Ask An Uber Affiliate – Round 9
Mike asks…
1. Do you run your business as a company or individual?
2. When you started out, where the banks confused as to why your credit card bill was so high and how did you manage to get such a large limit as you don’t have a long history?
3. If you were limited to 3 affiliate networks, which ones would you choose to use?
1) S-corp.
2) Amex is kind of a rolling limit. Once you pay off your card fast, they up your limit and it keeps going up as long as you pay it off.
3) CX Digital, Neverblue, and Hydra.
Karolis asks…
What would you do differently to get where you are today faster? What things you would avoid doing and so on.
Read this blog. Seriously though, I’m perfectly happy with the speed it took me to get where I am. I’d say don’t be afraid to lose money. The faster you test things out, the faster you find what things work.
ash asks…
how do you go about tracking each campaign profit / losses? do you have some kind of automated system, or update it all by hand?
atm im doing it all manually. takes forever every day or so to check everything is still making profits.
I use the pixels from each search engine and track it that way. For example get your Google pixel and then have your affiliate manager place it on your offer page. Everything will be tracked inside Adwords and you can see exactly what keywords/ads converted.
Affiliate Marketing Basics asks…
Paul, what’s the best way to approach a super affiliate like yourself if I wanted you to promote a product or service and have you say yes? What sort of things do you look for that will help seal the deal?
1) Exclusive offers. Willing to set up a private label that I’d host.
2) Higher payouts than any other similar offers out there.
3) A great product obviously…and I mean a great one, not just one you think is great and want me to push.
4) Bi-weekly wires AT LEAST to start.
David asks…
How much do you make total a month after expenses? What is you average profit margin percentage per campaign? Thanks!
Too deep in the rabbit hole to reveal. Profit margins vary, some campaigns have 40% margins and others 100%+.
SteveH asks…I have been told to only focus on aff programs with at least $15 / transaction comp. Do you have criteria on min comp, or is anything open? Hi vol, low comp, low vol, hi comp? does it matter to you?
Doesn’t matter. As long as I can find a way to make it convert, I’ll run it. I know it’s not a magical answer but there’s no perfect answer to “what payout products should I sell?”.
Vista Sidebar Gadgets asks…
What kind of offers do you recommend for newbies?
What do you think are the big changes coming in Affiliate Marketing this year?
Name the #1 you do that enables you to run a successful affiliate operation, vs someone who fails at affiliate marketing?
1) Talk to your AM and find out what offers have a decent payout and are converting well ($1.00+ EPCs). That should at least give you some area to figure things out in.
2) More competition and coping with Adwords slappage. A lot of affiliates got screwed a month ago, and it’s not the first time it’s happened.
3) I lose a ****load of money testing out offers. I lost 10 grand last week on an offer.
Cut asks…
Why does nickycakes hate you? Even tho he comes to your blog everyday?
No idea, people just like to be negative Nancy’s sometimes. It probably pisses people off that posting and earnings screenshot of revenue makes your blog popular. Oh well, it’s not bragging it’s smart marketing…not hurting anybody either.
Darius asks…
Do you deal with PPL exclusively or do you run specific product campaigns or a combination of the two?
If only one, do you feel that there isn’t enough money in the other or is the ROI not as good?
Lead gen exclusively right now. It’s what I learned on, what I know, what I’m having success with, and I’m going to keep scaling it away.
Jason asks…
As my email isn’t working at the moment (gaah!) I’ll ask here – would you do paid reviews, and if so, how much?
More on topic, which PPC would you recommend most apart from Adwords? :)
1) Reviews are $500 a pop.
2) Probably YSM since it’s got the most volume out of all the others.
I really like this Q n A type of posts they are very informative, many questions I had were answered here thanks.
These Q&A’s really help keep things in perspective. Everynoob AM’er like me should read them, re-read them & read them again.
what azoogleads in not your favorite aff network anymore
Check you out Mr. Time! Lol!
I’ll probably hit you up on aim sometime again, but I’m subscribing to your RSS Feeds man.
Jay
Nice Q&A’s. Keep up the good job!
Just a quick note. You might want to fix your redirects to Hydra and Neverlbue. Both are landing your visitors on a 404 page. ;)
Yea, what happened with Azoogle since all of your screenshots were from them.
i was curious about that one too
Good Q@A Paul
But i thought Azoogle ads would be in you top 3. Talking about azoogle i finally got approved after waiting 3 weeks. :)
Do you know any PPC like AdWords where I can promote an offer, that allows PayPal as payment processor for the expenses. I really think into involving into affiliate marketing, but I really don’t want to bother with credit cards and stuff right now…
Hey thanks for answering my question. I wondered what will you say because you got really fast to where you are today. And not being afraid to lose money can be emotionally tough sometimes so I need to work on that :)
I’ve been doing affiliate marketing (small time) for the past 7 years now, but… the information I’ve been reading here is shoving me in a completely new direction. I’ve never tested PPC, it’s all been organic traffics to my websites. Maybe it’s time I did partner with someone and got th ball rolling on the PPC. Anyone looking for a partner? :)
Keep sending in the questions people and thanks a million for answering them.
Regards
chris
These question and answer posts are great Paul. Good content for your readers and ongoing content for your blog. Good idea.
Ryan
hmmm, you said
“It probably pisses people off that posting and earnings screenshot of revenue makes your blog popular”
but you also said
“too deep in the rabbit hole to reveal”
u don’t tell us anymore how much you are making.
what is the best amex card
How can I get a question answered? I asked a question in the comment section of round 8. What is the protocol?
I think that the Q&A thing is really cool and extremely informative.
Great approach for blogging.
How come azoogle aint on the list