Showing posts with label Automated. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Automated. Show all posts

Does A Fully Automated Home Business Exist?






The short answer is no, in any language. As to the so called 99% automated systems, that’s actually worst because anyone thinks that he can handle 1%. The mind boggling aspect is that the 1% is never defined until you have been sucked in already. The 1% suddenly becomes the 99% and is defined as marketing. Worst of all, in most cases you are left alone with some basic Back Office help like “we will give you all the tools”.





The Good News is that there is a cure for it. We’ll get to this at the end of this Article. There are basically 3 major Dilemmas you are faced with. The first dilemma, I just call it the human factor and that is; We always want more for less. It is a dilemma for both the opportunity seekers as well as the Marketers.





Let’s assume you are looking for an opportunity to make serious money to buy a car, or pay for your University or flat out, become financially independent. Make no mistakes, these are no dreams, they are here for you to grab. Now back to the Dilemma, if you run across an ad that says;





Home Business Opportunity that requires some serious work.





Would you click on it? The average opportunity seeker will not click, period. The above ad is probably as honest as it gets but no one would go for it because it looks like too much work.





The next dilemma is lack of time, lack of focus, lack of action and least but not last, distraction. Everyone seems to be in a hurry, especially on the internet. If you don’t sit down, make a plan of attack, accept some work and get going, you will be back in two years time, reading the same article and still looking for this fully automated system. There is simply no guy out there that does all the work for you and shuffle a Million $ in your bank account. Let’s be serious.





The third dilemma is the inability to separate top programs from empty promises. This is where it gets a little bit more complicated as all of the above factors play a roll.





Due to the large number of offers in cyber space, it definitely helps if you simply use common sense. If the offer is too good to be true, look for tell tales like, testimonials. If you see that reputable internet marketers express their opinion about a particular program, it will give you a fairly good indication. Top marketers will not risk their reputation by joining second rate programs. Also do not fall into little traps like “Last chance“ type of offers. You will always find an other chance on the internet. The only time you have missed your last chance is when you are on the way to boot hill. So life is good, feel free, be in charge.





As to the lack of time, lack of focus, lack of action and distraction. Pay attention not to rush to conclusions too fast. I am confident that you have the ability to think rational otherwise you would not be reading this article. Here is a world famous phrase that sums it up; In order to move quickly, you must walk carefully. Apply this on a daily basis and before you know it, you’re on the road to success.





Once you have selected a program that suits your purpose, please stay focused and above all start to act, take things in your own hand. When you are focused and committed, you will find the time you thought you never had. Set priorities, follow through and the distraction will disappear. You must run your own life or someone else will run it for you.





In my opinion it also wise to stop the habit of “More for Less”. Do you really gain anything by down loading 35 free e-books and tons of other stuff? This is part of the distraction and focus problems. Instead go for less but select it to your needs.





As mentioned at the beginning of the Article, the 1% that has turned into 99% is called marketing. There is no other way around, marketing is the breaking point. I repeat, it’s the breaking point. What really beats me is the fact that there are literally millions of books available on the subject. Despite that, it seems that the point did not get across to most up-coming marketers. One of the reasons might be that, article writing, blogging, ezines, one-way links, forums, list building, Google and others, just to name a few, seems to be too abstract. Instead they prefer the blast to nowhere.





The reason why I put marketing last is that it hope it makes an impact on you. Rest assured it is definitely not as complicated as it sounds. All you need is a program that offers easy to follow step by step procedures. This is an other important tell tale when selecting a program.





Check and see if you only get the marketing tools or if a comprehensive step by step procedure is included. This will cut the learning time by ten fold. Contact the helpdesk, ask specific questions, you don’t want to be left on you own.


Do You Need an Automated Timekeeping System for your Cleaning Business?






As your cleaning business grows and you add employees, keeping track of time sheets and adding up hours can be a big headache. If you have just one or two employees a paper time sheet where employees "clock in" and "clock out" for each location they clean may be all that you need to track their hours. However, deciphering data and adding up hours from numerous time sheets can take time away from other profit-making activities as you burn up your time doing payroll.

