One way to make money online is to sell leads or use these leads yourself for prospecting possible clients or consumers. There are tons of traditional ways in gathering leads. Some of which is by giving away freebies in exchange of Names and Phone numbers. Not known to many, this same strategy of gathering leads can also be done online specially through blogs.
Find Your Niche Market
If your primary focus in blogging is to make money it is advisable to target a specific niche market that revolves around your interests and passion. If you are passionate about pets and animals some possible niches you may want to focus on can be Dog Training niche or Dog Grooming niche. It will be easy for you to write blog posts and ideas revolving these subjects since you are passionate about pets and animals.
Now you might think who on earth will likely be reading whatever it is you’ll be writing about dog grooming. Well the truth is, there are tons of people who loves the same stuff that you love and they are your target readers and followers. These animal lover people are the ones who will likely read and comments on your blog posts. That is a sure market you’ve got there.
Gathering Leads – Giving Freebies
Aside from the fact that the followers of your blog will likely buy products or services you will be offering them, they are also the ones who will likely signup to your online freebies. Your giveaways may probably be an eBook that shares “Tips on how to Tame a Dog”, or “Guidelines in Raising Stowaway Cats” etc. In creating an eBook all you need is one worth sharing article (originally written by you) and turn that into a PDF file and create a 3d Book cover. I will write a different post on creating an eBook in the future for you 
Another freebie you can give can be a link of a recorded webinar or private YouTube video that also discuss stuff about animals and/or related topics.
Create a little ad poster of these freebie videos and/or your eBook with a Signup Form which they have to fill in order to get the freebies.
Signup Form
In creating presentable Signup Form I personally recommend using Mail Chimp. Mail Chimp is an email marketing tool that helps in managing mailing lists or leads. A free MC account allows you to store up to 2000 leads. Want to have your own Mail Chimp account and start creating a signup form, CLICK HERE.
With your worth sharing blog posts plus your Mail Chimp signup Form and your Freebies, you are now ready to start gathering leads. Start making money from your leads by offering them your product (or affiliate product) or services and/or sell them to companies. If you want to learn how to sell leads, here is an eHOw article: http://www.ehow.com/how_6737399_sell-sales-leads.html
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