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Start (Or Add To) Your Online Business With These 3 Great Affiliate Programs

Start (Or Add To) Your Online Business With These 3 Great Affiliate Programs

Updated: September 24, 2024

Why These Particular Programs?

The best way to bring in recurring passive income is to promote programs that have monthly subscriptions.

You sell those programs once to a customer and continue receiving commissions for no extra work, for as long as they stick with the program.

This beats getting one-time sales hands-down, unless the commission on that one-time sale is $1,000+.

These are great programs to promote to your own email lists as you build them because they offer real value to any online business, whatever it is.

It doesn’t have to be in the internet / affiliate marketing niche!

Think of all the local businesses you could promote these business tools to, for example.

So what are the best affiliate programs for daily commissions?

Three Affiliate Program To Take A Look At

1. The Easy Commission Funnel – this is a totally, 100% free sales funnel you can join.

Why The Easy Commission Funnel Rocks!

It promotes 7 recurring passive income programs, 5 of which are free to join.

The other 2 programs require monthly fees of $9.97 each, so they won’t break the bank.

Those two programs are multi-level programs that pay out on multiple tiers so they have the greatest potential for making the most money.

2. Systeme – also 100% free to join.

Systeme Bonus Package

This is an all-in-one marketing platform that’s becoming increasingly popular with affiliate marketers due its low-cost paid plans and features.

In fact, Systeme offers a Lifetime-free account that’s better than paid “starter” plans with other autoresponder services.

Their affiliate program is free to join and pays out recurring 60% commissions.

3. AI Cash Machines / Millionaire Challenge System (MCS) – these are 2 courses from the same creator in the affiliate marketing space.

Millionaires Mission

AI Cash Machines is a $27 (one-time) course aimed at beginners that teaches the fundamentals of affiliate marketing and using AI tools.

Buying the course lets you become an affiliate where you earn 50% commissions on the course and $1,000 commissions on the MCS course.

If you buy the MCS course (there are 4 variants based on your budget), you automatically become an affiliate and can earn $1,000, $2,000, $5,000 and $10,000 commissions.

Since I originally published this post, a 4th top-quality affiliate program has also appeared on the scene…

4. Rapid Profit Machine – a completely free affiliate program to join.

Rapid Profit Machine Logo

It pays 25% commissions to free members and 50% commissions to paid members ($24.95/mo).

It’s an affiliate marketing training program and has a huge number of products you can earn from – there’s a mix of low-priced, mid-priced and high-products.

You can use what you learn to promote other programs as well, so you’re not locked into just promoting this program itself.

Promoting These Products And Programs

No program is worth a plugged nickel, no matter how good it is, if you don’t promote it.

So that leads me to driving traffic and visitors to your offers.

Instagram

Instagram Logo

One of the best ways to send organic traffic to your offers is by publishing video shorts on Instagram.

It’s more effective than posting on Facebook, even though both companies are owned by Meta.

Blogging

Blogging

Publishing posts on your own blog is another way to send traffic by embedding your affiliate links inside the content.

I’ve been blogging for about 15 years and, from what I’ve seen, blogging is dying.

People just don’t have the attention spans these days to read through a 1,500-2,000 word blog post.

They want fast snippets of information which is why video shorts are becoming more and more popular.

With blogging, you also have to contend with the ever-changing SEO rules to get your content well-ranked so people will see it.

Google are infamous for changing their rules and have, in the past, crashed online businesses without remorse.

You also have to contend with bad actors who may report your site to Google for one nefarious reason or another and your site may get unwarranted penalties as a result and s drop in ranking.

I’m moving away from blogging myself because of all these reasons.

If you’re not using AI to write articles, then it takes a good 2-4 hours to write a 1,500-word post, including doing research and finding the right images to illustrate the post with.

With more and more people turning to AI to do the hard work of research and writing for them, more and more of the written content on the internet is created by AI.

And AI can make mistakes and not enough people are double-checking that what AI produces is factually correct.

So that reduces the trustworthyness of written content.

Paid Advertising

Paid Advertising

To get the fastest results with affiliate marketing, you need to do paid advertising.

