Starting CPA

It’s going to be important that you do not appear to be a newbie when it comes to marketing.

You will need a decent website setup.This will allow you to get approved quickly.
Most of them can allow you to use a free blog like blogger

After you have sent in your application they will send a message to you.
Call them immediately. This is what you need to say over the phone: “Hi, I’ve just signed up as an affiliate, and I want to talk to an affiliate manager to get me approved.

Tell them you are a ppc marketer and you do direct to merchant pay per clicks. This is sufficient to “convince” them you know your stuff and to get you approved.You will be using Google Adwords, MSN Adcenter, and Yahoo PPC to promote a variety of offers. Do not ramble into un-necessary detail.

Here is a list of CPA networks:

RocketProfit

Maxbounty

Hydra

Azoogle

Linkshare

InstantDollarz

Clickbooth

CPA Empire

ClickXchange

Revenue Gateway

Revenue Allies

ShareaSale

CJ.com

LinkMo

SearchCactus

Market Leverage

AdFish

AdReporting

AdterActive

AffiliateCop

Affiliateer

AffiliateFuture

AffiliateWindow

AzoogleAds

BulletAds

CheckMyStats

ClickBooth

ClixGalore

CommissionJunction

CommissionSoup

CPAEmpire

CPAJunction

CPAStorm

CyberBounty

DarkBlue

eAdvertising

FiliNet

FineClicks

FloppyBank

FluxAds

HydraMedia

LeadClick

LeaderMarkets

LeadHound

LinkConnector

LinkShare

MaxBounty

ModernClick

OffersQuest

PaidOnResults

Performics

PrimaryAds

RevenueGateway

RevenueLoop

RexTopia

RocketProfit

ShareASale

ShareResults

Turn2Offers

CX Digital/Incentaclick


Hope this will help

Mary Brown

Get a professional "corporate type" site done so you look like a media agency. Then fill out an application form and call them up for a swift approval. Always helps to speak to a rep.

I would also recommend to stick to anything "lead-based", where you get paid for each form submit without a credit card like insurance quotes, loan applications or debt enquiries. Even credit rating reports can work but anything that pays you a commission per lead instead of a sale is much easier to promote so stick to these for starters if you can.

Also stick to PPC as it's still the best source of high-quality traffic (i.e. Adwords and BING are usually the number one choices I would recommend).

Hope that helps
Nick

Use the search feature on this forum and find a poster by the name "Greedy". She regulalry provides some excellent information in the area of CPA. I expect you will find lots of useful information from her.

Great discussion. I always seem to get back to return on investment and CPA marketing is a great ROI strategy. Having said that, what are the best "paid" promotional methods?
Thanks

Check out this post by Luke: http://www.warriorforum.com/ad-netwo...d-peerfly.html

Learn on forums, CPA related blogs, communicate with people.. But make sure you read a lot at first to understand the concepts. Once you learn it, start your first campaign. And then just repeat those processes.

You can get approved easily, if you have legit traffic source and you are honest with them you will get approved. If you need any help add me on Skype - NikolaCPABeyond and I'll help you.


Best regards,

CPA Beyond

Peerfly has loads of CPA offers all ripe for promotion at JoinPeerfly.com many with excellent commissions.

Best way to start:


Do lots of research, frequent forums like this one, maybe even join a training course if you think you might need one. When you actually start promoting offers, try sticking to one niche and one traffic source to start. You'll find you wont become as overwhelmed this way, and can gain more knowledge of what is or isn't working when you have less to focus on.


Best way to get accepted:


BE HONEST. It's okay if you're new, everyone starts somewhere. but lots of networks including MaxBounty do accept newbies. You just have to have a plan as to how you will promote offers if you're accepted into the network. Be able to communicate that plan clearly and you'll definitely increase your odds of having your application approved. Having a website to start is also a great asset, but not a mandatory requirement.


Hope this helps.

Best way to start - are you interested in paid traffic or free traffic? Do you have any previous experience?

Getting accepted to networks - just be honest with them in how you plan on driving traffic to their offers is normally the best and easiest way to do it

I think you need to know which verticals you want to explore, and be specific on how you want to go about it. Do some research on this and then apply. At least you will have a pretty good idea of what you will be promoting upfront. This will make it easy for you in the phone interview that most networks now require.

I personally love working with newer users and helping them expand their earnings, we've always been very open on accepting newbies!

Hey fx2000, have you started with CPA yet?

If you are still on the fence, I suggest you apply with peerfly. It was the first network that I applied when I started out about 3 years ago and was a beginner that time and was accepted. Just be honest with them and tell your plans on how to promote cpa offers.

