The Best Affiliate Programs 2020 Guide

In this guide to the Best Affiliate Programs in 2020, I’m going to go over several affiliate programs that you need to know about and why you should start promoting them!

As a quick disclaimer, I am a member of each of the affiliate programs listed within this guide and may directly or indirectly earn commissions if you join any of them through my links. While that is not the point of this guide, I would like to say that if you do join any of these programs, please reach out and let me know. Your support is greatly appreciated and I’d love to know that you signed up and be there to help you with your success!

Let’s get started!

For your convenience, below is a table of contents if you’re keen to jump to a section…

What is affiliate marketing?

Affiliate marketing is offering and promoting a product or service that is being sold by someone else while you make a commission from the sale.

Sounds simple enough, right?

There are absolutely tons of affiliate programs out there. No matter what niche you’re in or what interests you or your audience has, you can find affiliate programs out there and make money by earning commissions.

Are you on the fence about whether affiliate marketing is legit? Let me throw some research at you..  🙂

 

  • The Affiliate Marketing industry is expected to grow to $6.8 billion over the next five years
  • Nearly 90% of advertisers said that affiliate programs were “important” or “very important” to their overall marketing strategy
  • The majority of publishers revealed that affiliate partnerships drove more than 20% of annual revenue
  • U.S. Affiliate Marketing spends nearly $5 billion. That is twice the economy of Belize.
  • UK Affiliate Marketing drives approximately 1% of the country’s total GDP (more than the industry of agriculture)
  • 40% of marketing professionals quote affiliate marketing as their most desired skill
  • Over 80% of brands utilize affiliate marketing
  • 16% of all online orders are generated through Affiliate Marketing

Why should I become an affiliate marketer?

The absolute brilliant thing about affiliate marketing is the fact that you don’t need a product or business of your own to start making money.

You simply need an audience.

Whether that’s through social media, your email list, your website, or other forms of marketing and outreach.

As long as you have an audience, you can start making money from affiliate marketing.

What if I don’t have an audience?

You certainly don’t need an audience to get started. There are plenty of ways to get your links and promotion material in front of loads of people cheap or even free.

Here is a list of popular methods to use in order to get in front of an audience:

Social Media:

It’s free to post on social media, but you’re unlikely going to make any sales or commissions posting to your friends and family.

Start interacting in groups within your niche and drop in your affiliate link when it’s useful to someone in the group (This works for forums as well). This is a free option, but will take a lot of time and effort to gain traction. But certainly worth doing.

Alternatively, if you have a bit of money to invest, reach out to facebook group owners in your niche to inquire about purchasing the group. It’s quite possible you may end up with a great deal and an instant audience.

Sites like SocialTradia.com sell Instagram account in specific niches. You could have a following of 10,000+ for only a few hundred dollars.

Tip: Inquire about accounts in your niche with high engagement and an audience that is mostly in your target country.

Solo Ads:

If you don’t have an email list of your own to promote to, one amazing method of promoting your affiliate links is to simply get featured in someone else’s email list!

Udimi is the best site I’ve found for this.

Sign up for free and find an email marketer with a list in the niche you’re looking for. Send them a message for any tips or what they prefer, and give it a go!

It’s a great way to get your efforts off the ground. Done right and you’ll make a big ROI.

Start a blog:

Another option is to start a website of your own. You can create a large website featuring many articles beneficial to your niche, or use a great landing page builder to create amazing landing pages to run ads to.

Note: The HBA Funnel Builder is a great landing page builder option and is also a featured affiliate program that is listed later as one of the top affiliate programs of 2020.

If you want to learn more about running ads, check out this FREE Facebook Advertising Course by LeadPages

Before you start promoting your links, let’s take a quick look at a few guidelines and best practices to live by when it comes to affiliate marketing…

Affiliate marketing code of ethics

#1: Make sure honesty comes before commissions

This is your audience that you’re recommending a product or service to. Don’t try to scam them.

The more they know, like, and trust you, the more commissions you will earn in the end.

And even if you aren’t promoting to your audience, being honest and authentic WILL build an audience of your own.

Never put commissions above honesty.

