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Save time with automatic marketing

Thursday, April 10 2008
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Denise Wakeman

About a year ago we  did a survey and of 400 professionals who responded, an overwhelming majority reported these major marketing challenges with their Internet businesses:

1. Not enough time
2. Reaching and attracting people to lists
3. Driving traffic to sites and blogs
4. Converting visits to sales and making money

We still hear these complaints today. Without doubt the number one problem of the professionals surveyed is lack of time. That response was mentioned twice as many times as all other problems.

While we cannot give you more time, there are plenty of ways to automate your business systems.

Our favorite tool and one used by most of the successful online businesses is KickStartCart. In addition to being an ecommerce system, you can set up automated systems for building your list, and staying in touch with your prospects and clients in an ongoing way. It will save you loads of time as you build your database of interested prospects.

Quite frankly, most professionals have time, but they waste it because they aren't clear on what steps to take and are not willing to invest in systems that will save time and money in the long run.

We still meet professionals who send out their ezine from their Outlook program. This is a waste of time. You can invest as little as $34 a month for a powerful email delivery system with unlimited autoresponders for following up and delivering your marketing message.  Believe me, manually managing your list costs you more in time and energy than you might imagine.

If you're still struggling with how to set up autoresponders or broadcast your ezine, we have a few video tips that will guide you through the steps. You can get them free at http://www.blogsquadvideotips.com

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