Hey guys,
I’ve been a long time lurker on this forum for quite some time and have found it really useful over the last couple of years so thought that it’s about time I give something back….![[Image: idea.gif]](https://rooshvforum.network/images/smilies/new/idea.gif)
My name’s Adam and I’m a 29 year old English guy who’s spent the last 2 years of my life traveling the world while starting and maintaining a large scale Internet Marketing business. Things have gone better than I've ever imagined and I've also managed to spend lots of time in many of the amazing places mentioned on this forum.
But it wasn’t all like this… in fact, 2.5 years ago I was a broke backpacker on a Working Holiday Visa in Australia who was massively in debt and begging his Mom to buy him a ticket home.
2.5 years later I’m the director of a large scale Internet firm, a marketing consultant, a millionaire, and have done all this while living out of a suitcase and spreading my time between 3-6 months stints in the likes of Colombia, Thailand, Poland, New York, Brazil the UK and Malaysia – seeing these places while still maintaining the hustle and setting myself up for life. What I am about to share is some quality information if you are looking to do the same. But what I cannot give you is the passion and desire to succeed at this - if you are interested in taking what I give you and applying it and you show genuine interest in this... I can promise you you'll be in for a wild ride! So please go away and study this stuff hard![[Image: smile.gif]](https://rooshvforum.network/images/smilies/smile.gif)
What I’m about to give you is a general overview, blueprint and some reading resources to check out that I think you will find useful. The breadth of the subject is pretty crazy – so I’ve only selected certain things so that you don’t get overwhelmed when starting out. There’s no way I can cram everything I want to in a forum post so be sure to ask any questions you’ve got and I’ll stick around to answer them as best as I can.
What is affiliate marketing?
The basis of affiliate marketing is essentially selling other peoples products and services for them and getting paid a commission (which can range from anywhere from $1.50 for getting someone to enter their email all the way up to to thousands of dollars for large ticket items).
A lot of companies out there either don’t know how to market themselves effectively online or are wanting to scale their curreny sales beyond their own capacity which is why they hire people like us (affiliates) to generate extra revenue for them to make more money. Affiliates also tend to be a lot more creative with their marketing efforts.
The most popular type of affiliate marketing right now is commonly known as CPA (cost per action) which means that you can get paid by people filling out forms and leads for companies rather than them parting with their hard-earned cash (although you can obviously get paid for that as well!). This means you don't even necessarily have to get people to pay any more for you to get paid.
What do I need to do this?
Pretty much a computer with Internet connection is all you really need along with a little investment capital to get started. I have personally been working from a laptop for the past couple of years and moving around from place to place as I have felt like it (I have plans to return to Poland very shortly).
The beauty of affiliate marketing is that I have no real actual clients, and no deadlines to meet – if I want to stop working and take a couple of months off.. it’s not a problem. I can simply pause my campaigns and come back to it whenever I feel like it (although it’s got to the stage now where it’s very addictive for me and I really love what I do).
What's the basis of this stuff?
Essentially, the two fundamental components of successful affiliate marketing is having something to sell people (a product or offer) and then the ability to show it to people (generating ‘traffic’). While you can use search engine optimization (SEO) to make websites and try and generate traffic that way, the quickest and most scalable way to make consistent and large income is buying paid traffic from sites like Facebook, Google, Bing and this is the type of marketing I specialize in because the earnings income potential is unlimited and means you can generate large amounts of fast money without waiting around to see if Google ‘likes’ your site with SEO which is more of a slower and more patient game. I like my money fast
How do I find things to sell people?
In order to get started… you’re going to need to join what are known as CPA networks which are effectively middlemen between affiliates and the companies who want their products sold for them (and generally take a 20% slice of the pie themselves). This is where you’re going to find the products and services to sell to people which can range from large dating sites such as Match.com, to ringtones, to insurance offers, to diet products, to Facebook games.
