GREAT SALES LEADS: ARE THEY AN ENDANGERED SPECIES?
Whenever the subject of leads is brought up these days most lead
buyers will talk about how bad the leads are getting, how hard
they are to find, and how expensive that they are to buy. In
addition to these challenges, the companies that have
traditionally supplied leads are dropping like flies. This is
because the methods used to generate leads are disappearing
fast. This includes email marketing, telemarketing, and fax
broadcasts.
The ultimate sales lead has the following characteristics:
* The prospect is ready to buy right now * The prospects IS the
decision maker * The prospect has the money to buy now * The
prospect has already seen your offer and has made the decision
to buy from you * The prospect is not being talked to by a large
number of your competitors
Does this sound like the perfect lead? Of course it does. Is
there some magical potion to produce such a lead? More
importantly, is that potion available to me? Actually there is a
magic potion, but it only works if you have the right
ingredients. What is this magic potion? Search engine marketing,
otherwise known as paid search advertising coupled with a
carefully designed lead generation site.
Consider some facts, Google is considered by many to be the
major player involved in the search engine field. Google
Adwords