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The Idea Behind Autoresponders

Wednesday, May 9th, 2012

The idea behind autoresponders is to establish an enduring relationship with your subscribers. When people opt into your list, they usually expect something in return — valuable content, special offers, product bonuses, etc. Since they gave you the permission to email them, you already have taken the first step in building a relationship. That is what autoresponder marketing is all about. However, you must consistently provide them with value, and the best way to achieve this is by effectively using autoresponders.

All internet marketers should use autoresponder marketing. It is easier to sell to an existing customer than it is to find a new one. Creating an email series requires some time and effort, but once it is up and running, all you have to do is sit back and watch. The whole process should be automated as much as possible.

What you basically need to do with your autoresponder marketing program is setting up an email series to be sent to your subscribers. Once they subscribed, they should receive a welcome email, with some information about your business, products or services. Then every days or weeks, they should receive other emails, in which you provide them with valuable content.

Autoresponder marketing is great for building a relationship with your list. If you email people with valuable content, on a regular basis, they are more likely to read your emails, and ultimately purchase your products or the products you promote. Building a list is not only about size but also conversion.

Autoresponder marketing is one of the most effective ways to make money online. It is a proven technique and remains among internet marketers and home business owners.

Here are some tips:

Send short, eye-catching emails to your subscribers with a short description and a link to a page of your website.

Offer a free trial of your product to your prospects and send them instructions to make use of the trial through the autoresponder. When the free trial ends, you will want to follow up with the potential customers to get them to buy because you now have their email addresses.

Offer training to your affiliates if you run an affiliate program because this is a great way to offer them value. The affiliates who are marketing your product will always be on the lookout for ways to improve, and when you automate everything you will get maximum results, as long as your training offers value. Your affiliates can be trained in a variety of ways when you make use of an autoresponder.

Write reviews about products in the target market and deliver them to your list through the autoresponder. You will be providing value to your subscribers and at the same time making a commission from the sales you generate when someone buys the product through your affiliate link.

When someone buys one of your products, you then follow up the purchase with an offer for a second product. The second product could be another of yours, or it could be an affiliate promotion.

Use your autoresponders to conduct simple polls.

Use your autoresponders to deliver training courses.

Use your autoresponders to deliver a “rate card” for advertising on your website.

Email marketing does not have to be difficult; however you need to stay with it to reap the benefits and achieve long term results. Remember the money is in the relationship with your email list, not in the email list itself.

*Did You Know?  Autoresponders can be divided into two categories:  an outsourced ASP model — these autoresponders operate on the provider’s infrastructure and are usually configurable via a web-based control panel and server-side which enables users to install the autoresponder system on their own server.

Converting Visitors Into Leads

Thursday, August 20th, 2009

As we have mentioned in the past, we realize you have spent time and resources building your website; one you know is attracting visitors daily. However, there is a problem – you have no idea who is coming to your website and where they are clicking. The internet is a strong tool for reaching millions of potential customers, and with some simple tweaks to your site, you can discover who your potential clients are.

Basically, there are two types of leads: sales and marketing. A lead generation website should be designed with a purpose in mind – sales or marketing. Sales leads are developed based on demographic information such as age, income, education, and credit rating. Marketing leads are based on brand-specific advertising offers. Regardless of whether the site is designed for marketing or if it is for sales leads it must be well-organized. Also, offering something for free such as a newsletter or product information brochure always helps. Once the creative lead generation website has reeled in a customer, the next step is to retrieve information about the person.

Here is a simple method for converting visitors into leads, and certain ways of insuring you get the most out of your efforts.

Build Online Forms. You can easily add forms to your website, without performing a lot of heavy lifting. Online forms should appear on top of your site and capture customer data that prospects submit themselves. This means you are allowing the web to automatically generate leads for you, saving extra steps for sales and marketing personnel. Emercury.net auto generates the forms for your site, and drives traffic to your website.

Building these forms range in complexity. If you are to build a form from scratch and overlay it on your website, you will need some amount of html or design skills. However, if you leverage web-to-lead form functions in a CRM (Customer Relationship Management) product, the coding work has already been done. With pre-built web-to-lead forms, you simply choose which fields (name, e-mail, address, phone number, etc.) you wish to see in the form, and the CRM system instantly generates an html file you can append to your site.

Tie it all together. You have already made your website more valuable to your business by getting prospects to identify themselves; but web-to-lead forms can do even more. If you are using a lead form inside a CRM system, leads can be qualified faster, routed to the right agent, and used in market intelligence reports. This one-two punch of automatic lead generation, coupled with enabling sales to quickly jump on hot leads is a huge benefit. Emercury.net provides tracking, through reporting, which can be tied to your website statistics.

Incent the prospect. Lead forms are most effective when tied to some sort of promotion. Using the lead form as a registration page for a company Webinar, or placing the form in front of a download page for a white paper outlining your strengths will give prospects reasons to give you their information. You can use Emercury.net to drive the traffic to your site and use your website landing pages to determine where your visitors came from.

Choose data points wisely. One last thing to consider – do not overdo it when asking for customer information. If all you need to start a relationship is a name and email, get that person on the radar and get them on a newsletter or email campaign list. Or, sometimes just a company name and phone number will suffice in order to facilitate fast follow up calls.  The idea is to break the barriers of anonymity on your website properties, without prospects feeling like they are being have been intruded. The right balance will result in more leads, with less effort.

*Did You Know To avoid spam emails, many businesses are completely removing all email addresses from their websites and using contact forms instead.  If you want keep email addresses on your website but want to minimise spam then email address protection will help.

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