Promote While You Sleep
By: Larry Johnson

Discovering how to promote that new internet business is primary to it's success. A website without promotion may is like a dark closet in a basement of the world's largest city. No one is going to accidentally find your website.

Here are three tips on how you can promote and manage your site 24 hours a day. Even while you are asleep.

1) AUTORESPONDERS:

Probably one of the best-known and popular ways to handle routine messages to inquirers is the use of auto-responders.

It is simple and easy to set up your messages which usually involve several follow-up messages to remind your visitors what you are offering and how to find your site again.

Here are some fr*e ones:

http://www.freeautobot.com/ (ad free also.)
http://www.getresponse.com/
http://www.sendfree.com/'
http://www.sendthisfree.com/

2) AUTOMATED PAYMENT SYSTEMS:

Well, this is just a no-brainer. It is just too simple not to do this one.

Having an automated payment system that allows you to accept credit card payments for your products or services and is something that everyone has to have to be successful online.

Here are a couple of third-party ones that I use and recommend:

ClickBank-- http://www.ClickBank.com/
PayPal-- http://www.PayPal.com/

3) MAILING LIST MANAGEMENT:

If you are trying to run your own newsletter, handling the process by yourself can eat up a lot of valuable time.

In the beginning this may be possible, but as your list grows and the tasks involved keep multiplying, your time demands will increase also.

There are lots of ways to manage a mailing list including installing your own scripts and purchasing your own software.

Weigh the pros and cons, but be sure and check out the possibility of *farming out* the responsibility to a mailing list service.

Here are some to consider:

http://www.ezinedirector.com/ (fr*e and paid versions)
http://www.mail-list.com/
http://www.zinester.com/ (f*ee and paid versions)

Fr*e ones include:

http://groups.yahoo.com/
http://www.topica.com/

Implementing these three time-saving helpers is a very important benchmark in moving your business into a phase that will f*ee up some time to insure your success online.

Best of luck with your promotional efforts.