Are you looking for a home business start up idea. I would like to suggest you consider combining email marketing and affiliate programs to make a lot of money and really control your time.

Combining these 2 is not hard to do and the benefits can be tremendous. Here is how you can do that!

1. Email marketing can be started very quickly. This is one thing that does not take technical skill to do.

You can buy co-regitstration leads and have them sent directly to your autoresponder. GetResponse offers a program for this.

Many affiliate programs offer pre-written autoresponder content that you can use to email to your new subscribers. You can also hire a freelance writer to set up a series of autoresponder messages as well.

2. Affiliate programs are free to join. This is absolutely the fastest way to come up with products to sell on the Internet.

There are millions of affiliate products available for you to sell and the programs don't cost anything to join. When you join a program you are given an ID number that can be inserted into any website URL.

You are also given banner ads, text ads, and other promotions material. You can insert these directly into your email autoresponder.

Whenever a subscriber clicks on one of these links they are sent to your affiliate web page. Whenever they make a purchase from this web page you are given credit for the sale.

This is how you make money doing email marketing as an affiliate marketer. The more subscribers you have the more potential traffic you will be sending to your affiliate website.

Doing affiliate marketing and email marketing together makes a lot of sense. This is true because people need multiple exposures to a product before they will actually purchase it.

Your autoresponder is the way you will follow up with people. As they get used to hearing from you a certain percentage will start to make purchases and your income will increase.

3. Reply to your emails. One mistake that some home business owners make is ignoring their emails.

You will be sending email to a subscriber base. However many of these will have questions and will be replying back to you.

Some of your best customers will be the people who you begin to correspond with by email. Rather than dread when you get an email from a person asking you a question you should actually look forward to it. This ultimately is how you are going to increase your income.

In conclusion combining email marketing and affiliate programs is an excellent home business startup idea. It is something anyone can do and over time you can earn a lot of money from.