Harvesting Leads from Yahoo Groups

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 bottom, giving a link to your website or product. I personally would suggest doing both if you want to get best results. There aren't that many groups that allow shameless promotions - and 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 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 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).

2. Bonus Advertising Do you have a product or service that doesn't sell good? Offer it as a free bonus for someone else's product or service. Get free advertising by placing your web site or business ad on product or in product package.