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Whether
you are selling a product or service, the key to being able to profit online is to be able
to grow beyond your current capacity.
If
you are spending all your time answering emails,
fulfilling orders and taking care of things
that a robot or software program can take care
of, you are wasting your time and you will not
be able to significantly grow. Your competitors,
who are automated, will blow right past you!
It
is a vicious circle. You think, "Oh, why
should I spend $500 for this software when I
can easily take care of it myself." Well,
this can really damage your business in the
end. Yes, you can run your business without
being automated, it will work and you can make
money. But if you have true vision of where
your business can grow and want it to grow and
make you a lot of money -- you have to get automated.
And
for those of you that have my course where I
reveal the secret of generating small streams
of income from 5+ businesses by working under
an hour a day once they are setup and marketed
correctly. You know the key is to put those
businesses on "automatic pilot" - which, for
the first time, you can actually do online with
technology currently available. This is technology
that wasn't available as little as 4 years ago.
I'm
not saying you can't make money on line without
being automated, you can. But in order to make
a lot of money, and to grow and obtain a substantial
income, you have to be automated.
One
reason for getting automated is so that you
can spend your time marketing your product or
service, not fulfilling orders and performing
tedious tasks.
Another
reason is that when you are using manual systems,
it is very easy to get bogged down so that you
don't have time to grow - literally! You can't
take on new promotions because you are too busy
answering email, fulfilling orders, charging
credit cards, shipping products, taking care
of customer service, answering the phone and
so on. These are all things that should be done
automatically for you. You can get totally caught
up running your business instead of growing
your business. This is so important that it
needs repeating...
You
can get totally caught up "running" your business
instead of growing your business.
This
is a death trap for your business. You have
to make sure that everything is taken care of
so that you can spend the bulk of your time
marketing and growing your business, NOT spending
it by running day to day operations.
And
you should start getting automated right from
the start, because that's when you have the
time to set things up correctly. What usually
happens is that most people say "I've got
time to do this myself, and I don't want to
spend the money." Then, as you start growing
faster and faster, you'll find that your whole
day is taken up in just running your business.
You are literally trapped! You are so busy just
trying to keep up with orders, customer service
and phone calls that you don't have time to
research software and convert your existing
systems to automation. By this time, you not
only have to convert your current operation,
but you will have to go back and convert your
historical files as well!
Then
one day you'll find that your competitors have
blown right past you... because they continued
to market, market, and market. People that
could have been your customers are now their
customers!
If
you have the entire automated processes in place,
all you have to worry about is bringing in more
orders. Order fulfillment and customer service
will be taken care of automatically and you
will have time to market and to grow.
Marketing
and growing a business takes time. You will
find that as you get bigger and bigger the problems
accumulate exponentially. You may not have a
lot of customer service problems or questions
now, you may not have a whole lot of returns,
and you don't spend much time charging credit
cards, or issuing refunds... now. But as you
grow each of these issues grow right along with
it. Customer service issues multiply and you
will have more and more people asking you questions.
The volume of email will get larger by the day.
The volume of phone calls to your office will
also increase. If you don't have automated systems
in place, confusion will attach itself to the
bulk of your day. Products won't get shipped
on time or things will get lost because you
put it aside thinking you will take care of
it later, and that later never comes! There
are a billion problems that could happen. Well
a "billion" may be stretching it a bit, but
you get the picture.
Say
you are selling downloadable software and something
happens with your server. You then have to find
new solutions to getting your software to the
customer. Or perhaps your website is too slow
because your HTML isn't coded properly and your
site takes way too long to load... so you then
have to redo all your HTML, redo all your CGI
and Perl programs because they are clogging
up the system. Your site is getting too big,
too fast.
I
could go on for days talking about the problems
you will run into as you get bigger. And trust
me, these problems happen fast. What people
don't realize is that business growth causes
problems... growth-related problems. You should
be spending your time working on these growth
problems and marketing in order to keep on growing
your business.
