Is Paid Marketing As Easy As It Sounds?

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I'm an aspiring CPA marketer. I read online all you'd have to do is direct link your ad to a paid marketing service (ie. Traffic Vance, Lead Impact) and they do all the work for you. All you need is to make a deposit. I have two questions about this. Is it really that easy, and will I be pumping out my goal money per day ($500 per day) in a matter of weeks, or is it a scam? How much of a deposit would you recommend I make if I want to make my $500 a day in a matter of weeks? The maximum amount of money I'm willing to deposit is $2000. Thank you for the help!



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  • Profile picture of the author mondokholling4
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    • Profile picture of the author chinchillaisgod
      I dont know, if it works as well as the article said "you'll be pumping out hundreds of thousands of dollars like its a game", then that would be pretty cool. But to me it sounds too good to be true.
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  • Profile picture of the author dburk
    Hi chinchillaisgod,

    Have you ever heard the saying: "If it sounds too good to be true then it probably is too good to be true."

    The hard reality is that if it was really that easy no one would bother sharing the profits with you. If you do everything the easy way you are unlikely to make a profit. Getting to profitability can take a good deal of work, not to mention time and money to develop the necessary skills.

    Those CPA networks are using your advertising dollars to generate business for themselves. They get a percentage and always make money. You are the one making all the investment in the marketing, taking all the marketing risk, and you get a percentage of a percentage. This can be profitable, but only if you promote the right offers, and only if you manage your ad campaigns very well.

    Many of your competitors will likely be using their own landing pages so they can generate a list and market to them over and over, stretching their initial marketing cost over many opportunities to profit. Everyone has heir own strategy, some work, some don't.

    I'm not even going to go into the many stories I have heard about skimming, unjustified "scrubbing", cookie theft, and other dubious activity that you are likely to encounter when you go down that path. So be alert, be aware and look out for yourself, it's a bit like the wild west, where almost anything can happen, including striking gold, only to see if disappear as quickly as it was came.

    Go into it with your eyes wide open, expect to work hard, make mistakes and learn from those mistakes. Try to have fun, and roll with punches. If you can handle the learning curve you just might make some money. Good luck.
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    • Profile picture of the author chinchillaisgod
      Thank you very much for the advice. How long have you been a CPA marketer? Are those people who say "I'm making $1500 a day doing this" completely lying or do they have a website that gets hundreds of thousands of visitors? The way you make it seem, it's impossible to make $500 a day with this method or any method other than owning a website/blog.

      Sorry I'm quite new to this, what on earth do you mean by "landing page" used in marketing? If I'm not mistaken isn't a landing page the home page of a website? How can I make revenue from affiliate links if I'm not linking my direct CPA link?
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      • Profile picture of the author Mapperkids Lee
        Yes, I been there year ago and I invested about $1000 and lucky I break even within two months time and step out after that.

        There are many factors to affect your success, yes many people make $500 / day by doing the CPA marketing. Once of my client he made $1000 / day for real. The point is you need to be kind of people who like to take big risk and with gambling mind set.

        I'm not that kind of person, I can deal with the day I invested $50 and get 0 returned. and next day I may get $100 and next day $10 again.

        Plus you need a lot of capital to test out different offers and targets.

        I would say you can make $1500 / day if you really know what you are doing and have a very good system in places, but for sure not in weeks. Something similar to Day-Trader in stock. You need to spend a lot of money to learn how it works and then keep trying and keep track everything.

        Tracking is VERY IMPORTANT for this game.

        Good luck.
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  • Profile picture of the author ChrisBa
    It sounds like you're not understanding how it works (or I don't understand your post)

    You buy traffic from sites like trafficvance, 50onred, etc

    You can direct link but it's better if you use landing pages

    Normally from the landing pages you would send the traffic to an offer or offers (such as cpa offers)

    There is a ton of money to be made but at the same time it does require time and strategy for testing different variables.
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  • Profile picture of the author YasirYar
    Originally Posted by chinchillaisgod View Post

    I'm an aspiring CPA marketer. I read online all you'd have to do is direct link your ad to a paid marketing service (ie. Traffic Vance, Lead Impact) and they do all the work for you. All you need is to make a deposit. I have two questions about this. Is it really that easy, and will I be pumping out my goal money per day ($500 per day) in a matter of weeks, or is it a scam? How much of a deposit would you recommend I make if I want to make my $500 a day in a matter of weeks? The maximum amount of money I'm willing to deposit is $2000. Thank you for the help!



    DONT BE AFRAID TO GIVE ME THE BRUTAL TRUTH!
    First of all, there are many CPA marketers out there who are even making $5-10K a day. It might sound far fetched but it is entirely possible if you find the right campaigns & market them the right way.

    Secondly, you have to find the right combination yourself.

    No one can help you because there are lots of variables and testing which comes into play here.