There are thousands of CPA networks out there but I recommend you start out with because I know them well, they have a good selection of offers, they help newcomers and they are trustworthy:
Adsimilis
Wolf Storm Media
Getting into a CPA network isn’t as hard as people make out but you need to know what information to submit etc. Here is a useful guide if you encounter and issues with applying:
http://www.dailyaffiliatetips.com/the-es...a-networks
How do I make money?
You are going to be purchasing traffic from various websites to drive eyeballs to look at your offers and buy your stuff / fill out your forms.
It may sound a little scary at first, but simply your goal is to buy traffic at cheaper than you are selling it for (kind of like day trading in a way). Say for example, that you are buying clicks to your advert from Facebook for 0.05c a piece, and that for each click you are selling them a dating offer and earning 0.10c per click – you are effectively doubling your money or what is commonly known in the industry as making a 100% return on your investment (ROI). And at times – and once you’ve generated a sufficient bankroll – you may be spending thousands of dollars a day meaning that profits of 5-10k a day are absolutely within your reach once you get a handle on things and sufficient experience(no, I am not joking ☺).
These CPA networks will usually pay you weekly by direct deposit or bank wire – meaning that you can get access to your money relatively quickly to scale your campaigns. To give you one more example of the earnings potential of this – one of my business partners is 17, has been doing this for about 1.5 years and just made his first million – his parents must be proud ☺ This is the real fucking deal.
Where should I start out?
I wanted to give you guys something that's not too complex that you can go away with and try now, so in keeping with the theme of this site, one of the most popular ways to make money (and one that I strongly suggest when starting out due to the low barrier of entry) is advertising dating offers on Facebook or Plenty Of Fish. These places are good training grounds before you move onto the bigger stuff so that you don’t end up losing tons of cash.
http://www.facebook.com/ads/
https://ads.pof.com/
You can get started on both straight away with a small budget and have adverts live the same day. If you spend any time browsing Facebook you’ve probably already been bombarded with dating ads yourself (especially if your relationship status is set to “single” because Facebook allows you to target your adverts to certain people and with certain interests which you can read more about in the guides).
Here’s a screenshot of a couple of very basic affiliate adverts on Facebook which are selling dating websites from CPA networks:
http://bjoernw.com/wp-content/uploads/20...mb_ads.png
As you can see they are not particularly creative – I am sure some of the people on this forum can come up with something better ☺
The person placing those adverts will generally get around $3-5 for getting someone to fill in the initial free application form for these websites. The USA is actually one of the more saturated companies when it comes to promoting affiliate offers in generally – I generally recommend people start with places like the UK, Canada and Australia first and you can also easily promote non-English offers in countries like France, Brazil etc using translation services such as http://www.onehourtranslation.com
But first you need to read around the subject more and start learning your craft (how to write good adverts, what/where to promote etc).
Here is a link to the best guide I know of for getting started advertising on Facebook: http://rapidshare.com/files/404960411/fa.rar
And here is one for Plenty Of Fish http://btjunkie.org/torrent/CPA-Traffic-...6602fb7084
I would suggest grabbing them and working through each one piece by piece to start with. Like any skill, it's important to get a good grasp of the fundamentals.
The most important concepts to learn and research for newbies:
1. Writing good adverts / selecting good advertising images (see guides)
2. Setting up and using tracking system (see guides and prosper.tracking202.com/) so you know what is selling and where.
3. How to make and upload basic websites (simple HTML or Dreamweaver, FTP etc)
4. Having the right mindset - hustle, creativity etc.
Where can I read more?
Here is a selection of free resources that you can use to learn more about the industry and get some further information to read around the subject more:
http://www.nickycakes.com/newbie-guide/
http://uberaffiliate.com/affiliate-marke...ing-guide/
http://www.affbuzz.com (Internet Marketing industry news site)
http://www.wickedfire.com (Internet Marketing forum with some real big ballers).
