10 Ways Of Automating Your Business

10 Ways Of Automating Your Business
Copyright © 2006-2007 Constantin Chersin

An Internet business is the ultimate way to put your business on autopilot and not only make money but also have the freedom to enjoy your business. It is critical for the prosperity of your business and your sanity to automate your enterprise as much as possible.

Your computer is your greatest business partner but have you ever thought about how many ways you can use it to automate your business? In business time is money and the less time you have to spend battling with everyday tasks the smoother your enterprise will run. Your computer can help you in more ways than you may have thought of. Here are some things that it can help you with to make your business run more smoothly and efficiently.

1. Tracking your customer database, this can all be done with your computer. You can do this with office software like Microsoft word and keep all information on an excel sheet. In this way you will be able to see at a glance customer sales and conversions, who bought from you and when.

2. Speed and convenience: An important part of this computerized database is of course the convenience:

* Not having to keep files full of paper work
* Being able to look up anyone in your database quickly, either on your excel sheets or on your autoresponder. This will save your valuable time
* Making flow charts based on your database records. This will alert you to trends and help you track your promotions and business progress

3. Mailers: You can then load your entire list to your autoresponder from your database and use it for automated follow-ups and mailers. These are powerful marketing tools that can be set to go out automatically and will close many backend sales for you.

4. Accounting: One of the biggest headaches in business is managing your business budget. With software like Quicken this is easy to do. Again automating this will be a big time saver and will enable you to save money by keeping abreast of your company finances.

5. Desktop publishing software will save you 1000s on marketing design. Logos, brochures, leaflets, flyers and even your own newsletter template can be done quickly and well with this software.

6. Information please: Of course do not forget to harness the Internet with your computer. There is a wealth of information about your industry and more. Keep up with trends and hot news about your industry with free to join business forums articles and websites, Google News etc. You will save tons of money and time when you build your own library of knowledge like this.

7. Set up your payment system: This will handle offline and online orders automatically. There are several systems you can use but always have 2 to avoid any breakdown in your system.

8. Affiliates: If you have your own product set up your own affiliate program to automate your sales.

9. Joint Ventures: Do some long term Joint Ventures to complete your automated sales system.

10. Affiliate programs: Affiliate for some related programs and take advantage of a true automated income.

As you can see from these simple points it is easy to automate your business. When you do this you will have more time to develop ideas to market and build your enterprise without having to be continually stuck on time-consuming tasks.

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Constantin Chersin is an entrepreneur specializing in software and web development. For more information about his services and how he can help you promote your business, please visit: http://www.itprovision.net/ Constantin is also the publisher of the free marketing newsletter "IT Pro Vision." ============================================================


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Increasing Your Targeted Traffic

Increasing Your Targeted Traffic
Copyright © 2007 Casey Moher


There are dozens of good ways to send people to your website. These methods come with a wide variety of results and difficulty. Attempting various methods and studying the results has been a focus of mine. I'll review one of my favorites for you.

Offer something FREE to your visitors.

There is a high perceived value on the part of your visitor if you can provide them with useful information. By capturing and sharing this free information, you can make somebody's life better and easier in many regards.

It's simply human-nature that you must constantly work to over-come a basic mis-trust on the part of your visitor. This level of mis-trust MUST be overcome before you can succeed in your efforts.

Your focus should be to find and share valuable information. Finding (and sharing) information on-line is the quickest and most effective. It doesn't take much search time before you will be discovering subjects and information that folks want to know. This shows you the topics that are being inquired upon and which you will want to include in the information you give away.

One strategy you can employ is to share the information in the form of a multi-day mini-course that people can receive from you. Make the information package you send be of top-quality for maximum results. A little more time and attention at this point will have tremendous benefit in the value of your subscriber list. It costs much less than you might think to do this.

You will be offering to share this information in exchange for your visitor's name and e-mail address. A 'squeeze page' is the best tool to use for capturing this information. A squeeze-page is simply a basic website that presents your message offering the information.

