Tuesday, December 19, 2006

How Yahoo Answers Can Make You Money!

Yahoo Answers is a very neat tool by Yahoo where users can post questions that others can answer for them. You can both ask and reply to questions for free. It's very easy to search current and past questions to not only see what the best responses were, but also to answer any questions that you might know the answer to.

I'm sure some of you are thinking right now, "Cool Brian, but what the heck does this have to do with making money online!?" In response to that, I say EVERYTHING! If you can't see the power in this, let me explain with an example:

Suzzy is looking for a cheap website designer, so she posts a question asking for any leads as to where she can find one for under $300. Meanwhile, Tom is trying to train his new puppy and asks a question about what the best way to do so is, or if there are any good guides out there.

Well, let's say that you are a website designer, or perhaps you run a website in the dog training niche. Ding dong! You just got yourself a great free lead. They are looking for the very thing that you are selling!

You can easily reply to the website question and say, "hello, I'm Sam and here is my site with a couple examples of other sites I've worked on -- I charge xx amount of money and could definitely get you a nice site if you are interested." Or in reply to the dog question, you could say, "hello, I'm Stephanie and I run mydogtrainingwebsite.com and can tell you that the best way to do this would be to do that because of x, y, and z. You can also see my new guide here if you're interested."

With both of those, you can post an e-mail or website address for them to check out. As long as you don't make it look like spam and provide helpful information in response to their question, you stand a good chance of gaining not just that person as a possible customer, but potentially several others who search for answers to the same questions.

All of a sudden in less than a few minutes of your time, you could have just gained a few new customers, as well as several new future ones too. This can be applied to virtually any niche out there. Just be creative and as helpful as possible!

Check out Yahoo Answers now to see if you can accelerate your business today!

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