Using Marketing Automation Systems Helps You Build A Bigger Business

By Daphne Bowen


When you were marketing, in the old days, you spent a lot of time writing notes on paper with a pen or pencil. You sent drawings, through the mail, drawn with a pencil or India ink. You spent quite a bit of time on the phone and do not even think about the time you spent, online, at the post office. That is why you can breathe a sigh of relief when you hear about all of the marketing automation systems that are available, now.

The computer, of course, took us from the world of writing things or typing individual letters. It was able to mail merge so that individual labels, for mail, could be printed out easily. That, at least, saved some time from all of that needed for the entire marketing effort. The mail still had to go out and bad addresses may never be discovered. Not only that, but responses, either way, might take days or weeks.

Turning your attention to automation, we can thank the Internet for accessibility to all of the services, software and assistance you can count on every day. This World Wide Web makes all of this automation possible and through it, the acquisition of the potential clients to which you are marketing. This information sharing and ecommerce platform opens all of the options you need for success.

A blog or website is absolutely necessary when setting up a business, here. You need to have a lot of content on that site and automation can be one of the tools you use. There is software that will scour many other sites and article directories for articles to include. All of this will help you become an authority figure in your niche and help the search engines find you.

The major automated system that is critical for relationship building is an auto responder. Many marketers will not consider setting up a campaign without one. It is a piece of computer code that installs a capture form on your site. For value received, such as a free report or article, a visitor will enter their email address. This belongs to that list you hear about and this auto responder sends emails to this list on a regular schedule without anything else coming from you.

Since people will not buy from or do business with someone they do not trust or even know, the emails that will be sent out fulfill this function. The system will automatically send emails dealing with new information, new products or updates that assist the potential clients to solve some issue. This relationship building function is able to do this as a set it and forget it system which makes it possible to work on other tasks while emails are whirling back and forth.

Some of the other systems available at a reasonable cost or even, in some cases, free are websites that will submit articles that you write to directories and other websites. These articles are a low cost way to get people interested enough to come to your site. This will get them interested in leaving their email address, so this whole thing starts, again.

The amount of time you spend in productive activities, apart from those that are automated allows you to create the wealth that you should be making. Those automated things happen while you are busy with the more productive side of things. All of this means you can spend your time working on the next big launch and going to the bank.




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