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Creative and Profitable Ways to Use Autoreponders PDF Print
Contributed by Administration Team   
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:

  •  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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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 testimonials about
    how spectacular it is on your autoresponder, and add a
    detailed, enticing description of your product.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.


  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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!
By Article Matrix Administration Team

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