Hopefully you valued that guideline before my having told you. 🙂

You want your audience to trust you. So any time you recommend a product, especially when the time comes to sell your own, you will have the trust of a large group of people, ready to buy, any time you’re ready to send an email.

#2: There are other people online promoting the same product

There are obviously other people online that partake in affiliate marketing. So you can bet there will be others promoting the same product that you want to promote.

While your niche audience may not be receiving the same recommendation, it’s still good practice to give your audience an incentive or bonus for taking your advice on a product. Especially when you know they’ll thank you for it.

Here are a few ways you can incentivize an affiliate product to your audience:

  1. Include a quick-start PDF guide for the product or service that you’re promoting. Or perhaps a few instructional videos.
  2. Offer and insist that your audience ask questions. Perhaps offer a live Q&A webinar about the product. People who ask questions are interested in making a purchase and they’re highly likely to buy.
  3. Offer personal support after their purchase. Let your audience know that you have their back if they have any questions or problems they might have to ease their fears or worries.

#3: Let your audience know your personal experience with the product

It’s not enough to just recommend a product. Your audience will need to know why you are making the recommendation.

The best way to reach your audience is to share your personal experience with the product or service you are recommending.

How did it help you? What did it do for you? What do you like about it? Even let them know what disadvantages it may have.

Honesty goes a long way and your audience will appreciate it.

This is also a great way to tell your audience what they can expect.

Perhaps even make a video! You could even share the video on YouTube which could attract even more potential buyers.

#4: Focus on one product or service at a time

Don’t bombard your audience with multiple affiliate products per email. Even if you find several great products or services that you’re excited to share, make sure to spread those offers out over time.

Focus one email solely on one recommendation. If you fill an email full of different options and descriptions about various affiliate products, your audience will simply get lost and will likely not appreciate an email filled with products you want them to spend their hard-earned money on.

However, offering multiple products and services does have its place. For instance, a resources page on your website is a great way to share the tools and resources that you use or have used to do what you do and that have helped you find success.

That can be extremely helpful and valuable to someone who is in the same niche and is just starting.

Check out my resources page as an example. And feel free to take inspiration from it for your own website. And certainly give me a shout if you need help with this.

Another obvious use for offering multiple products at once is adding affiliate products to your store on your own website.

An example might simply be to sell books on your website from Amazon. While you won’t make a huge commission selling books, every little bit helps, and if they are books that have helped you in your life or career, your audience might appreciate your insight and recommendations.

#5: Think outside the box

People and companies that offer affiliate products want you to succeed. And often times they’ll go out of their way to help you do just that.

If you find an affiliate product or service that you want to promote, contact that business. Tell them about your interest in their product or service and ask them for a special offer or promotion to entice your audience.

They may be willing to offer your audience a bonus that is only for your audience, special pricing just for you, or to host a webinar for your audience while you get the commissions.

Leadpages, Drip, and ConvertKit are all well known for hosting amazing webinars for their affiliates absolutely FREE! And the commission goes to you for anyone who signs up during the webinar! And they usually don’t require an extremely high attendance in order to agree. It’s brilliant.

They may say no, but it certainly never hurts to ask. But, the bigger your audience and the more they trust you, the more willing affiliate companies will be to go out of their way to help you succeed!

What is an affiliate program?

Put simply, an affiliate program is a system that businesses put in place to allow affiliate marketers to earn commissions by promoting their products and/or services.

Amazon has certainly the most well-known affiliate program. Anyone can join their Associates Program, promote products across Amazon, and earn a commission.

How do affiliate programs work?

Affiliate programs are simply a way for a business to promote their products and/or services. Spending money on advertising is common for any business, but they can’t reach everyone. So rather than relying solely on advertising, businesses are willing to give part of their profits to affiliates for advertising or spreading the word about their products or services for them!

It’s a win all around.

People like you and I are who make affiliates possible. And it also gives us opportunities that were never possible before!

Rather than creating our own products or services, we can make a living… and earn large amounts of money… simply . by promoting other businesses products and services and getting rewarded for it.

