Affiliate Marketing Revised
OK, forget everything you know about affiliate marketing. The tactics of the past few years just don’t work anymore. You need to adapt and change or perish.
The big lie
Unfortunately, you’ve been led to believe affiliate marketing is easy. This is partially true. It’s far easier than developing, selling and supporting your own product. But that doesn’t mean it’s easy.
The bad news…
To top it off you’ve been given false information. The first thing you’re taught is to pick some great products. Next to pick your keywords carefully. Then buy some keyword ads that send traffic to the product. And just enjoy the commissions. But it doesn’t work.
Don’t bother with keywords
There was a time when this worked. But the competition has shot the price of keywords through the roof. It’s time for a paradigm shift.
A better way
All is not lost. Follow this method and win again…
- Start using CPA marketing
- Do demographics research
- Market on display networks
Do CPA marketing instead of product promotion
CPA means Cost Per Action. It’s much better than promoting a product. Because you don’t have to get people to spend money. Your commission is generated when they complete an “action”. Such as filling in a form. And getting them to do this is so much easier.
Do demographics research
Don’t waste time researching keywords (see below). Invest your research time into demographics. Once you’ve picked the CPA offer to promote. Next, you go to Quantcast.com. And discover the exact demographics of your ideal prospect.
Use image ads
Now you have your offer and your demographics. Display networks allow you to target demographics with your ads. And let images do the work. And you don’t need to know or buy a single keyword. And you’ll save a fortune. Display networks charge a fraction for image ad clicks vs. keyword ads.
Summary
This is a great way to make money fast. Because it’s free to get started in CPA. Image ads are cheap. Display networks let you do demographics targeting. And you get paid for having them take a simple action.
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