Quote: (05-31-2015 04:56 AM)CaptainCrazy Wrote:
You see, no one is going to handle you the blueprint. Even on so-called coaching private forums like STM. No one in their right mind is going to share their best money making system, including me.
This is the truth. It always makes me laugh on STM when n00bz come in and yell "I'm paying $99/month! I DESERVE to be told how to do this!!" as if people care that he's spending $99 monthly.
Truth is that if somebody has a highly effective system that's making them lots of money, they'd be a fool to say anything about it. All it takes is 1 person to come in and create competition for him, or even worse, come in with something shady and completely destroy what was working. That's what happens with FB all the time- it'll be working beautifully and basically printing money for us every day, but then everybody catches on, and 1 month later it dies out and we have to start all over. Top affiliates will never tell you what's working (unless there is a VERY serious exchange of valuable ideas of course, then it might be justified).
At affiliate conferences/meetups if you ask people what they're doing they'll usually just change the subject or flat out tell you false information to make clueless people go away.
That being said, when somebody tells you what does NOT work anymore (For example, SEO, as others have already said), it's actually decent advice... it can help you save a lot of time by not wasting it on ineffective methods of making money. You see, with affiliate marketing you have to test 99,999 things until something finally sticks. You must throw shit at the wall until something sticks. If you go about things correctly, and have a bit of luck, you might hit something big that can cover your costs of living for the next couple of years.
Anyway, I'm not going to mentor anybody here since I barely have enough time as it is, but a good place to learn the fundamentals of how to advertise CPA offers on paid traffic sources is on POF. You'll never make big money from POF, but after you learn the fundamentals you can apply them to more scalable traffic sources, like Adult media buys, Google, or FB.
EDIT: affiliate marketing is extremely volatile. I've been doing paid traffic full time for almost 4 years now and have seen lots of changes in the industry. Sometimes we'll make enough profit in 1 month to cover our living costs for a couple of years (if you live a very modest lifestyle in a 3rd world country anyway), and sometimes we'll lose money every day for several months. You need to have a very high stress tolerance if you do this full time. I don't recommend it to everyone. In fact, literally at least 99% of people will fail at it. Much of it is luck and being in the right place at the right time.