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Paid Autoresponders–The #1 Must Have Home Business Tool

Friday, August 22nd, 2008

Without any shadow of a doubt, every successful online businesses will be using autoresponders to drive a substantial part of their business or businesses. In fact, autoresponders are nothing less than the key to automating your whole business operation.

In very simple terms, what an autoresponder does is allow you to build a complete customer contact and sales system, which, once in place, can be used time after time after time!

From any research that you many already have done, you should be aware that many industry experts suggest that, on average, you will have to contact a potential customer at least seven times before they become a real, paying customer. An autoresponder allows you to do this both quickly and simply. You may have also heard or read the online business ‘cliché’ that ‘the money is in the list’.

This refers to the fact that by building your own list of potential customers to mail to, you are creating your own personal ‘bank’ of people to whom you can send sales offer after sales offer.

Well, the money REALLY is in the list, AND it is the power of your autoresponder that will allow you to extract maximum profits from that list. Basically, you can find autoresponders that are both paid and free.

If at all possible, you should go for the paid version right from the outset, for several
reasons. Assuming that you are planning on being in this for the long haul, then your list will, over time, become your most valuable business asset, bar none.You should therefore take your list and the idea of building it ultra-seriously right from the beginning.

The problem is that free accounts only have one advantage, that is that they cost nothing. They do have several disadvantages on the other hand.

First, most free responders carry advertising from the autoresponder company themselves, and (even more damaging to your business) sometimes from third party companies too. Do you want your outgoing mails to advertise other people’s businesses, as well as(or sometimes instead of) your own?

This is not great for your long term business growth.
Secondly, many free autoresponders will only allow you to have one mailing list attached to your free account, meaning that you must add everyone to the same list.

Now, maybe at first this will not be a big problem, but it can very quickly become one.
For example, say in a few months time, your business is successful, so you decide to branch out into selling two completely different product lines.You cannot logically mix these two ‘lines’ into one mailing list, so what can you do?

You really need to build two completely separate lists but with a free autoresponder, you would not be able to do this.

The final and most damaging disadvantage of using a free service to start with is that, at some point, if you are successful, you will need to switch to a paid service.

That is not a question of ‘if’ only of ‘when’.
And, when you do this, you have to go back and ask every member of your mailing list to sign up with you again, and guess what? Statistically, over 50% of your list members will just not bother!

In other words, you will lose over 50% of the assets of your business overnight, simply because you decided to save a little bit of money now!

So, if you can, I would strongly urge that you try to find the necessary fees to get a paid autoresponder service from the outset, as it probably the best investment that you can make in your business.

If you have no choice but to start out using a free service, then that cannot be helped and the best account that I know of can be found here. But, as I suggested, be aware that this will give you only one free mail list builder.

The following are the three companies who are probably the acknowledged market leaders in the autoresponder business, and I would definitely recommend that you should use one of them if at all possible :
www.trafficwave.net
www.getresponse.com
www.Aweber.com

Every one of these services will cost you less than $20 per month, and, if there was one thing that I would urge any online business newbie to spend money on right from the beginning, a higher quality autoresponder account would definitely be it!

So, if you can, please spend the money and do the job the proper way right from the beginning.Its the No.1 tool needed for marketing online.

Joe Golson

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3 steps To increase online sales by 40%

Friday, August 15th, 2008

If I had a dime for every time someone asked me “How can I increase my online sales?” Well, lets just say, I would have a heck of a lot of dimes! The fact is the answer is different for everyone. I would have to look at your product and analyze your entire marketing plan to tell you exactly where the problem is. Lucky for you, there are 3 steps I can share with you will increase your online sale by 40%.

These methods will work regardless of what you are selling or how you are selling it. That’s what makes it so beautiful! You see it doesn’t matter if your prospect is hearing, watching or reading your sales pitch; these tactics will work for you if you apply them consistently.

#1 Build Impulse:

Impulse is your prospects “willingness to buy.” You must understand that your customers impulse is at ZERO when they first come across your product. It is YOUR job to raise that impulse to the point of purchase through a series of well delivered messages. This is called a “presentation” or if you’re old school (like me) it’s called a “Sales Pitch.”

Your pitch has to be well thought out in order to raise impulse effectively. You must anticipate those points in the pitch where the prospects impulse level will drop. Use the products hot spots to raise the impulse back up and always close at the very peak of their impulse level for best results.

#2 Leverage The Law of Averages

The number one way to double your sales is to double the amount of people you expose to your product. Every product and every salesperson will have an inherent law of average. This law represents the relationship between the customers that refused to buy and those that actually bought. For example a 1:10 law of average means that you must get 9 knows before you arrive at one sale.

Remember this is an AVERAGE. It’s not to be taken literally. I may sell the first 2 customers I talk to and then get 18 “No’s” in a row. At the end of the day you average out your yeses and nos to get your LOA. Now, lets say you wanted to make 20 sales today, if you spoke to 100 people today and only made 10 sales then how can you make 20 sales tomorrow? You got it! Talk to 200 people.

#3 Up-Selling

I think this one of the most common areas where marketers and sales people drop the ball. They invest all this time and money into finding prospects then when they develop a buyer they just stop selling. Hello??? You have a buyer here. Buyers BUY. So keep selling! Suggest other products that might benefit the customer or perhaps a volume discount a second item. Whatever the case may be, you have to sell more or at least generate another lead from this sale. Ask them what friend or family member could benefit from an item like this of their own.

All you have to do is ask? Whats the worst that can happen, they might say “No, I’ll just take one.”

Let me ask you a question… when you go to McDonald’s and order a value meal dont they ask you if you’d like to “super size it”? Does anyone ever say “No never mind, I just wont eat anything at all now because you asked me to buy more.” Of course not! So what are you afraid of? Sell. Sell. Sell!

Joe Golson

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