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Tax time is fast approaching and all over the land, home business owners are scrambling to get their receipts and financial paperwork out of the shoe box and into some semblance of order.
If this is you, here's some great tips from Linda Rothschild of head of the New York City professional organizing firm Cross It Off Your List, for how to get it together once and for all.
People new to network marketing often ask if they should buy leads to promote their business. My advice to them is to save their money and generate their own high quality leads using a variety of low cost techniques both on and off line.
Here's some of the best ways to attract leads online. You can:
- Write articles and get them published on content sites like WAHM Articles and submit them to ezines and web based magazines like MLMWoman.com to promote your business
- Participate in bulletin boards like MLMTalk and share your experience and advice with others
- Start your own ezine using a service like Constant Contact to promote your business
- Start a web based networking site using Ryze.com, Ning.com, or Squidoo.com
- Send out an electronic press release about your business using prweb.com
- Create a web site for your business or create a blog for your business
using Blogger, Wordpress.com, or Typepad.com
- Promote traffic to your web site using search engines and pay per click advertising
- Run classified ads in online ezines and network marketing websites Web Classifieds that cater to your target market
- Set up a Facebook or MySpace page for your business.
Off the net you can:
- Join a local business networking group and buy their mailing list and
send out a letter or a postcard introducing yourself and offering a
free sample or a discount to new customers
- Join a business leads group where the other members give you leads as part of the weekly meetings
- Attend continuing education classes to meet people who have an interest in what you sell
- Teach a class at your local community college on how to start a home based business
- Run low cost classified ads in your local daily or weekly newspaper
You get the idea. By collecting the leads yourself through a variety of means you'll have access to quality leads that really will bring you business.
Linda Locke
MLM Marketing Blog
