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If you want an online business that will constantly rake in profits 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, you will need to master the basics of automation. Automation will make your online business run in auto-pilot, with minimal supervision on your part (bear in mind, however, that “minimal” is very much different from “non-existent”).

How do you establish such an automated online business? Here are some things you need to know…

· Your sales page is the heart of your automated online business. Your sales page will act as your digital salesman. It will try to convince your visitors to purchase your product. Your sales page is also the place where you can integrate your payment processing system. Your visitors can order your product through the order button that can be found on your sales page. Your marketing strategies should be focused on one thing: to drive visitors to your sales page.

· Most internet marketing strategies last for many, many years. All you need to do is to conduct initial seeding. Once the seeds are planted, you’ll be able to reap their fruits for many, many years to come. Take for example article marketing, or the submission of articles to article directories, with such articles containing your byline and a link to your sales page. This strategy will give you back links that will stay in the pages of the article directories for a long, long time. Forum marketing also operates in a similar way. By including a link to your sales page in your posts as well as in your signature box, you can rest assured that you’ll have back links that will stay in cyberspace for many, many years.

· You can set up your own affiliate program. This will require some special software and web hosting features. A simpler approach would be to join affiliate networks such as www.clickbank.com and www.paydotcom.com . These affiliate networks will take care of everything for you. All you have to do is to enroll, pay the requisite review fees (if applicable), provide the links to your sales page and your Thank You page, and you can leave it alone. The affiliate networks will carry out an affiliate marketing campaign through the powers of their own systems.

· Instant delivery can be arranged by providing a download link in your Thank You Page. If you’re running your own sales system, your sales page should have an order button which will lead your would-be customers to your payment processor’s page. Once they pay, the payment processor will lead them to your Thank You page, where you can express your appreciation for the trust your customers have given, and where you can provide a link to the item or items they have paid for. You can also use your Thank You page for some back selling tactics. If you have enrolled with an affiliate network, the affiliate network will be the one who’d lead the customers to your Thank You page.

· Establishing a mailing list will ensure that past visitors will be informed of your future offers. Since you can pre-arrange the messages you’ll be sending, this aspect of your business is also vital for the purpose of automating your online enterprise.

Can you see how things should work?

The marketing seeds you will plant will guarantee that you’ll be able to generate visitors on autopilot. Your sales page will try to convert some of them into successful sales. Your payment processor, or your affiliate network, will take care of accepting payment. Your Thank You page will take care of instant delivery. And your mailing list system will capture the details of those who decided not to purchase your product, so that they may be reminded of subsequent offers.

And this system will take care of everything by itself!

However, please always remember that you cannot establish such an automated system instantaneously. You have to test, test and TEST. You have to make sure that every aspect of the system is working well to guarantee optimal rewards for your online business.

Do you want to know the real secret to success in doing business online?

No, it’s not about the size of your mailing list though that will greatly help. It’s not about the correct price of your products though that will surely win some attention. It’s not even about the quality of your product though that will eventually play a role in branding your enterprise as a truly credible party.

It’s about how you deal with people.

You see, if you’re a money-hungry, selfish, self-absorbed businessman, you wouldn’t be able to retain your customers. Yes, you may be able to win some sales here and there, but such wouldn’t be sufficient enough to be considered as sustainable.

You need to learn how to relate – and how to relate WELL – with the people who will give you their trust. It’s called building relationships. In online transactions, where anonymity pervades in many channels of the internet, your prospects demand security for their monetary investments. And this security can be provided for by reciprocating their trust with the best kind of treatment possible.

Here are some tips on how you can achieve this:

· Be respectful to their needs. Each customer will have certain expectations, and it’s up to you to know what they are. You have to try your best to ensure that your customers’ expectations are met. Otherwise, they’ll just end up disappointed with your service. What do they want from your offer, and how can you make sure that they’ll get whatever it is they desire?

· Realize that your customers need help from time to time. You may be well acquainted with your own product, but your customers may harbor some confusion with regards to its usage and application. You have to be there for your customers in the event that they have some questions about what they have purchased. Since people have varying comprehension levels, do not expect them to immediately understand what you have to share. Exercise patience. You’re the instructor. They’re your students. They need your guidance.

