Bill McRea

Affiliate marketing is a deceptively simple business model that is very easy to get started with, but not quite as easy to make a ton of money with quickly for the average affiliate marketer. If you are looking to diversify your income streams, you might want to consider trying cpa marketing. Affiliate marketers who already have a website set up, and who know how to drive traffic have everything they need to get started doing cpa marketing.

What is CPA marketing?

CPA stands for, cost per action because you will get paid each time a visitor to your site views the offer takes the desired action thus generating a lead for the advertiser. There are lots of companies that will give you a payment for each lead that you generate for them.

For example you might have a weight loss blog. You would then host a cpa offer that would appeal to your existing customers. Typically the offer would consist of the visitor filling out an online form or a survey. Once the visitor has submitted their information you have just generated a lead and the advertiser will pay you for it.

How much can I earn doing CPA marketing?

The payments for CPA offers varies widely. Some offers pay anywhere between $1. to $5 per lead, while other offers in more highly competitive markets can offer payments of over $20. per lead. So you can see how important it is to drive lots of targeted traffic in order to earn a decent income with CPA marketing.

Here’s how to get started with CPA marketing.

Start a blog on a targeted niche topic. Drive a ton of traffic to that site and then start looking for CPA networks to join. Sign up as a publisher or affiliate at one of the dozens of CPA networks online such as:

• MAX Bounty
• Commission Junction
• Peerfly
• NeverBlue
• ClickBooth

When you are applying to a CPA network, you want to come across as a professional. Keep in mind when you are new you may get rejected on your first try, but don’t give up. There are other networks out there.

Make sure your website looks professional, apply using an email address with your own domain rather than a free gmail account, and be prepared to report how much traffic your website gets and where it’s coming from.

Your key to CPA marketing success

The way to success with CPA marketing is to learn how to drive lots of targeted traffic to your offers. Once you have mastered a particular method, try another method and keep adding until you can get a dependable flow of traffic to your offers.

Do your research and consider taking a training course in traffic generation techniques. Keep testing and tracking your results so that you can constantly improve your results.

CPA marketing is a good way to diversify income streams for affiliate marketers, and it’s a good way to put your existing online marketing skills to good use.

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Every business needs leads—qualified leads in order to stay in business. As an online business and information product publisher, you are looking for business opportunity or ‘biz-op’ leads, which are people who have expressed an interest in finding a business opportunity.

Lead generation is a very competitive space on the Internet right now. You know that this is true if you have ever been in the position of buying leads. In this article we are going to explore a strategy that you can use to generate your own biz-op leads using affiliate networks. This is a method that requires a few steps, but if you are willing to put in the effort you will reap the rewards.

What is an affiliate network?

An affiliate network is simply the matchmaker of sorts between affiliate marketers and merchants who offer affiliate programs. They help affiliate marketers find the best programs to promote to their audience, and they help the merchants find the best audience for their programs.

In an affiliate arrangement, the affiliate earns a specified percentage of the sales price of the product that the affiliate’s leads purchase using their link. CPA networks offer CPA, CPM and CPC-based marketing programs.

CPA works by affiliates generating leads. The affiliate attracts visitors to their website who are already searching for what they have to offer. The affiliate makes money when the visitor clicks on an offer that appeals to them and takes the desired action (the “A” in CPA). This action can be anything from putting in their name and email address, to signing up for a free trial membership.

Creating the offer

The first step is to create an offer for, “how to make money online,” and then pay your affiliates $1.50- $2.50 for each lead they send to you. You can market this offer using an affiliate network.

Here are some examples of affiliate networks:

• Clickbank
• Click2Sell
• Commission Junction
• Share a Sale
• ClickBooth

Creating a sales funnel

The next step is to create a sales funnel that will generate the income needed so you do not lose money on the incoming leads. This is called a “Self Liquidating” lead source. Self liquidating leads simply means that you generate leads that cost you some amount of money, but then you quickly turn around and turn an immediate profit from those leads.

Inside Tip:

Be aware that as with any other business model, there is the problem of fraud. There are less than scrupulous affiliates who try to cheat the networks by generating fake leads. There is a platform called Direct Track, which is an affiliate marketing and tracking platform that has a focus on affiliate fraud prevention.

In the end, your goal is to generate a sizzling hot list of people who are already searching for what you have to offer—information about how they can make money online—and keep them on your list so that you can create a community of biz-op seekers and present them with offers that provide them with what they are searching for and make you money.

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