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V.2 of T3Leads Just Launched

Webmasteradvance — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 16:40:45 +0000

If you’re currently are T3Leads member, you probably already received an email from T3Leads regarding the new version of T3Leads.

Built on next-generation core technologies, T3Leads is proud to announce the launch of our third generational lead optimization platform. The system offers a quick, concise way for Affiliates to gage performance while employing the newest tools to further enhance the T3Leads experience.

The dynamic core system includes:

More than 20 fully customizable JavaScript iFrames
Upgraded launch support
Innovative conversion tracking
Enhanced reporting
Competitive conversion rates among top-quality leads
and more!

T3Lead’s new platform is user-friendly, efficient, and designed to handle the most demanding Affiliate operations.

T3Leads at a glance

T3Leads is your premier destination choice for quality leads and market opportunities rivaled to none. T3leads focuses on the finance industry, which happens to be one of the most lucrative industries on the Internet. T3Leads directly cooperates with a large network of banks and other financial institutions.

Merchants: Extend your customer reach and open new revenue streams through our proprietary lead generation platform which filters out the junk to bring you unparalleled performance. Our technology will truly impact your business sales flow while lowering your advertising costs.

Affiliates: Gain a competitive edge with our diverse network of lead products, along with the latest in lead optimization technology. Ensure that you are driving the highest revenue for your traffic while promoting the strongest offers in the market with the latest in lead optimization technology. Our customizable solutions provide the tools you need to scale your business, while our proven lead technology maximizes your lead revenue. Learn more about affiliate marketing solutions.

Affiliate Program Detail

Minimum payout: $100
Payment options: ACH, Check, ePassporte, Paypal, WebMoney, or Bank Wire Transfer
Affiliate tracking software: In-house proprietary platform
Realtime statistics: Yes
International acceptance: Yes

Last but not least, if you’ve been planning to attend to Affiliate Summit East 2010 (August 15-17, 2010 in New York City), you can meet the T3Leads team, T3Leads has been registered and will be attend there.

Click here to join T3Leads

How Do You Choose a Good Affiliate Program To Promote?

Webmasteradvance — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 13:00:05 +0000

Affiliate marketing is basically where the affiliate gets paid for bringing buyers to the merchants. When the customer makes his purchase, you get a percentage of the sale as a ‘commission’. The percentage you get varies from vendor to vendor. But as an affiliate, you get to choose the best option for you. Therefore, if a prospect buys a $100 product and it pays 50% commission, you will receive $50 as a reward for your work. Quite simply, you find online methods to introduce your chosen product to interested people and leave it up to the vendor to do the rest.

For some people, affiliate marketing is becoming the first choice at the start of an Internet marketing career. It’s an easy way to get a taste of online marketing without having to create your own product or deal with supply and support issues. Technically, you don’t even need your own website and you can start right away. You can choose to work part time to build a generous residual income as affiliate marketer.

What you should look for before promoting

Now we are going to talk about affiliate programs and what you should look for before joining or promoting them.

It can be more difficult to sell something that you have no interest in, so pick a product or program that you would be interested in purchasing yourself. The chances are there that many others are also interested in the same program and products. This is basic consideration for choosing products you would to promote – Yourself is as measurement to choose products that you would to promote.

Of course, you can’t just base your decision to promote an affiliate program on weather or not you like the product, but it is a good place to start. Now let’s go over some other thing you should consider.

1. Quality of Product – Look for a product or service that is of high quality. For instance, look for one that is associated with many experts in your chosen niche. This way you will know that the standard is likely to be good.

2. Popularity – Pick a product that caters to a growing target market. This will make it much easier for you to make sales. There are plenty of ways to find out what products are popular, including looking at the best sellers on Amazon and EBay, but if you are selling something related to a niche that you are interested in, you will know what a popular item is.

3. High Payout – Do not waste your time with programs that do not reward substantially for your efforts. A program with a compensation plan that pays out a residual income and a payout of 30% or more would be a great choice.

4. Lots of Tools and Resources – Selecting a vendor who provides you with lots of tools and resources (such as: banners, articles, templates, product images, and more) will help you grow the business in the shortest possible time. Not all affiliate programs have these capacities.

