There are lot of online business opportunities which will provide you with residual income. Althoug some of them are scams, you will find some good and legal online business opportunities which will substitute your regular income.

I will try my best to list the most popular legit, good and sustainable residual income business opportunities on this page. I will also list their pros and cons to show you the whole picture of each one of them.

Let's talk about most common 1 tier affiliate program first

Pro: Usually you don't have to purchase the product before enrolling its affiliate program. Commissions are vary from 8% to 75% of each sale you make.

Con: There are so many affiliates out there who are promoting the same product. Don't forget the vendor, because they are one of your biggest competitors. Statistics shows that only 3% of super affiliates are getting 95% of total sales. You really have to be an affiliate marketing guru to make decent amount of income online.

Let's talk about multi tier affiliate program now.

The multi tier affiliate program simply means you will not only earn 1 tier commission based on your personal sales performance but also reward you for your referrals' performance. Basically you can refer others to join that affiliate program. If your referrals earn commission, you get a reward bonus for their performance. This type of affiliate commission is residual income.

Besides the pro and con which 1 tier affiliate program has, multi tier affiliate program tends to minimize the competition between affiliates and tries to unite them into a team. To a certain degree, it can but very limited.

Let's talk about create your own product and sell it first.

Pro: You can sell your products on Amazon, eBay, ClickBank, PaydotCom, etc. The list is just go on and on.

Con: The competition of selling your own products are as high as selling affiliate products. For example, people can now access to much free information to create ebook within one day. There are many duplicate content because of that. So customers are getting more and more hesitate to buy one product even if it is a unique one.

Pro: You will find some legal business programs are totally free to join. Once you get familiar with its system and ready to make bigger profit, you can become its paid members.

These kind of business programs allow you to build your residual income business. You'll get benefit from it so that many others are getting benefits as well. To share good things is a common character of humans. These online business opportunities even reward you for referring their programs to others. That's the big advantage of these online businesses.

Con: But it doesn't mean you can do nothing to make money. Otherwise they are illegal pyramid scheme or scams for sure. Fortunately you will have your mentors to show you how to do the business. Some business system even allows whole team members to build the same business with you together.