Most every distributor in the MLM industry has a lead problem.  Finding high-quality, qualified MLM leads is the biggest problem that most networkers face.  It’s what stops their businesses from growing – without good leads, a downline is dead in the water.

MLM Leads And How They Work

There are various types of leads available for an MLM’er to grow their business, but the best type of lead you will ever have is one that YOU generate yourself.  You know WHEN you generated that lead, you know HOW you generated that lead, you know WHAT was offered to that lead, and you know that lead was not sold or resold anything else.

The best leads you will ever have are leads that you generate yourself.  That’s the ticket.

How To Generate Targeted MLM Leads

In order to generate leads, you need two things:

1. A website with a targeted offer (an offer that appeals to your market)

2. Targeted Traffic (people visiting the site that WANT to be there)

Websites are another story (you may want to use this resource for build a good site), but the keys to the kingdom lie in getting targeted traffic.  Without a steady stream of targeted visitors, the best website in the world won’t do you any good.

In order to get traffic, you must either build paid advertising campaigns (there are lots of ways to do this) – which definitely isn’t “free”.  There are systems you can use for getting targeted leads on a paid source that actually offset and compensate you automagically, but that’s for another post.

This is about FREE MLM leads – in order to do that, we need to leverage a FREE traffic source.

Where can you get free traffic, and lots of it?
FORUM MARKETING

- Join the biggest targeted forums in your market.
- Search Google for “discussions” in your market.
- Establish yourself as an authority and a helper by providing valuable posts to the forum.
- Answer people’s questions in the forum (without being overly promotional).
- Have a good signature, with an enticing link, such as a link to a freebie.

Forum Search Engines (use these to find targeted forums):
boardreader.com
omgili.com
forumssearch.com
boardtracker.com (used to be my favorite, but it’s been under construction for awhile)

Forum Directory:
directory.big-boards.com

BLOG MARKETING

Blogs are a very decent way to get targeted traffic IF (and only IF) they are hosted on a domain that YOU control.  There are some “opportunities” out there that give networkers a blogging “platform”, and tell them to blog away.  The problem is, they build the blogging platform owners site – NOT your site.  This means you are doing a lot of hard work for something that you will never own (and in this case, are even paying to rent).  

If you are building someone else’s website via blogging, you are not building your own brand and your own asset – which is exactly what an employee does.  Make sure if you blog, you are investing in and building your own assets.

- Best way to get blog traffic is to create incredible content.
- Create “link bait” (see this link for more info – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link_bait)
- Write something highly controversial.
- Utilize trackback links as a form of conversation marketing with other bloggers. (use this resource – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trackback)
- Participate in blog carnivals. See blogcarnival.com
- Leave comments on other peoples’ blogs. (Do NOT spam or use automation)
- Expand your reach through RSS feed syndication.

RSS Feed Aggregators:
technorati.com
syndic8.com
feedage.com
newsisfree.com
newzalert.com
feedsee.com
(search for market specific aggregators, using “keyword” aggregator)

Blog Communities:
blogengage.com
fuelmyblog.com
blogher.com (for women only)

Blog Directories:
globeofblogs.com
bloggernity.com
blogville.us
ontoplist.com

Pligg sites (also Scuttle, phpDug, and PublicBookmark):
blokube.com
tipd.com
bizsugar.com
fwisp.com

(There are literally thousands of these kind of sites. Search for some in your market.)

NOTE: The best opportunity for building links and building a blog is by guest-blogging.  Guest blogging is where you write a high-quality blog post for someone else in your market, and in return they provide a couple of links back to your blog.

myblogguest.com is a community where you can find places to be a guest blogger.

Some guest blogging or guest article opportunities:

www.blogussion.com/write-for-us/
www.zeromillion.com/involve/
www.bloggernews.net/write-for-bnn
www.fuelyourblogging.com/contribute/
smartblogs.com/interested-in-writing-for-smartblogs
www.sitepronews.com/call-for-writers/
homebasedbusiness.com/profiles/blog/new
slashdot.org/submission
www.lifehack.org/contribute
www.knowtebook.com/publish

(There are thousands of places where you can potentially be a guest blogger! Search for blogs in your market)

DOCUMENT SHARING SITES

Use these to create mini-articles, and generate targeted links and traffic back to your site.

scribd.com
isuu.com
docstoc.com
calameo.com
edocr.com
ensips.com
pdfcast.org (for PDF’s)

EBOOK SHARING SITES

Ebooks are a fantastic promotional tool, especially the Amazon KDP platform.  Highly recommended

