Getting Started In Internet Marketing? Here Is Your Free Guide & Free Toolkit

[Free] Getting Started In Internet Marketing? Here Is Your Free Guide & Free Toolkit

How to get started in internet marketing for free – your tool kit

Hey everyone,

I wanted to help out everyone who is still struggling on breaking into the internet marketing world and has no money to invest. That’s how a lot of us started. And I have to say all of my success has been due to BHW. Granted I am still not making a full time living at it but I have learned enough that it is only a matter of time.

This guide will not cover anything too technical like building and hosting your own website. What it will do is give you the basic steps to get started without any financial investment. You will still have to put the time in to learn, do research and build websites but you will have a decent tool kit to make it as easy as possible.

MAKE SURE YOU READ THIS THE ENTIRE WAY THROUGH BEFORE TRYING TO DO ANY OF IT.

It is very important that you understand the entire process before trying to apply it.

Once you have read it once or twice or a few times, then go out and follow it step by step.

Learn AND understand each step. If you learn and understand each step in here, you will have an understanding of internet marketing that took me over 6 months to learn.

The first thing you need is the right mindset. You have to realize that internet marketing is not easy and you will have to invest time and effort into learning and applying. But you also have to realize that it is well worth the effort. There is a direct correlation between the work you put in and the rewards you reap.

The second thing you need to do is to treat internet marketing like a business. It is not a hobby that you just spend time and money on for fun. This is a business that has real profits and losses. It is an investment in your financial future.

The third thing: HAVE FUN! This forum has tens of thousands of members for a reason. Enjoy learning. Enjoy understanding. And most importantly: enjoy applying it.

That said, we are going to cover some of the basics and also learn about lots of free tools to make things a lot easier.

Before we get into the details, you should know that BHW has a wealth of information at your fingertips. But don’t just spend all day reading; take part in the discussion. Think of this as a community because it is a great one. But before you start a new thread, be sure to do a search of the forum to see if your question has already been answered. Many times you can find that answer you are looking for simply by doing a quick search.

Lets get started…

The first thing is keywords. This is where it all starts. Do your research up front. Keywords are the foundation of your business.

Like it or not Google is the 700 lb guerrilla of the internet. Take advantage of the information they make available.

Start off your keyword research with their free keyword tool. You can find it here:

https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal

When you are researching keywords think about what people are searching for. Since you are running an internet business, you are going to have to get paid. This means that you want to target people that are ready to spend money.

If someone is searching for “funny videos” it is going to be a lot harder to make money from them than someone searching for “50 inch plasma HDTV reviews”.

Think about what a person is looking for when they search the internet for something. If you know your audience and you know how to target them, they will find you. Put yourself in their shoes. What would you be searching for?

Your job is to answer that question and give them a solution.

Once you have list of keywords, narrow it down (search BHW and Google to find out more details on what makes a good keyword). Once you have it down to 10 or so, pick one that you think will be the best target keyword. Make sure you are picking this target keyword based on how many searches it gets, competition, etc.

If you need some ideas on what to sell, what keywords to target, what people are looking for or just need a place to start some idea generation, check out these websites:

Clickbank Products – target products that have a gravity greater than 30 (more on Clickbank later):

http://cb-analytics.com/

Popular items on ebay:

http://pulse.ebay.com/

Popular items on amazon:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/bestsellers

The hottest current searches on Google (be selective here as not all of these can be monetized easily):

http://www.google.com/trends/hottrends

What is popular on Yahoo (the same applies here as with Google hot trends):

http://buzz.yahoo.com/

Use DMOZ to find target niches that you think you can monetize:

http://www.dmoz.org/

As you do your research, you will be compiling a lot of data that needs to be edited and cleaned up. Here are some free tools to help you in the process:

This is a notepad on steroids:

http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/site.htm

Here is one of my favorite tools, I use it about everyday for keyword list editing:

http://www.goodkeywords.com/keyword-pad/

Spreadsheets are your friend. If you don’t have MS Office, you can get an open source version that is MS compatible here:

http://www.openoffice.org/

As you browse the internet you will also find a lot of sites that require an email address for you to sign up before they give you any good information. Here are some disposable email address services you can use if you do not want to give them your personal email. Keep in mind that these do not require a password and anyone can access the email address you create.

http://10minutemail.com/10MinuteMail/index.html

http://www.mailinator.com/index.jsp

http://www.yopmail.com/en/

Now that we have our target audience and have our keyword list ready to go, we need to find something to sell. The best way to do this is by selling products as an affiliate. With affiliate marketing, you do not actually own any products, you simply promote them and get a cut of the sales price. Here are some places where you can sign up to be an affiliate (all of these sites are free to join):

Clickbank is by the far the biggest. They sell only information products and software that are downloadable. A lot of people get started here:

https://www.clickbank.com/

PayDotCome is another big player is this arena:

http://paydotcom.com/

Amazon also has an affiliate program with products you can promote:

https://affiliate-program.amazon.com/

Another site worth checking out is Commission Junction. You do not necessarily promote products so much as generate leads for their advertisers. Depending on what you are promoting, you may also get paid on actual sales:

http://www.cj.com/

This is where we start to get into the details.

