Usually I don’t use a big picture but I wanted you to see the detail in this. Now that dock was bought a few months back to handle the growing turtles. They have gotten so big now that the dock keeps dipping into the water when all 4 get on it one time.

Add in that they are quickly out growing the 40 gallon tank and it is about time to have to invest some more in their habitat. Guess they better start posting more often to increase their income from here .

Your business will be the same way. One of the reasons I recommend certain vendors is to make that growth easier. For example when you are just starting to build your list you need an autoresponder. If you use one like Aweber you can continue to grow without worry. Yes it will cost you a bit more as your list grows but you won’t have to worry about changing vendors.

Wish I could do that with my tank and just let it expand to fit the growing turtles. Would gladly pay the extra for that.

Like wise when you pick a web host you want the same ability. Get someone that will handle your growth easily. One of the reasons I like Zoot Host is that as I need more space Jon takes care of it. He moves the sites to the new box when it is necessary.

So take the time to get vendors that will be able to make your growth easy. You will appreciate it in the long term.

Now I just wish I could find a vendor to upgrade my turtle tank without any effort on my part.

The Turtle Dad

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Yesterday we discussed how the three turtles now had to compete for food with the very fish that were originally intended to be their food. Things can quickly change if you don’t take advantage of them. Had they eaten the fish when they were first added they would not have the competition they do now.

One of the tools that anyone marketing on the internet needs to compete is an autoresponder. I personally use and recommend AWeber. There are numerous reasons why and today they just announced another advantage to set them apart from the competition.

The basic purpose of an autoresponder is to send email at set time frames or allow you to send a broadcast email. There are a few things AWeber has already done to make themselves stand out like

• Great deliverability
• Tracking of clicks and opens
• Allowing you to broadcast multiple lists and removes dupes automatically
• Allow you to create an RSS feed of your broadcasts

But there are others that do this too. Today they embraced Twitter.

You may notice on the side bar of this blog I have my Twitter posts showing. Twitter has become an excellent way for me to keep up and converse with my friends and subscribers.

Now here is why this is important – Now when I send an email I can have AWeber automatically tweet (post to Twitter for me) so those that are not subscribers but have followed me on Twitter can be notified and go read the email online that I just sent.

With all of the spam filters and problems with email delivery this gives me another way to get my message out. It is easy to use and makes another option for people to get the information from me in the way they want the best.

Plus using some of the other tools like Friend Feed can allow me to get that message to others in many social networks. This is the true power of social networking and now my email marketing can be integrated into that automatically.

Check out AWeber and then go to their blog to see how easy this is to add and you can use AWeber to help you be more competitive.

You don’t want to have extra competiton like the turtles do when it is easy to automate things to set you above your competition.

The Turtle Dad

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