I want to cover a lot more stuff but I'm a little short on time this very second. I hope that this gives you a little oversight and enough to at least start looking into this subject a little more. I will be back with Part Two soon…
Feel free to post questions!
I’ve been a long time lurker on this forum for quite some time and have found it really useful over the last couple of years so thought that it’s about time I give something back….
My name’s Adam and I’m a 29 year old English guy who’s spent the last 2 years of my life traveling the world while starting and maintaining a large scale Internet Marketing business. Things have gone better than I've ever imagined and I've also managed to spend lots of time in many of the amazing places mentioned on this forum.
But it wasn’t all like this… in fact, 2.5 years ago I was a broke backpacker on a Working Holiday Visa in Australia who was massively in debt and begging his Mom to buy him a ticket home.
2.5 years later I’m the director of a large scale Internet firm, a marketing consultant, a millionaire, and have done all this while living out of a suitcase and spreading my time between 3-6 months stints in the likes of Colombia, Thailand, Poland, New York, Brazil the UK and Malaysia – seeing these places while still maintaining the hustle and setting myself up for life. What I am about to share is some quality information if you are looking to do the same. But what I cannot give you is the passion and desire to succeed at this - if you are interested in taking what I give you and applying it and you show genuine interest in this... I can promise you you'll be in for a wild ride! So please go away and study this stuff hard
What I’m about to give you is a general overview, blueprint and some reading resources to check out that I think you will find useful. The breadth of the subject is pretty crazy – so I’ve only selected certain things so that you don’t get overwhelmed when starting out. There’s no way I can cram everything I want to in a forum post so be sure to ask any questions you’ve got and I’ll stick around to answer them as best as I can.
What is affiliate marketing?
The basis of affiliate marketing is essentially selling other peoples products and services for them and getting paid a commission (which can range from anywhere from $1.50 for getting someone to enter their email all the way up to to thousands of dollars for large ticket items).
A lot of companies out there either don’t know how to market themselves effectively online or are wanting to scale their curreny sales beyond their own capacity which is why they hire people like us (affiliates) to generate extra revenue for them to make more money. Affiliates also tend to be a lot more creative with their marketing efforts.
The most popular type of affiliate marketing right now is commonly known as CPA (cost per action) which means that you can get paid by people filling out forms and leads for companies rather than them parting with their hard-earned cash (although you can obviously get paid for that as well!). This means you don't even necessarily have to get people to pay any more for you to get paid.
What do I need to do this?
Pretty much a computer with Internet connection is all you really need along with a little investment capital to get started. I have personally been working from a laptop for the past couple of years and moving around from place to place as I have felt like it (I have plans to return to Poland very shortly).
The beauty of affiliate marketing is that I have no real actual clients, and no deadlines to meet – if I want to stop working and take a couple of months off.. it’s not a problem. I can simply pause my campaigns and come back to it whenever I feel like it (although it’s got to the stage now where it’s very addictive for me and I really love what I do).
What's the basis of this stuff?
Essentially, the two fundamental components of successful affiliate marketing is having something to sell people (a product or offer) and then the ability to show it to people (generating ‘traffic’). While you can use search engine optimization (SEO) to make websites and try and generate traffic that way, the quickest and most scalable way to make consistent and large income is buying paid traffic from sites like Facebook, Google, Bing and this is the type of marketing I specialize in because the earnings income potential is unlimited and means you can generate large amounts of fast money without waiting around to see if Google ‘likes’ your site with SEO which is more of a slower and more patient game. I like my money fast
How do I find things to sell people?
In order to get started… you’re going to need to join what are known as CPA networks which are effectively middlemen between affiliates and the companies who want their products sold for them (and generally take a 20% slice of the pie themselves). This is where you’re going to find the products and services to sell to people which can range from large dating sites such as Match.com, to ringtones, to insurance offers, to diet products, to Facebook games.
