want to make big money with cpa?

Not arguing with you that there is an absurd amount of money to make on the advertiser side but thats not the only way to make it big in this field...

The same things you mentioned, methods stop converting, traffic sources dry up, ETC...

Issues arise on the advertiser side all the time; chargebacks (if running a CC offer - talk to advertisers that lost their MID's - their business is blown to pieces if this hapens), consumers being mis-lead by publishers, over-head for staff, offices, stocking inventory..

One big hurdle for advertisers is making their product / service not only attractive and valuable to consumers, but to you the publisher.

Just the other day a member posted about paying $2-$3 per sale for a $14.99 childrens lullaby CD...safe to say, not a single publisher in here would run something like that...

Both sides have their hurdles and barriers to entry to overcome before becoming successful...just a matter of how bad you want it and how hard you're willing to work for success.

you pass all your pain onto the affilaite though...as they do!

not saying it's easy...but it's more sensible.

I dont know, I politely disagree with you...chargebacks could arise because they hid the terms and conditions on the landng page, had the ageed to box pre-checked, the product itself provides no value at all to the consumer..all issues that he advertiser is responsibe for...

I guess the distinction for me is that publishers act as a "contracted" employee to grow the business for the advertiser....but it's on the advertiser to create the business and make wise decisions as far as how they operate it..

I guess everyone has their own opinion about the model but either way it's not easy to become successful in this space.

That's the general idea, once you master the affiliate stuff, eventually "move up" and come up with your own product - but that takes time, money and energy..

It's not simple but it can be done. Creating your own product and using affiliates to help sell the product creates a long term income and gives you the benefit of true leverage. Refresh old product and come out with new versions, introduce new products and build you own customer base.

No because most people want the easiest way to pay the bills..not create something great. They make an extra $2k month and think they are Donald Trump!

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In my opinion, it's not as easy as you said... but I agree that it's possible to do.

sloanjim,

This is a fantastic path but the impression we have of creating a product seems to be a tougher route

I've heard this first from Peter Nguyen of Advertiser 360 (where he created teeth whitening product if I recalled correctly for very cheap), set up call and shipping centers, test sales pages, conversions and the works.

Totally agree this is a better way to pay the bills and a more stable (bigger) business model. If you have experience or more info on this, please do share as this is not the normal small boys path and would be interesting to hear some experience

It feels very bad when we try to sing-up for a CPA affiliate program and we get message that "This is not approved due to your country/location".

agree ^^^^^

yes CPA is the best solution to make money easily online and with less effort every visitor will have to visit the website for survey and we can have more then 1$ or 2$ for each survey.so it's so often easy to have money online.