There is a tremendous number of things you can do to generate dozens of leads for your business without ever leaving your home, but one of the easiest, quickest, inexpensive most efficient ways is that of article marketing.
Here's the main concept; you have a website which is under a certain niche, obviously you want to gain as many leads and traffic as you can because you know this is the best way to make money.
So what you want to do is attract people to your website, and you can do this with article marketing.
The basis of article marketing is to write an article or have someone else write it for you.
This person will write the article in a round about way about your niche or your website including keywords in the article that you want.
This person will then write the article, include the keywords you want and if they are a good enough business they will offer some sort of a distribution process.
In this process the article with your keywords and your anchor and link will be placed in what is referred to as an author box.
An author box is an inclusion that the author includes at the end of the article, usually in some form of an html code.
Once the writer is done and is ready to submit the article to directories they will then place all the needed info in the author box and in the submission form.
Once the article is distributed it will be sent to hundreds if not thousands of directories, blogs, websites, newsletters and other places around the Internet.
When people are searching for certain keywords that are in this article or are placed in the submission form or in the author box, this article will show up.
This process is also a great way to get tons of backlinks! Now say I write an article for an individual about laptops because they own an electronic store and want to start selling things on their website, mainly the laptops.
This person will give me keywords such as, computer, laptop, notebook, networks, Internet, Sony, Toshiba, etc.
I will then place the keywords within the article at least partially, then the rest will go in the submission form.
When writing these articles the most important thing the writer can do is make it interesting, the reasoning for this is because you want to pique peoples interests and make them read the entire article and then see the anchor text at the bottom and click it.
When they click that text it will then lead him or her to the individuals website.
Now what's nice about article marketing is you can include pretty much any link you want.
So they could either give me the electronics main site link or they could give me the link to the laptops.
This in turn, leads to a lot of targeted visitors, traffic, backlinks, page rank; which will make your website show up in the results of a search engine, and potential sales; if you do it right! It's important to remember that no matter what you, the writer may think of the persons website that you always try to write a content driven, keyword optimized, quality piece of work! Believe me, I have written articles in my time, to sites I didn't like, or didn't agree with, but I always try to put my best foot forward and do what is right for the customer.
Content still is and will always be KING!