{"id":50,"date":"2009-10-20T05:34:08","date_gmt":"2009-10-20T21:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jayjennings.com\/article-marketing\/article-marketing-tricks-2-sales-on-autopilot\/"},"modified":"2009-10-20T05:34:08","modified_gmt":"2009-10-20T21:34:08","slug":"article-marketing-tricks-2-sales-on-autopilot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jayjennings.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/20\/article-marketing-tricks-2-sales-on-autopilot\/","title":{"rendered":"Article Marketing Tricks #2: Sales On Autopilot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Making long term sales on autopilot is another great secret to making article marketing pay off for you.<\/p>\n<p>This is the perfect technique to use if you&#8217;re building a list &#8212; and anyone doing internet marketing had better be building a list or you&#8217;re missing out on a huge source of revenue.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m going to explain how this works by telling on myself. I create many different tools for online marketing and one thing I initially neglected to do was to promote all my own products to the email list I was building.<\/p>\n<p>D&#8217;oh!<\/p>\n<p>When I finally realized I was being a bonehead, I decided to do something a little different &#8212; I didn&#8217;t want to just pitch my products, so I sat down and wrote a <b>series of articles teaching people how to use different marketing techniques<\/b>. I ended each article with a mention of one of my products &#8212; one that would help make the process I just discussed faster and easier.<\/p>\n<p>My plan was to accomplish two things in one &#8212; first, to <b>give the people on my list useful content<\/b>. They opted in to my list which means I could just pitch them if I wanted, but I don&#8217;t want to appear to be <i>just<\/i> a money-hungry marketer. I&#8217;d rather have a reputation as someone who delivers emails that are well worth reading.<\/p>\n<p>And the second thing I wanted to accomplish with each article was to &#8220;gently&#8221; introduce another one of my products &#8212; and introduce it in such a way that <b>people would see the real-world value in owning it<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>After writing the articles I put them in a good-looking web page template and posted them online. Then I went into my autoresponder and set up emails for my list that are delivered every few days or weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Which means that now when someone subscribes to my Select Marketing Info list, every once in a while they&#8217;ll receive an email letting them know there&#8217;s a new article for them and giving them a link. And while the article might be months or a year old, <b>to the new people on the list it&#8217;s brand new<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t know what would happen when I first set that system up, but I knew at the very least I&#8217;d end up with good content to feed my list.<\/p>\n<p><b>What ended up happening blew my mind.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve found it&#8217;s <b>a great way to make sales on a long term basis &#8212; seemingly on autopilot<\/b>. I have people joining my list every day and now I have a system in place that passively promotes my products to them. I use tracking links in those articles and can see the sales that come from those links.<\/p>\n<p>This is something <b>you can easily do<\/b> &#8212; and it doesn&#8217;t have to be done all at once. Start with a single article for your list and when you find time, write a second article and put in in your autoresponder. Then a third, fourth, fifth, etc.<\/p>\n<p>One of the really great things about this system is it can work for you even if you&#8217;re promoting someone else&#8217;s product as an affiliate. Your articles can give info on a technique, and then you can point, with an affiliate link, to a product that will make the task that much faster and easier.<\/p>\n<p>Most people think of article marketing as writing articles and submitting them to article directories &#8212; while that&#8217;s a legitimate way to do things, using articles that are just for your list is a great way to make some long-term sales, long after you have written the article once.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s more to article marketing than submitting to directories. Get a free copy of the <b>Article Marketing Power Tips<\/b> special report at <a href=\"http:\/\/jayjennings.com\/likes\/articlemarketingexplained\/jjblog\">Article Marketing Explained<\/a> and see how simple little articles can drive pre-qualified, targeted traffic to your site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Making long term sales on autopilot is another great secret to making article marketing pay off for you. This is the perfect technique to use if you&#8217;re building a list &#8212; and anyone doing internet marketing had better be building a list or you&#8217;re missing out on a huge source of revenue. 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