Affiliate Marketing Revised

Posted in: Uncategorized by JeffDedrick on August 20, 2010

You’re dead wrong if you think you know anything about being an affiliate. The tactics of the past few years just don’t work anymore. If you play by the old rules, you will lose this game.

The big lie

Unfortunately, you’ve been led to believe affiliate marketing is easy. And it is – sort of. It’s far easier that developing, selling and supporting your own product. But starting your own business is really hard, so it’s all relative.

The bad news…

And to make matters worse, you’ve taught to do it the hard way. You’re told to pick one of more products to promote. Next to pick your keywords carefully. Then buy some keyword ads that send traffic to the product. And just enjoy the commissions. But this just won’t work!

Don’t bother with keywords

Keyword advertising used to work. But it’s just too competitive to use keywords now. So, throw it all away.

A better way

All is not lost. Follow this method and win again…

Do CPA marketing instead of product promotion
Do demographics research
Market on display networks

Get into CPA marketing

CPA stands for Cost Per Action. It’s so much easier than promoting products. Because your visitor doesn’t have to buy anything. You earn a commission for having them perform an “action”. Such as filling in a form. And it’s much easier to get them to do that.

Instead of researching keywords, research demographics

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.

Market on display networks

Now you have your offer and your demographics. You can advertise directly to them on display networks. And let images do the work. No keywords required. The biggest advantage is price. Image ad clicks are much cheaper.

In closing

This is a great way to make money fast. Because it’s free to get started in CPA. You can buy image ad clicks for a fraction of keyword ad clicks. Display networks let you do demographics targeting. And your commission is much easier to earn.

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