How to make my online business profitable (part2) ~ automation

written by: Sarah Geen; article published: year 2006, month 07;



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More importantly, by focusing on information and solutions, you will be able to achieve automation.

How valuable is automation?

I’ve been teaching online marketers the value of AUTOMATION because it has always been my central business philosophy.

I’d even dare say that automation has become my religion. Yes – that’s how much I have faith in its worth. Automation is what makes an online business powerful. Since the Internet allows you to access a global market, you have to find ways by which the members of this wide, wide market can reach you, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Surely, you cannot do this manually. You have to sleep. Sometimes, you have to go to work. And often, the demands of your life will consume your time. And you can’t ask your prospects to wait either. The digital age has raised our expectations. People want speedy processes. They have grown unaccustomed to waiting. They are not as patient as before And the only way you can do this is by implementing automation for your online business. Automation will make a lot of things possible, all of which will significantly contribute to the success of your enterprise:

You can leave your online business behind for a few hours and even for a few days. You won’t have to monitor the progress of your sales every second of the day. The system will take care of everything. Remember those sales pitches that say “earn money even when you’re sleeping?” Only automation can make this possible.

You can boost your profits tremendously. Since automation won’t make you lose any valuable second, your online business will always be ready to process orders. Additionally, as you’ll learn later on, automation will allow you to incorporate some techniques that will improve your conversion rate and even generate sustainable traffic for your website.

You won’t have to pay anything for storage and shipment. Everything will be housed on your hard drive and on your web server, ready to get picked up by the automated system as soon as a customer completes an order. All of these can happen automatically. You won’t have to manually sort out each and every order and prepare each and every package.

Automation will also allow you to plant certain seeds that will generate the traffic, and more importantly, the leads that you need for your online business’ sustainable success. These seeds can last for many, many years (believe it or not, the seeds I planted way back in 1999 are still bringing me good business up to this very day!) There’s even a chance that the seeds you plant will be there forever; well, at least for as long as the Internet is in existence.

Automation is a complete system. It will be like having a work force, only, the work will be carried out by the system itself without need for human intervention. You’ll be able to save a lot in terms of labor cost. Labor cost can be quite expensive, as you have to pay for people’s salaries on a per hour basis. Cumulatively, you’ll take a financial hit when it comes to keeping such a work force. But with a fully automated system, this won’t be a problem at all. The system, or the machine as I like to call it, will take care of everything and it will ensure that your online business’ best interests will be served.

Though automation will make everything operate by itself, its implementation is not as automatic. You need to create the automated system first before you can enjoy its benefits.

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