What's a good incentive CPA that pays on time?

I sure can, Mark! I've been involved with incentive affiliate marketing for almost 5 years now. I'll give you a more detailed explanation in a minute but, in a nutshell, incentive means that someone will receive something in return for completing an offer, if the information provided in the offer is accepted by the advertiser. That incentive could be in the form of points or cash or gift cards or gifts or virtual currency. There's also a 'new' incentive called content locking. A person will be permitted to continue further on the site they're on if they complete an offer. The incentive is being allowed to see the content on the site.

There are various types of incentive offers that are basically the same as other offers - email submits, zip submits, surveys, trial offers, etc., but they generally pay a lot less than non-incentive offers.

There are different types of sites that can offer incentives. Social networking sites and games sites offer virtual currency as an incentive for completing offers. The virtual currency can be used to 'purchase' whatever virtual items are available that pertain to the game or the site.

The type of incentive site that I'm most familiar with is the GPT site - Get Paid To. With GPT sites you sign up to become a member, totally free, and for every credited offer you receive a specific number of points or an amount of cash. Based on the site's requirements, you can cash out your cash when you've reached minimum cash-out ($1, $5, $10, etc.,), and receive your payment however you choose based on the options the site makes available. With points, you can convert them to cash sometimes or use the points to 'buy' gift cards or other items available for 'purchase'.

I started working on GPT incentive sites, as a member of various sites, about 5 years ago to make extra money. After doing that for a while, I decided that I wanted to have a bigger piece of the pie, so to speak, and I opened my own GPT site, Bowling for Cash, and that was over 4 years ago. Up until 2 years ago I was working full-time so that was just a part-time venture. Two years ago I got laid off and decided that I didn't want to ever be employed by anybody again so that I could control my own fate, so I decided to start an affiliate network and I opened Campaign Creatives about a year and a half ago. They say to go with what you know, and I know the incentive side of affiliate marketing because I started from the bottom as a member and worked my way up, so that's the area on which I've been focused.

A lot of advertisers and networks look down on incentive sites, and there were quite a few times when I thought incentive offers would go away forever. But........the incentive market can be very lucrative because those people would never be reached without the incentive. They would never, ever complete an offer on a website without getting something for doing it.

So that's pretty much the explanation of how the incentive side of affiliate marketing works, Mark. Hope that helps!