There are options available to your cleaning company other than hiring a full-time bookkeeper. Telephone timekeeping systems are ideal for cleaning companies. They allow employees to call from any location they are working at and "clock in" and "clock out" by using their employee pin number and location pin number.

These timekeeping systems have many time-saving benefits and features:

1. Tracks each employee's time down to the minute.

2. Reassurance that there's no cheating, as there can be with a handwritten time sheet.

3. Tracks travel time between buildings.

4. Caller ID capabilities to ensure employees are calling from the correct location.

5. The ability to leave messages for employees. As soon as they call into the system they receive their messages.

6. Employee scheduling and management.

7. Tracking of no shows or late arrivals. The system alerts supervisors with a call to their cell phone or pager.

8. Supervisors can call into the system to see who is clocked into a building at any given time.

9. The ability to track by job number as well as employee.

10. Easy way to import payroll information. Hours are automatically added up for you, including travel time. Various reports available. Two such automated timekeeping systems are: Express Time from A&B Express Products LLC, http://www.expresstime.net/index.html, and MITC's Telephone Timekeeping Software, http://www.mitcsoftware.com.

MITC's software has a one-time fee. You can buy added blocks of support time from them. Express Time is different in that it has a monthly charge as well as a per call fee. The MITC program does require added hardware and software installed on your computer or you can buy a ready-to-use computer from them.

Express Time has two different systems available: Express Time and Express Time Online. Express Time has a one-time fee, and you can buy added support hours. Express Time Online has a recurring monthly fee as well as a 12 cent per charge for each incoming call. Each system has software that must be downloaded on to your computer. They do not have hardware that is installed on to your computer, but they do have specific computer recommendations for the software to work efficiently. Express Time also states high-speed broadband is needed for technical support.

On either system, employees can call in any time of day, seven days a week, as long as you have the software is running on your computer. The MITC system has different modules that can you can add depending on your specific needs.

Either software, MITC or Express Time, will require a time commitment on your part to learn the system, which may seem overwhelming at first. But after a couple of weeks using the system you will be flying around it like pro.

Adding an automated timekeeping system may be the next step to growing your cleaning business. Any type of automated system you buy will require a financial investment, but it will free up your time from doing the mundane tasks of timekeeping and allow you to spend your time in more productive ways.


4 Steps To Making Your Home Business A True Automated System




You hear it al the time if you have been involved or are involved in the home business or internet business industry:

“You need a system to succeed.”

I like to take this a step further. You not only need a “system”, but in order to get the most out of your home business opportunity, you need to have an Automated System. To take that even one step further, your Automated System must hit your prospects from EVERY angle in order to achieve the highest levels of prosperity.

Here are four techniques that if used on all of your prospects WILL increase your earnings with ANY home or internet business opportunity.

Step 1: Create a “capture” or “squeeze” page.

Even if you have no idea what this is, you have almost certainly seen a capture page and even been “captured by one. A capture page is simply a page that is set up to give some brief information about a product or service, but then requires the prospect to enter their info to get the full details. It is often a teaser or hyped up page to get the prospect to want to know more. The most effective capture pages touch on the prospects personal or financial needs compelling them to find out more by filling in their information. Once they do, you own their information for life and can continue to follow up with them or contact them about other offers of services you have no, or develop in the future. Capture pages are a MUST to start building your list that you will be able to promote any product or service. A great program that allows even the most novice person to create capture pages in minutes is Lead Page Generator.

Special note: NEVER LOSE YOUR LIST OF CAPTURED NAMES, ADDRESSES, EMAILS, ETC.

Those that are highly successful in any home business or internet opportunity have a list of thousands that they have built over the years. Any time they have a new product, service or opportunity to promote they send it out to their list first. This gives you a big head start and if your products, services and opportunities have been successful in the past, your list will follow you everywhere.

This all leads into the second technique to creating a totally automated system, email auto responders.

