There are several ways on the internet you can go about generating your own leads for free. May aim is just to provide the information on these sources.

Traffic Exchange: These are site where you click on people ads to generate credits for your own site(s) you have two main formats manual surf or automated surf, and a combination of both either way your looking at the ads for 15-30 seconds depending on the traffic exchange. For example some traffic exchanges are Traffic swarm, easyhits4u, hit safari, Royal Surf, Traffic Pro and Traffic Splash.

Forum Marketing:-This is the process of going to different forums and posting real solutions to peoples problems and in the process leaving information about signature ad at the bottom of your post its similar to the signature file in your e-mail. There are forums on just about anything you are interested in, all you have to do is do a search in your search engine of choice.

Blog Marketing:- This is the process of putting down one's thoughts and interest in a journal form on the internet, for others to see. Whatever interest you; you can blog about it. There are a few places you can go about creating a blog for free. But the two most common are Wordpress and Blogger.

Press Release:- This is the process of writing about something new and exciting and releasing it to the the various press release media resources out their on the internet. Eg. www.prweb.com

Article Marketing:- This is the process of writing about what you know, like this hubpage and putting in an article form and then adding an author bio at the end of the article. The article also must also be original content to be placed on the article sites and directories.

Social Marketing:- This is latest form in marketing its the make up of Video marketing sites for eg. like youtube,Google Videos, Aol videos, and many more.And then you have the Social Media sites like facebook, myspace, twitter, and many others. Just on the Social marketing aspect there is just so much more.

Social bookmarking:- This is similar to using the bookmark tab in your tool bar, but with the added benefit of other people being able to add your bookmark to theirs. This is done through the process of tags, labelz and categorization. Social bookmarking benefits everybody because it's an alternative to using the search engines for finding information.These are sites that are considered social bookmake sites, eg Digg,delicious,furl,Reddit,myweb.and Diigo

Joint Venture:- A joint venture as where you find someone with a list and arrange to split profits from a promotion that you would like to promote to that particular person list.This is a more advance technique that requires a little more from you, that you would negotiate with the list owner.

Co-Registraion:- This is a form of bartering cross-promotion. You approach a prospective partner and present an offer which promotes both newsletters at no charge. You also have networks that you can pay but for this purpose we shall only discuss no charge techniques.You both agree to offer your members of ezine to everyone who signs up for yours by placing your partner’s logo and ezine name on your own registration thank-you page. In exchange, your partner agrees to work the same approach for your ezine. You then arrange to trade an equal number of subscribers each contract month. This is another advance technique that requires you to learn more advance marketing.

E-mail Marketing: This is a more advance form of marketing because you have to create a sign in section on your website or blog, then have your autoresponder setup and populated to send out e-mails on a regular basis.

Free E-books: This is another advance form of lead generation technique. By create your own e-book, rebranding an e-book or have one created for you, this allows you to provide people with good information, they are seeking to solve their problem. You now have their name, e-mail, phone number and what ever other information they give you in return for the free ebook or you have placed your links within the ebook to other products, or service to gain more traffic and hopefully more sales. You can also let other people away your ebook, they intern give it away to others and so on creating a viral marketing process where you have people clicking on your links in the free e-book you gave away. Sending you more traffic over time to your site, where people will hopefully signup for your offer, and buy one of your products.

Search Engine Optimization (SEO). This is when you build your websites so that it gets rank higher in the search engine for specific keywords that you are targeting to your site and ultimately your business. These techniques requires alot of understanding of how the internet spiders work, that is; how they are viewing your website. They look at such this like <h1> Header, Meta tags, keyword density, site structure, number of backlinks, and many more. So if you can get these things specking to the spiders effectively you can get your pages ranked high.

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Pay Per Click (PPC)

This is one of the most well know from of online marketing, there are endless source you can pay to get PPC marketing online. But we will only talk about some of the more popular ones here. Like Google, Yahoo, And MSN ad center. This for of marketing is when you pay for ads when someone clicks on your ad. So you signup with one of these search engines and then setup your ad to be displayed on there network whenever anyone uses that particular search engine. This is one of the fastway to get result but its also the most costly if you don't know what your doing.

Online News Paper Ads

These are ads from online News papers where you pay for a ad for a certain period of time, that is a week, a month or a year what ever your budget would allow.

Safelist:- These are list of people who have signed up to have ads sent to them where they get credit of cash to look at your offer. Usually about a penny, or less.

Ezine Advertising:- These are target advertising sites that people have specified that they want to receive specific information about a particular topic or subject. Then the owners of these ezines then sell ad space on their sites or to delivered to their list.

List Brokers:This is where you purchase a list from a list broker to market your own products or service.