What's more it is possible to entirely automate the process of selling online from following up with your prospects through to product sale, delivery and beyond.

Remember, the affiliate sale and after sales process, including support and product delivery are covered by the merchant or product owner. So, if you are an affiliate marketer you can forget about that aspect of your business. This part is already automated as far as you are concerned.

What's left then? Well, skipping over how you will get visitors to visit your website, there is the small task of following up with leads and prospects.

It would be virtually impossible to do this manually once your web business starts to grow. It may be doable if you are getting 1 to 2 leads per day BUT what happens when this number grows to 10, 20, 50 or maybe even 100 leads per day?

The reason I setup my online business was because I wanted more freedom in my life. If I'm following up with leads all day long then any freedom I have has disappeared.

This is why it is important to me and I'm sure to you to put as much of our business on auto-pilot as possible.

If you setup an email capture form and followup autoresponder to automate the sales process then you can concentrate all your efforts on marketing your website.

Your only job then would be to send visitors to your website with your lead capture form. Once they enter your autoresponder the rest is on automatic pilot - from followup through to sale. The end result of which will be affiliate commission checks in your mailbox or bank account.

Using autoresponders to sell your affiliate products is an absolute must as far as I am concerned if you are serious about building a successful affiliate business.

Using such services frees up a lot of your time to get on with marketing and developing your business to new and greater heights.

At no other time in history has there been an easier way to create automatic income streams than the opportunities being presented to online entrepreneurs. It is up to you to take advantage of the technology available and apply it to your business.

The costs involved are so low that it would be downright idiotic not to get your own affiliate followup system.