5. Knowledge – Have a thorough and intensive knowledge about the affiliate program that you intend to promote. Knowing the kind of program you are getting yourself into will help you anticipate and prevent any problems you may encounter.

6. Pre-Requisites – Be aware of any minimum quotas that you must fulfill. Some affiliate programs impose pre-requisites before you get your commissions. For instance you may have to make more than a $100.00 or make five sales before you receive your payment. If the sales target is too hard to achieve you may want to rethink joining.

7. Has Good System – Check out weather or not the program has an automated system that allows you to check your referral statistics and compensation at any time.

8. Rewards and Incentives – Does the program offer strong incentives for customers to make additional purchases or for members to renew their memberships. Affiliate programs that provide continuous help and upgrades for its products have the tendency to retain more customers. These things can assure the growth of your business.

All these points above are able to ensure that you’re promoting the good and profitable program. Once you have got a good hold of the ropes of Internet affiliate marketing and your commissions are rolling in, you may consider giving up the day job and joining the many of affiliate marketers making a substantial income online.

PeerFly Launches New Awesome Features

Webmasteradvance — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 13:40:32 +0000

PeerFly is a one-of-a-kind cost-per-action based affiliate ad network. Unlike other affiliate networks, their software is custom built from the ground up so they have never used software or services from 3rd party companies such as DirectTrack or HasOffers. This allows them to offer features and services that other networks can’t or won’t.

Regarding to the new features, PeerFly has made a complete post on its blog. All new features are really awesome, as publishers you definitely will love them. So here’re the new awesome features.

Early Payments

When it comes to affiliate marketing, there are times when waiting for Net-30 just won’t do and you need money right away to pay off a credit card or other bill. Whatever the reason, PeerFly now offers an emergency (within 8 hours) and early (3 days) payment request feature.

Tiered Payment Schedule

PeerFly now has a tiered payment schedule system whereby you are eligible for faster payment turnaround times based upon how much revenue you generate each month. For example, if you generate under $1,000 a month with PeerFly, you will be paid on a Net-30 basis. However, if you generate over $1,000 a month you will be paid once every 2 weeks.

RSS/XML Feeds

PeerFly now has XML/RSS feeds to help publishers and developers take advantage the custom interface at PeerFly. You can use feeds to get the information such as: All Offers, Popular Offers, Paused Offers, Account Info and Daily Earnings.

PeerFly Stats Firefox Plugin

The Firefox plugin / addon displays your current day’s total as well as unpaid balance in the bottom right corner of your Firefox browser. The plugin is very simple and easy to use and is a great timesaver for people who constantly checking their stats. If you’re currently a publisher on Peerfly, I guess you have already received email from Peerfly about this Firefox addon.

Also, Tyler Cruz has made a complete and nice post on his blog regarding these new features – PeerFly Launches 4 New Awesome Features. Just check it out!

Last but not least, BBB has determined that Peerfly business meets BBB accreditation standards (BBB Accredited business since 6/15/2010). This makes a proof that Peerfly really want to build long term and trust relationship with publishers and advertisers.

Because of their custom built software that they are using, this allows them to offer features and services that other networks can’t, like these awesome features. I highly recommend PeerFly and encourage you to sign up with them if you haven’t already!

The Most Popular Ways to Make Money Online Today

Webmasteradvance — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 13:00:32 +0000

Nowadays a lot of people have been making money online. I think the volume will increase because there’re many ways to make money online. Also there’re so many information and tools that can help you to make money online, if you can use them properly.

There are many different ways that you can use to make money starting immediately. Just remember that in order to do that, you have to advertise whatever way you choose to use.

1. Affiliate programs or affiliate marketing – You can promote many of other people’s products or services, you earn money for any sale or lead you generated. You just need to find a few of affiliate programs, sign up with them for free and then start marketing them right away. You can easily make money immediately with this way because when you sign up you are given everything you need to get started, including a website.

2. eBay store and use eBay auctions to sell products. Many people will start making money immediately from it. I have many friends who are making money on eBay. It doesn’t matter what products you sell, just try and find products that are in demand. So now you are sure that you can make money right away selling them.

