While affiliate marketing is an effective way to generate a good income, there is a drawback that all of us have to deal with. Your job is to generate traffic to your offer and get visitors to the vendor’s site so you can get paid.

Once your visitor sees your offer, they leave your site, either by clicking through to the offer or they decide they aren’t interested and they leave. They will probably never return to your site.

So you have to constantly work to drive new visitors to your offers. This isn’t an issue if you’re building a list with your visitors. But if you’re not, it can be hard to keep the traffic flowing.

You’ve probably noticed that there a lot of membership sites popping up. The type of membership site we’re interested in is one that charges a monthly fee. Here’s why…

In the same way that a lot of products offer an affiliate program, a lot of membership sites also offer affiliate programs.

Your profit per sale from products that have a one-time cost will usually be higher up front. They are also more expensive than monthly cost products.

Memberships and products that are delivered monthly will get you a smaller commission up front, but you are going to get paid for as long as someone remains a customer.

And the typically lower cost of the monthly membership can make recurring billing products a lot more attractive and easier to sell than higher cost one-off products.

If you get a 50 percent commission from a $97 product, you’ll get $48.50 per sale. If you get a 50 percent commission from a membership site that sells for $27 a month, you’ll get $18.50 per sale.

At first it looks like you’re better off selling the $97 product. But remember that you only get paid once for that product. With the recurring billing product, you’re going to get paid for as long as the customer stays subscribed.

Promoting recurring billing products can pay you month after month and make your life a lot easier because you’ll keep getting paid for getting the sale once. Instead of having to begin each month trying to figure out how you can generate the commissions you need to pay your bills, you can look forward to getting a check for the work you did in previous months.

Hope this helps…