ALL PRODUCT NAMES, LOGOS, AND TRADEMARKS ARE PROPERTY OF THEIR RESPECTIVE OWNERS WHO HAVE NOT NECESSARILY ENDORSED, SPONSORED, OR APPROVED THIS PUBLICATION. TEXT AND IMAGES AVAILABLE OVER THE INTERNET AND USED IN THIS MANUAL MAY BE SUBJECT TO INTELLECTUAL RIGHTS AND MAY NOT BE COPIED FROM THIS MANUAL.

Once my website was complete, the freelancer sent me the files, and I released the escrow payment.  It's very easy to outsource any work (not just design) by using freelance sites.  The prices are usually very low the quality of work is very good.  If you can design your own websites, you can save a lot of money rather than outsourcing, but my main focus is to spend my time marketing my websites so they can generate revenue for me. 

If you need design work done such as a landing page, help with installing your email capture form, or want a complete website built from scratch, I strongly suggest you use any of the freelance sites I mentioned with confidence to get the job done.  Just register to any of the sites and most of them you can post your project for free.  Scriptlance to me is the best overall freelance site out there and its free to post your projects there.

Did you know you can usually get paid more than what the offers show for a payout in most CPA networks? There are hundreds of CPA networks out there and each one is competing for your business and revenue that you generate for them.  This gives you power to ask your affiliate manager for a raise on any particular offer that you are interested in promoting. 

To give you an example, I am promoting the FreeFlys offer on one network that pays $.90 per lead but was able to get $1.05 from another network.  All I did was send an email to my affiliate manager asking them if I could get anything above $.90 that I would switch my traffic of this offer to their network.  This works well because if you are already promoting an offer on one network and getting leads, the affiliate manager knows that they have the chance to get instant revenue from you, so raising the lead amount isn't a problem for them typically.  However, it's sometimes very hard to get a raise for any offers that are under $2 because there's just not enough profit margin to go around for everyone. 

Anytime I want a raise on an offer, I just send an email to my affiliate manager on that network and usually it will work every time.  Typically you need to be established making money for the network for at least a month or two consistently before they will just give you a bump on any offer.  If you can get a lot of consistent leads on one particular offer, normally this would qualify you for a lead raise.  Don't be afraid to ask for raises on leads to your affiliate manager as they will do everything they can to earn revenue with you. 

What you don't want to do is ask your affiliate manager for a raise on every offer or send them an email a couple times a week asking for raises.  Make sure that you only ask for raises on offers that you are actively promoting and will generate leads for.  Because if you ask for a raise on an offer that you don't promote, it's not going to look good when you ask for a raise the next time on another offer since you didn't make yourself or the CPA network money on that particular offer. 

Once you are consistently earning money with a particular CPA network, you shouldn't have any problems asking for a raise on any offer available that is set at $2 or above. 

This will be an ongoing thread of live campaigns in different niches that I have setup on my own that you can learn from.  Not every single one of my campaigns have been profitable and actually I've had many more losers than actual winners.  However, I learned from my mistakes and by seeing live examples of my campaigns, you can learn too without having to burn up or waste money like I did.  How do you determine when a campaign is a loser or winner?  Spotting a winner is easy as it will usually make money the first day you try it out.  My rule is that when I have a campaign that has lost money for three consecutive days, it's time to pull the plug and declare the campaign as a loser. 

Here are some examples of real life campaigns that I've done in the past that were losers.

For this campaign there is a popular product out there just about on every CPA network that has a product that will show the user how to make money on eBay.  Typically the user will be able to get a free trial to the product and just have to pay around $5.95 for shipping and handling.  The user will need to cancel within 2 weeks or they will be billed every month around $40 for the added service the product provides.  Usually getting a lead for this offer will pay out around $32 or so.  I thought it would be a successful campaign because the landing page of the offer was very good and the user only had to pay $5.95 to try the product and I would make $32 just for the user trying it out. 

