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5 Reasons Why You Should Use An AutoResponder



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5 Reasons Why You Should Use An AutoResponder


If I had to pick one marketing tool which makes working on the
web a reality for me, I would have to say it’s the autoresponder.

Truth be told, it is the heart/engine that drives all my websites and
all my marketing. Building a list of interested customers is the
key to making sales and for getting repeated targeted traffic
back to your site.

It’s just common sense, a visitor to your site only spends a
few minutes examining your content, but if they subscribe to
your newsletter or sign-up to receive follow-up emails from you,
then you can contact them again and again.

You can build numerous lists for all your sites, targeting each group
with different information that they need and want. You can have
hundreds, even thousands of interested prospects coming back to
your sites.

Now if you need more convincing how important autoresponders and
list building is to your online site and marketing… here are
5 Reasons To Use A Professional AutoResponder Service.

Please Note – If you’re just starting out and money is tight and
you simply can’t afford to pay for a professional service. Then do
what I did, I first started with a free autoresponder service
(www.freeautobot.com) and then when I could afford it I quickly
upgraded to a professional service simply because of the
reasons listed below…

5 Reasons To Use A Professional AutoResponder Service


If you have a website or if you’re running an online business, you will
already know the importance of building your own list of contacts and
customers. List building is a vital part of any business, online or off.
It can simply make or break your business, so it is very important you
use the proper procedures to gather your list of contacts.

With this in mind, many webmasters and business owners opt for a
professional autoresponder service rather than using an in-house
system. There are many reasons for choosing either option, but
going with a third-party service has many advantages. So here are
5 good reasons why you should use a professional service.

1. Professionalism. These list building services, such as
aWeber and GetResponse, are leading specialists in their field and
supply a superior product. They know how to build lists, it is their
business. They have been doing it for years and follow all the proper
procedures so you don’t have to worry about breaking any spam laws.
Furthermore, they have the resources to handle any list building
projects, no matter how big. These services are also recognized by
everyone and have gained a good reputation with users.

2. Full Featured Services. These professional autoresponder
services have countless features which will help you build your lists
easily and quickly. Everything from pop-in forms to unlimited follow-up
emails, these services cover all the bases and will optimize your list
building to help you get the most contacts or subscribers possible.

3. Third Party Protection. Outsourcing your email sending and
follow-up to a third party service or site can help protect your site
from any spam complaints which can shut down your site. Besides following
“double opt-in” procedures, these services will also keep records of
subscribers who sign-up to your lists, including of course email addresses
but also sign-up times and IP addresses – just in case there should be
any trouble regarding these subscribers. Most services also make it
extremely easy to unsubscribe any contacts.

4. Automation And Scheduling. With these services, you can easily
schedule your mailings to your contacts, this can be great for pre-loading
an autoresponder to gradually send your emails out over a period of time,
great for when you go on vacation or for planning long-term campaigns.
Automating all your list building should be your ultimate goal, set it
up once and forget about it.

5. Higher Click-Thru Rates. These professional list building
services will work with you to help improve both your sign-up numbers
and your click-thru rates of the emails you send to your contacts.
It must not be forgotten that these are professional services and
have years of experience which can be applied to your own contact
building so that you can reap the rewards of all this experience.
These services want you to succeed and will offer what assistance
you need in order for you to be a success – what more can you ask for?

For all of the above reasons, you should give a professional
autoresponder service some serious consideration when you start
building your lists. Going with the Pros may just be the right
option for you or your business and putting your list building
in the hands of professionals may just be a wise move for your
site or business.


Here’s the autoresponder I have used for years:

aWeber



If you need help with building your lists try here: list building.

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Titus

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List Building Tips For The Affiliate Marketer



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List Building Tips For The Affiliate Marketer




List building is one simple marketing strategy any affiliate marketer
can use to increase traffic and sales. But there are a few simple things
you can do to make your list building and affiliate marketing much
more effective…

If you’re into affiliate marketing you will probably already know how
important list building is to your overall success. However, I sometimes
get the feeling from close examination of my competitor’s sites that
list-building takes a back seat in their site layout and design.
One also gets a general feeling that list building is not as important
as it once was, especially in the early days of online marketing before
the advent of so many social media/networking sites.

Granted for the ordinary webmaster, in the age of Twitter, Facebook and
YouTube, building your own personal autoresponder lists have taken a
backseat to these social networking sites which obviously builds your
subscriber list for you. But these are third-party sites controlling
your subscribers and while they more or less eliminates the whole notion
of unwanted spam, they do present issues regarding the use of these lists.

Coming from the old school of marketing, I realized the importance of
my lists from the start. I also realized the most difficult part of building
a list was not getting the subscribers, but connecting in some way with
them and building trusting relationships with lists in the tens of thousands
is not an easy thing to accomplish.

List building in regards to affiliate marketing is of special interest
to me since I am a full-time affiliate marketer and anything which makes
my job easier I will try. Like most affiliate marketers, I have created
niche sites dealing with the products and services which I promote. One
major component of these sites is the list building element. On almost
all my sites I try to capture my visitor’s contact information to give
follow-up information which lets me market to these subscribers in a
very subtle way.

The important thing here is to offer free ebooks, guides or e-courses in
order to capture this contact information before these customers are sent
along to the merchant’s site. This is the “old squeeze page” which many
online marketers use in order to build their own list of potential prospects
for their offers.