We
use a lot of software to help us and, I'll be
frank, some of our software is custom designed
to automate our systems for us but a lot of
what we use is also available to you.
One
example is Mailloop Business Automation Software.
We use Mailloop to automatically import all
of our order forms and newsletter subscriptions
into our database. So if we want to email our
customer or newsletter database, all we have
to do is press one button and drop in a letter.
The software then fully mail merges and personalizes
the letter to all our customers or newsletter
subscribers. We also have Mailloop set up so
that when an order comes in, it extracts all
the information for us and puts it into our
order database.
Mailloop
has an unlimited number of autoresponders and
also has an unlimited message forwarding function.
It helps us send bulk email messages to our
client and newsletter databases. It has a suite
of other tools that help us automate large chunks
of work. For example, it filters a lot of our
email, separating out a lot of the spam, subscribing
and removing customers for all of our newsletters.
Another
thing we do is fully automate our order processing
system. We use an e-commerce system for that.
When an order comes in:
the credit
card charges are approved
the money
is then transferred to our bank and
the order
is sent to our fulfillment company to be
shipped
the customer
will get a notification that their credit
card has been charged
and it extracts
the order information and puts it into a
database for us.
The
beauty of using programs like this is that everything
is done for us. If you have an e-book or
any kind of electronic digital product such
as software, for example, you don't even have
to fulfill the product! Once the order comes
in, the credit card charge is approved and the
money is deposited into your bank account! You
can automatically email your customer with information
on how to download and extract the software.
And you don't have to do a thing... the whole
job, including fulfillment, is taken care of
without you having to lift a finger. That's
the beauty of online marketing using e-commerce!
Also,
E-Commerce will let you do simple things such
as searching for credit card numbers in your
database. For example, if someone asks for a
refund, you can simply do a search for their
credit card number. It allows you to automate
the refund process as well. There are so many
other things it allows you to do. It is BEAUTIFUL!
One
of the real benefits is that it allows you to
charge credit cards online, in real time. This
will increase the number of orders you get because
customers can have their orders fulfilled almost
immediately! The fact that your soon to be customers
know their order is being processed without
having to wait a day or two is a big benefit
in getting people to do business with you.
So
having your order system automated is very important.
If you need a credit card payment system like
this, just go to http://www.marketingtips.com/creditcards/ and you'll
get the rundown of our e-commerce information
webpage.
Having
your email system automated is also very important.
We talk about the details of how to do this
in the Insider Secrets course. You can
set up Eudora Pro to filter your messages
and send back "canned" responses to answer common
questions. You can also personalize your email
messages and use boilerplate paragraphs that allow you to answer your email inquiries
very quickly.
For
example, we handle over 300 emails a day and
a lot of these inquires are very similar in
nature. We have certain boilerplate paragraphs
that answer many of the common questions we
receive. So if someone emails us with five questions,
we can literally cut and paste the answers to
those questions into the appropriate areas.
We can answer an email and send it back within
30 to 40 seconds. If we had to answer the questions
individually, it might take us 10 to 20 minutes
to write an answer. This isn't a problem if
all you have to do is answer a couple of emails,
but when you start getting 100+ emails a day
(which happens very fast) it sure makes a difference!
This
is a critical part of getting our business done
and it is important to make sure all of our customers are satisfied. We do this by
taking care of their inquiries promptly. To
find out more about Eudora Pro visit http://www.eudora.com/
If
you can't answer inquiries immediately you should
have an autoresponder operating so that every
time someone emails you, the autoresponse lets
them know when you will get back to them. This
is very important and is something not very
many people do anymore! You'd be very surprised
how many "newbies" think that you are online
just waiting to receive and answer their email.
We've had people email us and then email us
again in 10 minutes saying "where are you
guys, I haven't heard back from you yet, are
you trying to rip me off?" They expect
you to answer their email instantaneously!
Many
small home based businesses have only one person
working in the company with time to answer their
email once a day or so. If you are in the position
of only being able to answer your email every
24 or ever 48 hours you should have an autoresponder
that sends a message saying something like "Hi,
we've received your email, we will answer your
email within the next 48 hours. If you have
any urgent questions you can call us at this
following number." This will help you build
credibility and rapport with your customers.
