Much has been written about joining affiliate networks like Clickbank, and finding lucrative affiliate programs that pay well.

However, there’s more to monetizing your sites with affiliate programs than just programs that are lucrative. Although the overall topic of your site should influence the type of affiliate programs you decide to join, you should also consider combining different types of programs to increase your commissions.

When thinking about monetizing your business with affiliate programs, there are five factors you should consider that can help you more easily increase your commissions.

These factors are important regardless of whether you are an affiliate wanting to increase your income, or a business owner selling your own products and wanting to increase your backend income.

Although I’m sure there are more, these factors can help you increase your overall commissions when you implement them in your affiliate business.

1. Two Tier
Internet marketer Mike Merz once said that he would only promote two tier programs, so if you wanted to joint venture with him, you have to have a two tier affiliate structure.

I didn’t quite understand why he said this until I studied two tier programs.

With a two tier, there are actually two ways you make money. First is through referring others to the merchant. The second is through referring other affiliates. By referring other affiliates, not only do you earn on your sales, but you also earn on their sales.

This is a major form of leverage. It allows you to earn from the efforts of others. You can create a long term passive income when you use this strategy.

2. Members’ Only Affiliate Programs
With members’ only affiliate programs, which can be any type of affiliate program, your biggest advantage is competition, or a lack of it.

Most members’ only affiliate programs are usually memberships, and most usually have a monthly fee. Once you refer someone to the program, you can continue to earn income for as long as the person is a member of the program.

Again, what makes this type of referral more lucrative is not only do you have recurring income, but you have less competition on your referrals.

3. Recurring income
Not all membership sites require you to join. Some will allow you to join their affiliate program without joining the actual program.

Again, you have the opportunity to earn as long as the person stays a member. Let me caution you on this one though: be careful about promoting affiliate programs you don’t own. A bad referral can cost you money.

4. Lifetime Commissions
With lifetime commissions, you make the referral to the website, one time, and the visitor is permanently “cookied” to your affiliate ID. What this means is that each time the visitor purchases, you’ve made a sale, and you get credit.

This type of commission is usually paid on membership sites, but there are some sites that offer lifetime commissions on all of their products, so you can get paid for new sales on individual products.

5. VPM Sites
VPM is a new model of affiliate marketing invented by internet marketers Jon Leger and Alok Jain. What this model allows you to do is to offer to share your commissions from your sales of products from programs like Clickbank, PayDotCom, and $7 ebooks.

In other words, it’s revenue sharing on steroids. Site owners can allow you to be “cookied” for your referrals for longer periods of time, and affiliates can earn commissions on email promotions, as well as site referrals.

Instead of making one sale, affiliates can make multiple sales from the same referral.

The advantage of this type of system is that it adds a viral marketing aspect to affiliate marketing that was previously missing. It also allows affiliates to earn more from customers.

A major advantage here that’s lacking in other affiliate program models is that sites that sell affiliate products can share revenue with visitors. This model allows affiliates to create an affiliate program for their sites and blogs and share revenue from referrals.

What’s important to remember is that each of these factors can be combined. These are simply elements you should consider when joining affiliate programs. By considering these elements in marketing affiliate programs, you can avoid leaving money on the table.

Jinger Jarrett wants to show you how to put your traffic on steroids when marketing affiliate programs. Grab your free copy of “Traffic, Signups, and Sales” from her blog. Or read her free ebook: “Internet Marketing for Free: The GUIDE”.

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Affiliate Program

When I first downloaded The Silent Profit Machine and read it, I didn’t quite get it. From all appearances, it looked like a way to make more money, but I didn’t quite understand it.

It wasn’t until I read the sales letter by Jon Ledger and Alok Jain that I started to get the idea of how this all works.

After I read the sales letter, I wasn’t quite convinced. I’m sick of all the hype online, and I’ve bought plenty of products that just plain didn’t work, or they didn’t live up to all of the high priced claims.

However, I’m a regular customer of Jon’s so I reread the Silent Profit Machine again. That’s when it all got clear. So I bought the script.

I’ll be honest. I’m glad I did. The potential for this script is huge.

Before, if you only sold affiliate programs, usually, you would only get one chance to sell to a person. The truth is, most people don’t buy on the first visit. Some will never buy because they aren’t really serious about solving their problem (whatever the problem is).

You can increase your chances of making a sale though with repeated contact. As an affiliate though, if you’re building a list, you have a chance to do this. If you’re just referring traffic straight to the merchant site, you only get one chance.

This script changes all of that. If you don’t want the hassles of building or maintaining a list, all you have to do is just refer others to Viral Profit Machine sites and the site owner takes care of the rest. Eventhough you may only make the referral one time, you still have multiple opportunities to earn. Everyone wins.