I’d recommend that before doing that, you do some free advertising to test what works and what doesn’t before you drop some money.

No point in flushing money down the drain on an advertising campaign that has no chance of working.

With that said, here are the paid advertising services you should look at:

Udimi – buy solo ads to promote your offers.

UDIMI Logo

If you can’t afford to buy traffic yet, then sign up anyway (it’s free) and send traffic to your affiliate link to start building up an advertising budget from your commissions.

Watch this video to see the full benefits of being an affiliate:

Udimi Prime – get access to additional benefits on Udimi like advanced optin tracking, a free Prime filter for better quality traffic, doubled affiliate payments on Prime memberships (50% instead of 25% commissions) and more.

You have the option of writing your own ads or letting the solo ad vendors write ads for you (they know their lists and what they like).

Buying ads on this platform can be hit and miss and the price-per-click varies quite a bit between vendors.

TrafficZest – you could think of this as a platform for cream-of-the-crop Udimi and other solo ad vendors.

TrafficZest Logo

The vendors on this platform are known to provide top-quality leads.

The downside of using this platforms is that you must lodge $100 into your account before you can start advertising.

And, if you need to top up your account then, again, the minimum you must lodge is $100.

However, the price-per-click here is lower than you’ll pay on Udimi, so your $100 will go further.

Unlike Udimi, where click prices are pre-set, you bid on TrafficZest for vendors to send traffic.

So you pick however many vendors you’d like traffic from, the price you want to pay per click and what your daily budget is.

M3 Inner Circle – email 144,000 laser-targeted members every month.

M3 inner Circle Logo

This is a service you should work up to using as it’s the most expensive option.

What you’re seeing at the link above is a very special offer where, instead of paying $354/mo for several ad services separately, you’d only be paying $67/mo.

While I say “only $67/mo”, I know that’s quite a monthly expense for some people, especially those starting out.

That’s why I say it’s something you work up to, using your commissions to pay for it rather than out-of-pocket money.

The M3 Inner Circle also automatically emails all the disparate services saving you time having to manually send to each one (which you’d have to do if you did subscribe to each service individually).

Paid Advertising Platforms To Probably Avoid

I’ve tried quite a few ad platforms in my time and found many that are not worth the money you pay for them.

Note that this was my personal experience, advertising the products I promoted.

If you want to look into these services, you might have better results than I did.

MyLeadGenSecret – $30 setup fee and $30/mo for 100 leads per day.

I was with them for several months and tried promoting a variety of offers and lead capture pages and results were dismal.

10DollarSoloAds – says that “We sell solo ads that work”.

Not in my experience.

Again, I’ve been testing them for several months with a variety of offers and lead capture pages and not received a single sale or signup.

TrafficAdBar – $9.97/mth basic plan.

For this fee, you can create up to 8 ads that are displayed on their platform and send out to their email list.

The effectiveness is very low from what I’ve found.

TrafficAdBar uses a credit-based system to show and email out your ads – the more credits you have, the greater the exposure your ads get.

Ads are also ranked in a 1-10 system.

As you earn credits (and possibly views), your ads start to climb the ranking ladder.

The higher their rank, the more exposure your ads get.

There are two higher-priced plans which allow you to create more ads and earn more credits.

For each email you read and click the included link to view an  offer, you earn credits.

How many credits you earn per site view is randomised between 100 and 500 credits on the $9.97/mo plan.

You do earn more credits per click the more expensive your plan.

However, whatever plan you’re on, you still have to put in the time each day to earn credits.

Since I’ve been with TrafficAdBar, I’ve seen fewer and fewer people clicking on links and viewing sites.

My impression is that TrafficAdBar is slowly dying so it’s not the best choice.

I’ll list other potentially avoidable sites here as I find them in the future.

A Free Resource

Here’s a sales funnel which you can promote that will allow you to promote up to 7 passive income programs, most of which are free to join.

It’s called the Easy Commission Funnel.

You do not need to sign up with a platform in order to use it – it’s completely, 100% free.

All you need to do is sign up, replace the affiliate IDs in the funnel with your own and then promote your unique funnel affiliate link and the funnel does the rest.

