Solo ads to make a quick affiliate sale

Eddie,

Look for authority list brokers that specialize in your niche and in your target audience, instead of your basic run-of-the-mill solo ad sellers -- These authority list brokers generate leads from their regularly updated subscriber bases for their paid offline and online magazines, people who bought products / who called or emailed or live chatted with them for inquiries / who registered for contests / who filled out surveys / who downloaded some stuff from their heavily trafficked niche-authority sites, etc.

its not impossible, but its very unlikely.

the lists that you can generally buy solo ads from are not premium type lists. That doesnt mean they are useless, it just means that buying a solo ad and expecting enough direct sales to cover more than the cost of the ad form the vast majority of them is pretty unlikely.

If these lists could consistently produce sales of the types of products you describe why would the list owners sell you a solo ad for less than they could make being an affiliate themselves?

again, these lists have their place and are useful. But they are not likely to work for what you are trying to do. It will be very hit and miss, with a lot more misses than hits i am afraid.

This.

No - almost definitely not.

You need to look at the long-term value of the subscribers you acquire, not at their immediate value.

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Why not send the clicks to a squeezepage first and then redirecting them to your offer straight after opting-in for the freebie.
For a high ticket offer it's possible to win it all back immediately (because of higher ROI's) but can be a bit risky.

Thank you all for your replies,

Andy, your suggestion makes perfect sense, let the solo's to build your list when people opt-in and the offer might pay for the solo..and if not you still gain leads.

Would you recommend
1. To redirect them to an offer directly?
2. To redirect them to your 'thank you page' in which you tell them that the freebie is on the way to their inbox and have links to 4 affiliate offers on the page so they can choose and click on the offers that apply to them?

Thanks,
Eddie

You probably won't however..

If you create a squeeze page and a..

4-7 Part Autoresponder promoting this product, then not only will $40 buy you..

20-30 Leads + 2-3 Sales

in direct marketing dont let people chose. you do as much of the thinking as possible for people and just tell them what to do. Lots of physiological things going on there, but thats for another discussion another time.

When you buy solo ads, the very best way is to send the traffic to a squeeze page that you have tweaked and tested, and that you are pretty sure will convert at 40% or better.

Now, I don't want to start a rant, but some of the email marketing practices that are being used today are absolutely ridiculous.

I do sell solos, but only to 2 or 3 people every month who have been regular customers for years. Selling large amounts of solos just doesn't make sense, since you can make SO MUCH MORE from your list if you treat them as people that you want to help and not just "assets" to be promoted to at every possible opportunity.

People that are selling solos as a business models generally are using their solo sales as the only way to monetize their list. The reason is that by selling solo after solo, all the seller is doing is effectively thinning out his/her list by letting them opt-in to other marketer's squeeze pages.

It wouldn't be so bad if the seller's subscribers only opted in to the buyer's squeeze page and that's all, but that's not the trend I'm seeing nowadays.

And what I am seeing is really making me sick. Basically it looks like just about every marketer these days (especially newbies) are doing nothing more than trying to suck as much money from their brand new prospects as possible. I had someone want to purchase a solo from me the other day. After testing his funnel I was in shock. It pretty much went like this: SQUEEZE PAGE => SQUEEZE PAGE 2 => SQUEEZE PAGE 3 => REDIRECT TO A PAGE FULL OF LINKS TO MORE SQUEEZE PAGES.

As if that isn't bad enough, there are 3 links in his "welcome" email that are rotators that go to a whole slew of CPA offers and sales pages. I just couldn't quite believe it. On top of all this, what was promised in the first squeeze page was never delivered at all. It was totally outrageous. And I'm starting to quickly find out that this seems to be the new way that just about every email marketer is doing it.

Sure, I guess you can go that route and make a few bucks off your subscriber right away, but I feel that all that does is anger and frustrate the new subscriber.

I am still doing it the "old fashioned way." By that I mean I offer a valuable free gift, and after opt-in I only redirect my subscriber to a page that tells them that their gift is on it's way to their inbox, and I include ONE link to an affiliate product at the bottom of the page. They don't have to click through to it unless they want to.

