Next, you will need to have a few emails programmed to be sent to your lists at set intervals.
Write these first, and set the autoresponder to send them at specific times to specific lists.
Then write your newsletters, sales letters or website sales pages, and add these to the emails in which you want them to appear.
A sales page will appear in the form of a link, and the sales letter will be an email.
Some prefer one or the other, though you can use both if you want to.
Once a customer has made the purchase, their details should be added to a 'customer' database, with a different database for each product so that know who has purchased what.
The sales page or letter should include a payment link that takes them to your credit card processor.
This should also include PayPal or a similar system if you do not like PayPal.
Once payment has been made, the processor should allow you to write a thank you email which is sent to the customer along with the merchant's receipt.
The payment link must also include a means of receiving or downloading the purchase, and all online payment merchants offer a means of doing this.
Finally, write a follow-up letter to be sent at a specific time after the sale, asking the customer if everything is OK.
If not, your guarantee offer can also be automated so that payment is refunded with a covering email.
So, as you can see, automating a business to run on autopilot is not difficult if you have the right tools.
Once it has been set up, all you have to do is keep building your lists, and resetting dates for sending the initial emails to them.
The rest is automated, and you can go on vacation for a month, then return and check your bank account.
Everything will have been running smoothly, leaving you to spend your time setting up other businesses.