Marketing: Autoresponder Etiquette

Autoresponder Etiquette

Written by Shelley Lowery

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Top 10 Marketing Tips!

Written by Gary Eby

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#4. Encourage others to link to your page. Provide easy methods for them to accomplish this--free link pages or "rings"--etc.

#5. Consider all your junk mail as prospects! Send them an e-mail back which advertises your page with a "hook."

#6. Write ads which include an incentive ("hooks") for people to e-mail you back. Example: "E-mail me at qlcoach@aol.com, and I will help you market your business for FREE!" Then work with these prospects by helping them solve their problems through your products or services. (smile)

#7. Use newsletters to develop your own mailing list. Example: "Provide me with your business card information. I will send you my free newsletter on Internet Business Opportunities."

#8. It's okay to invest in blasters, and ad submitters. They save you time, and help you reach far more people than is possible through individual contacts.

#9. Stay away from e-mail or "safe" mailing lists. Unless you will take repparttar time to use repparttar 121707 junk mail to market your page with some kind of free offer or hook.

#10. Network with other e-commerce folks for support, encouragement, and fun!! Join and paticipate in few online clubs or chats or message boards.

Conclusion: The internet does hold repparttar 121708 promise of financial independence for many of us. Don't be reluctant to invest in a few excellent internet marketing courses. (The free ones just don't measure up--you get what you pay for!) Without savy advertising, you won't get repparttar 121709 business you so richly deserve!

Gary Eby from Peralta, New Mexico http://www.angelfire.com/nm/qlcoach (400,000+ Free Submissions) qlcoach@aol.com

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