Online Affiliate Marketing is a revenue sharing venture between an Ad publisher/website owner(you) and an online Merchant. As an Ad pbulisher, you will place advertisements on your websites to either help sell the merchant's products or to send potential customers to the merchant's website, all in exchange for a share of the profits.
So what affiliate marketing means briefly?
* You build a content rich website about some related matter, apply to an affiliate program to get an affiliate link and drive traffic to a merchant's site on the affiliate program network.
* The merchant may be selling a product eg DVDs or e books, or they may be trying to sign on clients eg a bank. The merchant pays you a commission once the visitor has completed the desired action eg bought a product or completed a registration form
The merchant knows that the visitor is from you because you link to the merchant's site through a special affiliate link. This link is unique to you and you alone. Other affiliates will have their own special affiliate link which is different from yours.
There are three ways to earn money through affiliate marketing:
1) Pay per Click or Cost-per-click affiliate programs: Every time a potential customer leaves the affiliate website by "clicking" on the link leading to the merchant's website, a certain amount of money is deposited in the affiliate's account. This amount can be pennies or dollars depending on the product and amount of the commission.
2) Pay per Lead or Cost-per-lead affiliate programs: The merchant pays the affiliate a set fee for each visitor who clicks through and takes and action at the merchant's site, such as completing an online survey, registering at the site, or opting-in to receive e-mail.
3) Pay per Sale or Cost-per-sale affiliate programs: Every time a sale is made as a result of advertising on the affiliate's website, a percentage, or commission, is deposited into the affiliate's account.
Some affiliate marketing programs are two-tier programs, where the affiliate is also allowed to recommend other affiliates to the merchant. In such an affiliate program, the affiliate not only gets paid for the traffic or sales that he direct to the merchant's site but also for the traffic or sales directed by the affiliates who signed up with the program through his recommendation. This allows other people to grow your profits for you.
Basically, you need a website/blog to promote your products. And secondly drive traffic to your site. once your site is up and running, you can continue to earn money from it whether you are in bed, on holiday or sleeping as long as traffic keeps coming to your website. This is called Passive Income.
With some reputable affiliate programs, the person does not actually have to buy during that First click.
For instance, let's say John landed on your website, clicked on your affiliate link to a DVD player ad on your website. He gets taken to the DVD player Merchant's site, looks at the sales page and then goes off without purchasing.
During that click a cookie is placed on John's computer. This cookie is just a bit of code that says that the computer has viewed a product on a specified date. It also has a record of who referred John to the DVD player site i.e. you
A week later, John remembers DVD player, remembers the URL of DVD player merchant's website and types it into the web browser of his computer. He does not use your affiliate link on this occasion. He goes directly to DVD player merchant's webpage and decides that he would like to buy it after all.
He whips out his credit card and makes the purchase. When John went back to Merchant's webpage, the cookie left on his desktop kicked in. The webpage recognizes John as being refered by you.
What does this mean? You get your commission.
Cookies could be valid for as little as one day to 60 days. There are even some cookies that are lifetime cookies. As long as the purchase is made from the computer where the cookie is stored, within the time limit of the cookie, you get your commission.
Benefit of Affiliate Marketing to you.
* You do not need to develop your own product. You make money promoting other peoples product.
* You have no responsibility for after sales service for the product. This is all handled by the merchant.
* You do not deal with shipping or storage or packaging or inventories. the merchant deals with all that too.
* You can promote one product, several products, drop a product if you are not satisfied with it.
With so many different ways to earn money online, online affiliate marketing is undoubtedly the fastest growing and easiest way to make money by selling other people's products online. How much money you can earn from affiliate marketing depends entirely on you. Put in dedication and hard work and Always remember, the most successful affiliate marketers are the ones who take action.
Feel free to leave comments or ask questions below!
Tuesday, September 21, 2010
Sunday, September 19, 2010
CPA marketing Tools Explained - Get a Guide to succeed!
In this post, I'll like to discuss with you the importance of having an expert guide as for first tool to succeed on your CPA Marketing Business.
The world of CPA marketing (cost per action) can be an extremely lucrative one to be part of. Using CPA marketing services you can make a lot of money. However, as simple as it may seem, you shouldn’t underestimate its complexity as well. It is highly recommended to anyone who wants to give CPA marketing a try that they educate themselves first and foremost.
