Struggling with Promoting Mobile CPA Offers

Maddmula · 07-12-2011, 01:38 PM

Hello Warriors,

Since mid April I have been with Offermobi trying to promote mobile CPA offers through platforms like Jumptap and Admob. Although I haven't been at it that long, I've put a lot of effort in, and have seen no success. I have been through many campaigns, had terrible CTR, and my conversions are unbelievably low.

Here's my normal routine when going about setting up a new campaign. (maybe you will see an error/flaw in my process)

Example:
Offer - Prepaid Debit Card 1 Field
Payout - $.30
Mobile Advertising Platform - Jumptap

1. Pick a feature campaign with low payout but high conversions
2. Affiliate manager recommends running it with Feature Phones like Boost, Metro PCS, and Cricket
3. Create 3 separate campaigns for Cricket, Boost, and Metro PCS on Jumptap
4. Add the tracking parameters to my tracking link jt,JT_ADBUNDLE,JT_OPERATOR,JT_HANDSET,JT_KEYWORD,J T_PUBLISHER,JT_SITE
5. Give each campaign a $15 budget
6. Target US only
7. To find out what I should put in my Ad Text for Title & Description I search "Prepaid Debit Card" on Google, look at the ads, and copy their Ad Text.
8. Ad Title: Best Prepaid Debit Card Description: 100% Approval. Start Now!
8. Ad all categories except for Adult and place a $.10 Bid
9. Hope for the best
10. After the campaigns are run if something has a better CTR or is converting better I cater to it. But no matter how much I fidget with ad text, bid price, categories, I can't get the offer to convert over the ad cost.

My only conclusion why I haven't been successful is because I don't have enough money to test with. Like all of my campaigns are given a $20 budget instead of the usual $100 + budget needed to test. I have sucked it up and tested with large $ campaigns but they had no success either.

If anyone is having success with Mobile CPA and Offermobi, it would be much appreciated to hear what you're doing to see good results.

Thank you so much!

BILLSBILLION · 07-12-2011, 04:20 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Maddmula

Hello Warriors,

Since mid April I have been with Offermobi trying to promote mobile CPA offers through platforms like Jumptap and Admob. Although I haven't been at it that long, I've put a lot of effort in, and have seen no success. I have been through many campaigns, had terrible CTR, and my conversions are unbelievably low.

Here's my normal routine when going about setting up a new campaign. (maybe you will see an error/flaw in my process)

Example:
Offer - Prepaid Debit Card 1 Field
Payout - $.30
Mobile Advertising Platform - Jumptap

1. Pick a feature campaign with low payout but high conversions
2. Affiliate manager recommends running it with Feature Phones like Boost, Metro PCS, and Cricket
3. Create 3 separate campaigns for Cricket, Boost, and Metro PCS on Jumptap
4. Add the tracking parameters to my tracking link jt,JT_ADBUNDLE,JT_OPERATOR,JT_HANDSET,JT_KEYWORD,J T_PUBLISHER,JT_SITE
5. Give each campaign a $15 budget
6. Target US only
7. To find out what I should put in my Ad Text for Title & Description I search "Prepaid Debit Card" on Google, look at the ads, and copy their Ad Text.
8. Ad Title: Best Prepaid Debit Card Description: 100% Approval. Start Now!
8. Ad all categories except for Adult and place a $.10 Bid
9. Hope for the best
10. After the campaigns are run if something has a better CTR or is converting better I cater to it. But no matter how much I fidget with ad text, bid price, categories, I can't get the offer to convert over the ad cost.

My only conclusion why I haven't been successful is because I don't have enough money to test with. Like all of my campaigns are given a $20 budget instead of the usual $100 + budget needed to test. I have sucked it up and tested with large $ campaigns but they had no success either.

If anyone is having success with Mobile CPA and Offermobi, it would be much appreciated to hear what you're doing to see good results.

Thank you so much!

Usually mobile offers don,t convert that well,Even that is my experience!!

johnny_h · 07-12-2011, 05:24 PM

I've never tried running mobile campaigns the way you are, but from the looks of it I think you might be spread a bit too thin. I would pick one feature phone and run with that for a while until you learn how to convert on that one phone, then move on to others. Also, again I've not done mobile advertising, but I know each mobile phone type displays things a bit differently - I'd get my hands on the feature phone that you're using and see how the ads actually appear, that might give you a bit better clue what people are seeing and what you might consider doing to tweak your ad. Go to your local retailer and check out one of their demo units.