There are thousands of CPA networks out there but I recommend you start out with because I know them well, they have a good selection of offers, they help newcomers and they are trustworthy:
Adsimilis
Wolf Storm Media
Getting into a CPA network isn’t as hard as people make out but you need to know what information to submit etc. Here is a useful guide if you encounter and issues with applying:
http://www.dailyaffiliatetips.com/the-es...a-networks
How do I make money?
You are going to be purchasing traffic from various websites to drive eyeballs to look at your offers and buy your stuff / fill out your forms.
It may sound a little scary at first, but simply your goal is to buy traffic at cheaper than you are selling it for (kind of like day trading in a way). Say for example, that you are buying clicks to your advert from Facebook for 0.05c a piece, and that for each click you are selling them a dating offer and earning 0.10c per click – you are effectively doubling your money or what is commonly known in the industry as making a 100% return on your investment (ROI). And at times – and once you’ve generated a sufficient bankroll – you may be spending thousands of dollars a day meaning that profits of 5-10k a day are absolutely within your reach once you get a handle on things and sufficient experience(no, I am not joking ☺).
These CPA networks will usually pay you weekly by direct deposit or bank wire – meaning that you can get access to your money relatively quickly to scale your campaigns. To give you one more example of the earnings potential of this – one of my business partners is 17, has been doing this for about 1.5 years and just made his first million – his parents must be proud ☺ This is the real fucking deal.
Where should I start out?
I wanted to give you guys something that's not too complex that you can go away with and try now, so in keeping with the theme of this site, one of the most popular ways to make money (and one that I strongly suggest when starting out due to the low barrier of entry) is advertising dating offers on Facebook or Plenty Of Fish. These places are good training grounds before you move onto the bigger stuff so that you don’t end up losing tons of cash.
http://www.facebook.com/ads/
https://ads.pof.com/
You can get started on both straight away with a small budget and have adverts live the same day. If you spend any time browsing Facebook you’ve probably already been bombarded with dating ads yourself (especially if your relationship status is set to “single” because Facebook allows you to target your adverts to certain people and with certain interests which you can read more about in the guides).
Here’s a screenshot of a couple of very basic affiliate adverts on Facebook which are selling dating websites from CPA networks:
http://bjoernw.com/wp-content/uploads/20...mb_ads.png
As you can see they are not particularly creative – I am sure some of the people on this forum can come up with something better ☺
The person placing those adverts will generally get around $3-5 for getting someone to fill in the initial free application form for these websites. The USA is actually one of the more saturated companies when it comes to promoting affiliate offers in generally – I generally recommend people start with places like the UK, Canada and Australia first and you can also easily promote non-English offers in countries like France, Brazil etc using translation services such as http://www.onehourtranslation.com
But first you need to read around the subject more and start learning your craft (how to write good adverts, what/where to promote etc).
Here is a link to the best guide I know of for getting started advertising on Facebook: http://rapidshare.com/files/404960411/fa.rar
And here is one for Plenty Of Fish http://btjunkie.org/torrent/CPA-Traffic-...6602fb7084
I would suggest grabbing them and working through each one piece by piece to start with. Like any skill, it's important to get a good grasp of the fundamentals.
The most important concepts to learn and research for newbies:
1. Writing good adverts / selecting good advertising images (see guides)
2. Setting up and using tracking system (see guides and prosper.tracking202.com/) so you know what is selling and where.
3. How to make and upload basic websites (simple HTML or Dreamweaver, FTP etc)
4. Having the right mindset - hustle, creativity etc.
Where can I read more?
Here is a selection of free resources that you can use to learn more about the industry and get some further information to read around the subject more:
http://www.nickycakes.com/newbie-guide/
http://uberaffiliate.com/affiliate-marke...ing-guide/
http://www.affbuzz.com (Internet Marketing industry news site)
http://www.wickedfire.com (Internet Marketing forum with some real big ballers).
I want to cover a lot more stuff but I'm a little short on time this very second. I hope that this gives you a little oversight and enough to at least start looking into this subject a little more. I will be back with Part Two soon…
Feel free to post questions!