Is Your Business Sailing On AutoPilot?
You have probably heard the saying: “the money is in the list!” Yes, it’s true, building your own list is critical in every network marketing business, because without a list your business will collapse. 
No, I’m not talking about writing a list of your family, friends and everyone you know!
I’m referring to a list of people who opt in, showing that they are interested in what you have to offer. They exchange their names and contact details for the information about your products or services as well as your business opportunity.
A network marketing business requires both prospects and customers that will join you or buy the products you offer.
It’s very important that you learn how to attract interested people to you on a daily basis, using proven to work marketing strategies. A handful of leads a day will not cut it.
Buying leads is a bad idea – it’s a waste of time and money. Those people have not shown any interest in your offer and they don’t know you at all. Why would they want to buy from you?
NEVER waste time trying to “convince” people that they need what you are offering!
So, what happens next? What do you do with your list?
You will then need an auto responder system that will allow you to have people opting in to receive more information about your offer(s). I use Aweber, one of the top auto responder systems on the internet, and I’m happy with their service and support.
This is an amazing tool that every network marketer should use!
Bottom line: you can head out to the beach or the shopping mall with the kids, go on a long overdue vacation while a little army of your automated follow-up e-mails get sent to your subscribers and be able to make commissions — smart, huh?
It allows you to create massive results with your business without being tied to the phone and spending hours on e-mail – incredible!
The key is to leverage your time, efforts and energy. When you have an auto responder system set up, you can focus on driving more traffic, learning and polishing your marketing, improving your sales funnel, tracking and improving your conversions as well as training and coaching your team. These are the income-producing activities that the top earners in the industry spend their time on.
As you will have total control over your own list, you can keep sending messages to your list, for as long as your subscribers are still “happy” to receive the information from you.
So, what do you write about in your messages to your list? Be sure to come back as I will be sharing some great tips on this subject, in my next post.
In the meantime, set up your own auto responder system and put your business on complete auto pilot!
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Happy List Building!
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Mavis Nong is the creator and author of this blog.
She is passionate about helping others create success online.
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Hello Mavis
Nice changes to your blog.
My ultimate goal of my auto responder messages is to allow someone I do not know, who does not know me, to get to know me and allow them to take certain action steps so that I get to know them.
I look forward to your next post on what to write about in your messages.
Great post Mavis!!
Follow up is KEY!
Keep em coming
Melanie
Hi Oliver,
thanks for sharing your insights about list building and autoresponder. I also use Aweber and am happy with them.
Take care
Oliver
Hi Mavis,
Great advice! Leveraging our time is so important and and autoresponder is the perfect way to do it. By the way, I am also an Aweber user and can only highly recommend it.
Have a great week!
Ilka
Hi Mavis,
Having a list is is essential and when you can put that list into an auto-pilot system that makes you money every single day, even better.
I like your way of thinking.
Have a productive day,
Jerome Ratliff
Hi Mavis,
Automating or outsourcing tasks makes life so much easier. To try and do it all yourself is impossible.
Set it and forget it, well as close as possible anyway
Take care,
Neil
Hey Mavis,
Building a list is important if you are going to do any kind of internet marketing. Without a list, it is difficult to run a business on auto-pilot. I'm a huge fan of Aweber. They are user friendly and customer service rocks!
Chat with you later…
Josh
Hi Mavis,
Yes you are absolutly right about building your list. Because when you're doing it within a niche, you have targeted prospect buyers. I use Aweber myself and it is very easy to use love it.
Very good insight!
Dave B.
Great header, Mavis!!!
You are right on the point here: any business needs a list to market to and a couple of people here and there just won't cut it.
It all comes down to traffic generation, traffic conversion, effective communication, and then sales – in that order.
Best,
Ana Hoffman
Hi Peter,
Thanks for the compliment. It's work in progress
Yes, that's the goal we all aim to achieve. It's amazing what auto responders can do for your business.
I appreciate your visit and comment.
All the best,
Mavis
Hi Mel,
You're so right. It's even better to have this automated
Thanks for stopping by and for your comment.
All the best,
Mavis
It's my pleasure, Oliver. Yes, they are very good and I highly recommend them.
I appreciate your visit and comment.
All the best,
Mavis
Absolutely Ilka! It's amazing what auto responders can do for your business.
Thanks for the visit.
Have a great one too!
All the best,
Mavis
It's just incredible, Jerome! The best way to “manage” your list while you do other things.
Thanks for your visit and kind words.
All the best,
Mavis
Yes, Neil. That's exactly what smart marketers do!
Thanks for stopping by and for your comment.
All the best,
Mavis
Hi Josh,
Welcome to my blog!
You're right, you can't build a business without a list. Yes, Aweber rocks!
Thanks for the visit and for your comment.
All the best,
Mavis
Hi Dave,
So true! No list = no business!
