As any smart business owner knows, the key to passive income is a well-established (and full) funnel which is why automated follow-ups make the next step a no-brainer. So of course you’ve optimized your opt-in pages and monetized your download pages and encourage more buyers through well-placed upsells and downsells.
But what about the follow-up?
Do you contact customers about the products or services they didn’t buy?
Do you encourage them to use the products they have purchased?
Are you making sure they know about all your other wonderful programs?
If not, you’re missing the boat. The good news is, this can be easily managed with just a bit of simple automation, and when done right, it will smoothly lead your customers from one purchase to the next, at the exact right time for them to take advantage of your best offers.
Segment Your Audience
Many autoresponder services allow you to target emails based on reader action. Want to send a follow up email to those who clicked a specific link? Create a segment and mail away. Want to re-engage with those who haven’t opened your emails in a while? Easy to do, and you can potentially recover subscribers who have gone missing. In more sophisticated systems, such as Infusionsoft or Ontraport, or MailerLite you can dig even deeper, and move people from one series to another based on their buying habits. That way you’ll never promote a product a reader already owns. Not only that, but you’ll always be able to offer the very best next thing, no matter where a subscriber is in your funnel.
Still another way to segment your list is according to what they do not buy. If a subscriber has been on a list where you’re promoting your top-level signature program, and she has not yet purchased, it may simply be too expensive for her at this time.
Consider moving these readers to an autoresponder series promoting a lower cost option instead.
All of these tactics require that you know your audience and your products exceptionally well.
When you do, Automation will significantly scale the lifetime value of your customers.
Study your stats.
Know your open and click rates.
There are a few things better for online income and building a real business than email marketing. Focus on earning passive income from autoresponder emails and you can truly choose your income. Pay attention to the promotions that work, as well as those that fall flat.
With information in hand, you’ll be better able to effectively segment your lists and make the most of all the parts of your funnel.
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