No online business is complete without effective use of an autoresponder.  These versatile programs can really improve your home-based business or any business for that matter. Here are a few creative uses for autoresponders. Start using an autoresponder today to increase your productivity and profits. 

1. Write reviews.
Cover books, software, music, ebooks, movies, etc., and put each review in an autoresponder. Review your affiliate programs, using a link to your affiliate's page in your autoresponder.

2. Create mailing lists.
Inform subscribers to your articles when you have written new ones that they may want to publish in their own newsletter or website.

3. Distribute free reports.
This gives your visitor an idea of the type of information you can provide and the quality of your product or service. Make sure these reports are not sales letters or you will more than likely lose a potential customer than gain a sale.

4. Create trivia quizzes on your site and place the answers in an autoresponder.
Your visitor will then be motivated to request your autoresponder, and you will have a record of their email addresses if they took the quiz. Or create a contest and have any visitors that enter send their responses to your autoresponder. Your autoresponder can be set up to send them a confirmation of their entry.

5. Link to hidden pages on your autoresponder.
For example, a hidden page could be your affiliate page that contains graphics, promotional articles, and text links that interested affiliates can make use of. Inform visitors that they may have free access to your affiliate page by simply requesting your autoresponder. You will then gather a list of visitors who may be interested in becoming your affiliates.

6. Use an autoresponder on your order page.
Post a request form for visitors to be notified of special offers or discounts in the future. This creates a very effective mailing list that contains the names of people who are already your customers.

7. Put your links page on your autoresponder.
It should contain up to fifty links that would be of particular interest to your visitors. Make sure to add your own promotional copy at the top or bottom of this page.

These ideas are just the tip of the iceberg. Now that you have proof that autoresponders can be used creatively, see if you can come up with some brilliant ideas of your own!

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