I setup an ad campaign on Adwords and below is a screenshot of my results from about three days of promoting the product.  I bid on keywords that were related to the product like "make money on eBay, how to sell on eBay", etc.

You will see that it cost me almost $20 over the three days with only 28 clicks to the offer.  I didn't get any leads at all for this particular offer for the three days, so I called this campaign a loser and moved on to something else.  I might of gave up too soon on this offer as it only got 28 clicks or I could have lowered my cost per click to see how it would perform, but as I said earlier, I only give a campaign three days to determine if its going to be a winner or loser. 

For this offer, I simply setup my ad on Google Adwords and then directed the user to the CPA offer and if I built a landing page to make a review site out of a couple different make money on eBay products, that might of made a difference. 

For this campaign, I picked out an offer on a CPA network that would pay out $25 for each credit card application that was filled out on their website.  The user didn't have to be approved, they just needed to fill out some information to apply for the credit card.  I thought this would be a winner because it didn't cost the user anything and just for them to fill out a form, I would get paid $25. 

Just like I do for testing out new campaigns I setup an ad on Adwords advertising a Discover Card that the user could apply for.  You will see I only got 10 clicks and spent $37.73 and didn't get any leads.

It was easy to declare this campaign a loser just after a few hours because it already cost me almost double what I would of made for getting a lead.

I always test out new campaigns using PPC because I know that I will be able to get instant traffic to my offers as I always want to find out my results right away.  Sometimes I will write articles or get free traffic using my free methods, but usually I'd have to wait a day or more to find out my results and I am not always able to get the traffic I want right away to evaluate my results.  The problem that I saw with these two loser campaigns is that I was paying too much for clicks.  These two niches are very competitive with a lot of advertisers which means that I will have to pay a high cost per click to get my ad visible on the first page to get traffic.

If I were to test out these campaigns again, I would only use free traffic methods since I wouldn't have to worry about spending too much money on PPC.  My lessons learned from these campaigns are that if you are going to try and promote CPA offers that are in highly competitive niches where the cost per click on keywords are very high, you should try free advertising methods.  In my successful campaigns using PPC I am able to spend around $.10 a click which makes the campaign profitable for me. 

CPA marketing is one of the hottest ways to make money online and is going to be the future of where advertisers put their money to pay affiliates to get leads for them.  One of the reasons that it's been so successful is that each CPA network has a dedicated affiliate manager that is willing to work with their affiliates one on one and helping them succeed in meeting their revenue goals.  With that being said, you need to be aware of a few important things when you are signed up with the CPA networks.

The most important thing that I can't stress enough is never ever get any leads by blackhat marketing.  If you don't know what blackhat marketing is, the term basically stands for obtaining leads and money incorrectly.  For example, let's say that you are promoting an email submit offer that pays out $1.50 for each email address that gets submitted to the offer.  One popular way that blackhatters market these email submit offers is they advertise on a dating site indicating the person looking to meet someone should enter their email address in to get signed up and be contacted by a large number of people looking to date them.  This is a hypothetical example, but the main point I'm trying to get across is that blackhat marketing is misleading the consumer or tricking them to submit their email address so you get credit for the lead and then not giving them the information as advertised in return.

There are a lot of people and even websites out there that advertise they make $50-$100 a day using blackhat marketing techniques and I don't understand why anyone would want to venture into this method as it's not going to help you in the long run.  If you are looking to make a few dollars in the short term, that's what blackhat marketing is for but I don't endorse that at all.  In the long run your CPA network accounts will eventually get banned and you won't be able to make money with them on legit offers ever again.

What you should do is read or skim all the newsletter emails that you get from the CPA networks.  I'm signed up with dozens of networks so I definitely don't read them all, but I do read the newsletters from the top networks in which I make the most money with.  Usually in these emails, they will give you the top performing offers that their affiliates are making the most money with.  As I indicated in a previous chapter there was an email offer that was converting very well that was advertised in the newsletter that I wasn't aware of and I tested it out for myself.  Currently this particular offer is making me anywhere between $15-$25 a day profit consistently!  That's an extra $600 in revenue that I'm receiving just because I read the newsletter and followed up on testing out the high converting offer myself!

