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An automated marketing system allows the entrepreneur proven ways to leverage time, effort and energy, into effective ways to promote any business online 24/7. It is the most effective and one of the most targeted ways to build a business online. Automated marketing systems are websites designed to make you money automatically.

Automated Marketing systems are designed to help a business run smoothly and effectively. Once a prospect or customer goes to the website it’s very important that the marketing system takes over and provides content and value to the customer or prospect. You can use them to build any business online weather it’s a membership site or Network Marketing recruiting site commonly none as funded proposal sites.

Computers, the web, and online marketing are ideal for automation and Duplication. Setting everything up does require some work and it will take some time, but once you have all your ducks in a row, everything runs smoothly on its own. Computers are the real workhorses of our modern age – they do most of the work for us..”Just set it and forget it”. Another very important part of an automated marketing system is an automatic follow up with your prospect and or customer with a marketing tool known as the auto-responder.

Not only is the auto-responder a much needed tool. It is also a system in its own right. You see an automated system cannot be automatic without tools that are themselves a system.

A Great Automated Marketing System should do five important things for the life of your business.

1. It should have easy step by step instructions for duplication.

2. It should build you a list of eager prospects and or customers and have follow up using an autorespoder.

3. It should have a funded proposal (MLM) initially in the marketing pipeline maybe two or even three that have something to do with building your system in the first place thus creating leverage

4. It should build your main business in the back end automatically.

5. It should be general enough that anyone can plug into it and make it their own.

Automated Marketing systems should be focused on delivering real results to your business 24 hours a day seven days a week and your only task should be to drive traffic to the beginning and or entry of your Marketing pipeline thus begin the automated selling and or prospecting process.

In my opinion, if you are not using a general type automated marketing system then not only are you leaving money on the table but you are also wasting too much of your time.

This last week I was tempted to venture into an unknown territory of the world of operating systems.
Most people I know are happily using M$ Windows as their base computer needs for developing and doing business on the net. Recently, I decided to have a go at installing and using the free foundation software called LINUX.

I’ve been hacking away with Linux for a long time since the days when computers were on paper. Most of you wouldn’t have a clue as to what I’m saying but if you were around in the early 70′s and 80′s then you would have just got a glimpse of the ever disappearing early computers that required paper cards to install software code to execute/run.

Ok, enough said about history. I went ahead this week and made a ghost of my Windows 7 machine and then later installed Linux , the UBUNTU distro. Ubuntu is probably the easiest distros to use in the Linux world but not the only one. It’s a fragmented world in the world of Linux but heck it’s all free.

Anyway, I fell in love with it, UBUNTU that is. Smiley.

Linux has come a long way and the installation was straight forward. Downloaded a CD ISO, burned it to a CD, and then later booted the PC with it and hey presto – magic! The new operating system got installed and I was networked there and than. This was so easy, I quickly installed it on my laptop as well. The laptop is running great with it as I write this.

A tip to those parents who have a handy PC somewhere collecting dust which has a decent power, go and download a version of KUBUNTU. It has many free educational software in it to keep the youngsters busy. You have nothing to loose and lots to gain.

Well, to my astonishment, if I wasn’t a developer or a marketer of any sort I would stick with LINUX (UBUNTU etc). But, there are so many little tools I use that are vital to well functioning of my business Linux wasn’t enough to take me over the hill. I needed Windows yet for a while more.

But, there’s more. I experimented thoroughly with Linux and when I say it’s come a long way, I really mean it.

I am not comparing UBUNTU distro with Windows XP or WIndows Vista, I am actually testing it against Windows 7. Yes, you read right.

I was pushing to get all my working tools installed on UBUNTU but not all would go along the journey with me. Some of them held back and have let me down. I have 3 machines, all were windows last week. Now only one stays Windows and the other 2 will be Linux for good. Now, after 20 years of Windows I am using he best of both worlds. A paid version to do those hard core programming tasks along with a free version to use it as I see fit to do just about anything except the hard core programming, development tasks and Internet Marketing.

But hang on, Linux is yet to qualify in my eyes as a net marketing OS machine. Not yet anyway. I think if things go at this level it won’t be long before LINUX is at even par with most of Windows world. Than again these are just my professional opinions of Linux and Windows.

I like Windows and Linux but it would have been great to have Linux all the way through. I’m just sick of coughing up lots of money and seeing BLUE Screens for the last 20 years.

After having said all that, Windows has been a god-sent for humanity no matter how much money the organisation has made I think the good things that it allowed (progress) weighs more than it’s greed and domination.

The devils in there somewhere but I can’t figure out what side of the fence he is sitting on. Maybe, he is playing both sides.

