Which CPA Offers Are The Best For Making Money?

So you’ve made it past the CPA network gatekeeper, gotten your site approved, and you’ve been accepted by the CPA network. You log into the network and you are met with dozens and dozens of different offers. Your head starts spinning from choice overload: which is best to choose?

The most common offers you’ll see are free trial, zip submit, and email submit offers. The smart affiliate will make use of all three of these types to bring in the most money.

Free trial offers are just that: an offer to try a product or service for free or nearly free. In the case physical products, the customer must pay for shipping and handling, which is usually under $5. If it is an information product, or a service, the offers are completely free to try. Companies know that if only they can get their product or service into the hands of the consumer, that the odds are that the consumer will be happy enough to buy it. Free trials have always been a popular advertising vehicle because of this fact.

For this reason, companies are willing to pay CPA networks premium rates for leads, that is customers who sign up for the trial. All you need to do to get paid with these types of offers is get people (leads) to sign for the free trial. What happens after the customer receives the product is between the customer and the advertiser: your job is done.

The zip submit offer is one where you are paid for every visitor who submits his or her zip code. You might be wondering how on earth can you get paid for someone’s zip code? How can a company possibly make money from this? Well, zip submit offers are a tactic used by marketing companies to gather information. The most common zip submit offers entail the enticement of a free gift card of some sort and submitting the zip code is just the beginning of the information gathering process. However, what happens after the visitor submits his or her zip code is none of your concern since your end of the deal is done once the zip code is submitted.

Like zip submits, email submits are offers where your job is to get people to enter their email address in a simple form on your website. The form is provided by the CPA network, so you don’t need to worry about coding or anything like that. You get paid for every valid email, that is a working email, that someone submits from your website.

Again, you’re probably wondering why anyone would pay you to gather email addresses. Like zip submits, email submits are about gathering information about prospective customers. In the case of the email submit, the ultimate goal of the offer is more direct: a free e book or some other enticement in an exchange for a valid email that can be added to a list for use in email marketing campaigns. With strict laws about spamming, genuine lists of interested buyers are at a premium, and for this reason advertisers are willing to pay for this information.  

Whether you choose free trial offers, email submits, zip submits, or all three, the beauty of these types of offers is that they convert very well, especially in this economy where everyone is more hesitant to spend any money.

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