What is an autoresponder?

Without getting too technical, it’s like an automated email program that responds twenty four hours a day to any inquiries you receive about your product.

When a prospect sees your advertising, they send an email to your autoresponder address, and it replies immediately with your prewritten message about product. Remember, people want info as soon as possible. If you have hundreds of inquiries a week, you’ll eat up too much time following up individually.

Best of all, you can load a series of email messages into autoresponder and have it automatically send messages at specific intervals.

Why is following up with several messages better than only one? Consider this fact from National Sales Association: 80 percent of sales are made between fifth and twelfth contact. Impulse buyers are a rare breed.

How do you get started with an autoresponder?

The easiest way is to sign up for an account. They are lots of autoresponder websites and both GetResponse (http://www.GetResponse.com) and RapidReply (http://www.rapidreply.net) offer free accounts.

They just lost their job, there spouse just lost theirs or money problems have overwhelmed them. They are in a disparate situation, they need to make money Now, not tomorrow, but Now.

That is exactly Wrong time to start.

Why?

Because they are looking for something that doesn't exist. Money over night, success in a flash. Instant Riches.

Sorry to say, it doesn't happen that way. Don't believe all Hype you read on Websites, or posted on Company Message Boards or coming from some upline member above you.

What is purpose of Company Website after all?

To get you to join, spend your money or time or both and if it seems to promise that it's going to be easy making money, that they do all work and you just collect checks, don't fall for it. They just want your money and your time.

If members post on Company boards about hundreds of members they've signed up almost over night, don't think just because they did it, you can.

How did they do it?

They have either spend a Lot of Money Promoting, or paid for sign ups which in long run will be almost worthless. Or, and most likely of all, they have a Large Mailing List that they have built up over time of people who have joined things with them in past and trust them.

The same goes for that Heavy Hitter upline of yours who writes everyone below him or her and tells them how easy it was to get sign ups. Hog wash... Easy for them, not so easy for you and rest of us.

For most of us, it's going to take time and a lot of work.

I will not lie to you and tell you anything is easy, fast or guaranteed. Any program, no matter who says what, is going to take time and work.

So, when is best time to start trying to make Money in an online Home Business, or any start it yourself business, for that matter?