Free affiliate programs vs Paid affiliate programs

I often meet people who are only interested in affiliate programs and opportunities that are free. I certainly understand and relate to that. When I started out as an affiliate marketer, I was struggling to make ends meet. Investing any money into my online side hustle was painful, risky, and scary.

But there’s almost always a trade-off and it’s worth understanding this up front.

The benefits of free affiliate programs are obvious… they’re free! But there is typically one major downsides to them…

Almost all free affiliate programs offer very small commissions. And the smaller the commissions are, the harder you have to work to generate enough traffic and commissions to make a good income.

For instance, Amazon’s commission rates are typically between 1% – 6% depending on the category. So unless you already have a website that is generating a large amount of traffic, it’s not quick or easy to benefit from being an Amazon affiliate.

There are exceptions to this, especially with online courses or info products, but they are typically very niche-specific. This can certainly be a very good thing, but may not apply to you based on your business or the business and niche you want to start.

If you are starting out and need help finding products for your niche, let me know. I’ll be happy to help!

Alternatively, paid affiliate programs are only available to you if you purchase or join the product yourself. This is beneficial for two reasons:

1. It ensures that you know and use the product.

2. It makes it easier for you to make commissions.

They also typically have very large commission rates, making it much easier to succeed and achieve financial freedom.

Once I started realizing this, I was able to take my affiliate marketing to another level and it’s made such a huge difference in my life!

When I considered the cost and investment of a paid affiliate marketing program, I compared it how much it would cost if I were to start my own local business.

Imagine how much it would cost to start a business in your home town… buying or leasing office space, hiring employees, creating your products or services, and the countless other expenses every month… imagine that!

Once I found a paid affiliate program that was worth joining, there is no comparison. So if you do find an affiliate program that might seem right for you and your niche or business, then it’s worth investing in yourself. Dive in and do what it takes to start making your money back as soon as you can to make it worth it!

Now let’s move on to what makes affiliate marketing one of the best and most popular methods of extra income there is…

What is passive income?

Passive income is defined by WikiPedia as “income resulting from cash flow received on a regular basis, requiring minimal to no effort by the recipient to maintain it.”

However, in every scenario, passive income is earned through the work that is initially put in. And most likely, the work that is put in to maintain or grow it.

“We don’t have to trade our time for money one to one. Instead, we invest our time upfront, creating valuable products and experiences for people, and we reap the benefits of that time invested later.” This quote from Pat Flynn in Forbes is a great summation of what separates passive income from what we are all typically used to… a job.

Passive income is typically the goal of any and every online entrepreneur.

It is the ideal solution for maintaining and sustaining a freedom lifestyle.

Entrepreneur.com states that passive income “has long been the holy grail for entrepreneurs looking to free up their time, untethering the cord of daily duties and responsibilities from the potential to generate healthy monthly revenues.”

Why is passive income so important?

Passive income is so important simply because of the freedom and flexibility that it can provide.

And is why so many people seek to obtain it.

A regular income is typically obtained by working a regular job, also known as “active income.” Which is typically forty hours a week for a full-time job.

This, of course, is more than a respectable way to earn an income. However, when it’s a job or career that doesn’t bring a person any joy or fulfillment, it can be difficult for someone to maintain day in and day out.

The real reason why passive income is so important to so many people is that if enough work can be done initially, and enough passive income can be generated each month, it can allow for a completely different lifestyle.

A lifestyle of your choosing.

If you could obtain enough money each month that would at least replace your full-time job, what would you do with your time?

Where would you go?

What difference would you make in the lives of those you love?

What difference would you make in the world?

These are some of the questions people can answer and realize when they generate passive income!

Top 3 passive income benefits

1. Make money while you sleep

This is a common phrase used to attract people to a passive income opportunity.

When you generate income passively, you can literally be doing anything at all while earning money – whether you’re sleeping, on holiday, or spending time with your family.

2. Make money without working

Passive income is just that – income earned passively.

You don’t have to do anything to continually earn that money.

However, you can’t make any money without work. And that’s why I bring up this point.

Passive income is no exception! Despite what some marketers might try to have you believe.

The biggest difference is that the work you put in to generate passive income is mostly done initially.

