When I look at affiliate products to sell I like to sell online marketing tools. These can become a great residual income opportunity if you make enough sales.

In the old Gold Rush days and 1800s you might be surprised to learn who made all of the money. It wasn’t the miners who were out panning for gold every day.

The General Sotres made the real money selling tools to the miners. These tools included picks, axes, pans, wagons, and so on. Anything that a minor needed to panhandle for gold could be purchased at the general store.

Because most people who went out and mined for gold never made enough money to cover their costs this reminds me somewhat of Internet marketers today. There is a lot of money to be made selling iternet tools to online marketers.

Every Internet marketer will use some or all of the following tools.

1. Website hosting- If you are going to sell things online you need a website. Most of us rely on a hosting company to host our website or blog.

Many website hosting companies have a free affiliate program you can join. Your job is to sell the hosting service and you earn a commission.

Many hosting companies pay an ongoing commission which is also known as residual income. Over time this can add up to hundreds or thousands of dollars per month in income for sales and you made previously.

2. An auto responder-Building an email list is an important part of being successful on the Internet. Using a quality autoresponder service such as GetResponse or Aweber is an excelelnt way to build your email list.

As an affiliate you can sell the autoresponder service and earn a monthly residual commission on these sales. These commissions could be paid to you for many years to come as people rely on the autoresponder service to deliver their emails.

3. Article submission services-Article marketing is a popular way to promote an Internet business. It can be tedious to manually submit articles to one directory at a time.

This is where article submission services such as Submit Your Article and Article Marketer are so helpful. They will submit articles to numeruos directories with one click.

These also offer an excellent residual income opportunity. As people become accustomed to using these services to submit articles it becomes part of their monthly business expenses. It also give you a chance to make a sale over and over every month their service stays in effect.

As you can see selling Internet marketing tools can make a great residual income opportunity. With these type of tools you are filling a need with a product that will always be in demand.