Starting as a merchant on CPA networks

You wanted to use PayPal as a processor and you were going to go on a CPA network? Did the network even know that? I don't think any network would even let your offer go out if you were just using pay-pal as a processor. That's a kiss of death right there. Make no mistake paypal WILL freeze your account if you get any volume going.

Do you have fraud controls in place?
Do you have a call center in place?
Do you have up-sells in place?
Do you have more than 1 merchant account ready and active?
Charge-back controls?
How much cash on hand do you have?
Can you do 10k a week in payouts without blinking an eye?


It's NOT easy to do this.. not at all.

Thanks for the suggestion kenster much appreciated I will look into it.

That's it. CPA Tsunami. Plus, Mike is a cool dude!

I see what you mean, but to do that I think the best thing would be to go to an Internet Marketing seminar or something similar, as most of the big guys like to keep a private profile themselves.

In terms of the cart, you just have to make sure that you can process payments from different countries, although I would advise you to ask your CPA network to give you traffic from UK/US/Canada only for a start, as this will be high quality traffic, and see how you get on. Sub-ID tracking is also a must. I'm not sure on which shopping cart to go for, i heard 1shoppingcart is decent but it doesn't have that many features, a paid option would be much better here

I agree, also remember that the more money people make, the greed factor kicks in more and more, unfortunately.

Yes me too, I will be finish college in a couple of months and I am hoping to get a full-time job to fund my IM career, and take it from there. Or you could employ me to be part of your customer support service for you offer, when you get flooded by traffic

Andre

You will definitely want to go to your bank and get a rock solid merchant account agreement.

Any bank or payment processor that sees you suddenly dealing with huge volume (which is what will happen if your cpa offer takes off) will be highly suspicious and most likely freeze your account, but your affiliates will still be promoting your stuff so you get in BIG trouble really really fast when you can't pay them or withdraw any of your money.

I don't see why not. Some networks are more geared towards certain types of offers but you have to remember that there are literally hundreds of networks out there.

I would test out a smaller network first or put a cap if using a larger network as they can drive some serious traffic sometimes. Be sure to optimize the heck out of your offer first to make sure it converts and the backend funnel works well!