Cheers,
Oz

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Hi There, Welcome and I hope you do get what you read on this page.

This post is not about marketing as such but it is  whole heartedly about Net Marketing.

You see there is another face to Net Marketing when it comes to having a proper system to execute your Net Marketing endeavors. In any Net Marketing you undertake there is one fundamental requirement before anything else. You would know that just by merely looking at the title of this article.

Yes, it’s the tools and one of those tools is the very computer you’re using to connect with the collective community. Your computer is your tool and as such your Operating System(OS) is your other tool even more important than your hardware (computer). The OS can either make or break you in terms of making everything transient to your work.  Your computer/OS is there but is not immediately there but in a more transient manner ticking every facet of every pixel, executing millions of computer language instructions every second and making sure you’re shielded away from the elements of destruction all along on the path to experiencing a virtual and transietn life in this collective world of ours.

Your computer and your OS is the first thing that needs to be considered for any NEt Marketing Endeavors.

Ok, now a little bit of personal hostory. Having a good background in computer technology I can say that Windows OS has come a long way. I have finally fell in Love…with an OS… LOL

Just kidding. My work has just become easier to manage. Few weeks back I took a stab and decided to test WINDOWS 7. I wanted to see what all the hype is all about.

I’ve been on XP for the last hald a decade so far and now am running Windows 7 on my work machine.

I am totally against any non technical person to take a drastic step since if things go wrong you need to make sure you can jump back to your pre-existing way of working. In otherwords, you need to make sure your old way is accessible and in no time you can go back and continue without hindrance.

I always have a system for working. I make sure the system (computer) I’m working on has a copy of the partition of the OS. I write this on CD and in the event of a major disaster (like virus attach, system crash, fire, theft etc) I can easily restore my working environment without much down-time.

I use Norton Ghost a very old version I acquired that really did not need to be updated. Perhaps it is as old as Windows XP. With this tool I make sure I keep duplicates of the installed OS’s on CD or alternative media. Just in case the system is cactis, I can easily restore my working environment.

Now, since working with XP I’ve heard and also can say that VISTA was a nightmarish jump to be had. I decided to not bother with VISTA for good. We did test it but decided it was just too much effort to port things over.  VISTA is hard in my oppinion. Difficult to control and alter and a way too cumbersome. Sorry MS, but that’s the way I feel about it. But I’m not bragging on about hurting any company, as a matter of fact this article puts a big message for future users of WINDOWS OS’s.

After skipping VISTA I’ve decided or INFLUENCED with the NAGGING POWER of a 9 year old boy to install and test it.

Did you know that when a child starts imaging he/she will get that which they imagine. I’ve been bought into so many times by my young child that I thought of taking him on. I decided not to bother with WIndows 7 until it is released. There are people all around me bragging on about windows Vista and now Windows 7.  OK, enough is enough I said, no more Windows VISTA or WINDOWS 7 talking in this house (I work from home with 4 computers). Still, the war of wants and not wants has just started. I feel for my child but as a marketer I need to prioritize my time and spend it on useful things. You have to see the expression on a nine year old. Just amazing.  They can really influence you and alter your mood in a matter of seconds. Anyway, a week past when I felt my child sulking at the idea of not being able to use the new OS. I still don’t understand what value he gets out of it other than the bells and whistles WINDWOS 7 has.

After feeling for my child, I decided to download a beta release from the great Internet Hoghway, I hitch-hiked my way and read about other peoples feedback and decided to download the 7068 build or release. A March release. Good enough I said. I installed it on one of our machines that were just used for testing. I’ve installed it without and effort. Even with a limited driver supply, it installed on an old AMD machine, with only 1GB. You should have seen my sons facial expression. He was in the clouds, his smile was so far stretched he was just short of touching his hears.

Here we go. Microsoft – You’ve Done a Good job of Windows 7. I am totally impressed and feel like I’m a born-again-MS.  LOL.

Thrilled how it worked on my test machine, after using it for a few days I’ve took the punt and installed it on my work machine and later on my laptop and then the other working computer.

All systems are working A OK. Totally impressed. I’ve been using it for the last few weeks without much headaches.

The only thing I should mention here is that if you’re using any software that interfaces with the hardware, like Video card, network car, and sound cards, then you really must make sure there are proper drivers for them before using and such software. Most of my software either work directly on windows 7 wihtout alteration or need to select the compatible setting for some.

But, I fell in love for the first time in this century with an OS. LOL.

I have till the end of march 2010 to use it at which point I need to either update it or reinstall the new release MS has planned.

Oz

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