Affiliate Programs - Part 4

In this installment of our series on affiliate programs, we're going to focus on affiliate programs where you're not selling a product, but instead you're trying to get people to join the program that you're in. This is commonly called MLM though there are some affiliate programs of this type that are not MLM. I'll explain as we go through this.

A good number of programs on the Internet involve having to get another person to join the program under you. This is how you make your money. Usually, these programs have a monthly membership fee and as this person's sponsor, you get a percentage of that monthly fee. The normal percentage is usually around 50%, though some programs pay a little more and others pay a little less. 50% is pretty much the average.

But this is where people confuse these simple commission structures with MLM. A program like this usually pays just 1 level down. In other words, for each person you bring in to the program, you get paid whatever the commission is. But, if these people happen to bring in people on their own, you don't get anything from their efforts. While in a sense there is more than 1 level, as you do have people underneath the ones you sponsored, this is not a true MLM as you don't get paid for this second level.

A true MLM program is one where you get paid, not only off of your own efforts, but off of the efforts of the people YOU bring in. For example. Let's say you bring in John Doe and get paid $10 from his signing up. Then, John Doe signs up Sally Smith and while he gets $10 from her signup, you might get $3 from his signing her up. You're getting paid from the efforts of those YOU brought in. This is a true MLM and one of the most popular affiliate programs on the Internet.

The reasons behind the popularity of these programs is simple. These people are hoping that the people they bring in will also bring in a number of people. With some MLM programs going down as many as 10 levels deep or more, the potential for earning becomes very large. That's when we get into commission structures.

And that's where things get very complicated. See, with all the different possibilities, there are more commission structures than you can possibly imagine. So how do you know which ones are good, which ones are bad, which ones pay the best, which ones pay the worst, which are the easiest, which are the hardest, and so on?

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