How to
Make Real Money from Affiliate Programs
by: John Lynch
It is an often quoted
statistic that about 90% of affiliates make no money
from affiliate programs.
The top 10% of
affiliates make all the money. Some of these are super
affiliates who make very large sums of money indeed.
What is the reason for
the big difference between those who succeed and those
who fail?
The following rules
should be followed when choosing affilite programs:
1) Only promote
products/sevices in a niche that is in demand and
profitable.
2) Join programs where
you earn at least 20% commissions on sales.
3) Only promote products
that tie in with the theme of your web site. Unrelated
products make a site look bad and sell poorly.
4) Concentrate on
promoting programs that pay recurring or lifetime
commissions. In other words, make a sale once and get
paid indefinitely for any repeat sales to the same
customer.
This is the big secret
of the super affiliates. They put most of their efforts
into promoting residual/lifetime affiliate programs.
Gradually, like compound interest their profits mount
up.
If you are not in a
residual affiliate program and you get paid only once
per sale, you will never get rich. You are wasting your
time chasing one sale per customer and getting only one
commission. Whereas the big affiliate earners put their
effort into recruiting customers who will give them
lifetime commissions on all the sales they make at any
time in the future.
For a selection of top
residual affiliate programs go to:
http://www.merchant-account-service.com/affiliate_programs.html
http://www.lifetimecommissions.com
(c) John Lynch