Now, with that said, as I said before, I’ve set up this script on my main site and my blog. Instead of earning on the few products I sell right now, you can earn on over 30 products on each site, and the number of products will grow as I find new products to add.

Join me in making more money together. Become my partner.

You can get all of the details here:

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Viral Profits Machine

In my last post, I told you about The Silent Profit Machine. If you haven’t downloaded and read this ebook yet, I would highly recommend you do so because it will definitely help you learn to make more money from affiliate programs, whether you are a site owner, or an affiliate.

Regardless of which category you fall into, you will definitely benefit from using this script.

Because it allows you to share the revenues you earn from affiliate program sites Clickbank, PayDotCom, and $7 books, you can use this script to drive traffic to your sites even if you don’t have a product of your own.

Now, you’re probably wondering just how hard it is to get started.

The truth is, it’s so easy that a kid could do this. This is a very easy script to set up. It comes with step by step instructions, as well as videos to show you how to do each step. Even if you’ve never installed a script before, if you watch these videos, you’ll be up and running in no time.

In fact, it only took me about 5 minutes to set the whole thing up. Now, I did spend a few hours integrating my links, but I did want to provide my affiliates with as much opportunity as possible to earn as much money as possible. Now my sites have over 30 income streams each that my affiliates can earn from, and I will definitely be adding more.

It’s not enough to set up a website and expect to get traffic. You have to work hard at it. However, with a system like this one, you can start driving tons of traffic to your sites in no time.

This script allows you to apply the concept of leverage to your sites. By offering your potential affiliates more, and giving them the opportunity to earn more money, you’ll make more money too. Everyone wins.

Like I said before, you don’t even need your own products to use this script. You can be an affiliate marketer. You will need a website, but it can be something as simple as a one page lead capture page, or as complicated as my blog.

You can use this script to earn more money from your site. What’s key here is that the site needs to be your own.

Whether you are new to internet marketing or a seasoned professional, whether you are selling your own products, or someone else’s you can benefit from this script and make a lot more money than you were making before.

If you want to get the most out of this script, I would recommend you get in now. The longer you wait, the more money, and more traffic you are leaving on the table.

This script is dirt cheap: $97, and it’s worth every penny.

Get yours now:

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Silent Profit Machine

When I first downloaded this report onto my computer, I somehow managed to lose it. Big mistake.

For once, someone wrote something that could actually help you make a lot more money, especially from affiliate programs.

The big problem with affiliate programs is that often you work really hard at sending traffic to the affiliate program owner’s site and what ends up happening is that you help to build a huge list for that person. He/she gets to market to those leads over and over, and you’ve lost the lead.

What makes the Silent Profit Machine so special, and so incredible, is that it fixes all of the problems associated with marketing affiliate programs.

First, when you send referrals to a site that has been optimized using the Viral Profits Machine script, you get credit for all of your referrals to a site for one year.

Not only that, but when the site owner sends out a promotion to his/her list, you can continue to earn on your referrals for up to one year. Depending on how the site owner has his/her affiliate program set up, you may only be cookied for a product for only 24 hours (think Amazon).

With Viral Profits Machine optimized sites, you have a greater chance at converting a lead to a sale because the site owner will continue to market to your leads over and over. You don’t lose that lead.

You can also earn through any promotions that a site owner does on Clickbank, PayDotCom, and $7 Ebooks. In other words, you have an opportunity to share in the profits when a site owner does a promotion on these types of products.

Anyway, there’s more. I recommend you download the Silent Profit Machine (it’s free), and read it. It’s only about 10 pages, and once you understand how powerful this concept is, then you can start to use it to get more money out of affiliate programs.

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Memorial Day for our family is a day for having the first cookout of the year and being with family.

I hope all of you will take the time to be with your families today, as well as remember those who died to keep us free.

In particular, let’s remember real heros like SFC Paul Smith, US Army, and CPL Jason Dunham, the two young men who won the Medal of Honor in Iraq, as well as all of the heros who came before them.

My prayers go out to all of the families who have lost someone. You have my deepest gratitude for your sacrifice.

Here is a poem that I think fits today, and I wanted to share it with you.

It Is The Soldier

It is the Soldier, not the minister
Who has given us freedom of religion.

It is the Soldier, not the reporter
Who has given us freedom of the press.

It is the Soldier, not the poet
Who has given us freedom of speech.

It is the Soldier, not the campus organizer
Who has given us freedom to protest.

It is the Soldier, not the lawyer
Who has given us the right to a fair trial.

It is the Soldier, not the politician
Who has given us the right to vote.

It is the Soldier who salutes the flag,
Who serves beneath the flag,
And whose coffin is draped by the flag,
Who allows the protester to burn the flag.

Charles Michael Province, U.S. Army

Copyright Charles M. Province, 1970, 2005
All rights reserved.

Have a great day.

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