Who doesn’t want to make money without much of the efforts? You know you do!!! Sadly, we live in real world and things are easier said (and thought) than done. At least that’s how it is for the online vendors.
However, in recent times, we’re a step closer to make this possible. Today, there are few online sellers who have fully automated their entire business, right from marketing to order fulfillment. While it does take a great deal of work at the initial stages. But following, things get on track and your online stores generate revenue even in your absence.
Want to know how to do this? How successful online sellers are doing this?
Here 5 tips to help you start on this path:
1.Limit the number of products and platforms
Technology has come a long way and there are automation tools that are well adept to take your hefty needs easily. However, since just starting, it is best that you limit the number of products you’re selling and the number of platforms you’re selling on to avoid the confusion and complex process.
2.Leverage the features of third-party e-commerce solutions
Sign up to multi-channel e-commerce solutions and integrate your marketplaces, webstores and comparison search engines on a centralized platform, including Shopify Rakuten. To that, you can even outsource the professionals of these third-party solutions for additional convenience and more efficiency.
3.Find nice marketing automation tools…
For your social media marketing, leverage the powerful automation tools to schedule your posts on platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn. Hootsuite is a nice tool that also offers a free version.
4.And email marketing service providers
Email marketing is the backbone of your online selling business. It’s an asset to a high customer retention rate. So find and invest in nice email marketing tools. Mailchimp and AWeber are the nice options for the starters. For more advanced level of automation and complete contact management system, Ontraport and Infusion are great.
5.Set multiple automatic communication channels
Internet bots are a reality today. And creating them is relatively much easier; you don’t even need to be good at programming. Give some guides a read and develop bots for Twitter and Facebook messenger. Also create triggers in your email marketing tools to sent automatic emails. This will improve your engagement rate with the target audience and eventually your sales.
These are 5 simple tips to automate your online stores and reap rewards even when you’re not working behind the scenes. Believe it, autopiloting is much easier today for resellers and those who work in the Dropshipping model.
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