Before we build a website, we need some actual content to put on it. The best thing to do is to write a few original articles about it. Yes this does involve writing skills but we are going to do this the easy way.

First we need an article that we can rewrite. Head on over to one of these websites and grab one that matches your keywords:

http://ezinearticles.com/

http://www.articledashboard.com/

http://www.goarticles.com/

Try to find articles that your target audience would be interested in reading.

Once you have an article picked out, we need some software that will help us rewrite it. Our goal is to rewrite the article with fresh sentences, paragraphs and wording but we are going to use the original as a guide.

Go here and pick up a copy of dupefree pro:

http://www.dupefreepro.com/

Once you have it installed, copy the original article into the article 1 section. Rewrite the article in the article 2 section. Once you have rewritten it, use the software to compare them and rewrite your article as needed.

If you need some help in the rewriting process, grab a copy of wordflood. It will help you replace a lot of words with synonyms.

http://www.wordflood.com/Free.html

Now that we have an article, go back and rewrite a couple more. The more content we have the better. Start off with at least 3.

Once you have your articles done, check them using this website:

http://www.articlechecker.com/

This site will check your articles against Google’s and Yahoo’s indexes and tell you how original your articles are. It works by searching for phrases in the search engines. The fewer phrases it finds, the more original your articles are and, therefore, the better they are.

Once you have your articles done, it is time to find some relevant images. We are going to use free stock photos. This is a great site to get them from:

http://www.sxc.hu/

Find images that relate to your article. For example, if you are writing about dog training, then find images of dogs.

Now that we know we have products to sell to our target audience and some content it is time to build a website. Luckily there are lots of places you can do this for free. But simply building a website is not good enough. There are a lot of people out there trying to make an income online so we are going to make sure that we are competitive.

In order for your website to be competitive and come up in the search engine results where people will see it, you need to have not only one website, but an entire network.

We are going to cover a basic model of this but keep in mind that this is only the beginning. You can also take this model and tinker with it to see what works for you. This is only a starting point.

First what we are going to do is go over to Squidoo and build a lens (a lens is what they call websites):

http://www.squidoo.com/

You will have to play around with it to figure out how it works. Look at some of their popular lenses and you should get an idea of how to set yours up. Once you understand how the site works, post one of your articles on it along with some images and some other modules (rss feeds are good as they update with fresh content automatically but don’t overdo it). Save the other 2 articles you have.

Why are we saving these articles? Because Google loves pages that are updated regularly with fresh content. Use these articles to add to your Squidoo lens (website) later. Once you have the site built with an article, some images and other modules, wait a few days or a week and add your second article. Then add your third one a few days later. The idea is to make it look like the site is being built over time. That way every time Google comes back to your site, it will notice new content and will know that it needs to come back later to look for more.

Once you have your site built, you will need to write more articles for the other sites you are going to build. But now we are going to create them in mass.

We are going to make 1 article into many articles.

How are we going to do this?

Simple – by spinning the content. Spinning is a technique that utilizes software to rewrite an article. We are going to create what is called a seed article. A seed article is what the software uses to create different version of that article from.

Here is an example of what a sentence looks like in a seed article:

The {quick|fast} brown fox jumps {over|above|around} the lazy dog.

The software will pick out only one word that is enclosed in the curly brackets and leave the rest of the text intact. So for this sentence, you will get variations like this:

The fast brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.

The fast brown fox jumps around the lazy dog.

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.

You are going to need to rewrite your article using this style. Here is a website that will help you out and will generate copies of your article for you:

http://www.jetspinner.com/

Once you have the seed article done and several copies generated, we are going to post one version of the article to a few of these websites:

http://business.blinkweb.com/

http://blogsome.com/

http://www.livejournal.com/

http://quizilla.teennick.com/

http://www.ever.com/

http://www.vox.com/

http://www.weebly.com/

http://www.wetpaint.com/

http://wordpress.org/

http://www.xanga.com/

http://www.yola.com/

These are all similar sites to Squidoo but also slightly different in the way you set things up. Once you have 4 or 5 new websites, you will want to link them all back to your original Squidoo lens. Make sure you use anchor text in the html link. You can read more about anchor text and how to link the sites here:

http://www.tizag.com/SEOTutorial/seo-anchor-text.php

Here is a guide on html code so you know how to properly format the link:

http://www.htmlcodetutorial.com/linking/_A_NAME.html

What you will end up with is 4 or 5 sites that all point back towards your main squidoo lens. This will make it look important in the eyes of Google.