In my "welcome" email, the only link present is the link that takes them right to the download page so they can get what's promised. Yes, I do have some links for my click banking partners on my download page. That is as far as I'm willing to go. I don't put 4 or 5 rotator links into my welcome email. I don't redirect my subscriber through 3 or 4 squeeze pages right after they opt-in.

You wouldn't believe the amount of marketers who basically laugh at me and tell me the "relationship building" days are over, and the way I do it is ridiculous because I am losing out on so much money.

However, I have to disagree. I make great money from my list. I have many loyal repeat customers. I have no problem making affiliate sales off high ticket items. Yet I'm supposedly still in the "dark ages" I guess because I refuse to pound a brand new subscriber with 7 or 8 affiliate offers, squeeze pages, CPA offers, etc, right away.

Then I have others telling me that any traffic besides "top 6" is useless. Again, I disagree. I probably have dozens of regular customers from countries outside of the accepted "top 6." If I didn't allow international traffic, I'd lose money. It's almost as if people who don't live in "top tier" countries are construed as being worthless. Nothing could be farther from the truth IMO.

I often wonder if there are other marketers who feel the way I do and who think that this new trend of squeezing every penny possible from a brand new subscriber is totally wrong and destructive to email marketing in general.

I will say one thing, though. Almost every day I hear about some marketer getting their AR account closed down or suspended, and they claim to have no idea why. It seems to me that making people opt-in 2 or 3 times right off the bat and then peppering them with even more CPA offers from your welcome email might be something that the ARs might not look too kindly on.

I'm often torn because sometimes I feel that by sticking to my guns and refusing to try and extract money from my subscribers before they ever even get one email from me is just me being stubborn. I mean, I see all of these other marketers doing it, and then all of a sudden I feel like maybe I'm the idiot because I refuse to operate this way. It just doesn't seem very smart to get a new subscriber and then offer them the opportunity to sign up to 4 or 5 other lists at the same time. Wouldn't that decrease your chances of having that subscriber purchase from you if they are also on tons of other lists as well? I would think you would want to acquire a new subscriber and keep them to yourself as much as possible.

Now, as to the question of buying solos and sending them directly to an affiliate product instead of your squeeze page, I was curious myself.

So I decided to try it. Last week I bought a 200 click solo for $160 and sent to a JVZoo product that was in the top seller list. I ended up making 9 sales for a total of $291.65. So I made a profit of $131.65.



Now that's pretty good, but you have to take in account that maybe it would have been better to add 75-100 new subscribers to my list instead of just going for the affiliate commissions. In the long run I would probably make more if I could successfully convert even 2 of those new subscribers into regular buyers.

Also, in order for this to happen I think you need to have perfect conditions, such as a seller who has great traffic and the right affiliate product to promote. It's much easier said than done to get those two variables right.

In the end, I'm pretty confident that sending your solo traffic to your squeeze page is more profitable in the long run.

I think I was through that funnel but I was investigating buying clicks. I found it mildly amusing, and wondered where my link would have been getting traffic.

I regularly see people asking questions like, "how do I build a list to sell solos?" It's a fact of the business and just reinforces the need to investigate both buyers and sellers.

BTW most solo sellers will not send to anything but a free offer.

Although it depends on what kind of product you wanna sell, my choice wouldn't be buying these over-spammed soloads. Go with other options instead.

I've done a similar thing but have made the ClickBank as the one time offer for my squeeze page. So when they opt in I redirect them to the sales page. I've gotten a couple of sales that way.

You will learn soon enough that this Mindset with Solo Ads is detrimental. It really doesn't work like that.

It is possible but you are looking to try to bank upfront. Email Marketing should be approached from a long term standpoint. Building a relationship with people buying multiple times within your Sales Funnel.


- Robert Andrew

this is a the best self liquidate list building way..
and you should give it a try..

I vote against it because I think it's not an optimal strategy.

Well I'm gonna skip past all the noise and give you my 2 cents.

No solo ad seller or anyone is able to guarantee you results from buying solo ads.

