An autoresponder is at it’s heart an email management system. Any one who has a website and wishes to grow a subscriber base will need an autoresponder.

The way it works is this:

Open an account at www.aweber.com.

When you have an account you can start setting up your list. A list allows you to send automated emails to anyone who subscribes to that list.

So for example we create a list called ‘The Big Diet Solution’

We can now create a ‘web form’ This is the form that you see on many sites asking you to fill in your email.

The web form can take many shapes and designs and you can choose the form which matches your site.

Now, when someone fills out the form by entering their email address, Awebber takes over and delivers your emails automatically, hence the name, auto responder. It responds automatically.

You can set up the messages in your account so that they are delivered in a set order and at pre-determined times, this is the reason that autoresponders are so popular with internet marketers.

You can set up a whole string of messages and every time someone fills in the form they get the whole sequence in order and at the right time. Indeed I have one sequence that delivers a weekly message every seven days for a whole year.

I don’t have to do anything! It’s great!

Obviously there is a certain amount of preparation to do but you only have to do it once and then forget about it.

So what is Aweber? It is a fantastic business tool and if you are at all interested in running a business online it really is one that you cannot afford to be without.

How to set up Aweber

The trick to using Aweber successfully is to prepare it properly. The way I do it is to set up the form for a free ebook. In order to get the free ebook the visitor has to fill out the form.

Aweber will then send them an email asking them to confirm their request, this is called double opt-in and it gives you some protection against spam complaints, you can use single opt-in where no confirmation mail is sent but you are then more susceptible to being called a spammer.

Once they click the link in the confirmation email I then get Aweber to direct them to the page on my site where they can downlad their free ebook.

At the same time Aweber.com will add their name to my list. This is the most important part and the whole reason for using an autoresponder.

From here on in, my autoresponder will send everyone on my list an email in a set pattern. So my Diet Solution list will receive a welcome email first. Then every seven days they will get an email with more diet tips.

For the first five or so emails I do not sell anything, I just give free information, after that I will mix in a few promos and this is when your list will start to earn you money.

It is reckoned that each subscriber will be worth on average one dollar per month, imagine if you had a list of 5000 subscribers on your list, or ten thousand?

This is the ultimate rinse and repeat business model, build a list, sell to it, keep on selling to it,  build another list and so on. The more lists you build the more money you will make.

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It’s called Social Monkee and it basically submits your links to 25 random social sites once a day. You can upgrade to a premium service for only $47 which allows you submit more URLS  {100} three times a day.

Each backlink is a do follow on a unique site so even with the free service you can easily be getting 750 free backlinks every month. The premium service gains you access to not only more backlinking opportunities but also reporting and an RSS feed.

Here’s what Social Monkee says’

Continually getting links back to your webpages is a crucial part of SEO (short for Search Engine Optimization) for 2 inportant reasons. The first is that it helps your pages get indexed much more quickly, which is very important because you want the search engines to find them as soon as possible and crawl them regularly. The second reason is that it helps your webpages get higher in the  search engine rankings for the keywords of your choice. The more backlinks you have, the better. Period.

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So, 25 unique backlinks every day… That’s a total of 175 backlinks every week, 750 every month. If you upgrade, you will be able to build 100 uniques backlinks, 3 times a day! That’s a total of 2,100 backlinks every week, 9,000 every month! The good news is… you can get a Premium Account, FREE! All you need to do is to refer 12 members, and your account will automatically be upgraded. If you’re not really into referral marketing, you may upgrade right now for a low one-time fee.

Submitting a page to SocialMonkee via the members area takes under two minutes, but there’s an even faster way! They created a Firefox plugin that allows you to submit your page to up to 100 sites in just a few clicks, using nothing else than Firefox! If you have a Premium Account you will also get access to link reports and RSS feeds, which are great to keep track of your backlinks and get them indexed fast. Submitting your RSS feeds to RSS submitters is actually a very important step in link building.

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Part of the problem is a lack of understanding about how you can actually start getting those all important subscribers. If you are just starting to find your way round the marketing jungle it seems that building a list is nigh on impossible.