Now that we have a network of sites, it is time to work on converting visitors to our Squidoo lens into paying customers. You will need to write a review of the product you are selling and make it the focus of your lens. Put it above the articles so that your visitor sees it first.

Here are some websites where you can learn about how to write a review article:

http://www.wikihow.com/Write-a-Product-Review

http://www.cloudynights.com/item.php?item_id=606

Once you have a review article, you will want to add your affiliate link to the end. You can get your affiliate link from the affiliate sites we talked about earlier (Clickbank, Amazon, Commission Junction or PayDotCom).

Now that we have our sales page setup and our website network complete, it is time to add some backlinks. Backlinks help show Google that our website is important and help increase our search rankings.

One of the ways to do this is to submit our site to social bookmarking networks. Here is an article about what social bookmarking is:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_bookmarking

We need to create accounts with each of the sites and submit it to them. But we are going to automate this process as much as possible using a service called Onlywire. You can find it here:

http://onlywire.com/

Onlywire supports 30 or so bookmarking services. You will need to sign up for an account at each one.

Here are the services onlywire supports:

http://onlywire.com/thebutton

Once you have all your accounts setup with the various bookmarking sites, simply add them to your onlywire account. It is a good idea to bookmark pages that are not yours so that it looks more natural. Find stories on foxnews or mashable or other news services and bookmark them through onlywire. This will help in your account not getting banned by the bookmarking sites.

After you have bookmarked your pages, we are going to get more backlinks by submitting the RSS feeds from the sites. Here is an article about RSS if you are new to it:

http://www.commoncraft.com/archives/000528.html

Once you get your RSS feeds from your Squidoo lens and other sites, submit them to these websites:

http://feedsubmitter.com/

http://www.feedage.com/

http://www.feedagg.com/

Search around BHW for more.

After all of this, you will want to continue to maintain your website network, but especially your Squidoo Lens because that is where you make the money.

And that is the basic process of internet marketing. There is much more to learn but this should give you an idea of what is involved. This should also give you all of the necessary tools to get started.

Take your time to learn about each step involved. Learn what you are doing and why you are doing it.

And the most important part is to get creative. Try to build your own methods. Google is getting smarter everyday and you need to be able to stay on top of it.


A good way to do that is to read the latest news on mashable.com and also check up on BHW. They both cover a lot of what is emerging around the internet.

I am not going to explain these but here are some other free resources you can use as you build your own internet marketing empire.

Free website hosting:

http://www.100best-free-web-space.co...Free-Host.html

http://www.110mb.com/

Free domain names:

http://www.co.cc/

Backlink Checkers:

http://www.iwebtool.com/backlink_checker

http://backlinkwatch.com/

https://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/

Free software:

http://sourceforge.net/

http://download.cnet.com/windows/

iMacros for Firefox – this is an add-on for Firefox that will allow you to automate much of the work you do online. It works within your Firefox browser and performs actions you have assigned to it.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3863

Free content management systems (CMS) for building your websites (wordpress is the most popular and easiest to learn):

http://wordpress.com/

http://www.joomla.org/

http://drupal.org/

CCleaner – this is a quick way to erase internet history, cookies, etc. It also clears your Recycle Bin among other things.

http://www.ccleaner.com/


Filezilla – The best FTP program out there

http://filezilla-project.org/

Web browsers (because Internet Explorer sucks)

http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/upgrade.html


http://www.google.com/chrome


Closing thoughts:

Learn all you can but make action your primary goal. You don’t make any money or any progress without action.
Plan. Acton is most important but having a plan of action is MUCH more important. Spend a few minutes figuring out what you are going to do before you get online. Ask yourself “What am I going to accomplish today? What is my purpose right now?”
Get creative. Be the best. If you aren’t the best yet, figure out how to do it.
Network. Get to know other people in the internet marketing industry, even if it is only through BHW or through chatting. Use them as a mentor.
BHW is a great place. Learn everything you can here. It is free and has just about everything you need.
Give back. Once you have started to earn, help others that are struggling to get to where you are.


