Affiliate Marketing Revised
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. And if you don’t change your tactics, you cannot survive.
The promise
Unfortunately, you’ve been led to believe affiliate marketing is easy. This is partially true. It’s far easier that developing, selling and supporting your own product. But “easier” doesn’t mean “easy”.
Here’s the ugly truth
To top it off you’ve been given false information. The first thing you’re taught is to pick some great products. Next do some keyword research. Then buy some keyword ads that send traffic to the product. And just enjoy the commissions. But this just won’t work!
Keywords are dead
Keyword advertising used to work. But the competition has shot the price of keywords through the roof. So, throw it all away.
The NEW game
There is a solution to this problem. Follow this method and win again…
- Do CPA marketing instead of product promotion
- Utilize demographics data
- Market on display networks
Do CPA marketing instead of product promotion
CPA means Cost Per Action. It’s far superior to product promotion. Because your visitor doesn’t have to buy anything. You get paid when they take an “action”. Such as filling in a form. And it’s much easier to get them to do that.
Do demographics research
Don’t waste time researching keywords (see below). So spend your time doing demographics research. First, select the CPA offer you want to promote. Then go to a site like Quantcast.com. And research what kinds of people will be interested.
Use image ads
So you know what your promoting and you know who will be interested. You can advertise directly to them on display networks. Using image ads. And there was no keyword research required. Plus you’re going to save a ton of money. Keyword ads are expensive, but image ads are still cheap.
Summing it up
This is powerful method to make money online. Because it’s free to get started in CPA. It’s much cheaper to do image ads than keyword ads. Display networks let you do demographics targeting. And your commission is much easier to earn.
