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)

I’m always pleased to hear what you think of residual income affiliate marketing here. Just comment and share your thoughts below.

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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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It’s all about life & goals here.

The very first thing you need to do to get what you want in life, is setting goals.

But, how many times you got distracted by things that have nothing to do with achieving your goals?

You know, this is also something I sometimes struggle with.

And the solution is so simple:

Everything you think, do, or say needs to be directed toward making your goal happen.

No matter how interesting the activity is that you are engaged in, if it is not going to bring you closer to your goal, then you are simply wasting your time, your effort, your energy and your thought.

I learnt all these from a free course which truly changed the way I look at my life.

The 40-day free course combines short videos, workbooks and reading materials, and audio CD’s to be played for a short time each day.

And each day, you will get access to a new lesson to help you understand which are the VITAL steps to achieve your dreams.

You probably heard of it already.

It’s called Simpleology 101 by Mark Joyner - the simple science of getting what you want, as featured in The Wall Street Journal.

This is one course that I honestly believe everyone, and I mean EVERYONE MUST see.

When I say it’s free, I didn’t mean any free-trial things. It’s daily self-improvement course for full 40 days, and it’s FREE:

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It only takes minutes to set up a free account, and you also get free tools to:

1) See your day with instant clarity
2) Focus instantly on what’s important
3) Dump the rest (liberation is a click away)
4) Clear your brain of clutter and distraction

It’ll give you the energy and focus you need to achieve your goals.
Check it out:

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To your amazing success!

Henry

PS. I highly recommend you to print the Simpleology virtuosity book, then follow the instructions & stick to the 15 minutes daily tasks. I’m sure you will find yourself more efficient and energic after the 40-day course.

There are also some paid courses in the members’ area that cover other parts of life including money and personal energy, but this 40-day Simpleology 101 course is absolutely free.

I just want to wish everybody a wonderful Merry Christmas & happy new year!

And with the New Year 2008 coming, I know a lot of people are setting goals.

But I think if you want to make a change, the time is now not 2008.

Decide today. Take action. Not plan to take action next year.

May 2008 be your best year yet!
Your friend,

Henry Zeng

P.S. If you haven’t picked up your gifts yet in my last email,
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Whenever I talk with people who CLAIM to work hard from the comfort of their homes, I wonder if it is really necessary.

I know many online marketers are spending most of the time just in forums, refreshing their merchant accounts, browsing unnecessary sites…

Has this ever happened to you?

Seriously, working smart is different from working hard. There are also many people who don’t have to work HARD at all, YET they are living very comfortable.

“Working Smart” means you put your heart and energy on getting things done. Instead of putting in 18 hours a day, you could work much less by being as efficient as possible. You don’t need to spend your time dealing with the chores 24/7.

Because we are all being given 168 hours a week.

Regardless whether we like it or not, the ONLY way you can get the most out of your time would be by working as efficient as possible.

But before I jump into the details, let me ask you a question…

Do you already have your business running on auto-pilot?

Here’s the real truth: a lot of things in the Internet marketing business are things you really don’t have to do one at a time and by-hand.

You need to put your business on autopilot as much as you can.

Set your business up and run by itself so you can concentrate on marketing instead. Because once you have one project done, you can start another and make it hands-free as well.

And on the other hand, if you don’t systematize this area of your business, you’ll soon find out all of these details are too overwhelming to handle manually.

I strongly encourage you to try JVManager, the all-in-one system building process here:

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You know, I personally spend a lot of money on software mainly because right software can save you a lot of time and make your life much easier.

All these programs reduce my work and give me more time to play violin and other things I love.

Believe me, I can say with no exaggeration that JVManager is one of the most powerful business systems in the whole Internet marketing history, ever.

It systematizes your business by controlling all the email follow up, lead capture, payment processing, affiliate payment, secure downloads, one-time offers, membership site management and much more chores in one place.

And from what I’ve seen, lots of people are only using maybe 10% of its functionality.

Whether you have your own product, or a hard drive full of PLR or Resale Rights products and have been looking for a way to get them out into the marketplace making you money… the answer is as plain as the nose on your face:

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And don’t worry, it was not me

The other day, I met a guy shouting loudly “it’s all scams” on a message board (he posted it in all CAPS, and I lowercased it):

“I got scammed by Internet gurus! they all cheaters! these dudes ed me wrong, sold me products I never need and flooded my inboxes ith too many offers!”

Sound familiar?

Listen, I’m not kidding around…

We have all met those people that always have excuses for their own failures. They lay the blame for the fail squarely at the feet of what they call “Internet marketing gurus”.

As for myself, I learned something critical after I’ve heard more than one hundred times people blaming the Internet gurus for the products they recommended them.

I always see successful Internet marketers make offers to their subscribers, but they aren’t telling everybody is REQUIRED to buy the product.

It isn’t an order you must follow, it’s only a suggestion. The decisions are always up to you.

I often keep an eye on the magic tools and ebooks those gurus sell. Some are exactly what I need, so I buy them. But obviously, I don’t need all those products they sell.

The fact is, you don’t generally need a new product UNTIL you’ve finished mastering the last one that you purchased.

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