Any Advertisers Still Doing Free Trials with Affiliate Networks

martialtiger

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Hi Guys,

I'm new to the advertising side of affiliate/online marketing so wanted to see if anyone here has had any experience running free trial offers still on affiliate networks (particularly Clickbooth).

I'd like to know your thoughts on the following:

  1. How well it's performing compared to your straight sale offers?
  2. What are the obstacles/issues you're seeing (chargebacks, merchant accounts, etc)?
  3. What are the benefits you are gaining (increased revenue, customer base, etc)?
  4. Which Affiliate Network(s) are the best to work with?

TIA!
 


Free trial offers work best on facebook. But facebook doesn't usually approve those ads. So...what you do is submit an ad for a similar offer that is NOT a free trial. Then, once they've approved it you change the offer page to show the free trial / rebill offer and profit!

Good luck bro
 
affluent said:
Free trial offers work best on facebook. But facebook doesn't usually approve those ads. So...what you do is submit an ad for a similar offer that is NOT a free trial. Then, once they've approved it you change the offer page to show the free trial / rebill offer and profit!

Good luck bro
Click to expand...

He's talking about his own offer.
 
Hack...if we ever meet you have to introduce me to some of those girls in your sig if you know them, i mean gat dayum
 
@affluent Thanks for the info but like jeffrey said I was actually referring to my own offer for the company I work at. Either way definitely appreciate the mature response.

@sgtryan It's not a matter of my being lazy asstwat. My boss is hesitant to try out this revenue model and I was hoping to have some expert feedback to back up my push to give this a shot. Your comment was the lazy one. Nice way to add to your post count cunt.

@iPwnNoobs Yeah I would and that's why I asked the questions.
 
Free Trials are only good, when you have Mass Amounts of Quality traffic coming in, from that you basically collect the Crem"e. As for making it available for everyone and submitting to multiple networks with no restrictions... what could be the simplest metafor for that.. ? - Offering a Free Dinner for 1000s of affiliates, and youre the one to Pay for it".

Better do a 1time small sale thats valid for a period of time, and if they like to continue, then they need to renew it.
As for CB"s, you cant fight them for the first 45 days, so it all really depends on quality traffic, junk traffic will just bring you leechers, and most likely they will advise to cancel it, so again ... if you want to offer someone a free lunch go for it. If you want to make money, go for the correct business model the first time around.
 
StevenBlast, thanks for the response and analogy. Definitely things to consider here. Much appreciated!
 
If you're new to the free trial - continuity model and your distribution plan revolves around going to a CPA network for traffic, then here is what I recommend you do. Take all the cash your boss has on hand (hopefully it's between $100K-300K), a can of lighter fluid, a match, and light that shit on fire. Get it out of the way now and you'll save yourself a lot of pain in the long run.
 
Having just launched it.. so far our str8 sale does better of course.

No issues with charge backs (have some great fraud and verification stuff running, plus gee wiz, I actually WANT my customers to be happy and buy again each month.)

Benefits, well more money of course. Running on a private network for testing, about ready to open it up to EWA and Convert2 for major volume.
 
Going the straight sale path takes balls when everyone has gotten so high off of the last few years of free trials. Most people who have come into the industry after 2006 have no idea if it works or not.

It does!

And it makes damn good money with much less risk and better business practices.

Honesty! Imagine that! Wow! It works! lol

I've been doing it for the past 10 years and laughing while everyone has gotten caught up doing the shady stuff.
 
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don't waste your time or money on a trial unless you know what you're doing, it'll blow up in your face. quality processors don't take on newbies to trials anymore, unless you have the capitalization to back up the new account 6figs plus deposited with the bank to hedge them from risk.

hard sale won't work either unless you have a branded product or a lot of experience with landing pages. good luck!

BradShaw, agree with the hardsale point, but this guy won't get much traction unless he knows wtf he's doing
 
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