Big Sister Coaching And Training
It's all about the energy of life, so stop wasting your will power!
It's all about the energy of life, so stop wasting your will power!
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Tip 1
Do you get ideas constantly popping into your mind about what you’d like to share with your followers, but haven’t got as far as establishing a clear autoresponder routine, because, er, well, you mightn’t even have a list yet?
Start a document file called “Autoresponder Message Ideas” (or similar) and each time an inspiration strikes, simply write it down quickly on a fresh page, and save. Quite quickly, you will have a juicy list of messages to load into your autoresponder system when you are finally ready. You might even have enough ideas that naturally group together for a special report. That would be a bonus.
Depending on your personal style, your notes may be ready to go, or may need to be tidied up before being loaded
Just don’t let those brilliant ideas that pop into your head get forgotten.
Tip 2
Do other people’s autoresponder messages make up the majority of your daily emails. If you do read them (!) do you ever come across one that you think is just really well written and you would like your list to receive a similar one from you?
I look closely at welcome and thank you messages. The majority are quite bland. Polite, yes, but not particularly outstanding. Then there are others that so obviously were written from the heart. They are like jewels.
I’ve started saving these type of messages in an email file called “Great Autoresponder Messages”, so I can use them as a swipe file, for inspiration when I write my own messages.
Now I’m not talking autoresponder emails that have great content (I like to flag those). I’m mainly talking about the relationship building messages that get sent, or even just observing the “tone of voice” a writer uses.
Even if you don’t directly use them, they become useful to you in simply helping you discover your own voice, what you would like it to be. Many people have difficulty being naturally themselves when they decide to offer their passion as an online business. They think they have to sound “professional”.
Were these tips useful? Do you have any of your own that you’d like to share? I’d love to hear from you.
What do you think?
Nice post Marlow. I do a bit of this myself. We have to keep so many plates spinning in the air all the time, it is nice to touch base with some good advice.
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