They won't think you are ripping them off and
are trying to hide behind some website. A lot
of people are very skeptical of online businesses
and you need to do everything you can to set
their minds at ease. You can set up these autoresponder
messages through your server, or by using either
Mailloop or Eudora Pro.
A
very critical component of our automation process
is the automation of our Associate Program.
We built software called AssocTRAC from scratch
in order to help us track and administer our
Associate Programs. It took us 4 years and cost
us approximately $150,000 to develop. We are
now sharing this software with our clients for
under a thousand dollars.
AssocTRAC
allows instantaneous associate activation and
instantaneous web page creation. It does all
the reports for you and allows associates to
check all their stats in real time. It prints
associated checks for you automatically every
month, including labels for the envelopes. It
is beautiful because it fully automates
your Associate Programs so that running an Associate
Program does not become a full time job. For
more information on that software, just go to http://www.marketingtips.com/assoctrac.html
There
is a real advantage to Associate Programs that
almost no one else has tapped into but us. An
Associate Program is really the ultimate ad-tracking
software!
What
I mean by this is that when you place your banner
ads, your text links, buttons, or any type of
advertising you pay for, you can assign an associate
number to that advertising and track its results
to see if it is making (or losing) you money.
Then
you can track exactly how many visitors come
in and how many sales were generated by each
individual ad. You can tell exactly what ads are making you money and which ads
are losing your money. It is the ultimate ad-tracking
software!
In
fact, depending on how you use it... it is like
ad-tracking software with a built-in bonus Associate
Program! We have been using this technique for
years and it has made us a fortune!
The
way we run our Associate Program now gives us
great credibility. The program gives contact
and sales stats in real time, and offers a lot
of advantages to not only our associates but
to the Associate Program owner as well. If you
want to learn more about creating your own Associate
Program, I wrote over 75 pages on everything
you wanted to know about joining or starting
an associate program - all the ins and outs
and exactly how to do it the right way to become
instantaneously profitable. Check out the articles
at http://www.assoctrac.com/ These articles contain a
lot of details on the power of Associate Programs,
including how to start and run your very own.
Right
now Associate Programs are the hottest and most
effective way of marketing your business online. They are also the least risky way of marketing
your business online, hands down! If you don't
get on the bandwagon now with Affiliate or Associate
Programs, you will be left in the dust.
That's how powerful they are.
Amazon.com
grew in leaps and bounds using Associate Programs,
now this marketing method is hitting the web
in force. Our own Associate Programs have exploded
in the last eight months! We do over a million
dollars in business just with our Associate
Programs, so you can see the awesome potential
of doing business this way. If you haven't yet,
read our newsletter now and get involved in
your own Associate Program, http://www.assoctrac.com/ and to check out the AssocTRAC
software that runs the associate program for
you go to http://www.marketingtips.com/assoctrac.html
We
are always striving to automate as many things
as possible to make running our business easier,
software helps tremendously to do this. The
unfortunate thing is that software often costs
money. But the time you will save is unbelievable! As far as I'm concerned you can get the cost
of the software back literally within days.
If your business is really slow, it might take
you a couple of weeks, but the bottom line is
that it will save you time and make running
your business that much easier.
Here
are a few more of the programs we use:
WinZip
Compression Software
WinZip brings the convenience of Windows to
the use of Zip files and other archive and compression
formats. Zip files are "archives" used for distributing
and storing files and contain one or more files.
Usually the files "archived" in a Zip are compressed
to save space (especially when you are emailing
attached files). These files make it simple
to group files and make them faster to transport
online (usually via email or FTP). For more
information, visit: http://www.winzip.com/
WS_FTP
Pro File Transfer Program
Upload your web pages with WS_FTP Pro -- the
fastest, most powerful Windows file transfer
protocol (FTP) client available. With WS_FTP
Pro, you can connect to any FTP server, browse
through directories and files, and transfer
files in either direction quickly. For more
information, visit: http://www.wsftp.com/
Eudora
Pro Email Program
All of our staff here uses Eudora Pro and, in
my opinion, it is the best email program available.
