What Are They?

Autoresponders are very much like Fax-On-Demand for E-Mail. Someone e-mails your autoresponder and your information is automatically sent to their e-mail address. For example, if you were interested in completing our home-based business survey, all you would have to do is send any e-mail message to: profile@bizine.com. The survey will be sent to your e-mail box within just a few minutes.

Benefits:

- Saves Time! Automate your marketing and free up your time. If you find yourself frequently responding to the same questions or sending out the same information on a regular basis, autoresponders will save you a lot of time!

- Make More Sales! You are able to immediately distribute more information to a prospect while they are already interested, instead of them having to wait for your reply.

- Build An In-House E-mail List. You can collect the e-mail addresses of people that are interested in your products or services for follow ups. You never know who came by and visited your website and are unable to follow-up with them. However, if you have a place on your site where they can request additional information via your autoresponder, you now have their address and can easily follow-up to see if they have any questions or need more information.

With the Virtualis "Smart Autoresponders"* you can even automate your follow-up messages. Set your smart autoresponder to send follow-up messages several days apart. Simply tell the smart autoresponder how many days later to send it, and what you want it to say . . . that's it! (*Smart Autoresponders are available on the MEGA and higher server options.)

- Increase Your Accessibility! You can reach more people by using an autoresponder. Some folks online are too busy to visit websites, or they just have slow connections and don't enjoy it. By giving them the option to retrieve your information via e-mail, without having to visit your site, you are increasing the number of people you can reach.

- Ease of Use. You can change out your autoresponder information easier than a webpage. This makes it perfect for price changes, or notifications of specials and contests.

- Increase Retention Your prospects will have your info in their e-mail and are more likely to review it more carefully. They also have a better chance of reviewing your information again with it in their e-mail than if they had to go back to your website. Plus, most people have to see information 3 to 4 times before they decide to buy. Autoresponders increase the chance that your prospects will retain the information you supplied them and to act on it.

- GREAT Marketing Tool You can easily market your products and provide more detailed information to your prospects. Just be sure to include your autoresponder address in your signature file of your e-mail and all your posts to newsgroups and mailing lists.

- Protect Your Information You can distribute prices or sensitive information to interested parties, without just openly displaying it on your website. This would protect you from your competition just surfing by and reviewing your prices or marketing copy that you may not wish to share. They would have to request it via your autoreponder and then you would know who they were.

Where to Get Them

If you have your own domain name account, contact your server to see if autoresponders were part of the package that you purchased. If not, here is a great place to get domain name hosting with the tools you need for successful online marketing: Virtualis Systems