PPS Affiliate marketing refers to Pay Per Sale. This means the affiliate gets paid when someone buys something through the affiliate’s unique link. Affiliate marketing is a performance based referral marketing business model. Affiliates recommend products and services online and earn commissions based on what they sell. The most common commission structure for affiliates is PPS affiliate marketing (pay per sale). See also affiliate marketing business models.
There are other methods of affiliate marketing too such as recurring commission affiliate marketing and high ticket affiliate marketing. But most affiliate programs will only pay when the affiliate actually refers a sale. Recurring commissions happen with programs which offer memberships and ongoing payments. An affiliate can sell a membership program, for example, and earn ongoing commissions potentially for a lifetime. See lifetime commissions affiliate program.
PPS Affiliate Marketing – Make The Sale
With PPS affiliate marketing you only get paid when you make a sale. This often means in order to make your affiliate business work, you’ll need to make sales continually. If you use a high ticket products however, you can earn much larger commissions than the standard affiliate program will offer.
Amazon offers a popular affiliate program and pays commissions of 1%-11% to its affiliates. This is on a PPS basis (pay per sale). However, Amazon also offers its affiliates the benefit of earning from other items a customer purchases at the time of buying. So if you refer someone to a product from Amazon, and they checkout your product with a number of others, you receive the commissions based on their checkout total.
Pay per sale affiliate marketing can work well if you can get the traffic to your offers. But a good way to build an affiliate business is to use multiple strategies together: PPC, High ticket and subscription products can give you much more bang for your buck as an affiliate.
Using the three side by side can mean the work you do gives you a larger pay day. Subscription products too can help you to earn more consistently in the early days of becoming an affiliate marketer.
Multiple Earning Strategies
Often the hardest part of being an affiliate is getting consistent results in the early days. Using only PPS affiliate marketing means that you must consistently make sales in order to consistently make money. If your goal is to replace your current income with affiliate marketing, this can be a challenge with using only PPS.
By using high ticket, PPS and subscription products, you give yourself a much greater chance of success when things start turning in your favour.
You can also use a product “suite” instead of a stand alone product. A product suite is a range of products you can offer existing customers.
When you refer a customer to a product on Amazon, Amazon “wins” the customer. You get paid once, but Amazon gets a customer for life. But with a product range you can promote a product from a product range. When your customer purchases something later on, you get the credit for that sale too, and earn a commission. For more on a product range see SFM Digital Business System.