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Is CPA your sole source of income?

by worldleaderpretend
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Hey Guys, Recently got into CPA and still finding my feet to be honest. Seems like a hell of a lot to get my teeth into. Kenster's 2 guides are my bible at the moment, and working through them.

Seems like there is a big amount of money to be made in CPA but just wondering how many of you are purely doing CPA as your only income or if it is merely an additional income stream in your IM ventures?

Thanks.
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  • Profile picture of the author cpabrainstormer
    Hey worldleaderpretend,

    I've been in internet marketing now for two years and I started when I was a senior in college. I feel like I am just now starting to grasp everything that goes into it, so I know exactly how you're feeling right now.

    But I got into CPA marketing about 6-12 months ago and I have learned so much in that time. After going through the learning curve, I am now starting to make a full time income. I hope to make this my career because I just don't see myself being the typical 9-5, suit wearing, business man, you know what I mean? Haha.

    But I wish you the best, and if you need additional help with figuring out CPA marketing, I have a blog with some pretty cool tips and tricks you can try. But feel free to PM or email me if you have any questions!

    Best of Luck,

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  • Profile picture of the author RyanEagle
    CPA is my main source of revenue and has been for many years. I've been full time since 2004 and enjoying every moment of it (got into CPA in early 2005, started with SEO).
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  • Profile picture of the author joetheseo
    Everyone has their specific taste of what they feel comfortable marketing. I started on Amazon and Adsense because I used to HATE copy.
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  • Profile picture of the author BH_Winchester
    CPA is my primary source of income however I ensure to supplement it with CPC and on occasion CPM advertising on high traffic content driven sites. I also on occasion do freelance ghost writing projects - or create content membership sites if I have spare time on my hands in order to great a side stream of additional revenue.

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  • Profile picture of the author Cash37
    If you can make money online with it, Im there. I am a diverse entrepreneur. I understand that internet marketing can change drastically at any time. Im not a worst case scenario guy, I just like to be spread out across different things such as CPA, Adsense, my products, eBay, consulting (for an elite few only) and offline ventures.
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  • Profile picture of the author Kenster
    Originally Posted by worldleaderpretend View Post

    Hey Guys, Recently got into CPA and still finding my feet to be honest. Seems like a hell of a lot to get my teeth into. Kenster's 2 guides are my bible at the moment, and working through them.

    Seems like there is a big amount of money to be made in CPA but just wondering how many of you are purely doing CPA as your only income or if it is merely an additional income stream in your IM ventures?

    Thanks.

    Thank you mate, and of course you know I am always here if you get stuck anywhere!

    Me personally, when I started down the CPA road, that is all I did. I have in the last 6 months diversified my income beyond CPA, but the bulk comes from CPA related campaigns.

    It is a great industry with great potential, but its always smart to have your hand in many income streams because the online world changes fast. Not that CPA will ever go away, but its a volatile industry because some campaigns can be making you a huge amount of money and then go away just as fast.

    Its nice having a solid income stream as a base, CPA and non-CPA, and then just trying to kill it with some campaigns that you ramp up as icing on the cake!

    But yes, diversify within CPA and diversify outside of CPA...my two cents
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  • Profile picture of the author williamrs
    No, it's not... yet!

    Currently, I have campaigns promoting Clickbank and PLR products using free traffic. However, my PPC campaigns with CPA offers are making more money each and every day, so I'm really considering to focus 100% on this business.

    CPA is great, and if you are trying to choose between CPA and other model I strong recommend you to go with CPA. If you have Kenster's first WSO you already have the foundations to understand the main systems to drive targeted traffic to your offers. Now, just choose one of them and start working on it, look for more information related to your system and don't lose your focus. Do it and will be making serious money with PPC in few weeks!


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    • Profile picture of the author Kenster
      Originally Posted by williamrs View Post

      No, it's not... yet!

      Currently, I have campaigns promoting Clickbank and PLR products using free traffic. However, my PPC campaigns with CPA offers are making more money each and every day, so I'm really considering to focus 100% on this business.

