The business you are in and the products or services you offer may be off or online. There may even be cross over or overlapping sales and customers. Generally the off line efforts of merchandising will take the look of direct market appeals through the postal service and phone calls. This is not truly marketing automation except in the case where other companies offer this service to you.
Off line automation will take the role of a company who can create and mail direct pieces for mass consumption. They will work with you to write appropriate mailing items that get your message out in such a way as to enable people to visit and do business with you. They will have the mailing lists they charge you for using and they can mail everything at a discount because of their bulk rates.
For your on line business, the automating of your efforts will largely be up to you, although there are firms who will do this for you. There are any number of tools and programs available to you and all of these will help you get your word out, easily and fairly cheaply. A look at a few of these will get your creativity going and cause you to go in the right direction.
One of the first tools and systems you will need to use is a website or, more and more popularly, a blog. This is the portal on which you will make your product or service come alive. The content that will be here will let the readers know what you have for them and how they can put it to use to help them.
The next tool, which is actually the heart of the entire system, is the auto responder. This presents itself as a form on your site that takes visitors email addresses and sends them prewritten messages that will help keep your name and products in front of them every day or every other day. This is true automatic merchandising in the modern sense.
Other tools and programs can be bought into that provides content for your blog or website. This keeps a flow of fresh copy, based on your keywords, coming onto your web presence. This flow of content keeps every reader focused on your product or service with new material. This service can be acquired from many companies who provide this service and is all automatic as long as you belong to the program.
Other programs are set up to post your ad copy to paid or free ad boards. These can be accessed simply by writing some ad copy, press the link and they fly out to all of the websites included in the system. The usual use for this is to sell to other marketers, however, there are other websites, such Craigs list or Backpage that can be posted on for all to see.
Having a website or blog gets everything started as you need a place for your business to have a home. Using all of the tools that get your message out to potential customers gets them to visit or come back to your website. By making all of this as automatic as possible, you can stay focused on performing your core business instead of trying to chase people.
Off line automation will take the role of a company who can create and mail direct pieces for mass consumption. They will work with you to write appropriate mailing items that get your message out in such a way as to enable people to visit and do business with you. They will have the mailing lists they charge you for using and they can mail everything at a discount because of their bulk rates.
For your on line business, the automating of your efforts will largely be up to you, although there are firms who will do this for you. There are any number of tools and programs available to you and all of these will help you get your word out, easily and fairly cheaply. A look at a few of these will get your creativity going and cause you to go in the right direction.
One of the first tools and systems you will need to use is a website or, more and more popularly, a blog. This is the portal on which you will make your product or service come alive. The content that will be here will let the readers know what you have for them and how they can put it to use to help them.
The next tool, which is actually the heart of the entire system, is the auto responder. This presents itself as a form on your site that takes visitors email addresses and sends them prewritten messages that will help keep your name and products in front of them every day or every other day. This is true automatic merchandising in the modern sense.
Other tools and programs can be bought into that provides content for your blog or website. This keeps a flow of fresh copy, based on your keywords, coming onto your web presence. This flow of content keeps every reader focused on your product or service with new material. This service can be acquired from many companies who provide this service and is all automatic as long as you belong to the program.
Other programs are set up to post your ad copy to paid or free ad boards. These can be accessed simply by writing some ad copy, press the link and they fly out to all of the websites included in the system. The usual use for this is to sell to other marketers, however, there are other websites, such Craigs list or Backpage that can be posted on for all to see.
Having a website or blog gets everything started as you need a place for your business to have a home. Using all of the tools that get your message out to potential customers gets them to visit or come back to your website. By making all of this as automatic as possible, you can stay focused on performing your core business instead of trying to chase people.
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