11 Creative Ways You Can Use Autoresponders

1. Pick 4 or more articles you've written that have a common theme and put them in an autoresponder series. Announce it on your site as an e-mail course on the go.

2. If you have a page for related links, create a related links file and put it on autoresponder. This can be a one-page e-mail containing 15-50 links that are of interest to your visitors. Put your own promotional texts or blurbs at the top, middle and bottom of the e-mail.

3. Create a fun or trivia quiz, put it up on your site and put the answers in an autoresponder that your visitors can request. This way, you'll know the people who took your quiz.

4. Write reviews of books, music, e-books, sites, software or anything you can think of and put each review (or related reviews) in an autoresponder. If what you are reviewing have affiliate programs, use your affiliate links in the autoresponder.

5. Run a contest on your site or e-zine, then have your visitors or subscribers send their responses to your autoresponder. This way, you won't have to worry about manually sending them a confirmation receipt.

6. Create a frequently updated autoresponder and let your visitors and/or subscribers know about it. You can put in weekly tips or links to useful resources in the autoresponder and a reminder to the people who request it that you update it every week or on a regular basis (e.g. tell them to request for the same autoresponder again a week from now). You can use this method instead of using autoresponders with limited follow up messages.

7. If you've written 20 or more articles and you have them on separate autoresponder accounts, create a master list for your articles. In this master list, list the titles of your articles, their autoresponder addresses and their short descriptions. You can then just promote this master list.

8. Put excerpts or free chapters of your e-book, book or paid e-mail courses in an autoresponder series, then include your follow up sales letters at the end.

9. If you're selling your own products, put your testimonials on autoresponder, along with the description of your products, an excerpt or a free chapter. This will increase your credibility.

10. Keep track of people who download your free e-book, e-report, or free software by putting their download links in an autoresponder. When you promote your free product, you can just promote the autoresponder address.

11. Put links to your hidden pages on autoresponder. A hidden page could be the affiliate page where you have all the graphics, text links, promotional articles that interested affiliates can use. Let people know they can have free access to your affiliate page by requesting the autoresponder. This way, you can have a list of people who are interested in becoming your affiliates.

Copyright © 2005 Shery Ma Belle Arrieta-Russ

About the guest author: Shery is the developer of creative, motivating and fun e-mail courses for writers at http://WritingBliss.com. She also authored the e-book that lets you create your own original and profitable E-mail Workshops, eCourses and Tutorials in only 3 days. Visit http://EmailWorkshopsHowTo.com for more info.
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A Short and Simple Quiz on Whether Blogging is For You

If you're new to blogging, you've probably heard of how it could earn you money! But before you jump in, here's a quick and easy way to find out if blogging is really for you:

1. Is there a topic you're so passionate about you're willing to read all about it even if you don't get paid doing so?

2. Are you ready to write and write and write about that topic for at least six months even if nobody visits your blog and praises you about what you have written?

3. Are you ready to put in extra hours of work for your blog even if you're already tired from your day job?

4. Are you ready to do research work to understand blogging, website, and internet marketing tools you've never encountered before in your life?

5. Will you still go on even if your blog gets infected by a virus, totally crashes down or gets closed down without knowing what it was you did wrong to deserve it all?


If you've answered YES to all the above questions, then congratulations! You're ready to be the next great blogger. ;)

Very Simple Tips in Choosing The Type of Blog to Write

Very Simple Tips in Choosing The Type of Blog to Write:

1. Choose a blog topic that interests you most

2. Choose a blog topic you'd still want to write about even if you don't earn money from it.

3. Choose a blog topic where you have qualifications and skills e.g. a blog about health if you're related to the health profession.

4. Choose a blog topic that best utilizes your gifts i.e. music, arts, writing.

BUZZOM - a nice twitter unfollow and follow tool

I've just discovered a website that helps you manage your twitter followers.

BUZZOM.COM

It's very simple to use, fast, and gives you an idea of your twitter friends, and followers. Try it!

Things That I Like About Blogging

You can't last for a long time if all that you want out of blogging is to earn money from it. There's got to be something else that could keep you going, especially in the early days when you have only 5 to 0 people visiting your blog. For me, some of the things I like about blogging are the following:

1. I like to read, read and read, and blogging helps me take down notes on important things I wanted to remember from my readings.

2. I want to explore and to discover new things, including new tools and gadgets.

3. I like being able to reach out to people and help them in ways that I could.

4. I want to be able to keep track of my progress, whether it be technical skills or spiritual learnings, by browsing through my blog.