Affiliate Marketing Seminar Follow up
On June 27th we hosted our teleseminar “Can You Really Make Money in Affiliate Advertising”.
During this Seminar there were references to several resources. I want to make sure you have them and an explanation for each.
Link Cloaking or protecting your links. I wrote an article on the four ways to cloak a link and why: AffiliateIdeaFactory
GoTryThis.com is a service that provides link redirects, URL shortening and tracking specifically for marketers. It is designed to protect and track your links. Their fees are monthly and charge $14.95 a month for up to 50,000 monthly clicks.
What is a CPA network?
A CPA offer is a cost per acquisition offer put out by a merchant. The goal is to get the site visitor to give specific information – usually in a lead form. This can be anything from an email address and zip code to a complete address and survey. CPA offers require less action by the consumer so you can get a lot more participation and earn more with those types of offers.
CPA Networks are the middleman. They manage both the merchant and the affiliate. Networks usually provide the tracking technology, reporting, they are also responsible for making payments to affiliates. ( so getting paid is rarely an issue as the merchant has to put a set amount in escrow to cover affiliate payments)
Where can I find good CPA offers? I mentioned OfferVault.com in our seminar. I like OfferVault because it is a paid directory, so it is well maintained. You can see ratings for each offer as well as compare offers. It is free for content publishers/affiliates
Some of you may be interested in the One-on-One Coaching I mentioned from Lurn ( Affiliate Classroom You can get more info on that here:
Discover One on One Coaching
The following is a audio replay of the event:
I will be answering more of the questions submitted so stay tuned!
Ginette
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sweet spot.
This was a wonderful Teleseminar. I really enjoyed it and learned a great deal. Thanks so much!
I really appreciated this information and would like to thank you for the resource. I am always looking for additional ways to market our business.
Cheers!
Josephine Monty
Affiliate Marketing is just one-way to generate an online income, and it can be a very lucrative adventure. If you are looking to generate income online, and have not already explored Affiliate Marketing, it may be the best way for you to start. The best part of Affiliate Marketing is you do not have to have your own product or service. You can advertise, and sell other peoples products and services.
Affiliate marketing is, in most cases, just another term for MLM, pyramid, and similar schemes. Most of the times, the affiliate marketing revolves around some kind of digital "product" that has to be marketed, and as an affiliate, it is up to you to actually make sales of the product. As a reward for the sales, you will get commissions.
Now, the crux is that actually getting leads and selling the product is a lot more work and takes a lot of invested time (and often money) to successfully pull off; in comparison, the commission received is quite disproportional for most affiliate marketing systems and setups – depending on the way it is set up, you might have to deal with a "down-line": if you are offered partial commissions from people you sign up, especially multiple levels, you can be certain that you will NOT be able to make a decent buck from it unless you manage to get a lot of people to sign up under you who actually do the work. In that respect, it's a scam, because getting out of the bottom layer of such systems is usually incredibly difficult.
The people trying to sign you up are, of course, trying to use all the tricks in the book to have them let you do their work for them (since that is what "affiliate marketing" is all about, in the simplest terms.