Paid Program Info

What is an Autoresponder?

An autoresponder can be defined as a program that sends out a single automatic reply in response to an email to a specific email address. Many of us have either received an autoresponder message or used one before. Examples are messages like: "I am on vacation" or "I received your email."
Most web hosts offer this type of single-reply autoresponder free in the email accounts that come with their hosting package. The problem with this type of autoresponder is that it is designed to send out only a simple one-message reply to whatever emails it receives. This is often not enough to maintain the continued contact or to deliver the content you want to offer your visitors. Besides, it also lacks some important features needed to do proper follow-ups. For example, it cannot add prospects to a subscriber list and then send them a series of personalized, follow-up messages.

Why Use an Autoresponder?

According to successful internet marketers, good follow-ups with prospects will dramatically increase the number of sales. First time visitors to your site who requested additional information (or free software or ebook) have an obvious interest in your products or services. But the time may be too short for them to make the decision.
However, it is important to know that these people are your real prospects. They are usually more receptive to whatever messages you send them about your products or services. You must therefore capture their contact information including name and email address and enter them into your prospect database for you to begin the follow-up process.

How to Use Your Autoresponder?

Following are the correct ways to do follow-up using your autoresponder:

1. You must follow up quickly with new prospects by sending them a message reminding them about your products or services.
2. You must take the initiatives to contact your prospects at regular intervals. Never ignore your prospects or they will go somewhere else.
3. You must patiently take the time to establish rapport with your prospects by offering them free help and advice.
4. Address all their concerns by answering their queries promptly and accurately.
5. You must take time and effort to build the trust and establish value in your products and services.
6. You must demonstrate your professionalism and the knowledge you have in whatever you do.
7. You must show to them that you have anticipated their needs and you have whatever they need.
8. You must convince them that they want to buy from you, and not from your competitors. Demonstrate the value and benefits of your products or services.
9. Provide your prospect with the assurance they need about your product or services including your warranty if any.
10. Tell them your product is easy to use or install and offer them free additional help if necessary.
11. Explain how easy it is to order from your site and how the products or services will be delivered to them.
12. Constantly remind your prospects about your products or services and invite them to return to your site for more visits.
    

What You Use Your Autoresponder For?

Never ignore your prospects just because you do not have the time to personally follow-up with them. Use an autoresponder to automate the tasks and to gain continued access to your prospects.

What do you use an Autoresponder for?

Following are some of the common uses of an autoresponder:

1. Collect Email Addresses
An autoresponder can be used to collect email addresses through an online form or directly from incoming emails, and automatically start the follow-up process.

2. Ezine and Newsletter Delivery
An autoresponder can be used to send periodic ezines and newsletters while automatically accepting and removing registrations. You can use an autoresponder to collect email addresses for your ezine which allows you continued access to your subscribers.

3. Free eCourses or Downloads
You can offer free multi-part ecourses or free ebook/software downloads as an incentive for your visitors to leave their email addresses. A great way to increase your site traffic.

4. Email Reminder
You can send follow-up messages to your visitors to remind them of what you sell and what benefits they get.

5. Offer Related Information
Offer your subscribers information closely related to their topic of interest. For example, if they are interested in cars, they are likely to be interested in car accessories as well.

6. Offer Promotional Coupon
You can offer promotional coupons, discount vouchers or other incentives via email for use with your product or service.

7. Soft Selling
You can "soft-sell" to your potential customers by offering freebies and special information.

8. Sales Tool
Use your autoresponder as a sales tool by writing multiple automated email messages to sell your products and services around the clock- 24 hrs a day x 365 days a year!

9. After Sales Service
Follow-Up with your customers after closing a sale to make sure they're happy with what they have purchased. You can also use this technique to inform them of any new products, services or special deals that you have available.

10, Customer's Feedback
You can use an autoresponder as a way of getting customers feedback. You can send them a thankyou message after receiving their feedback.

11. Post Sales Confirmation
If your product is not an instant delivery product or is pricy, use the autoresponder to avoid buyer's remorse.

12. Up-Selling
Entice customers who purchased basic packages from you, to upgrade to ones with more features or facilities, by sending them a series of up-sell messages.

13. Direct Email Advertising
You can use an autoresponder to send out direct email advertising messages- provided you have the permission from the recipients to do so.

14. MLM / Associates Programs
Use the autoresponder in any MLM / Associates program to give your downline members a powerful tool in their sales arsenal.

15. Viral Marketing
Use your autoresponder as a viral marketing sales tool. Utilize the ability to give away autoresponder accounts to supercharge your income stream.

16. Motivational Messages
Send a series of motivational messages to people in your sales organization with the autoresponder.

17. Frequently Asked Questions
Instead of answering the same customer questions by email, publish a "Frequently Asked Questions" in autoresponder format to save time and effort.

