A short introduction.
Before you can start automating your website there are a few common questions and concepts we need to make clear right from the beginning. Read this page to have a better understanding what the Automation Station can do for you.
What is website automation?
By definition, automation means making a process or a group of tasks automatic (as opposed to needing human control) by different means and/or devices. So, by this definition, the concept of website automation would be: "Making as many tasks as possible of your website automatic".
Now lets translate that definition into specifics.
Running a successful website (especially an ecommerce-enabled website) requires you to control a lot of different tasks -- some of these tasks need to be performed on a daily basis and they can be huge time-munchers.
Some of these time-devouring tasks include:
- Answering e-mail requests for more information about your products
- Keeping in touch with prospects and following up until they buy from you
- Manually tracking where each of your sales is coming from
- Discovering which of your advertisements are working and which ones are not
- Managing an e-zine or newsletter and sending new offers to each customer
- Setting up an affiliates or resellers network and managing it efficiently
These tasks usually end up devouring most of your work schedule, leaving you with little or no time at all to perform more important tasks - like promoting your website or taking care of your customers in a more personal way.
Website automation means taking care of as many time-consuming tasks as possible by setting up various devices - they're called scripts - with the goal of freeing up your time.
What is the Automation Station?
The Automation Station is a collection of carefully designed and tightly integrated scripts that form one of the most powerful e-commerce systems in the world. This system allows you to automate almost every tedious and time-consuming task on your website, turning it into a hands-free and super-efficient profit machine.
The keyword here is "integrated," because not only do these scripts allow you to fully automate your website, but they also work synergistically to make the Automation Station an ultra-powerful system.…And it all comes together in a user-friendly web-based interface that you control from anywhere in the world!
Some of the automation features you'll find on the Automation Station are:
- Real-time credit card processing with or without a merchant account
- Instant and secure product delivery for digital products
- Shopping cart module with tax & shipping calculation for physical products
- Intelligent follow-up autoresponders with personalization features
- Unlimited mailing lists with personalization features & HTML capabilities
- Unlimited advertising trackers with automatic ROI calculation from hits and sales
- The tools to start your own affiliate program (one or two tiers)
- Automatic creation of a powerful affiliate center
- Real-time statistics for yourself and for your affiliates
- Group and unique commission structures for joint ventures
- Complete integration with your existing websites
- and much more...
As we said before, when you take all these amazing features and integrate them together in a single website automation system, you create an extremely powerful e-commerce tool.
About this user guide...
We developed this user guide in a specific order to save you time. We made it very easy to navigate so that you can come back to it whenever you need to and find any topic fast. If you are just starting out, please follow it in the suggested order; you'll find it a lot easier this way.
Ok, now that you know what the Automation Station is and how it can help you to automate your website, there's one more thing you need... a way to process your customer's credit cards!
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