3. Freelancing. Many people are really looking for a good freelancer online to offer them valuable services. Writing, website design, copywriting, advertising and many other things are the services that many people are seeking. You definitely can start making money today if you have good skill at any of these things.

4. Business opportunities. There are many different business opportunities online that you can use to start your own business online. These opportunities provide everything you need, including a website, to get started promoting it immediately. Take your time and find a legitimate opportunity that offers a good profit to promote it. Business opportunities usually are MLM online, membership referral program, and many more.

5. Create your own product. You can create your own information products online to sell. You can also create other types of products at home such as clothes, books, handicrafts or any other type of product you can create that people would want.

These are just a few of the ways that you can use to make money online today. Choose the one that you will enjoy the most and get busy marketing your new business. The more marketing you do, the faster you will make money. Just don’t give up no matter what because there is definitely a lot of money that can be made online by anyone.

Just reminder, don’t take all these ways at the same time period. Just focus and concentrate on the one that you will enjoy the most. If you take all these ways, I can assure your focus and concentration will be divided and fragmented, it will not generate maximum result and it will waste your time and effort.

Tools for Finding and Comparing CPA Offers

Webmasteradvance — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 06:50:09 +0000

When I first knew this kind of tool, all of my jobs to compare and find highest paying CPA offers are become easier. Comparing CPA offers tools can help you locate the highest paying CPA offers in a particular vertical. This will save you time from having to log into multiple CPA networks and compare offers manually.

There are a couple of free tools on the Internet that allow you to compare CPA offers across multiple CPA networks. You’ll love it since you’ll be able to compare and find highest paying CPA offers across multiple CPA networks without having to log into multiple CPA networks.

OfferVault

AffSpy.com

Offers202

Please note, selecting the highest paying offer is not the best option. There’re other two factors you need to consider when promote an offer, instead of only consider the highest paying offer:

The Landing Pages. Although a CPA offer might pay out $1 more than another offer, the landing page may convert at a lower rate resulting in a lower EPC (Earnings Per Click). On the contrary, a CPA offer might pay out $1 less than another offer, but the landing page convert well, better than the previous offer that has high payout.
EPC (Earning Per Click). Some CPA networks may be skimming some of the leads you generate in order to give out a higher payout. As a result you probably see the same offer has different EPC in different CPA networks. The best test is always to split-test the same offer between two networks to see which network generates the higher EPC. You can rotate similar CPA offers for your traffic in order to determine what works best. You can do this by using a rotating script.

Conclusion

So there’re about three factors you need to consider to start promoting a CPA offer:

The Payout
The Landing Pages
EPC (Earning Per Click)

Don’t judge an offer is the best since it pays the highest payout than others, you’ll don’t know exactly how well its conversion until you run and test it, and also consider the other two factors (Landing Pages and EPC).

Here a Guide on How to Start Affiliate Marketing

Webmasteradvance — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 18:07:15 +0000

How to start Affiliate Marketing? In the past two months I got some questions like that dropped on my Facebook wall and message. To give you more insights about affiliate marketing, please take a look at my previous article: 5 Questions Give You Insights on Succeeding in Affiliate Marketing.

Well, here we go. To start affiliate marketing you need to do some basic actions such as:

Create (minimum one) self-hosted domain website or blog.
Build your website or blog by adding more content and drive traffic to your site.
Sign-up for affiliate networks / programs

Let’s we discuss these items.

1. Create a Blog or Website

Almost of affiliate networks require you having minimum one self-hosted website or blog, they do not accept free hosting website, like blogspot, wordpress.com, etc. You have to own your own domain name.

Although you are expert in affiliate marketing and you’re making money without any websites or blogs, but you need to have websites to expand your business. Just like my friend, he makes money online without website. But then, when he wants to expand his business to another niches he get barrier because he does not have any websites.

So if you’re serious to build your business you need to have websites or blogs.

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2. Build up Your Website and Drive Traffic

Now you have your own hosted domain name. I described clearly, that you need to build up your website and drive traffic to it. Website without content and traffic is a dead website.

So build your English language website or blog by adding more content and drive traffic to your site.

3. Sign-up for Affiliate Networks / Programs

Now you already have websites or blogs with decent traffic, so you can signup to the affiliate network. It’s easy to sign-up to Affiliate Programs but not easy to get approved if you don’t know the right way.