One of the first things you should do before getting involved in this business model is to find a guide to help you succeed. This is simply not the type of business where you want to go in firing blind. To get the maximum profit potential out of CPA marketing services, you need to find and study a good cost-per-action marketing course at the very least. A good CPA related course would provide you, not just with the basic knowledge of what it is and how it works but also with the insight that you would need as you go along the way.
It would help you make the right decisions and choose the proper tools that would help further your business. Sometimes, it is the simplest of things that require the most knowledge from us and this is no different. You have to be able to understand it well in order to take full advantage of what it has to offer. In other words, if you wish to be successful, you have to arm yourself with the knowledge and understanding that you would only get after you have undergone a CPA course with an expert mentor.
Three tips to use for help:
1. Get a mentor
A mentor is one of the best CPA marketing tools around. Two drawbacks to going this route are that CPA mentors are hard to find and they are also very expensive. If you don't have a lot of capital to invest, you may want to bypass this route.
2. Buy a course from a successful CPA marketer
This is one of the cheapest ways to learn the ropes and avoid the pitfalls that can cause you to lose more than you earn. There are excellent marketing courses online that will help you on your way. Don't even think of trying your hand at CPA without studying the subject first.
3. Your account manager
Whenever you join a CPA directory, you'll usually be assigned an account manager. These guys know the offers available to you for promotion inside out. Talk to them and ask them for help. While they may not give you full marketing coaching, they know better than almost anyone what offers are converting well and what the best traffic would be for you to use on a given offer.
Training is one of the most important CPA marketing tools. Without it, you have a long and difficult learning curve ahead of you. Now take this from me, The shortest way to success is not to invest in a bunch of CPA marketing tools, but to get the right guidance first. Remember to leave down your comments below.
The world of CPA marketing (cost per action) can be an extremely lucrative one to be part of. Using CPA marketing services you can make a lot of money. However, as simple as it may seem, you shouldn’t underestimate its complexity as well. It is highly recommended to anyone who wants to give CPA marketing a try that they educate themselves first and foremost.
One of the first things you should do before getting involved in this business model is to find a guide to help you succeed. This is simply not the type of business where you want to go in firing blind. To get the maximum profit potential out of CPA marketing services, you need to find and study a good cost-per-action marketing course at the very least. A good CPA related course would provide you, not just with the basic knowledge of what it is and how it works but also with the insight that you would need as you go along the way.
It would help you make the right decisions and choose the proper tools that would help further your business. Sometimes, it is the simplest of things that require the most knowledge from us and this is no different. You have to be able to understand it well in order to take full advantage of what it has to offer. In other words, if you wish to be successful, you have to arm yourself with the knowledge and understanding that you would only get after you have undergone a CPA course with an expert mentor.
Three tips to use for help:
1. Get a mentor
A mentor is one of the best CPA marketing tools around. Two drawbacks to going this route are that CPA mentors are hard to find and they are also very expensive. If you don't have a lot of capital to invest, you may want to bypass this route.
2. Buy a course from a successful CPA marketer
This is one of the cheapest ways to learn the ropes and avoid the pitfalls that can cause you to lose more than you earn. There are excellent marketing courses online that will help you on your way. Don't even think of trying your hand at CPA without studying the subject first.
3. Your account manager
Whenever you join a CPA directory, you'll usually be assigned an account manager. These guys know the offers available to you for promotion inside out. Talk to them and ask them for help. While they may not give you full marketing coaching, they know better than almost anyone what offers are converting well and what the best traffic would be for you to use on a given offer.
Training is one of the most important CPA marketing tools. Without it, you have a long and difficult learning curve ahead of you. Now take this from me, The shortest way to success is not to invest in a bunch of CPA marketing tools, but to get the right guidance first. Remember to leave down your comments below.
Thursday, September 16, 2010
Getting started with CPA Marketing - for Newbies.....
Welcome to read our another article series on CPA Marketing business. You already know what the CPA marketing business is all about, that is to say, in simple terms you as an advertiser of an offer, will get paid every time a consumer takes action on your website. (It may be that your campaign requires a consumer to submit and email or zipcode, possibly fills up a form without neccesarily making use of a credit card.)
Now there are several CPA networks that you will need to join so you can have access to a huge amount of different types of offers to promote throughout the web, this is your goldmine you could say. Some goods examples are :
CPA Leads http://cpaleads.com
CPX Interactive http://www.cpxinteractive.com
Neverblue http://www.neverblue.com
Commission Junction http://www.cj.com
Advaliant http://www.advaliant.com
Hydra Network http://www.hydranetwork.com
AzoogleAds http://www.azoogleads.com etc.
