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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