Getting Leads With Reverse Marketing

Author: Robert Eckert

The purpose of this article is to teach the concept of lead generation through reverse marketing.

Basically, reverse marketing is the process of getting free leads by responding to every offer you can possibly find related to your niche market. The idea behind this is that people promote things for which they have an interest. Someone selling marketing information, for example, is almost always interested in seeking out more and more quality information to help them make more sales and get more leads for their offers.



Before getting into the concepts you can use to perform reverse marketing to get leads, please understand that you should avoid spamming. I do not recommend joining a bunch of lists and emaling list owners. This is spam in most cases, and it's not very effective because online list publishers know what spam is, and they certainly don't like it.

The better way to start your reverse marketing campaign can be summed up in just four simple steps:

1. Go to a search engine and enter a keyword or phrase, such as "internet marketing."
2. Visit the thousands of websites that come back in the search results.
3. For each website, write down the physical (snail mail) address and contact name of the person who owns that site.
4. Send out postcards with your offer to those people.

Note: However, it is far better to create your own product and then contact people using this technique for joint ventures. Think about which technique is better. If you just try to sell to these people, you are limited by the people you personally contact. But, if you create your own product and affiliate program, then you can possibly get those website owners to endorse your product through their lists or websites.

If you create several different products, you can do this over and over again with different niches. For example, let's say you have a product on how to grow flowers. Just go to a search engine, enter "flowers," and then contact those people as possible affiliates for your product. This is likely to create many more sales than trying to sell your product directly to those website owners.

These four steps completely avoid the spam issue and give you as many free leads as you have time to collect.

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Robert Eckert

Lead Generation Tips

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