For most people, they will firstly engage into affiliate marketing by creating a website. They will run a site, and in the website there are links to sites offering affiliate programs, such as Ebay and Amazon. They will get paid if someone follows the links of to buy books and CDs in Amazon, or win an auction in Ebay.



However, this is not the only kind of affiliate marketing. There is another type, from which you can make money without a lot of effort. You do not believe it right? I will try to show you what it is.

Let's take a look at the more conventional type of affiliate marketing. As stated, you will put affiliate links on your website and you will get paid if someone follows the link and buy something. There can be a website which provides web statistics analysis services. You will get the commissions if the visitors you direct to them subscribe as paid members.

And the web statistics analysis services may also require members to pay monthly in order to use their services. And this is the art of Residual Affiliate Marketing! You will get paid when the members renew their membership each month.

Under the frame of residual affiliate marketing, it is possible for you to have steady income without working at all! You can find tons of affiliate programs which offer this residual affiliate marketing opportunity. Of course most of them, may be nearly all of them, are of the nature of membership renewal. You will be making money steadily when someone referred by you subscribes to the services.

However, you will only get the first subscription commission if the visitors stated above cancel the subscription after a month. As you will be well aware, you have no control on the services provided. But you can choose websites which provide excellent services so that there will be a higher chance for the subscribers to renew their membership every month. So you should only link to websites providing quality services and you should never link to sites which provide bad services.

So the only way to maximize the profit will be linking to good websites. You should choose the affiliate carefully. At the beginning, you can choose to join the programs offered by companies which provide medicines or vitamins since they are usually of good brand awareness. And what is more important is that they are usually more expensive! It will be perfect since the products are excellent and at the same time expensive.

To have steady passive income under the umbrella of residual affiliate marketing, the members need to keep renewing the subscription. In fact you do not need to really work on it after the visitor makes the first subscription. But you will need to find a good affiliate program in the first stage. If the company provides quality products and services, you will certainly be able to make bit money steadily.