Once you set up the platform that is best for you, it might take little to no effort to keep the money coming in.

Quite likely, you will need to put in some time to keep maintaining a passive income or grow the amount that comes in each month, but how much you work, when, and where is completely up to you.

3. You decide how you want to make passive income

There are loads of ways to generate passive income.

This means you can decide what is best for you based on your interests and passions.

More on this below.

Is passive income right for me?

This is a fairly important question to ask yourself before pursuing a passive income.

Sure, anyone would want money coming in while they slept or travelled or retired early… but it might not be for everyone.

There is a secureness and simplicity in getting paid for the hours you work. Typically, in order to generate a passive income, it takes many hours of work for no money until you have finally put the necessary pieces in place for the money to start coming in.

It’s a bit of a risk to give up your time and invest in yourself and your future.

So before you take the leap, be sure you have the right mindset!

Pat Flynn, perhaps the best teacher of successfully implementing multiple passive income streams online, shared some of his top tips before getting started:

 

1. Before you begin, ask yourself, “Am I doing this just for the money?” Being able to generate passive income largely depends on your audience, and if they detect that you care more about making money than serving them, you won’t succeed. “Whenever I’ve seen people do something just for the money, they’ve failed because their intentions aren’t driving them in the right direction. It should always be about helping people and about the passion of making others feel better. The byproduct of doing that is generating money,” says Flynn.

 

2. Be prepared to put in serious time upfront. “I don’t believe the overnight success exists. There’s a lot of hard work and time involved beforehand,” say Flynn. Angry Birds may have seemed like an overnight success but it was the 52nd game that Rovio created. Flynn says it took him a year or year and a half to build audiences for his most successful sites.

 

3. Banish the thought that once you’ve created the product, you can sit back and buff your nails. “There is no such thing as 100% passive income,” says Flynn. “Even with real estate you still have to manage your properties, or even with the stock market, which is potentially passive income, you still have to manage your portfolio. With online business, there is no such thing as 100% passive income — and this is coming from a guy with a blog called SmartPassiveIncome.com. The definition of passive income is ‘building these businesses of automation,’ but in order to keep them automated and keep that trust going with your audience on top of that, you do have to keep it up every once in a while — so a lot of time upfront and a little time after. But there is alway time involved.”

Passive Income Can Change Your Life

You can definitely see the benefits and the power of passive income – and how incredible and life-changing it can be.

And that’s the point of this guide.

I’ve been involved with affiliate marketing since the mid-90’s as a teenager when Amazon only sold books!

I put this guide together to share what I’ve found with you… the very best affiliate programs that you can start using today to maximize your efforts and find the success you dream of.

It’s time to dive into the top affiliate programs!

I’ve separated the programs into three types of programs: Two-Tiered Affiliate Programs, Recurring Affiliate Programs, and High Paying Affiliate Programs.

I did this because while there are literally thousands and thousands of affiliate programs out there, these three types of affiliate programs will make the most impact on you and your affiliate marketing efforts.

Despite what niche you are in and what your passions are, to maximize your efforts as an affiliate marketer, find one or more affiliate programs from these lists that will be beneficial to your audience in order for you to maximize your efforts!

Two-Tier Affiliate Programs

What is a Two-Tier Affiliate Program?

A two-tier affiliate program is like a regular affiliate program that you are familiar with, but also allows you to make commissions from the sales that people you recruit to the affiliate program make.

A typical structure would look like this:

1st Tier = 25% commissions on all direct sales generated from your referrals

2nd Tier = 10% commissions on your sub-affiliate referrals

This allows you to maximize your efforts as an affiliate marketer.

While focusing on building your affiliate sales, you could end up with a network of referrals who are adding to your income without any extra work for yourself.

This model will be familiar to you if you’ve ever been involved with a network marketing (mlm/multi-level marketing) company.

A great benefit to the two-tiered affiliate program is that it has the benefit of a network marketing structure without the negativity that surrounds network marketing companies – which typically is a result of the few bad eggs that are aggressive and manipulative in their marketing efforts.

