Getting your start in Email marketing may seem like a daunting prospect, but with some advice and a solid email tool you can create a constant source of income from affiliate marketing.

Before you can be successful with email affiliate marketing you need to define the what, how and who you want to concentrate your marketing efforts on.

When deciding “what” you want to market you will want to look for a product that will both fit well with your target audience’s interests and offer quality html emails that you can use to market to them.

The “how” is referring to your email tool that you will use to send your messages, process opt-outs, collect signups and track open and click rates. Prices for a quality tool vary greatly. Depending on the size of your list you will pay about $15 at the low end for and the most expensive service I could find was $1000 a month for 100,000 contacts. Starting with a service like Constant Contact (http://www.constantcontact.com) will help you create your list and give you advice to help you get started collecting addresses.

That brings me to the who. Your email tool will help you collect addresses with a widget that goes on your webpage but what can you do to get people to join your mailing list? The answer is easy, participate in online events, tradeshows and any other marketing events that you can and be sure that people know that they can go to your site to sign up for your mailing list. Get the word out and you will see traffic to your list increase. The more you have to offer your customer the more likely they are to find and then join your list. Also, make sure you enable the “Send to Friend” technology available with most email tools that lets your customers forward the newsletter to their friends and helps you build your email list even more.

Email marketing is a low risk way to break into the world of affiliate marketing. For a list of the email offers available in oneNetworkDirect login into your account at http://www.onenetworkdirect.com and search for html creative.

Adam Westland
Network Coordinator
oneNetworkDirect