18. Download Back Issues of Ezine
Let your subscribers download back issues of your ezine using autoresponder.

19. Other uses and applications.
There are hundreds of possible uses of an autoresponder. The list is only limited by your own creativity. So the possibilities are endless.

SEO TIPs - Squeeze Every Cent of Profit From Your Pay-Per-Click Marketing (By IMC owner, Derek Gehl)

I love pay-per-click marketing! There are few forms of online advertising that offer such complete control over where you spend your advertising dollars.

But despite the ability to control Google Adwords and Yahoo! Search Marketing gives you over your ads — how much you spend on them, where and when they appear, etc. — I’m constantly meeting savvy Internet marketers who are wasting tons of unnecessary money on their pay-per-click campaigns because they are either…

Even if your business targets an extremely narrow niche market, your campaign should begin with at least 100 keywords.

I have yet to come across a niche market for which we couldn’t find that many keywords for the initial round of testing. In fact, the majority of businesses I deal with start in the range of 500-1000 keywords!

If it sounds like a huge challenge to come up with that many keywords, don’t worry.

With tools like Wordtracker and Google’s Keyword Evaluator, you don’t have to come up with the keywords on your own. All you have to do is identify a core list of keywords and then let technology do the work for you.

Now, is every single one of those keywords going to make you money? Nope! Some will bomb horribly.

But I’ll talk about how you deal with that in a second…

10 Power-Packed Ways To Spark Your Sales

1. Spend money on targeted advertising instead of mass media advertising. You don't want to waste your ad dollars on people who aren't interested.

2. Increase your profits by concentrating on small details. Improving small things like text size, color, or graphics can really make a positive difference.

3. Keep your offers flexible. If you offer a set price for your product, you could offer the people that can't afford it an optional payment plan.

4. Offer your knowledge or consulting as a bonus product. You could offer a free 15 or 30 minute consultation. This will add value to your product.

5. Personalize all your e-mail messages so they get read. Include the recipient's name in the subject line. This will grab peoples attention quickly.

6. Keep your web site consistent. You don't want to keep things on your web site that are unrelated to the theme of your web site.

7. Attract more subscribers to your free e-zine by giving them free bonuses like e-books, software, online services and other incentives.

8. Sell advertising space in your e-zine and on your web site. This will create an extra income stream for your business.

9. Make your web site ready for the public. Have an "About Us" page and clear descriptions of what actions you want your visitors to take.

10. Don't just start advertising everywhere, plan out your marketing. Locate places and publications that your target audience would congregate around.

10 Ways To Get New Product Ideas

1. Solve an existing problem for people. There are thousands of problems in the world. Create a product that can provide a solution to one of those problems.

2. Find out what's the current hot trend. You can find out what the new trends are by watching TV, reading magazines and surfing the net. Just create a product that's related to the current hot trend.

3. Improve a product that is already on the market. You see products at home, in ads, at stores etc. Just take a product that's already out there and improve it.

4. Create a new niche for a current product. You can set yourself apart from your competition by creating a niche. Your product could be faster, bigger, smaller, or quicker than you competitor's product.

5. Add on to an existing product. You could package your current product with other related products. For example, you could package a football with a team jersey and football cards.

6. Reincarnate an older product. Maybe you have a book that's out of print and is no longer being sold. You could change the title, design a new front cover, and bring some of the old content up to date.

7. Ask your current customers. You could contact some of your existing customers by phone or e-mail and ask them what kind of new products they would like to see on the market.

8. Combine two or more products together to create a new one. For example, you could take a brief case and add a thermos compartment inside to keep a drink hot or cold.

9. Survey the people who visit your web site. You could post a survey or questionnaire on your web site. Ask visitors what kind of products they would like to see on the market.

10. You could create a new market for your existing product. For example, if you're selling plastic bottles to a pop company, you could turn around and sell those bottles to a fruit drink company.

With the advent of university top-up fees, student life doesn’t come cheap for today’s overworked undergraduates. But the power of the internet offers up a number of ingenious ways to generate some extra beer money from the comfort of your own home. Here are ten of the best.




1. Social networking

It might seem like nothing more than a pipe dream but making money as you trawl through profiles of friends, prospective and ex boyfriends and girlfriends is actually a reality. Yuwie, an upstart social networking enterprise, offers to pay its users as they increase the page impressions of their public profiles, upload photos to share and refer others to join in the fun. All of this is achieved by a proportionate payment structure that sees around half of the website’s advertising revenue – its chief source of income - distributed directly to its user base. Admittedly it’s still early days but with around half a million registrations to date and no shortage of testimonials, Yuwie looks like the real deal.

2. Blogging

There are two ways to make cash through blogging: either by earning commission from advertising banners placed alongside a blog of your own or by engaging in the (slightly dubious) practice of “sponsored” blogging. An array of third party tools is available in the case of the former option; Google’s AdSense remains one of the more popular solutions. Just establish yourself a decent blog, configure the ads and see what happens. Sponsored blogging on the other hand is an altogether more calculated affair, with specialists such as Blogitive and PayPerPost providing a platform through which companies essentially contract bloggers to post favourable content about their products in exchange for cash. Unethical, granted, though nonetheless undoubtedly fruitful for those subtle enough to get away with it.

