Making money online using affiliate programs or hard goods, is a good strategy. However, think about all the time and effort you are putting in to make a single sale. Are you getting recurring payments on that single sale? If not, you should consider promoting programs that have lifetime commissions.

Residual income programs are the best way to make long-term income. For example, even if you overspent a little for a forty dollar sale using pay-per-click ads. Let us say you are in the red by seven dollars. If that program offered renewal payments for a service like web hosting. You would be profitable on the second payment, and all future payments would be icing on the cake.

Imagine if you got recurring bonuses at your regular job for sales you made months or years ago. That would be a great job. Well, that job is yours for the taking. All you need is a website theme. You do not need to build a website that you know very little about.

Everyone has a passion or a hobby; they know more than the average person about their area of interest does. It really is of little consequence what your passion or hobby might be (up to a point). If you are interested in fishing, boating, skiing, sports, home improvement, flowers, gardens, decorating, cars, juggling balls, saving money, travel destinations or whatever. You can turn your passions into multiple streams of income.

There are tens of thousands affiliate programs that you can promote. Many of these programs offer lifetime commissions. My favorites are usually some kind of service. Creating websites that generate multiple streams of income is easier that I ever thought possible. Search engines love to find real information about every subject. That is what search engines do. They find the most in depth and most relevant results for any search inquiry.

The most successful websites are those that provide solutions. When people look for information, they are really looking for a solution. From catching, more fish to growing a bigger pumpkin. If you can provide the answer that searchers are looking for, you can turn your area of interest or your "niche" into income. Even if, all you do is provide free information.

Once you have decided on a niche that you know well, it is worth the time and effort to find out if you can profit from your niche. There are online resources that we can use to determine supply and demand for a niche. There are also resources that help evaluate the competition, as well as tools that help determine the profitability of a niche. After you have found that you have a solid idea, you can start building your own website. A home based business that you can do in your spare time.

In conclusion, spend your time promoting programs that offer lifetime commissions. You will come out much further ahead in the end, than you would by offering one-time sales. Of course, you could do both, just realize that your efforts can be rewarded long term.