Well, here the tips to get approved by Affiliate Networks:

Use your own domain as email address. Do not use free email service like yahoo, gmail, hotmail, etc.
Describe your website information and your marketing method completely. There’s usually comment box at the bottom of the sign-up form, you can use it to describe more detail about your marketing method. Here an example: “I promote CPA offers using blog posts & reviews, text link & banner placement, and PPC search marketing”
Go ahead to make a phone call after you sign-up. Or you can wait to get a phone call. Please refer to the next page (after your sign-up) how you can communicate with them.

Best Affiliate Networks

So if you already to go to step 3, now is time to sign up to some affiliate networks. Okay here I want to suggest you some best affiliate networks and programs which will let you make some money online. I have experiences with these Affiliate Networks and they are very well to help you make money online.

I have some criteria to determine how good they are, such as: cooperative AM, huge list and variety of offers, high payout rates, and flexible payment options. Well, here’s a list of my top recommendation of Affiliate Networks that I use actively, or you can refer to the ‘Resources Page‘ to see the full list of Affiliate Networks:

Maxbounty has high payout rates on all of their CPA offers.
Amped Media serves very well to its publishers. Amped Media glad to help you through its friendly Affiliate Manager.
Tattomedia just like Social Affiliate Network
PeerFly is a one-of-a-kind cost-per-action based affiliate ad network. Peerfly has strong system, the system is custom built from the ground up.

Goog luck all!

5 Questions Give You Insights on Succeeding in Affiliate Marketing

Webmasteradvance — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 11:19:12 +0000

The compensation for affiliates is well high and the trained affiliate marketer can make thousands of dollars each month. This condition is direct to the increasing number of affiliate programs that are offered to every prospective marketer. I saw during past 6 months affiliate programs / affiliate networks grow everyday, you probably also have seen affiliate programs / affiliate networks very rapid growth.

With the boost of chances, many questions appear on how you will opt for precise opportunities, what are the requirements needed in choosing a program and which program will give an essential income?

All these questions when answered and delivered correctly will surely lead you to success. Below are five tips that will help you in assessing businesses and their affiliate programs.

These tips will ensure you of success without the need of wasting too much effort and money. Tips below definitely ensure you of success from the beginning you start affiliate marketing and also give you insights of affiliate marketing.

1. How much does the business will compensate you?

It is necessary that you know how much you should anticipate from each sale. It would be useless to spend more of your time and money endorsing a product and being not compensated well in return. There is a possibility that you could end up wasting more on promoting than you are about to do on sales. With this, it is better to stick on endorsing the products with high payments, unless you have initiated a role market where you can trade large numbers of product, and get significant payments.

2. How much traffic does an ecommerce site get?

Try to know the quantity of traffic the business site is previously getting. If the site is placed on the top 100,000, the business is having a better amount of traffic, and there is a chance that it already has many affiliates. If it is placed under 500,000 it is either not good or it must have a good chance to earn money.

Do constant research on a product if the site has a low traffic standing. It would be a great idea to purchase a product yourself if only you can pay for it. If not, you can also make a research to learn if there are any unpleasant remarks about it online.

If you think everything is doing fine and the product is great, you probably have found a hit!

3. How regular are the payments given?

Some businesses give their payments each week, others once a month, and some would pay every 4 months. It is necessary that you have an idea on when to expect your commissions.

It would also be a great idea to know the smallest payments that you have to make before you are compensated. Some affiliates will not send your commissions until you gather a definite amount. However, there are affiliates that compensate the moment the sale is completed.

4. Does the business compensate on succeeding sales?

Some affiliates will only compensate on sales through clients viewing their sites through a direct link from your site. They will compensate you nothing for a few succeeding purchases that the clients make if they directly view the business website. It is necessary that you be compensated regardless of the way the client revisits the site if you are to make a profitable business.

5. What marketing resources do the affiliates provide?

Find out the kind and value of marketing materials that they offer for their affiliates. Will they offer articles or content that you can utilize to endorse them on your website? Are they offering free guides, special offers and samples, which can be of great use in promotion?

If you think their marketing resources are just as fine, it is possible that the business will give good assistance for its affiliates.

