Your top tips to me - a brand new affiliate marketer!

I'm new on here too but I believe you can use the search function to locate previous posts for affiliate marketing.

I've been promoting cpa offers for just over 16 years now. I do things a bit differently overall than most here.

I heavily promote PPL (pay per lead) offers, because there is no credit card required to complete an offer. All a user has to do is fill out a form to make money. So conversion rates are typically much higher.

I favor offer that have some financial positioning...have a make, get or save money angle to them. This is what has overall worked best for me, as they tend to have the greatest mass appeal. So the potential exists to produce high volume.

There are many PPL offers that pay $20-$60 each or more depending on the vertical, that work well on a front-end campaign. Then those that pay less or regular cpa offer that require a sale, I will send on the back-end. The key being that the offer has mass appeal.

For traffic, I acquire data (email) VS what most marketer do, which is to buy ads/clicks that usually usually just turn into a bunch of one-time clicks, that can't be marketed additional offers to. So by acquiring data, I'm building assets that I then own and can market to over and over at low cost.

I acquire fresh targeted data, in that I know what the users are interested in and that I know there is a ppl offer that matches their interest. I generate real-time co-reg that targets specific ppls offers. I acquire aged data, which is a bit more involved and requires some additional resources.

Any time you acquire data, it's never going to be as high quality as subscribers that you generate yourself. So to compensate for this you have to work with volume. Which is totally fine, as you can scale much bigger and faster than you ever could. It's then just a matter of cleaning, pruning and segmenting the data into smaller more responsive segments, so that your eventually sending less and making more with each mailing.

The key to keeping yourself from ending up with a bunch of poor data is to always start with a small sample before spending a bunch of money. Then test it and get an idea how long it's going to take to break-even with. If it takes longer than desired, then you can try and negotiate a lower price, so that it breaks-even quicker.

I never worry about turning a profit, because what really matters is that you break-even on the data and preferably, as quickly as possible. Once you break-even, then your cost is $0 and you reinvest the money back into more assets. Also, once at break-even, it's not like I'm going to suddenly stop sending the data, so turning a profit at this point is pretty much inevitable.

There's a lot more that goes into all this, but it really does work. Everyone that I know that is in the business and know what they are doing, does 6-7 figures. While that is a very huge range, a lot really comes down to ones ability to scale and then effectively managing the infrastructure that comes with scaling.

Anyway, something to think about.

Follow your passion.

Hi Tom, how did you build your email list???

Start collecting email from day 1 and use Aweber or Getresponse. Keep add new list while engage with your email subscriber. Money is in the list if you have great relations with your subscriber. Treat them good and you will get reward later.

1. Do seo with seo tools. Get top rankings for buyer keywords.

2. Keep consistently writing reviews every week or month.

3. Share on social media like facebook groups.

4. Continue to create more things like a forum.

Hi Tom

First I would like to wish you the best on your journey to be a Internet Marketer. A great decision if you follow through and don't get trapped by all the BSO's out there.

Reg your question. I believe the easiest start for a new person in IM is to learn affiliate marketing. The "only" thing you need is to drive traffic to affiliate products. "That's all"
To step it up some you should build a list so you can email market to them, but I understand that you already do that?
Eventually you will profit even more if you have your own product and also have other affiliates promoting your product.

So my suggestion to you: Don't fall for BSO's and learn how to drive traffic to good and solid products. That's a start.

Good Luck and let me know if you want to ask anything else

GB

I think you have been missing the point there are recent threads on the same subject you want answers to and the ones who are trying to help you are very dismissive which will not help you in any way.

As SalesG mentioned if you ask a question that is framed you will get better answers, which will be better then the ones you get now but if you treat people the way you have been no one will answer in the future except sig spammers.

If you have been only here 2 weeks have some bloody respect take what you are told and use what you are not your brain! the best I could offer you right now is to look at the subforums learn how things are done and come back and asked the right question so you don't get crap answers or one liners.

Jason

Find for your self a mentor who will show you the ropes.

Find a niche first. Something you like but it's not a must.
Learn about it if you are not familiar with it.
Setup a blog. You can use free services to start with.
Write unique and good content
Promote it using various free sites/social sites etc..

Will take you sometimes to actually start receiving traffic and but it will be a long term thingo
Of course, you can automate all of this with multiple accounts but that's another story.

Do this first then go with the "other story" lol

Find the product first and develop your niche keywords before you commit money. If you did it right you will know what opportunities can be profited from, and this should make developing content simpler.

Spend $12 @ GoDaddy and get a domain, host, and e-mail for a year, which should be enough time to make it happen.

Another rule of thumb if you haven't made money on your endeavors in 2 weeks, you need to move on. Don't believe people who says it takes forever to see results. Would you work for six months straight to receive a paycheck?

You have only few offer in maxbouny which you are allowed to promote via email marketing very few, if you go and compare that to number of offers in general. Also do you offer some freebie to people who join your list? Our are you using purely just purchased list and you are not actively trying to acquire new subscribers?

Hi there,


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Best of luck!

1. Concentrate most of your effort on finding pre-qualified sources of leads (traffic) who will already be interested in what you have to offer.

2. Explain their situation to them better than anyone else.

3. They'll opt into your list.

4. Promote the solution to them. Intersperse with personality so they can start to differentiate you from everyone else. That way, when you...

5. ...Continue to market to them with related offers, they'll already have the sense of knowing you.

There really isn't any magic to affiliate marketing.

Despite man's constant search for magic bullets, there aren't any super sources of traffic that apply to every marketer (eg. "Sign up for THIS, and you'll get a buyer out of every 100 leads, GUARANTEED!" Baloney.) You have to go find your own, and IMO this is the most important part of marketing.

A mediocre offer can perform very well in front of a pre-qualified audience who acknowledges they have the important problem the solution fixes. Far better than a great product or service that is badly marketed...to random people, most of whom don't have that problem.

@DIABL0 I love the term "I acquire data"
Are you buying lists from others or creating them yourself via squeeze pages and if so how do you get traffic

Start with the little things first:

- Change to Aweber or Getresponse for email marketing
- Get your own website with your custom domain name, no renting
- Selling directly on Amazon (not as an affiliate) is not even close to selling and marketing products on your own website
- Don't rent list from list broker company
- Don't sell "make money" or "internet marketing" books if you've never made money selling on your own site
- Take it slow, and let paid advertising be your best friend.
- Good luck

yeah, don't do what everybody tells you. at least the 80%. Go out and find the successful people or the 20% and do what they do.

Supply and demand and separating yourself from the crowd. Thats how you make conversions.

There is a lot of ways to grow your business.I think it is free metoder is best. So I use ways to build list.
Twitter,facebook,