If you are
starting a consulting business, think about what it would mean to your business if you had a potential customer ready to purchase from you? Now consider what happens to that potential customer when she gets distracted right as she is about to make her purchase. Just when she is about to click on the link to purchase your product, she closes out of your site in order to attend to the matter at hand.
Obviously that client is going to make a dive to save the tree and for you, that means you have just lost that client unless you have an autoresponder set up on your website to get her email address. If you do, that potential client will receive your follow-up emails and will eventually go ahead and sign up for your services after seeing to her bonsai.

Using an autoresponder is a great way to expand when starting consulting business in that it automates emails for you, thus saving your valuable time. To make the most out of these powerful tools, here are 3 strategies that you can use so you will know how to make money with the content you create and send out to potential clients that subscribe to your autoresponder.
1. Start a newsletter. With a good autoresponder program you can create a newsletter that follows up with prospective clients. The newsletter can provide more information about your products and services and also be used as a vehicle to demonstrate your expertise in the area that you provide consulting in.
2. Create a newsletter for your affiliates. Creating a newsletter for your affiliates is a high payoff leverage activity that will help you to make more money by keeping them informed of what is happening with your company. Doing this will give them an opportunity to make more commission, which will make you more money in the process.
3. Showcase your articles. Showcasing your articles is yet another powerful way to use an autoresponder when starting consulting business as articles allow you to demonstrate your expertise and attract more visitors to your website as well as make more money.
With articles written about a topic that you are an expert in and providing value to the reader, you will have other websites that will want to promote your articles including your resource box. Your resource box should contain a brief description of your background and what you have to offer. It should also include the email address to your autoresponder.
Suppose you wrote 50 articles. You can take those articles and add them to your autoresponder, including a list of the titles of your articles, the autoresponder email address, and a part of the article. You then promote the list of articles. Finally you want to have guidelines for publishing articles to make it easier for your affiliates to promote for you.
These are three strategies that you can implement with autoresponders for newsletters and autoresponders. By utilizing these and other strategies an autoresponder can be a powerful tool when starting a consulting business.
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Copyright Stephen Beck, 2009
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