How to maximize your Two-Tiered Affiliate Program results

When choosing a Two-Tiered Affiliate Program, you want to make sure of two things:

1. The two-tiered affiliate program you choose is something you also want to promote as a product.

2. Make sure your referrals to the affiliate program (tier 2) do the same.

It won’t do anybody any good if everyone who signs up to a two-tiered affiliate program only signed up to recruit others who are only out to recruit others.

Make sense?

In order for you and others to find success in a two-tiered affiliate program is to promote to people who want to buy the product in order to make sales and also to other affiliate marketers who will do the same.

So make sure you are choosing the two-tiered affiliate program that will help your audience and generate sales as your top priority. Then help other affiliate marketers do the same with that program.

Done right and the income potential is limitless!

In short, always promote the affiliate product, not the affiliate program.

Focus on promoting the product and let the benefits of the second tier come with time.

Spend the majority of your time and effort selling the affiliate products yourself and treat any second tier commissions as a nice bonus.

The best two-tiered affiliate programs:

4. MaxBounty

MaxBounty is similar to ClickBank. It’s an affiliate network and has loads of affiliate programs and offers for you to choose from. Over 1,500 different campaigns from verticals such as market research, diet, dating, finance, real estate, social games, and more.

While you can make a lot of money from the different products they offer, you can also refer other affiliates into MaxBounty and earn 5% of their revenue for 12 months. While it’s not long-term, the fact that there are so many options within MaxBounty that an affiliate marketer in any niche should be able to find something here.

MaxBounty Affiliate Program

3. WP Engine

WP Engine is a premier hosting service for WordPress websites – which is something that nearly everyone with a website needs!

WP Engine’s first tier pays $200 for each new customer OR 100% of the customer’s first monthly payment… whichever is higher.

In the second tier, you will earn $50 per new customer that your sub-affiliates refer.

I was first exposed to WP Engine while working for various clients who use it. Now I use it exclusively for my larger WordPress sites. The performance and support just can’t be beat.

Another great benefit of the WP Engine affiliate program is the 180 day cookie. This is huge because sometimes it takes a while for someone to decide on the hosting they need. If they return any time with 180 days, you’ll still get the commission.

They also have some incentive bonus commissions which are always lovely surprises when you’ve committed to a great affiliate program.

WPEngine Two-Tiered Affiliate Program

2. FlexOffers

Similar to MaxBounty and ClickBank, FlexOffers is an affiliate network allowing you thousands of options for products and promotions to choose from.

Your first tier commission will vary based on the advertiser, but the great benefit of signing up with FlexOffers is their popular FlexShare program allowing you to earn up to 50% commission from all affiliates you refer.

FlexOffers.com Affiliate Program

1. Fiverr

You simply can’t do everything yourself, but as you likely already know, when you have an online business, there are endless amounts of things you need to get done. If you don’t already know how to do them, you simply either have to invest your time into learning or pay someone to do it for you. But your time is valuable… and that’s why Fiverr is so brilliant. Also, it’s available in 160 countries worldwide.

You can find very talented freelancers on Fiverr who are willing to create videos, logos, transcribe text, create backlinks, and just about any other service you could possibly need starting at only $5! It’s brilliant.

Quick tip: Of course like any service you look for on the internet, you may run into some less than mediocre people who provide them. Make sure to spend a few extra minutes reading reviews of the gig you are considering to make a good decision.

The affiliate program is equally as good and generous with up to 30% commissions for those you refer and 10% second tier when you refer other affiliates.

With Fiverr​ being a site nearly every business or entrepreneur typically uses or should use, this makes it the number one two-tier affiliate program!

Recurring Affiliate Programs

What is a recurring affiliate program?

A recurring affiliate program is like any other affiliate program, but the product or service that is sold is subscription based and you make money from that sale each month or each year from that recurring subscription.

I can’t recommend or stress how valuable these types of programs are to your affiliate marketing efforts.

Rather than making a commission one time from an affiliate sale, you could make recurring income from one sale each and every month.

To put this in perspective:

Let’s say you signed up to sell a normal affiliate product for $125 and make an 80% commission from each sale equalling $100 commission per sale.

You are then able to sell that to 10 people. You’ve just made $1000 from 10 sales!

