Wouldn’t it be nice if you made a sale today, and month after month, year after year, you continued to earn commissions from that same original sale?

If YES, this blog post is for YOU. Today we’re talking about the top recurring programs that you should consider promoting right now, this year.

By the way, if you want to learn how to earn affiliate commissions while you snooze, join the Deadbeat Revolution and subscribe to my channel.

If your goal is to escape “the system”, kick the 9-to-5 to the curb, punch your boss in the face (that is NOT advisable), the key to that is to stack monthly commissions so that you can have the stability of a job without actually working one.

By having a good, solid and stable income every month, this will allow you to focus more on the future rather than the present.

What To Promote As An Affiliate Marketer

My favorite types of things to promote are TOOLS. People need tools in order to stay in business.

A perfect analogy of this would be a grocery store. Pretend you’re the owner. Well, in order to stay in business, you need a credit card processor.

That credit card processor will charge you about $40 bucks a month and 2% of all the sales that you make.

So isn’t it true that if you want to stay in business, you need a credit card processor?

Yes, so these types of tools people will pay for year after year, as long as they’re in business.

This is the reason why I like to promote these types of things.

Lifetime Affiliate Commissions: Email Marketing Service

The first tool on the chopping block today is an email marketing service.

I’ve personally used an email marketing service over the last ten years. I have two different services, actually.

One of them is SendLane, the other is GetResponse. Let’s run some math here and go over some figures.

Over the last ten years, I’ve been using GetReponse, so let’s do 10 years x 12 months = 120 months.

When I started, I was paying about $50 a month and I’ve scaled up. Right now, I’m paying about $500 a month because my list has grown so much over the years.

Factoring all that in, let’s go conservative with it. Let’s just say it’s $125 per month averaged out over that time…

$125/mo x 120 months = $15,000

That’s $15,000 that I’ve spent on email services. Dividing by three gives you roughly 30%, which means you’ve made roughly $5,000 in commissions just from me, had you been the one to refer me to GetResponse (and nothing else).

So $5,000 in a single sale is what you would have earned in affiliate commissions.

Let’s check out additional ones. We got Aweber and Market Hero (Alex Becker’s company).

Pictured below is Aweber’s affiliate program. This is another email service provider.

They offer affiliates 30% commissions. They include articles and ads as features you can use, along with visitor stats and newsletters, email notifications, all the cool stuff.

Email marketing. The perfect thing to really get those long-term commissions that keep coming in, even if you stop today, they continue for many, many years later.

Recurring Affiliate Commissions: Web Hosting Service

Next thing on the chopping block, this is web hosting commissions. I love promoting web hosting!

I use web hosting myself. If you’re going to start an online business, you need online hosting in order to make it work.

Off the top of my head, I have about 4-5 hosting plans running across various service providers.

Just to give you some examples of things you can promote.

1. Beyond Hosting: 40% recurring commissions
2. LiquidWeb: 100% first month, 5% recurring
3. WordPress.com: 20% all purchases.

For LiquidWeb, 5% commissions might not sound like that much, but let’s run the math. Let’s say you’re able to sell a $500/month server.

They have a couple of them that range up to $1,000/mo, but let’s just go with $500/mo.

So you would get $500 upfront, plus $25 (5% of that) every month after.

Servers are just one of those things that people use for 3-5 years before they retire that server, and you can stack those over and over again and get a nice commission.

WordPress.com has a pretty solid affiliate program. What’s cool about their affiliate program is that you also get commissions for any of the services that people get in addition to WordPress.

For example, JetPack and WooCommerce are also monthly recurring programs that are all tied into WordPress. If you make a sale, you get those commissions.

Personally, I like to get paid upfront for web hosting affiliate commissions, so you can consider things like HostGator and BlueHost.

Recurring Affiliate Commissions: Web Research Tools

Another great tool to promote is web research tools. I promote Long-Tail Pro. They give 30% commission.

SEMrush offers a 40% commission.

SpyFu offers 40% recurring, and SEOprofessor gives 50% commissions.

For any person who uses SEMrush, you get 40% commissions and anyone who really likes their keyword tool, they’re going to use this for many years to come.

What’s great about SEMrush affiliate program is they have a 10-year cookie life. That means if someone goes to their site and doesn’t buy today or 30 days from now, up to 10 years later you can receive credit for that sale.

Side note: there are so many of these types of recurring commission affiliate programs to work with. It’s almost impossible for me to create an entire video about it.

In my Deadbeat Revolution Facebook Group, there is actually a list that covers over 130 different affiliate offers that you can promote. To get access to that, click here and check through the Files section on the sidebar.

Okay, with that brief message out of the way, the next thing on the chopping block is…

Recurring Affiliate Commissions: E-Learning Platforms

Services like Teachable, Thinkific, and Kajabi are other great options.

I’ve used Kajabi for the past year and a half now. Kajabi gives you 15% recurring commissions, but it’s capped at 1 year.

Teachable offers 30% commissions.

Teachable offers several different types of funnels you can send people to. They’re free funnels if I’m not mistaken.

The traffic goes straight to the buy, and you receive commissions right away.

If you have any questions about these, just leave your comments below.

Recurring Affiliate Commissions: Landing Pages and Funnel Building Software

These are more great tools to promote as an affiliate. When people sign up for these, it’s very hard for them to want to cancel because it’s such a great tool, and businesses need them.

A good landing page will make a business owner lots of money month after month, so there’s a lot of value in these tools.

A high-converting squeeze page or a high-converting sales letter is worth its weight in gold.

(Well, now that I think about it, they don’t weigh that much so… whatever.. horrible analogy… ha-ha!)

So ClickFunnels is a landing page and funnel builder, which pays 40% recurring commissions.

ClickFunnels is pretty good, but I don’t focus on this too much. If you did, they’re giving away cars and other good stuff.

You can also promote LeadPages (30% recurring), BuilderAll (30% commissions), and InstaPage (30% commissions).

Above, for example, we have LeadPages. They give you 30% recurring commissions, which appears to be for life. 

So these can really stack up when you consider the length of time that people use them.

It’s not a couple of months. We’re talking years. 

Recurring Affiliate Commissions: ClickBank Offers

That’s that. If you want to expand outside the online business space, you can find so many different affiliate offers on ClickBank that offer recurring commissions. 

If you visit ClickBank, click through their Marketplace. 

Clicking their BLANK search box returns all the top offers from currently best-selling products

On the left sidebar, there are some filters to adjust the results you see.

Try setting a Gravity Score with a minimum of 30 score, and try setting the Average Rebill Total to $10.

Now what you’re looking at are products on ClickBank that earn rebills and are top sellers.

Tedswoodworking has been on this winner list for the longest time.

Organifi juice program: 45% recurring for life.

This kind of manifestation program, 50% recurring.

Red Tea Detox, 27%.

And on, and on.

Conclusion

With that said, if you want to learn the best ways to promote these, to build a traffic pool that you can tap into and sell these products in any space, I just reopened my Deadbeat Super Affiliate Program. If you noticed, I closed it recently. It’s opened again!

Do you have an idea of the types of things you want to promote? If so, leave a comment or your thoughts in general about adding this extra piece to your business, and building everything off the affiliate model.

Just curious what you’re thinking, so comment below.