Creative and Profitable Ways to Use Autoreponders…
An interested visitor who has been strolling through your site has
finally come to just what she is looking for and is about to make a
purchase. It’s a sunny afternoon, and her cat, who happens to be
sitting on the moss under the visitor’s large fifty-year-old snow-rose
bonsai tree, suddenly jumps down, and the priceless tree
topples over.
In the blink of an eye, your visitor exits your site, and your sale is
dust – unless you have had the foresight to utilize an autoresponder
that has captured her email address. If you have installed an
autoresponder, you can then follow-up with her, and in all probability,
make the sale when the poor woman has finished repotting her
precious bonsai.
Autoresponders are remarkable, versatile programs that do so much more
than just automatically answer your email. Here are a few ideas that
will help you to creatively and
productively use your autoresponder to transform the casual visitor
into a profitable customer.
Use your autoresponder to:
1. Publish a newsletter.
Certain quality autoresponders will manage subscriptions and follow-up
with interested
prospects. Your newsletter can keep your visitors informed about your
services or products, while building your reputation as a credible
expert in your particular
business.
2. Publish a newsletter
only for your affiliates.
Inform them of current sales you are running and of promotional
material that your affiliates can use themselves to increase their
commissions. Include tips, advice, and techniques that your affiliates
can use to successfully go out and promote your business.
3. Write reviews.
Cover books, software, music, e-books, movies, etc., and put each
review in an autoresponder.
Review your affiliate programs, using a link to your affiliate’s page
in your autoresponder.
4. Distribute your
articles.
Writing and distributing targeted articles is a powerful tool to build
your business credibility, bring traffic to your site, and increase
your sales potential. If your articles contain valuable information,
many editors will print what is known as a resource box for you. A
resource box contains your bio and a brief description of your service
or product.
It can also contain your autoresponder address. Let’s say you’ve
written fifty articles. Put them on separate autoresponder accounts and
create a master list that contains the titles of each article, the
autoresponder address, and a brief abstract. Then promote your master
list. Additionally, include your publishing guidelines so
your affiliates can add their articles to your list, increasing the
number of writers who are represented in your article list.
5. Create mailing lists.
Inform subscribers to your articles when you’ve written new ones that
they may want to
publish in their own newsletter or website.
6. Automate your sales
process.
Use an ad to insure repeated exposure of your message, which has been
proven to effectively increase sales. In your ad, put your
autoresponder address where a visitor will be exposed to numerous
marketing materials. This multiplies the chances of converting visitors
into customers.
For example, if you’re selling a particular product, put genuine
testimonials about how spectacular it is on your autoresponder, and add
a detailed, enticing description of your product.
7. Distribute advertising.
Let’s say you sell advertising on your website or in your newsletter or
e-zine. Set your autoresponder to send the information about rates and
how to place an ad automatically to all prospects’ email addresses.
Then have your autoresponder follow-up. It can also send notification
of any special deals you are currently offering.
8. Distribute an email
course.
Each day, have your autoresponder send out another lesson. Just be sure
that each lesson has quality content – not a sales pitch. Your content
will do the selling for you, and will do it much more effectively.
You can include tips centered on a different topic for each lesson,
illustrating how your product will benefit the reader. Include the
tangible benefits the visitor will reap by purchasing your product.
Make sure to include a paragraph or two at the end of each lesson
enticing your prospect to consider making a purchase.
9. Automate a reminder
about your service or product after a visitor has completed your
course.
This will increase the possibility of sales from visitors who have
taken your course but are dragging their feet about actually making a
purchase. You can also use these reminders to promote new products or
services, and the products and services of your affiliate programs.
10. Distribute free
reports.
This gives your visitor an idea of the type of information you can
provide and the quality of your product or service. Make sure these
reports are not sales letters or you will more than likely lose a
potential customer than gain a sale.
11. Create trivia quizzes
on your site and place the answers in an autoresponder.
Your visitor will then be motivated to request your
autoresponder, and you will have
a record of the visitors’ email addresses who took your quiz. Or create
a contest and have any visitors that enter send their responses to your
autoresponder. Your autoresponder can be set-up to send them a
confirmation of their entry.
12. Offer a trial version
of your product.
Give your prospects a sample of your ebook, course, software,
membership, etc. People who are exposed to a little taste often end up
wanting the whole pie. You can also capture their email addresses when
you offer them a free trial from your website. Set up your
autoresponder to give instructions on how to obtain their free trial,
and then make sure to follow-up to try and close the sale.
13. Link to hidden pages
on your autoresponder.
For example, a hidden page could be your affiliate page that contains
graphics, promotional articles, and text links that interested
affiliates can make use of. Inform visitors that they may have free
access to your affiliate page by simply requesting your autoresponder.
You will then gather a list of visitors who may be interested in
becoming your affiliates.
14. Use an autoresponder
on your order page.