Not bad, right?

Now to make that much again, you’ll need to find 10 more buyers the next month. And so on.

But with a recurring affiliate product in the exact same scenario… You make $1000 EVERY MONTH from those 10 sales!

And if you find 10 more buyers the next month?

You don’t just make $1000 more dollars… you are now making $2000.. EVERY SINGLE MONTH…

Keep scaling that and you are ridiculously set! Haha (This scenario, by the way, is the Home Business Academy’s affiliate program… yes, it’s unreal)

The Best Recurring Affiliate Programs

7. Kajabi

I was introduced to Kajabi this year while working with a client and was overwhelmingly impressed. Kajabi is expensive and quite niche, but it’s worth adding to the list because if this fits your niche, I highly, highly recommend it.

Kajabi is a platform that you can build your entire business on. Most notably, Kajabi is a platform for online course creators to offer online courses. But it’s also a platform that allows you to build your entire site on, it has its own email marketing system, and will soon be releasing its own app platform to offer to your audience to access your online courses.

So, while Kajabi does seem expensive, it can actually replace your website hosting expenses and email marketing expenses.

As a member, you also have access to their affiliate program, which is phenomenal. Referring one client results in over $100 every month with their 30% lifetime commissions. They also have amazing support, prizes, and perks for their affiliates.

If Kajabi might serve your audience, it’s definitely worth checking out!

6. SEMRush

SEMRush is another service that I was introduced to while working for a client. And now I can’t do without it.

It is the premier service for monitoring every single thing you need about your site… how it’s doing, how it’s ranking, any errors or problems with the site, and so, so, so much more. It’s truly invaluable. And extremely crucial when trying to rank a website these days with how much competition there is out there.

As well as its affiliate program. SEMRush offers 40% recurring commissions, so if you are in a niche that values getting the most from its website and SEO, SEMRush is a perfect affiliate program to join and benefit from.

SEMRush Affiliate Program

5. Kinsta Managed WordPress Hosting

I only recently learnt about Kinsta and I am quite excited about it! It’s comparable to WPEngine in its pricing and service, but Kinsta definitely has a better affiliate program!

Not only can you earn $50 – $500 for each person you refer to Kinsta, you also will earn 10% recurring commission each and every month!

If you’re in a niche where it makes sense to offer a website hosting solution, Kinsta Managed WordPress Hosting is definitely a great option.

Also, like WPEngine, Kinsta is on the expensive side. But after being a website designer for many years, it’s absolutely worth it. I will never go back to cheap hosting. Never! It’s never worth it. They break easy, servers go outdated and are not maintained, your site is vulnerable, they are slower, and worst of all, there’s absolutely no support! It’s just not worth it.

I’ve recently signed up with Kinsta to test it out, but so far it’s very similar to WPEngine and I’m impressed. Even more so by their affiliate program.

4. Drip or ConvertKit

I am recommending two Email Marketing Platform’s here because a) they are very similar, and b) they are both amazing. I’ve used both, but more recently switched to Drip for its more advanced features and workflows.

They rank number three simply because any and everyone who has a blog or online business of any kind should have a great email marketing platform, regardless of their niche.

Both are very user friendly, but I would have to give the edge to Drip simply because it has some more advanced features that allows you to create advanced email marketing campaigns.

Drip has a great recurring affiliate program that pays 30% recurring commission for a referral the first two years and 10% lifetime thereafter.

As a ConvertKit affiliate, you’ll earn a 30% commission each month from everyone you refer.


ConvertKit Affiliate Program

3. TubeBuddy

Let’s face it, video content is killing it these days. And while it’s becoming more and more difficult to rely on SEO and ranking well in Google, diversifying your traffic is incredibly important. YouTube is the best and most effective way to do that.

If you or people in your niche are trying to find success on YouTube, TubeBuddy will be an enormous help!

Optimize videos, find the right keywords, tags, etc. to increase your views and leads!

It’s free to install and you can make up to 50% recurring income for each referral.

2. Home Business Academy

The Home Business Academy was my top choice last year and has only lost that spot because it released a new product and commission option that is now number 1.