I hope you all have enjoyed reading this as much as I have enjoyed writing it. This is only a rough guide and you need to build your own foundation. Hopefully this helps to get you well on your way.

associate Affiliate Networks list that pay with payoneer master card

Payoneer mastercard is one payment solution that any one from any country can own, best of all its free. It is a reloadable mastercard that doubles as ATM. This is because you can use it to withdraw money from any ATM with mastercard logo on it anywhere you find yourself globally provided there is money inside your mastercard.
In this series on payment solution, I will be covering first where you can make money to your payoneer mastercard:
You can make money to your payoneer mastercard.
Affiliate Programs:
Plimus.com – Sell your product or become an affiliate here
2checkout.com – Sell your product or promote as affiliate. To signup as affiliate, visit
Amazon Associates – Promote product here and make money
Textlinkads.com – Sell adlinks on your site
Sell Ad Space
Pepperjam.com
Google Ad Networks :
Shareasale.com
Cj.com
Clickbooth
Buy.at
Adbrite
Adify.com
Limeexchange.com
Linktrust.com
Affiliate.com
IncentReward.com
MarketHealth.com
Copeac.com

Freelancing
GetAFreelancer
uTest
Guru.com
oDesk
RentACoder
ScriptLance
Elance
Payment processing
2CheckOut
Plimus
FastSpring
WebMoney
Advertising
MediaWhiz
Bux.to
Copeac
ROIRocket
IncentReward
Adult
AWEmpire
Adult Friend Finder
Hustler Cash
Others
FreedomRocks
GPA40
iStockPhoto
Fluc
Zizbiz
MagicRock
TripleClicks

cpa networks application process

CPA Network Application Process: Part I

I WROTE THIS FOR THE ONLINE MONEY SEEKERS HOPE YOU WOULD FIND IT USEFUL. HOPE YOU LIKE IT!

As you know, CPA marketing is one of the easiest and most lucrative ways to make money on the Internet. You must belong to a CPA network to have access to the CPA offers so in this Report, you will learn all about CPA networks and then learn exactly how to apply and get accepted to the top networks. Instead of simply giving you a short blueprint for the CPA network application process, we also decided to explain some background information so you can understand why you are doing things instead of doing them with blind faith. The more you understand how everything works, the better prepared you will be to take advantage of the lucrative world of CPA marketing.

Here’s a short overview of what we will cover:

• Role of the CPA network
• Dangers of CPA networks
• CPA networks and fraud
• Role of affiliate managers
• The CPA application process
• The affiliate screening process
• My personal experience
• Some other brief points

CPA Networks are effectively the middlemen in the process of CPA Marketing. On one side, they negotiate deals with advertisers like eHarmony and Netflix who are looking to buy leads. They also help these advertisers set up their CPA offers. On the other side, they manage all the affiliates in their network who are looking to make a commission by getting traffic to the CPA offers and getting leads for the advertisers. The CPA networks are thus facilitators. They essentially create a CPA offer marketplace for advertisers to find affiliates and affiliates to find advertisers.

CPA networks also take care of the tracking and cash flow between the advertisers and the affiliates. They track which affiliates are earning what commissions and they get money from the advertiser for these leads and then payout the money to the affiliates. The CPA Networks make a small cut of each transaction, and that’s how they make their money. So, if Netflix is willing to pay $20 per lead, the CPA network may pay the affiliate $19 per lead and keep $1. You may be asking yourself, “Can the affiliate just bypass the CPA network, work directly with the advertiser, and negotiate a better commission, such as the full $20 instead of the $19?” The answer is both yes and no. If you are a super affiliate pushing a lot of traffic and leads, then the advertiser may work a private deal with you. But, if you are new or don’t have the ability to push a lot of traffic, advertisers won’t work with individual affiliates. Unless you are doing at least 4 figures a day for one advertiser, you should take the traditional route and run through the CPA network.

Another important point to remember is that there are literally hundreds of CPA networks out there, but many of the smaller networks have far fewer offers and may be less reliable and more risky. It would really be a bummer to earn $5,000 in commissions and the network decides they don’t want to pay you or the network goes out of business before paying you. This doesn’t happen often, but it can happen. With the development of software platforms in recent years, it is extremely simple to set up a CPA Network, so many pop up all the time. Your best bet is to stick with the larger, more established networks we have provided at the end of this report. They have become large and successful because they do things the right and honest way.

Another interesting fact about many networks that many people aren’t aware of, is that the networks themselves are also affiliates. This “proprietary marketing” is when networks drive traffic to their own offers. They aren’t always just facilitating transactions; they are also generating them as well!

