Systems
“Systems†Discovering Your Million Dollar Systems
The Professional Marketing Assistant (Automated System)
Statistics and reports have shown that up to 98% of all people who start a home-
based online business will quit within 90 days. One of the biggest reasons is they
discover it is too much work for them to do all by themselves, and they sure can’t
think about hiring someone to help.
One of the reasons it is seen to be so much work is because they have not auto-
mated. They do not have the proper systems in place that will allow them to easily
automate the many process of starting a home business.
Let’s take a look at the old traditional business Systems VS New Automated
Systems.
Many of the old traditional systems in place would be to have your secretary keep
track of each individual customer and make sure they were mailed out a thank you
card or special advertisements.
This was long a tedious work for the secretary to have to go through with each
customer.
The new automated systems allow you to keep track of the customers in one place
and automatically send out messages as each one comes into your sales funnel. It
also allows you to write up one message and with a couple clicks send it out to
your entire customer list.
Systems are like having your own sales assistant working for you but not having
to worry about paying their health insurance each month, and scheduling vacations.
What Are Systems?
Systems are used to automate processes.
Systems can include software, hardware, management, and even paper and pen.
As you grow, you will no doubt need systems to automate nearly every aspect of
your online business so that you can focus on your vision.
Benefits of Using Systems
If you’re the brains behind your business one of your main focuses needs to be
your focus on creating the system that fuels it first – This will allow you many
benefits:
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Automation
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Speed, repetition and accuracy
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Lower opportunity costs
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Greater Scalability
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Time Saver
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Freedom to do whatever you want
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Eliminates many reasons for failure
Those last two in my book are pretty important.
What Systems Will I Need?
There are many different systems you’ll need in your business, but we’ll focus on
the ones you’ll need now.
The most important (and not in this order) are:
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Support
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Customer Management
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Affiliate Management
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Payment Processors
Something to always remember is that with anything you do online, always keep
your systems updated to newest versions. Many systems will come with bugs that
need to be fixed. The new versions will usually be the fix to these bugs and help
you have an even better system in place.
Your online shopping cart system Have capabilities to instantly connect to your on-
line merchant account, start taking orders, and even up-selling for you - automatic-
ally.
Auto-responders, follow up on sales leads, manage your opt in mailing lists and
relationship building, and build repeat business - automatically.
Affiliate systems and affiliate tracking software make Affiliate Recruiting and
Management easier than ever – automatically.
Digital delivery system make Ebook and Video downloads and software sales
highly profitable - automatically.
Let’s take a look at a few of these automated systems you will need to have in
place.
