The Kinds Of affiliate business

There are different types of affiliate marketing programs :
1) Single tier :
In a single-tier affiliate marketing program, the affiliates are only paid based on the direct sales or traffic he has referred to the merchant.

2)Two tier Affiliate marketing program :

In two-tier affiliate marketing programs, the affiliate is not only paid for the direct traffic or sales that he refers to the merchant’s site, but also on every traffic or sales referred by various other affiliates who joined the affiliate program through his recommendation.

3)Multi tier Affilaite marketing program:

In Multi-tier affiliate marketing , although the affiliate gets additional commission for a wider number of affiliates in different tiers in the affiliate network.

4) Residual income affilaite marketing :

In residual income affiliate marketing, the affiliate gets paid not only once for every customer he has referred to the merchant’s site. Rather, the affiliate is also paid whenever the customer he has referred returns to the site and purchase another product. Compensation for such type of affiliate marketing is based on either sales percentage commission or fixed fee basis

So have a look which type of affiliate marketing will work best for you? Please provide your feedbacks & suggestion for the same .