Thursday, November 12, 2009

Free MLM Leads - Are They Worth It?

People who are into MLM businesses usually go to any lengths to get information about potential prospects, which they term as leads. These leads are usually email addresses of people because the marketing pattern is mostly conducted online nowadays. In days of yore and even today, phone numbers are also significant leads and even MLM businesses use these leads for their cold calling activities. But because cold calling has garnered a lot of flak lately, many MLM leaders are steering clear of phone numbers. Leads in today's world usually refer to email addresses.

Now, there are some services on the Internet that offer to provide free MLM leads. You will find many companies offering to create leads for you either for free (they will be looking at selling some other more profitable service to you to cover for the cost of lead generation) or for a very small sum. Any MLM leader will be quite tempted by such an offer because there is a preconceived notion that leads are all it takes to make an MLM venture a success. And that is the reason most MLM leaders take the bait.

But, are these free MLM leads really worthwhile? Nary a bit! Even if these leads number in thousands, they will probably do zilch for furthering your business prospects.

Why is that so? There is a simple reason for that. To understand that reason, you must understand what targeted leads mean. Targeted leads are leads of those people who have evinced interest in a business opportunity like yours. For example, a person who visits your blog, wishes to know more and gives you your email address voluntarily so that you can send them more information is a targeted lead. Needless to say, such targeted leads are what have a higher probability to convert into business.

This is where the shortcoming of the free MLM lead services lies. These services do not find targeted leads specifically. Their leads are just some randomly generated email addresses that are passed on to you. Now, do you see why this won't help you a bit? Because these emails are just at random, they do not have any interest for your business. You will need to use every trick in the book to pursue them and convince them to join your opportunity. Quite an insurmountable task, that!

If at all you are planning a lead generation campaign for enhancing your MLM network (which you certainly must), make sure you research on the targeted lead generation methods that exist. Take the help of the Internet in your research and you will understand how to go about it.

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