Automating Your Affiliate Marketing Efforts with Autoresponders

Autoresponders are email management systems that allow you to pre-schedule emails that go out to your subscribers on a regular basis. This means that all your subscribers will eventually receive all the same promotional information, so you don't need to worry that someone may be missing out on anything.

As an affiliate, you want to make sure that you do the following with your autoresponders:

1. Load your autoresponder with the solo email promotion provided. Make sure to include the first email and the follow-up a few days later. Go through the messages to inject your own personality and point of view, so it matches your audience.

2. Add a number of articles [make sure you add links], and spread them out over time in your autoresponder.

3. Offer your readers a special offer on certain products. Example: "You can contact us for a coupon code. Email us at [insert your email address] and we can set you up."

4. Post to you blog posts and then write up quick autoresponder messages linking to the posts.

5. Do not go totally automated, though. For short-term or seasonal promotions, send out broadcasts instead, so your readers don't miss out.

Other tips:

Spread your emails out over periods near the beginning of your series (maybe every three days or so) and then you can slow the schedule down until about once a week. This means a larger number of your subscribers will see your offers, as a number will unsubscribe over time. There's nothing you can do about this either, so relax…it's just the way marketing works. Most people will not stay on your list forever, so make the most of things while they are on your list.

Regularly review your autoresponders to ensure everything is up-to-date, and insert new information as needed.