Beginner CPA Markter

Pick any niche that people are making money in (it shows these niches work)
Traffic source depends on the niche, some good ones to start off with - 50onred, Facebook ads, Bing

Peerfly and maxbounty are two good networks to start off with

I've been promoting affiliate / CPA offers for over 16 years.

However, I do it quite differently than most.

I heavily promote PPL (pay per lead...lead generation) offers. This is because there is no credit card / purchase required to complete an offer. All a user has to do is fill out a form, so conversion rates are typically much higher compared to offers that require a sale to be made.

I favor offers that have a make, get or save money benefit to them, as they have overall worked the best. They also tend to have the greatest mass appeal (will be of interest to a large general audience), so the potential exists to produce high volume and they are fairly easy to cross promote on the back-end.

Some of the verticals (niches) I have done extremely well with are: education, insurance, loans, debt, credit, mortgage, assistance, discount offers, homeowner offers, etc...

The bulk of the offers that I promote pay $20-$40 per lead, but I also promote offers that pay more and less. You don't want to get too caught up on what an offer pays because how well it converts is just as important. For example, if you have an offer that pays $9, but if it converts at 2X or more of a $20 offer, then it will perform about the same or possibly better. At the same time, if you have an offer that pays $90 and it converts poorly, it may not even be worth promoting.

Bottom line: it's far easier to get someone fill out a short form than to get them to pull out their credit card and make a purchase. So why struggle with trying to sell this or that, when you can provide free information that users want/need and get paid well doing it.

I drive traffic by acquiring 3rd party email data, which is data that the users have shown an interest in a specific vertical(niche) and have given permission to receive messages from third parties. You get the opt-in record for every user and it's 100% can-spam compliant.

By acquiring data, I'm building assets that I then own and can market to over and over at very low cost. So I control and can drive traffic on-demand to the offers I'm promoting. Which is key to CPA / affiliate marketing success. However, 3rd party data will rarely be as responsive as a high-quality opt-in list you build yourself. But it really doesn't matter because it is much cheaper and highly scalable compared to convention list building.

You don't want to just buy data blindly and you want to get it from reputable sources. You should always test a small, but adequate size sample and see how it performs. Then based on your test you will have a much better idea how quickly it will take to get break-even and what it is really worth to you.

The key to making it work long term is to always be collecting your opens / clickers, segmenting, and removing unresponsive users. That way over time you are building smaller, but more responsive lists that you should eventually be able to send less and make more with each mailing. Essentially you are converting the data from quantity to quality.

Basically, I monetize the data using PPL offers because they offer the path of least resistance to generating conversions($$$) and converting the data into cash producing assets. So it's really been the combination of the two PPL and data acquisition that has worked so well for me.

Obviously, there is 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's a huge range, much comes down to one's ability to scale and effectively build / manage the infrastructure needed to scale.

Something to think about.

Before you submit your application to Peerfly, do you have a blog
or website in place first? They are going to want to know how
you plan on marketing for the network.

Before I got approved, they asked me detailed questions about
my plan of action. I couldn't just say I'm going to market on facebook.
They wanted to know HOW am I going to market on facebook?

Then they wanted to know what else do I plan to do to promote
the companies in their network. They have certain rules that you
must abide by such as you cannot promote in a FB group or on
Craigslist. If you break their rules, you will be kicked out the network.

Make sure you will be able to answer their questions with confidence.
Even though you are new, you can still get approved, but sale
yourself to them. It took me 3 or 4 emails going back and forth
with them to answer their questions before I was approved.

Hi, try pinsubmits or sweeptakes ,i always recommend them for newbies.Buzzcity will be the relevent one for it.

Google Adwords - Not very friendly to affiliates when it comes to direct promotion but if you can create nice websites and lead capture forms with sales funnels it can work

I'd suggest you to pick the niche carefully and then build your own landing page. Do not go for direct offers as you are losing the control to a certain degree. I would also suggest to go for CPL offers instead of CPA and start with PPC as a main traffic source.

Happy to help if you have any questions
SveTod

peerfly MB is good choice. You should stick with dating amd MMO offers.

Hi,
Join admitad, an international CPA affiliate network. They have almost all the niche for you, they worked on different models; CPS, CPV, CPL, CPI, CPA etc, so you can choose your niche accordingly.
- Timely payments
- Best pay outs
- Free signup
- In-house tracking platform
- Various tools for publishers and advertisers
- Affiliate program/ referral programs

Thank you!