So Now You Have Your New Home Based Business, How Do You Get leads?

Q:
Malika,

I'm a novice in the Home Based Business. I've joined Ambit Energy.
For all of you who aren't familiar with this company check this link to have an idea of what is this all about:

http://jaimeraga.energy526.com/

Well, I started doing great, but I want to generate more leads for my business to grow.
Any ideas? I mean, I can't complain; but I still haven't gotten to the level I pictured myself into when I joined the business.

Thanks,
Jaime

A:
Jaime,

I'd be more than happy to help you promote your business! There are several ways both online and off to promote your business. Some cost and some are free. You should consider doing both at the same time.

This includes, but is NOT limited to:

* Building your own lead capture page
* Building a full content site
* Creating a blog
* Building a list and auto-responder newsletter series
* Creating multiple social network profiles
* Video marketing
* Article marketing
* Classified ads

One thing to always remember is your goal is to add value where ever you go. Always come from the intention of customer service, "how can I help YOU" attitude and mind set. Never promote your business before you promote yourself as a valuable resource of information on topics you have experience and knowledge in.

On of my favorite places is yahoo answers! where tons of people as all kinds of questions that are categorized by industry. You can go there answer questions and include links in your resource box to establish yourself as an expert.

The good news is, most people give crappy answers or do too much self promotion instead of genuinely giving good advice. Just don't be one of them and traffic will swell to your website and capture pages.

The bad news is even those lame answers are immortalized on the Internet for all to see when others type in the same question over days, months and years in to the future so you want to be careful not to be one of them :-)

Combining attraction marketing with automated lead generation is he way to go.

I have done all this and coach others how to do the same.

I actually have a link to the site on the bottom of this blog page.