To me, the Home Business Academy is the best affiliate marketing program out there for two reasons:

1. The recurring commissions are huge!

2. The product is something that would benefit any and everyone regardless of what they do!

The Home Business Academy product is basically a membership to a series of online training courses that detail everything you need to know to succeed online, regardless of your niche or business. And includes:

– 8 Video Social Media Module that teaches how to generate simple, free unlimited leads with Facebook

– New personal development training audio updated each weekday to help you stay inspired, educated & motivated with lessons from top earners and community members.

– Complete audio goldmine (Over 1,100 leadership & personal development audios that have already produced 6 and 7 figure earning home business entrepreneurs.

– 15 Video Step By Step YouTube Ranking Course so you can learn how to generate the best high quality leads for your business online for free.

– Live weekly interactive marketing coaching webinar so you can get all of your questions answered with coaching from top earners.

– 7 Video Lead Magnet Course that teaches how to craft a free giveaway that sets you apart from the crowd and helps you attract the best leads for your business.

– And much more!

One of the very best parts of this affiliate program is simply the fact that you can learn everything you need to learn to be a better affiliate marketer and have all of the training you need while promoting this amazing program.

As an affiliate, you earn $100 recurring commission for EACH referral.

I used the Home Business Academy as an example earlier to clarify how valuable recurring affiliate programs can be.

And that’s why the Home Business Academy is so special. I’ve never seen an affiliate program that had this much potential to completely replace a full-time income. And that is simply monumental.

If you were able to make just 10 sales in one month…

You make $1000 EVERY MONTH from those 10 sales!

And if you find 10 more buyers the next month? You are now making $2000.. EVERY SINGLE MONTH…

Keep scaling that and what a difference that would make in your life!

Get started with the Home Business Academy for only $7

the best recurring affiliate program home business academy

1. The Home Business Academy Funnel Builder

I was so excited when The Home Business Academy released their own funnel builder and added it to their affiliate line-up. Not only is the Academy something anyone would need who is trying to succeed online, but they released the HBA Funnel Builder that anyone could use to build their site, funnels, landing pages, online courses, and more! They also included an amazing training series to help you learn how to use it quickly.

The HBA Funnel Builder is also only $25/month, which is a great price compared to other builders that typically cost around $100/month or more!

$25 Per Month Gets You Access To…

– Capture Page & Thank You Page Builder so you can stand out, capture more leads & make more sales.

– Page builder so you can create your own training pages that help warm up your prospects so they will feel more comfortable about buying from you and joining you in business

– Membership Site Builder so you can create membership sites for your team or customers to increase duplication and income.

– Checkout / order page builder with merchant integration so you can sell your own products & coaching to extract money from the market and place it directly into your bank account with no middle man.

– Exclusive Step By Step Video Training from a 7 figure marketer to help you get up and running, using this product with ease in no time.

– Exclusive Affiliate Rights so you can refer others and earn unlimited $20 lifetime residual commissions for as long as your customers stay active. **NO ADMIN FEES**

– Refer just 2 customers and be in positive cash flow so this tool can be FREE

To top it off, when someone signs up to the HBA Funnel Builder, they are automatically offered to try the Home Business Academy with a 7 day trial, which could turn your $20/month commission into $120/month commission for each person!

Check out this introductory video to learn more about the HBA Funnel Builder.

The Best High Paying Affiliate Programs

These are also often called “High Ticket Affiliate Programs” and what they are is right in the name – affiliate programs that pay high commissions for each referral or sale.

The best high paying affiliate programs have already been mentioned already, but I will countdown the best:

3. Kinsta Managed WordPress Hosting

I only recently learnt about Kinsta and I am quite excited about it! It’s comparable to WPEngine in it’s pricing and service, but Kinsta definitely has a better affiliate program!

Not only can you earn $50 – $500 for each person you refer to Kinsta, you also will earn 10% recurring commission each and every month!

If you’re in a niche where it makes sense to offer a website hosting solution, Kinsta Managed WordPress Hosting is definitely a great option.

