If you followed my previous post, you will already get my concept that it’s crucial to have income sources that give you passive income over and over again.

And if you missed it, here’s the article again:

http://HenryZeng.com/archives/affiliate-marketing-survival/

As I mentioned, a majority of your efforts in Internet Marketing should be targeted at generating a recurring or residual income.

And here are my 5 surefire tips to help you squeeze the most of your recurring affiliate programs.

1) Promote high value, qualified products

The first rule does not only affect recurring commission products, but also applies to any affiliate products you’re promoting.

Remember, it is the benefits your referred customers receive to warrant them to continue investing in their recurring products.

2) Squeeze more money with closed-door affiliate programs.

Closed-door affiliate programs are those that require you to buy their products to be their affiliates. You are not going to be charged an arm and a leg to join; but you do need to find the good ones to join.

Here’s something you may not know about closed-door affiliate programs. They are generally to convert better!

Because you get lower chances of “getting crashed”- Ouch, another dude’s promoting exact the same product to your prospects!

There’s also less chance for Internet pickpockets to steal your affiliate commissions by simply replacing your affiliate links with theirs, because only customers get permissions to promote the products.

“But you’re kidding me! It cost me money to join an affiliate program?!”

Well, many public affiliate programs pay you less money (for example, they may not pay you on backend sales) or not convert as well as the closed-door ones, so this all balances out.

In life it’s hard to break the “sowing / reaping” principle, the “you get what you pay for” rule.

3) Pick out services that existing customers unlikely to stop recurring subscriptions

Impossible? Okay, I’ll show you some. Most products of this kind are technical related services.

As you know, I promoted a site called 3waylinks in my previous newsletter. It is a service that can help your sites rank well in Google. Each of the sites gets 250 “one-way” backlinks, which will have a great impact on search engine rankings, especially for Google.

So what if the member stops his recurring payment? The “one-way” backlinks will get disappeared immediately the day his account expires.

Another good example is Viral Link Tracker, a nice tool that can cloak affiliate links, track signups & sales conversions.

Think about it. When people got all their cloaked affiliate links spread on the Internet, do you consider they will ever think of canceling the service and make all their links invalid?

4) Bonus bribery strategy

This strategy is so simple but works. Offer your prospects some bonuses if they sign up under you rather than others!

How many resale rights products do you have in your hard disk? I guess a dozen of, right? Pick out the ones that related to the recurring products you’re promoting.

Ask your referrals to provide you their payment receipts and give them your resale products bonuses to download.

5) Help your referrals to benefit more!

After some time of hard promotion, you probably get quite a few referred recurring customers. And as you may noticed, many of these recurring affiliate programs allow you to contact with your referrals. Make use of this powerful feature! Introduce yourself to them, share your tips, make friends with them and get them stay longer for their subscriptions.

It’s not as hard as you think - show your personal experience with that recurring product, how you take advantage of it, how you benefit from it. Your referral will be truly thankful to you for helping them and more loyal.

Here I list the exact recurring commission products that I make money with:

3WayLinks

Private label club (this one converts like crazy!)

IMBuzz Software

Viral Link Tracker

Free Traffic Bar (get very high qualified traffic from this program)

Viralized

LeadsLeap (my pro ad gets more than 400 clicks every month)

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As a veteran online marketer, I know affiliate marketers who start off quite successfully, making 1000s of bucks by promoting affiliate products.

But within another couple of months, their incomes are back down to break even, and they find it tough to maintain their earlier success.

And on the other hand, the smart guys know that long term survival in affiliate marketing comes by promoting products that pay recurring. They promote the product one time, but the income from the promotion is recurring that they can grow their commissions month on month.

Especially as an affiliate marketer, this can be critical to your survival.
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Henry here with your second part. I hope you found part 1 helpful.

Now let’s go down to the sections that how to actually find a profitable market and build your affiliate websites.

And if you missed part 1 of the article, you can view it here:

http://HenryZeng.com/archives/first-100-dollar-online/

Step 2: Select give-away offers & Keyword research.

Before I select the offers, I browse each of my favorite networks because the same offer in different networks may have different commissions.

Now I’ll give you an example:

ORC - Apple iPod nano (Web & Search Traffic Only)

Description: New Apple® iPod® nano. As Thin as a No. 2 Pencil. Stores up to 3 Days of Songs! Participate in the offer and surfers can get it for free. Complete both page one and page two for the lead to be generated. ZIP code required.

