CPA Networks

[mutevu]

Can someone advise on the best strategies to get accepted by CPA networks!

[kuzzuk]

I bought and went through Zero Friction Marketing. One main strategy to getting accepted is having a company website. The program gives lots of tips, I have reviewed in on my site http://www.gurutracking.com/zero-frictio...eview.html

Please ask if you have more questions.

[Vita_Vee]

Also when you register don't use a free email address. no hotmail, no gmail, no yahoo etc...

Use an email address using one of your own domain names. On that domain setup a wordpress blog with a nice theme (you can find several great free themes here: http://www.skinpress.com/ )

You will need content, write at least 10 long articles and don't forget the "about us" page.

Hint: About the article writing, you're just creating a website to get approved (and not for the search engines and not to make money) so they don't have to be original articles. You just want to have a populated website.

At the top of your blog or in the sidebar add an optin box so you will show that you're building a list (and that you could promote their offers via your newsletter).

Add a privacy policy and a terms of services page, like explained by Mohammed here: http://vitavee.com/forums/thread-249.html

Also add a contact me page, use the Cforms-II wordpress plugin for that, it looks good.

And last but not least, on the registration page, they will ask for your phone number. Write your real phone number, if they can't reach you you won't get accepted.

If their first evaluation (looking your website) is positive they WILL call you to talk to you. Be prepared
Don't be intimidated though, the last time an affiliate manager called me I asked him why he waited so long to call
Be the one who control the conversation. Before they ask question, ask them questions.

Ask if they can tell you what are the best performing offers and if they can send you this list once a week.
Ask if they have subids technology to track to the keyword level
Ask if they prefer that you use their own banners or if you can create your owns (they will tell you that they prefer that you use their banners, in that case tell them that by creating your owns you could get better CTR to their offers because you would have a better control and could make some split tests to find the best performing picture) etc...

Ask as many questions as you can, if you do that they won't ask you any question, they will see that you know your stuff and you will get approved immediately.

Vita Vee

[kuzzuk]

Excellent advice as usual VV I learn so much in this forum just by lurking around

[jackpinion]

I work with several CPA networks and before I was approved, I was called by almost all of my prospective affiliate managers. You're definitely going to need at least one site that looks like it's been around for awhile. As VV says, control the conversation and prepare a list of questions for them.

I always like to know what's converting the best... I always ask that up front. I also want to know HOW they're converting... eMail? PPC? Web?

Believe it or not, I have ONE PPC campaign running selling a psoriasis remedy that pulls in a consistent $15K a month... Be prepared to try different kinds of products -- products you might never have thought of selling before.

I also like to ask my prospective affiliate manager how, in their professional opinion, do they think I should get up and running fast but efficiently in order to start making money. They seem to love this question even though you may never take their advice.

Be sure to mention that you've sold other affiliate products via ClickBank... They've all heard of ClickBank. Mention you're a Super Affiliate of several ClickBank products and have a pretty decent sized list that you feel would convert well for CPA offers of the same ilk.

Have fun with it!

jack

[Vita_Vee]

(10-13-2009 12:27 PM)kuzzuk Wrote:  Excellent advice as usual VV I learn so much in this forum just by lurking around

Thanks Kuzzuk

(10-13-2009 07:45 PM)jackpinion Wrote:  I always like to know what's converting the best... I always ask that up front. I also want to know HOW they're converting... eMail? PPC? Web?

Thanks Jack, that's definitely something important to know.

(10-13-2009 07:45 PM)jackpinion Wrote:  Believe it or not, I have ONE PPC campaign running selling a psoriasis remedy that pulls in a consistent $15K a month... Be prepared to try different kinds of products -- products you might never have thought of selling before.

Ha! I didn't think of this one yet! Thanks for the info Let's have a look at what Google Cash Detective finds for me...

... few minutes later...

WOW That's indeed a big market.

[Airwolf]

There is one question when we fill up the CPA application form is : How will you promote their cpa offers?

I think this is a very important question and need to answer carefully. I think I have been rejected few times before by few cpa networks was because I did not answer this question properly as I am a newbie in promoting cpa offers.

[jackpinion]

(10-15-2009 02:53 PM)Vita_Vee Wrote:  

(10-13-2009 12:27 PM)kuzzuk Wrote:  Excellent advice as usual VV I learn so much in this forum just by lurking around

Thanks Kuzzuk

(10-13-2009 07:45 PM)jackpinion Wrote:  I always like to know what's converting the best... I always ask that up front. I also want to know HOW they're converting... eMail? PPC? Web?

Thanks Jack, that's definitely something important to know.

(10-13-2009 07:45 PM)jackpinion Wrote:  Believe it or not, I have ONE PPC campaign running selling a psoriasis remedy that pulls in a consistent $15K a month... Be prepared to try different kinds of products -- products you might never have thought of selling before.

Ha! I didn't think of this one yet! Thanks for the info Let's have a look at what Google Cash Detective finds for me...

... few minutes later...

WOW That's indeed a big market.

I did put this in another CPA thread but I think it's worth mentioning here... http://www.MarketHealth.com is a very easy CPA network to join and their landing pages/products really convert well for me.

jack

[hyang]

There are hundreds of CPA networks out there and some of them are very professional while others are just pop-and-mom operated and could disappear with your money at any time.

I applied to quite a few of them and got accepted into a few. They almost all called me, with one network requested my scanned copy of driver's license...

[LindaC]

(10-10-2009 10:20 PM)mutevu Wrote:  Can someone advise on the best strategies to get accepted by CPA networks!

To get accepted by a CPA network you need a website or at the very least a blog. It helps to have some knowledge of internet marketing and to be able to drive traffic to your site effectively. CPA networks do not simply instantly accept your application like ClickBank or Paydotcom do. You must submit your application and go through an the approval process.

The reason acceptance is not automatic with CPA networks is because in order to get advertisers to pay a premium price for the leads they generate, the CPA network has to promise a certain quality: that is leads that are very likely to turn into paying customers. This means that you need to be able to drive sufficient and targeted traffic to your website, traffic that is very likely not only to sign up for the free offer, or put in their email address, but to buy something down the line.

Since acceptance is not guaranteed, and in fact, can be difficult, especially for people with brand new websites and little internet marketing experience, you should apply to as many CPA networks as you can. With each one, be prepared to answer questions such as how many hits your site gets per month, how long you've been in the business, how do you plan on marketing the offers, will you use incentives, etc.

A good pro-active step you can take and one that will increase your chances of getting accepted is to phone the network after you have applied. This will let the affiliate manager know two things: One, that you are real person, and two, that you are running a genuine business and therefore unlikely to try to game the system to make more money.

Don't lose heart if you find that you are getting a lot of rejections. You may find that you need to develop a little more experience and build up your website a little bit more in order to be accepted into the CPA world.

[kuzzuk]

Based on my reading of zero friction and VV's input - here's a post on the topic - http://www.gurutracking.com/how-to-impro...works.html

(10-10-2009 10:20 PM)mutevu Wrote:  Can someone advise on the best strategies to get accepted by CPA networks!

[Vicmedici]

I Think the best advice is be honest with them especially on how you going to be generating traffic to the offer.

And as soon as you sign up you should call them first and talk to the Affiliate Manager your self.And let them know exactly what you plan to do.

Hope this helps.