The second type is where you earn a fee when somebody becomes a member of another website using your affiliate link, this is potentially more profitable as you usually get a cut of everything they spend and for how ever long they stay a member.

So what’s the catch? Well the catch is that it’s hard to find good affiliates at least 95% remain inactive free members, I cannot criticise these people because I’ve done it a many times myself, joined some website and never returned , never mind upgraded.

However when you do get a good affiliate it is marvelous to know that someone out there is regularly sending you a fee.

So all in all it’s a numbers game, the more targeted visitors you have the more chances you have to earn affiliate fees.

And one final bugbear “thresholds” many websites will only pay you when your fees reach a threshold, I much prefer the sites that pay monthly via PayPal however small the amount!

All my affiliate links are here http://www.makemoneytips.org/

Since I wrote this I have a new active affiliate here with NeoBux and earned $5 and reached my threshold with eBate.com which has cheered me up!

And now I have a new upgraded member at ClixSense which earns me $2, plus 1cent every time he clicks. It’s funny since writing this post I’ve had a stream of mini-successes. I’ll let you know know when I get my first super-affiliate (an incredibly motivated affiliate who signs up many other people)

Of course it’s tough at the beginning working on schemes which may never earn money but with time it works and you start to receive payment notices via email and even checks in the post.

So the answer is yes you have to work really hard but unlike your j-o-b it is possible to “work once get paid many times”

But you have to try, you have to take the first steps, you have to believe; I see so many of the people who sign up to say PTC using my referral link only ever visit the PTC website once! ie they give up straight away they never give it a chance (that’s their right of course). Don’t be like them if you take the trouble to sign up for something, say to yourself I will stick at it long enough to properly evaluate if it is right for me!

See what’s doing well for me here  http://best.pay-to-click.ever.com/