All the best,

Gary Nugent

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  1. Interesting. How do you promote these affiliate links?
    I heard that GetResponse has a great program and that it is easy to use, it also offers several colorful banners. What is the best way to promote them? By inserting banners into your website?
    I have also heard so much about clickfunnels and I have read about them but it is still an unknown territory for me, I am not sure how to get started there. Do you have any tips?

    • One of the best ways to promote your affiliate links is through posts on your blog (if you have one).

      While Facebook will allow you to post links to your blog posts, it frequently won’t allow you to post affiliate links, even if they’re cloaked or masked. So the blog post method is another way of promoting your affiliate links (assuming people go to your blog post from Facebook).

      You can also promote your blog posts, and in some cases your affiliate links, on other social media platforms.

      Create a video for YouTube where can include an affiliate link to your offer in the video and in the video description. You can also send people to you blog post(s) to get additional traffic that way.

      TikTok is another free channel for traffic but I don’t know much about it. Seems to be a bit hit-and-miss but you don’t need to spend huge amounts of time creating and editing videos as you do with YouTube (if you want to look at least competent at creating videos).

      After that, there’s the paid ads route. Buying ads on YouTube is more cost effective than buying ads on Facebook. YouTube has a built-in search engine (second only to Google’s) and people go to YouTube to look for things to watch (i.e. it’s an active exercise). People go to Facebook to see what’s in their timelines or on their walls. They’re not looking for specific things. So it’s a reactive/passive exercise.

      Besides, ads on YouTube cost a lot less than on Facebook. Plus, with the Skippable ads, you par per view (meaning someone has to watch you ad for at least 20 seconds before you’re billed) whereas Facebook ads work on an impression basis (meaning if your ad is displayed, you pay for it regardless of what the viewer does).

      The best way to promote any offer, whether it’s GetResponse or any other product or service, is to actively promote. That is, you go out looking for people who would be interested in what you’re promoting.

      Placing banners on your website is passive promotion. You’re relying on people coming to your website first and then clicking on an ad or banner. If your site has a lot of traffic, that will work well. If your site doesn’t get a lot of traffic, then few if any people will click the ad.

      You should use all the free ways of sending traffic to your links as you can, though it’s better to specialise in promoting on one platform than trying to be a jack-of-all-trades on several platforms.

      Initially test as many platforms as you can and see which one gets you the best response for your ads. Then master promoting on that one platform before looking at expanding to another platform.

      As to Clickfunnels, for me it is the best platform for building sales funnels.

      It is not, however, the best value for money and is overpriced for what it offers. I did join Builderall for a year and while they don’t have the limitations on how many pages and funnels you can build that Clickfunnels has, and they have more tools in their package, I just didn’t like how the tools worked. To me, they worked counter-intuitively and ultimately became frustrating to use. So I went back to Clickfunnels.

      The basic Clickfunnels package costs $97 per month or $997 per year, so it’s not cheap. They do have an affiliate program so if you can get a few people to sign up, the commissions you earn from them can cover your monthly subscription.

      But there’s a lot of competition out there with lots of affiliates promoting Clickfunnels. And the churn rate with subscribers is high (i.e. people join for a few months and then drop their subscriptions).

      You can get a 14-day free trial of Clickfunnels to test drive it but you’re better off either signing up for the One Funnel Away Challenge which will teach you how to build your first sales funnel or you can get this free sales funnel that will help you start to build an online business by promoting additional products and services directly within the funnel.

      If you want to know more about Clickfunnels, check out my review here.

      If you are looking at subscribing to Clickfunnels or trying the 14-day free trial with the free sales funnel, it’s probably worth your while checking out this free Clickfunnels training first so that you can make the most of your 14-day trial time.

      Hope that helps.
      Gary

  2. Hi Gary
    Thank you for this articulate article. I have looked at some of your articles especially on sales funnels. I will be using for sure. Clickfunnels is a great resource too I have an account with them.
    Cheers, Angee

    • Thanks for the feedback, Angee. I hope you found my posts on sales funnels useful.

      How long have you been with Clickfunnels and what do you think of the platform and how it works?

      All the best,
      Gary

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