Okay, I might have said somewhere in the past that I was starting with some CPA stuff.
I changed my mind.
Sure, there’s a heck of a lot of profit there. In fact, the reason I chose to talk about this now is because of the upcoming high ticket product called The Arbitrage Conspiracy. But don’t worry, I won’t promote it to you, or to anyone at all.
See, the guys behind it are pulling in about $50,000-$100,000 Net Profit each and every day.
That’s a whole bunch of cash right there.
But why am I not doing it?
I’m too lazy, that’s why.
MY problem with CPA is that it has to be managed constantly. You have to keep your campaigns in check.
You see, the advertisers that puts out their offers on the CPA networks… they can pull their offer at any time they choose. Like “we don’t need more leads now, let’s pull this campaign…” or because they can’t afford to pay the affiliates.
Also, CPA offers expire as well, if the advertiser hasn’t removed their offer before the expiry period ends.
That’s my problem.
What I do, is things that I can set up once, and not have to touch it ever again.
Things like small SEO sites that pull in free traffic and gets sales or possibly adsense clicks on autopilot. And things like Clickbank offers don’t expire, neither does adsense. Even if a site only brings in a couple of bucks per day, it’s duplicable, like most things. If you have like 20 sites then it starts to add up.
That’s my kind of thing… not having to work. Period. Yeah, I’m a lazy bastard.
However, if you’re cool with working a few hours per day I’m sure CPA is a great way to go. I’m sure the Arbitrage Conspiracy is too. Heck, even MARK JOYNER promotes it. I have enough respect for that man to know that the product must be absolutely fantastic if he chooses to promote it.
So well, now you know what in my opinion are the primary drawbacks of CPA. If I was doing CPA, I would buy the Arbitrage Conspiracy though, and if you want to do that, go right ahead. Unfortunately I don’t have any affiliate link for you…
Well I’ll see you guys. I know I haven’t updated in a while, I just haven’t… felt like blogging. We’ll see if I get back into it, oh well.
See ya,
Linus
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Offers do expire and it is a bit of a pain in the ass. But most networks do tell you on their site when they will expire.
So you could just set yourself up with some sort of planner and if they are profitable you can just set your PPC campaign to finish on that date, if you are using PPC.
SEO methods, you could just redirect them to a domain then have that domain rediect to the offer.
Working clickbank and the like you do eliminate that problem, but i have had far better conversion with CPA offers
Keep up the good work
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Nice post,
CPA marketing does have to be managed but you can outsource the work once you have optimised the campaigns. Its not too hard to optimise the campaigns if your using PPC to CPA marketing.
Keep up the good work
What you can do is just focus on a single vertical (health for example) and build a semi-authority site. Even if an offer gets pulled, there will *always* be other offer related to health, fitness, dieting, etc. Have all your links go through a single redirect script and you only have to manage URL’s in one place.
If you build a site and promote it with SEO, it’s still pretty hands off. Trust me I’m lazy too, and this method works.
Yeah I suppose. Been considering this too. But oh well, for me it’s still more convenient this way. To each his own right?
I do some CPA stuff too now, by the way, just in a very small scale, comparatively.