Tuesday, September 21, 2010

How I Made My First $100 With CPA Marketing

Its been eight years now to my rendezvous with internet marketing. I have seen various trends come and go! While Google AdSense and CJ continue to be the rulers, there are various other earning programs that can help you cash your traffic!

With the web2.0 taking over the conventional website development and promotion strategies, CPA has huge potential.

You can promote email, zip or cell submits which pay up to $3 per action and in some special cases even more.

For example, I have a gaming website and I put a simple banner saying "you could win a free Nintendo Wii console. Enter your email to participate" This simple ad can get me at least 33 leads per day if I have 50 unique visitors to my website! If this offer pays $3 per email submit means I made effortless $99 in a day! It wasn't more than a month that I managed to hit the $3000 mark.

What I like best about CPA Marketing is that I get a variety of types to promote. Email submit, zip submit, cell submit, registration, first page filled, second page filled, per sale or sometimes even per click!

What I usually do is, choose a niche, setup a wordpress blog and place lots of banner ads in the sidebar and header area and even in the post. I promote different pages of that blog through PPC, which gets me targeted and quality traffic.

If you do not want to get into the hassle of building a blog at all, you can choose a network that allows direct linking to the offer page. Run a PPC campaign and send the traffic directly to the offer page!

Some quick tips:

1. Choose an international affiliate network. US/CA markets are more than saturated now. Pick up a network that can provide you other country options for a quick start.

2. Keep rotating your offers so that you can cash the regular traffic to your website more than once.

3. Do not think that email/zip submits are the only offers you can convert. Try registration and sale, they convert well too!

4. Stay in touch with your affiliate manager. (This is THE mantra if you want to do CPA for a long time)

This has two advantages. One you get to know what's converting best for other (top) affiliates. Second, you build a good rapport and they will only warn you and never ban you.

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