Where do you get the traffic?

Where do you get subscribers?

How do you get people to sign up to a list?

A lot of even experienced marketers are just a little bit afraid of the whole thing and so they stick their head in the sand and just hope they can make sales on their website.

Unfortunately, the vast majority of visitors end up leaving never to return. But, what if you could establish a relationship with them? Would they return then?

How many times have you driven miles out of your way to go to a particular store just because you liked the owner? A list can give you the same power!

Building a list can be done by even the newbie marketer if they use the power of the JV giveaways. These events are a magnet for people who are interested in a certain subject and giveaways appear in all sorts of niches, you just need to look out for them.

You can get sometimes hundreds of subscribers at a good giveaway and all it takes is five minutes to sign up and set up your giveaway. Click on the image above and get your 2011 guide to JV Giveaways.

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So get on the listbuilding wagon and grow your own piggy bank!

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Google has publicly stated that the load speed of a site is a factor in its ranking algorithm and so you should be making an effort to decrease the time it takes to deliver your pages to the users browser.

Unfortunately as some of you may know, WordPress, the marketers platform of choice can be a tad on the slow side unless you make some cuts here and there.

WordPress has gained such a strong foothold because of the ease of use it gives to the average marketer and therein lies the problem.

Plug-ins, because we can, we do. How many plug-ins do you use on your site? Do you know the time cost of each one?

It’s all well and good sticking various bells and whistles on your MFA sites but at the end of the day do you really need them?

Personally I use just two or three, the obvious All-In-One-SEO and Google Sitemaps with the occasional internal link builder if I am using some auto-blogger software.

However I still go through each theme and strip out all the unnecessary php that I can and replace it with static urls. This can make a huge difference in load speed and I suggest you do it too.

The choice of theme is important especially for Adsense sites, nothing too fancy and a minimum of calls to the database. If it can provide some ad management then all the better.

I am in the process of switching over to the Adsense WordPress theme from CTR Themes as these are specialist themes designed from the ground up to produce the best possible click through ratio, hence the name, get it?

I am hoping to save myself a bucket of time by not having to butcher wordpress themes for every site now and the ad management facility will hopefully do its job and produce an extra kick to the CTR.

So, think about speed and whether you really need that plug-in.

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Facebook and Social Media – The Next Marketing Opportunity

Marketing as an activity is all about reaching the right customers with the right products, and the result sought is delighted customers who are more than willing to open their purses wide enough to boost your revenues. For many years, marketers stalked their target customers through various means and by trying to get their message across to spread awareness about their wares.

Traditional Means of Communication

Traditionally, marketing communications were conducted via print, broadcast and such traditional media through disruptive advertising, where advertisements appear in between the content of interest for the customer.

Traditional media does give a large reach to a marketer with its programming of mass appeal. However, the wastage is equally high, since a large portion of the audience would belong to a different segment than the one that is to be targeted by the marketer.

Enter Social Media and the Internet

The revolution stirred by the internet as a medium took place because of the fact that it is highly personalized and provides more content on-demand than any other available medium. Social sites proliferated far and wide in their usage for a few simple reasons:

The power to create and distribute content is equally available to every user, irrespective of him/her being a customer or a marketer. In the earlier forms of media, that power rested with the editorial staff of the channel or the advertiser, but hardly ever with the user.
The medium is completely personalized, and a user can create or join groups and further create content based on what he/she likes.
Opinions are free and fair. This is one reason why social media is of utmost concern to marketers, since buying decisions are no more influenced as much by advertisements. The traditional word-of-mouth marketing approach has grown leaps and bounds on social networks.

Facebook – At the Center of Social Media

With 500 million (and growing) unique users worldwide, Facebook is the number one social networking site in terms of activity and subscriptions. What started as a garage initiative by Mark Zuckerberg has now become the biggest phenomenon on the internet.

A user interface that allows for quick communication and the ability to create fan pages and groups at the click of a mouse button are what make Facebook extremely popular. Another important reason for its immense popularity is the wide variety of social applications that have been developed and made available within the Facebook environment.

