Free MLM Leads: Not the Best Idea

If you are participating in any kind of MLM program, you may have seen some sites which offer free MLM leads and wondered as to whether they are a good thing to use. Everyone wants to get something for free, this is basic human nature. However, in the MLM world, free does not mean good. If you want to get some quality leads then you should be prepared to spend some money on them, or at least work hard to get them yourself.

 

Why Free MLM Leads Are Really Not Free

You might be thinking to yourself: well, it's free, so even if the quality is bad, I am not going to lose anything, right? Well, this is where I would completely disagree with you. Sure, the leads that you get are free, so they will not cost you anything out of pocket. However, you will be spending time contacting these free MLM leads and marketing your program to them. So while it may not cost you money to buy these leads, it will cost you your time (and maybe even money if you outsource the task) to contact them.free mlm leads

 

Free MLM Leads Are of Bad Quality

If these free MLM leads were any good, who would want to give them away. Here is a question that you should be asking yourself: if someone has an entire directory of high quality MLM leads, wouldn't it be better for them to market to these leads directly, rather than giving them away. We all know that quality leads are what will make you money in the MLM industry. Even if you have the most beautiful website and the most convincing sales materials, if nobody sees them you will not make any profit with these. The free MLM leads that many sites will give you when you sign up are typically leads that would be considered bad quality.

What I mean by that is that they are leads which are quite unlikely to result in a single person joining your program. Most probably these leads are of people who were tricked into giving their information to participate in a survey, contest or to get some kind of a freebie, such as an instructional video or MLM guide. These people were probably simply visiting the site where they entered their info out of curiosity and did not have any serious intention of joining any program.

Furthermore, these free MLM leads are very often people who have already been marketed to and presented many other programs before. They probably have their email inboxes overflowing with offers to join several MLM programs as well. You also won't know just how fresh these leads were. Even if they were not contacted by anyone since they gave their info, if it has been a few months since they did so, they would probably be confused when you contact them and start wondering what you want from them and how you got their contact information in the first place.

 

Is It Possible to Get Good Free MLM Leads?

The short answer is: yes, it is possible and it is actually something that I am doing myself. However, doing this will require that you do some work and not just fill out a form and expect free MLM leads to be handed to you. One good strategy to get leads for your MLM program would be to write an article that is related to your niche.

Then, include a link to your lead capture page in the resource box of your article and submit it to article directories. No matter how many people submit a lead, it will not cost you anything. You could also use social media to its full potential by creating a fan page, or uploading videos to a video sharing service such as YouTube. All of this can be done with a little bit of work plus effort and will result in getting free MLM leads that are actually good.

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Early Retirement Planning – Tips You Can Use

Have you already got your eye on retirement because I know I do! Whether you are in your early 30’s or just a few years away from retirement there are tips that can make your early retirement planning go a much smoother. A great thing to do in order to keep on track with your retirement plan is to sit down and write everything out. You have to figure out when you can stop working based on how much money you are going to need monthly in order to survive or live the life that you want to.early retirement planning

The sooner you start saving for retirement, the better because it gives you a little more cushion than you normally would have. Another way to save up some money is to consider taking on a side income like working online. Online marketing is how I solely support myself and have found that it can help people make a few extra hundred bucks a month to a few thousand, depending on how much you need to earn.

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How to Budget and Save Money on a Budget

It seems that everyone out there is asking how to budget and save money now days but what are the best ways to do so.  Hopefully some of these tips and techniques I have rounded up help you stay on top of your budget and save the money that you need. Start buying your items in bulk to save yourself some cash in the long run.

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How to budget and save money – Planning

A lot of bulk stores are around that will allow you to save money in the long run on items that you are going to use. I always tell my friends that if they are struggling to make a rent or house payment then they probably shouldn’t go out and try to buy or lease a new car. When you are on a tight budget you have to do everything you can to save yourself money and that includes not taking on another payment that you may or may not be able to make. See, learning how to budget and save money is something that needs to be practiced in all walks of life. If you need a new car then try to find a good used or pre owned model because it is going to be cheaper and they are often just as dependable. A brand new car off the lot is definitely not the answer on how to budget and save money.

You honestly wouldn’t have to budget your money so strictly if you were just making more income, but sometimes that is harder for some than others. However, if you make money online as a side job it can often help you stay on top of your finances and still be able to do the things that you love to do. Online marketing has become the way that I make my income full time and if you are just looking for something on the side this would be perfect too.

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Top Article Directories – How To Do This

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If your a marketer you see 2 things right off the bat on this image. What did I do?

Top Article Directories are everywhere but there are some that are just better than others in terms of traffic, click through, and ease of use.

Top Article Directories – EzineArticles?

EzineArticles is still a good place to go to but if your paying attention check out the bottom right Alexa rank. The google panda update “ate their lunch”.

I'm not saying to abandon that directory but I'm saying don't keep all of your eggs over there.

So what are some of the top article directories you should invest time into?

Simple answer – Your own 😉

I know that's a cop out but dude, listen.

It's the best advice I can give you if you want to stay in business and profitable for a very long time. Don't let others dictate what you can make.

EzineArticles was once considered one of the top article directories to post on due to their backlink and traffic strenght. Those days have changed a bit but if you have NOTHING else they are still okay to post to. I would rather you invest your time in building up your own assets.

 

Top Article Directories – 95,069 Views

Point blank. If I had 95,069 views on my blog I would have made a HELL of a lot more money than sending that traffic to ezinearticles. I'm not going to say I didn't make some money with those views but I would have made more if they were to a property I OWNED.

One of the first things my students as when they see something like this is “can you teach me that”. The very first thing I reply is you gotta graduate from my 7 day Internet Lead Generation bootcamp course first. After grasping the basic foundation of generating traffic and understanding traffic flow then it makes more sense to dive into more advance topics like high end traffic generation.

But before you invest in traffic you better be sending them to properties you OWN unlike what I did in the Image. That was a mistake on my part and part of my learning curve. I no longer push heavy traffic to properties I don't own.  With ezineArticles dying for some traffic but pissing off a ton of people (myself included) it only makes sens to use them on some projects but for the most part you need to build up your own web properties.

I'm going to show you how later on mainly because the majority of my students are not building web assets properly to monetize their traffic. That was the exact issue I had with ezinearticles. I sent them a ton of traffic and got good click throughs but wasn't converting at a rate I was happy with. The main part was I was losing a lot of traffic to Ezine ad placements. Top article directories are great for supplemental traffic but not to host your original content.  I would highly recommend when your ready to learn advance traffic generation you better be sending it to your own website and why I started the project – start a website.

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