No!

Internet marketing has time-proven tool that catches targeted visitors on your web site and transform them into loyal clients. This tool is known as autoresponder.

Autoresponder is very similar to a mailing list. But its aims and functioning differ.

Mailing list is used to send messages to its subscribers; autoreposnder GATHERS subscribers and then sends them messages.

For example, you got to web site about University scholarships, and you are not ready to buy anything from this web site right now. But you see a pop-up window or subscription form saying something like, "Sign up here to get free and fresh updates on new scholarship programs". Hm, you start thinking. If you are a targeted visitor and feel motivated to get a scholarship, you will surely subscribe to free updates about new scholarship programs.

So, you submit your name and email to subscription form of autoresponder. You get free updates, and web site gets your name and email to base of subscribers. Having your name and email, good marketers will find useful products and services to offer you in future. This is when web site is starting to get lifetime customer value from its visitors.

But be careful: do not terrorize your subscribers with useless offers. Otherwise they will unsubscribe from your list, and you will lose them forever.

Would you like to grow base of your web site subscribers? Yes! Are these subscribers targeted? Yes! If they did not make a purchase on your web site from first visit, it does not mean they will not do it in future. You just need to try other approach or other offer. The subscriber is bound to your web site now.

This is only general idea about how autoresponders work. Look below to see how they can bring money to your web site.

DIFFERENT WAYS TO MAKE MONEY WITH AUTORESPONDERS

Using autoresponder you can:

1. Sell your own products and services more effectively.

2. Get more re-orders from your clients - if you sell something which needs ordering from time to time (health products, movie tickets), autoresponder will keep in touch with your clients.

3. Generate more upsells - if your products/services have updates and upgrades, autoresponder will help you to motivate clients for buying update or upgrade.

When you submit articles to websites you will receive a box at bottom of page with info that you would like for your reading audience to have. The most important item should be your website address. Try to use keywords from your website in article you write and when possible include a link to your website in body of article as well. When you add this link to bottom of article or in body you will be receiving links back to your website.

This is best cost free way of promoting your website. There are literally thousands of people searching for content for their own websites and they are seeking out websites with “free articles”. If you have written a few quality articles pertaining to content on your website or articles with useful information that is interesting and can provide other websites with enjoyable reading, they will download your free article with your website link and place your article on their website. Now, you have a link from free article website along with each person that desires to use your article. There are hundreds of websites that offer free article submissions that you will soon realize once you check out http:www.info-sales.co.uk/article.htm. With all of these websites that are using your article you will be able to have a great number of “backlinks” all pointing to your website. You will be able to achieve a higher ranking in major search engines.