4 Surefire Steps to an Automated Home Business
4 Surefire Steps to an Automated Home Business
So, you're running your own home business. It started as part time work to supplement your income but now you spend more time in front of the computer at home than you do at your 9-5. How can you get the results you desire with half the work? Is there really a way to automate your home business? The purpose of this article is to give you four surefire steps to automate your home business.
The Four Surefire Steps to an Automated Home Business are:
Step 1: Sign Up for a Proven Affiliate Program
Step 2: Promote Affiliate Products on Your Website/Blog
Step 3: Sign Up for an Autoresponder
Step 4: Pre-load Autoresponder with a Money Making Marketing Campaign
Again, in this article, you will find the four surefire steps to an automated home business. Now, let's get to the details.
Step 1: No matter what your home business is right now, there is an affiliate program you can run along with it to add more income. An affiliate program is simply an agreement between you and a company which states they will pay you a commission for every referral you send them who makes a purchase. With an affiliate program, you only have three things to do: promote, promote, and promote. Once your referrals purchase through your affiliate link, your job is done. The company you signed up with handles everything else. So, how do you automate the promotion? Read ahead to the next step.
Step 2: To be successful online, you will need either a website or a blog. This allows visitors to check out the products/services you have to offer. Once you sign up for an affiliate program, they will provide you access to lots of banners, photo links, and other advertising materials. You simply place the banners of your choice on your site. Once they're up, visitors can now click them and purchase the products or services of their choice. If you truly want to be successful, you don't want to have just one-time visitors, you want return customers. The best way to achieve this is to capture your visitors' names and emails so you can follow up with them in the near future. This too can be automated and it leads us to our next step.
Step 3: An autoresponder is exactly what its name says... an auto responder. Once a visitor submits their name and email in the form on your website, the autoresponder will automatically send them periodic emails to keep in contact. The best way to get visitors to leave their precious info is to give something away. Why not offer a free Ebook in the same field of your home business? If the visitor wants your valuable Ebook, they will leave their info. Your autoresponder would then send your visitor an email, almost instantly, with info as to where they can download their free Ebook. So, now your visitor has a free Ebook, now what? Well, they may or may not have already made a purchase but you want to encourage them to keep coming back to your site and check out new items or affiliate products you add. A turn key, money making, email marketing campaign achieves this with ease.
Step 4: There are a few companies online that want you to succeed so badly that they will give away their marketing strategies. In the affiliate world, when you succeed, your affiliates succeed. So, they will give you a their proven email marketing campaign to preload into your autoresponder. What's the point of this you ask? The point is to automate your home business! Once you have subscribers, the autoresponder can send email blasts to your lists with promotions, sales, and special offers. You do nothing, the autoresponder does it all! Confused? Lets say you have had 5 sales and you have 25 subscribers in your list. You just signed up for a new, very profitable, affiliate product and you set your autoresponder to send an email offer about this product on the 10th day after a subscriber signs up. Well, you would have probably forgotten all about it with your new automated business, right? Well, you check your accounts and have 15 new orders! What did you do for those new orders? Nothing! And, that is the beauty of an automated home business.
No matter how far along you are, its never too late to automate your home business. With these four surefire steps, you will have an automated home business in a few hours and your life will never be the same! With the time you'll save, you can do something fun with all the extra money you'll be raking in.