These applications can allow users and friends to do joint activities like playing games that run endlessly, sharing photos, videos, and web links, and many more.

How does this help a marketer?

Traditionally, media plans were drawn to include television channels, publications, or any other media that can grab maximum eyeballs and effectively reach a selected target audience. The science of segmentation and targeting has become only more accurate in the case of social media.

Facebook provides a wide variety of avenues to communicate with the audience, which opens up an entirely different world of possibilities to have a fruitful dialogue with customers. Some of these methods used popularly by marketers are:

Advertising: The first opportunity, which is the most obvious one, is advertising on Facebook. The difference, however, is the fact that you can create your own advertisement in a matter of minutes and also specify the details of your target group in terms of demographics and types of discussions where you want your advertisement to appear.
Fan Pages: Facebook allows every brand, as well as individual users, to create fan pages for their favorite celebrities and their own homegrown businesses. Large brands have also created their official pages on Facebook that have a huge, immediate fan following around the world. The fan page has immense utility to convey first hand information about the brand and also to collect immediate and frank feedback from your customers.
Branded applications: One of the most effective ways to engage a user toward your brand is by creating an application; this could be a game or a contest, with your branding coming across subtly through it.

What makes Facebook even more exciting is the way it allows you to target your communication sharply just to the customer segment you want to attract. It also provides analytics and page insights that give good feedback and measurement on the activity done.

The options provided by Facebook can be creatively explored and used judiciously for bringing about maximum benefits to any brand.

However, while doing all this, you need to be aware of the fact that customers have an equal say and have the ability to respond immediately to any of your actions with a thumbs up or a thumbs down. Availing the service of a social media consultant to work out a social media strategy may be required so that your efforts will not be in vain.

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RSS simply stands for Really Simpe Syndication which in plain English means a protocol for sharing web content in a standardized way. It is a super simple tool for traffic generation.

Why Use RSS?

The answer here is two-fold and depends on what you are trying to achieve. One way of using RSS is to build websites with automatically up-dating and changing content.

By plugging in a couple of RSS feeds to your site you can get fresh content on autopilot. You can even use a simple script to insert your affiliate links into the RSS feed and so add a cash income stream. The RSS Content Builder is a simple piece of software designed exactly for this type of job.

Another way to make use of RSS is to spread your content far and wide. By having an RSS feed for your site you can deliver all your content automatically across a wide range of other web sites.

If you are using WordPress you will already have an RSS feed, it is part of WP. Find it by adding ‘/feed/’ to your domain name.
If you have a static website you do not have to miss out, you can find several RSS feed generators on line. Try this one, FeedMarklet.com, it’s very easy to use and you can add any page from your browser into the feed.

How To Use RSS Feed.

This part of the article is aimed at affiliate web masters. To generate traffic to your site you need backlinks, plain and simple. An RSS feed is a great way of generating massive backlinks.

Simply by submitting your RSS feed to a few feed aggregators you can be gaining handfuls of targetted backlinks to each post that you make. Backlinks means traffic!

Submit RSS Feed For Traffic And Backlinks.

Here are a couple of RSS aggregators to get you started, there are loads of them and their rules vary a little, some you need to sign up for and some require you to link back to them.

FeedAgg.com

Feedage.com

This is a simply huge thing and believe it or not the majority of marketers are missing it. Don’t be one of them.

One final tip from me: Do you use article marketing? Do you use EzineArticles? Have you submitted your author RSS feed to the aggregators?

If you answered yes, yes, NO! you are missing out. Go to one of your own articles and click on your name at the top, you will be taken to your author page and right next to your name is a little RSS icon, right click and copy link location. This is an RSS feed for your articles.

Submit it to the RSS directories, each feed will generate links back to your articles, links mean visitors and more importantly, ranking juice. The more links there are to your articles, the more important Google thinks they are, juice is directed to the articles which in turn link to your site, more juice to your money pages!

Don’t be dumb, be a smartie come to the RSS party. Use RSS
for traffic generation and you will be one step ahead of the crowd.

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