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Step #3 Putting Your Ezine On Auto-Pilot

This next step is the key to making this whole process easy. This is the ‘autopilot’ part of creating these ezines.

Now that you have 8-9 issues ready for your ezine, load them into an autoresponder and set them to go out every other day, every 3 days, or every week. I suggest no more than every other day and no less than once a week.

You want to keep your subscribers attention, but you don’t want to annoy them.

In the next part of this strategy I’m going to show you how to do with a video. There’s no better way to learn than to see it being done.

I will be using the Norabots autoresponder system. My friend David Zohar owns it, and I can’t say enough good things about it.

The features match any big name autoresponder company at half the price. It’s only $9.97 a month. You’ll become more familiar with this system in the first video. The rest of the videos will be teaching you how to use the autoresponder to put your ezine on autopilot.

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If you are an online business owner that is looking to start your own affiliate program, you are not alone. If properly implemented, affiliate programs are a great way to increase your sales and in turn increase your profits. Before you can start your own affiliate program, there are number of important things that you must first consider. One of those things is how you will track your affiliates and the sales that they generate.

Since affiliate programs are commission based, you will need a way to determine if an affiliate helped you generate a sale. If this sale did take place, you also need to how much money that sale was for. This is important, especially if your base your affiliates commission on a predetermined percentage. To do this, you will need an affiliate tracking software program.

When examining affiliate tracking software, it is important to examine product features; however, it also important to determine your payment options. In fact, if you are on a limited budget, the cost of a software program and the accepted methods of payment may be the deciding factor, when it comes to choosing affiliate tracking software. A number of different individuals and companies sell this tracking software; therefore, different programs cost different amounts of money and different payments methods are accepted.

Despite the fact that different individuals and companies accept different payment methods and charge different amounts of money for their services, there are number of similarities. For instance, you will find that, when it comes to charging for their product, a number of individuals and companies charge a monthly fee, while others charge a flat rate fee. Each of these payment options has advantages and disadvantages. To find the payment option that best fits your needs; you are advised to examine the advantages and disadvantages of each.

Perhaps, the greatest advantage of using an affiliate software program that requires a monthly fee is that, in most cases, you can cancel at anytime. This type of payment option is ideal for those who are just getting started in affiliate marketing. Unfortunately, not everyone sees success with affiliate programs. In the event that your affiliate program does not work out, you should be able to end your partnership with the affiliate tracking software seller.

The main advantage to doing business with an affiliate software seller that charges a onetime fee can also be considered a disadvantage of companies that require monthly payments. That advantage is often a cheaper product. When added up, the monthly fee charged for affiliate tracking software tends to more expensive than those that charge a onetime fee. In fact, the longer you are able to use the services of a onetime fee software program, the more money you are able to save. The only downside to this type of agreement is that, you if you choose to no longer participate in the affiliate program, you may lose your money by ending the agreement.

One you have determined which payment option works best for you, you can begin to examine all of your available options. Even if you limit yourself to software programs with onetime fees or monthly fees, you will still find that you have a number of choices. If you need assistance with eliminating those choices, it may also be a good idea to examine the methods of payment that are accepted. If you are unable or unwilling to pay with the accepted forms of payments, you will be able to eliminate a number of your choices.

As previously mentioned, different affiliate tracking software sellers will accept different methods of payment; however, many of them accept similar payment methods. These methods often include credit cards, debit cards, or PayPal. PayPal is a popular and safe way to pay for products and services online. Not all software sellers accept PayPal, but a large number of them are starting to. All software sellers should accept credit and debit cards. To use a debit card online, you need to make sure that your card bears the logo of a credit card company. This logo essentially means that your debit card will be processed like a credit card.

While the methods and options of payment accepted are important, they are just a few of the many things you should examine. By keeping the above mentioned points in mind, you should be able to find a quality software program, especially one that you can afford and pay for.

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Many people, especially those who live in congested cities, work in office tower blocks. They use the elevator every day of their lives to get from the ground to whatever floor their office is on.

Still others use elevators in department stores, apartment towers and so on.

Forget the elevator and take the stairs, because climbing stairs is one of the most effective forms of aerobic exercise that you can ever do.

This was clearly proven by a British study some ten years ago, when researchers discovered that for averagely sedentary people, just a few minutes climbing the stairs every day demonstrably improved their cardiovascular health.

This study was of particular interest because it supported the idea that taking several short spurts of exercise every day will make a significant difference to your health (hence the idea that you can walk for ten minutes a day three times, rather than just one thirty minute session).

The study required 20 college aged women who lived relatively sedentary lives to climb up 200 steps in less than two and a half minutes.

This represented a ‘brisk but comfortable’ pace according to the researchers conducting the study, but the first time that they did it, it nevertheless served to shoot the test subjects’ heart rates up to around 90% of the anticipated maximum heart rate.

Despite this, the test subjects moved from making one climb per day during the first week to six per day in the sixth and seventh weeks.

This therefore meant that the test subjects were climbing stairs for around thirteen and a half minutes per day by the conclusion of the test, which (in case the point is not clear) represents less than a quarter of an hour of reasonably rigorous exercise every day.