It sends, receives and filters e-mail while
you read and compose messages. It has great
organizational features that make reading and
processing your email a pleasure. It includes
a real-time spelling checker that underlines
misspelled words and a powerful search feature
that now displays all results in one easy to
access and navigate window. For more information,
visit: http://www.eudora.com/
AssocTRAC
Associate Program Software
This is the hottest thing on the Internet right
now! This is the software we have created and
used for the last 4 years to build our associate
program to become one of the biggest on the
Internet. Just imagine having a workforce of
hundreds, thousands or even hundreds of thousands
of people on the Internet promoting and selling
your product or service for you... and at no
cost until they actually make a sale. Associate
programs are the most cost-effective and risk-free
way of promoting your business on the Internet
today. Why? Because you pay them a portion of
the sales... you are paying them for "results",
not advertising! You cannot lose money when
you are only paying them a portion of the profits...
and only AFTER they have made the sale. AssocTRAC
(Associate Program tracking software) is some
of the most advanced software available that
will track customers and associates, calculate
how much is owed to them... and even print the
checks for you at the end of the month. For
more information, visit: http://www.marketingtips.com/assoctrac.html
Time
& Chaos Day-Timer/Organizer Software
Much of the staff in our office use this software
for their daily planning. Time & Chaos is
a feature-packed personal information manager
for Windows with extraordinary network features.
The interface is easy to understand with all
of your data available on one screen! For more
information, visit: http://www.isbister.com/
Power
Submitter Classified Ad Placement Software
This is great software to test your ads and
headlines to see which ones pull better results.
Power Submitter automates your placing of classified
ads to the top 400+ free classified ads sites.
It places over 30 ads per minute, which in effect
saves you literally days of effort typing, when
typing in each ad manually could take from 5
to 10 minutes. For more information, visit: http://www.marketingtips.com/classifiedad.html
HotDog
Pro HTML Editor
We use HotDog Pro in our office for all our
webpage creation and editing. It is the perfect
authoring tool for webmasters because of its
incredible power, comprehensive feature-set,
user friendliness, and intuitive interface.
Wizards for obscure and otherwise exhaustive
tasks make life easier without taking over the
operations, which require undivided attention
and scrutiny. For more information, visit: http://www.sausage.com/
SubmitWolf
Pro Search Engine Placement Software
This is the most powerful – and intelligent
– submission software around. SubmitWolf Pro
takes the information that you input, and
prepares your submission just in the way each
search engine wants it (which gets you ranked
high!). It even automatically chooses a category
for you based on your site details, and makes
sure each site will accept your submission.
Not only does SubmitWolf Pro send your website
details to over 1,200 top search engines and
directories (including Yahoo!, Google, Inktomi,
and others!), it also has the power to add
your site to over 500,000 link pages, adding
to your site’s popularity! For more information,
visit: http://www.marketingtips.com/submit/
Internet
Explorer 5 Web Browser
Internet Explorer 5 not only displays Web pages
faster, it's designed to save you time on the
things you do most often. It also has the most
popular plugs-ins built-in, saving you the time
and hassle of downloading them later on. For
more information, visit: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/Ie/default.htm
Other
Internet Browsers
As mentioned in the course, you always want
to have both Internet Explorer and Netscape
on your computer. And you will want to have
older versions of them so you can view your
website to make sure it appears proper in all
the new AND old browsers.
A
combination of all of this software helps to
automate the majority of our daily tasks and
allows us to operate from one small office.
I completely believe in business automation,
and these programs help to reflect that.
If
you haven't already done so, I recommend you
take the time to view each product's website
for more thorough explanations and run-downs
on how each program works and its benefits to
you and your business. As I have preached to
you time and time again, let the software
do the work for you so you can take care of
more important things like promoting and growing
your business!
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