If youre like me, youd rather work smarter than harder. We all want more time to do the things we love, and to be with the people we love. On that note, why not take the steps to make this desire a reality? Here are ten ways to do just that.

1. Promote products that offer recurring commission, such as autoresponders, web hosting, and membership sites. Write honest review articles of the best products and services offering recurring affiliate commission, and post them to your website and ezine.

2. Join a reputable network marketing company online. Find a company that has been around for a while, and that is known for its integrity. Dont waste your time with business opportunities that require years and years to be profitable.

3. Start a viral marketing campaign. Create something of value, and give your website visitors and ezine subscribers a huge incentive to share it with others. Include your website address and ezine address as well in the free items with giveaway rights that you create.

4. Sell a product and start a multi-tier affiliate program. Offer a generous commission to your affiliates, and they will do much of the promotional work for you. Give them plenty of promotional materials to use, such as articles and special reports with giveaway rights.

5. Start your own membership site. Come up with a unique product or service that you can offer your visitors. Make sure you always over-deliver on your promises so they never think about canceling their subscriptions.

6. Always build a list, and if you are involved with network marketing, be sure to endorse your network marketing business to your newsletter subscribers.

7. Join multi-tier affiliate programs and make a concerted effort to help your sub-affiliates succeed. Give them free promotional materials such as viral ebooks and review articles that pre-sell website visitors into eventual customers.

8. Offer special reports with giveaway rights, that include a link to another special report, and include a link to yet another within the second special report, and so on. Each of these special reports can contain links to products that you can earn affiliate commission from.

9. Leverage different business models off of one another, such as multi-tier affiliate programs, selling your own product, and your network marketing business. For example, you could earn affiliate commission through products you endorse in your newsletter, or increase your downline by endorsing your network marketing business to your list as well.

10. Create a dependency. Offer tons of information-rich content that helps your visitor succeed. Give away free viral special reports on a regular basis. If you discover something that will improve their chances of profiting online, by all means share it with them in an article or a free special report that pre-sells them on a product that expands on the concept.

These are just a few of the many ways that you can begin developing a recurring or residual income online. Think outside of the box and discover how you can maximize your profits with these ten techniques starting today!

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