      CPA is great, and if you are trying to choose between CPA and other model I strong recommend you to go with CPA. If you have Kenster's first WSO you already have the foundations to understand the main systems to drive targeted traffic to your offers. Now, just choose one of them and start working on it, look for more information related to your system and don't lose your focus. Do it and will be making serious money with PPC in few weeks!


      William

      What's up William,

      Just be careful about putting all your eggs in one cart. Ideally, having 100% of income coming from CPA is risky. This industry can change really fast. What if you are doing most of your CPA income from free trials and the FTC bans them outright, then what? What if you are doing all your traffic from PPC and the search engines outright deny any and all things related to affiliate marketing.

      Thats why its always good to diversify as you grow yoru business. I like having streams come from any and all directions, some very tiny some large, but at least I know no matter what one or two drastic things happen, I will still have a sustainable business.
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      • Profile picture of the author williamrs
        Originally Posted by Kenster View Post

        What's up William,

        Just be careful about putting all your eggs in one cart. Ideally, having 100% of income coming from CPA is risky. This industry can change really fast. What if you are doing most of your CPA income from free trials and the FTC bans them outright, then what? What if you are doing all your traffic from PPC and the search engines outright deny any and all things related to affiliate marketing.

        Thats why its always good to diversify as you grow yoru business. I like having streams come from any and all directions, some very tiny some large, but at least I know no matter what one or two drastic things happen, I will still have a sustainable business.
        Kenster, thanks for the advice!

        I know we should never put all our eggs in one basket. I also have email lists and make money with Clickbank and plr products, but CPA is becoming my best income source and I'm going to invest more on it.

        However, I always try to diversify my campaigns. Currently, I'm promoting email submits and free trials only, but I'm planning more campaigns for the next weeks. What I'm trying to do is create campaigns that do not depend on a specific offer. This way, I can change the offer whenever I need. Of course, changing the offer may force me to adjust other things such as CPC and budget, but it's still much better than starting everything again.

        Also, I know that I need to work with more than one traffic source. Now, I'm focusing almost exclusively on PPC to promote my CPA offers, but I'll start testing other traffic sources as soon as possible. I have never worked with PPV or media buying, so I want to wait until I have time to learn how to use them.

        I think that CPA has a lot of possibilites, we can think that one day it will not be possible to promote free trials anymore, but CPA is not just free trials. The problem is when we have one campaign promoting one offer with one network. If we diversify and promote different offers with different networks we will hardly have problems with all of our campaigns.


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      • Profile picture of the author imon32red
        Originally Posted by Kenster View Post

        What's up William,

        Just be careful about putting all your eggs in one cart. Ideally, having 100% of income coming from CPA is risky. This industry can change really fast. What if you are doing most of your CPA income from free trials and the FTC bans them outright, then what? What if you are doing all your traffic from PPC and the search engines outright deny any and all things related to affiliate marketing.

        Thats why its always good to diversify as you grow yoru business. I like having streams come from any and all directions, some very tiny some large, but at least I know no matter what one or two drastic things happen, I will still have a sustainable business.
        Kenster,

        I respect the advice that you give to this forum and usually I agree with you. However, this time I don't. I agree with you that you need to diversify your income. That is why I started doing CPA. Right now my income comes from my ebook business and I need to diversify. I think that you need to wait until you make significant money in IM before you diversify though.

        One of the biggest mistakes that I made when I started IM two years ago was not sticking with something for long enough. If I didn't see a quick profit I moved on to the next greatest thing. Even when I did make money I didn't stick around long because the amount that I made was pennies and dollars.

        An old man that I know used to have a saying that he told me all the time. Pennies make dimes. Dimes make dollars. Dollars make one hundred dollar bills.

        In order to make hundred dollar bills you need to make lots of pennies. This is done by sticking with something long enough to figure out how to go from pennies, to dimes, to dollars, then on to the hundreds.

        I wish that someone would have helped me understand this better when I started IM. I got into IM after losing both of my jobs. The longer you stick with something the better you will get at it and the more money you make.

