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5 Ways To Automate Your Site

Automating your online business is one of the most
important steps you can take to insure your success on the
internet.

If you have been on the internet for any time at all, you
know that there are just too many tasks to do each day to be
really efficient and productive with them all.

Learning to delegate some of those routine, daily activities
is one way to insure your site's success and to give you
much more time in the day for the most important task which
is that of promotion and marketing your site.

HERE ARE 5 SIMPLE WAYS TO AUTOMATE TODAY:

1) USE AUTO-RESPONDERS:

Probably one of the best-known and popular ways to handle
routine messages to inquirers is the use of auto-responders.
It is simple and easy to set up your messages which usually
involve several follow-up messages to remind your visitors
what you are offering and how to find your site again.

Here are some fr*ee ones:

www.freeautobot.com/ (ad fr*ee also.)
www.getresponse.com/
www.sendfree.com/
www.sendthisfree.com/

2) 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:

www.ezinedirector.com/ (fr*ee and paid versions)
www.mail-list.com/
www.zinester.com/ (fr*ee and paid versions)

Fr*ee ones include:

http://groups.yahoo.com/
www.topica.com/

3) 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
~Joint Ventures
~Subscription management
~Survey forms

4) 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 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-- www.ClickBank.com/
PayPal-- www.PayPal.com/

5) AD TRACKING SYSTEM:

If you are going to advertise your products and/or services
online, then it is critical that you track your results.

Knowing how many hits you got to your site is nice, but it
won't take care of your questions like, "Where did my
traffic and sales come from?"

Here are some ad tracking systems.
(Some offer fr*ee versions.)

www.BusiToolz.com/
www.hypertracker.com/
www.adminder.com/

Implementing these five time-saving helpers is a very
important benchmark in moving your business into a phase
that will fr*ee up some time to insure your success online.

Best of luck with your promotional efforts.

-Larry Johnson

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