What Are Autoresponders And How Can They Increase My Sales

You've got an interested visitor wading through your site and they’ve finally come to find just what it is they were looking for and are about to make a purchase. It’s a beautiful day, and the dog, which happens to be quite hungry, has just jumped up on the kitchen counter and is in the process of digging through the leftover plates from dinner.

In a flash your visitor has now left your site, and the sale that was about to be yours is vaporized – that is unless you had the foresight to work with an autoresponder that has just captured their email address. If you have installed an autoresponder, you are at your leisure to follow-up with your visitor and complete the sale as soon as the poor dog owner has finished tossing the broken dinnerware.

Autoresponders are quite remarkable tools. Versatile programs that can do so much more than the simple time saving automation of your email.

Following are a few ideas that will ultimately help you to productively manage your email campaigns with the use of an autoresponder and convert your casual visitor into a profitable customer.

1. Newsletter publications.

A quality autoresponder will assist you with the management of your subscriptions and follow-up with interested prospects. Newsletters can keep your visitors informed regarding the services or products that you offer, while building your reputation as a credible expert in specific areas of your business.

2. Newsletters designed specifically for your affiliates.

Information regarding current promotions, free bonus materials that will assist them to build their business and take them to the next level of their success. Tips, advice and techniques can be delivered instantly that will help your affiliates raise their marketing skills to higher levels which ultimately, assist you promote and spread your business.

3. Write product reviews.

Create book covers, new software, music tab, ebooks, movies, etc., and put each review or write-up in your autoresponder. Do some reviews of your affiliate programs and use a link to your affiliate sales page in your autoresponder directing your visitors to the locations they can get their hands on the great product you’ve just finished reviewing.

4. Get your articles in distribution.

Make sure you get them published. Writing and the distribution of your articles to a targeted audience is a powerful tool to build your business credibility, increase the sales traffic to your sites and raise your sales potential. If your articles contain useful information designed to assist a targeted audience, many editors will print what if referred to as a resource box for you. A resource box is the area following an article that contains your bio information and a brief description of your product or service. It can also contain your autoresponder address. Perhaps you’ve written 35 articles. Put each one on a separate autoresponder and organize them with a master list that contains titles of each article and the autoresponder address as well as a brief abstract. Promote your master list. You can also include your publishing guidelines to your affiliates so they may publish their articles to your list, thereby increasing the number of writers being represented in your article list.

5. Create, manage and build mailing lists.

Keep your subscribers informed of the publishing of your new articles as soon as they’re posted. This will give them the option to post them in their blog or publish them in their own newsletter or website.

6. Using an autoresponder will enable you to automate your sales process.

Use an ad to insure repeated exposure of your message. Using this technique has been proven to effectively increase sales. In all of your adds, be sure to include your autoresponder address where your visitors will be exposed to numerous marketing materials. This will multiply the chances of converting your visitors to paying customers. For instance, if you are selling a niche product, get some testimonials and place them in your autoresponder letting your visitors know how spectacular it is. Add details and an enticing description of your product to seal the sale.

7. Advertising distribution.

Perhaps you already sell advertising on your websites or blog. Begin offering advertising in your autoresponder. Once you have a list of 100 or more potential customers, you can begin offering to place an add automatically to all prospects email addresses. Once you have these in place you can have your autoresponder follow-up in a timely manner.

8. Offer email courses.

Set up your autoresponder to send a lesson every other day. Be sure that each lesson contains quality content and not a sales pitch. Allow your content to do the selling for you. It will do it much more effectively and will also build your expert credibility augmenting your “brand” recognition in your particular industry. Be sure to include the tangible benefits that your visitors will reap by obtaining your product. Always remember to include a small paragraph to end each lesson that will further entice your prospects to consider making a purchase.

9. Once visitors complete your course be sure to include a reminder follow-up regarding your service or product.

This action will increase the sales potential of visitors on your list who have been dragging their feet regarding the purchase of your product. Use these reminders to promote new products and affiliate programs or services as well.

10. Give your visitor an idea of the types of information you can provide them and the quality of your products and services by distributing free reports.

Ensure that these reports are not sales letters. Marketers using these tactics generally lose potential customers rather than gaining sales.

11. Always include autoresponders on your order pages.

Add a request form for visitors to be notified of special offers or mini-courses and future discounts. This will generate a very effective list containing the names of people who are already your customers.

12. Offer trial versions of your products or a 14 day FREE trial to your service.

People who are exposed to quality products and services often end up wanting the whole enchilada. You can also capture their email addresses for future follow-ups. Set up your autoresponder to give instructions on how to obtain their free trial and be sure to include follow-up emails to close the sale.

13. Include your links page on your autoresponder emails.

It should contain a complete list of links that will interest your visitors. Be sure to include a promotional copy at the top or bottom of this page.

These actions bring results and can be used in any creative manner you desire. Let your imagination run wild. There are no limits to how an effectively designed autoresponder can help increase your sales and motivate your visitors to become loyal customers. Get excited and take action now.

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Duss Rodgers is the Internet Marketing CEO of The Rich Man Plan and a member of the highly coveted Success University. He has been helping Internet Marketers Worldwide improve their online business ventures, and independant musicians achieve viable marketing success with his cache of innovative Internet Marketing Techniques. For more information please visit his website. therichmanplan.com

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