The beauty about internet business is that it can be carried out anywhere and anytime. Most people run their internet business from the comfort of their home. That's how the term "home internet business" came about and will be used interchangeably in this article.
This article highlights one strategy used in internet business and that is the Affiliate Marketing. By definition affiliate marketing is a marketing practice in which a business rewards one or more affiliates for each visitor or customer brought about by the affiliate's marketing efforts. It is a form of network marketing done online, where one website is used to drive traffic or leads to another.
Although this strategy of internet business has been established many years ago, there has been no guarantee that it will generate leads. Traffic building, lead generation still remains the biggest challenge for most home internet business owner.
Most often than not, good leads can be effectively turned into good sales. So the need to have good traffic and leads for a successful home internet business can not be overly excited here.
In this sophisticated world of internet business, leads can be obtained by using one of the following methods or a combination of both:
1) Purchase a lead database from lead suppliers
2) Create-It-Yourself (CIY) lead
The first method sounds simple and straightforward. However, you may be led into some unpleasant surprises if the supplier makes repeated sales of the same database that you purchased, even though you may be told that the lead database is always "first hand". To make the matter worse, it is not always easy to verify if a lead database falls into multiple hands.
It will be an eye-opener to know how leads are captured by some companies and subregually package them into a database for sale. A technique called "Capturing" is being used.
Imagine the following scenario:
John wants to buy a coffee maker machine. He visits a site that sells coffee maker machines. When he decides to buy, he also accepts a special discount offer by joining the mailing list setup by a lead generating company. This way, John's information is captured and subsequently sold to you.
When you contact John and tell him about home internet business, he is not interested and may even become irritated.
As you can see, this way of obtaining leads may give you the "volume" of traffic that will possibly boost your website ranking, but they are not necessarily the people who can help to convert your website into sales.
Alternately, leads can be created by internet business owner himself. Let's call it "Create-It-Yourself" (CIY) lead.
This method may be especially challenging for a novice home internet business owner, however with practice and determination it will prove to be beneficial in a long run. Beside, the create-it-yourself lead can help internet marketers reach out to their potential customers directly.
In conclusion, there is nothing more frustrated for an internet business owner than having to spend money on some worthless leads and end up being rejected by one person after the other.
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