Aweber is fantastic and I highly recommend it!
Thanks for stopping by and for your comment.
All the best,
Mavis
Thanks for the compliment, Ana. It's work in progress
Without a steady flow of traffic, your business will crumble before you see any significant results.
Thanks for the visit and for your input.
All the best,
Mavis
Great post Mavis there something to be said about the right kind of automation.
At least with your autoresponder (I love aweber too great customer support) people are opting in they should be expecting your messages on a regular basis.
You can do a lot great things with it even blast out your blog automatically to your list every time you post a great, great tool to have.
Steve Shoemaker
Hey Mavis, nice post!
I'm a huge fan of having an opt-in list and I've helped several folks get started with creating a list.
One of the things that I find interesting is so many people want to start out buying lists. They think that creating their own list takes too long, when we all know that if done correctly building a list doesn't take a long time at all.
The important thing to remember is it's better to have 10 targeted visitors that 100 non targeted visitors and buying lists not only gives you non targeted visitors, they don't know YOU, and that can make a huge difference as to whether they buy from you or even listen to you.
Hi Mavis it really is all about the list of opt ins – and i like aweber too -pretty easy to automate. Have never tried buying leads although there is obviously merit in paid advertising if it targeted to your niche and if there is a compelling landing page – but ultimately the goal is to build the list first before trying to monetize
Thanks for sharing and continued success
Cheers Kiaran
Hi Mavis,
Aweber is great. That's who I use as well. I didn't know anything about auto responders and it was such an easy thing to learn with Aweber.
Thanks for another great post!
Susanna
Hey Mavis,
A great way to save time is to have an autoresponder and it saves a lot of time. As a matter of fact i just found out you can schedule your blogs through your wordpress blog. So you can make it into a an autoresponder somewhat. Great post and I'll be looking forward to more!
Sherman
Yes, it's a fantastic tool.
The blog broadcast feature is great and I have been using it with success.
Thanks for the visit and input, Steve.
All the best,
Mavis
Well said, Liz! Totally agree with you.
Thanks for stopping by and for your input.
All the best,
Mavis
Very important steps: 1) Build a list, 2) Build a relationship with your list 3) Monetise your list — in that order! Rinse and repeat daily
Thanks for the visit and comment, Kiaran.
All the best,
Mavis
Hi Susanna,
Same here, I knew nothing about auto responders and Aweber made everything easy for me. Love it!
I appreciate your visit and comment.
All the best,
Mavis
Hey Sherman,
Yes, it's all about leveraging – very important.
The blog broadcast feature is great and I have been using it with success.
I appreciate your visit and input.
All the best,
Mavis
Hi Mavis,
Thanks for sharing the great post.
Indeed, it’s all about leverage. Auto-responders, like most other tools used by the top network marketers, do a wonderful job of leveraging your time.
Like you said, you can go on vacation, and have your own little “sales army” work for you, tirelessly, and without need to take a break; what would we do without autoresponders.
Thanks for the wonderful post.
Michael
Hi Michael,
Welcome to my blog!
I can’t think of running my business without auto responders. It’s amazing what they can do for your business!
Thanks for stopping by and commenting.
All the best,
Mavis
Great Blogs! Excellent article lots of information in growing for online business. Awesome page.
best regards,
Katherine
Thanks, Katherine. Hope to see you again soon
Mavis
How many times have you come across a site with thousands of comments that say “Nice Site!” “I like your post” instead of something that pertains to what the author is actually saying? People need to learn the fact that it’s about quality, not quantity that is going to help you build your own site and traffic.
Hi Anne! Welcome to my blog!
I know! The “Great post”, “Nice site”, “I like your post” comments don’t work and they generally don’t get approved by the webmasters anyway.
Thanks for the visit and input. Hope to see more of you here, Anne.
All the best,
Mavis
Hi Mavis,
This is a must read post by every network marketer
The sad truth is some many distributors all still running their leads thru the
corporate rep site, then if the company goes south, you lose your list
I treat my list like an asset and I don’t send anyone to an opt in where the lead doesn’t
go in my auto responder, which is Aweber
To many people say I am a representative of company X, rather then saying “I represent company X”
This is obviously a topic I am very passionate about, because to many people are letting leads fall right thru their hands
Thanks for your contribution,
Jeff
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Well said, Jeff. It’s critical to build your own list. If anything happens to your company, you still have that list.
The next important thing to do, is to back up your list. If your auto responder company shuts you down or go south, you still have your list: http://www.attractionmarketingonline.com/email-marketing-list-safe-auto-responder-companies/
Your list is your very important asset.
Mavis
Hello Navis,
Great post. You really emphasized the saying that says: ” Work smarter and not harder”
Thank you for the tips.
Regards
Joseph
You’re welcome, Joseph.
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