Also, I don't know about the offers that you're running, but you want to get the network epc from your AM at offermobi and bid that amount while testing. If you get an ad to convert really well, you can think about raising your bid to get more exposure, but I would look at the epc as a guide to what you should be bidding.

Maddmula · 07-12-2011, 09:09 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by johnny_h

I've never tried running mobile campaigns the way you are, but from the looks of it I think you might be spread a bit too thin. I would pick one feature phone and run with that for a while until you learn how to convert on that one phone, then move on to others. Also, again I've not done mobile advertising, but I know each mobile phone type displays things a bit differently - I'd get my hands on the feature phone that you're using and see how the ads actually appear, that might give you a bit better clue what people are seeing and what you might consider doing to tweak your ad. Go to your local retailer and check out one of their demo units.

Also, I don't know about the offers that you're running, but you want to get the network epc from your AM at offermobi and bid that amount while testing. If you get an ad to convert really well, you can think about raising your bid to get more exposure, but I would look at the epc as a guide to what you should be bidding.

Thanks for the reply but I've even tried that. I don't need to physically go look how the ad looks on the phone because I have the Preview Tool which does the job for me. The offers I've been promoting have clean landing pages, they are the highest converting offers according to my AM, but just don't convert well for me.

It would be helpful if someone on WF had a set campaign model that was converting well for them.

Maddmula · 07-13-2011, 12:49 PM

I guess Mobile CPA isn't very popular, but thanks for the replies anyway.

Dwayne Morrison · 07-13-2011, 02:16 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Maddmula

Hello Warriors,

Since mid April I have been with Offermobi trying to promote mobile CPA offers through platforms like Jumptap and Admob. Although I haven't been at it that long, I've put a lot of effort in, and have seen no success. I have been through many campaigns, had terrible CTR, and my conversions are unbelievably low.

Here's my normal routine when going about setting up a new campaign. (maybe you will see an error/flaw in my process)

Example:
Offer - Prepaid Debit Card 1 Field
Payout - $.30
Mobile Advertising Platform - Jumptap

1. Pick a feature campaign with low payout but high conversions
2. Affiliate manager recommends running it with Feature Phones like Boost, Metro PCS, and Cricket
3. Create 3 separate campaigns for Cricket, Boost, and Metro PCS on Jumptap
4. Add the tracking parameters to my tracking link jt,JT_ADBUNDLE,JT_OPERATOR,JT_HANDSET,JT_KEYWORD,J T_PUBLISHER,JT_SITE
5. Give each campaign a $15 budget
6. Target US only
7. To find out what I should put in my Ad Text for Title & Description I search "Prepaid Debit Card" on Google, look at the ads, and copy their Ad Text.
8. Ad Title: Best Prepaid Debit Card Description: 100% Approval. Start Now!
8. Ad all categories except for Adult and place a $.10 Bid
9. Hope for the best
10. After the campaigns are run if something has a better CTR or is converting better I cater to it. But no matter how much I fidget with ad text, bid price, categories, I can't get the offer to convert over the ad cost.

My only conclusion why I haven't been successful is because I don't have enough money to test with. Like all of my campaigns are given a $20 budget instead of the usual $100 + budget needed to test. I have sucked it up and tested with large $ campaigns but they had no success either.

If anyone is having success with Mobile CPA and Offermobi, it would be much appreciated to hear what you're doing to see good results.

Thank you so much!

Hey MaddMula! Have you tried collecting numbers through SMS services like Trumpia then marketing to those numbers via text message?

Heres an extremely weird idea, but try creating a Facebook Fan Page based around a particular group of offers (or offer). Use Facebook Ads to drive fans to your fan page and somewhere in the ad or the fan page say something like "Text "blahblabh" to "some group of numbers" in order to receive information on debt!.

That way, you'll have your own list and you constantly remarket to that list over and even again. Thats just my two cents though, contact me if you need some help.(keep in mind, mobile cpa marketing is not my niche...for now!!)