You should also keep in contact with your affiliate manager as they can pull a lot of strings for you in regards to getting you raises on particular offers, faster payouts, etc.  Make sure you sound professional in your emails back and forth as the affiliate manager will take you seriously and if you are making money from their network, they will treat you as a first class affiliate!

There are a lot of websites out there making money through CPA incentivized offers which basically offers the user completing the CPA offer something in return for their participation.  For example, let's say that I am running an offer for NetFlix that is labeled (incentivized) and I get paid $20 for a user signing up for a free trial. 

I can offer the user something in return for them signing up for the free trial to NetFlix.  The most common incentive that is offered to someone to complete the offer is cash.  Let's say that you are running a campaign to promote NetFlix and you can advertise to the user something like "$5 INSTANT REBATE" when signing up for a free NetFlix trial.  In this case the user will need to click on your affiliate link that will lead them to NetFlix and once they sign up for the free trial, you will get credit for the lead.  Let's say that you get paid $20 for the NetFlix lead, you can pay the user that signed up their $5 rebate and still have a profit of $15.  This is just one simple example, but there are many different offers that you can "incentivize" and offer the user something in return for completing the offer. 

Everyone typically wins with incentive offers which is why they are very popular.  Here is a breakdown of how it really works.

A. The Publisher (Company) - In my example above, this would be NetFlix as they pay a referral or commission of $20 for example for giving the new user a free trial.  They are happy to do this as they are banking on the new customer to be a long term paying subscriber for months and years to come which will make them a lot of money on that referral.  Even if only a few people out of 10 continue after the trial they really only need 1 good subscriber to pay a couple of months to make their $20 payout profitable.

B. The Affiliate Marketer (You) - You get $20 commission for someone signing up for a free trial (which won't cost the user a penny) in the beginning so this particular incentive offer is very profitable for the affiliate marketer.  To increase your conversions, you will need to give something in return to the user that signs up for the NetFlix trial.  Typically anywhere from 25-50% of your commission will work very well.  It's easy to pay the user as I typically just send them the $5 via Paypal.

C. The User - The person that signs up for the free NetFlix trial will get two weeks free or one month of NetFlix service (whatever the promotion is) along with a percentage of your commission.  So essentially they are getting free money since they don't have to pay a dime to try out NetFlix.  That's why these type of free trial incentive offers convert very well and you can see that it's a win win situation for everyone!

There are many sites out there where users get paid for completing offers.  Basically, the user will need to complete free trials or sign up to certain subscriptions and in return the website will pay them cash or give out free prizes in return.  Both parties win in this situation because the user is getting paid to complete offers and the website is making money from the leads of the incentive offers.  You can see this website as an example of a website that uses incentive offers to make money.

http://www.directlyfree.com/

To get your own freebie site setup similar to the one above there is a script that will handle everything you need to run your own freebie script here.  You can literally have your own freebie site setup in a day where users can go to your site, complete offers, and you get paid from the CPA offers that the users complete.  The FSR Revolution script as mentioned above will give you all the details on how to setup the site or they also offer professional installation so you can be up and running in no time.

The key to your freebie site once you have it setup is marketing it to get users.  The easiest way to do that is to advertise and promote your site on free forums.  There are lots of free forums out there where users are looking for freebie sites where they can get paid or earn prizes for completing CPA offers. 

Here are a couple good free forums that you can market your freebie site or just advertise your affiliate incentive offer links (with no website) on:

1. FreeLunchRoom.com

5. Freebiesociety.com/forums/index.php

Many of these forum sites are flooded with traffic and users that are looking to make money completing offers which is exactly what CPA incentive offers are classified as in part.  Once you go to these forums, you will want to go ahead and register as a user to each one to start making your posts.

