Many people who are into affiliate marketing and making money with affiliate programs enjoy the lifestyle that this kind of online business brings. But one thing that "pay per sale" affiliate programs lack is the ability to produce a customer name, and recurring income (or backend income) from a new customer. You see when you sign up for a program, you typically will get paid for every sale that you helped to bring in. This commission rate is typically around 50%. Now for other affiliate programs (like Amazon's), the commission is much lower, but the amount of sales that you can make from this Amazon program on a daily basis is huge.