However, everything isn’t all rainbows and butterflies at CPA networks – there is a lot of risk and garbage that networks have to deal with on a regular basis, which is why they have an application process instead of just accepting everybody. As mentioned above, networks deal with the cash flowing from advertisers to affiliates. In the ideal scenario for the CPA Network, they will tell the advertisers how many leads their affiliates generated; they will then receive money for the leads from the advertiser and then pay out the commissions to the affiliates. There is zero risk for the CPA networks here because they are waiting to get money from the advertiser and once received, then they pay out the commission to the affiliates.

However, this isn’t always how it works, and networks can take on considerable risk at times because of the timing of cash flow. In many circumstances when there are affiliates generating sizable daily commissions, the affiliates don’t want to wait up to a month for the network to collect from the advertiser first. Remember, some affiliates are pushing $20,000 or more a day, so they want to get paid right away.

Imagine this scenario....one of the network’s super affiliates earns $5,000 a day in commissions from a particular insurance company CPA offer. Because the affiliate is pushing such large volume, the CPA network decides to wire commissions every day to this affiliate. But, perhaps the insurance company who is running the CPA offer only pays the CPA network every few weeks. In this example, the network is essentially paying the affiliate the $5,000 in commissions every day out of pocket with the expectation that the insurance company will reimburse them in a few weeks. So there is a time period where the network is giving out their own money and must then wait to be reimbursed by the advertiser. But what happens if the insurance company comes back to the CPA network in a few weeks and argues that the leads were terrible or even fraudulent and they aren’t paying for them. In this scenario, the CPA network just paid the affiliate $5,000 per day for a few weeks and isn’t getting reimbursed by the advertiser. So, there are many scenarios where CPA networks take on considerable risk.

Since there are many CPA marketers who scam and deceive people into filling out their CPA offers, the above scenario is very real and very much a concern for CPA networks, hence the reason they have an application process.


Affiliate Managers at CPA Networks

When you join a CPA network, you will be assigned an affiliate manager, who is sometimes referred to as an account manager. Affiliate managers represent a group of affiliates and they are your point of contact if you have any questions about the network or CPA offers at the network. Your affiliate manager is a great resource because they know all the details about the CPA offers on their network and they know which offers are converting well and which ones aren’t. They have access to a wide range of information and data from all the affiliate’s campaigns, and therefore it’s very important to get to know your affiliate manager and begin a good relationship with them right from day one.

What we normally suggest is to give your affiliate manager a call, text, or instant message as soon as you get accepted to the CPA network. Let them know you just joined their network and wanted to reach out to say hello and introduce yourself. This will get your relationship off to a good start.

I would also suggest communicating with them on a weekly basis to keep communication open and to keep your name in their memory. Remember, your affiliate manager can help you tremendously and if you have a good relationship they may divulge some pretty powerful information or let you promote ‘private’ CPA offers, which aren’t available to the general public. If they become comfortable with you, they can also be more lenient on the rules of the CPA offers.

Your affiliate manager is your ally and a phenomenal resource. Now, let’s move on to the actual application process so you can start applying to networks and getting access to CPA offers!


CPA Network Application Process: Part II

Applying and getting accepted into CPA networks is not difficult if you know the right steps to take – and that’s the goal of this guide. When I was a complete newbie, I knew very little about CPA marketing when I applied and I got accepted into something like 12 of 13 networks I applied to. And this is with substantially less knowledge about CPA then you learned in the NAME TAKEN OUT IM Boot Camp and without all the knowledge you are learning in this report, never mind everything you will learn on the rest of this site...but more about my experience later. The point is that you shouldn’t freak out about the application – it really is super simple!


The Application Process

This report is literally the longest and most comprehensive CPA network application resource I have ever seen. Even the $17 and $27 eBooks about applying to networks don’t go into this much detail! What I fear is that because this is long and details everything you need to know, that you will automatically assume the process is hard. Let me assure you, it’s not. I just want to give you the most information and most ammunition possible. Remember, our goal is to actually help you make some serious money online, not just go through the motions. And just to ease any fears you may have, I HAVE NEVER heard of anybody who couldn’t get into at least two CPA networks.

As we discussed in an earlier section, networks take on a lot of risk by accepting affiliates. Sometimes CPA Networks must pay commissions out of pocket before they receive money from the advertisers so they have financial exposure. If these commissions are “bad leads” such as those from scammers and fraudsters, then the network probably won’t get paid from the advertisers, which means they just forfeited all that money. This is why CPA networks have a screening and application process to try and weed out the fraudsters and scammers. There are dozens of scammers and fraudsters trying to get into these networks every day, so this is a very serious concern for the CPA networks. There is common misunderstanding that networks are trying to weed out “newbies” or newer marketers in the screening process. For some networks this may be true, but the vast majority of network care less about how experienced you are and care more about whether you will be doing anything sketchy as an affiliate -- they are weeding out the fraudsters, not the newbies.
What are the networks looking for in the screening process? Well, they are generally looking for affiliates that will promote offers the right way and for affiliates that have a good base understanding of what CPA is.
Now there are certain countries and regions that are known for having rampant fraud, so affiliates from these locations will be scrutinized more in the application process. For example, if you are from Nigeria, it will be more difficult to apply, but it’s certainly not impossible. It just means you will need to demonstrate more proof you know what you are doing and will promote the offers the right way. If you are from the United States, the UK, Australia, or any developed nation, you won’t have anything to worry about here.

