How to use your email marketing for extra income

Email marketing is what most of the sites use to generate more traffic to their sites and thereby to boost their sales. It is very widely used even by small businesses and logs as email marketing service providers give you ready to use email marketing tools at affordable rates as low as $10 a month. The email marketing package they offer include free customizable templates for your marketing campaigns, autoresponders, email forms, email leads generators or opt-in forms and several more user friendly tools that you can start using from the time you sign up.

A lot many small sites and blogs are using email marketing to boost traffic and incomes. But, in the case of small sites and blogs there is an additional and instantly paying method to generate extra income, if you are ready to advertise other sites or businesses in your own campaigns. It does not need any extra work, though it generates extra income as ad revenue for small ads or links of others placed in your own weekly or monthly newsletters. As even bigger and established sites follow this practice there is no reason why you should not do so. After all it is free money!

Finding advertisers is quite easy. You can offer this email advertising opportunity in your site or blog, you can include such an offer in your newsletters, in your social networking accounts with Facebook, MySpace, Orkut, etc. and wherever you have a web presence.

Initially your extra income may not be much if you are starting afresh and if you have a small list of email IDs that have subscribed to your newsletters or marketing campaigns, but as months pass by, your opt-in list will grow and also, you can charge higher rates from advertisers for advertising on a larger list of email recipients.