True success in the internet is in the mail list. Without email you have no leads. Leads make money. Simple as that. All to often websites are trying to sell something but have no contact number or email contact. If you are going to promote or sell any product or service, contact support is a must. Without it you are not going to last very long.
You don't need anything really fancy for starters. Just a plain email address with an auto responder. Get a small message typed into your responder saying that thanks for contacting us and we will get back to you as quick as possible. When that happens you end up with 2 things. First you have an interested party plus you now have an email address to put into your list. That email address will come in handy when you have something esle to sell or even have a newsletter.
If you are selling or promoting a product or service of your own you will want to build an email list. This list never really gets built. It should be always getting added to. As more and more visitors to your website arrive, you will want a small area on each page where they can contact you or add their email to get onto your email list. You may offer them a free ebook or some information they are looking for. But as your list grows so will your need to send out emails. You don't want to have a hotmail or yahoo type of email address. Make sure that your email address is from your hosting account. This way your emails arrive from your website and don't show up as spam as that can happen from free email sites. Eventually you will want to look at Express Email Marketing. This type of email marketing allows you to send out hundreds, even thousand of emails or newletters. This type of service will show you how many emails sent out where even opened so you will be able to track the emails you send out.