Again, I have never met ANYBODY who hasn’t been able to get into at least two CPA networks! Here is a brief rundown of how the application will work:

Step 1: Find a CPA Network You Wish To Join
Step 2: Go to Their Site and Find the Affiliate/Publisher Application
Step 3: Fill Out The Application
Step 4: Try Reaching Out To the Network (optional, but will help)
Step 5: Phone Screening (sometimes)
Step 6: Once Accepted, Take A Look At All The Possible Offers To Promote Step 7: Make Some Serious Money Promoting The Offers



Step 1: Finding a CPA Network to Join

At the end of this report, we have listed some of the best and most reputable CPA networks there are. Most of the larger networks we recommend have a wide range of CPA Offers so you really only need to belong to 1 or 2 of these networks to start off with. If you want to have even a wider variety of offers, you can certainly belong to more networks though.

If you are looking for a network that carries a specific offer, you can go to one of the CPA offer directories we have for you at the end of this report and find out which networks host the offer.


Step 2: Find Application on the Network

We have conveniently given you the links to the affiliate/publisher applications of a few of our favorite CPA networks at the end of this report. If you need to find the application of a network not listed, just go to the CPA Network’s home page and find the affiliate/publisher section and the Join Now or Apply Now directions should be right there.


Step 3: Fill Out the Affiliate/Publisher Applications

The applications of all networks are pretty similar and very simple to fill out. The following are the main pieces of information the networks generally ask for on their applications:

Personal Information: Name, address, email, etc
Tax ID Number: Social Security Number if you are getting checks made out to you. If you are running through a business and want a check made out to your business, you will put in your business EIN number, which is the Tax ID for businesses. If you do not have a Tax ID number, just put in zeros and explain you are from a different country when you reach out to them. Sometimes they have a separate application for affiliates from other countries.
Web Site: If you have a website, it may help to submit it. (discussed later) Experience: Your internet marketing experience
Your Plan: How you will be promoting the CPA offers (PPC, SEO, etc)


Step 4: Try Reaching Out to the Network

Networks look favorably at affiliates who show initiative...it shows they are willing to take action and shows you are probably not a scammer. Most scammers try and slide by the application process unnoticed. By calling the network, this will give them a good feeling you are legitimate. Many networks will reach out to you, but it’s a good practice to try reaching out to the network first. Some networks approve/disapprove applications without ever doing a phone screen, but we will go into that in the next step. You can sometimes find a contact phone number at the network’s web site you are applying to or you can try doing a Google search. If you can’t find a number (some networks don’t make it public), try finding an email address of somebody at the network. If you still can’t find a phone number, don’t worry, this step is an optional step.

When you call or reach out to the network, you should ask to speak with somebody regarding a recent application you submitted. You should call within 24 hours of submitting the application. When you speak to the appropriate person, just explain that you submitted your application and wanted to make sure they received it because you are looking to promote some of their offers. Then just tell them they can reach out to you if they have any questions about the application. In many cases, they will review your application right on the spot and either accept or deny you or ask you a few questions about how you plan to promote their offers. This is super simple stuff. And should take 2 minutes max.

Again, this step is optional, but you will get better results if you take the initiative to do it!


Step 5: Phone Screening

The phone screening is when the network will call you and ask you a few short questions to make sure you aren’t doing anything sketchy. Some networks just pick and choose who they decide to call and automatically accept or deny other applications. This is a measure they do to prevent fraudsters. The phone questions shouldn’t take more than 2 or 3 minutes to complete, so it’s certainly nothing to stress about. I will tell you the exact questions I was asked in the next section and tell you exactly how I answered them, and I got accepted into all but one network when I was just starting in CPA. Here are some common questions:

• How long have you been promoting CPA offers?
• How do you plan on promoting the offers?
• Do you belong to any other networks? If so, which ones?
• How much traffic do you anticipate generating?
• How much do you spend daily/weekly/monthly?
• How did you hear about our network?
• What kind of offers do you like?
• What niche of offers are you interested in?

