Residual Affiliate Programs
A residual affiliate program is like any other affiliate program, but where most programs pays only a one time comission for the sale or service. The residual affiliate program pays you not only once, but every time a customer renews his subscription or makes another purchase. This is especially useful with services such as web hosting where regular payments are needed for keeping the service up and running.
Anyone who want to have a web site need to regulary pay for their web hosting. You can then imagine then the benefits of earning a comission each month (or however often the renewal billing occure) of this customer as long as he remains with that web hosting service.
Listed on this website are some companies which provide residual affiliate programs and pays a comission for each payment done by the customer.
Server101 is a professional web hosting company that provides shared web hosting services, dedicated hosting and ecommerce solutions. Their affiliate program pays between 15% to 30% recurring comissions depending on the amount of customers you send their way. The more customers the higher the percentage comission.
The EvidentHost web hosting service that provides shared web hosting linux servers. They have three different hosting packages where the least costly one is only $3.95 per month and $8.95 for the highest priced one. Their affiliate program pays 20% for each billing of each client and they also pay an extra $10 to those affiliates who reach $100 in a given month.
This is a search engine submission subscription site that lets the client submit their websites to over 600,000 search engines, targeted directories, free classified ad sites, top sites and online malls automatically every day unattended. They offer four different packages of varying costs depending on how many projects the client want to be able to submit.
The search engine blaster affiliate program pays 30% comission for each month the customer remains with them, and according to their website - 90% of their customers renew their subscription.
This is a remote backup service that allows customers to backup their sensitive data and have it stored safely remotely in the cases something were to happen to the local data. This can be great for businesses of all sizes who want to ensure that their computer data will not be lost in the cases of accidents and data corruptions. Their affiliate partner program pays 20-40% recurring comissions.
GetResponse is an e-mail marketing tool that let's small businesses and individuals with mailing lists send out professional e-mail marketing messages easily. They provide over 300 industry newsletter templates and a number of features such as video e-mail marketing and social media integration.
This is a subscription service where the customer pays a sum based on the number of subscribers in their list. The affiliate program is residual, so you get payed as long as the customer remains with the service, as an affiliate you earn a 30% comission.
Ironically the first program in the list is not an affiliate program - but a reseller program. Because of the simplicity and straight forward nature of this program however, it deserves this listing. With only a few clicks and easy signup you can start your very own web hosting brand. The program is entirely free and requires no technical knowledge.
After a quick signup you can chose between five website templates and host, transfer or register your own domain to your resellerspanel account. Resellerspanel take care of all technical support and billing, and there are no special requirements, the only thing you need to do is send visitors to your store who signup for hosting and earn money for it. Your earnings is the difference in cost between resellerspanel prices and your own preset or chosen hosting store prices, for as long as the user remains a customer.