Maddmula · 07-13-2011, 08:37 PM

Thanks for the plan, I'll possibly try that, only thing is I then have to learn how to use Trumpia and Facebook Ads. I think before i quit, I'm just going to try making my own mobile offer/landing page to capture emails and phone #'s. Again thanks for the idea

dwooding · 07-15-2011, 01:03 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Maddmula

Thanks for the plan, I'll possibly try that, only thing is I then have to learn how to use Trumpia and Facebook Ads. I think before i quit, I'm just going to try making my own mobile offer/landing page to capture emails and phone #'s. Again thanks for the idea

In my opinion, that's probably your best bet - get the contact information first, then educate/sell to them using good old fashion email marketing.

Here's a basic mobile squeeze page builder that might help you out:

Basic Mobile Squeeze Page

Dave

Godmode · 07-15-2011, 01:11 PM

Lemme spill the beans for you.

1) Mobile ads are still mostly branding or app downloads, only those do well.
2) You would also notice around 30%+ click discrepancy in reporting between ad network and aff network. Mainly due to lot of accidental clickers just close the window before it even opens your LP.
3) I spent well over $2000 testing the entire market including INTL but remains the same.

4) Expect a lot of babies and kids to click your ads as they play angry birds on their parents iphone/android. lol

Seriously speaking mobile marketing needs a lot of change right now and its going to take time. Revisit in 2012 and you might be suprised. for the time being capturing email and phone and then selling them your CPA offer makes a lot of sense.

Good luck

Mary Wilhite · 07-15-2011, 09:18 PM

Yes selling CPA offers is a very good decision.you will surely do great in terms of business.thank you.

imback · 07-15-2011, 09:57 PM

Mobile CPA is still killer, it is harder because there simply isn't a lot of material on it yet. I use it to build my list and then promote my offers.

CHAD

TheKeys · 07-15-2011, 10:00 PM

I try to stay clear of promoting mobile efforts just because in my experience they don't turn out as well.

Buford Mobley · 07-17-2011, 08:22 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by imback

Mobile CPA is still killer, it is harder because there simply isn't a lot of material on it yet. I use it to build my list and then promote my offers.

CHAD

Currently this is the best use of mobile traffic

JennyAM · 07-19-2011, 09:54 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Maddmula

Hello Warriors,

Since mid April I have been with Offermobi trying to promote mobile CPA offers through platforms like Jumptap and Admob. Although I haven't been at it that long, I've put a lot of effort in, and have seen no success. I have been through many campaigns, had terrible CTR, and my conversions are unbelievably low.

Here's my normal routine when going about setting up a new campaign. (maybe you will see an error/flaw in my process)

Example:
Offer - Prepaid Debit Card 1 Field
Payout - $.30
Mobile Advertising Platform - Jumptap

1. Pick a feature campaign with low payout but high conversions
2. Affiliate manager recommends running it with Feature Phones like Boost, Metro PCS, and Cricket
3. Create 3 separate campaigns for Cricket, Boost, and Metro PCS on Jumptap
4. Add the tracking parameters to my tracking link jt,JT_ADBUNDLE,JT_OPERATOR,JT_HANDSET,JT_KEYWORD,J T_PUBLISHER,JT_SITE
5. Give each campaign a $15 budget
6. Target US only
7. To find out what I should put in my Ad Text for Title & Description I search "Prepaid Debit Card" on Google, look at the ads, and copy their Ad Text.
8. Ad Title: Best Prepaid Debit Card Description: 100% Approval. Start Now!
8. Ad all categories except for Adult and place a $.10 Bid
9. Hope for the best
10. After the campaigns are run if something has a better CTR or is converting better I cater to it. But no matter how much I fidget with ad text, bid price, categories, I can't get the offer to convert over the ad cost.

My only conclusion why I haven't been successful is because I don't have enough money to test with. Like all of my campaigns are given a $20 budget instead of the usual $100 + budget needed to test. I have sucked it up and tested with large $ campaigns but they had no success either.

If anyone is having success with Mobile CPA and Offermobi, it would be much appreciated to hear what you're doing to see good results.

Thank you so much!

