Difference between CPA Marketing and Affiliate

[TeresaEWeis]

What Difference between CPA Marketing and Affiliate Marketing? Are both online home based business opportunity?

[Nik]

Affiliate marketing is when you promote a some kind of service, digital, or physical product as an affiliate and earn a commission of each sale you generate.

With CPA (cost-per-action) you don't need to generate any sales in some cases. You need to make a visitor complete some kind of action. Each CPA offer is different. Some offers will ask you to refer a visitor to enter their zip code or phone number, or maybe do a small survey, or maybe a trial offer, etc. So when the visitor completes this action you get paid. The amount of money you get paid for each action is based on how much the cpa network pays for that particular action.

Nik

[AliciaJRoger]

One key difference between CPA and affiliate marketing is what you are paid for. Affiliate Marketing you are paid when sale is made. While CPA Marketing you will be paid when somebody click your link and sign up.

[RobCole]

CPA can actually be a range of things from completing a survey to taking out a 7 day trial(as Nik said ).

[bloggerdeen]

Affiliate marketing is basically follows CPS (Cost per sale) model. You earn when some purchase the product and also most of the time it is commission based

but in case of CPA(cost per action) you get paid whenever you get advertiser a lead so the action that your customer require is many time just filling form.