Starting an On-Line Business for newcomers - What choice of Autoresponder?

Signing up for an autoresponder service, is one the most important things if not the most important things you would want to spend some time considering before starting an on line business. The importance of an autoresponder cannot be underestimated.
But why?-I hear you ask. Autoresponders are an online marketer's secret weapon they have many useful functions namely -

• Allows the easy creation of an 'opt in' form on your website
• Collects email addresses of visitors to your website
• Sends automatic messages to your prospects

Please note: a prospect is someone who has signed up to your site ie they have given you their email address.
It takes on average 7 messages before a prospect makes a purchase. An autoresponder is very important therefore because it allows you to build a relationship with your list.
Now the time has come to choose, do we go for the Free Autoresponder Service or hire the services of a paid Autoresponder Service.
I highly recommend that you do not go the free route when getting an autoresponder.
There are two reasons why:
Firstly, because of the rampant use of using free autoresponders for spam activities, many free autoresponders are blacklisted. What this means to you, is that your delivery rates will be very low. The only free autoresponder that I know of that still has decent delivery rates is Getresponse's free account.
Secondly, when you get tired of your low delivery rates and want to go to a paid autoresponder, you will have to get all of your current subscribers to double opt in AGAIN to your new list. And as many people who have done it have found out, you will lose a large percentage of your mailing list.
Again, I do not recommend going the free way, but if you are set on doing it anyway, at least do it with Getresponse. At least it has a higher delivery rates and because when you do decide to upgrade to a paid version with Getresponse, you won't have to your subscribers double opt in again, so you won't lose any subscribers needlessly.
However, remember that just like the free versions of other autoresponders, the free version of Getresponse also places advertisement in all of your messages. The free version allows you to create one list and send up to five follow up messages.
The other, highly ranked and praised Paid Autoresponder Service worth concerning yourself with is - Aweber.
Sometimes Aweber offer a FREE trial or discounted trails for a limited period, but that offer does come and go.

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Is it Possible to make Passive Income with an MLM? Let Rip-Tide Army show you HOW

There could a whole bunch of reasons, why majority of people in the MLM industry only last a few months before giving up. In my observations, the main cause of very high failure rate is because individuals, who sign up rarely achieve their financial goals. All the dreams they had when they started with their up line never start to materialize and there is very little reassurance that they ever would.
The MLM industry would be a lot brighter if the business model that it was designed for, was actually working as expected in the first place – that is being able to grow a strong down line that provides an ongoing stream of income in a realistic period. Let us review a couple of areas of why this hardly happens to the majority of network marketers.
The methods applied for signing up potential prospects are generally ineffective and deliver a bad image to the MLM. Most often than not, these techniques involve you targeting your family and acquaintances. Your sponsor may tell you to keep repeating this process because eventually you would get a sign up. Using this type of method would however leave you as the person left with everyone avoiding you, and at best might end up with only one or two sign ups in your down line to show for after you alienating activities.
The poor Training that an individual gets on “how to build a down line” from their up-line leads them getting next to zero results even after putting in a huge amount of time and energy. This can lead to devastating effects on the person who is not making a single step towards achieving his/her goals. It is therefore no wonder that many people throw in the towel before and are left with a bitter taste of MLM in their mouth.
When I came across the Rip-Tide Army, I was surprised as to how all my above-mentioned fears were put to rest. A group of individuals, from different spectrums of the industry pushing for a common dream, which is achieving FINANCIAL FREEDOM in the MLM industry. “Working at home made easy” is what I call it when I am referring a prospect.
One of the other reasons why people find it so hard to build a down line is because they try too hard at pressing their business opportunity on prospects, which sometimes could be referred to as bullying a prospect to sign up. Sounds familiar? Many newcomers when introduced to this business model, the only thing they want to do is to sponsor as many people into their down-line in the shortest possible time. To do this they create a lot of hype and outrageous promises to prospects on what MLM can do for them. Doing this gets them nowhere, because you have to let prospects figure out for themselves if network marketing is the type of business opportunity they have being waiting for which will turn their lives around. The Rip-Tide Army is unique and stands out from everyone who is using the hyped up approach, they attract prospects to themselves and have them asking about the business opportunity. Care to have a look at the Battle Plan Click HERE.

Article Marketing Powertips!

Here are a few simple yet powerful tips to guarantee your article gets as much exposure as possible.

Use keywords.

If you simply ensure the TITLE and the opening paragraph contain popular "keyword phrases" that people in your niche might be searching for on the Internet... then you have done 90% of the work.

Always submit your articles to Ezinearticles FIRST.

Since they are the "Google" of the article directories, it's very important to submit to them first.
Here's why....let's say for example you submit your articles to other directories before you submit to Ezinearticles.
What happens is when your articles go into 'pending review' at Ezinearticles they'll run a check to make sure that you've submitted original content.
The problem arises when they come across a duplicate copy of the same article at one or more of the other directories. If that happens, in most cases your article will not be published.

Write a keyword rich title - with a solution.

Make up a unique title and search for the title in quotes at Google and if the results are not in the millions -- I always aim for under 40,000 - then you might have a very good chance at making the first page on a Search Engine Results Page. A 4 or 5 word keyword works (known as long tail).

Really use your resource box.

Remember the WHOLE point of your article -- is to get a reader to click through to your site.
You put your details at the end of the article -- in the area known as the resource box.
It's here that you have to SIZZLE! Really sell your site -- even better -- offer a solution to a problem. If you have a FREE gift -- shout about it here! This is your free advert -- use it wisely and strongly.

Free! Why $0.00 Is the Future of Business

Ok...here's a totally radical thought.
Could you imagine movies at the theater...being FREE.
And I mean totally 100% free - no catch.
Believe it or not...this is being considered.
Some chains are considering making movies free - but charging a lot more for the concessions.
Just imagine how this could change business...
I have long talked about the Power of 'FREE'.
Once a marketing gimmick -- now 'free' is a full fledged economy of it's own.
Lets look at a little known company called GOOGLE. Heard of them?
But have you noticed how virtually EVERYTHING they do - is FREE. Think about this for a moment. This clearly is no accident.
How can they do this and yet still be worth billions?

How Starbucks Got It Right…and How You Can Too.

Creating a successful business is all about establishing trust.
The success of Starbucks is 100% linked to the trust their customers have of the company.
Did you know - Starbucks have put their success down to 5 principles.
The following is taken from The Starbucks Experience by Joseph Michelli.
As I read this book -- it struck me that the success of Starbucks can also be applied to an Internet Business.
Despite maybe at first appearing unrelated...
...there are in fact many similarities between earning a passive income online -- and going in to grab an ice blended mocha.
Starbucks have put their success down to 5 principles.