Newbies to Affliate Marketing..

[syia]

Hello,

I am considering myself a newbies in Affliate Marketing. Can anyone just give tips or tell story on how they start? It will truely be inspire to know how other people start doing affliate marketing

 

[aeiouy]

Yes. I suggest you go listen to that MP3 Seminar a few threads over.

 

[ImagesAndWords]

Welcome to WF, syia.
You have come to the right place. The best place to start for you would be to read the big sticky thread on ppc->aff.marketing (by chrislingle) in the Affiliate Marketing section. You'll find lots of good newbie info there. Also check out the thread titled 'How I did it' by SEO_Mike.

After reading those threads, sign up with some Affiliate Networks, pick an offer for your first test, and start working on your landing page.

 

[EFUT EFUTURE]

Hello,

I am considering myself a newbies in Affliate Marketing. Can anyone just give tips or tell story on how they start? It will truely be inspire to know how other people start doing affliate marketing

Um have you signed up with a CPA company? Do you have a website?

 

[Dust-D]

CPA sites

OK, what is a CPA site? I am just starting to get into this and my buddy referred me to this site, among 20 other blogs to read. I'm sure CPA is probably common slang around here. But to me, all that comes to mind is Certified Public Accountant haha.

I have got to be greener than a stank bud:rasta: freshly plucked when it comes to affiliate moneymaking. On the flip side, I'm more computer literate than a lot of people I know so, I figure this may be my calling.

I'm currently signed up to Clickbank but it doesn't seem to be going anywhere yet. I'm sure that's my own fault since I'm still just doing a lot of reading. A lot of this is starting to make sense. Any tips for someone who has to start with little or no investment?:bowdown:

 

[Rob_TID]

Guys, some advice.

General questions like that are likely to get you flamed on this board. If you can't spend a few hours reading through the forum's sticky threads, then why should people do that work for you?

Go away, read the stickty threads.

Then return and ask specifics.

 

[Dust-D]

Well, I might be doing something stupid here, but I tried an advanced search in the forums for CPA and got nothing. I don't know what I'm doing wrong because it should obviously have at least a few hits.

I don't think I'm doing anything wrong though. Just click the little search button up top there and type in CPA. I swear to you I am getting nothing. And google throws out a plethora of certified public accountant links.
I don't think that's what you guys are referring to.

 

[ImagesAndWords]

Dust-D,
As far as searching for CPA, it probably didn't come up with any results because the abbreviation is too common or something like that.

I agree with Rob_TID that just reading up on some of the big threads should be the #1 priority. But since you probably won't find a description of that abbreviation in those threads, I'm gonna help you out;

CPA = Cost Per Action. This refers to any type of affiliate offer where you as the affiliate gets paid a certain amount of $ for each sale (or "Action") that is made. CPA offers usually requires the user to BUY something, like an ebook, a physical product, or a monthly service.
CPA payouts can vary from $x.xx up to whatever based on percentages of sale.

CPL = Cost Per Lead. These are offers where the users most often do not need to pay anything upfront (other than sometimes shipping&handling) for limited-time free offers or trial samples of products and services. You still get paid for the "Lead" that you were able to bring to the merchant. Meaning, you provide information about the user such as name, adress, phone number, zipcode, email, etc. and you get paid $ for that lead.
CPL payouts can be very high, but are usually a fixed $ amount, not a percentage.

CPM = Cost Per Mille (thousand) impressions. These are offers where you get paid for every time a banner / ad is displayed on your website. For every 1000th time that banner is displayed, you get paid a certain amount of $ (usually in the low $x.xx range).

 

[syia]

there is a great deals things to learn out here. I try to do some search regarding what product are good to sell but it seems most of the product have resell rights. Is this type of product profitable to sell? I think it will have quite a lot of competition...

 

[Rob_TID]

There are many stragies to making money on line.

Concentrate on ONE.

I recommend affiliate marketing - look at the thread that was mentioned above.

 

[MisterX]

there is a great deals things to learn out here. I try to do some search regarding what product are good to sell but it seems most of the product have resell rights. Is this type of product profitable to sell? I think it will have quite a lot of competition...

As mentioned, you can make money using many different tactics.

Regarding your question, the best product to sell is something that lots of people want to buy but only a small number of people is selling it

Until you learn how to find such products/services, you'll have to experiment and fail and experiment more, like all of us. And then you'll find something that works and gain a better understanding of the internet, marketing and business all together in the process.

Here's a common suggestion, the one that can fail only if you fail to endure:

If you have a hobby or a passion, you can start with that. Make a site/blog about it, write articles about it, exchange links and make friends with others with similar sites.

The more content & links you have online, the more visitors you will get to your sites and the more visitors you have, the more money you'll be able to make. And that's basically it. Start doing that, continue participating here on the forum and you'll be making money within a couple of months or even weeks.

 

[Dust-D]

Thanks I & W. I was really just asking what it stood for, but you went overboard and I appreciate you breaking it down. Good stuff. Really really appreciate it. I think I'm gonna start off under SEO Mike and his Copeac deal.