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One of the best pieces of Internet marketing advice that can be imparted to webmasters and small business owners is to take a serious look at email marketing (also called autoresponders). Email marketing can be an extremely powerful tool to have at your disposal. With it, you'll be able to find more prospects, create more sales and reach a far greater audience while building your online presence. In order to capitalize on the power of email marketing, you first have to enroll with an email autoresponder provider. A really good on is Aweber. Many companies provide basic plans starting as low as $10, which means they're affordable for any size operation. Once you're set up with a company you can start building your list. Your email list needs to be permission based. A permission based list is built one person at a time: with your list growing each time someone enters their name and address into your website signup form. Another way to get an email list is to purchase a harvested list, which can be tempting because of how large they are. Our Internet marketing advice on the harvested list is - don't do it! Why not? Because it doesn't matter how large your email list is if it is filled with names of people who don't know you and don't care about what you have to say. They're just going to end up deleting your emails, and your messages won't be reaching anybody. And you won't make any sales. Additionally, these people might mark your emails as spam, which will ruin your overall deliverability rate and can even get you in trouble with federal rules and regulations such as the CAN-SPAM act. Another piece of Internet marketing advice for your email campaigns: provide your readers with something of value. People won't just sign up for your list because they have the option to, they need to have a real reason to. A great reason could be a free eBook or guide, a weekly tips newsletters, access to a members only section of your website or anything else that is of real value. By providing people with real value they will want to sign up for your list and see what you have to say. Email marketing is so effective because when people visit your site, most of them aren't ready to make a purchase right away. You need to work on converting these people over a period of time, and by staying in touch with them through email you'll be able to do just that. By providing them with useful information and reaching out to them continually, you'll earn their trust and you'll stay at the forefront of their mind, ensuring that when they are ready to make a purchase, you end up with the sale. All successful business owners and web masters have taken this piece of Internet marketing advice to heart, and you should too. By building a permission based list and providing people real value, you'll find more prospects and convert more of them, leading to higher sales and greater profits for your venture. Cat Williams, an internet marketer and freelance writer, provides more valuable internet marketing advice at: http://www.internetmarketingfornewbiesreview.com/. ------------------ ARTICLE END ------------------ [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
