The 2nd situation is that 10 people join a membership site. You as an affiliate will earn a commission of $10 monthly for every person that joins the membership site. So you will be able to get $100 monthly without doing anything after you have bring in the customer to sign up for the membership site. This means that you will get $100 monthly as long as the 10 customers are still the member of the site.

So for the 1st situation, if you want to earn another 400 dollars again, you will have to find another 10 new potential buyers. You will have to keep on looking for new people. But for the 2nd situation, if you can find 40 people to join the membership site, you will be able to get $400 the first month. Even on the second month if you did not do anything and the 40 customers are still the members for the site, you will still get $400. You will get $400 as long as they are still members of the site.

This will be the smarter way to do your affiliate marketing because you will be leveraging on the traffic that you have. But in order to make sure that your commissions will grow constantly, you should add your membership promotion to your growing list and in your autoresponder series.
This will make sure that you will be able to replace the subscribers that have canceled the membership and at the same time add more and more people every month to join the membership. This will means more passive income for you monthly.

This is a method which you can use to fully maximize and leverage on all your effort and traffic. So do look for membership websites which have a affiliate programs and the most thing that you can take out from this article is to take actions for every new strategy or method that you have learned. You will be much nearer to your affiliate success when you take action on a consistent basis.