How Autoresonders Can Put Your Business On Autopilot – Email-Marketing
How Autoresonders Can Put Your Business On Autopilot
Owning your own online business is a lot of work.
Don't let anyone tell you that it's not.Daily tasks can include reading emails, handling
orders, advertising, promotion and the list goes on.
Very often at the end of the day you could have just
as many projects as you started out with and quite
possibly the list grew in the process.Typically, on a day to day basis, many business
owners end up putting most of their time and efforts
into performing these mundane, every day tasks
leaving little or no time for the things that can help
them grow their business such as marketing or
promotion.Of course, growing your business is a big part of
how you acquire customers and make sales; but
how can you focus on marketing and sales if you're
constantly tied up with the daily tasks that consume
so much of your time?The key is automation. Particularly if you promote
electronic products, however automation is important for
any type of products you market. It automates such
routine tasks of responding to emails and customer orders
allowing you to focus on the things that help bring in customers and make sales.Here are just a few of the benefits :- Customer questions can be instantly responded to creating
satisfied customers who will be impressed with your
fast, professional service.- Automated follow-up e-mails will allow you to keep in contact
with our customers allowing you to notify them of other
products you sell which can boost your revenue.- Automating your ordering process will allow you to sell your
products or services at any time of the day or night allowing
for more sales, and more profits.- Instantly confirming orders and fulfilling your
customers' orders for electronic products like software
and e-Books can produce happier customers who are more
likely to buy from you again and again.The two biggest time consumers for online businesses are
customer response and order fulfillment. Think for a moment
how much more time you would have to promote your business
if these daily tasks could be automated.What's the best and easiest way to automate this process?
By using Autoresponders.Autoresponders are automated e-mails that are pre-written to respond to incoming emails that you receive from customers or visitors to your site. The beauty of autoresponders is that
you can use them to respond to a variety of questions or information that your customers or viewers may have.
They can assist you with most any email needs you have simply by setting up different email response addresses.Here are two of the best ways to utilize autoresponders:1. Automate your customer emailsCustomers can generate a lot of email on a daily basis and
many of the questions and information needed can be the same. Email autoresponders can help because you can develop a comprehensive email, write it once and your process is automated.For example, autoresponders can help you set up a
'frequently asked questions' email by creating an email
address such as 'faq@mysite.com'. Here you can invite viewers to ask questions about your products. You can then automate
a response email that contains answers to the most common questions you're likely to receive about your products, services or ordering process. You can save yourself countless hours of responding to questions and at the same time, increase the chances of a sale immediately.Autoresponders can also help you gather email addresses for your weekly news or sales letter. Simply set up another email address such as 'newsletter@mysite.com' that will capture email addresses through a form on your website. Now you have email addresses that you can sell to each and every week.You can set up endless email addresses for whatever information you want your viewers to receive and their responses will all be automated.2. Automate your customer serviceAutoresponders can also help with order fulfillment. This is where you can find yourself spending lots of your time because, after all, orders are the bread and butter of your business It's also a very critical part of your business so automating
it can help reduce the amount of error and confusion, particularly if your business is growing at a rapid pace.Depending on your products, order fulfillment systems are an excellent idea but autoresponders can also help out particularly if you sell electronic products such
as e-books, software or online services.- Confirming Orders
When a purchase is made online, buyers need confirmation. They want to know that their order was successful and that payment was received. Autoresponders can reply automatically to all orders and can include all the pertinent order information
that you wish to send.- Provide shipping information
If you are shipping your products to your customers autoresponders can notify buyers that their products have shipped, how they were shipped and when they might expect it.- Follow-up
This is your opportunity to provide that bit of extra good will. A follow-up message is a great promotion gesture. It's
a way for you to provide a little extra customer care by following up on how your customers enjoyed their products and, most importantly, thanking them for shopping It's also
an excellent way for you to announce new products or information so they'll think of you again next time they're shopping.Once you've implemented autoresponders into your online business, you'll never look back. Emails can be written once and sent automatically. It's the easiest and most efficient
way to help grow your business, allowing you to spend your
time more efficiently and make more sales.Elizabeth McGee has spent 20 years in the service and support industry. She has moved her expertise to the world wide web helping businesses find trusted tools, enhance customer service, build confidence and increase sales.
Visit Elizabeth's websites at: http://www.pro-marketing-online.com; http://www.homenotion.com
Can Your Sundial Really Tell The Time?-Gardening
Can Your Sundial Really Tell The Time?