Some very professional design work is available at affordable prices these days. Your own squeeze page can be up and capturing names for you in a very quick time.

If you would like to have your own squeeze page up and running, let me know. This is a great starting point in establishing your own highly-profitable list.

With care, your subscriber list can be cultivated and a long-term relationship built with the members. You can build a very rewarding and long-lasting enterprise by steadily and thoughtfully putting these concepts to work.

Like any offline business, you are providing genuine value to your customers who have grown to trust your motives and your interest in helping them. You can be paid very well in the process.

The best strategy in any relationship-selling environment is one where you give before ever trying to take. As with other strategies, here, again you are providing something of value free to the reader. This time it is in a different format and is made available to the reader using different tools and strategies. Quality in what you provide and how you provide it is essential, easy and inexpensive.

A focus on providing information to the people you wish to reach should be foremost in your mind. They will be willing to buy something from you (now or in the future) only if they first perceive that you have something they need or want. The biggest obstacle you will always face with new readers is one of NO TRUST! Providing something free is a great way to start building it. Valuable information can be found readily on the internet. You also likely have more information and knowledge of your own than you realize. There are many sources of information where you can find topics of interest to huge numbers of people.

The article should inform, educate and even enthuse the reader, but should NOT sell something. Your articles are not the place to sell some product or service. It is their job to inform and establish your credibility and TRUST! Your key marketing tool with the article publishing strategy is found in using a resource box. This is simply an area at the end describing who you are and giving your website address where they can visit and benefit by what you offer there.

I've seen a tremendous piece of software in action that automates the process of article-writing. This tool merges blocks of words, uses a 30,000 word thesaurus and manges data bases, as well. There is some new software out there (along with people-run businesses) that helps with article production as well as distribution.

Article writing and publishing should be part of an on-going strategy. Computers and professional service companies make this vital function much easier. If you want more information on these useful tools (or anything else in this article), just contact me.


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Casey Moher - Caseymoher@comcast.net (801) 941-3334

Mr. Moher is a Registered Pharmacist and Life-Long Marketing and Sales Professional. You Can Get His Free Five-Day Mini-Course on Building Targeted Website Traffic by
visiting: http://www.newtrafficmaster.com
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Traffic Tip: Search Engine Traffic Without SEO

Here's one traffic tip that I learned recently. And this is the next best thing to being listed on the front page for the keyword that you want.

And it's cheaper than PPC too.

Here's how you do it ...

First you Google the keyword that you want. If you are selling an ebook on losing weight, you can type in the word "lose weight" in Google right now. You know how expensive that keyword is with Adwords, right?

I am not really sure but I know that it's expensive.

So the next best thing that you can do is to advertise at the websites in the search engine results for that specific keyword.

You may want to negotiate a small investment first, and see how the traffic is converting.

And if the website has Adsense, you can try to look for that phrase "Advertise on this site"

And here's a trick if you are going with the "Advertise on this site"

What you can do is have an ad that also calls out the name of that website. I found this website here when I typed in lose weight:

http://www.soyouwanna.com/site/syws/loseweight/loseweight.html

So your ad can be something like:

I Love SoYouWanna.com
Lose weight at my site.com

If there's no "Advertise on this site", you can look for a link that says "Advertise" or "Advertisement", or anything like that.

And you can't find that either, and you are a portal or content site, you can even find their contact details and ask them about advertising rates.

Here's another tip ... rather than asking them their rates, you can straight away suggest a rate that you are comfortable with ... say maybe $1.50 per CPM (thousand
impressions). You can say that you want to try out the first 10,000 impression before commiting to a huge investment.

By the end of day, check how much traffic you are really getting, and how many sales you get. And then compare that if you were to bid for that keyword in Adwords or Overture in the first place ...

Well ... when getting traffic, you want to make sure that you get traffic that converts. If you want that, you can learn a lot more from Bryan Kumar's audio course on generating converting traffic.

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