1. Create newsletters. Newsletters help build your company brand. It labels you as an expert in your niche field. This is also a good way to get your products and services in front of your customers for possible sales.

2. Publish a newsletter for your affiliates. Provide tips, tools, and techniques for promoting your business effectively. Keep them up-to-date with current sales from a promotion and provide them with promotional material they can use. This will help to increase your commissions.

3. Write reviews. Cover books, software, music, e-books, movies, etc., and put each review in an autoresponder. Review your affiliate programs, using a link to your affiliate's page in your autoresponder.

4. You can write and distribute articles to your target niche. This is a powerful tool to bring traffic to your site and increase sales. Many article distribution sites will let you place a bio and a brief description of your product or service in the authors resource box. This is where you will place a link to your autoresponder to build your mailing list. Then your thank you page can drive them back to your main website.

5. Create mailing lists. Inform subscribers to your articles when you've written new ones that they may want to publish in their own newsletter or website.

6. Automate your sales process. Use an ad to insure repeated exposure of your message, which has been proven to effectively increase sales. In your ad, put your autoresponder address where a visitor will be exposed to numerous marketing materials. This multiplies the chances of converting visitors into customers. For example, if you're selling a particular product, put testimonials about how spectacular it is on your autoresponder, and add a detailed, enticing description of your product.

7. Distribute your advertising. If you sell advertising on your website, newsletter or e-zine, set your autoresponder to send information about rates and the steps to place an ad on your newsletter or website. You can also set up your autoresponder to send notifications of any special deals you will offer.

If your real creative you can come up with more ways to profit and generate traffic from autoresponders. Hopefully I have given you a few you can use right now.