Cash needed to get started into CPA

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Hello,

Well, as I posted before here at WF. I am new into CPA networks. I have worked on other programs such as amazon affiliates, CJ, and as a publisher of Adsense having an steady average income that helps pay some of my bills. All traffic came from organic free traffic from my blogs and websites.

However, I would really try getting deep into CPA's as a profession and use the most common sources of traffic such as PPC, PPV,etc...

I've started with 7search as recommended by many of you, marketing offers from Peerfly. I started with email / zip submits, I had no luck so far but to be honest I am not spending that much money because I am really new on this.

So how much budget you think I should have in order to see some results here.
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  • Profile picture of the author Greedy
    I would say $800 is good starting budget for 7Search.

    You are experienced, but there really are so many variables.

    Maybe share a bit about your first campaign for some feedback.
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    • Profile picture of the author nikomaster
      Originally Posted by Greedy View Post

      I would say $800 is good starting budget for 7Search.

      You are experienced, but there really are so many variables.

      Maybe share a bit about your first campaign for some feedback.
      Well first of all, I read like crazy all I could from here and other forums. I read some of your reports. The first thing that called my attention is the fact 7search has low quality traffic. So to start I opened my 7search account with 25 bucks, and started the cleansing of all bot traffic.

      I blocked all traffic I believe is bad. I noticed most of these sources come from hijacked browsers and that's no good. I also blocked all display traffic, I've found so far.

      I started promoting some email/zips offers, later after my disappointment with the apartments offer from peerfly I decided to drop on those offers and I focused on a software download lead. I have not had any conversion so far..also I have not depleted the 25 bucks yet.

      So I am kind of lost here. Even leaving the ad running all day it barely burns 2 dollars and gets a couple of dozen of clicks.
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      • Profile picture of the author ChrisBa
        Originally Posted by nikomaster View Post

        Well first of all, I read like crazy all I could from here and other forums. I read some of your reports. The first thing that called my attention is the fact 7search has low quality traffic. So to start I opened my 7search account with 25 bucks, and started the cleansing of all bot traffic.

        I blocked all traffic I believe is bad. I noticed most of these sources come from hijacked browsers and that's no good. I also blocked all display traffic, I've found so far.

        I started promoting some email/zips offers, later after my disappointment with the apartments offer from peerfly I decided to drop on those offers and I focused on a software download lead. I have not had any conversion so far..also I have not depleted the 25 bucks yet.

        So I am kind of lost here. Even leaving the ad running all day it barely burns 2 dollars and gets a couple of dozen of clicks.
        It sounds like you need to get more keywords, you need to get more traffic going to your offers
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    • Profile picture of the author overseer
      Originally Posted by Greedy View Post

      I would say $800 is good starting budget for 7Search.
      Wow ... $800 is quite big especially for newbs and people outside the US (like me)
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  • Profile picture of the author Greedy
    Ok, one huge lesson you have to learn in the affiliate world is you have to get volume.

    If I can't see a campaign producing volume early, I add bigger keywords, or decide to move on.

    Go to the volume.

    Now 7Search doesn't have much volume, but it is good for learning. Another good alternative is Bing Ads aka AdCenter.

    Regarding your 7Search struggles you just have to keep at it and commit to mastering 7Search.
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  • Profile picture of the author trafficmasters
    If he has $800 then I would not touch 7search but go straight for sitescout.com - you will have much more control over your advertising campaign and have access to billions of impressions
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  • Profile picture of the author nikomaster
    The thing with free traffic is that you need to work a lot to make decent numbers.
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    • Profile picture of the author Greedy
      Originally Posted by nikomaster View Post

      The think with free traffic is that you need to work a lot to make decent numbers.
      Not true, I make great money with lots of free traffic sources.

      You just have to be creative
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      • Profile picture of the author nikomaster
        Originally Posted by Greedy View Post

        Not true, I make great money with lots of free traffic sources.

        You just have to be creative
        There you said it, "LOTS" lots of sources means having a lot of time using them and a lot of work with them. For example if I would like starting with a forum I would need some hundreds of posts with my link signature to get a decent traffic from them. This is just a matter of numbers and quality.

        It is hard work because you have to write compelling content to attract the visitor to your link.
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  • Profile picture of the author Greedy
    There you said it, "LOTS" lots of sources means having a lot of time using them and a lot of work with them. For example if I would like starting with a forum I would need some hundreds of posts with my link signature to get a decent traffic from them. This is just a matter of numbers and quality.
    - I've got youtube videos still driving me about 1,000 unique clicks a day, from videos I uploaded over 3 years ago. Not much work for the return at all.

    - I've also used Facebook Fan pages to rank for keywords in Google, then they driving traffic to my squeeze pages with very very little work.

    - The majority of forum sig traffic comes from your most recent posts. You don't need 100s of posts.

    Just my experiences. Sure some free methods definitely take work, but if you are broke, it might be your only choose.
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  • Profile picture of the author jaggyjay
    If you have an $800 budget, I'd say take 25% of that ($200) and start with CPV on Lead Impact.

    I've never used 7Search; but I think that by the time you've gotten a "handle" on them - you would have gotten a "handle" on CPV... and with less money

    Also, there was a good post about marketing with 7 Search... it had a title like "How to make 7 search your b*tch" or something. Can't find it though. You may want to search for it and check it out
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  • Profile picture of the author nikomaster
    For now, I have my hands tied. I guess in the meantime I should work with free sources.
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  • Profile picture of the author Greedy
    Also, there was a good post about marketing with 7 Search... it had a title like "How to make 7 search your b*tch" or something. Can't find it though. You may want to search for it and check it out
    Yes, that post was good. It was from an old PDF I believe.
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