International Affiliate Marketing

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Has anyone here tried affiliate marketing for non-English speaking countries?

I think there might be good opportunities out there and I'd like to know what are your previous experiences, since it seems to me there's money to be made and cheaper traffic ready to be bought.

However, how do go about finding CPA networks in other languages?

Thanks for your advice.

PS: In my specific case I'm from Brazil, and would like to create profitable marketing campaigns for this market.
 


I doubt this is a good option as of now. Im into thinking that foreign languages need to come up a lot on the net to get a wider option. While I have seen landing pages scare the shit out of me with their advertisement skills, they do a relatively lousy job. Pertaining to traffic. Yeah! Why not...More the merrier right?
 
I have tried the brazilian market with ringtones and and the download CPA's. They did convert well but the payouts are to low to even bother. You would break even in the best case scenario. And I managed to get very cheap traffic ($0.03 - $0.01 range).

Also tried spanish speaking countried like south america and Mexico and had very bad results. Making a profit is hard when they pay not even a dollar for a CPA offer for this traffic.

The only one I had success with is Spain. They convert well and since it's a European country usually the payout is a bit higher than latin american spanish speaking countried.

Hope this helps!
 
tacoX said:
I've been doing it for awhile and I love it. Google translate is my secret lover - been pushing mobile and downloads on there. Hit me up if you want to chat about it sometime.
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Ryan,

its interesting to hear that you had sucess with this. Congrats!! Did you send traffic from your network of myspace sites etc or did you mange to turn a profit with PPC traffic?

I would be interested in hearing more about this and what kind of offers do you have for spanish speaking countries in your network. PM if you have a chance!
 
In Europe, people have less money but people are smarter than US people, they buy some shit of course, but do not even try Acai and other offers for stupid.

Conversion is more difficult but of course there is some good money to make.
 
Manga59 said:
In Europe, people have less money but people are smarter than US people
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Really?

GDP per capita:

USA: $47,440
Switzerland: $68,433
Netherlands: $52,499
France: $46,037
Germany: $44,660

But then again, you might be right:
Spain: $35,116
Czech republic: $20,759
Hungary: $15,522

And yes, it's the nominal GDP, not the purchasing power parity GDP.
 
You're right for Switzerland and Netherlands people.
And as you say, numbers doesn't mean the whole thing.

What is sure is that in France, Acai is totally debunked. Moreover, affiliates have abused with their
very poor translations and French law protects the consumer greatly with the automatic rebills.

For other businesses, no problem. You can still make money on this market.
;)
 
Surely intl offers works well i have been doing good with them , let me knowif you need any tips
 
I am not going to judge...but wtf is low payouts, if for mobile offer payout was less than dollar for brazil and mexico, networks should fuck this advertiser and let him back when he will increase it. In my region payouts where in region of $4+ It's not $10+ like in US, but not fucking $0.8 or so. Advertisers need to get real too.
 
phrench said:
Really?

GDP per capita:

USA: $47,440
Switzerland: $68,433
Netherlands: $52,499
France: $46,037
Germany: $44,660

But then again, you might be right:
Spain: $35,116
Czech republic: $20,759
Hungary: $15,522

And yes, it's the nominal GDP, not the purchasing power parity GDP.
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people in europe are not smarter or dumber, they are just different. the problem that most americans face when advertising in europe is the language barrier. simply translating US LP's into some language won't help. you need to do your research homework right and not just for the lulz.
 
Ok-I dug up a real old post I had made-back from when I was in Adult. This is in regards to International Traffic-for the Adult side. Since some of you out there do dabble in that side, I though it worthy of posting. I feel some of the items here also pertain to "mainstream"

I am often asked my opinion on the international market and how you can monetize your traffic best. As you all know, the internet is growing by leaps and bounds every day! Now contrary to popular belief, there is Adult website business done outside the US…lol Yes…beyond US borders! What this means for you? It means new international markets are opening for e-commerce, and you now have the opportunity to cash in on this booming market!

Now for all those pay site owners that are saying … “Mmm this sounds interesting… What do I need to do to get into this?” I have some helpful hints that will guide you in the right direction!

First of all simply translating your pay site into other languages is not going to do the trick alone! It is a wise decision to have your sites translated by a local linguist from the country the language is in. There will be many terms and way of saying things that is only known to locals (slang)! If you have a non-native speaker translating, it will most likely not be in common tongue, but rather text book style. It would not behoove you to translate this way as it will ultimately cost you sales! In addition, your Members Area should also be in the native language of the user. If the user can not understand the language of your Members Area, they can not make up-sell purchases …and we all know that up-sells generate a large amount of income!

Well ok now you have your surfers understanding your site and getting all worked up and ready to join but then they hit your sign up page and BAM! Billing Dilemma! Unlike here in the states, the average Credit Card penetration is extremely low. In countries such as Germany, The CC penetration is between 25-30%! That is a far cry from here in the US. So now you are asking, ok if Credit Cards present a problem what do I do? ...Send them to dialers? Well in the not too distant past, dialers were a feasible and profitable way of billing international users. In 2005 however, the dialer has been outlawed and or severely regulated in places like Spain & Switzerland. Ok so now what? Well from my personal experience I see the primary method of payment for many countries as Direct Debit. However there are definitely alternative forms of payment other than Direct Debit that can be used, such as Reverse SMS billing, Web call, etc., just depends upon the country or origin.

Ok Now that you are rocking with the site in native tongue with native billing methods, you may hit another snag! Content! What some countries may like, others may loathe. In other words, not every one likes blonde hair blue eyes. You must keep your content preferences geared towards the countries' preferences.

Setting up the above steps is a gigantic project and will require a good amount of time to do correctly! However the rewards and the cash you will generate if done correctly will far outweigh the effort!

It is a big world out there! Take advantage of it!

-=Chipmunk=-
 
Great posts, thanks for your advice.

I've heard the payouts are pretty low, and I'm having trouble even finding brazilian CPA networks.

That's wierd, considering Brazil has lots of potential when it comes to internet marketing. E-commerce has grown substantially here, but I think on the other hand advertisers don't value affiliates that much down here.

Maybe an idea would be to start an affiliate network here, but then again I wouldn't know how to proceed.

Fact is... This market will be profitable some time, and I'd like to be there when it happens.
 
Lots of Brazilian offers out there ... we have quite a number of Brazil campaigns live on the network that do very well - a number of specific affiliate networks in Brazil out there as well.

Brazil has amazing potential. Whole of LatAm does.
Last frontier is Africa ... I can only imagine the CPA offers WF can dream up for that continent.
 
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