Make Money With Lead Based Advertising

Giving away free stuff on your website is a great way to attract more customers. The question is, where do you get free stuff to give away? There are several companies on the web that will pay you to give away free stuff. If you have a website or newsletter, you can turn it into extra money by giving away free trials, samples, sweepstakes, coupons, catalogs and a variety of other offers.

Consider an affiliate program that compensates you based on actions performed by the visitors to your website. This is termed "lead-based" advertising. The visitor may simply click on the banner or link, and fill in her email address or even sign up for free trial subscriptions, free products or free information. This signup is considered a "lead."

The more information requested by the advertiser generally dictates a higher payout to you, the affiliate. Currently, payouts range from $0.50 to over $20 per unique signup. Because this form of advertisement is much more productive for the advertiser, the payout is significantly greater.

An example of a popular offer that I run on my website http://www.FreebiesPlus.com/ is the "30 Minutes of Free Long Distance." One of the companies that I have listed below, http://www.onResponse.com/, will pay you $1.40 every time somebody clicks on your link and then fills out the necessary information to get the free long distance.

In my experience approximately 45% of all the clicks that you get to the link will end up singing up for the 30 minutes of free long distance. Now with some simple math we can see that this works out to around $0.60 per click. You dont even have to run a banner. A simple text link that you can put anywhere on your website will do. This is one of the most popular offers, but a few other offers that you could run are:

http://www.Away.com/
Find and plan a trip online -- $3.50


http://www.Coolsavings.com/
Print free coupons from your computer -- $1.00


http://www.Dash.com/
Download a browser add-on (shopping) -- $2.00


http://www.Excite.com/
Play games -- $1.70 Signup for their free ISP service -- $1.70


http://www.InsiderScores.com/
Free insider trading alerts -- $0.60


http://www.Iwin.com/
Join a sweepstakes community -- $0.75


http://www.Pagoo.com/
Obtain a free Internet phone number (download) -- $4.50
On my website I have set up a page that outlines several different companies that allow you to run these types of free offers on your website. There is not cost to join any of these companies. Visit http://www.freebiesplus.com/webprograms.html

Signing up with a few of these companies and running free offers on your website is a surefire way to increase the amount of money your site makes for you. I have also found that these offers work extremely well in newsletters.

About the Author

Jeff Gorelick, webmaster at http://www.FreebiesPlus.com/, has been developing and promoting websites for over 3 years. He is an expert in affiliate programs and lead based advertising. to contact him, emailing him at jeff@freebiesplus.com



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