Leverage is the ability to obtain a sizeable advantage from a small investment – whether that investment is time, effort or money.

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We typically think of leverage as the mechanical improvement that derives from using a lever. In fact, Archimedes once claimed, “Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.”

But leverage isn’t limited to the laws of physics – it applies in many other situations as well.

In the corporate world, Change Agents regularly speak of shifting one or more business “levers” in order to bring about organizational change or transformation. Unfortunately, in today’s world, those business levers are often perceived negatiavely, resulting in job cuts, down-sizing, bankruptcies, or other forms of corporate re-organization.

But leverage has many positive uses as well.

People apply financial leverage when they use borrowed funds to increase their ROIs, or when they use calls or puts to control large numbers of stock much cheaper than if they had purchased the stock outright.

Home businesses use leverage when they operate online. Simply by being online, they’ve removed the limitations of geography (and largely, time as well) and leveraged their advertising dollars, since it costs the about the same amount to create an announcement that reaches only a few people as it does to create an ad that is global.

If we were running a small “brick and mortar” store, we might be satisfied with traffic that numbered in the hundreds, but as an affiliate internet marketer, we want traffic numbering in the hundreds of thousands, or even millions – and not just any traffic, but targeted traffic.

We are utilizing leverage when we use tools such as Google AdWords: we use the power and reach of Google to generate targeted traffic for us and send it to our website.

The Net provides us with many forms of leverage, but they basically all boil down to the use of technology. Technology is one of the greatest categories of levers ever invented.

Most affiliate internet marketers are familiar with the use of autoresponders and search engines, etc., but they habitually fail to make full use of the technology lever in their back office processes – including everything from managing sales leads to fulfilling the order and taking care of the follow-on billing and customer service issues.

Those online businesses that take full advantage of the leverage that technology provides are the ones who will succeed in this competitive environment.

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