page as a lead capture page. Your page should contain a form to collect at least an email address for your autoresponder system.

When I design my pages, I always add 2 links to the page: Open This Page In A New Window, and Add To Favorites. Many times when surfing I have come across something that piqued my interest, and I often want to save that page in my favorites or open it in a new browser window so I can view it later. Many traffic exchanges do not provide these capabilities, so I provide them for the people who view my pages.

The code to open the page in a new window is very straightforward:

<A HREF=”YOURURL” TARGET=”_blank”>Open In New Window</A>

where YOURURL is the full URL to your traffic exchange page.

The Add to Favorites code is a bit more complex and usually involves adding some Javascript to the page. Do a Google Search for “Add to Favorites” and you will find some solutions.

Always make sure to consult your traffic exchange terms of service for what kinds of pages you can promote. Some do not allow pages with audio. Some do not allow page rotators. Many allow you to promote more than one page.

Using the Traffic Exchange

Now that you have set up your promotional page, it’s time to start using your traffic exchanges. It is a good idea to join more than one traffic exchange. To save time and effort, when surfing, use a tabbed browser like Crazy Browser or FireFox. You can set it up to load multiple traffic exchanges, one on each tab, and then rotate through the tabs to surf multiple exchanges.

Before you start using a traffic exchange, make sure your computer is well protected from viruses and malware. Unfortunately there are many unscrupulous people who use traffic exchanges to spread viruses and other nasty things through traffic exchanges. Most of the traffic exchanges have protection in place to catch this, but there is always someone who managed to slip through the protection. It is best to be safe.

If you really want to be safe when using traffic exchanges, use a Sandbox. Sandboxing is a way of protecting your PC by corralling off potentially dangerous applications such as your browser from the rest of your PC. Sandboxing your browser means that your browser effectively runs in a virtual PC within your PC. Anything nasty that happens in this sandbox cannot affect your real PC. And when you close the Sandbox, anything that was placed on your virtual PC is gone.

You can find more information and suggested free Sandbox software here: http://www.techsupportalert.com/safe-surfing.php

Discipline

Discipline is very important when using traffic exchanges. Set yourself a daily goal of surfing a certain number of total pages across all the traffic exchanges, or set aside a certain amount of time to surf. Resist the temptation to respond to the promotional pages that come across the screen. Your focus is to generate hits, nothing more.

Most traffic exchanges will allow you to purchase hits so you don’t have to spend time surfing. If you have the budget, I recommend this. Surfing can get very boring after a while, and you really have to discipline yourself to do it every day.

If you are not using a sandbox, then when you are done surfing for the day, clean out your internet cache and reboot your computer. This will help to clean out a lot of the clutter that is left on your computer from using traffic exchanges.

Keeping Track

It is very important to track whether or not your promotional pages are actually being displayed, especially if you are paying for hits. So I recommend adding a tracking code to each page.

You can set up free tracking accounts at Veretracking ( http://brincom.veretracking.com/ ), or at Google Analytics ( http://www.google.com/analytics/ )

Once you start joining more than one traffic exchange, it is a good idea to set up a text file where you track all the details of each exchange: Your login URL, your surfing URL, a short note of what kinds of pages are allowed, and the URLs of the page or pages you are promoting in that exchange. Whenever you design a new page and want to test it, this information will be invaluable.

In my experience, you will get the best results if you surf 5 or less exchanges at the same time. Any more than this and sometimes your web browser may become bogged down or even crash. I have joined 30 traffic exchanges, and I then assigned 5 of those to each day of the week and Saturday. Then I surf those 5. Occasionally, if one of the exchanges of the day is not working, I’ll add one from another day. Over time I build up a lot of hits across all the exchanges.

You will find over time that many traffic exchanges will go out of business or just not deliver the hits you are looking for. That’s fine – just drop that one and go looking for a new one. There are plenty out there!

Properly used, traffic exchanges can be a good source of leads. Use them wisely, and you will be rewarded.

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PO Box 121, Amherst, NS B4H 3Y6 Canada
Ph: 902.667.0798
Fax: 760.280.8685
Skype: billbrine
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If you had a choice of Buying Legacy for Life Leads or Buying Customers, which would you prefer?

Legacy for Life Leads – How Well do they work?

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Building Your Legacy for Life Business

So how are you going to build your Legacy for Life business? Will you pay someone for Legacy for Life leads? Will you call people who do not know you in order to build a massive downline in the Legacy for Life opportunity? Will you attempt to recruit everyone you know as a distributor? What about advertising?

If you are involved in the Legacy for Life opportunity, you have probably been advised to do all of these things to build your Legacy for Life business. How is this working for you?

When I was in the MLM game, I found that, for every 100 leads I called, maybe 1 or 2 were vaguely interested. The rest were not happy to hear from me, and many threatened or abused me on the phone. Not a great way to build a business.

And recruiting family and friends? Forget it! You will find that your family and friends are the last people who will have any confidence in you when you try to recruit them. Their answer will usually be: If you become successful then I will consider it.

As for advertising: almost impossible. The MLM companies are usually paranoid about allowing any of their distributors to advertise, especially on the internet. If you had an advertising idea, it had to be approved by the company.

And when I discussed all this with my upline, the usual answer I got was: Get 100 no’s and you are closer to the next yes! Just keep calling! Recruit everyone who comes within 3 feet of you (the Three Foot Rule)! Show the plan! Then show it some more!

This is a business plan?

After a while, it dawned on me that this MLM business model was severely flawed. The only thing we as distributors were taught to do was to recruit more distributors by selling them on the concept of buying from themselves and showing everyone they know how to do the same.

At first glance, it sounds good. But think about it: what we are really doing here is building a network of other salespeople who are buying the products simply to play the money game and allow them to earn commissions.

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Yet whenever I tried to run my MLM business in this manner, my upline would put all sorts of obstacles in my way. And the company itself was no help. The message was always the same:

1) Recruit everyone you know or see as a distributor
2) Buy all our training books and tapes
3) Attend our conventions

None of this was of any benefit whatsoever in building a strong and stable business. It stands to reason that a network of salespeople will give up in disgust after a while, when all their customers are other salespeople! Unless you are really good at motivation and willing to work 24/7, you will lose money.

Another problem I found was that the company products were usually much more expensive than similar products on store shelves, which made it even more difficult to get customers anyway. The only way to sell the products was to promote the concept of buying from yourself and showing others how to do the same.

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Bill Brine-Lead Generation Master
PO Box 121, Amherst, NS B4H 3Y6 Canada
Ph: 902.667.0798
Fax: 760.280.8685
Skype: billbrine
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