1. Collect leads with your autoresponder. You will get an e-mail digest of everyones e-mail addresses who requests information from your autoresponder.
2. Publish a price list of all the products and services that you offer. You could also include order forms, product descriptions, and other sales material.
3. Publish free reports in autoresponder format. The reports should be related to your business or web site. Giving away free stuff will quickly increase your traffic. Example: You get a report about eu-domains at
4. Collect vital customer satisfaction information by publishing a survey in autoresponder format. This type of information will help you serve them better.
5. Instead of answering every customer question thats e-mailed to you, publish Frequently Ask Questions in autoresponder format. This will save time and money.
6. You could publish your testimonials or endorsements in autoresponder format if you dont have the room in your ad copy. Its more effective to include all of them.
7. Provide back issues of your e-zine archives in auto- responder format. This will give your subscribers and web site visitors easy access to them.
8. Publish your entire web site in autoresponder format. Sometimes visitors dont have enough time read your entire site. They could print it out and read it offline.
9. You could offer your ebook in autoresponder format. Your visitors wont have to download it or have the software to read it right away.
10. You could publish the terms and conditions to any business transactions in autoresponder format. This could include return policies, purchases, refunds etc.
11. You get free autoresponders at superresponder.com and royal-autoresponder.com. Every mail comes with an ad of these companies. You can ask for a list with paid autoresponders with an e-mail to secura@domainregistry.de.
About The Author
Hans-Peter Oswald
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ICANN Registrar Secura
Youve heard of email marketing, but it isnt what it used to be. With todays abundance of spam and even opt-in email solicitations, your messages are competing against hundreds of incoming messages daily. How are you ever supposed to stand out
**There are 2 main problems with email marketing today.**
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The first problem is that your email messages are hardly even opened. Even if your headline is compelling, the chances of your email message being read are close to nil. People are becoming increasingly skeptical about the kind of message attached to what used to be the best subject lines.
The second problem is that most website visitors dont even sign up to opt-in mailing lists anymore. Even those who are interested in your website content are just plain scared to give over their email address to a website they do not know. People are concerned that their email addresses will be sold to third parties and that their unsubscribe requests will never be honored.
Is there a way around these problems or is email marketing dead The answer is simple Desktop alerts. Desktop alerts are messages that are sent directly to Windows Desktops instead of being delivered to email inboxes. Desktop alerts are the answer, because they solve both email-marketing problems.
First, they bypass the email inbox and appear directly on the desktop. No more competing again hundreds of incoming messages your messages claim the desktop all to themselves, virtually guaranteeing they are read and remembered.
Second, users do not need to give over their email or other contact information in order to subscribe. All they have to do is simply download a small application. If they ever want to unsubscribe, they just simply uninstall the alert application.
You can use desktop alerts for the following:
If the solution is so simple, why arent more websites using desktop alerts Until now, the only way to send desktop alerts was to hire a team of software developers to develop the alerting application for you which is quite expensive, not to mention time consuming.
Entertainment and news companies started using desktop application for branding, communication and advertising. Take for example. On their website, users can download an application which gives them daily sports highlights and video commentary, with embedded commercials. So far, more then 1.6 million people have installed it and about half use it daily.
So how do you get started Well, if you have content your site visitors or clients are interested in, you simply offer them this content in the form of a useful downloadable application. Instead of developing the application yourself, you just customize one of the existing desktop applications with all your promotional materials (such as your own logo, custom icons, banner ads and menu entries). Users will download the application because of its informative and/or entertaining content, special savings, or features like daily alarms, calendar reminders, or task lists. Now that the user has voluntarily invited you into their personal space, you can create a strong, long-lasting impression and deliver desktop alerts just as you would email messages. With desktop alerts, there are no other incoming messages to compete against, and you wont have to worry about being accused of spam.
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