subject: Build A Site To Become Hands Free And Totally Automated At The Same Time [print this page] When you decided to go into business and thought about how to build a site to bring profit in an easy manner, you probably was not to sure about how to go about it. If you are just now at the researching point, let me point out a few tips for you in this article that will make your website and business more efficient.
1- Automation - You want to make your website fully automated. What does this mean? Well it means that it handles all aspects of the sale. When a visitor lands upon your website your website is fully capable of presenting the product or service in an attractive manner. At the point where your visitor decides to buy your website can then process the order and take the payment.
Having multiple avenues of accepting payment is also to your benefit. Being able to accept credit cards can be a boom to your business. This can easily be handled by having a PayPal account where you can create buy buttons. PayPal makes it easy for some one to order with their credit cards even if they do not have a PayPal account.
2- Software - You want your website to have the right tools built into it. Usually these tools are handled by special scripts, programs or software. For example not every visitor who lands upon your website, strolls through the pages is going to buy at that particular time. Now this is very common, it has been said that the average person has to be exposed to an offer 7 times before they are ready to buy.
3- Newsletter Follow-Up - Now you worked hard for that visitor and do not want to lose the opportunity of making a sale if they decide to click off of your site. So you want to have a newsletter available for them to subscribe to.
To maximize the effectiveness of the possibility that they will sign up for your newsletter, you want to have it right out front on page one when they first arrive. Possibly this might come in the form of a hover ad that forms right after a visitor arrives and the rest of the page goes dark. This is only one of the styles.
This will accomplish the needed task of following up with your potential customer when they leave your sight. So make sure when you build a site that you implement a good auto-responder service, such as Aweber. To make your AR more efficient, plug in some pre-written messages you do not have to be involved in the follow up process every time somebody subscribes to your newsletter.
4- Automated Lead Generation - Another way to maximize the use of your auto-responder service and to help your website is to hire a reputable email marketing firm that will plug leads right into your auto-responder. So this in effect turns your follow up system into a prospecting system as well. Two uses for one tool which further handles automating your website ran business.
5- An Affiliate Program - Another avenue to look at that will free up your time and help maximize your profit is to create an affiliate program. Depending what you market, this can usually be handled by an affiliate network such as Click Bank or Commission Junction to name just a couple. Pay Dot Com is another company that handles the administrative and overseeing of running peoples affiliate programs.
6- Product Fulfillment - The fulfillment of your product depends upon what you are selling. Making it as hands free and automated as possible should be your objective.
Now if you were selling a total digital product such as a down loadable video or an eBook for example, it would be totally automated. Now this would not be the case with all types of products, but with digital products once your website is set up you may never have to touch it hands on again.
7- Outsourcing - In physical products, depending on your revenue, you can automate that as well for the most part. If your business generates enough profit you can outsource the shipping and handling to a reputable fulfillment company.
You can also outsource just about any other task you want done as well. From writing articles to submit to article directories, to the actual building of your website you can outsource just about every task you desire.
Well these are just a few tips you can use when you build a site and create your business to make it more efficient and automated. In closing I would add that when you build your business, build it in a manner that you can reach a point that your business can run with out you.
Build it in a manner that if you have employee's that some one will eventually replace you. At that point you will be totally free. You will only have to kick back and collect your profits. And one other aspect of building a business that is not dependent upon you, it makes it more easy to sell if you decided to.
