Affiliate marketers start out sifting through the many affiliate programs and direct merchants to join in a bid to earn money online. This can be quite a daunting task for the new affiliate. The questions arise, ‘should I join affiliate programs?’, or ‘should I join direct merchants?’, or ‘should I do both?’. Joining direct merchants can be time consuming. First of all, you have to search which merchants you would like to join and then complete individual applications to these merchants.
However, many direct merchants offer lifetime or recurring cookies, as well as commissions for sub affiliates, and 2nd tier commission payments. These affiliate commission structures can come in quite handy for an affiliate marketer. Joining affiliate programs can be regarded as a good move in that you’re able to join with the one program but join bulk merchants, promote products and merchants, and receive one big payment each month, if you’ve put in the hard work for it.
Affiliate lifetime commissions, or residual commissions, as they are also known, are usually received by subscriptions and memberships where you can rely on...