Best Affiliate Program For Earning Online

Almost every major internet marketing guru has one. Imagine getting a sale from one customer who then comes back and purchases again the next month and the next increasing his value to you. Imagine having a membership site.

You don't have to own the membership site to see the profitability. You can be a part of its affiliate program. Unlike regular pay per sale programs that pay on the initial sale and the customer is gone forever, membership sites allow you to get paid repeatedly as long as the customer remains a member. This makes a membership site affiliate program one of the best types of affiliate programs for earning online.

Some of the benefits of getting involved in membership or subsciption site affiliate programs are:

• you get paid as long as your customer remains a member. This can mean hundreds of dollars from one paying customer.
• residual income - you will get paid every month after acquiring customers even if you do not get another sign up.
• easy sign ups - membership sites are usually built around a topic where a huge segment of the market is interested in or needs the product.

Wealthy Affiliate is a membership site where people who want to learn or grow their internet marketing business go to access the latest information, tools and resources in order to succeed.

Members can have access to the site for only $29.99 per month and recieve incredible value such as:

• A members only forum where they can interact with the community and get help with their questions and campaigns or just chat about the industry.
• Free web hosting for landing pages and minisites.
• access to tutorials and guides about specific topics within the internet marketing industry
• Video tutorials
• Tools for making campaigns easier by allowing you to spy on competitors, researching the hottest Clickbank affiliate programs, hiding affililate links and keeping a log of affiliate programs and login information in your own secure membership area for example.
• Access to feeder websites and templates to quick start your earnings.
• a WA Jobs section which operates the same as sites like elance.com where you can bid on jobs posted by other members so you can earn extra income aside from affiliate marketing income.
• a lot more...

The Wealthy Affiliate affiliate program is called a closed affiliate program. Closed affiliate programs are programs that allow only members or persons who have purchase the program to promote it.

The reason for this is so that the affiliate can be better able to tell of the benefits of the program. To many times affiliates promote programs where they know absolutely nothing about what is offered just because the commission might be huge.

The WA affiliate program pays 50% or $20 on a $39.00 membership. Also if persons decide to sign up for a whole year you can enjoy a nice $175.00 commission. Because persons usually stay subscribed, one sale can net you hundreds of dollars in commissions.

Payments are made on a monthly basis via paypal if you reach the $25 threshold. You have access to your own affiliate panel so you can edit your payment threshold, settings, see detailed traffic stats and earnings.

One of the main benefits of the WA affiliate program for members is that 2 sales will usually equal their membership costs and they will be enjoying 'free' access to the site.

One of the biggest attractions to affiliate programs is where the merchant offers incentives and the WA affiliate program is no different - the owners are giving anyone who achieves 300 affiliate sales to the WA membership site a free trip to meet them in Las Vegas in January 2010.

Another cool subscription site where you can earn monthly residuals from members is the Aweber affiliate program.

This is one of the best ones in my opinion because a member who has used the program to build a list is not going to give up that list so easily and is 'forced' to pay the subscription.

Members can choose to pay for a monthly subscription or a by the year. You will be paid for each as long as you are the referrer and as long as the customer remains with Aweber.

A monthly subscription costs $19.99.

These are also great for earning income as an affiliate. The way these types of affiliate programs work is an affiliate can sign up for the program through your link and you will recieve a percentage on his sales.

This can mean residual income for life as long as the affiliate promotes the product.

Both Wealthy Affiliate and Aweber are two tiered affiliate programs also.