        When you start making money in IM you need to figure out what worked. Why it worked. And then how to upscale it. I would stick with the same thing until you are making a significant amount of money with it. Otherwise you spend too much of your time learning and very little time making money.
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        • Profile picture of the author Kenster
          Originally Posted by imon32red View Post

          Kenster,

          I respect the advice that you give to this forum and usually I agree with you. However, this time I don't. I agree with you that you need to diversify your income. That is why I started doing CPA. Right now my income comes from my ebook business and I need to diversify. I think that you need to wait until you make significant money in IM before you diversify though.

          One of the biggest mistakes that I made when I started IM two years ago was not sticking with something for long enough. If I didn't see a quick profit I moved on to the next greatest thing. Even when I did make money I didn't stick around long because the amount that I made was pennies and dollars.

          An old man that I know used to have a saying that he told me all the time. Pennies make dimes. Dimes make dollars. Dollars make one hundred dollar bills.

          In order to make hundred dollar bills you need to make lots of pennies. This is done by sticking with something long enough to figure out how to go from pennies, to dimes, to dollars, then on to the hundreds.

          I wish that someone would have helped me understand this better when I started IM. I got into IM after losing both of my jobs. The longer you stick with something the better you will get at it and the more money you make.

          When you start making money in IM you need to figure out what worked. Why it worked. And then how to upscale it. I would stick with the same thing until you are making a significant amount of money with it. Otherwise you spend too much of your time learning and very little time making money.


          I think you are agreeing with me because I feel the exact same way. As I said, I think its essential to diversify your business as you GROW your business. When you are starting a business, absolutely, especially in CPA, you need to focus on one method at a time and not jump around.

          But, once you are looking to grow your business and take it to the next level, thats when diversifying comes into play.

          And to be honest, to a lesser extent, one can diversify from the get go, but diversify doesnt mean try a million different things or jumping around from CPA method to CPA method. You can spend 80% of your time on a single CPA marketing method and 20% on listbuilding outside of CPA. You can do this from the start as well and this is also important.


          So yes, you make a good point that one shouldnt jump around all over the place when they start, but I think we are both in agreement that diversifying will be more critical as you grow and take your business to the next level!

          In my opinion , of course...which probably isnt worth much
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  • Profile picture of the author valdivz
    Let's see...I started with CPA about 5 months ago and its quickly becoming a solid stream of income. My prime business is doing SEO for local businesses... I've been doing that for a little over 2 years now...so that's my main income but I've got that on autopilot now and don't really take on any more clients and am focusing more on CPA.

    CPA is all about matching offers with consumers in a psycho demographic way. So there's a lot of testing and then ramping up...but I think it's fun!
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  • Profile picture of the author takefreepaidsurveys
    CPA is not my main revenue but Im am doing online marketing for 3 years now and I am doing aroud 25 000$ a year with affiliate network. Im using Maxbounty and Ourfreestuff.
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    • Profile picture of the author imon32red
      I am a noob to CPA but I have been into internet marketing for a while longer. My ebook business is what supports my family and it is all done online. I am looking produce a second income stream with CPA this summer. So far everything that I have done is a bust, but I will make it work eventually. It took me almost a year for my ebook business to really start producing.
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  • Profile picture of the author fbland87
    I am Noob at this CPA game. I do plan to get up at least 5 to 6figures with this Biz but I don't plan on this being on my sole source of income just because I see opportunity in a lot of offline areas as well. anyway good luck toy you and good bless
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  • Profile picture of the author fbland87
    by the way, besides the IM space this business is pretty unknown
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  • Profile picture of the author PPV Guru
    Originally Posted by worldleaderpretend View Post

    Hey Guys, Recently got into CPA and still finding my feet to be honest. Seems like a hell of a lot to get my teeth into. Kenster's 2 guides are my bible at the moment, and working through them.

    Seems like there is a big amount of money to be made in CPA but just wondering how many of you are purely doing CPA as your only income or if it is merely an additional income stream in your IM ventures?

    Thanks.
    I never put all my eggs in one basket. My income consists of the following:

    CPA marketing
    My own products
    Coaching (on very rare occassions)
    Residual income programs (not network marketing)
    SEO

    If one or more my systems fail, I still have a way to keep rolling. I started with just one thing though, mastered it, then branched out after I have a killer automated system setup for me.
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