Start-Over Success Business Under $500:
Lead Generation

Do you like working on the computer and have tech, sales, and other marketing skills? Would you be willing to work hard to make a great income? 

If you like the idea of profiting from your efforts, doing Lead Generation may be for you. There is a huge potential for the right person who’s okay with starting small, building an agency, and then ringing the cash register. 

Your clients will pay you either a monthly retainer fee to keep your lead gen website referring customers to them, or on a purely pay-per-lead basis.

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What Do You Need to Start Generating Leads?

It doesn’t cost much money to start a Lead Generation business. You need a computer but you probably have one. The skills you need, you already know, or can quickly learn.

You need the willingness to work very hard. There are lots of skills and tasks required, so you need a good work ethic, to be organized, and to be determined to succeed. 

  • Computer w Good Internet Connection ($70)
  • Website ($3/mo Blue Host)
  • Domain 1, for your business sales ($18/annual)
  • Domain 2, or making cold emails ($18/annual)
  • G Suite ($6/mo)
  • Salesmanship
  • Sales Funnel
  • Copywriting
  • Tech-savvy
  • Design w Canva ($15/mo), Keynote, PowerPoint
  • Video how-to, iMovie, Windows Movie Maker, another editor
  • Payment Acceptance, auto-pay ($0)-$15

$36/ann cost and $90/mo to start, as long as you already have a good-enough computer. If not, add the price of a computer, but you can buy a refurbished one for less than a new one. 

7 Steps for Creating a Successful Lead Generation Business

Levi Earola, YouTube

Clients Want Leads from You So They Can Just Do Their Work.

The More You Learn About Your Niche, The More You Can Serve

You need to learn about the unique challenges that your prospective clients face. What are their pain points? What wakes them up in the middle of the night?

You also need to research the problems your client’s clients have. The more you understand, the more value you can bring, not just with dollars and cents, but with the values your clients and their clients appreciate and want to align with. 

Not only will be able to do a better job, but you will also set yourself apart from – and above- other lead gen providers. This means more business and loyal clients for you. 

How to Get Your First Clients

Before you begin, get the infrastructure of your business ready.

COLD PROSPECTING.  After deciding on your niche, use LinkedIn ($50/mo)  to locate marketing managers in companies you want to work for. Send cold emails or make cold calls. 

PAID ADS.
– Sam Parr, My First Million YouTube, emailed another lead generation company and offered to sell them leads. They said they’d pay $100 for leads qualified in a specific way.

From LinkedIn, he emailed marketing and growth managers of trucking companies. They said they would pay $150. 

Then, with paid ads, he drove traffic to his site that got the information required for high-quality leads for trucking companies. 

– Sean Purl, Sam’s partner on My First Million, said he would look for a fairly new, but successful Lead Gen businesses and discover a blueprint of what was working for them. After ensuring that he could sell leads for $100, he’d put his spin on the blueprint, use paid ads, and go to work. 

First, Get Traffic & Leads

You’ll build your leads and business with the same Lead Generation system you’ll use to get leads for your clients.  

What's Next For You?

Lead Generation can bring in really great money. What’s next? You can grow your business as much as you want. 

Maybe you’ll want to sell your business. Multiply your agency’s average monthly income by 20 to 40, and that’s a typical listing and selling price. For example, if your average monthly income is $20,000, you can sell for $400,000 to $800,000. That’s not bad for a business you can start with just $500. 

Reach for the moon; even if you miss you'll land among the stars.