10 Marketing Tips For Success

Written by Shelley Lowery


1. FREE... I got your attention, didn't I. Offer a free report, e-book or "how to" course. Information isrepparttar top selling product online. You can use this to your benefit by offering free information.

- As a sample of your information product (teaser)

- To identify a problem and promote your products or services by providing a solution

- To bring traffic to your site

Providing free information is a great way to build a targeted list of contacts. Pick up free autoresponders atrepparttar 121714 following sites:

- SendFree - http://www.sendfree.com/

- GetResponse - http://www.getresponse.com/

- Fast Facts - http://www.fastfacts.net/

- MyReply - http://www.myreply.com/

- Smartbot - http://www.smartbot.net

For more information about creating an e-book readrepparttar 121715 article entitled, "How To Create An E-book & Drive Massive Traffic To Your Site By Giving It Away..." http://www.web-source.net/ebooks.htm

2. Newsletter (e-zine) - Start your own newsletter and begin creating your online community of contacts. Visit any of these sites to create your list, free.

- Onelist - http://www.onelist.com

- Egroups - http://www.egroups.com

- Listbot - http://www.listbot.com

3. Write Articles - There are thousands of online publications looking for quality content. Writing and distributing your articles will provide you with free massive exposure. After you've written your article, subscribe to these publications to assist you in getting published.

- Article Announce - Designed to get writers published and assist publishers in findingrepparttar 121716 articles they need. Announce your new article.

Subscribe - article_announce-subscribe@egroups.com

- Writers and Publishers Connection Newsletter Where publishers announce their article needs.

Subscribe - Writers98@aol.com with subscribe Writers and Publishers inrepparttar 121717 subject.

4. E-zine Advertising - The best form of advertising available online. Reach thousands of targeted potential customers very inexpensively. Ruth Townsend of Lifestyle Publishing offers a complete listing of publications, ad costs, circulation and more in "The Directory of Ezines."

- http://www.lifestylespub.com/cgi-bin/ezines.cgi?11914

5. Classified Ads - Continuously place classified ads. People DO readrepparttar 121718 classifieds. This is very time consuming and you may want to purchase an auto posting software.

Autoresponder Courses: The Automated Marketing Tool

Written by Shelley Lowery


Autoresponders, also known as mailbots, automatic email and email on demand were derived fromrepparttar very popular fax on demand and designed to automatically respond to any email message it receives with an automatic response. Autoresponder programs vary from software set up to run with your desktop email program and automatically answer your incoming email to a script that runs on your server. The script may run a Web-based autoresponder system that utilizes a web page form, or it may run with your pop email account on your server. It is programmed to automatically send out a predetermined message when a message is received to a specified script address or email address. In addition torepparttar 121713 standard autoresponder systems, there are also autoresponders that can send an unlimited amount of follow-up messages. These follow up messages can be set up to automatically be sent out at predetermined intervals. In other words, you can set up your autoresponder to automatically send out a new message each day for as many days as you would like. This powerful technology is currently being used by some of repparttar 121714 top online marketers to reach thousands of potential customers. As you may know, it may take up to seven contacts with a potential customer before closing a sale. By setting up an autoresponder and offering a free autoresponder course, you can completely automate a portion of your marketing efforts. Creating A Course The first step in creating an autoresponder course is to decide upon a subject. Your course should focus on a subject in which you have a great deal of knowledge and target your potential customers. Once you have selected your subject, you'll need to make a list of topics. Each topic will represent one lesson. If you have five topics, then you can offer your visitors a free 5-day course. If

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