Many successful ClickBank affiliates know that the key to long-term success in affiliate marketing is generating consistent commissions month after month. Having a steady stream of income allows you to explore new niches and regularly test new products and promotional techniques to see what works best for you. For this reason, promoting recurring billing products can be a path to profitability for many affiliates.

What Are Recurring Billing Products?

Recurring billing products are any type of product that repeatedly bills customers on a regular schedule. These can include:

• Software licenses
• Subscriptions
• Membership sites
• Newsletters
• Products with Trial Periods

Why Affiliates Should Promote Recurring Billing Products

The most obvious reason for affiliates to promote recurring billing products is that affiliates will continue to earn a commission every time the customer is billed, for the life of the subscription. Depending on how long the customer subscribes to the product, and how frequently they are billed, this means that you as an affiliate could earn regular commissions as often as bi-weekly for months or years at a time!

Since you only have to promote a recurring billing product once to be eligible for these repeating commissions, recurring billing products can be extraordinarily profitable to promote. Best of all, they’re no more complicated to promote than any other product in the ClickBank Marketplace. You just create a HopLink like any other product, and if the customer signs up for a software license or subscription, you keep earning commissions for as long as the subscription is renewed.

Finding Recurring Billing Products to Promote

The easiest way to find recurring billing products to promote is by filtering your Marketplace search to only include these products. You can do this by selecting the Category/Sub-Category of product you want and/or entering any search keywords, then selecting ‘Recurring Billing’ from the Product Type dropdown menu and clicking Go. This will limit your search to just those products and ensure that any product you choose to promote will deliver these recurring commissions.

Once you’ve run your search, you can get an idea of how much you can expect to make from recurring commissions by looking at the Future $ and Total $/sale amounts listed beneath each product:

Future $ shows the average amount that affiliates make from rebills of the product. This gives you an indication of how often customers continue their subscriptions, and an idea of how much you’re likely to earn in addition to the initial sale amount.

Total $/sale is the sum of the initial sale plus all rebills, divided by the number of initial sales. This number gives you an idea of how much you could expect to make over the life of a successful sale, on average. Your results may differ, but this number is the average over all sales of the product so far.

As you can see, ClickBank’s recurring billing products can be a great source of regular income for you! If you’re not already promoting recurring billing products in addition to single-sale products, give it a try today and see how much they can add to your monthly earnings, without any additional effort on your part.