Recurring Income From The Aweber Affiliate Program

I got my biggest check ever from Aweber, for $1,158.71. The truth – it’s my one year total earnings

My affiliate commissions were so low, that I decided to set a higher payout limit because I didn’t want to receive checks for amounts lower than $500.

I didn’t really promote Aweber aggressively until mid-2009 as you can see from the earnings below.

Promoting services like Aweber is a lot more difficult that promoting a typical ClickBank “make money” e-book, for a few reasons:

1. Cash-stricken newbies drunk on the idea of instant riches don’t need (or want) Aweber
2. Anything that requires indefinite recurring payments is usually harder to sell
3. You make between $5.70 to $44+ in commissions for the first month, so advertising for Aweber can be tricky and unprofitable

However, the BIG advantage of promoting recurring products like Aweber is that when you have a satisfied buyer, you can literally earn from that one referral for years. I can’t remember if I clicked on someone’s affiliate link when I signed up for Aweber, but hey I’ve been using them for more than two years now.

If you’re thinking or promoting recurring products like Aweber etc, here’s my advice:

1. Don’t promote them up-front – build your own list or sell your own product instead
2. Don’t expect much in the beginning, commissions can be really small in the early stages
3. Promote only the winners – although I sent the same amount of traffic to GetResponse, their affiliate program just isn’t working as well, so I dumped them

So what did I do to increase my Aweber commissions since July 2009?

It’s easy – I created a product called RSS To Email and sold it with Master Resell Rights. The product itself explains how to use Aweber to build a big subscriber list from your blog, instead of services like FeedBurner etc.

It worked really well. I made money upfront (more than $6k), resellers made money, and Aweber made money. Win-win-win

You can also get Private Label Rights to that product from PLR WordPress Videos and take it to the next level.