Post a request form for visitors to be notified of special offers or
discounts in the future. This creates a very effective mailing list
that contains the names of people who are already your customers.
15. Put your links page
on your autoresponder.
It should contain up to fifty links that would be of particular
interest to your visitors. Make sure to add your own promotional copy
at the top or bottom of this page. Now that you have proof that
autoresponders can be used creatively, see if you can come up with some
brilliant ideas of your own!
8 Common Mistakes of Internet Marketers
Author: Internet Survival Guide
If you wish to be a successful Internet marketer you will want to avoid these 8 mistakes:
1. Failure to prepare properly. Many Internet marketers are simply lazy and will not make the effort to prepare properly. Refrain from being overly anxious as if you’ll miss the boat if you do not market your website immediately. Use however many days it takes to setup all the appropriate advertising accounts and advertisements properly. This will make your administration more efficient and enable you to fly through your schedule tasks effortlessly each day. The net result is that your marketing efforts will be far more productive than if you were to take a haphazard approach.
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Pointing Out Flaws In Your Product. Works Wonders.
The other day I was looking through some of the ridiculous internet marketing offer that I get in my inbox from different sources.
All of them claim to have a secret that will make me $64,000 per month if I just get their “powerful” system. Then they come up with the ingenious way to offer it for free for a limited time. Hey! Who’s going to turn down a free lunch? Nobody of course.
Then you have those websites that prompt you to hold on and get a better deal if you act “right now” whenever you want to exit.
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Read Between The Lines (The Invisible Ones That Is…)
How are you being pick-pocketed right in front of your face?
I’m up at 4:00 AM. No particular reason, just that I woke to go the bathroom and can’t go back to sleep. As I turn on the tube, I’m immediately hit with infomercials.
From a specialized mattresses to magic liquids that can do wonders for your colon. It seems that everyone is trying to sell you something with either a free trial attached to it to hook you in or a free offer if you order withing a certain amount of time.
What gets me in a bind is those “How to get Real Estate for pennies on the dollar and make thousands”, or “Make it rich on eBay” types of programs. You see the majority of the poor sap looking for a way to make ends meet or to supplement his or her income fall victim to these raving psychotics.
But why? Shouldn’t they know better?
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The Phoenix of Internet Marketing.
A Phoenix is a mythical ocular bird whom the Greek say would rise up from its own ashes.
Similar comparisons can be made from seeing Frank Kern’s rise and fall and then rise again.
There are many stories out there of rags to riches.
People going from the most deplorable financial conditions to becoming masters at making money on the web. The best part is that the majority of them create a coaching program based on their experience and sell it for high profits.
Of all of these I have yet to come across one that has made it to the top only to be pushed off and left to start over. That was until I heard the story of Frank Kern.
For the first time in internet history Frank lays it out for all to see or rather read. He explains in great detail the mistakes he made that prompted the FTC to come after him and the remarkable comeback to the internet marketing world.
Read his story here —> What it’s like to be sued by the FTC.
I am sure you’ll be able to get some powerful and useful advise that you’ll be able to put to work for you right away.
Why Forum Marketing Is So Essential…
There are 4 major reasons why people use forums − or discussion groups or
bulletin boards as they are also called.
- 1) They can get advice: for example − to get their site reviewed, to ask
for opinions about a product before purchasing or about a business
opportunity or affiliate program they plan to join
- 2) They can discover new products, ideas, tips, tools
- 3) They can make contact with others, and possibly set up joint
ventures… BUT this post will concentrate on the 4th reason
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The Biggest Free PLR content site with absolutely everything.
Well as you guys no doubt know, to really succeed with our internet marketing careers, we need to have great digital products that convert all of our qualified leads into real, cash-paying customers. For many people, coming up with products will involve them creating them on their own, or it may involve them commissioning other professionals to do the hard work for them.
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3 “Must Have” List Building Tips For Your Blog.
If you really want to build a big list of subscribers using your blog pay close 
attention because I’m about to reveal 3 must have tips you can’t afford to miss…
Must Have Tip 1: Add a subscriber box at the top of your side navigation
What you want is for a subscriber box to appear at the top left or right positions on every page of your blog.
The idea is it’s highly visible so people arriving at your website see it straight away.
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5 “Breakthrough” List Building Tips For Newbies.
One of the biggest problems anyone getting started online as an Internet Marketer is building their first list.
If you’ve never heard of list building before it’s simply a list of names and email addresses of people who have specifically requested information from you.
It’s this list of names and email addresses that is the foundation of your online business because it gives you the ability to drive traffic to any website at any time.
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Internet Copywriting Vs. Traditional Copywriting
What is Internet copy-writing anyway?
Many online entrepreneurs get this wrong most of the time.
Thinking that you can just put a page together about your product or service and slap on the web and money will just roll in.
Far from this obvious farce, putting a powerful sales copy is time daunting. But when you have a great deal of patience you can put in what is necessary to make your potential customers want what you are trying to promote.
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