Who here is making 2000+ per month in affiliate marketing using paid traffic?

You're probably going to burn though a lot of money - I'll warn you of that right now.

Forget what anyone else tells you, there's no way to learn this without serious skin in the game and having your fingers burnt.

You might also never become profitable, just because you have a profitable campaign or profitable month, doesn't mean you'll have a profitable year or affiliate career.

That being said, there's fortunes being made in affiliate marketing right now.

Best of luck!

I'm not aware of anyone making money that way from Amazon for very long, because it is against their TOS to drive traffic to what may be regarded as lean content, and could get your account deactivated or even banned.

Your traffic needs to be directed to your own website which has value-added content. Under certain conditions (check their operating agreement) social media may contain direct affiliate links.

Having said that, some advertising methods I have used with consistent astounding success has been article syndication, ezine solo ads, email, social media, webinars, newspapers, magazines, direct mail, telemarketing, seminars, and even face-to-face sales. [Essential caveat: Never mention or refer to Amazon within these types of promotions except for social media as noted above.]

In addition, you must be fairly certain your prospects are not only laser-targeted, but also ready to buy. Amazon has a cookie that lasts just 24 hours, so unless they buy within that narrow window, you will not earn a commission.

MY BEST ADVICE TO YOU IS BUILD A LIST. FORGET EVERYTHING ELSE. THERE ALOT OF COACHES ONLINE THAT WILL HELP YOU DO THAT. CONTACT ME I CAN RECOMMEND A FEW PEOPLE.

I would suggest grabbing a blueprint from someone who is successful (usually you have to pay for this) and then finding someone to coach/mentor you. (This always costs money unfortunately) but once you have an investment you have a strong motivation to make it work

I have been doing CPA / affiliate marketing for over 16 years.

More technically, I monetize 3rd party data (email) using PPL offers. This is for a couple key reason.

I promote PPL (pay per lead...lead generation) offers because there is no credit card / purchase required to complete an offer. it is far easier and less work to get someone to fill out a short form than it is, to take out their credit card and purchase something. So conversion rates are typically much higher compared to offers that require a sale to be made.

I generate traffic to the offers by acquiring fresh / targeted 3rd party data. This is because I'm building assets that I then own and can market to over and over at low cost and I own/control the traffic. Where most marketers pay for traffic, which often just results in failing to turn a profit unless they have a proven funnel or the use some free traffic strategy that more than not, isn't worth the time that it takes to implement.

So with the combination of the two, basically I'm monetizing the data using PPL offers because they offer the path of least resistance to get conversions and convert the data into cash producing assets.

I favor offers that have a make, get or save money benefit. This is what has overall worked best for me and tends to have the greatest amount of mass appeal (will be of interest to a large general audience). So the potential to generate high volume of leads exists and cross promoting offers on the back-end is fairly easy.

Some verticals that I have done extremely well with are: insurance, debt, credit, education, mortgage, loans, assistance, discount offers, homeowner offers, etc...

If you're not familiar with 3rd party data, it is simply email data that the users have provided permission to receive messages from third parties. So it is 100% can-spam compliant and has nothing to do with spamming. I either purchase the data or I get it through rev-share deal. Rev-share (revenue-sharing) is data that you get upfront for $0 cost and then split the revenue generated from sending it, with the data provider.

Everything starts with the data and what vertical the users have requested information about or shown an interest in and sending a relevant offer. So if I'm getting data for auto insurance, then I send an auto insurance offer to the users. If I'm getting data for education, I send them an education offer, etc...

This type of data is rarely going to be as responsive as a highly targeted opt-in list that you develop yourself. This is not an issue because it is much cheaper and highly scalable, compared to list building.

The key to making it work is to always be segmenting your openers / clickers - removing unresponsive users. That way over time you will be building smaller but more responsive list that you should eventually be able to send less and make more when mailed. Essentially you are converting the data from quantity to quality.

Obviously, there is far more to it, but done right it can be extremely profitable. Everyone that I know that is in the business and knows what they are doing, for the most part, does 6-7 figures. While that may seem like a huge range, much comes down to one's ability to scale and effectively build / manage the infrastructure needed to scale.

It's not for everyone, but something to think about.

It is easy to earn 100$ per day through affiliate marketing as my friend earns daily through it and is not too tough you have to select genuine products and advertise them at right site you can easily reach to that goal even above it only you need is hardwork.

When I first started? Took me months and thousands of dollars.

Everyone fails when they start. Some people learn faster than others, but you can expect to lose money upfront learning by trial and error.

But after awhile you get better at launching campaigns.

Soon instead of taking 2-3 months to turn a new campaign profitable, you are able to do it in a month, then 2 weeks, and now I'm at the point where I can launch a campaign and be breaking even or profiting as soon as a few days into testing.

You just have to know what to focus on and experience will teach you that.

Depends how experienced you are?

Total noob? You could blow through thousands before you break even (If you even stick around that long).

Most noobs should look into getting a mentor if you plan on spending more than $1000 getting started anyway. It will save you time and money avoiding pitfalls you would of fallen into without someone guiding you.

Plus it's always good to have someone to help you carry the burdens of this stressful job. A good mentor will motivate you and keep pushing you (like Sam and Frodo in Lord of the rings!)



Stackthatmoney is probably the best resource you're going to get in terms of the cheapest source of legit information. That is where most of the real discussion happens (the other places are private mastermind groups).

But if you're going to pay 99$ a month for a forum, you may as well go all in and get a mentor.

If you have experience in affiliate marketing you might not need a mentor but for anyone who is brand new, you are going to be at a severe disadvantage going in alone. You will be a small fish in a big pond of sharks. You're going to want a shark buddy to keep you safe from making a dumb mistake and getting eaten alive with ad costs.

Affiliate marketing and CPA marketing are the easiest ways to rake in $$$ daily. But you need to learn the real process that will convert well for to start raking in $$$...

• You choose a niche
• Build a website to promote those products (Domain & Web Hosting)
• Build Mailing List using (Autoresponder Services) through an "Optin or Squeeze Page" which must have its own web hosting and domain as well...
• Traffic to your Squeeze page using (Pay Per Click Ads, Ad Swaps, Online forums, Viral Video Marketing)
• Optimize your affiliate website and optin page to rank well on google using the right keywords, professionals can help you do a good SEO of your website to get ranked on google which in turn brings you ( laser targeted traffic)

If all these are done properly, You should start earning money that very week. You can inbox me if you need my services on any of these and if you know someone else who can render all these services to you, I wish you all the best of luck in your online money making quest.

Hope this is not a stupid question. I get the gist of affiliate marketing but CPA /PPL is little confusing.

So for PPL/CPA you just provides leads and get paid for them? Where as for affiliate marketing you promote a product(ex:something from clickbank) and if that person buys through your link you get commission.

At the end of the day all you need is a list. if you start affiliate marketing. it always combine with email marketing.. just focus on creating high converting landing page. and send traffic to it by paid. whatever outcome you will have your list and you can profit from it anytime.

What's the negative in just buying an e-mail list?