Step 6: Once Accepted - Explore the Offers

Once you get accepted, start looking around to check out the network and the different CPA offers they have. Just explore a bit so when it’s time to promote, you know how to navigate the site


Step 7: Make Money

Now that you are accepted, spend some time learning everything there is to learn about traffic generation here at Warrior Forum.


My Experience

I don’t remember the exact stats, but out of the 13 networks I applied to, maybe 5 of the networks called to speak with me. Most of the phone screenings were about 2 minutes long, I was only vaguely familiar with CPA marketing, I didn’t have a web site, and I still got accepted into all but 1 network. Trust me when I say this special report is far more information than I had when I was applying so you are already ahead of me!

I will admit that when I applied, I inflated certain answers a bit because although networks don’t mind accepting newbies, if they think you have some experience, I thought at the time it would help get accepted. Of course honesty is the best policy though! This is how I answered the above questions when I was first starting out and applied to the networks.

How long have you been promoting CPA offers? I have been promoting Clickbank products for about 5 months and have seen decent success so I am looking to start using my experience with Clickbank marketing to get into CPA Marketing. I just started in CPA about 1 month ago.

How do you plan on promoting the offers? I plan on using PPC (pay per click) to drive traffic to a landing page and then having CPA offers on my landing page. I have used review style landing pages with success.

Do you belong to any other networks? If so, which ones? Yes, I have recently been accepted into Copeac but am looking to have a wider range of CPA offers to choose from and that’s why I am looking to get accepted into your network. I have heard great things about you.

How much traffic do you anticipate generating? I have my budget right now at $50/day so the amount of traffic depends on the cost of clicks for the keywords I pick. I look to focus on long-tail keywords to get cheaper clicks to start with.

How much do you spend daily/weekly/monthly? Right now I am budgeting $50 a day, but I have been seeing success on one of my weight loss campaigns so I may start increasing my budget when I get my commission checks.

How did you hear about our network? I heard about your network through Warrior Forum. (You can tell them you heard about it from the Warrior Forum Internet Marketing community!)

What kind of offers do you like? As I said, I’ve had success with weight loss right now, so I am hoping your network has some good weight loss offers I can test out. I am also running an email submit campaign on one of my sites right now, which is doing okay.

What niche of offers are you interested in? I am looking to test out different niches. I look forward to speaking with my affiliate manager to see what is hot right now on your network so I can test out!
The networks that did call normally asked just 3 or 4 of the above questions. I sounded confident and got accepted on the spot to every network I spoke with on the phone. So it’s not that bad guys and gals!


CPA Network Application Process: Part III

In this section we will discuss a few other issues relating to CPA network acceptance. This will include various tips and tricks as well as one of the most common questions relating to CPA network acceptance..."should I submit a site or not?" If you still have any questions after reading this section, please head over to the forums and ask. We are more than happy to help resolve any lingering questions.


To Submit a Site or Not to Submit A Site

“Should I apply with a site?” This is one of the most common questions I get asked regarding CPA network acceptance. When I applied I didn’t submit a site at all. I told the network I was promoting on the search engines (PPC) and built landing pages around each offer I promoted. In the spot where it asked for my domain I put www.will-discuss-in-phone-interview.com or www.LandingPageisOfferSpecific.com so they knew I didn’t have a main site I would be promoting the CPA offer on, but rather I would build a landing page to promote each offer. The general purpose of the CPA networks wishing to see your domain is just to see if you know what you are doing. If it’s your first day in Internet marketing and you don’t even know what a domain is, then they probably don’t want you in their network. It’s more or less just to prove you can make a site and one more barrier to weed out the scammers.

The way I approached it is certainly a possible way around the site rule, but many people say submitting a real site of your own is better, and that’s probably true. Luckily, here at NAME TAKEN OUT we show you exactly how to build a WordPress web site and I promise it’s super easy so don’t worry. There are two types of sites that people generally use. You can either build a company web site like a marketing company site or you can build a sample landing page like one you would use as a pre-sell page for your CPA offer. Alternatively, you can pay to have somebody else create a quick site for you. The videos show you how to build a quick and beautiful site, but this is the basic process:

• Get a domain and hosting
• Install Wordpress
• Install a free theme/skin (Skinpress.com o Free-wp-themes.com o Wpskins.com)
• Create your own content or buy PLR ·rights to some content to use  Install privacy policy and contact form plugin

If you go to the Video Training section of NAME TAKEN OUT, you can follow along and we will show you exactly how to build a word press site step-by-step! Once you build one site the above process won’t take more than 20 minutes to do from start to finish.
Please note, if you submit somebody else’s web site in the application, it’s possible the CPA network may ask you to prove you own the domain. They sometimes look at the public Who Is records of web sites people submit and if it doesn’t show you as the owner, or if its listed as private, they can ask you to prove ownership by sending them proof of purchase or a receipt. I’m really not sure how often this happens though.