However, there are also times that you gather better reactions by means of your own marketing techniques. If the affiliate programs you are promoting have already been in the business for a long time, it is probable that all the promotions and marketing are outdated and been over exposed.

Therefore, new promotions will initiate your readers to think that yours is a fresh product.

Conclusion

Affiliate marketing can be a very profitable business and a great starting point for everyone new to online marketing. Looking for an accurate affiliate can be a delicate business. So, the best thing to do is to make your studies and inquiries. You can use the above questions/tips as your help to searching a business that allows you to achieve your economic objectives.

Currently I have three my top rated affiliate networks: Maxbounty, Copeac and Amped Media. They have great features and benefits (cooperative AM, high payout rate, flexible payment options, and more) to help you making money through affiliate marketing. Please give them a try and you’ll see how they really can help you.

Personally those 5 tips above really helpful and useful for me from the beginning I start affiliate marketing. Ensure me of success without the need of wasting too much effort and money.

Good luck and success with your Affiliate Marketing!

Knowing CPA Affiliate Marketing – How Does it Work?

Webmasteradvance — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 16:51:26 +0000

Cost Per Action, referred to as “CPA,” is a type of Internet Marketing that requires consumers to complete specific actions – this usually entails filling out a form and requesting a free product sample, signing up for a free trial, downloading software, toolbar, or any installable files. In some cases, it involves asking the consumer to try a new product or service by making a small purchase.

CPA or “Cost Per Action” marketing is a simplest methods – I think it’s also easiest method – for beginner internet marketers to begin making money online. For years, this type of affiliate marketing has an industry secret of the insider “big players”. It was never really a “secret”, but while most people in internet marketing had their hands busy promoting Clickbank products, the big kahunas were playing on a whole different level.

Example

What it means is that you, as offer promoter, get paid for the “actions” taken by the traffic you steer to advertisers. As a basic example, let’s say a company wants to test the consumer feedback on a new product line that they are introducing. They create an offer where they agree to pay $1.50 for each person who submits their e-mail address and zip code – your job is simply to direct traffic to that site and then collect $1.50 for each person who opts in.

This is a fairly standard promotion type. Others might pay as much as $32 for an optin (though if the payout is higher, the offer might require much more information from the customer or ask for a small upfront payment.

You are a Traffic Broker

In essence you, as a CPA marketer, you are really a traffic broker: You buy traffic then send it to an offer page and get paid based on how well it converts. Sounds so simple, doesn’t it? It can be easy, but it generally isn’t.

Because it is so profitable, CPA marketing is extremely competitive, and for a beginner, it can be intimidating to start trying to compete with super-affiliates making $100k a day and even more, or even with the more common affiliates who are making $500 to $1,000 a day running CPA campaigns.

When you try to get started, you’re going to be up against all of that competition, and it can be very challenging. The truth is, a lot of beginners simply get frustrated and give up when they figure out that CPA marketing can be difficult and expensive.

The Complete CPA Marketing Course

CPA marketing can be all that the sales letters say it can be – you really can make $100k a day if you know what you’re doing – but it can also be frustrating if you jump in without the right information. The CPA Affiliate Course can get you off on the right footing so that you can start making money almost right away without the stress of worrying you’ll lose your shirt.

Personal Thought

Personally, the first earning I’ve made from Affiliate Marketing is from CPA Affiliate Marketing. I decide to start CPA Affiliate Marketing because I think it’s quite easy to promote, since there’s no need to the consumer buying any products, just fill out their Zip Code or e-mail address then I’ll get paid between $1 – $3 per-email/Zip Code submitted.

In the first month the result is quite horrible, although I generate some leads but it can not recoup my advertising cost – so I am lossy.

Fortunately the bad experience only occur in the first month, the second month and next I quite satisfied with the result of my CPA Affiliate Marketing, although I’m a newbie in Affiliate Marketing, I generate 100% – 120% ROI per-month.

If you’re looking for comprehensive CPA Affiliate Marketing guide, I recommend you Zero Friction Marketing, it’s really worth to give a try. Please read Paul Piotrowski’s blog (www.inspiredmoneymaker.com) to learn more about Zero Friction Marketing.