Why Promoting Residual Income Affiliate Programs Should Be In Your Extra Income Arsenal

By Kenneth Echie

Are you an affiliate marketer? Or are you planning to join the affiliate marketing fun? If your answer is yes, I’m here to tell you why promoting residual income affiliate programs should be important to you.

Before I dive into residual income affiliate programs, let me first explain affiliate programs to those starting out (newbies) in the business.

Affiliate marketing is some sort of business relationship established between a merchant and his affiliates. In affiliate marketing, an affiliate agrees to drive some traffic to a merchant’s website. If that traffic is converted into some kind of action, like a visitor purchasing a product on the merchant’s website or a visitor becoming a lead for the company, the affiliate who directed the traffic will be compensated. Compensation may take the form of either a percentage sales commission for the sales generated or a fixed fee predetermined upon the application of the affiliate on the merchant’s affiliate program.

Most affiliate programs would pay you, as an affiliate, a one-time commission for every sale or lead you brought to the merchant’s website. Commissions for this kind of affiliate programs are usually large, ranging from 5% to a high of about 75%. Other affiliate programs would pay you a fixed fee for every click through or traffic you send to the merchant’s site. Programs like this often pay a smaller fee for every click through, usually not getting any larger than half a dollar. The good thing about this kind of program, however, is that the visitor won’t have to purchase anything in order for the affiliate to get compensated.

Another type of affiliate program is the residual income affiliate program. Residual affiliate programs usually pay only a small percentage of sales commission for every sale directed by the affiliate to the merchant’s site. This commission often comes only in the range of 5% to 25% sales commission. Because of this, many people ignore residual affiliate program and would rather opt for the high paying one-time commission affiliate program. Are these people making a mistake, or are they making the right decision?

I can’t tell, for sure, if people are making a mistake by choosing a high paying one-time commission affiliate program. But I can definitely say that they are making a large mistake if they ignore residual affiliate programs. Residual affiliate programs would indeed pay at a lower rate, but merchants offering such kind of programs would generally pay you regular and ongoing commissions for a single affiliate initiated sale! That means, for the same effort you made in promoting a particular affiliate program, you get paid only once in a one-time commission program, and a regular and ongoing commission for a residual program!

Do you now understand the benefits of promoting residual affiliate programs? Or are they still fogy to you? If they are still fogy, then let me make them a little clearer with an example.

Suppose there are two online merchants both offering web hosting services on their websites. The first merchant offers a one-time commission type of affiliate program that pays $100 for every single affiliate initiated sale. The second merchant also offers an affiliate program, but this time a residual affiliate program that pays only $20 for every single affiliate initiated sale. As an affiliate, we may get attracted at once at what the first merchant is offering, as $100 is definitely a lot larger than $20. But by thinking things over before actually getting into them, one may be able to see that the second merchant is offering us more opportunity to earn a larger amount of money.

Supposed you have directed traffic to the merchant and it converted into a sale, you’ll get paid once by the first merchant for the sale you have initiated. But with the second merchant, you’ll get paid monthly for as long as the customer you have referred to the merchant continues to make use of the web hosting service. That means that for the same effort of getting one customer to use the merchant’s service, you get paid monthly in residual affiliate programs while you only get paid once in a one-time commission type of affiliate programs.

So, are residual affiliate programs worth promoting? Definitely yes! This is because you get more money from these types of affiliate programs in the long run. And would residual affiliate programs work best for you? Probably not, probably yes. It is not really for me to tell. But with the benefits that residual affiliate marketing can provide, it would really be unwise to ignore such programs. As a matter of fact, I implore you to add them to affiliate marketing programs.

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