Coping With Emails
Email is a fantastic tool for affiliates to use. If you use the services of an auto responder you can build a double opt in email list to send your offers out to. But it’s worth remembering that as an affiliate who is naturally interested in marketing, you are likely to receive a lot of emails as well – especially when you sign up for all those newsletters that promise to exploding your affiliate sales with all the secrets they reveal.
If you aren’t careful these emails can weigh you down and have a detrimental effect on your business. To combat this you need to have a plan to make sure that doesn’t happen.
First of all, make sure you have more than one email account - one for personal emails, and as many others as you need for your business. Your own needs will dictate how many this should be. You can then split each email account into several files or folders, enabling you to file away those emails you need or want to keep, without them continually cluttering up your inbox.
Try and make it a rule to handle each email the minimum number of times. Check your email at predetermined times each day, and don’t fall into the trap of doing it continually. If you do the time you have available to devote to promoting your affiliate products will be sucked up by emails instead.
Be firm and delete whatever you can, as soon as you can
If you want to keep something for your own use and you still haven’t done anything with it after, say, a month – it’s time to be firm and weed it out. If used properly email can be a huge benefit for affiliate marketers. But if you let it get the best of you, you’re fighting a losing battle.
Which do you want it to be?
Sean Rasmussen
Internet Marketing Blog
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April 22nd, 2008 at 12:52 pm
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