Friday, 15 May 2015

Marketing Automation Helps You Stay Focused On Your Business

By Tammie Caldwell


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.

If your business is online, most of the work will be yours to do, at least to get it set up. There are firms who will do all of the necessary work, however, there are a large number of programs and software that can do all of the advertising automatically, which gives you the time to work on your offers. Looking at some of these programs and tools will give you a head start in understanding them.

The first tool for this type of automatic marketing is a website or a blog. On this portal will be all of the other elements that make advertising easy. To market, you need a product or service. The website or blog will have content that talks about this product or service and your willingness to sell, rent or lease these to a buyer.

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.

Many other automatic systems are available, such as the content management systems in place on a great many websites. This system keeps fresh content coming to your blog, based on the keywords you are working on. Many writers work for these companies and they strive to ensure new copy comes to you as scheduled.

Other automatic programs, software or tools that can utilized is a way to post advertising on the many free and paid advertising websites on the Internet. Writing some ad copy, or having it done for you and simply clicking the mouse will send it out to all of the websites that accept these posts. This is used, primarily for selling to marketers, however, many of these are set up for consumers as well.

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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