    So yes, trying to profit from CPA campaigns by just signing up for a marketing service is a good way to throw away your money.
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  • Profile picture of the author angeleyes238
    cpa marketing not easy as you think, it`s double-edged sword.
    make you win more or loss all your maney.

    so speen your money a wise, believe 1% of people talking.

    first of all should be aware of Obstacles and mistakes.

    i see you choose already ppc marketing method.

    so let`s say you picked an offer gives you $0.10 epc and $8.00 per sale


    you will focus on clicks profit and not sales.

    and now you starting a new campign with targeted keywords that cost you ppc $0.05 (you need to adjust your keywords, some keywords worths $20)

    let`s calculate the profit of that offer by clicks.

    $0.10 - $0.05 = $0.05 (my profit per click)

    now let`s say you decide to limit your budget to $50 per day.

    how many clicks you will get to count your profit of that day.

    $50 / 0.05 = 1000 clicks

    1000 click * 0.05 = $50 (my profit)

    hold on!

    you think you earned 50 bucks but you still not aware of Obstacles.

    first Obstacles:
    1- (targeted keywords) you add a keyword that worths more than $0.10 by mistake.

    second Obstacles:
    2- (fake clicks)no one can avoid %100 of fake clicks from that websites, so you had to monitor your blacklist publishers every day.

    if you lucky, the real of 1000 clicks you get it that day is 200 clicks
    that`s mean your profit is 10$
    $50 - $10 = $40 LOSS.

    this offers using high intellegent conversion tracking so we can`t play with them and they will ignore all fake clicks.

    so that no one will telling you the truth.

    any one telling that he made every day $1000 or more ask him first how much really he was spent!

    i spend $200 every month and i get $50 every day, so that i`m comfertable right now.

    third Obstacles:
    3- (CPA Payment Rules)
    let`s say you avoid fake clicks and watching your black list publishers, and move on.
    you spend every day $50 for a month that totally $1500.

    at last month you so exciting that you waiting along time to withdrow your profits.

    the rules of cpa networks is that your month revenue will get in the next month.

    meaning you made campign in 1 march and finish in 31.

    you can withdrow your profit in 30 April.

    this is auto payment system.
    if that`s ok for you, move on.

    forth Obstacles:
    4- withdrow fees:
    cpa networks take 5% to 25% to deposit your profits to your paypal account.

    there is no fees on payoneer account but in payoneer system there`s rules to withdrow your cash.


    anyway because of withdrow system you should take 25% OFF your profits.

    if you made 1000$ you will get 750$ to 950$ depend on deposit system.


    that`s all and good luck.
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  • Profile picture of the author pdn
    I hope you want to send traffic or visitor your web site by the direct link and help by marketing , you can earn by this , but problem is that , if any one go there by link at a time more ... it's very risky , other wise OK.
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  • Profile picture of the author michaelch
    From my experience, it is much harder than it sounds.
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  • Profile picture of the author JensFred
    Originally Posted by chinchillaisgod View Post

    I'm an aspiring CPA marketer. I read online all you'd have to do is direct link your ad to a paid marketing service (ie. Traffic Vance, Lead Impact) and they do all the work for you. All you need is to make a deposit. I have two questions about this. Is it really that easy, and will I be pumping out my goal money per day ($500 per day) in a matter of weeks, or is it a scam? How much of a deposit would you recommend I make if I want to make my $500 a day in a matter of weeks? The maximum amount of money I'm willing to deposit is $2000. Thank you for the help!



    DONT BE AFRAID TO GIVE ME THE BRUTAL TRUTH!
    Affiliate Marketing is a business and you have to treat it like one. It'sdefinitely possible to make a lot of money in this business but you need to be in control of as much as possible yourself.

    You want to send paid traffic to your own landing page/pages and you want to run small experiments to see what actually sticks.

    When you find something that works then you can reinvest the profits (and knowledge!) and scale. But you need to test ads, keywords and landing pages to get answers.

    I think impatience in one of the biggest problem for aspiring affiliate marketers. If you can just slow down, give it a few months and just focus on getting something working promoting you first offer/product then you make it.

    Focus. Test one thing at the time and see if it works or not and don't give up.

    It's not rocket science, but it's not THAT easy either
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  • Profile picture of the author avemfly619619
    no.. it is not like that. you have to pay more attention in bit strategy,group,,,etc,,
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  • Profile picture of the author tristatemedia
    it is not as easy as it sounds.....you have to test, test, and test. costs money to test. you are not wasting money but you are buyng data to use and rule keywords out.
    youtube bing ppc maxbounty. plenty of great videos. chris groves comes to mind
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  • Profile picture of the author altonroot
    There are many networks advertise like CPA but when you open account or contact them, they will tell you actually they don't. They give you traffic, huge amount of traffic and many filter criteria. You have to do optimisation to be profitable based on your CPA goal. For say trafficvance need $10K initial deposit I think. Find good offers with good CPA, find suitable ad network, start advertising with deposits, optimise it for better profit, all these are certainly not that easy as you think.
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  • Profile picture of the author avemfly619619
    not, it is not easy. you must pay more attention than seo. adwards is not a easy technique to rank keyword. must take care of quality score in adwards.
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