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Wow – this really was an exciting day for me. Yesterday, I set up my first Sales Offer and I woke up today to find that 15 people had already bought it, netting me a cool $75. What’s more, everybody loves it – and I have all the buyers on an AWeber mailing list, ready to send them more offers. Score!

If you’re wondering my Sales Offer was pitched over at the WebTradeForum, my new home. Its free to list at and is guaranteed to get you an influx of orders. Just make sure your content is good!

Later, I submitted a few more articles to EzineArticles – I’m going to be starting a bit of article marketing due to me having access to a very cheap team of article writers. I will touch on article marketing a bit more soon, but suffice to say that it’s enough to excite me.

I kept getting more “Notification of Payment Received” emails through the day for my WSO. It was a real thrill to see all these people buying my stuff when I’m so used to Digital Point lowlifes and time wasters.

The other big thing to happen today online was an influx of new orders for articles – I’m serving about 5 projects all at the same time, which is tricky but great fun. It’s all good money! I even hired two new writers today to cope with it all – I just hope I can sustain it.

Finally, I logged back on this evening and invested a bit of my new found PayPal balance. I think they’re both great investments and I can’t wait to see how they turn out: firstly, I bought a year’s subscription to ElegantThemes.com for $20. Several premium WordPress themes for that price is awesome, and I will use them for some upcoming website flips.

Finally, I bought a Sales Offer myself which provides you with 30 High PR backlinks every month. I’m looking forward to collecting these packages and then being able to rank any new site of mine very well.

Auto Responder Marketing Techniques

The Internet offers many means of affordable marketing with auto responders. Here are a couple of popular ways of using them.

DIRECTORY
Some webmasters set up link or article directories on their sites. They create a directory on a specific industry topic, placing their own ad or banner along the top. Then they invite others to add their website links via a link exchange program, listing themselves in your directory. Or they invite articles to be submitted that include a resource box at the bottom of each with a link to the author’s website. This results on increased traffic as sites link up across the World Wide Web. Enter “link exchange software” or “article directory software” into a favorite search engine for help with each.

TEACH A COURSE
Some marketers write up a simple step-by-step instructional class in their area of expertise. Then they break it up into smaller portions or messages and set them up in an auto responder as email messages, including short ads within each message to invite sales & website visits. Then they invite website visitors to sign up through on online form or email subscription address offered through the auto responder service. As people sign up, they will learn more about the products and services through the teaching series.

Weakness in Safe List
How would you like to send your commercial emails to people you do not know, but are expecting to receive such mail from you? Wait a minute. That does not sound right. How can this be?

It is simple, if you know what is really going on. Everybody who is on these lists, also known as safe lists, knows that they will be receiving emails from other members. This is possible because that is one of the conditions of their “safe list” membership.

And those who join these lists are willing to agree to this condition because they themselves would want to send out their own commercial emails to the others on the list.

The result: everyone is sending emails to each other but no one is reading them!

It gets worse when some savvy members sign up for the membership using a free or less-frequently-used account to store the useless emails they will never bother to open and read.

Having said that, it is always wiser to start your own mailing list and build it with opt-in subscribers, no matter how tempting safe lists can be or how many members there are in a safe list.

Improve Your Sales with Auto Responder Improvements
Improve your marketing and sales with some auto responder Improvements. Try some of these:

1. Publish free reports to send via your auto responder. The reports should be related to your business or web site & contain info, ads and links to your sites. People love getting freebies.

2. Collect vital customer satisfaction information by publishing a survey to send via auto responder to those who sign up on your site in exchange for a free eBook, software or trial period at your membership site.  This type of information will help you understand their needs, likes & dislikes better.

3. Instead of answering each customer question that is e-mailed to you, publish “Frequently Ask Questions” and make them available via auto responder to those who sign up. To save time and support headaches.

4. Instead of publishing all of your customer testimonials or endorsements on your website, publish only a few there. And set up an auto responder form that invites visitors to receive a complete list via your. Give them a power-packed list; it’s more effective to include all of them.

Mix and match. Change your auto responder strategy to change your auto responder results!

Refrain from Buying Bulk Mails
I am sure that you have definitely come across advertisements that read: “1,000,000 email addresses for $29.99”. And these bulk mail companies can even offer you these names in a CD at your doorstep.

Sure, having 1,000,000 subscribers is the best thing that could ever happen to any Internet Marketer and often sounds too good to be true. But very often, it always sound too good to be true.

What many beginning marketers do not really know is that these bulk companies harvest the email addresses using robots and other wares on the Internet. That is how the 1,000,000 email addresses come about, whatever the amount is.

Now, the really awful part is that if you purchase the so-called 1,000,000 names even at a low price, not only is it a waste of money, you are risking being accused of spamming. It is no longer a surprise how you often receive spam mails on Viagra, OEM Software and things you do not even need in your inbox.

That is so possible, because of the 1,000,000 names, no one knows you or even ask to be subscribed to your mailing list.

On top of that, not all 1,000,000 email addresses are really in use because a portion of them can either be own by the same owners (one owner can own more than 1 email accounts) or are obsolete.

When you read such ads again, tell yourself that it is a waste of money.