Step 2: Follow up with prospects via email

This is the easiest and most recognizable form of follow up. When creating a capture page, all you have to do is tie the information form into an auto responder. This can be done very easily using services such as aweber. Now, when a prospect fills in their information, you not only get to keep their information for your list, but now you can follow up with them daily, weekly, monthly without having to lift a finger. Of course, you have to write your email follow up messages ahead of time, but once you have them completed, you are following up with your prospects over and over while doing no additional work.

While email is a nice tool to make your system automated, it is far too often the ONLY tool people use. This is a huge mistake. Fact is, that email follow up and marketing is becoming far less effective due to spam laws and people filtering their email accounts.

In order to reach as many people as possible, you need to come at them from different angles.

Step 3: Follow up with a voice broadcasting system

Voice broadcasting gives you yet another method of following up with prospects. It is an awesome tool and as of late has been sort of the “new email.” Because email is getting caught by filters and spam control features, it is necessary to try and reach prospects using other methods. Outside of email, voice broadcasting is the easiest and least expensive means of following up. In addition, voice broadcasting can keep your system totally automated. You can record a simple message or series of messages, collect the prospects phone number on your capture page and then simply set up your voice broadcasting software to call them once, weekly, monthly or whatever you choose. There are lots of services to use out there. Goldcalling, voiceshot, probuilderplus, and protus are just a few.

Step 4: Postcard follow up

Direct mail is by far the most forgotten means of follow up, but often the most effective. Postcards are a terrific way to make sure that your prospects hear form you. By simply collecting their mailing info on your capture page, you have set yourself up to use an incredible tool that will definitely help increase your sales and income.

There are a couple of services that allow you to set up a direct mail campaign to work just like an email auto responder. The best service in my opinion is PostCardAutoresponder.com. You can input a prospects mailing address and set up a campaign that will send them a postcard once, twice, weekly, monthly, or whatever you choose. Just set it up once and forget it. You can contact a prospect for an entire year on autopilot . You can even create custom postcards for any business , service or opportunity.

If you use that simple 4 step plan to create an automated system for your business, you will definitely increase sales and income. Plus, you will not only have an automated system that works for you while you are doing the things you enjoy, but it will be one that contacts prospects from every angle so they are sure to get your message early and often. Remember, it is not always enough just to have a system. You need to have an automated system that you can plug each prospect into that will run itself while you focus on building your business.


Automated Business Center Systems






Automated Business Center Systems are charging into the home office and sweeping aside many of the old-fashioned ways of doing business. They offer a quantum jump in efficiencies and are fundamentally changing the way part-timers run their home based businesses.

Imagine having an automated system in place that delivered all of your personally addressed promo material electronically to interested people. Then persistently – and without any fear of rejection – did the follow up while you slept.

Imagine new people being trained automatically and being kept fully informed of their progress every step of the way.

Welcome to the world of the Automated Business Center (ABC).

Simply speaking, an Automated Business Center is a sophisticated web-based software package designed to automatically deliver all types of information and perform many of the repetitive, boring, day-to-day tasks that can take up so much time in running a home based business.

Most Home Business owners run their operation part-time. They have to work smart and the ABC allows much of their business to run automatically while they are at their other job or business. The ABC allows the home business owner to operate more efficiently, even while they sleep, which will be the case if they are operating internationally.

Every module in the platform interfaces with the main database and all other modules in the system. This means that the “shopping list” of features is limited only by the imagination of the designer and web team – and the financial budget.

These systems don’t come cheap! Plan to invest well in excess of $250 000+ if you’re looking to build your own!

Here are some of the key features you will find in a state-of-the-art Network Marketing platform like the ABC AutoBiz Center:

• Promotional front-end
• Sponsoring Center
• Training Center
• Resource Center
• Family Tree Center
• Coaching Center
• Email Coaching
• Contact and Archive

For the astute part-time home business owner, being “time efficient” is everything. Cutting edge systems like the the ABC AutoBiz Center platform offer this as their central core benefit – and anything that helps us move toward that goal of a seven day weekend has to be worth a quick look!