An autopilot business takes advantage of a number of automated systems and tools using websites which run 24 hour a day on the internet delivering products and services automatically. Digital products, combined with a website and “auto-responder”, make for an excellent autopilot business. An auto-responder is an automated email delivery and collection service. It lets website owners collect emails from their visitors and deliver a series of emails over the course of time. Within their emails are links to digital products which can be downloaded over the internet from anywhere globally.
Autopilot Business – Marketing
Finally there’s content creation and online advertising. Content gets searched by Google and is indexed. When website searches bring up content, they take customers to products. Online advertising is another major tool of an autopilot business. By automating a targeted advertising campaign, and sending qualified leads into a sales funnel, sales can be made on complete autopilot. What’s better still is digital products can be sold anywhere globally. This means your advertising campaign can be scaled for a global audience.
A Sales Funnel – Autopilot Business
A sales funnel starts on a website or landing page. A website visitor is taken directly to a landing page from an advert or, they find a website through content marketing and opt-in to a ‘freebie’ giveaway, in exchange for their email address. They are now inside the sales funnel. From there they will receive a number of automated emails. Emails can recommend a series of products while giving value to the subscriber. If a product is sold from a sales funnel, the owner of the business makes a commission.
How Can I Get One?
Anyone can get a sales funnel and use other people’s products to market through it. See ready made sales funnel. You can market anything through a sales funnel, even your own products. However, there’s a huge benefit from using other people’s digital products. Digital products in particular let you sell over the internet. This is a massive advantage for a couple of reasons:
- You can access a global audience
- There’s no postage costs so companies can pay larger commissions (40%+)
Your Marketing Engine – The ‘Heartbeat’ of An Autopilot Business
If cash flow is the blood of a business, marketing is its ‘heartbeat’. Even with the best sales funnel in the world and the best products, your business won’t make any money without marketing. Affiliate marketers are paid to market other people’s products. Unless they do this successfully, they won’t make any money. A good marketing engine might involve a number of different strategies:
- Content marketing (creation of articles, blogs and videos)
- Paid advertising – Pay per click direct response advertising (YouTube, Adwords, Facebook etc.)
List Building – The Money Is In The List
For affiliate marketers the list they own is an important part of their business too. It’s their ‘leverage’. As subscribers opt into their subscription list and receive emails, they generate sales. Over time the size of their list will grow. Subscribers who opted in months, or even years ago, can decide to purchase something. New subscribers will also purchase products immediately. As your email list of subscribers grows, you should see an ever growing increase in the amount of purchases from your line of products.
Types Of Products To Sell
You can sell almost anything over the internet as an affiliate marketer. You just need to find a product you want to sell and choose a suitable affiliate program. If the product has an affiliate program, you can sell their product from your website or sales funnel, and earn a commission on the sale. Amazon has the biggest affiliate program and anyone can apply to join and promote their products.
However, physical products like you might find on Amazon, offer much less in the way of earnings for affiliates. Digital products pay out more, partly because they are so cheap to store, manufacture and deliver. They can be accessed over the internet by anyone from anywhere with an internet connection. If you can find the right digital products to sell, this is a great autopilot business model to use.
Digital Products ‘Suites’
Selling a single digital product for let’s say $100, can earn you a commission of $40 (at the 40% typical commission rate). However, if you sell a single product, that’s all you make. You will need to sell many of these items over and over to earn a good income from your online business. However, if you choose a products suite you can benefit from:
- Products sold later to your referrals (Up-sells)
- High ticket commissions (Larger valued digital products which offer more value)
- Multi-tier sales – Let you earn commissions from sales made by your referred customers.
- Subscriptions – Memberships and subscription products let the affiliate earn over and over for a single sale. This makes a huge difference to your income structure in an online business.
Get Started – Your Own Autopilot Business
Anyone can learn the skills to build their own autopilot business by using other people’s products. Digital business platforms like this one, let you build websites and sales funnels with a product range already built in. Your only job then is to learn the business model and build a solid marketing engine to send targeted website traffic to your autopilot business ‘machine’.
Use this all on one training and education platform which gives you:
- A working business model – Sales funnel, product suite, landing pages, sales pages, website etc.
- Training and education in how to market your business
- A community of online business owners to connect with and learn from
Access a free 7 day video series here to learn more and get started.
Disclaimer: Even though this business system does allow automation, there’s still a lot to do! Don’t expect this business system to do all the work for you! Earnings can never be guaranteed. There is still a business system which needs to be built and this requires a lot of learning, patience and overcoming of mental and physical barriers to succeed.
Remember this is a business system which requires consistent effort and hard work to build and scale into a profitable business. Top earners are among only a small percentage of those who attempt to build this business (Around 3%).