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How To Automate Your Web Business
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David Coyne
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How To Automate Your Web Business And Save Time
by Dave Coyne
Whether you sell products or services on the Internet,
you should get an autoresponder as soon as possible.
It’s an immense time saver. And for most online
entrepreneurs time is in short supply.
What is an autoresponder?
Without getting too technical, it’s like an automated
email program that responds twenty four hours a day
to any inquiries you receive about your product.
When a prospect sees your advertising, they send an email
to your autoresponder address, and it replies immediately
with your prewritten message about the product. Remember,
people want info as soon as possible. If you have hundreds
of inquiries a week, you’ll eat up too much time following
up individually.
Best of all, you can load a series of email messages
into the autoresponder and have it automatically send
messages at specific intervals.
Why is following up with several messages better than
only one? Consider this fact from the National Sales
Association: 80 percent of sales are made between the
fifth and twelfth contact. Impulse buyers are a rare breed.
How do you get started with an autoresponder
The easiest way is to sign up for an account.
They are lots of autoresponder websites and both
GetResponse (http://www.GetResponse.com) and RapidReply (http://www.rapidreply.net) offer free accounts.
However, with free accounts you’re usually limited
to inserting 10 to 20 prewritten messages.
Once your account has been activated, you’ll be assigned
your own autoresponder email address that you can use
in your advertising. Write a series of email messages
to load into your account. Concentrate on the benefits
your product offers.
If you’re not confident about your writing abilities,
you can get sales message templates to model or adapt
for your own use. Try Autoresponder Magic: http://www.autorespondermagic.com/?19597 .
Once you’ve loaded messages, you need to decide on
when each message will be sent to your prospects.
Most experts suggest you should contact prospects
at least weekly. Experiment to see what’s best
for you.
Your autoresponder will create a mailing list that
includes everyone who’s inquired about your product.
Most accounts will let you import and export name
to and from your list.
You can also send out an ezine using an autoresponder.
Just cut and paste your content as you would
with a sales message.
Be sure to include a way for prospects and customers
to unsubscribe to your mailings. GetResponse will
automatically remove unsubscribers from your list.
It can also tell you if it was unable to contact
recipients due to invalid email addresses, over
quota accounts, etc.
Once you get the hang of using an autoresponder,
you’ll wonder how you managed your business
without one.
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Dave Coyne is a copywriter,
marketing consultant and president
of DC Infobiz. Get an entire collection
of winning autoresponder messages to model,
copy and swipe. Put your website's sales on
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http://www.autorespondermagic.com/?19597
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