I thought email marketing was dead. I am so glad to be wrong. Spam is NOT a productive practice but email marketing is. Customized email messages that are not spamming can produce residual income. A residual income business opportunity that involves simple inexpensive marketing is not easy to find but well worth the search when found.

No Need To Spend A Lot

There are many online programs that are first class that teach internet marketing. But they cost $40 to $70 per month. They are very comprehensive and great for the new internet marketer who can afford the time and the money.

But You DO Need First Class Marketing

But what if you know NOTHING about marketing? Well, that's the beauty of affiliate programs. Some can produce cash flow, commissions to your bank, with something as simple and easy as email marketing the link in your signature? If the company has first class marketing, that works!

For example, fill out the lead capture page at GDI and take a very snazy Ferrari ride that markets the company's residual income business opportunity.

Free Lead Generation

As an affiliate with GDI, I can put the above capture page in the signature of all my emails. If someone fills out the form, that is permission to market GDI to them. With access to the Internet's second generation, Web 2.0, it is very simple now for any one to also get into internet marketing with a capture page of an affiliate like GDI and go into auto-pilot.

People who fill out the capture page are giving you permission to begin your email marketing campaign. They are agreeing to be a lead for your GDI business. It is completely legal and at costs very little to begin your "income for life."

Successful entrepreneurs often stay that way because of leverage. They do not do the actual marketing of their business nor do they do all the selling or services provided. How could one person do all that for any length of time?

So to begin email marketing, you must decide NOT to try to sell anyone in your emails. Don't try to write copy or get into features and benefits of your residual income business opportunity unless you have studied marketing.

It's tempting but if marketing is not your profession, don't do it. You simply email people, introducing them to your business in your signature. After someone shows interest, then send them to one of your domain names, one of your websites.

So how does just putting something in your email signature provide a residual income business? Remember, email marketing is simple but that does not mean consistent work is not required especially at first. Residual income happens later. But extra income from your initial work doesn't take that long.

The key to success of course is the GDI business opportunity. Two things are critical for simple email marketing to succeed.

The residual income business opportunity:

• must be super-affordable, no more than $20/month, and
• must have world-class marketing

There are literally hundreds of business opportunities out there to choose from but very few meet BOTH of these two criteria.

Let's say at the bottom of every email you had this signature:

Best regards,

Jane Doe

Income For Life©

Makes you want to click on it, right?

When you do, note the marketing in this presentation and note the cost of this residual income business opportunity.

It's a residual income business opportunity that markets a Ferrari "ride of your life" as part of it's signature ;) - now that's first class marketing.

In my next hub, Residual Income Business Opportunity eand Social Media Marketing as a critical part of the process will be explained. But before that, be sure to take a ride in the Ferrari!