Would you like to take your network marketing lead generation to the next level in 5 easy steps?

Do you want a torrent of fresh pre-qualified prospects contacting you every single day? Of course you do, because if you've owned your own network marketing business for any length of time you understand the importance of lead generation to your success or failure. Having a steady, pre-qualified flow of prospects contacting you first looking for information about your product or service is the dream of anyone who has ever tried marketing anything online or off. When people contact you first it automatically puts you in the driver's seat to control who you work with and where you spend your time improving you team.

For the regular networker on the street, figuring out exactly how to begin generating his or her own leads is a daunting task.

Look online at all the information you're bombarded with every single day.

• Magic marketing "systems"
• Free teleseminars
• Lead generation programs
• Social networking sites
• Websites
• Splash pages

Not only could you go broke exploring all the information out there, most of which is just hype and upsell type sales letters; you can go crazy trying to figure out exactly how you can reach someone who is interested in what you are offering.

Don't go nuts, yet. Generating leads does not have to be as complicated as all that. Most importantly, if you're just getting started, it can be done absolutely free! Actually better than free, you can get your prospects to pay you to prospect to them. Okay, maybe you've heard about a funded proposal (a network marketing lead that pays you first), but while the so-called "gurus" talk about getting paid to prospect, have they actually shown you exactly how YOU can do it too? I doubt it, the gurus just give you the theory behind the funded proposal, then try to upsell you on their "system."

I'm going to show you the first easy step you should take today to boost you network marketing lead generation to the next level. So without any further fluff let's get into the meat of your first step:

1) Content Sharing- Web 2.0 has changed the face of the Internet. It had opened so many doors for network marketers it almost boggles the mind with the amount of opportunities available to you to network. Content sharing sites are one of the most wide open and valuable resources online. For the scope of this article we'll talk about two content sharing sites that can become the base of your network marketing lead generation campaign platform.

These two sites are Squidoo and Hubpages.

Both are excellent places to publish your content. The number one tip I have for these two sites is: Keep you content focused on your topic. You will find online that Google and the other search engines will give you real love when you keep you content focused on the topic without being a "keyword spammer."

The words "keep it real" are always good ones to live by when you're doing anything online. Write for humans, never solely for search engine spiders. As far as publishing on Content sharing sites follow the 4 P's and 1 B's rules:

• Pick - Your username carefully, usually this means pick your username with your #1 keyword in mind. Why? Because everytime you post to your content sharing site your username is a "live" URL. So you're naturally going to begin to rank for your #1 keywork every time you post to your account.
• Position - Yourself as the expert in your topic by focusing your content and over delivering to your audience. To many people just throw up stuff. Excellent business people over deliver great quality content to their audience, if you really want to take your business to the next level you will too. Look at your competition's stuff, then go one step beyond them. It's really not hard to write an article that beats the pants off your competition. Get it right, don't rush.
• Post - Find the "influencers" on each content sharing site and become their friend or fan. These are the folks that make these content sharing sites go. You'll find their lenses and hubs everywhere. These are folk who many people are the fans of, you should become their fan too, more than likely they will return the favor. Post comments to their lenses and hubs; not only will this link your "keyword focused" profile to theirs, but hopefully will get you seen by other people too. Note: Never ever post a link without asking the publisher's permission. It's just bad form and it makes you look like a selfish networker, do it enough and you'll get banned as a spammer. This is social marketing after all, not sociopath-marketing.
• Polish - A Hub or a Lens is never done. Keep working on yours until it kicks butt on the search engines, it's generating a steady flow of comments, and is churning out focused leads.
• Branch - As you finish polishing your lenses and hubs start new ones; then parlay the focused traffic you've built from one page to send to your new lens or hub. This has a compound effect. Because content sharing sites rank the quality of your page based upon many variables such as number of page views, comments, the strength of your author profile, how many fans you have, and other factors getting lots of people to your page quickly will move it up in the internal promotion of those sites. This will also boost your organic search engine rankings as well. Most competitive organic keywords on Google and the other search engines are owned by content sharing sites' pages.

This is proof positive that you want to start building your lead generation efforts there, for the speed at which you can begin boosting your network marketing lead generation efforts. So there you have step one of five of your network marketing lead generation campaign. You have enough information to get started with either Squidoo or Hubpages, I recommend Squidoo first. And, as always, keep it real.