Email marketing is an excellent way to make money online and work from home. It is great because you do not need your own website, or even your own product, to make money using email marketing. You just need a list of people to contact

You may never totally stop building your list, but your list does not have to be large in size to make money e-mailing to it. Let's take a look at four ways you can use e-mail marketing to make money online and work from the comfort of your own home.

1. Sell e-books, reports, or articles on your list. How to information is great if it solves a person's problems. So to make money this way you need quality information that delivers to the reader. Clickbank offers over 10,000 e-books. You can always create your own reports and ebooks out of private label right products too!.

2. Sell advertising. If you publish an online newsletter you can sell advertising it to your other subscribers or to people willing to pay to place their ad in your newsletter. Many e-zine publishers will sell solo ads and run those periodically out to their mailing list.

They will also include classified ads in their newsletter and charge according to the placement of the ad itself. You could sell a top sponsor ad for more than a classified ad placed in the middle of the newsletter.

3. Sell products.This is where affiliate marketing is so valuable. When you find a product you like, you can offer it to your list, and make money when some of them purchase at. For every sale you make you get paid a commission. You do not have to come up with a product idea, develop a way to charge for it, or do any shipping, when you are an affiliate marketer.

4. Sell subscriptions. If you find a membership-based product that can relate back to the niche of your mailing list, you can offer that in an ongoing residual income for making one sale. The nice thing about selling subscription or membership-based products, is that people stay subscribed to those allowing you to build a huge walk away income over a period of time.

This is four ideas on ways you can make money with email marketing. How you choose to do it is a personal choice! It all starts with building a list of your own, but the income can be excellent if you are willing to work at email marketing.