Please remember that the site you submit is more or less a dummy site intended to show the network that you know what you are doing and you have a basic understanding of how things work – which after reading this guide you should! This IS NOT the site that you must promote your CPA offers on. This is a common misunderstanding. You can promote CPA offers on any domain you wish once you are accepted.


Some Other Quick Tips...

Start With Second Tier Networks – Use As Leverage
This is something that can help tremendously in getting into the larger, more established networks. Most people go right to the top and start applying to the top few CPA networks. When they are asked what other CPA networks they have worked with, they say none and then get denied. If you start applying to the 2nd tier networks, it’s substantially easier to get accepted and there may be auto- approval so no phone screening. Once you get accepted to one or two of these networks, then you should approach the larger networks. Once you say you already belong to a few networks (even if they are smaller), you are much more likely to get accepted because it gives you instant credibility.

Email@Yoursite.com
If you registered a site, set up an email address at that domain. This is normally free. For example, if your domain is kenster.com, then set up your email asyourname@kabir.com. We go over this in the training videos that show how to set up hosting. This instantly shows you own the site and gives you credibility, as most scammers use free email addresses like Gmail or Hotmail. This is what I did when I applied and may be the reason I got instantly approved by many of the networks.

Confidence - Telephone Verification Process
The most important part of your telephone verification (if you have one) is to be confident and have a full plan to promote the CPA offers. Read through the training material here and come up with a few good strategies. If you show you have a plan of action, it will demonstrate you are serious about promoting their offers! One of the main purposes of the telephone verification process is because they know most scammers and fraudsters like to fly under the radar and not give away their phone numbers, so just the mere fact that they are speaking to you on the phone makes them a little more comfortable you will be promoting the offers the right way. Have a good plan of attack will seal the deal!

Honesty Goes a Long Way
Honesty is the best policy. Some people inflate a little bit when applying and in truth, the networks probably expect it. But, don’t go around boasting huge numbers or pretending you are a super affiliate unless you really are. They don’t mind having newer marketers in their network but they do mind having liars, so don’t say you will be spending $10,000 a day in advertising if you haven’t spent a dime yet! Use common sense.

Fraud Swap List
I don’t expect anybody here at the NAME TAKEN OUT community to be a fraudster or scammer, but just so you are all aware, network owners know each other and sometimes share information about scammers. If you scam one network, there is a chance you will make it on the “fraud swap list” so other networks know to look out for you. Just do things the right way. There is plenty of money to be made the ethical and honest way so there is no reason to start scamming people.

If You Get Denied
If you get denied, just move onto another network. There are literally hundreds of networks so don’t give up you don’t get in the first few. I have never heard of anybody who got denied to 20 in a row, but if for some strange reason it happens, just move on. My bet is that most of you will get accepted to at least one of the first few networks you apply to. CPA marketing can be incredibly lucrative for non-quitters, so don’t quit, just move onto the next network!

Reapply after a Month or Two
If for some reason you want to go back to a network that previously denied you, just wait a month or two and then reapply. Make sure to call the network or write a note in the application to let them know you already applied and weren’t accepted but you’ve been doing well the last few months and you want to try testing some of their offers. You can tell them which networks you are currently working with and that should help them change their mind about your application.

Referral Helps – Forums
Believe it or not, many members here at NAME TAKEN OUT are affiliate managers or owners of CPA networks. Affiliate managers and owners also visit forums like Warrior Forum, so you can always reach out to them there. As a hint, start a conversation FIRST and after some communication, then tell them you will be applying to their network and if they have any suggestions. They can give you a referral right on the spot or automatically accept your application if they like you. This is yet another weapon to add to your CPA network application toolbox.

If International - Say Most Traffic is US Based
If you happen to be an international affiliate from outside a developing country, making the network aware that your traffic is US based can help a lot. So, put a note in the application or when you speak to the network, make sure to bring it up!

Company Name Works Better
If you started a company to do your Internet marketing, it’s probably better to register as a company as opposed to an individual. Of course this only works if you have a company.


Parting Words

Alright, I promise you that the application process isn’t terribly difficult. I know this special report is more than you ever probably wanted to know about CPA networks and about getting accepted but I would rather err on the side of giving you too much information than too little information.

Be confident, come up with a plan, start reviewing the information on this site, and then start applying to networks. CPA is a great way to make a lot of money this is the first critical step you must take!

As Always...


May We All Succeed & Prosper,

~Kenster

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