Get familiar with each forum as they all have different rules and guidelines, so simply read the sticky posts and such on each forum.  I recommend starting with FreeLunchRoom.com as they are the largest freebie forum with the most traffic and users.

Once you understand the rules/guidelines of each forum, its time to start posting your offers as a new thread in the forum in the appropriate category.  You will see the term "going green" a lot which means that you offer someone a certain amount of money for them to complete an offer.  So for instance, you can make a new thread in the FreeLunchRoom.com for an incentive offer such as NetFlix Free Trial - Go Green for $10 as your title.  In the post, explain to the user that they will need to sign up to the NetFlix free trial offer under your affiliate link and you will pay them $10 upon signing up.  Once the user signs up and you get credit for the $20 lead from your CPA account, the user has "gone green" which means they completed the offer under you affiliate link, and you are now entitled to pay them $10.  For just one user "going green" on your offer, you made an easy $10 profit.

By marketing your incentive offers on forums you can direct people to your website and get them to complete the offers that way so you get traffic to your website which can lead into more completed offers for return visitors coming back.  Otherwise if you don't want to spend the money on the incentive script and creating a website, simply giving the user a direct affiliate link will work.  You want to make sure that when you send a user an affiliate link for and offer to complete that you use the subid with something that you can track the user with so that you know exactly if that particular user has completed the offer.  When multiple users are completing your offers, this will come in handy.  If you are not familiar with subid's you can login to your CPA network and it will show you how to set these up as each network is a little different.

One of my favorite ways to get instant traffic and leads from CPA offers is to search through the hot trends daily from Google and see what people are searching for or stay up to date with current events.  With the recent death of Michael Jackson, there was a ton of media coverage and people searching for various information on Michael Jackson which I thought I could take advantage of.  With all the hype of the memorial service for Michael Jackson that was going to be aired live on television, I was going to focus on this as my starting point.

With this technique, I use article marketing to get in the first page of Google fast for various keywords and have my affiliate link to a CPA offer that relates to the article I'm writing.  I also can send traffic from the article to my website in which I can use the content unlocker and earn leads that way as well.  For this particular example, I am going to use the content unlocker to show you how I made money from the Michael Jackson current events. 

It was the morning of July 7th 2009 and the memorial service for Michael Jackson was scheduled for that afternoon, so I wrote a quick article on ArticlesBase.com about Michael Jackson along with some information on the memorial.  The key is to target certain keyword phrases that you want to rank high in the search engines for.  In my particular case I was going to target ranking high for people searching for the keyword phrase "watch michael jackson memorial service online" as I figured that since this was on during the week the majority of people were going to be at work and wanted to be able to stream it live from their computer.  Within my article, I put several links (ArticlesBase.com allows 2 within the body of the article and 1 in the resource box) all linking to my website where I had my content unlocker setup.

The key to this technique is to target the title of your article with the keyword phrase you want to rank for and also include some of those keywords within the description of your article as shown below:

Google loves article directories such as this one so you can expect to get high rankings very quick for longer tail keyword phrases like this one.  I checked my results in Google for the keyword phrase I was targeting and found that my article showed up in just 3 minutes from when I submitted it.  I didn't do any bookmarking or getting back linking of this article as it just ranked naturally because of the way that Google indexes article sites fast.

Once the user clicked on my link within the article that shows them where to stream the memorial service online, it will direct them to a page I had already setup on an existing website I had to stream the service.  I added the content unlocker code from InstantDollarz.com to lock the page so the user had to complete a survey to get access to the live stream.

After the user completes the survey the page will unlock and once they click on the play button it will direct them to a news website where they can actually watch the live stream so it's a win-win situation for both of us. With hundreds of views in just 1 day, I found that I had received several visitors to my site that converted into leads and easy money.  The whole process only took me about 30 minutes to write the short article and setup my content unlocker page on an existing website I had.