The key is to always capture leads for your OWN list, before sending them to the sales page.
Don't send direct traffic to an affiliate link because you want to build your OWN assets from the dime/penny you're sending.

When I first started, I spent $50 on ppc ads and sent direct traffic to a sales page. Zero Sales & Leads to follow up on. Expensive lesson there!

Lastly, ensure that you're tracking the solo ads. Do not give the seller your affiliate link directly.
Add your affiliate link to a link tracking tool (I'm using ClickMeter) so that you're able to verify the unique clicks you're getting, and even the Tier 1%.

Hope this helps!

with product for $20 you will not make profit probably from my experience and there is no guranty that anyone will buy from you you need to get good offer create system or funnel and get good quality traffic

It depends.

Check the average conversion stats, and EPC's of the affiliate products..

That you want to promote.

And evaluate accordingly

Hi,

@nicheblogger75;

you made around $131 profit from 9 sales.....

Is it not to hard to scale up your business to a goal like the top marketers- say above $10.000 per month from your list, with $131 reinvest?

To build such a large list to make $10.000 month or more, you need more than $131 to reinvest that month after month....?

marco005

Hi Marco005,

Using solo ads to promote your product is one of the best ways to go now i'm not saying everyone who clicks on you add will buy but it is the easiest way to go go but get in touch with the vendor and ask them if they will promote your offer before just buying.

Cheers

Dave.

Lots of good answers here. My suggestion is that rather then send traffic directly to product vendors page, instead capture those leads for yourself and from there in your follow ups not only do you have the leads, but you also have a higher chance of converting those prospects into sales if are able to show you subscribers how this product or service helps them. If you build your own list you ultimately are building up your own business. If you spend money on solo ads and send them straight to the vendors page and it doesn't covert you ultimately just lost money.

Appreciate this thread lots of good info. I just started doing solo ads myself with my own split tested landing page. After reading this I've made some changes to a live campaign I'm currently running.

May be you can test my offer

This is an unregulated market.

It is based on trust. Do you have such products which will convert so well?

this post is missing the real gem.

you are going to keep slamming traffic before you know what works, and what doesnt.

We do well with solos, but not all solo ads are created equal and not all solo ad sellers have the top notch list either.

The more you pay, the better results, but that does not always happen either.

you need to do alot of research before delving in the solo ad world lots of people getting scammed this year with solos.

research first, always talk with your provider and if they are honest, and reliable and easy to reach, more ways than not, this is a good solo ad dealer.

Believe me, they are out there, but in 2016, you have to look harder and work with guys and form a bond first.

Do not just go to a solo ad seller cause he says, or advertises, 'hey we have 5000 clicks for $49' if you see that sort of chit, run for the hills, its likely to eat you up and spit you out, with NO RESULTS!

Hope this helps.

Solo Ads is a good option for promoting your Affiliate product. You have mentioned about $40 for 100 clicks. If you can search a bit more you will get 100 clicks within $30. There are few new sellers who has small number of feedback and offering good service, you can target them. On Facebook you will find any Solo Ads sellers groups. You can find them from those groups and negotiate the price.

Hi
I have been using solo ads recently and I can say that they have worked for me to an extant but as someone has said earlier the majority of the time they don't even generate enough traffic sales to cover the cost of the advert.
Thanks

I would never directly link to an offer in a solo ad. I would do what has already been suggested here before. Send them to a squeeze page and then send them useful information in a follow up sequence. Only market a product to them after 5 or 6 days. After that only send 2 emails a week. Either both will have useful content with no affioliate links or one will be content and the other one will be an affiliate link.

Hope this helps,

Pam Trivedi

1) Without good leads on a solo list u will die.

2) Talk to the seller first. See where his traffic is from.

3) Solo ads, or the good ones, I found are hidden, and can only get them on skype not on UDIMI.

4) Solo ads are dying a bit as they are all saturated, and getting leads from eachother...... eventually this is the deathknell for solo ads sellers, as their list become responsive, and they shoot themsevles in foot and lose their entire business.

5) Start building your own leads each day, and becoming good and engaging with them. THis can do you lots of good, and make sales $$$ consistantly!