Everyone in the affiliate business, no matter what they are promoting, have heard that Email marketing is the holy grail of all possible avenues of internet or online marketing. Have you noticed every large website involves you registering with an email address, or even for a consumers points card at your local grocery store?  But exactly what makes email marketing so important?

When a user comes to your website, they may be very interested in your product, yet there is about a 1% chance they are going to be interested in buying your product immediately today. This doesn’t however mean they wont need your product in the very near future, but oops, they’ve clicked off your site and forgotten the address. Asking for users email addresses is all about securing your future sales.

Building an email list is key to reaching a very targeted audience. If you build an email contact list that is specifically targeted to your niche, it could be your cash cow for years. As long as you continue to send relevant content to your list, you will generate repeat visitors to your site. It is these REPEAT visitors that will be your main source of income.

The best way to accomplish email marketing is to subscribe to an email marketing service. What I recommend for people starting out in this industry, is to pick a web hosting provider that also gives you email marketing / auto-responder functionality.

I certainly recommend checking out GVO: Host Then Profit for this kind of service. Their prices are low, gives you all the functionality of high cost services, and also provides you with a very profitable business opportunity so you can get started in affiliate marketing right away!

One of the main reasons I recommend going with GVO is because their servers are white listed, meaning they hit the inbox 99% of the time, and hardly EVER get market as spam. Try that on any other shared web host provider. It could take you years to build enough online reputation for ISP’s to white list your IP address! If your address is not in that list, you’re just not a part of the club!