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📖 The Leads Page — Complete Guide
Everything on the LEADS tab, explained. ← Back to Leads
A 24/7 robot ("the lead hunter") runs on your own server (a Vultr box labeled
ala-lead-hunter) and automatically finds money opportunities for ALA across the web. It drops them here so you can review and act. Every lead is real data you own — stored in your Cloudflare database (hunter_leads), never trapped in someone else's tool.
1 · The 4 Categories
Use the Category filter to view one type at a time. Here's what each means and how to act on it:
These are the highest-value, most actionable leads. Each shows the agency, status (posted/forecasted), the close date, and the opportunity number. ⚠️ Only grants ALA can actually apply to are shown — nonprofit-only, government-only, and individual-only grants are automatically filtered out (ALA is a for-profit small business).
How to act: Open the link → confirm eligibility & deadline → if it fits, apply (or feed it to your grant pipeline). Watch the close dates — several expire within weeks.
Found by a dedicated scraper that reads actual program pages and pulls the commission rate, the affiliate network (ShareASale, Impact, CJ, etc.), and the signup link. Two kinds appear:
• Direct programs (e.g., Coursera 20%, edX 30%, TestRocket 60%) — join these directly.
• Directory pages (e.g., "25 Best Education Affiliate Programs") — these are lists of many programs to mine.
How to act: Open it → sign up as an affiliate → get your link → promote it through your content/social engine. Recurring-commission programs are gold.
Honest note: these currently come from news/RSS, so they're signals to chase (a company in your niche that's actively advertising/sponsoring) rather than a ready inbox. How to act: Research the company → pitch them an ad/sponsor slot on the relevant ALA property.
Honest note: also news-sourced today — topic signals to investigate, not signup pages. How to act: Look up the supplier/distributor → see if you can resell or dropship their products.
2 · Reading a Lead Card
| Category badge | Color-coded type (green=grant, blue=affiliate, purple=sponsor, red=deal). |
| Niche tag | Which ALA market it matches — education, edtech, homeschool, test prep, faith, 50+, etc. |
| Score | Relevance/quality 0–100, used for sorting (highest first). Higher = stronger match to your niches and/or richer detail (e.g., a confirmed commission rate). It's a priority hint, not a guarantee — still eyeball each one. |
| Source | Where it came from: grants.gov (federal grants), affiliate-scrape (real program pages), google-news (news signals for sponsors/deals). |
| Title (link) | Click it — opens the grant/program/article in a new tab. |
| Contact / Signup | For affiliate programs, the direct signup URL. For grants, the agency code. |
| Notes | Key details — grant deadline & agency, or affiliate commission % & network. |
3 · Status & Action Buttons
Every lead has a status. Use the buttons on each card to move it through your workflow:
- New — just found, not yet reviewed (the default view).
- Save — worth pursuing; keep it in your shortlist.
- Contacted — you've applied / signed up / reached out.
- Dismiss — not relevant; hides it from the New view.
Use the Status filter (top-right) to switch between New / Saved / Contacted / Dismissed / All.
4 · The Stats Bar
The cards at the top show: Total Leads (all-time), Found Today, and a per-category count with how many are still New. The Command Center also has a New Leads card that pulses when fresh leads are waiting — click it to jump here.
5 · Where Leads Come From & How Often
| Hunter | Runs | Finds |
|---|---|---|
| Main hunter | Every hour | Grants (Grants.gov API) + Sponsor & Deal signals (Google News) |
| Affiliate hunter | Daily (9:30am UTC) | Real affiliate programs (verified seed list + DuckDuckGo discovery) |
Duplicate leads are skipped automatically (deduped by URL), so the list only grows with genuinely new finds.
6 · Honest Limitations (so you trust it)
- Grants are the strongest, fully-actionable leads.
- Affiliate programs are real and joinable, but some entries are directory lists of programs rather than a single signup.
- Sponsor & Deal leads are currently news signals — leads to chase, not finished contacts. (A future upgrade can deepen these like the affiliate scraper.)
- Scores are a sorting aid, not a promise — your judgment still matters.
7 · Quick Playbook
- Filter to Grants → New, sort sees highest score first. Open the closest deadlines, apply if eligible, mark Contacted.
- Filter to Affiliate Programs. Join the direct ones (grab your link), open the directory pages to find more. Mark Saved/Contacted.
- Skim Sponsor & Deal signals for any company worth a pitch; Dismiss the noise.
- You also get a Top New Leads summary in the daily 6 PM digest email.
8 · Good to Know
- Grant status — "posted" vs "forecasted": Posted = open for applications now (has a close date). Forecasted = announced but not yet open — get ready early.
- Changed your mind on a dismissed lead? Set the Status filter to Dismissed (or All) to find it again — nothing is deleted.
- Empty list? You're probably filtered to a category/status with nothing in it — switch Status to All to see everything.
- Want different niches or sources hunted (new keywords, more categories, deeper sponsor/deal scraping)? Just ask — the hunter's targets are easy to adjust.
- Your data, your asset: every lead lives in your own Cloudflare database. You can export, query, or feed it to other tools anytime — it's never locked in.
🎯 The Grants Page (Grant Scout)
Your full grant pipeline, now inside this one command center. → Go to Grants
Pipeline stages
- Discovered — newly found, not yet reviewed.
- Qualified — confirmed a real fit worth pursuing.
- Preparing — actively writing the application.
- Submitted — application is in (tracked in the Submission Pipeline up top, with expected decision dates).
- Dismissed / Disqualified / Expired — not pursuing (hidden from the default view).
The Qualify / Prepare / Dismiss buttons on each card move it through these stages — and write straight back to Grant Scout's database.
Reading a grant card
- Score (0–100) — AI relevance to ALA. Fit badge — strong / possible fit.
- Funding — the award ceiling (e.g. $1M, $250K).
- Closes — deadline, with a red ⏰ countdown when ≤21 days (≤7 days = urgent).
- Agency + a link to the official opportunity.
📱 Phone alerts (unchanged)
You still get push notifications via the ntfy app: ala-grants-critical (1 & 3 days before a deadline) and ala-grants-daily (7 & 14 days + daily digest). These run from the Grant Scout engine and were not changed by moving the view here.
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