3. Message boards

Every message board - both small-time niche operation and gargantuan general interest community alike - relies on posts from its members in order to sustain user interest. Newly-created forums are particularly dependent on regular contributions in order to encourage conversations and attract the registration of new members. This, of course, is where you come in. In exchange for a nominal fee of anywhere between £0.01 and £0.10 per post, message board administrators frequently advertise externally for “ringers” to sign up to their endeavours and get the ball rolling. Popular recruiting grounds include webmaster-talk and Digital Point.

4. Stock photography

If you’ve a keen eye for an impressive frame, or even just some half-decent camera kit at your disposal, selling pictures to any one of the plethora of stock photography agencies scattered across the web represents a sure-fire method of generating an income online. The likes of iStockPhoto and Fotolia offer budding photographers the incentive of earning potentially significant sums for their snaps on a per-download basis in exchange for their other royalty payment rights. Predictably, the most sought-after depictions are of a fairly mundane nature – think three-quarter view angles of pretty women dressed in suits – though equally inevitable is the high demand in some quarters for photographs of an altogether more risqué nature…

5. Surveys

As inglorious a means of making money online as you’re ever likely to find, completing market research surveys for cash is time-consuming, invasive and very, very dull. It also happens to be very effective. Opportunities in this field are virtually endless too, with literally thousands of research groups vying for your time and attention. Perhaps the most well known of these is YouGov, whose methodology involves obtaining responses from an invited group of internet users at prices ranging from £0.50 to £2.00 per survey completed. Registration is free and relatively painless, though if you are planning on going down this route, you would do well to create another email account solely for the purpose of survey completion – your personal details are going to be getting bandied around an awful lot.

6. Games

Believe it or not, it is possible to make money simply by playing computer games. Second Life, one of a range of so-called massively multi-player online games, allows users to both buy in-game currency called Linden dollars (a name derived from its creator, Linden Labs) and later exchange any amount amassed within the game back into real-world funds. Ailin Graef made the headlines in 2006 having claimed that her in-game avatar, Anshe Chung, had generated enough resources to allow her to be classified as a millionaire in reality. Other prospects include Moola, which claims to pay players over five million pounds for the straightforward task of winning thirty of its games in a row. Perhaps tellingly, the grand prize is yet to be claimed.

7. Freelancing

If you have a talent – be it for writing, graphic design or even programming - online freelancing will allow you to exploit it for a handsome profit. Services such as Elance and oDesk advertise outsourced remote working opportunities on behalf of thousands of companies and allow members to sign up to assignments according to their desired criteria. Naturally, there’s a catch - said services also take a cut of up to 15 per cent of your potential earnings. Depending on your skills and availability though, there is a lot of money to be made in this fashion, with the fastest-growing fields - like document translation - paying the best rates.

8. Poker

Likely the most controversial inclusion in this list, the online poker world is awash with sob stories of empty wallets and broken dreams from people of all walks of life who just didn’t know when to quit. If you feel like having a go at making some big bucks through gambling, extreme caution is urged. Quite apart from the fact that players need a fair degree of skill in the game to get anywhere, starting small is crucial – only bet what you can afford to lose with a smile. If you are skilled - and lucky - the potential rewards are vast, with some players regularly earning in excess of £1,000 per day. But, remember, the pitfalls are even greater. Texas Hold ‘Em is by far the most popular variant of the game – get some free practice via MSN Games.

9. Selling

A method as old as the internet itself, hawking wares through virtual auctions and shops provides a quick income boost for many students, enabling unwanted Christmas to be disposed of with ease. The obvious starting points are eBay and Amazon Marketplace , though classifieds websites such as Ad Trader are proving increasingly popular. Those of you looking to secure revenue on a more long-term basis will need to source in-demand products and be able to sell them at a mark-up on the price that you yourself paid. One example is “vintage” clothing – cheap clothes with retro appeal are available in abundance at charity shops and can easily be sold to other fashionable students online at a higher price.

10. Doing something crazy

Most truly spectacular success stories of making money online don’t involve any of the aforementioned routes at all. Instead, they showcase brazen opportunism that flies in the face of all logic and reason. Take Alex Tew’s MillionDollarHomepage from 2005 for instance – a website set up with the sole intention of selling pixels at one US dollar apiece to advertisers in order to fund its proprietor’s university degree. On paper it was a ludicrous concept – of course it was - but a 21 year-old Tew soon found himself a certified millionaire. So too did the founders of Doggles, an internet business devoted to selling goggles… for dogs. The point is that, just as in the “real” world, originality paired with good business acumen may potentially reap far greater rewards than any supposedly tried-and-true method of generating cash that you might care to mention. So be creative.




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