The life-blood of every business is traffic and leads. What many fail understand is what to do with a lead. What is a lead? A lead is a potential sales contact or an individual or company that may express interest in your goods or services. For example, you may have marketing software that you think is the best in the world. In order for anyone to see it you must have traffic. In the world of online marketing collecting leads is an essential activity. The difference between getting a sale only and get a sale and keeping that email address is like night and day. The art of getting leads and keep that lead by way of email address can determine future success.

I'll take it a step further in regards to leads. When you hold on to that leads email address you will have a potential customer forever. That means your can advertise and sale your products to that individual over and over. This is what makes doing business a little easier. You don't have to constantly chase potential customer you will always have them. Some have said that if you have 1000 leads you will average $1 per lead per month. That would meant that you can average $1000 per month. You should now see the value of keeping leads and collecting them. The more leads the better. Recently, I came across a site that is like a lead magnet. I think that everyone can benefit from this site.

For more information go here => Targeted Leads, Sales Leads  and Business Leads

Get more leads with more marketing tools

Do  you need to raise money for a project or something you love? Then you must ask yourself the question what is Crowdfunding, Crowdsourcing and Crowdsharing? The key word here in all of these words is the word crowd. All of these word involves the action of a Crowd. Crowdfunding is simply funding by the action of a crowd. Crowdsourcing is sourcing or the process of contracting a business function to someone else in this case a group of willing workers. Crowdsharing is sharing with others with the help of the crowd. Crowdfunding has been around for a long time. At this current time Crowdshaing is in and snail mail is out. The internet has put Crowdsharing on steroids. Crowdsharing has been used to gather funds for personal use, business use, religious use,etc. You can use it to fulfill most of your dreams. You may have a desire to help others or yourself. It simple you create a project and then let people know about it. They can give a little or a lot. This will help you to reach you goal through contributions. Whatever your dreams are to help the homeless, help a struggling single parent or start your own business you can do this through Crowdfunding.

One of the best Crowdfunding platforms that I have seen is Crowdfunding International. CFI seems to have the right tools for success. They also have great support teams that will be help you too reach you goal. The beauty of CFI is that while you are trying to raise funds for your project you can help others create their own. By doing so they will be supporting your project. For more information please watch this amazing video.

If you desire to get started just click here  => www.crowdfundinginternational.eu/user/willrobinson

 Seee the Lead capture pages are essential to ones success online. The bottom-line is you must capture email address of visitors to your site or blog. This way you can always contact them for future product reviews and sales. What is so amazing about this is that the truth of this is in plain sight. When you go to Radio Shack, Wal-Mart or any store you are asked  for your email address. Many companies like the ones listed can use your email to contact you anytime they want. This is how your online business can be run. The more emails addresses you collect the better your chances are are of  getting repeated customers. The beauty of collecting email is the ability to be able to communication anything at anytime to like-minded people.  You may ask the question do you have to pay for m lead capture pages. The answer to this answer is yes and no. You can purchase lead capture pages, but also get them for free. Listed below is just one site that offer free capture pages. You can simply sign-up and give it all a test drive. See the sample capture page below.

Traffic Ad Bar
Traffic Ad Bar is a bar that is used to help you to draw traffic to your ads or business. This ad bar allows you to get credits that can be used for advertising your own product and services. The beauty of traffic ad bar is that you can use it for free. There is also a premium package. One of the unique features is the social network-like connection. You can connect with the top members and top surfers which as listed on the site. You don't have to waste time searching for them. You can connect with these members and chat with them at anytime.. Other great features are the bonus page and the bonus day. Both of these features allow you to really crank out those credits and points like crazy. Now I  must say the feature that stands out the most to me is when you join. New members as of today get 100, 000 free points to start. You can earn points in several ways like clicking the links in the daily email, promoting your sites with the Traffic Ad Bar banner, adding their widget to your website and of course, surfing other sites. I would recommend TAB to all because of the social-like feature alone. The key to success online is networking and collecting email addresses that can be done here with ease.

Other Traffic Ad Communities:

Traffic Exchanges is a way of getting eyeballs on your websites. Many have said that traffic exchanges don't work. Could be that some do not know how to use traffic exchanges properly. I like to use manual and auto-surf traffic exchanges to collect email address and to promote my  social and business links. I have  realized over the years that there is a wrong way and there's a right way. This simple strategy has worked for me. I sure it will work for you also. I'm going to focus on auto-surf traffic exchanges because getting the traffic is a little easier and there's less work in the long run.

Step 1
Join a traffic  auto-surf exchanges.

Step 2
Go to the area where you can list your websites, text ads or banners. You can actually use all three.
List only two websites. I often use one traffic exchange link and then a business link. Normally, I
don't exceed promoting two links.

Step 3
Start auto-surfing for credits or pay for credits, this will put everything on auto-pilot.

Step 4
Now this is where the strategy comes in. This step could actually be the first step
You will join 5-10 traffic exchanges. Then promote only two links.
This is how the strategy will works.

You will promote either promote a  manual traffic exchange or a auto-surf traffic exchange splash page.
The reason for this is to make your message to the viewers short and sweet.
If you could make your own splash pages that could be to your advance.

So, here is what the strategy looks like:
1-10 Traffic Exchanges (Auto-Surf or Manual)

Here is a list of my top 10:
1. 10K HITS
2. 247 AUTO HITS
3. ALEXA SURFING  
4. AUTO TRAFFIC MYTH
5. EBESUCHER
6. HIT LINK
7. HITLEAP
8. LINK COLLIDER
9. OTOHITS
10. RANK BOOST UP

The final piece of the strategy is setting up the links on the 5 or 10 auto-surfing traffic exchanges.

Please Part 2 of this blog for more details.