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My Choice is to Promote Residual Affiliate Programs and Get the Tools I need
Are you a webmaster in need of additional income?
Or are you planning to set up an online business but you still don't have any product
to sell?
If so, affiliate marketing may be the best solution for your problems. With affiliate
marketing, you won't need to worry about the products you have to sell. All you need
to have is a website with sufficient contents that are related to the products of a
certain online company offering affiliate programs.
By becoming a member of the program, or by becoming an affiliate, you can start
earning a certain amount of money right away!
Affiliate marketing is some sort of business relationship established between a
merchant and his affiliates. In affiliate marketing, an affiliate agrees to direct
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.
Promising a lot of benefits both for the merchants and the affiliates, affiliate
marketing has become one of the most popular online marketing methods today.
In fact, almost every merchant or retailer site today offers an affiliate program
that any one can join into. Most retailers would entice people to become affiliates
or members of their program by promising great benefits like large commissions,
lifetime commissions, click through incomes and a lot of other benefits.
But would all these affiliate programs bring off the same benefits?
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 15% to a high of about 60%.
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 10% to 20% 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?
We can't tell, for sure, if people are making a mistake by choosing a high paying
one-time commission affiliate program. But we 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!
So, are the benefits of promoting residual affiliate programs clearer to you now?
Or are they still vague?
If they are still vague, then let's make them a bit clearer with this example.
Suppose there are two online merchants both offering web hosting services on their
sites. The first merchant offers a one-time commission type of affiliate program
that pays $80 for every single affiliate initiated sale.
The second merchant also offers an affiliate program, but this time a residual
affiliate program that pays only $10 for every single affiliate initiated sale.
As an affiliate, we may get attracted at once at what the first merchant is
offering, as $80 is definitely a lot larger than $10. 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 avail of the web hosting service.
That means that for the same effort of getting one customer to avail of 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, because you virtually 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.
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The Success is Yours
Reggie Engdahl
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