Here are some great tools that are free online tools for generating leads.
Before I list the lead generation tools, I want to let you know how to generate leads with the tools.
The idea behind these is that you publish a good, targeted article on a topic your clients might be searching on. While reading the article, either within the article or at the end of the article you have a link to your website that captures leads. For example, if you are selling organic gardening, you could end the article by saying, “For 10 more tips on organic gardening, visit…” That way someone that is interested in the topic knows where to go for more information. And to get those additional tips, you should require their email address.
So where can you publish these articles to get high visibility in search engines and dive people over to your lead generation engine to make you more money?
- eZine Articles – Very popular article publishing location.
- Squidoo - Great way to add an article and also integrate your RSS feeds.
- Hubpages – This one requires that you are careful in your writing as you are not supposed to promote yourself.
- Wordpress.com – Write a free blog and use tags to get higher visibility and more leads.
- GoArticles – Another article repository that is popular.
These are just some of the free online lead generation tools you can use. Remember that they only work well if you have done a good job of building an online lead generation engine that is producing results.