· Their success should be your success. If your only purpose is to make tons of cash in the World Wide Web, you’ll have an easy time achieving that. But such success will not be sustainable. At most, it’ll just be short lived. You need to ensure repeat orders if you want your enterprise to thrive in the World Wide Web. How can you do this? By building great relationships with your previous customers, of course. And the only way you can guarantee such is by striving to make your customers – yes, each and every one of them – succeed. Their success should be your success as well. After all, if they’re successful with what you offered before, they’d want more of what you’ll offer in the future.

· You should always try to over-deliver. Give them something more than what they are expecting. This will imprint on their minds that yours is a business that goes out of its way to satisfy their needs and desires. Over-delivery, believe it or not, is the secret strategy of many of the online marketing gurus. They ordered an eBook? Give them a free membership to a valuable membership site. Better yet, give them 3 free memberships to 3 different sites and allow them to consult with you though sessions you can label as personal coaching seminars.

· Your sales page should make them realize the benefits of your product. But you shouldn’t stop there. Help them achieve such benefits anyway you can. Remember what we discussed earlier: their success should be your success as well. If they succeed with your product, they’d be quick to hop aboard your next offer.

“But the market is too saturated!”

“The audience is too small and a lot of online businessmen are already operating in its midst!”

“There’s no way I can ever profit from such a small market that has millions of competition!”

How many times have you heard internet marketers screaming those words before while they turn away from a market they feel can never be profitable? Perhaps you’re even one such online marketer who has given up on a prospective market because the supply is simply larger than the demand?

But here’s a novel thought: you can make it big in a market that is already loaded with competitors.

Let’s put it this way. The fact that so many online businessmen are vying for a share in such a market only means one thing: that there is money in that field. People who comprise the said market are willing to spend, something that fellow internet marketers have realized and are now capitalizing on.

Let’s take a look at the “home business” market. You see millions upon millions of internet marketers focusing on this field. But you have also heard a lot of success stories of people who have made it big by concentrating on such a market. How did they succeed when the said market is supposed to be saturated?

Do you want to know their secret?

It’s called a USP, an abbreviation for unique selling proposition.

Basically, a USP is a novel offer, one that only your business can provide, that you will present to the market. If your USP proves to be the most beneficial for the members of the said market, they will buy from you, even if there are millions of other businessmen selling the exact same thing you are offering.

USP is employed by the big time affiliates of today’s generation. Often, you see major campaigns from one of the big guns in internet marketing. We’re talking about $1,000 packages, even $2,000 ones on certain occasions. Usually, affiliates earn 50% for each sale they will generate. Hence, such campaigns attract the attention of thousands of affiliates, and you’d have thousands of businessmen selling the exact same package.

If you’re one of those businessmen, how will you be able to make your package stand out from the rest?

This is where the USP comes to play. By conceptualizing and implementing your own USP, you’d be able to make your audience say “hey! Let’s buy from him because he’s offering us the best value for our money!”

The USP, in a way, is giving your target market something more than they will get from other online marketers who are selling the same products you are selling. As with our above example, as an affiliate you stand to gain 50% of $1,000 or $2,000. That’s $500 or $1,000… per sale! You can spend your expected earnings to give your audience something that other marketers won’t be able to provide. Purchase PLR products and throw them in the package. Tell your market that if they will buy from you, they will get “this and that” for free.

Of course, your success will depend on the quality of the “this and that” you will throw into the mix, but the USP dictates that you formulate the best possible offer for your prospects.

Here are some great ideas which can form the basis of your USP:

· bonuses that your competitors will not offer;

· cash rebates which will be taken from the commission you will receive per sale;

· discounts for your future packages;

· subscription to a membership website;

· subscription to an eCourse you may be offering.

A USP is your main weapon if you wish to flourish in a market filled with competition. Use it well, and you’ll realize that there’s no such thing as a market that’s too saturated for profit.