Also, like WPEngine, Kinsta is on the expensive side. But after being a website designer for many years, it’s absolutely worth it. I will never go back to cheap hosting. Never! It’s never worth it. They break easy, servers go outdated and are not maintained, your site is vulnerable, they are slower, and worst of all, there’s absolutely no support! It’s just not worth it.

I’ve recently signed up with Kinsta to test it out, but so far it’s very similar to WPEngine and I’m impressed. Even more so by their affiliate program.

2. Kajabi

I was introduced to Kajabi this year while working with a client and was overwhelmingly impressed. Kajabi is expensive and quite niche, but it’s worth adding to the list because if this fits your niche, I highly, highly recommend it.

Kajabi is a platform that you can build your entire business on. Most notably, Kajabi is a platform for online course creators to offer online courses. But it’s also a platform that allows you to build your entire site on, it has its own email marketing system, and will soon be releasing its own app platform to offer to your audience to access your online courses.

So, while Kajabi does seem expensive, it can actually replace your website hosting expenses and email marketing expenses.

As a member, you also have access to their affiliate program, which is phenomenal. Referring one client results in over $100 every month with their 30% lifetime commissions. They also have amazing support, prizes, and perks for their affiliates.

If Kajabi might serve your audience, it’s definitely worth checking out!

1. Home Business Academy

The Home Business Academy is definitely my top choice for the best high ticket affiliate program.

To me, the Home Business Academy is the best affiliate marketing program out there for two reasons:

1. The recurring commissions are huge!

2. The product is something that would benefit any and everyone regardless of what they do!

The Home Business Academy product is basically a membership to a series of online training courses that detail everything you need to know to succeed online, regardless of your niche or business. And includes:

– 8 Video Social Media Module that teaches how to generate simple, free unlimited leads with Facebook

– New personal development training audio updated each weekday to help you stay inspired, educated & motivated with lessons from top earners and community members.

– Complete audio goldmine (Over 1,100 leadership & personal development audios that have already produced 6 and 7 figure earning home business entrepreneurs.

– 15 Video Step By Step YouTube Ranking Course so you can learn how to generate the best high quality leads for your business online for free.

– Live weekly interactive marketing coaching webinar so you can get all of your questions answered with coaching from top earners.

– 7 Video Lead Magnet Course that teaches how to craft a free giveaway that sets you apart from the crowd and helps you attract the best leads for your business.

– And much more!

One of the very best parts of this affiliate program is simply the fact that you can learn everything you need to learn to be a better affiliate marketer and have all of the training you need while promoting this amazing program.

As an affiliate, you earn $100 recurring commission for EACH referral.

I used the Home Business Academy as an example earlier to clarify how valuable recurring affiliate programs can be.

And that’s why the Home Business Academy is so special. I’ve never seen an affiliate program that had this much potential to completely replace a full-time income. And that is simply monumental.

If you were able to make just 10 sales in one month…

You make $1000 EVERY MONTH from those 10 sales!

And if you find 10 more buyers the next month? You are now making $2000.. EVERY SINGLE MONTH…

Keep scaling that and what a difference that would make in your life!

Get started with the Home Business Academy for only $7

Want more Affiliate Marketing Training?

Check out this free affiliate marketing course by Leadpages. It’s great quality, free, and you can apply it to any affiliate program you choose! Definitely check it out:

LeadPages Affiliate Marketing Training Course

What’s next? Time to take action

I’ve given you a lot of information about affiliate programs, passive income, and simply the best affiliate programs out there this year. 

Out of all of the programs I’ve listed here, the Home Business Academy has made the biggest difference in my life, by far. And now, with their Funnel Builder, they’ve secured the title of the best affiliate program for the second year in a row.

I highly recommend giving them a go. They are worth your time and effort. And could very well change your life. 

But remember, passive income doesn’t mean it doesn’t take work. Only you can decide to change your life and do what it takes. 

If you need motivation, start listening to Gary V, dive into the mindset training within the Home Business Academy, and remember what Deadpool loves to say… “Maximum Effort!” 🙂

If you’re new to affiliate marketing and/or have questions about any of the programs or information given in this guide, let me know! I’ll be very happy to help answer any questions you may have and hopefully be a part of your success. 

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