How many times have you... started out with a plan for the day, but got lost in a lot of details?
. Here are five ways to improve your promotional efforts online:
. 1) PLAN YOUR WORK:
. Failing to have a promotional plan is one of the most common problems faced by those online promoters today.
. Write out your daily plan of activities from sign-on to sign-off.
. Your time on line is limited. Make the most of it. Do the most pressing of your tasks first and save the easiest for later.
. 2) AUTOMATE TASKS:
. Use autoresponders to help. Much of the information you need to share may be set up so that an autoresponder will take care of it. Follow up messages will help you to stay in touch with your potential customers.
. Here are some free ones:
. http://www.freeautobot.com/ (ad free also.) http://www.getresponse.com/ http://www.sendfree.com/ http://www.sendthisfree.com/
. 3) MAILING LIST MANAGEMENT:
. If you are trying to run your own newsletter, handling the process by yourself can eat up a lot of valuable time. In the beginning this may be possible, but as your list grows and the tasks involved keep multiplying, your time demands will increase also.
. There are lots of ways to manage a mailing list including installing your own scripts and purchasing your own software. Weigh the pros and cons, but be sure and check out the possibility of *farming out* the responsibility to a mailing list service.
. Here are some to consider:
. http://www.mail-list.com/ http://www.zinester.com/ (free and paid versions)
. Free ones include:
. http://groups.yahoo.com/ http://www.topica.com/
. 4) USE SOFTWARE:
. There are many software options available depending upon your work online. Here are some possible software applications available. Just do a search online.
. ~Creating links to your site and others. ~HTML editors ~Ad swaps ~Promotion ~Subscription management ~Survey forms
. 5) PAYMENT SYSTEMS:
. Well, this is just a no-brainer. It is just too simple not to do this one.
. Having an automated payment system that allows you to accept credit card payments for your products or services and is something that everyone has to have to be successful online.
. Here are a couple of third-party ones that I use and recommend:
. ClickBank-- http://www.ClickBank.com/ PayPal-- http://www.PayPal.com/
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. Having a promotional plan and implementing these time-saving resources will give you a great start on your promotional efforts
. Where will you be with your promotions a month from now? Will you still be muddling along at the same pace ? Perhaps you are one of those who is willing to make some needed changes now.
. There are only 86,400 seconds in each day. If you don't use them, you will lose them!
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