Harvesting Leads from Yahoo Groups

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 by: Isaiah Hull

If you own an internet business or you're involved in an
affliate program and you're having trouble getting traffic to your
website or gateway, consider Yahoo Groups as an option to expand your
visibility. You can sign up for dozens of these groups tonight--some
which have subscriber bases of over 10,000 people--and then submit your
ad to them immediately.

Before you begin, you'll need to determine what
approach you're going to take for this. There are two ways to generate
traffic through Yahoo Groups: 1) by submitting your ad to groups that
are specifically looking for ADS; or 2) by providing a free service,
such as a business advice article, a free ebook, or anything else you
can think of that might help someone in you shoes - and then adding
your resource box at the bottom, giving a link to your website or
product. I personally would suggest doing both if you want to get the
best results. There aren't that many groups that allow shameless
promotions - and the ones that do are generally saturated with them.

Your next step is to get a text-editor/writing program
that allows you to format your documents by characters-per-line (I
would suggest getting the free trial version of textpad- http://www.textpad.com).
Once you have this text-editor setup, type or copy-and- paste your ad,
article, or whatever else you're going to use into the text-editor and
then format it for 55 characters-per-line (most submission forms
require you to use 55-60 characters-per-line; if you do not, they'll
reject your submission out-right).

Once you have done this, you'll want to sign up for a
Yahoo email account if you do not have one already. This is free and
you can do it easily by going to Yahoo.com and filling in your information.

Next you'll want to head to http://groups.yahoo.com,
where you'll find a directory of Yahoo Groups. You will want to find
groups that coincide with whatever product or service you are selling.
For instance, I sell marketing and business-building tools. When I go
to Yahoo Groups, I go to Business & Finance and then to Marketing.

You should have a pretty good selection for whatever
you plan to market. There are hundreds of groups and--as I mentioned
earlier--some of them have over 10,000 members currently. Sign up for
as many of these groups as possible.

Just click on the group. Click to sign up - and then
fill in your information. Make sure you have all of the boxes filled in
and then submit the form. For most of the groups, you will receive an
email in your inbox immediately. Others will take a few days.

Your next step is to read all of the new emails in your
inbox. Check out the rules list for all of the new groups you just
signed up for. Make sure your article, service, or whatever you're
posting conforms to all of the rules. Now go back to your groups. You
should see a list of groups you're in with "Post" next to the group
name. Begin posting it to each individual group, making sure you follow
the rules. Also make sure it includes your resource box.

Now you wait. The submission process can take a while.
Most posts have to be manually reviewed by group editors/moderators,
while others will go up immediately. Sometimes you'll receive a letter
from the editor, saying whether it was posted or rejected and sometimes
you wont. Once you start receving the submission responses, that means
people can now read your article or ad.

Congratulations - you just advertised to an ENORMOUS group of targeted potential leads for no cost whatsoever.

Now sit back, relax, and watch the hits accumulate on your website.

You may use this article for reprint if it remains unaltered and includes the author information and resource box. - Isaiah Hull

About the Author

Isaiah Hull publishes Work At Home Right Now, a fresh and informative newsletter about making money on the internet and using proven methods to increase your site’s traffic and profitability. If you’re looking for time-saving and money-saving tools, as well as honest business advice, come by and subscribe at http://www.workathomerightnow.net

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