Autoresponders – What They Are and Why You Need Them

Posted by admin - 10/06/09 at 04:06 am

Autoresponders are excellent promotional tools, essential for
Internet business. Some call them by the technical term; while
others say automatic eMailer, eMail responder, autobot or
mailbot. Whatever you call them the important thing is that
they automatically respond to incoming messages, hence the
name, and they do so without human intervention.

Autoresponders are great time-savers and you can use them for
a variety of tasks. They never take a break, work 24/7 all
year for no extra pay and hardly ever check in sick (providing
you use reliable suppliers). Autoresponders never query the
task you set them and they follow your instructions to the
letter. You will notice the plural being used, so you can see
that more than one autoresponder is usually required.

With the Internet constantly growing, and new users coming
online daily, you have a truly international marketplace at
your disposal. Competition is fierce, especially in certain
markets. Many thousands of companies are already competing for
business so you must do whatever it takes to give you an edge.
The last thing you want is to gain that edge, attract hundreds
of visitors daily, and then fail to capitalize on the
advantage you worked hard to gain.

All the companies and experienced marketers know that getting
visitors is only the first step in business. What comes next
is conversion or turning those visitors into customers. They
know they won’t convert all their visitors to customers, and
they also know, or soon learn, that few visitors buy anything
on their first visit. It’s commonly stated that it takes an
average of 5 to 7 visits before a visitor will make a
purchase. The key to your success on the Internet lies in
bringing those visitors back for further visits until they
buy.

And that’s where autoresponders fit in. Successful businesses
know they must bring potential customers back, and the best
way to bring them back, achieving a good conversion rate at
the same time, is by using autoresponders. You do this by
offering your visitors something as an incentive to return.
The offer can be for additional information in keeping with
site content maybe a free eBook or a free report.

If your website has lots of really useful content, and/or you
produce a regular newsletter, your offer can be for free
notifications of website updates or a free subscription.
Anything of quality will do as long as it’s on the same
subject they came looking for, or closely related to it. Set
up an autoresponder and it will generate a code for you to put
a form on your website. Place the form beside or beneath the
offer and interested visitors can fill in their name and eMail
address.

You will need to write a generic response to the subscriber’s
request and load it into your autoresponder. As soon as
someone fills in your form and hits the ‘Submit’ button their
message goes to your autoresponder and your message goes back
to them right away. This will show you’re serious about
serving the customer and give them the feeling of personal
service. Personal service on a scale a single person would be
unable to provide to thousands of customers, clients and
enquirers.

Customer service is a major key to business success and
autoresponders provide that service better than humans. They
do exactly what you tell them and what the client asks. You
can purchase or license scripts to install and run from your
website, programmed to run on servers, or pay for the services
of one of the many autoresponder providers.

Your main objective is to make sales but your first priority
should be to provide useful information and to capture as many
names and eMail addresses as possible. Put faithful
autoresponders to work for you, establishing a sense of trust
in your visitors, and the sales will follow. Your
autoresponders will help keep your customers and leads happy
and up to date on your business, feeling special because
you’re sharing and taking care of them.

Autoresponders, used correctly, can be the pulse of your
business. It’s a good idea to ask someone you trust to
recommend a good supplier rather than choosing a supplier at
random from the search engines.

Mike Tansey @ Profit-Unlimited

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