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Sunday, September 13, 2015

Using Marketing Automation Systems Helps You Build A Bigger Business

By Daphne Bowen


Marketing, in the old days, meant a lot of mail through the use of a typewriter, pens, paper and long waits at the post office. Direct mail was the best way, for the most part, of getting a lot of information out to a lot of people. In these more modern times, marketing automation systems can be used and, indeed, must be if you are to gain market share and grow your business.

The computer started the automatic revolution as it made many things easier and better looking. Mail merge helped print individual form letters, personalized in a way that the typewriter had always took so long to do. The stack of mail still needed to go to the post office, with the appropriate amount of postage and responses took days if not weeks to document.

The way to access all of the automation that is waiting for you to use is through the Internet. The ability to market to the entire world will make anyone looking for wealth, through marketing, take notice. Gaining customers from all over the world makes the efforts you made, in your neighborhood at your corner store, pale in comparison.

That blog or website you know needs to be built is something that must have a lot of content uploaded to it. That is something that can be automated. That is software that scours other sites and captures articles that can make you an authority on the subject you are dealing with. People enjoy reading about the subject, especially if you have information that can help solve a problem.

Another, some say the most important, software, often web based, is the auto responder. This is a snippet of code that is uploaded onto your server that collects email addresses from people through what is called a capture form. This is critical as this is the beginning of the process of list building.

Since people will not buy from or do business with someone they do not trust or even know, the emails that will be sent out fulfill this function. The system will automatically send emails dealing with new information, new products or updates that assist the potential clients to solve some issue. This relationship building function is able to do this as a set it and forget it system which makes it possible to work on other tasks while emails are whirling back and forth.

Other services or systems will submit your articles to other websites or directories. This will help get people to your site to leave their email address. This starts the circle again. Some software will submit your advertising pieces to websites devoted to these, whether paid or free.

Many of the other automated systems that are available can help you spy on your competitors. Some of these will look for the appropriate keywords for all of the search engine optimization efforts you enter into that need focused keywords and phrases to work properly and for your benefit. When you can use these automated systems to build for you, you can spend time doing other things, such as going to the bank.




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