20 free or low budget lead generation ideas

Here you will find 100 free or low budget lead generation ideas.

  1. Content writing. Write interesting content for your web-site, google and visitors will appreciate this.
  2. Guest posting. Find blog in your niche, ask for review of your web-site or post a guest article.
  3. Forum posting. Participate in communities in your niche, add your website to the signature.
  4. Stimulate social media activity. Offer some product for free for these who will like your product in social media.
  5. Press releases. Use template to generate press release quickly, your content will spread slowly across other sites.
  6. Make it easy review-ready. Check if it is easy to write a review about your product, make sure there is a product logo or box shot available in high resolution on your web-site.
  7. Create YouTube video. You need a video for your product or for your problem. Keep it as cheap as 5-10$. Each video should focus on certain keyword. Learn details.
  8. Image SEO for Google. Make sure you dominate in image search in Google. If not add more graphics to your posts focusing on keyword in ALT tag and file name.
  9. Low budget AdWords. Install conversion meter on your website, run AdWords campaign and find keywords with cheapest conversion costs.
  10. Buy keyword domain. It is easier to be in top 3 in SERP with keyword-oriented domain.
  11. Submit articles. To web-sites like ezinearticles.com, pay attention to “submission to 1000+ sites services”, normally they don’t work.
  12. Buying links. Working worth these days, and it not a low budget method, but still exists and need to be tested carefully.
  13. Update status in LinkedIn. Create a profile in LinkedIn, join groups and make connections. Update your status regularly, this will be shown in weekly newsletter to your connections.
  14. LinkedIn groups. In relevant groups post relevant information about your product, give something interesting for free.
  15. Map your products. Get a map of your own websites and products. Put relevant cross links.
  16. Affiliate sites. Add your product to affiliate sites and clickbank, this will attract partners and generate additional sales.
  17. Add your website to your signatures and profiles. To email signature, Skype status, forum profiles.
  18. Share your website when hire employees. Don’t just write “our company is looking for”, but put your web-site link.
  19. Business cards. Don’t just put there your name, put there name of your major product and link to its homepage.
  20. Think link baiting. When creating content and product think about its attractiveness. Articles like “100 ideas for…”, “Show you how to … step-by-step” are more likely to be linked to.