Impressions

I got accepted to Azoogle Ads and Neverblue without 10,000 impressions a month. You just got to make sure you know your stuff about CPA marketing and affiliate marketing in general and sweet talk the person on the other end of the phone .

Those requirements are imposed so that newbies are not 'wasting' affiliate managers' times and they rather have expereinced affs. But how do you get experienced without being a newbie at one point in your life.
So rather that going to networks that do not have these basic requirements, try the best in the industry. The reason is that once you are in, you'll see best offers, payouts and service. So tell them yes you have these many impressions and that you have built a list to promote to.

Enthusiasm makes all the difference in the world when you're speaking to these guys. I've been a developer for a long time, and I've developed a ton of landing pages, but I don't even have a single, personal web site on the Internet. I don't even have a portfolio page, as most of my developer prospects come from this forum, and word of mouth.

The bottom line is I don't have 10,000 impressions, or any kind of CPA background which says "This is a guy we want our network". But I have yet to be turned down from a single CPA, and I've been accepted to four of the "good ones".

I've got a buddy who has even less experienced in CPA who's been accepted to about ten CPA networks so far, and that includes some exclusive networks which seem to require blood-letting before they'll let you in. He is on-fire excited when he talks to these guys, and that makes an enormous difference.

Be honest, and be enthusiastic, and/or at the very least, have a gameplan in mind for how you plan to drive traffic when you speak to them. Get on your CPA manager's good side early, and he/she'll be your best friend.