A quick way to get a lot of instant and free traffic is to advertise on popular forums where you can incorporate certain CPA offers that match the forums description.  This type of method you need to be cautious of, because when you contribute and join a new forum that is very popular and gets a lot of traffic you really need to provide some value in your posts and don't just spam the forum with your CPA links.

In this example, I'm going to show you how I found a CPA offer on Azoogle that the user can get Free MP3's they can download to their computer.  It's a simple one field offer that I found on Azoogle that will pay $0.75 for each person that submits their email address to register to the site where they can download their free MP3's. 

Once I have my offer picked out, I needed to create a simple landing page on my own domain name to advertise the offer.  You could also just use a domain name that is related to the offer and redirect it to your affiliate link.  You need to either have your own domain name or landing page setup because you can't simply post your affiliate link in the forum. 

In my case I registered the domain name MP3sUnlimited.info (Only $2.99 for .info domain) in which I setup the simple landing page with a link on that page to the CPA offer.  I got all the images directly from the CPA offer so it was easy to setup.  I setup a landing page in case I wanted to ad other ways to earn money from this one page site instead of just sending all the traffic directly to the CPA offer.

Once I have the landing page setup, it's time to post my link on a freebie forum.  Freebie forums are great because they get a ton of traffic where users are ready to get anything free they can.  The freebie forum I used for this example is:

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/

At first, I had to register to the forum and then I posted my link in the Freebies section of this forum that is getting a lot of views as you can see below:

I suspect this offer should do very well because the user can really get 3 free MP3's as I tested out the offer myself and I advise you do the same when selecting a free offer to test to make sure it's really free so you don't get any complaints from other users in the forum. 

There are hundreds if not thousands of freebie CPA offers that you can browse through and use this same technique to advertise on this forum or any other freebie forum.

Here are a couple of the top freebie forums:

http://forums.slickdeals.net/

http://www.bigbigforums.com

http://www.spoofee.com/forum

To find a list of other freebie forums, simply google the keyword phrase "freebie forums, free stuff forum, etc."  Register to each one of these and try to make a couple of contributions and posts to the forum before you simply post links to your CPA offers.  The more posts you have, the more credible you are to the forum and the more likely users will trust you in clicking on your freebie link that eventually directs to your CPA offer. 

In this section you are about to see first hand my exact profitable campaigns that have been earning me hundreds of dollars in revenue per day.  Surely you can copy my success and start your own campaigns in these same areas, but most importantly my goal in this section is to get you to think about all the other possibilities out there by using these techniques on other offers and niches.

I will be giving away my best kept secrets on making great money with CPA marketing and you may have heard of some of these techniques, but I assure you I've probably got some new ideas and methods that you can use to start your own campaigns and copy my success.

Back to Table of Contents

If you haven't heard yet, making money promoting ringtone CPA offers is one of the hottest niches around and some affiliates are making thousands of dollars per DAY in leads.  There is a time where I made close to $1,000 profit in one day.  Almost every CPA network has ringtone offers available where the user simply needs to enter their cell phone number and confirm a pin number they receive to get ringtones to their phone.  The user does not need to have a credit card to get ringtones, but typically they will sign up for a $9.99 subscription added to their cell phone bill where they can get new ringtones each month. 

I've gotten as high as $20 per lead for ringtone offers.  They convert very easily because the user simply needs to enter their phone number and confirm a pin number for you to get credit for the lead.  However, making money promoting ringtones has gotten harder as of late because the FTC and other agencies are cracking down on the ringtone advertisers if they are not promoted or marketed properly.  Many affiliates in the past were promoting "free" ringtones when really the user will be paying around $9.99 per month for the ringtone subscription.  In today's market that means that there are stricter rules and it's a lot harder to advertise and promote ringtone CPA offers.  With that being said, there is a lot LESS competition in this niche.  Some affiliates simply don't have the time and energy to comply with all the rules when advertising ringtone offers, but in my case I take the time to advertise correctly as I know in the long run my ads will continue to make me money.