I must tell you that it may seems a bit difficult to get your application approved by most of the major CPA Networks at the beginning, but the secret is that you should never be discourage by this turn downs. Instead you should try and get around with this unpleasing situation by making a phone call to a CPA network that rejected you and sell yourself on phone. This usually does the trick 90% of the time. In the event that they still reject your application then just move on to the next affiliate network.
My best opinion is to set yourself up with 10-15 different Networks right from the beginning, the process is pretty simple here are some tips that will help you get approved instantly.
Tips:
1. When you are applying at the various networks, make sure you mention you are going to be promoting via PPC, Email marketing. The majority of the networks only accept PPC and Email marketing for their offers, now there are some that allow different traffic sources, but I am going by the majority.
PLEASE newbies to making money online, if you have been “romancing” with the idea of making money with CPA marketing, I advice you all to KEEP YOUR HARD EARNED CASH IN YOUR POCKET until you’Ve read Gauher Chaudhry E-book titled "The Insider’s Guide To CPA Marketing Profits."
The E-book will show you how to apply and get accepted into CPA networks, how to select the best paying offers to promote, how to generate traffic to your offers (both paid and free), Using Paid per Click to attract traffic to your offers, testing and tracking your offers etc. The best part about this e-book is that it’s absolutely FREE.
P.S: Unfortunately this free report doesn’t come with give away rights so in as much as I would have loved to facilitate the process for you by just giving you a direct download link right here, I can’t. You’ll need to opt-in to Gauher Chaudhry list to get the report. Report is about 7MB in size and you should get your link in less than 2 minutes after opting in to his list. You can get a copy by visiting; http:\\www.cpahotspot.com
Now i hope this piece of info helps, Do let me know what you think about these tips by leaving your comments below.
Saturday, August 28, 2010
An Introduction to CPA Marketing Business.
CPA stands for “cost-per-action” You get paid anytime you send a visitor to an advertiser's offers where he doesn't necessarily have to make a purchase in order to make you money. Those leads generally have to either freely fills out a form or downloads software from an advertiser. These forms can range from a single email submit (free laptop offer) to a much longer form with multiple fields (life insurance offer). Downloadable software could be for items such as toolbars, screensavers or emoticons. E-Harmony for instance will pay up to $4.50 for someone simply filling out their information form. You will be receiving commissions on every lead Signups!
CPA networks are companies that work as middlemen between advertisers and publishers. They host CPA offers from their advertisers and then have their publishers (affiliates) push the traffic to these CPA offers. That is You don’t have to sign up with 10 advertiser sites to promote them, you just need to be signed up with one affiliate network and you will have access to different niches and different offers.
The CPA network controls all the tracking of leads and commissions on your behalf. The nice thing about working with a CPA network is that you receive one check from the CPA network for all the commissions that you have generated rather than multiple checks from multiple advertisers. Once you login to a CPA network, you have the ability to browse through these CPA offers and decide which one that you would like to promote. For each individual offer, you will be provided with a unique affiliate ID to promote that offer.
The opportunities which CPA Marketing have to offer give you that chance you have been waiting for to make yourself a serious income with little risk. The businesses can be run along with your current job; you decide when to drop the current job; you decide how much money you want to make by the effort you put in.
The first step, as always, is to take action – so what are you waiting for!
CPA networks are companies that work as middlemen between advertisers and publishers. They host CPA offers from their advertisers and then have their publishers (affiliates) push the traffic to these CPA offers. That is You don’t have to sign up with 10 advertiser sites to promote them, you just need to be signed up with one affiliate network and you will have access to different niches and different offers.
The CPA network controls all the tracking of leads and commissions on your behalf. The nice thing about working with a CPA network is that you receive one check from the CPA network for all the commissions that you have generated rather than multiple checks from multiple advertisers. Once you login to a CPA network, you have the ability to browse through these CPA offers and decide which one that you would like to promote. For each individual offer, you will be provided with a unique affiliate ID to promote that offer.
The opportunities which CPA Marketing have to offer give you that chance you have been waiting for to make yourself a serious income with little risk. The businesses can be run along with your current job; you decide when to drop the current job; you decide how much money you want to make by the effort you put in.
The first step, as always, is to take action – so what are you waiting for!
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