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You are starting a consulting business and a potential client scrolls through your website and decides to sign up for your services. She has a pet that just happens to be sitting nearby her prize winning 50 year old bonsai tree and that pet decides to jump down and knock the tree over.

Obviously that client is going to make a dive to save the tree and for you, that means you have just lost that client unless you have an autoresponder set up on your website to get her email address. If you do, that potential client will receive your follow-up emails and will eventually go ahead and sign up for your services after seeing to her bonsai.

With an autoresponder you can achieve great success as you are starting a consulting business with email automation. In order to achieve success, here are 3 strategies that you can implement that will help you with starting a consulting business so you can build up your client base.

1. Start a newsletter With a good autoresponder program you can create a newsletter that follows up with prospective clients. The newsletter can provide more information about your products and services and also be used as a vehicle to demonstrate your expertise in the area that you provide consulting in.

2. Create an affiliate only newsletter If you have affiliates that promote your products and services, you can create a newsletter to keep them informed of ways to increase their commission. It should include strategies and tactics that they can use to be successful in their efforts to promote your consulting business.

3. Showcase your articles Showcasing your articles is yet another powerful way to use an autoresponder when starting consulting business as articles allow you to demonstrate your expertise and attract more visitors to your website as well as make more money.

By writing articles about your area of expertise that create value in the lives of the reader, this allows you to get other website owners to promote your articles for you and give you additional exposure. Each article should include a resource box with a description of you and your products and services. A resource box should have your autoresponder email address.

For example, suppose you write 50 articles. You can place them into a separate autoresponder account and create a list that includes all the article titles, the address of the autoresponder and a brief article abstract. You then promote the master list. You should also provide guidelines for publishing so that your affiliates can create articles as well, thus giving you more content for your article list.

Utilizing these 3 strategies can help you to be able to leverage autoresponders to build your consulting business. It is a great resource for anyone who is looking to engage in starting consulting business.

Author: Karen Sielski

Do you use lack of time as an excuse for starting a business? Let’s take a closer look at a fundamental principle of time. The 2 things you can do with time are spend it or invest it. Let’s look at each of these options. If you spend time, it’s  gone forever. There’s no getting it back. However, when you invest your time appropriately, you can create a lifetime of residual income. 
Here’s how it works. Start by determining how much residual income you want to make per year. Let’s say your goal is to earn $200,000 a year. That works out to about $100/hour for an 8 hour work day. Bottom line, your time is now worth $100/hour. 
The next step is to look at your activities, for example, watching tv. If you are watching 3 hours per day, and the average in the US is actually much higher than 3 hours, and your time is worth $100/hour, you are throwing  $300/day out the window. 
Let me ask you, is it worth $300/day to watch that much tv? $300/day is $2,100 per week, and over $100,000 per year! Can you really afford to watch that much tv? Now, I’m not saying to stop watching tv completely, but hopefully knowing this information will make you more selective.  Try to cut back to ~1 hour/day instead of going cold turkey.
Now let’s do an exercise with your goals. How much income would you like from a home business? Now take a look at how many hours of tv you watch per day or spend on other activities like hanging out at Starbucks. 
Take your income goal and divide by 250.  This will give you the approximate number of work days in a year. That’s how much you need to earn in 1 day. Divide by the number of hours/day you want to work. That’s how much your time is worth.
Now look at other ways you spend your time like cleaning your house or taking care of the yard. If you can hire someone to do those activities for less than the hourly cost of your time, you can use that time to work on achieving your income goal. What if you could hire a virtual assistant for $4-5/hr, just like I do, to do many tasks?
When you look at it this way, do you think you can find the time to start a business and create the life you want to have, not the life you currently have?
And now I would like to invite you to claim your Free Access to "15 Ways To Grow Your Business Online". Just send an email to kw-online-mktg@aweber.com and you’ll start receiving valuable information that can help you get more traffic to your website or blog and make more money from your visitors.

Do you use lack of time as an excuse for starting a business? Let’s take a closer look at a fundamental principle of time. The 2 things you can do with time are spend it or invest it. Let’s look at each of these options. If you spend time, it’s  gone forever. There’s no getting it back. However, when you invest your time appropriately, you can create a lifetime of residual income.

Here’s how it works. Start by determining how much residual income you want to make per year. Let’s say your goal is to earn $200,000 a year. That works out to about $100/hour for an 8 hour work day. Bottom line, your time is now worth $100/hour.

The next step is to look at your activities, for example, watching tv. If you are watching 3 hours per day, and the average in the US is actually much higher than 3 hours, and your time is worth $100/hour, you are throwing  $300/day out the window.

Let me ask you, is it worth $300/day to watch that much tv? $300/day is $2,100 per week, and over $100,000 per year! Can you really afford to watch that much tv? Now, I’m not saying to stop watching tv completely, but hopefully knowing this information will make you more selective.  Try to cut back to ~1 hour/day instead of going cold turkey.

Now let’s do an exercise with your goals. How much income would you like from a home business? Now take a look at how many hours of tv you watch per day or spend on other activities like hanging out at Starbucks.

Take your income goal and divide by 250.  This will give you the approximate number of work days in a year. That’s how much you need to earn in 1 day. Divide by the number of hours/day you want to work. That’s how much your time is worth.

Now look at other ways you spend your time like cleaning your house or taking care of the yard. If you can hire someone to do those activities for less than the hourly cost of your time, you can use that time to work on achieving your income goal. What if you could hire a virtual assistant for $4-5/hr, just like I do, to do many tasks?

When you look at it this way, do you think you can find the time to start a business and create the life you want to have, not the life you currently have?

And now I would like to invite you to claim your Free Access to "15 Ways To Grow Your Business Online". Just send an email to kw-online-mktg@aweber.com and you’ll start receiving valuable information that can help you get more traffic to your website or blog and make more money from your visitors.

To receive the information series "Top 15 Ways To Grow Your Business Online", send an email to kw-online-mktg@aweb.com.

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