By the end of this relatively modest (and completely free) exercise program, the women being tested were measurably fitter than they had been before. Every indicator had improved significantly. Their heart rate immediately after the climb had decreased markedly and their breathing had slowed as well, indicating that they needed to take in less oxygen to ‘fuel’ their efforts.

On the other hand, their HDL levels had increased, which is a good thing, because high-density lipoprotein is also sometimes known as ‘good’ cholesterol. High levels of HDL in the blood seem to play a role in reducing the risk of heart attack, while low levels seem to do the opposite by increasing the risk of heart disease.

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What Kind of Buyer Am I?

If you want to save money while you are negotiating you should negotiate from the dealer cost up and not from the MSRP down.

You just need to remember that dealer cost is not the same as the factory invoice.

Some dealerships refuse to haggle over the cost of a car. Once you make your opening offer you should never accept anything higher than that, as far as costs go.

If the dealership that you go to doesn’t haggle, don’t sweat it, some other dealership will.

The reason some dealerships refuse to haggle is because they want to add extra fees to the MSRP. You will need to decide what kind of buyer you are in order to get a negotiating stance.

You do not want to set yourself up as a monthly payment buyer either because that is a guaranteed way for you to get a higher payment fee.

They will offer to take a little bit off of the MSRP. They will then ask you what you are looking to pay each month; this is where the extra money comes in.

Cash buyers are generally asked, “Are willing to pay each month?” Tell them it doesn’t matter because you are looking for an even division on the cost of the car, not to haggle over the monthly cost.

Tell them that you are looking to haggle over the cost of the car, not the monthly payments. This is often used for cash buyers.

If a finance manager tries to get you to report your payment method before you have decided upon purchasing the car, don’t get sucked into it.

The method of payment doesn’t matter unless you are deciding upon purchasing the car. Finance managers ask so that that they can best decide how to screw you over.

Some dealers will offer you to give you a better deal if you finance your car through them. I can guarantee that this will not be the case.

Of course the worst thing that you could be an impulse buyer.

An impulse buyer is just another word for “victim.” Impulse buyers can often get sucked into the “hot” car of the moment and usually get taken for as much as $10,000. A dealer can see this buyer coming from a mile away.

If a dealer approaches you about the “hot” car tell him that you are not interested because it will not be worth the money next year as the new “hot” car will be out by then.

You don’t want to buy a car that is in demand because it is the easiest way for a dealership to mark up the prices. The MSRP always looks low, but it is the extras and monthly payments that will lose you money.

Remember the resale value of the car doesn’t change no matter how much money you bobought the car for. It still depreciates in value from the factory invoice.

Some Sales Scams

As I’ve said before, there are many ongoing scams that dealerships will throw at you in order to bank some extra money from you. I’ve shown you the most popular, but let’s look at some more.

Written contract scam: This is basically when the finance manager sits you down and begins to write himself into frenzy, while quickly throwing numbers at you until you are so confused, you end up paying more than you agreed upon.

This may seem impossible for a person to get away with but believe me; it happens all of the time.

The finance manager is counting on you being confused and desperate to get out of there, so assumes you will simply go along with whatever he says. Most of the time, it works.

Avoid it by forcing the guy to slow down, and calculate right along with him to make sure that you are getting a fair deal and that you both come up with the same numbers.

Price beating scam: This is when the dealer tells you that they will beat anyone else’s prices or give you $500.

They simply ask you to get the price from another dealer and they’ll beat it. The hard part is that other dealers will not just hand over their information for you to take to someone else.

This deal is almost impossible to get because most dealers sell different makes and models anyway. Avoid it by not buying into it in the first place.

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In a blog, articles should never feel like articles. Instead, they should feel like a good friend telling you things you want and need to know. For this reason, posting an article just as-is to a blog often does not work. You must, at the very least, note that it's an article. At best, you can edit it, or have it edited, so that it reads like a blog posting – informal, friendly, and to the point.

Blogged articles can be very effective sales conversion tools. When someone's in your blog, they are probably feeling significantly more trusting than they would on your website at large, which means that whatever you tell them at that point will be met more openly. You should never try to sell anything through your blog that you yourself don't intimately believe in; an unhappy customer who's purchased something in this way will feel much more betrayed than one who just clicked on an anonymous link.

But what if you don't have the knack for blogs, or for articles? What if you can't write?

You don’t have to be able to write to use articles and blogs to convert your ideas into usable information. Did you know that most CEOs today who are "blogging" are actually directing a professional writer on what they want written? You may feel as if you're getting to know the executives at GM through their blogs – but you're actually having their ideas and information translated into a blog by a professional writer.

Hopefully, your impression of GM has not just been shattered! The point is, you can do the same thing. If you want to begin and maintain a blog, you can hire a professional writer to do one for you. If you feel comfortable with a blog to a certain degree, but you want someone else to write articles for posting on it from time to time, that's fine as well. As long as the information on the blog is your information or information you would have put there if you had the writing ability, you're not being dishonest.