I run my ringtone campaigns a couple of different ways to maximize my traffic and revenue.  I make the most money from promoting the offer through pay per click advertising on Google and Yahoo, although I do article marketing as well to get more free traffic.  The first way I will show you how I promote my ringtone offers is through pay per click advertising through Google.  The first thing you need to do is find a ringtone offer and as I mentioned there are hundreds of them.  One of my favorite offers is Thumbplay and SendMeMobile which allows me to send my traffic to hundreds of different landing pages so I can target my ads and traffic.  This is one of my secret techniques which is also one of my most profitable campaigns; targeting my ringtone traffic!  For example, there are literally thousands of different popular songs out there that people are searching for as ringtones.  I setup hundreds of different ads for each song that all send the person to the landing page of that particular song.

You might be thinking it's a lot of work to setup an ad on Google Adwords for hundreds of songs, which it is at first, however I found it's the most profitable for me.  You see there are a lot of lazy affiliates out there that promote ringtone offers under the keyword "ringtones" which gets thousands of searches per day.  The only problem is that there is a lot of competition for this keyword so you will be paying a lot of money per click to get your ad noticed at the top of the search.  Instead I focus on smaller keywords which I can rank #1 for and pay very little cost per click because there is hardly any competition.

As an example, I will show you a live campaign I have going for the ringtone song called "Just Dance" by Lady Gaga which has been #1 on the U.S. charts for many weeks straight.  When I search for: just dance ringtone in Google you will see my ad show up #1.

I'm only paying around $.09 per click as opposed to around $.50 per click for the number one spot for the keyword "ringtones".  Now this ad doesn't get me a ton of traffic, but as I setup different ads for hundreds of songs it all adds up to a substantial amount of clicks per day to all my ads combined.  When a user clicks on this particular ad I have a targeted landing page for each song I advertise on as seen below.  You will notice it's very simple and user friendly as I want the user to immediately click on their particular cell phone carrier that will direct them to the CPA ringtone offer I'm promoting.

Once the user selects their carrier, they will be directed to the CPA offer and in this case, it's sending them to a page where they can preview and download the exact song that I am advertising on which is Just Dance by Lady Gaga.  My conversions are very high with this marketing technique because all my traffic is targeted to exactly what the user is searching for.  That is one of the biggest keys to success in Internet Marketing and that has made me very successful in all of my campaigns.  You will see that all the user has to do in order to download the ringtone they are searching for is enter their phone number, agree to the terms, and confirm the pin number they receive back as an instant text message.

I repeat this process for hundreds of other songs by creating a separate landing page for each song/artist, and a separate ad on Google and Yahoo.  I use the same landing page template over and over again, just simply change the heading of each one to target the exact song I'm advertising on.  Once the landing page is setup I create the ad on Google and Yahoo with the song title/artist name as the headline.  There are only a couple of ringtone offers where you are able to send your visitors to the exact song/artist you are promoting and SendMeMobile & ThumbPlay are two of them that I have used in the past.  Otherwise, if I were advertising on keywords that are more in general like "ringtones" or "download ringtones", I would send them to a landing page from a ringtone offer below that doesn't target any specific song names:

Another way to get traffic to my ringtone offers is to setup ads on USFreeAds.com which I've gotten a lot of free traffic from the ad ranking high in Google.  For example another popular song that users are searching for as a ringtone is called "Right Round" by Flo Rida.  You will see a sample ad that was placed on USFreeAds.com which directs users to the CPA ringtone offer:

You will notice that there have been over 3,321 people that have viewed this ad and that is because it ranks in Google as #2 for the keyword "right round ringtone".  This is all free traffic which you can setup over and over again for hundreds of different songs.  It's easy to rank high in the search engines for song / artist names because there are not too many websites that are optimizing this keyword phrase as opposed to ringtone keywords in general.

Combining pay per click advertising and free advertising targeting song names and artists allows for lots of traffic and leads.  The average payout for someone that signs up for the ringtone offer is about $15 so it's a nice payout that has converted for me very well for years now.

Back to Table of Contents