Hi Maddmula,

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Signing up is totally free of charge. Once your account is approved, you have access to our +1,500 offers and can start promoting them instantly! You do not have to apply for certain programs or offers, as soon as your account is approved you can start setting up campaigns within minutes!

Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns. I am always happy to be of help and would love to help you to actually generate real revenue and commissions by giving helpful tips on how to improve your performance.

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Ando6784 · 01-06-2012, 05:22 PM

You guys are just going about it all wrong! Using paid marketing for mobile CPA is a waste of time and money. Trust me I've done it. I've devised a system using the Android market to totally CRUSH mobile CPA offers, and it's free. I call it Mobile CPA Sniper, I've been making a steady $100 a day with my method since Feb. 2011. If anybody's interested just PM me! I'm thinking about launching a Clickbank product around this method because it works so well. I'm new to the forum but lot's of good stuff on here!

JohnMoney · 01-06-2012, 06:18 PM

Some people are killing it with mobile cpa. But in my opinion it's facebook babyyy.
When i start a campaing on facebook I make $$$ my first day.

That's what i love about facebook = Power of viral

MarcyB · 01-06-2012, 06:50 PM

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Originally Posted by Ando6784

You guys are just going about it all wrong! Using paid marketing for mobile CPA is a waste of time and money. Trust me I've done it. I've devised a system using the Android market to totally CRUSH mobile CPA offers, and it's free. I call it Mobile CPA Sniper, I've been making a steady $100 a day with my method since Feb. 2011. If anybody's interested just PM me! I'm thinking about launching a Clickbank product around this method because it works so well. I'm new to the forum but lot's of good stuff on here!

Ando6784 I Tried to PM you but since I just joined Warrior Forum it will not let me so maybe you could PM me or post another way to contact you.

Ando6784 · 01-06-2012, 11:40 PM

Yea facebook is killer! I double my mony when i use facebook to promote as well

07-12-2011, 01:38 PM	#1
Maddmula HyperActive Warrior Join Date: May 2011 Location: SF Posts: 127 Thanks: 22 Thanked 9 Times in 9 Posts Social Networking	Struggling with Promoting Mobile CPA Offers Hello Warriors, Since mid April I have been with Offermobi trying to promote mobile CPA offers through platforms like Jumptap and Admob. Although I haven't been at it that long, I've put a lot of effort in, and have seen no success. I have been through many campaigns, had terrible CTR, and my conversions are unbelievably low. Here's my normal routine when going about setting up a new campaign. (maybe you will see an error/flaw in my process) Example: Offer - Prepaid Debit Card 1 Field Payout - $.30 Mobile Advertising Platform - Jumptap 1. Pick a feature campaign with low payout but high conversions 2. Affiliate manager recommends running it with Feature Phones like Boost, Metro PCS, and Cricket 3. Create 3 separate campaigns for Cricket, Boost, and Metro PCS on Jumptap 4. Add the tracking parameters to my tracking link jt,JT_ADBUNDLE,JT_OPERATOR,JT_HANDSET,JT_KEYWORD,J T_PUBLISHER,JT_SITE 5. Give each campaign a $15 budget 6. Target US only 7. To find out what I should put in my Ad Text for Title & Description I search "Prepaid Debit Card" on Google, look at the ads, and copy their Ad Text. 8. Ad Title: Best Prepaid Debit Card Description: 100% Approval. Start Now! 8. Ad all categories except for Adult and place a $.10 Bid 9. Hope for the best 10. After the campaigns are run if something has a better CTR or is converting better I cater to it. But no matter how much I fidget with ad text, bid price, categories, I can't get the offer to convert over the ad cost. My only conclusion why I haven't been successful is because I don't have enough money to test with. Like all of my campaigns are given a $20 budget instead of the usual $100 + budget needed to test. I have sucked it up and tested with large $ campaigns but they had no success either. If anyone is having success with Mobile CPA and Offermobi, it would be much appreciated to hear what you're doing to see good results. Thank you so much!