Amazon.com (KDP Select)
free-ebooks.net
getfreeebooks.com
ebookdirectory.com
e-booksdirectory.com
free.yudu.com
manybooks.net
witguides.com
bookyards.com
bibliotastic.com
smashwords.com
sharewareebooks.com
ebookjunkie.com (Free ebooks category)
ebookmall.com (Free ebooks category)

PODCASTING SITES

A podcast is simply audio content.  It can be an interview, a training, or the equivalent of an article.  They are very easy to use, you simply record your podcast, upload, and it’s good to go.

allpodcasts.com
digitalpodcast.com
feeds4all.com (podcast category)
fluctu8.com
getapodcast.com
gigadial.net
godcast1000.com (Christian)
ipodder.org
itunes.com
learnoutloud.com
mirpod.com
podbean.com
podcast411.com
podcastalley.com
podcastblaster.com/directory/
podcastdirectory.com
podcastingnews.com
podcasting-station.com
podcastpickle.com
podcastpup.com
podfeed.net
social.zune.net/podcasts/ (Zune)
stitcher.com
techpodcasts.com

FREE PRESS RELEASE SITES

A press release is a very powerful way to great buzz and excitement around newsworthy information about your business.  Press releases get picked up by major media outlets and can catapult virtually unknown businesses to the forefront of the media.

Here are a view outlets you can use for Press releases:

1888pressrelease.com
25pressreleases.com
afly.com
bignews.biz
downloadjunction.com (software related)
emeapr.com/en/
freepressindex.com
free-press-release.com
i-newswire.com
ideamarketers.com
mediasyndicate.com
newsreleaser.com
newswiretoday.com
onlineprnews.com
openpr.com
pr.com
pressbox.co.uk
pressexposure.com
pressking.com
pressmethod.com
pressreleasepoint.com
pr-inside.com
prlog.org
prurgent.com
release-news.com
theopenpress.com
webnewswire.com

FREE CLASSIFIED AD SITES

Classified ads are an easy way to promote, get links, and drive free targeted traffic.  Each site will have their own rules as to what can/cannot be advertised, and how the advertisement should work.

ablewise.com
adoos.com
adpost.com
allfreeads.com
american-classifieds.net
backpage.com
classifiedads.com
classifiedsgiant.com
craigslist.org
domesticsale.com
ebayclassifieds.com
eclassifieds4u.com
epage.com
finditclassifieds.com
freeclassifieds.com
geebo.com
inetgiant.com
kedna.com
locanto.com
newfreeclassifieds.com
olx.com
oodle.com
pennysaverusa.com
salespider.com
usfreeads.com
webclassifieds.us

FREE ONLINE DIRECTORIES

And online directory is simply an organization of websites, separated by category.  These directories will give you a link back to your site, and some (especially DMOZ) carry a good deal of influence with their link.

01webdirectory.com
arakne-links.com
azlisted.com
bhanvad.com
dmoz.org
exactseek.com
fourfind.com
freeadvertisingdirectory.com
freewebdirectory.org
gmdir.com (Your site must use Google maps)
illumirate.com
info-listings.com
innerseek.com
itzalist.com
mavicanet.com
netinsert.com
smartlinks.org (submit via email)
somuch.com
thalesdirectory.com
theseoking.com
topsiteswebdirectory.com
uudir.com
worldwidewub.org
(Do a search to find market-specific directories)

SOCIAL BOOKMARKING

Social bookmarking is a way that people share content and information.  You’d be surprised how many people use social bookmarking to share content.  Don’t pre-judge your market!

delicious.com
Slashdot.org
Digg.com
Reddit.com (manual submission recommended)
Tagza.com
Fark.com
Connotea.org
Netvouz.com
Diigo.com
Bibsonomy.org
Folkd.com
Linkagogo.com
Tipd.com (Financial)
Jumptags.com
OYAX.com
Boomarking.com
Karmalynx.com
HealthRanker.com
linkedwords.com

Q&A WEBSITES

These are sites that dedicated to questions and answers.  You simply show up, provide answers (and in many cases, links) to create authority and drive traffic.  Free, easy, and fast.

able2know.org
akaqa.com
allexperts.com
answerbag.com
answers.com
answers.yahoo.com is probably the most popular Q&A site currently.
aolanswers.com
ask.fm
ask.metafilter.com
askville.amazon.com/Index.do
blurtit.com
fluther.com
formspring.me
justanswer.com
kgbanswers.com
linkedin.com/answers (talked about in lesson #82)
mahalo.com/answers/
querycat.com
quomon.com (tech related)
quora.com
stackexchange.com
stackoverflow.com (programming related)
theanswerbank.co.uk
webanswers.com

Of course, there are other free ways to get leads (such as social media marketing, video marketing, etc) but these strategies will help you begin driving free leads and traffic to your websites!

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