What is a CPA Affiliate Manager?
When you are approved by a large CPA network you will be assigned to a dedicated affilite manager to your account. This is someone you can talk to and will help you bring more traffic to the CPA network.
The affiliate manager has a vested interest in your success because they are paid a % based on how much money you generate for the CPA network.
Having a dedicated account manager is a huge asset imadgin if Clickbank offered this service on their products?
Threat them with respect and they can negotiate you a better deal and a higher pay out. They are there for you so treat them rightand they will help you make a lot of money.
Develope a very good relationship with your affiliate manager as they are your key to success and can tell you the best CPA offers to go for.
When selecting a CPA offer, you want to make sure you have an offer that is in demand and they can help here too.
there are 2 things that is alway against you and that is traffic and time.
You must measure the demand for a CPA offer, failure can be expensive and you will find 7 out of 10 will fail when you first start so please look for the markets that you are familar with. This way you will improve your odds especially if you know a CPA offer is in great demand.
Selecting A CPA Offer
You must select one that is in demandain the or it will bea complete waste of time this is why it’s said to start with 7 out of 10 will fail when you first start . You need to find those 3 winners and work of them. And as I said you dramaticly improve your odds if you are working with CPA offer that you know are in the market with large demands.
This is were research comes in, by looking at search volume for the most relavent keywords related to that offer.
Search for volumn by using Google’s free keyword tool located at :
http://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordsToolExternal
If you were promoting “Free lingerie Gift Card” offer, you would type in “lingerie” just to see how many people are searching for that keyword in a month. This will give you an idea of if you will get the amount of traffic you are wanting.
You must do you homework first if you hope to succeed
Always gauge your Competition ; There are many software tools out there to help you and tell you how many ads are running for certain keywords.
One quick way to see how many offers are running for a CPA lead offer that you want to promote is by simply typing in the most relevant keywords for the CPA offer into Google, MSN or Yahoo and you will get as idea of how many sponsored ad listings are showing.
You are looking for the opportunity, when you find a highly searched keyword that doesn’t have very many ads. Keywords are like nuggets of gold that can really help you get a lot of leads for a targeted CPA offer.
Even if you can find a CPA offer that is in highly competitive, this is not necessarily a bad thing. This means that this is in demand and people are making money so they must be getting people signing up.
There are ways you can compete with the competition finding a keyword slightly obscure or writing better ad copy, just look to be different in some way.