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Marketing Automation For Small Businesses And Web Entrepreneurs
Copyright 2006 by Abe Cherian

Many Internet marketers wonder how they spend less time
marketing their website so they can focus on delighting
their clients and developing better marketing strategies
to improve sales.

They often ask:

1. How can I be efficient as possible so that I don't
   waste time and money?

2. How can I spend less time on activities so that I don't
   like (e.g. marketing and sales) and more time on activities
   I love. (e,g. delighting customers, improving sales materials
   and products)?

3. Every time I get busy with clients, marketing falls behind, so
   I end up with a "feast or famine" cycle. How can I avoid the
   frustration of being swamped with sales one month and famished
   the next?

4. How can I get prospects, leads, customers, signups, and referrals
   come to me instead of having to chase them?

5. How can I build a substantial "contact list", fast, and manage it
   effectively?

6. How can I organize my contacts, in one place and build lasting
   relationships with them?

7. How can I turn visitors into qualified leads automatically --
   instead of losing them to my competition?

8. How can I follow-up with my prospects and turn them into paying
   customers, even if I am on holiday?

9. How do I organize my ad-copies/sales materials all in one place,
   and use them whenever I need -- from any computer, anywhere in the
   world?

10. How do I schedule an update/mailing for a future date, and have it
    delivered even if I am not in front of my computer?

11. How do I know which advertising is pulling better results for me?

12. How do I know the cost of getting a prospect, and the cost of getting
    a paying customer?

13. How do I know what my time is exactly worth?

One answer to the above questions is to develop "Automatic Marketing
Systems" that do your marketing for you while you do other things.

Marketing automation and CRM (customer relationship management) is not
just for big corporations -- it must be implemented to your marketing
even if you run a home-based business or promote an affiliate program.

When your marketing is effective and runs on auto-pilot, you enjoy a
number of benefits:

1.You spend more time on the tasks that you like to do, which usually
are those that got you into the business in the first place.

2.Clients come to you, and already know about your products, services,
or an opportunity, so you don't have to chase them.

3.While you're busy delighting current clients, you're still getting
the word out about your services, so you can smooth out the "feast
or famine" cycle that plagues so many Internet marketers.

4.You get leverage to grow your business faster.


Marketing is a science.
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Everybody has a marketing system -- manual or automated. Yet,
all results are not equal. Some marketers emerge as giants, and
others, including those that started marketing at the same time
as the giants, either give up and go out of business or struggle to
stay afloat.

Why? What are the variables that make a difference in the same thing?

I'll tell you why...

The successful ones are better able to relate the needs of the
marketplace by using the right automation tools and analytics --
which helps them save time and money and make good judgments.


Tools To Automate Your Web Business:
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There are several affordable (from $20/month to $149/month) Marketing
automation websites/services that can help small business owners automate
parts of their marketing chores and save time and money and increase
your return on investment (ROI).

Some websites do part of the automation for you (like follow-up auto-
responders, and ad-tracking services), separately -- but very few will
satisfy all of the above concerns for a small business Internet marketer.

A service specifically targeted towards small businesses, home-based
entrepreneurs, and affiliate marketers will be www.iMediatools.com. 

iMediatools provides a solution to all of the above concerns that
is affordable and practical to Internet Marketers. You can even try
the full version for a period of 15 days before you get the Enterprise
version.

Having total control over your marketing, lists, databases, and leads
pays off thousand times over.


About the Author

Abe Cherian is the owner of Multiple Stream Media and publisher of www.weeklytips.com newsletter, where you will find hundreds of Internet business building tips. Visit www.weeklytips.com to read more tips like this one