"I am a sundial, and I make a botch
Of what is done far better by a watch"So wrote Hilaire Belloc, but is this really fair? Sundials are the earliest known form of time-keeping having been used for some five thousand years. The Greek historian Herodotus stated that sundials were first used by the Chaldeans and Sumerians in Babylonia which was part of the modern Iraq. They used vertical rods on their buildings and noted the position of the shadow to record the passing of the hours. The concept was developed by the Greeks and Romans who constructed various different shapes of dial to enable them to tell the time and the season of the year. Usually these were bowl-shaped dials with vertical or horizontal gnomons (shadow-casters) and hour lines marked in the hollow of the bowl. Over the years more elaborate designs were produced until the advent of accurate clocks when the function of the sundial became more decorative than as a reliable means of telling the time.The question is often asked "Can a sundial really tell the correct time?" to which you will receive the Alice in Wonderland reply that it depends upon what you mean by "the correct time". Our clocks and watches work on the basis of there being exactly twenty-four hours between one day and the next but, because of the eliptical nature of the earth's orbit around the sun, the time shown on the sundial will vary according to the seasons. In February by the clock the sun is almost fifteen minutes slow, whereas during the spring and summer months it gains and loses between four and six minutes in two cycles. At the other extreme in November the sundial appears to be some seventeen minutes fast. In fact the sundial is accurate on only four days of the year, about April 15, June 14, September 2 and December 25. Some sundials include a table showing the deviation from "clock time" according to the date.The time indicated by the sun will also vary with the location of the dial. The sun travels across the sky at the rate of fifteen degrees per hour so every degree of longditude represents a difference of four minutes from the standard meridian for the region. The angle of the gnomon also depends on the situation, so to set up your sundial correctly you need to know both the latitude and longditude of its location. For the United States and the United Kingdom this site can provide the information. The gnomon should be set at the angle in degrees which is equal to the latitude of your location. The sundial can then be fixed with the gnomon pointing to the Pole Star. There are various ways of achieving this, the easiest of which, is to use a compass adjusted for the magnetic variation. Further details are beyond the scope of this article, but for those interested look at this site.If you have read this far you will have discovered that there is a great deal more to the sundial than a mere item of garden decoration. If this has piqued your interest in the subject, then you are not alone. There are Sundial Societies in countries around the world. The North American Sundial Society has details of its objects and activities on its website.A number of sundial trails have been established. A good example is the Thames Sundial Trail in London, England. This site lists a number of other trails in countries all over the world but only two in the United States. However the North American Sundial Society has a complete list on its website.Two rather different designs are shown here. The first, which is commonly referred to as a Human Sundial, uses the person's shadow to indicate the time. By standing in the appropriate box for the date the shadow will show the correct time. The second is a
How The Risk Of Golfer Elbow Injury Can Be Reduced
How The Risk Of Golfer Elbow Injury Can Be Reduced
A golfer elbow injury has got to be one of the most dreaded injuries on any golf course.And it is not too difficult to figure out why. To begin with a golfer elbow injury will usually take a long time to heal properly and quite often recurs shortly after a golfer gets back to the course. Golfer elbow injury is very similar to tennis elbow, which tennis players equally dread.It is the sort of injury where a doctor will prescribe total rest well away from the course. For many a keen golfer, this may be even more punishment than the nagging, and often sharp pain from the golfer elbow injury.The reason why a golfer elbow injury takes so long to heal and in some cases may never really go away, is because it is the sort of injury that involves a joint. Usually injuries on joints are troublesome. One of the reasons is that it is difficult to rest a joint completely and one ends up using the muscles whenever they make any slight movement.Therefore any advice or tips to help reduce the risk of golfer elbow is extremely important to any golfer.Stretch exercises designed for golf specific muscles or muscles that are used while playing golf can help a great deal in strengthening and conditioning the muscles involved. By strengthening golf specific muscles a golfer ends up putting much less pressure on the tendons that join the muscles to the bones around the elbow area. This greatly reduces the risk of this injury in golfers.Warm up exercises before getting into a round of golf and a warm down as well, at the end of your game, also help tremendously in reducing the risk of golfer elbow injury. Warm ups ensure that the pressures involved in playing the game are not exerted on cold muscles, which usually dramatically increases the chances of all sorts of injury and not just the golf elbow injury.About The Author: Mike Pedersen is one of the top golf fitness experts in the country, author of the Ultimate Golf Fitness Guide, and founder of several cutting-edge online golf fitness sites. Visit his new golf fitness training site at Perform Better Golf.