Breakthrough Marketing Strategies Revealed - 2 Tier Affiliate Programs

The basic of the system is to have a website, an autoresponder to capture leads and a product or service to promote. Then the work is reduced to driving traffic to your website. So far so good, you have fulfilled all the conditions, you have the website, you have the autoresponder, you have visitors, but still you are not making money.

Then you should look at your product. If it is not vendible, if it is not converting your visitors into buyers, then all your work is in vane. You need to pick up a performance product or service to promote, either your item or as an affiliate.

And here comes the tricky part. The smart guys are picking 2 tier affiliate programs, which increase their income simply by referring people to an affiliate program. This is why you should know how the 2 tier affiliate programs work. And also, you must know the difference between the different types of traffic you can get paid for.

The 2 tier affiliate programs are known under a lot of names, COM, CPC, CPA, CPL, CPD, etc. CPM means cost per impressions, (where an website owner publish a banner or an add on his website and gets paid every time the banner/add is shown), and CPC means cost per click, (where the website owner publish a banner or an add and gets paid every time the banner or text link is clicked upon).

The rest of the methods are known under the name of performance marketing. As an affiliate marketer you must send visitors to another site and you get paid when the visitors take action. The general name is CPA or cost per action. Of course, there are several types of action, like CPL, (means cost per lead, and the action is a lead, a subscription to a membership site, service, etc.), CPS, (means cost per sale, and the action is a sale), CPD, (means cost per download), and other variations.

Another meaning for the term CPA is cost per acquisition, and the term is generally used and for leads or sales campaigns. However, the idea is that you must send visitors to a certain landing page where an action is required from visitors, either a lead, a sale or a download.

By promoting a 2 tier affiliate program you also get paid a percentage of the amount the people you refer gets paid when he becomes an affiliate of that program in your underline. When one of your visitors take action on one of your promoted sites, he has also the possibility to become affiliate for the same product, and when he refers another people to that program and they take action, he gets paid too, the a percentage of his earnings is yours. This means 2 tier affiliate program.

There are even 2 Tier Affiliate Networks which pay lifetime commissions. If you are promoting long term services with a monthly fee, you will get a percentage of that fee every month, as long as your lead remain paid member of that site.

Before you sign up for a 2 tier affiliate program, I advise you to make some research around and see how serious and solvable is that program. Ask people who were or still are members, ask them why they left the program if they left, etc. Also find out if he pays regularly.

Another thing you should be informed about an affiliate program or network is what percentage do they pay for first tier and for the first tier. Then compare different programs to find out which is the standard in your niche. Find out also if they pay for a month or for lifetime, what payment system do they use and when they use to pay the affiliates.

After you find out everything you need to know about a 2 Tier affiliate program see if it is OK for you and start making money today and tomorrow with a single effort. If you need more information about affiliate marketing visit my site.

The author is running a website, "Affiliate Marketing Step By Step", where you can find detailed documentation on how to start a home business at no cost.