If you are in search of how to have an alternative source of income as an affiliate, you should consider a start with CPA marketing and have revenue higher than what you can earn with your regular day job.
CPA marketing or Cost Per Action is one the easiest ways to earn money online within the comforts of your own home, and you don’t have to experience rush hour traffic or your boss breathing down your your neck because you don’t have some kind of major deadline to meet or even any work targets or obligations.
Although CPA marketing is not as widely known as affiliate marketing, it is still worth the effort to check it out and prove to yourself that CPA marketing can really earn you some good profit. And there’s nothing to lose because there is no money involved on your part.
What You Need To Know Before Joining A CPA Marketing Network
The process of becoming a CPA affiliate is slightly more complex than being a regular affiliate online, but once you are in the network, everything will be rolling in easily. But before you can start your CPA marketing profession, and before you can have clients,you are required to join a CPA marketing network.
It’s usually relatively easy to become a member of a CPA marketing network, but they have to check every single applicant before accepting their membership.
Some of the CPA networks require that you have some experience in internet marketing and some networks accept novice applicants to join their group. Even if you are outside the United States, you can be easily be accepted by CPA marketing networks existing in the U.S.
However if you are going to apply to any of the CPA networks made sure that you actually have a website that will pass their inspection with such things as contact, terms and conditions as well as a privacy statement.
Don’t Promote To Many Offers At Once With Your CPA Marketing
If you are already a part of a CPA network, you will notice that they carry a lot of different offers that can be promoted. If you are just learning the trade of CPA marketing, it is advisable that you only get involved in one or two networks to start out simply for the reason that you will not become confused in the end about the number of offers you are required to promote.
There are several types of offers that are required by your network to promote.
What Are The Most Common Offers You See With CPA Networks
The most common of these are sales, free trials and downloads, email submissions, ZIP code submissions, short forms and long forms (where an applicant completes a form giving information to the company).
If you are just starting out in CPA marketing, the easiest of these offers you can pick to promote is usually email and ZIP code submissions depending on the target market of your website. Although this account may not be paying much as other offers, you can still generate a fair sum on this depending on the volume that you can put forward every day.
In ZIP code submissions, you have to be very creative on how you can make your visitors sign up because they have to enter their full addresses. Email submissions only require a valid email and the first name of the email’s owner.
To be able to maximize your promotion in CPA marketing, you have to focus only on one or two promotions. This will allow you to further study your target market and get the utmost turnover you expect from the promotion.
It is also important that you learn the demographics of your target market with CPA marketing so you can direct more audience participants to your offers.
This way, you can earn more rather than having a plethora of accounts, and only a little traffic to convert.
Benjamin Huebner says
Nice Article about CPA marketing!
I use CPA now for a while to make money online and after getting approved at my first network (Was not easy as newbie), I started to make searious money with it.
I found a important point in order to become successful with cpa marketing is to track your results, so you will be able to concentrate on the most effective marketing methodes!
AffiliateX says
Hi Benjamin
Yes you are right you need to track all the campaigns that you run and not only with cpa marketing but any affiliate promotion that you are involved in. I am glad you liked the post there are lots more to come… 🙂