You see, when someone clicks the link, and complete the simple two-page signup process; you get $2.40 per lead.

Maybe it doesn’t sound much, but what if you can get 1000s of people sign up for you?
Yeah, this will bring you a nice stream of income.

Now let’s do some keyword research to see if it is worth building a separate affiliate site to solely promote free iPod offers.

Download Keyword Buzz software free here:

http://HenrySoftClub.com/keywordbuzz/keywordbuzz.zip
Keyword Buzz is a keyword research software that can help you find 1000s of search terms and analyze the demand and supply of any niche market.

Let’s try the keyword “free ipod”

Now the number in the searches column is how many times per day the keyword gets searched.

Wow, you see that more than 1,000 people are searching for free ipods on the Internet every day. Profitable market, uh?

For my part, if your targeted keywords have more than 50 searches per day it’s usually worth building an entire site for that and related keyword.

Step 3: Build your CPA affiliate site & Drive Traffic

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Why am I writing this series of posts?

A large number of my subscribers told me that they ain’t makin’ anything online via the recent survey.

So as promised, I will show you a secret tactic that to give away free stuff on your website and make money, in this series.

Here’s a screen shot of one of my affiliate accounts:

You may notice that, there’s nothing showed there in the “Sales” column, because I’m not selling anything yet. …Click to Continue →

Whether you believe it or not … I recently found several videos on the famous Youtube.com site are getting well over 300,000 views!

So I thought, what if I had a video that was promoting an affiliate product where I earn commissions every time someone purchases that product?

And Dave Guindon has provided a one-hour free video course on howto do this!

Watch this crazy video:

http://CBHelper.net/eBayVideos

Nowadays, I see more and more videos are used in sales letters, and there can be only one reason for this:

It works!

We human beings have been lazy for a long time. People now are so lazy that they even don’t want to scroll down the sales pages and click “buy now” in action.

Now with online videos, customers don’t need to read a tedious sales letter but just watch an attention-grabing video and some convincing, short sales messages. When the video is finished, they are redirected right to the order form. They enter their CC number and sometimes a little more information, and they have their products instantly…

This video technique is so damn powerful…

What Dave’s video really caught my eye … was Dave proves that he made over 3300 bucks in 5 days from using his unique easy-to-copy technique.

Here’s he how he did it.

He simply created a screen-capture video demonstrating an affiliate product, then upload it to YouTube and Google Video.

AND … he also uploaded the video into an eBay classified Ad.

He actually made over 7000 bucks to date with this one idea!

Watch his crazy video right away:
http://CBHelper.net/eBayVideos

NOTE … PLEASE READ THIS: If the video stops halfway through, try the sever 2 link. The video may cut-off because there are too many people trying to watch the video at the same time.

I want to say something about the two-tier and lifetime commission affiliate programs today.

If you haven’t heard of the word “two-tier affiliate program” before, here is the case:

Two-tier affiliate programs are affiliate programs that not only reward you for your sales, but also rewards you for sales your sub affiliates made. Just like this one:

http://www.dealdotcom.com/invite/10350/

“Oh, that’s great!” So you may pick it up, sign up a lot of sub affiliates under you, and hope your referrals will make sales for you.

But the fact is: it usually fails.

Why?

Just because your referred affiliates will also copy this silly technique - they sign up lots of more people, who also sign up more people. No one make sales, so no one earns any money.

The bottom line: Promote the the product, not the program.

The three most important factors of good two tier affiliate programs are:

1.The product or service is excellent.

2.Commission is generous.

3.High conversion rate.

And let me say it again: Promote the the product, not the program.

Focus your efforts on effective marketing methods like list follow ups, blog products reviews. Just see your two-tier commissions as bonus for your efforts but never expect too much.

And I just found a cool site with lifetime two-tier commission affiliate program, called Dealdotcom.

It’s a very similar site to the huge popular daily deal site, woot.com

http://www.dealdotcom.com/invite/10350/

It offers one top rated Internet marketing product discount deal a day. Lots of marketers check this site out every day to make sure that they don’t miss out on wonderful bargains.

You earn two-tier commissions for the lifetime of the members you refer (35% and 15%), just by telling others about this new “daily deal” site.

That means you will earn commissions for any products your referrals bought and your referrals’ referrals bought, for LIFE!

You can learn all the details here:

http://www.dealdotcom.com/invite/10350/