If you are not in a residual affiliate program and you get paid only once per sale, you will never get rich. You are wasting your time chasing one sale per customer and getting only one commission. Whereas big affiliate earners put their effort into recruiting customers who will give them lifetime commissions on all sales they make at any time in future.

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There are a ton of places you can advertise your product, and marketing material you are using, such as article directories, free advertising forums or websites, you can even find a lot of ezines that allow you to place free classifieds and websites you can post your ad on, at no cost.

Another thing that is handy to have is a website of my own, where I can post my thoughts and comments (nothing sells better than your own, plain english comments and reviews) along with any other articles I can find that will help to draw visitors in and make search engines list my site better.

Most of time, I will take a few of my articles and turn them into a free ebook, or post articles in article directories where other webmasters are permitted to reprint them in their own newsletter, provided they leave my resource box (see bottom of this article for an example) in place. So now they are spreading word for me, driving traffic on my behalf and generating orders too. But I like to help, as much as I like to earn money too, so here's what I do most of time. When I find a good newsletter that I like then I touch base with that publisher and offer him article, but I also tell him it's for a 2-tier affiliate program and if he would like, then he could use my article, if he either leaves my box in place or signs up under me and then I let him add his link into my box, so he can earn bigger piece of pie and I get bonus commissions from his sales.

Now, why would I do that? Simple...

I do that, because there's a much better chance that he will send out my article sooner, rather than later because now he has potential to earn money with it too.

Find a few publishers like that and you are well on your road to getting a nice piece of pie and great thing is that anytime you find a new affiliate program to promote and write a new article, you already have made contacts that you can send it to, so it gets easier every time and takes a lot less effort on your part.

Well, there you have sensible way of making money with affiliate programs. (Note: There are a lot of other methods available to market your affiliate program and earn money, but this is one of best methods I have ever used.)

Here's to your success, Xavier P.s. Quit reading this article already and get out there and find yourself a good affiliate program and start making money. Now get moving...

(Note: You have permission to reprint this article in it's entirety, provided you do not change article in any way and leave Resource Box above intact. If you would like to earn money with this article, please visit http://www.makemoneymarketingonline.com today and sign up for generous 2-tier affiliate program that pays 50% for any sales you make, plus an additional 20% for any sales generated by webmasters you refer into program)