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.

Some automated companies will offer to handle all of the market pieces you need. They will work with your representative to create and write ad copy and get them mailed out to potential customers. They will have a large list of names, broken down into categories so your pieces will be sent to targeted individuals or companies that will probably be interested in what you have to offer.

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.

A blog or website is a first necessary tool. This portal on the World Wide Web lets you tell your readers and potential customers all about you and your product. On this site, you will install all of the other tools to make the merchandising of that product or service automatic. Without this portal, this entry onto the Internet, you will have no presence for any other actions.

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.

Content management systems are available that keeps your website or, more specifically, your blog up to date each day or when scheduled. The writers who work for these firms grind out material that makes sure your visitors have a constantly refreshed page of copy that spells out different benefits and you will not have to do it each day. This automatic writing helps you concentrate on other things.

Other programs are set up to post your ad copy to paid or free ad boards. These can be accessed simply by writing some ad copy, press the link and they fly out to all of the websites included in the system. The usual use for this is to sell to other marketers, however, there are other websites, such Craigs list or Backpage that can be posted on for all to see.

Getting that website or blog going is the first thing and that can even be automated with many programs that assist you in doing this. The many tools that assist you in gaining emails for sending out messages that continue into the future is the heart of this endeavor. All of the Gurus use these tools and others they create themselves and you should use them too.




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