Affiliate Marketing Revised
Everything you think you know about building an affiliate business is wrong. 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. Well, that’s true . . . to a point It is the easiest business you can possibly start. But “easier” doesn’t mean “easy”.
The bad news…
To top it off you’ve been given false information. The first thing you’re taught is to pick some great products. Next to pick your keywords carefully. Then buy some keyword ads that send traffic to the product. And just enjoy the commissions. But it doesn’t work.
Don’t bother with keywords
This method worked a couple years ago. But the competition has shot the price of keywords through the roof. It’s time for a paradigm shift.
A better way
There is a solution to this problem. Here’s how to win at this game.
- Start using CPA marketing
- 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 you don’t have to get people to spend money. You earn a commission for having them perform an “action”. Entering their email into a form, for example. Which is much easier than getting them to buy something.
Do demographics research
Keywords are no longer relevant (you’ll see in a minute). But demographics are highly important. Once you’ve picked the CPA offer to promote. Then hop over to Quantcast.com. And research what kinds of people will be interested.
Do image ad marketing
Now you have your offer and your demographics. You can target these exact demographics on display networks. Using image ads. And there was no keyword research required. The biggest advantage is price. Keyword ads are expensive, but image ads are still cheap.
Summary
This is powerful method to make money online. Because you can start CPA marketing for free. You can buy image ad clicks for a fraction of keyword ad clicks. Display networks let you do demographics targeting. And getting them to take an action is much easier than making a sale.