# Lead
Lead is a person or organization with enough attention or interest to enter a possible value-exchange path.
## Meaning
In the [[Hormozi Meaning Guide]], leads are the demand-side input of a business system.
Leads can come through [[Lead Magnet|lead magnets]], [[Audience]], content, warm outreach, cold outreach, paid ads, referrals, affiliates, and other channels.
A lead becomes meaningful only in relation to an [[Offer]], [[Sales]], [[Trust]], and a [[Money Model]].
For Joe's Mynd, a lead should remain a person, not just a metric.
## Source Of Meaning
This note is grounded in the Acquisition.com Lead Generation Course, the $100M Leads resources, and [[Hormozi Meaning Guide]].
## Relationship Over Time
This note should mature when Joe defines the difference between attention, contact, qualified lead, booked call, client, and relationship.
## Links
- [[Hormozi Meaning Guide]]
- [[Lead Magnet]]
- [[Audience]]
- [[Offer]]
- [[Sales]]
- [[Trust]]
- [[Money Model]]
- [[Business]]
- [[The Brotherhood Meaning Source]]
- [[Relationship]]
- [[Joe]]
- [[Mynd]]
## Tensions
Lead language is useful for operating a business. It becomes harmful when it hides the person behind the pipeline.
## Question
What makes someone a real lead without reducing them to a number?