The best way to start would be to establish your own high traffic website on a certain niche of your interest and post banners of related CPA offers.

Hey Fx2000,

I posted a thread not too long ago explaining step by step how to get your CPA business started, in case you didn't see my thread, here are the free tips...

Step One - How to get approved by CPA networks?

First, choose the networks that you want to join. You will need to choose from a wide collection of networks to land up with the best offers and payouts. In some cases, different networks offer different pays for the same offers that are being made elsewhere too. So, choose the one that suits you the best, and make your profits.

Next, fill up the submission forms and then answer all the questions to the best ability of yours. As you can tell they are interested to know what you’ve done, if you have a website, how much traffic you generally receive and how you plan on getting traffic to make sales online. Do not feel pressured, if your knowledge is very little, you have to begin from somewhere. So Remember to be honest and cut to the chase. Most network managers may give you a phone interview so if you said on your application you sold $2500 on click bank with no proof you will not get approved.

To speed up the process, I would recommend calling up the CPA network as soon as you complete your application. Network managers will appreciate the enthusiasm since you’ve taken the time to call them up, they will be impressed enough to have you working for them right away. To make sure you sound confident, I would recommend writing down a business plan on how you intend to promote their offers, this way it will make you sound more prepared and confident to take action.

Step Two - Best Networks to Choose

Maxbounty

If you are looking for a reliable affiliate network to promote your products then MaxBounty is the perfect CPA network for you. As long as a marketer has a website of his or her own, one can use MaxBounty in affiliate marketing. The network also allows international publishers to market programs. It has a good reputation in the affiliate industry which is evident from the abundant threads found on many affiliate programs out there. A minimum payment of $50 is made. This amount can increase substantially for those working with MaxBounty.

Copeac

Affiliates working with the COPEAC have the advantage of earning commission of up to 2% just to refer other marketers to this network. Other than that marketers can use Cost per Acquisition or Cost per Sale techniques to promote the offers available on the programs on this network. A minimum monthly amount of $100 is paid via wire transfer or through checks for those working here.

Direct leads

DirectLeads is a CPA network that has all the qualities of a good network. This includes Cost per Lead and Pay per Click pay offers to its affiliates. It also reports all referrals and commission on real-time basis. Affiliates are also paid commission on the basis of referrals to other marketers. The only drawback of this network is that it pays a minimum of $20 after two months to its affiliates which might be a considerably long gestation period for most marketers.

Step Three - Selecting your CPA offer

Once you start getting approved by these CPA networks, Pick the ten best offers which have the most potential. By finding out which ones are popular demands, use Google trends to help you get the hot topics which are most searched for in the news and search engines. This will help you get big easy money since you’re researching the markets you’re promoting.

The next job of yours will be to find out how much of traffic the CPA offer in your spotlight can ever create in the chosen niche? For this, you can use the Google’s keyword research tool. You may use other tools, but when it comes down to traffic hunting, there is nothing that can ever top the Google power!

Finally, you now have to move on from research arena to the campaigning one, and this can be done in just one hour or so, where you will have your PPC up and running in no time! If you have a large portfolio of sites, it is possible for you to still keep a lookout for better offers being provided in the CPA networks. If you do find any, you have to reverse-engineer the entire process. By this it means that you will have to build up a site around the desired offer. But you have to make sure that the domain name that you use should be closely related to the offer that you make. However, it does not imply that you will have to throw away the site if the offer does not generate money for you and is taken down. All you have to do is to keep two to three alternatives open while you are building up your site, so that you can always replace the banners and texts so as to promote a different offer. This method is tricky, but it is very easy too.

Be as honest as possible.

Let them know what vertical(s) you are interested in...

And where you will be sending traffic (1 or 2 sources will do).

CPA networks get a gazillion applications...

And I'm pretty sure they know when someone isn't being real with them.

OP i suggest you to read around this section first before even giving any traffic source a go. I dont think you need to call the network a call to get approved. I mostly find these managers on Linkedin and add them on skype...and this is where they conduct my interview

Be honest with how you plan on promoting their campaigns because if you are not honest while filling the application then you surely will be in trouble.

cpa networks r ok but what about the results i tried my best with several ads company but never got suceed can any one help me to design a landing page for cpa.

well there r hell lot of cpa network but the qwuestion is how to be succesfull with the ads camopaign and some network has stoped email marketing as well.

If you're looking to start out and learn a lot of the basics + some intermediate information about CPA, we put together several videos that help out.

Visit contentlockinghelp.com

The name includes content locking but a lot of the information is applicable to CPA in general.

I hope that helps!