If you’re just getting started in affiliate marketing, just a word of warning regarding any email address that you use.

As you start to seek out information on marketing online, and even information on other topics, you’ll run into many opt-in forms. It’s individuals, or companies wanting your email address so that they can add you to their list of potential customers. Therefore, when they have something to sell, you’ll be getting an email with the rest of the list.

You’ll soon find out that most marketers offer free gifts, usually in the form of an ebook, report, newsletter or maybe a small course of some type. That’s all well and good, but you really need to use throw-away email address when you sign up for these offers.

Inevitable there will be something on the opt-in form about how much they value your privacy, and would never sell or share your information with anyone…ever. To that I say – BULL!! I can’t tell you how many times I’ve signed up for what seemed to be a good freebie, and it often is, just to start receiving spam from people that I’ve never heard of.

I’m not saying that everyone does it. I’m sure the marketers that value their reputation, and have some dignity, would never sell or share their list, at least with spammers. However, there have been times when I’n signed up with some names that are popular on the Internet, only to start receiving whatever it was I signed up for, along with spam from the marketing losers. Many times, I guess depending on exactly what the individuals do with their list, the emails originate from other countries and there’s never an opt-out link. Obviously the spam laws don’t mean anything to a spammer in some third-world country.

So, grab Gmail addresses or set up your own email addresses on whatever domains that you may have available, but just never use any email address that you consider important to sign up for free offers or for the courses, ebooks and all the rest.

I really have gotten some great material that way, but I’ve also managed to get many thousands of spam emails also.

I don’t mean to suggest tht most Internet marketers opearate this way, as I mentioned previously, the real professionals don’t, but you can never really be sure which ones do.