This must be a “win-win” situation for everyone involved so I like
connecting these lists to special sales, coupons and deals which are
offered by the merchants. These customers can get $100’s off the price
of the products featured so that they end up with a good deal and you
end up with a sale.

All this couldn’t be possible if you didn’t build your list of targeted
clients or customers looking for the products you’re promoting. List
building in this area has proven very effective for my affiliate marketing,
so effective I try to put my subscriber form or box on all my webpages.
So if you’re an affiliate marketer who is sending your visitors directly
to your merchant’s site, think again, and see if building or capturing
your visitor’s contact information is worth your while? If done properly,
this can be an excellent way of increasing your sales and commissions.

Another form of list building which I believe too many affiliate marketers
take for granted is the powerful little “cookie”. For those not in the
business, a cookie is simply a piece of code which identifies your referrals
as belonging to you or your affiliate ID, if a sale is made immediately
or for any time in the future you will get credit for the sale because
you referred the customer or client.

Now, the trick here is to pick affiliate products and programs which
have a 90 Day Cookie or more; if a sale is made in those 90 days you
get credit for the sale. The longer the length the better, there are
even some products and companies which give life-time cookies.

Why is this so important you ask?

Well, if you have a popular site you can quickly build up a long list of
potential customers cookied with your affiliate IDs. The larger the list,
the more sales you will make. Affiliate marketing is a numbers game,
the more numbers you have, the easier it is to succeed. I have found
this so profitable that I try to “cookie” all the lists I build in the
process mentioned above, so that all these potential customers have my
affiliate IDs attached.

So it doesn’t take a genius to realize, used in combination, this can be
an extremely profitable form of list building which every affiliate marketer
should be doing if they haven’t already figured out this simple marketing
strategy. Build your lists, cookie your lists, and then sit back and reap
the rewards.

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If you want to find out more about list building, why try this handy eCourse: list building .
And if you want to check out a good practical Autoresponder System – Aweber




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List Building In The Age Of Twitter



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List Building In The Age Of Twitter

If you have a web site or you’re into online marketing – you will
probably already know how important list building is to your success.
You simply must have some way of building your list in place.

Years ago, when I first started with this online stuff, one of the first things
I learned was how to build lists in order to increase my site’s traffic
and sales. At first, I was mainly concerned with using my lists to bring repeat
visitors to my site and to build up some kind of relationship.

I soon discovered one of the most effective ways of doing this was simply
offering quality information in the form of a free ebook, video or newsletter
in return for the contact email.

Your site’s visitors would opt-in to your email list in order to get quality
information from you, which gave you the chance of offering follow-up information
in order to fully engage your subscribers with your site.

This doesn’t have to be complicated or a lot of work.

I believe one of my most effective list building systems is where visitors can
opt-in to get discount coupons on high-end products. When merchants give discounts,
special sales… I simply send out an email to these subscribers with the offers.

Ridiculously simple but it works.

Another version of this list building system is where I give 6 or 7 follow-up
information emails on a product or service. Within those emails are links
to a discount page where I place all my discounts and sales for that particular
product or service.

Again simple yet very effective.

But things have changed in the field of list building. I am still doing those
techniques above and will continue to use them because they work.

But…

There are now new programs on the web which make it much easier to build
your list of contacts.

When I think of all the time it took me to just get 10,000 subscribers, I am kinda
freaked out that some kid can put a few music videos on YouTube and in less than
a month has over 160,000 subscribers.

The same thing with Twitter, where building a list of 100,000 followers is fairly
common. The potential for building a large quality list is at anyone’s fingertips.
And all these programs can be used in addition to your onsite autoresponder which
you’re using to build your contact list.

Anyway, below is a recent article on building your list with Twitter and the
whole key is to integrate all your social networks programs into your web site.
Make it extremely easy for anyone to sign-up to your Twitter, YouTube, MySpace…
accounts from your site. Connect everything together and promote your
social contact sites just like you would your own site.

In this article I also give you some tips on how to increase your Twitter
followers – you can find it here:

http://www.sitepronews.com/2010/05/31/list-building-in-the-age-of-twitter



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Top 10 Linkedin Strategies To Increase Your Contacts/Income


Another online resource which is extremely helpful but you don’t hear too much
about it is Linkedin, which you can also use to build your list of contacts.

I am not an expert on Linkedin, so of course, I do the next best thing – seek
out someone who is!

One of the best experts on how to use Linkedin is Lewis Howes.

He has become somewhat of a LinkedIn “guru”, someone who has developed
and used strategies to make this program work for him and for you, if you
follow his advice.

I personally find Linkedin has the most professional or highly connected contacts
on it, more so than on YouTube or even Twitter – high-level experts and business
people who can really help your business grow.

To get a free video of the Top 10 Linkedin Tips you can use to fully take advantage
of this networking site. He also has an ebook entitled “Linkedin Master Strategies”
at a reasonable price, you can consider but make sure you view the free video.

You will have to give an email address because of course Lewis is also building
his list. (Tip: I often use a secondary email address when signing up to things
like this – if the follow-up information is extremely good and the person is
some one of high quality. I will then often re-subscribe to them using my primary
email address!)

To discover these common sense tips on how to use Linkedin to your advantage
click here:


Linkedin Master Strategies




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Titus

List Building

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