What is Lead Generation and How it Can Help Your Business?

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Lead Generation and the Part It Plays in Business


Since the beginning of business as we know it lead generation has existed. Many business people conduct their own lead generation, while others pay professional lead generation firms to do it for them. But, neverthless, lead generation is critical for business.

What Is Lead Generation?


So what exatly is lead generation? Lead generation is the generation of interest in a particular product or service, and acquiring the interested parties' contact information. This can be achieved in many distinct ways, but that is the fundamentals of it. And why is lead generation such a popular topic lately? Because it is going through many modifications.

New strateges of lead generation developed in the beginning of the Internet. And since the Internet is still relatively new, these strategies are still being tweaked, researched and enhanced. They're being integrated with other strategies. And for most part, they are proving to be extremely succesful.

Online lead generation has not subsituted the other strategies of lead generation. Instead, it has reinforced and complemented them. It has given marketers new choices and provided them the luxury of trying new things that their competitors may not be aware yet. But we'll talk more about that later. First, let's review some of the older methods of lead generation.

· Broadcast Advertising - Advertising is one of the most notable types of advertising, and it can also be a source of lead generation. It takes on many forms such as radio, television, and newspaper ads. Some of these advertisements only serve to inform the consumer or promote brand identification. While others are intended to generate leads.

  • Direct Mail - There are numerous types of direct mail advertisements. Catalogs, advertising postcards, pre-approved credit offers that are found in mailboxes everywhere are examples of direct mail advertisements.
  • Event Marketing - The most notable type of event marketing is the trade show. But the term can mean managing lead generation at any type of live event.
  • Telemarketing - Telemarketing was once a very common method of lead generation. After the creation of Do Not Call lists in many countries, has made conducting telemarketing campaigns more complicated.
The New Direction of Lead Generation


The Internet has introduced numerous innovative tools to manage lead generation. These include the following
  • Email Marketing - Email has become a very popular form of marketing online. It is immensely cost-effective, and if executed correctly, an email campaign can be highly targeted and successful.
  • Affiliate Marketing - Affiliate marketing uses third-party webmasters or email marketers to recommmend and advertsie products, paying them a commission each time a sale is made. Affiliate marketing being used very efficiently for lead generation as well. Affiliates simply entice consumers to request more information from a business, and are compensated a particular amount of money for each legitimate lead.
  • Social Media - The social nature of Web 2.0 has brought many different types of new methods of promotion and lead generation. Business can create profiles on social networking sites, promote their websites and blogs employing social bookmarking sites, and post viral videos on video sharing sites such as YouTube.
These are just a few of the many options available to developed leads on the Internet. New technology is being created constantly, (a good example is Pinterest a social bookmarking site which sizzling hot NOW and being referred to as Facebook with pictures) bringing about new options for businesses to spread their messages across the globe and get the attention of potential clients.




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