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Making Money With Affiliate CPA Networks
Written by Tyson Bradshaw   
Sunday, 31 January 2010 10:03
One of the simplest ways to monetize a web site, and one of the least known, is to generate leads, which can be actually a highly beneficial type of affiliate marketing, but can be used by relatively few online marketers.
by TysonBradshaw


One of the simplest ways to monetize a web site, and one of the least known, is to generate leads, which can be actually a highly beneficial type of affiliate marketing, but can be used by relatively few online marketers.

Here's how cpa offers works. Listen up - this advice is golden!

Monetizing your blog by becoming a CPA marketer is very, very effortless. People sign up with one of the 50 or so CPA Networks that are available online, drive traffic to the special landing pages they provide, and receives a commission whenever a site visitor completes and enters a form. That's really all there is to it.

A CPA network is mostly a clearing house that brings advertisers and publishers together. The advertiser offers a custom landing page and form, pays the network fee to make it open to web marketers, plus the web marketers in turn are covered for driving traffic and creating signups.

CPA stands for "cost per action", and in this case, the action is the site visitor filling out the form. Compare this to traditional web marketing , and you will see the beauty of it quickly. Done right, it is a much easier and more profitable way to monetize your website.

A traditional marketer must acquire traffic, do a great job of "pre-selling" the product, and send visitors on to the vendor site through an affiliate marketer link, hoping to get something like 1% to 5% sales, which in turn is highly impacted by the quality of the vendor's sales letter and product. If the vendor does a poor job of advertising on the sales site, or has an overpriced or poorly gotten product, the marketer has spent quite a bit of time, and most likely money, for a small amount of return.

A CPA marketer, on the other hand, carries a easier job of things. They must still obtain traffic, either by investing in it, or by connecting a well-optimized site that gets good search engine placement for certain key words. At that point, however, the CPA affiliate marketer work is nearly done.

The next step is for the site visitor to fill out a form requesting at least one content. Remember, this does not entail the visitor getting out his or her wallet, or making a decision to spend any money.

All it requires is the visitor *sign up for free information* and give his or her name and email address, and perhaps a physical address.

You, as the CPA affiliate, get paid *although your site visitor has yet to acquire anything*. You get paid for a LEAD, not a sale.

Most people have no clue how huge and lucrative to generate leads is, and not a clue the type of money that certain businesses will pay for a good lead. Offers like banking and insurance leads, particularly, are very, very valuable, as are credit card leads. But even something as seemingly inexpensive as a cellular phone ring tone can bring you a nice commission per lead. Why?

These lead purchasers intend on maximizing the long-term value of a customer. Inside the case of a mortgage, one lead can generate a commission of thousands of dollars to a banker. An insurance or bank card account is worth recurring commissions potentially for many, many years. Even a ringtone lead features a long-term value, considering that vendor will continue to target that person over and over again, selling them often what it cost to acquire them as a customer.

CPA is big, big business, and one of the best ways there's to monetize your blog. If you are looking for easy and beneficial ways to monetize a site, CPA affiliation might be your answer. To really excel at CPA marketing, you'll want to learn how to use traffic generation methods like Google Adwords effectively, but in the long run, CPA is much easier plus much more lucrative than traditional internet marketing.

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