Your
Hands-Free Marketing Machine
(excerpted from Online
Marketing Superstars)
The benefits of automation are so numerous you can’t
afford to ignore them. Automate your online efforts correctly
and you'll reap the rewards. The primary benefit of “hands
free” marketing is selling to your customers 24 hours
a day, 7 days a week. Other benefits include:
Cost
Reduction: Automation reduces your costs across the
board. Everything from long distance phone bills to direct
mail postage, and reducing the need for hiring additional
customer service and support staff.
Easy
to Run: The number one complaint of most business
owners is their inability to be away from the business. Your
business becomes much easier to run and your presence becomes
optional with online automation. With most systems you can
quickly and easily check your sales and orders from any web
browser.
More
Time: You gain more time to focus on priorities for
the strategic growth of your company and to address those
smaller problems that accumulate otherwise. This newfound
discretionary time comes without your money-making activities
coming to a halt, or hiring and training staff, while you
finally take that vacation.
Happy
Customers: Automation lets you serve your customers
faster and more efficiently and raises your customer satisfaction
levels. If you have employees, they can focus on other higher-value
functions that demand human intervention. Automation also
reduces the demand for the high cost of customer service representatives.
Targeted
Marketing: While building your customer base, your
prospects can be segmented. Once they respond to a specific
offer, put them on a segmented list that identifies them,
topics that interest them, products they want, and other personal
preferences. Now you’re able to market to your prospects
more efficiently and personally with custom offers to produce
larger profits.
Competitive
Advantage: Automation gives you an edge over your
competition. You can devote more time to identify additional
opportunities, enhancing customer service, and selling more
to your best clients.
The first key to success on the Internet is growing your email
base. The value of your business
comes down to the size and quality of your customer base.
If there’s no market demand or buyers, then your business
has little value or life expectancy! Capture the names and
email of prospects when they visit your web sites. The fact
that they clicked to your site shows they’re interested.
Rarely does a customer buy on their first visit to your site
and they’re just as unlikely to ever return without
an invitation and further persuasion.
Permission-based Opt-in: Seek the permission
from your visitors to put them on your email list. Send them
additional information or preferred access. Use an unblockable,
strategic pop-over window to have an offer appear automatically.
A small script, like the Easy Opt-in script provided by EasyWebAutomation,
works with a time delay on entry or exit to your sites. This
tactic alone instantly increases opt-in conversions by as
much as 30 to 40%. Once they’ve opted in to your list,
they’ve ‘raised their hand’ and identified
themselves as part in your target market. Now feed them value-based,
timely, rich content that encourages them to return to your
site where you’re more likely to convert them into customers.
Capturing email addresses: Automate the
most important role of your web site: capturing the email
addresses of all your prospects. Your mailing list is critical
to all your marketing and literally your most valuable asset.
Offer special reports, ezines, newsletters, insider information,
mini-educational courses, advice, or free trials to entice
visitors to share their name and email. When the data is entered,
it is automatically placed in your database and added to the
appropriate list. Then, email promotions and other benefits
over time to build your relationship and gradually earn prospect’s
trust, leading to more sales and frequent purchases.
Automatic Response and Communication: Once
you have their email address, put autoresponders to work.
These automatically distributed email messages are to motivate
prospects to revisit your site for the latest offers. Create
customized, brief, friendly, and conversational messages as
content for your autoresponders.Do you
read long email? Email should be used only to direct
traffic to your sites not to deliver a ton of content.
A second key to success is increasing
customer confidence
To build your online business it's vital that you have an
ecommerce plan. Letting your customers place orders on your
website is the major component. The key to the most profitable
ecommerce today is the ability to influence prospects to confidently
share their personal and financial data while making purchases.
‘Pushing’ your shopping cart: You'll notice a
little shopping cart icon on many retail websites. Or perhaps
when you click on a product, you’re invited to add it
your shopping cart. A shopping cart is at the heart of your
selling process online. No cart – no orders! What better
way to assist consumers than with a shopping cart that operates
in exactly the same way it would in a grocery store?
How a shopping cart works: Picture this:
you’re cruising down the aisles while pushing your shopping
cart along grabbing items and adding them to your cart. At
the checkout you make the final decision about the items and
discard any you don’t want. An online shopping cart
works in exactly the same way. Carts are used by millions
of websites worldwide.
Instant Delivery: Demand a shopping cart
system that handles automatic digital product delivery. Net
shoppers want to download your product instantly if it’s
software, music, or digital information, like an ebook. This
is important because when it comes to the Internet today,
timing is everything! Failing to take advantage of a shopping
cart system severely limits your online capabilities.
Is it safe?: This remains the most frequently
asked question about online shopping. A few years ago most
people were concerned about using their credit cards online.
With ever-evolving security features on Internet browsers
these days, using your credit cards online is actually safer
than using it at the local gas station. Implementing an online
shopping cart makes it much safer to use credit cards online.
A shopping cart employs something called a digital converter.
You’re given a secure certificate ensuring that your
credit card and personal information is encrypted through
the Internet browser. This makes it impossible for anyone
to grab your data and steal it. The presentation of your order
form and shopping cart application increases the trust your
customer has in your online order system and makes them more
likely to purchase. Point out any and all the security features
on your site with written explanations and related logos and
symbols.
Conclusion
The Internet is extremely competitive. The right strategy
combined with powerful and practical systems gives you an
edge over your competitors. You’ll attract more customers
and spend less time, money, and energy winning them over.
By automating your sales and marketing processes online, you’ll
see big profits sooner and more often! Automation services
and software leverage the best technology available to make
you money day and night, whether you’re there or not!
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