07-12-2011, 05:24 PM	#3
johnny_h Jackson Halbert War Room Member Join Date: Mar 2010 Posts: 171 Thanks: 22 Thanked 12 Times in 12 Posts	Re: Struggling with Promoting Mobile CPA Offers I've never tried running mobile campaigns the way you are, but from the looks of it I think you might be spread a bit too thin. I would pick one feature phone and run with that for a while until you learn how to convert on that one phone, then move on to others. Also, again I've not done mobile advertising, but I know each mobile phone type displays things a bit differently - I'd get my hands on the feature phone that you're using and see how the ads actually appear, that might give you a bit better clue what people are seeing and what you might consider doing to tweak your ad. Go to your local retailer and check out one of their demo units. Also, I don't know about the offers that you're running, but you want to get the network epc from your AM at offermobi and bid that amount while testing. If you get an ad to convert really well, you can think about raising your bid to get more exposure, but I would look at the epc as a guide to what you should be bidding.

07-13-2011, 12:49 PM	#5
Maddmula HyperActive Warrior Join Date: May 2011 Location: SF Posts: 127 Thanks: 22 Thanked 9 Times in 9 Posts Social Networking	Re: Struggling with Promoting Mobile CPA Offers I guess Mobile CPA isn't very popular, but thanks for the replies anyway.

07-13-2011, 08:37 PM	#7
Maddmula HyperActive Warrior Join Date: May 2011 Location: SF Posts: 127 Thanks: 22 Thanked 9 Times in 9 Posts Social Networking	Re: Struggling with Promoting Mobile CPA Offers Thanks for the plan, I'll possibly try that, only thing is I then have to learn how to use Trumpia and Facebook Ads. I think before i quit, I'm just going to try making my own mobile offer/landing page to capture emails and phone #'s. Again thanks for the idea

07-15-2011, 01:11 PM	#9
Godmode Warrior Member Join Date: Jul 2011 Posts: 7 Thanks: 1 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Re: Struggling with Promoting Mobile CPA Offers Lemme spill the beans for you. 1) Mobile ads are still mostly branding or app downloads, only those do well. 2) You would also notice around 30%+ click discrepancy in reporting between ad network and aff network. Mainly due to lot of accidental clickers just close the window before it even opens your LP. 3) I spent well over $2000 testing the entire market including INTL but remains the same. 4) Expect a lot of babies and kids to click your ads as they play angry birds on their parents iphone/android. lol Seriously speaking mobile marketing needs a lot of change right now and its going to take time. Revisit in 2012 and you might be suprised. for the time being capturing email and phone and then selling them your CPA offer makes a lot of sense. Good luck

07-15-2011, 09:18 PM	#10
Mary Wilhite Advanced Warrior War Room Member Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Canton, Georgia Posts: 744 Blog Entries: 13 Thanks: 29 Thanked 139 Times in 121 Posts Social Networking Contact Info	Re: Struggling with Promoting Mobile CPA Offers Yes selling CPA offers is a very good decision.you will surely do great in terms of business.thank you.
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07-15-2011, 09:57 PM	#11
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07-15-2011, 10:00 PM	#12
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01-06-2012, 05:22 PM	#15
Ando6784 Warrior Member Join Date: Jan 2012 Location: Philadelphia, Pa Posts: 3 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Re: Struggling with Promoting Mobile CPA Offers You guys are just going about it all wrong! Using paid marketing for mobile CPA is a waste of time and money. Trust me I've done it. I've devised a system using the Android market to totally CRUSH mobile CPA offers, and it's free. I call it Mobile CPA Sniper, I've been making a steady $100 a day with my method since Feb. 2011. If anybody's interested just PM me! I'm thinking about launching a Clickbank product around this method because it works so well. I'm new to the forum but lot's of good stuff on here!

01-06-2012, 06:18 PM	#16
JohnMoney Banned War Room Member Join Date: Apr 2011 Location: Chicago Posts: 232 Thanks: 1 Thanked 22 Times in 18 Posts	Re: Struggling with Promoting Mobile CPA Offers Some people are killing it with mobile cpa. But in my opinion it's facebook babyyy. When i start a campaing on facebook I make $$$ my first day. That's what i love about facebook = Power of viral

01-06-2012, 11:40 PM	#18
Ando6784 Warrior Member Join Date: Jan 2012 Location: Philadelphia, Pa Posts: 3 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Re: Struggling with Promoting Mobile CPA Offers Yea facebook is killer! I double my mony when i use facebook to promote as well