This is a post in reply to a question asked on the Ask Away! post. If you have any questions you’d like answered, post them on this post, or contact me.

The question is -

“As for a question that many people might have, given the war on rebills, what are some simple steps for a person to be profitable, even on a small scale at first, with non-rebill offers.”

First off, this war on rebills isn’t actually a war on the offers. It is a war on the methods that are being used to market them. Fake blogs, fake news sites, fake testimonials, invalid statistics, and celebrity endorsements that aren’t really valid are tactics being used by affiliates to promote these sort of offers. It’s very unethical (and probably illegal. I’m no legal expert so don’t ask me about that), but very profitable. But, if you want to avoid that crowd all together, there are several other types of offers you can promote.

If you don’t want to run rebill offers, I’d suggest running shorter lead-gen offers. These are affiliate programs that require less usually don’t require a credit card to sign up or get info for. Newsletters, dating sites, and online game downloads are ussually very simple offers to start and scale campaigns with.

There are also longer style lead-gens you can get in to with a little more experience. Insurance, loans, plastic surgery, hair loss, some dating offers, and many other niche programs have lead-gens where people must fill out multiple forms in order to achieve a conversion.

Of course, there is also CPS. These are generally a bit more difficult to promote to a demographic target, and better put towards those in a buying mood (“Buy Chicken Nuggets Online Now” might be a good keyword to use if you wanted to sell chicken nuggets online). That’s usually so because some products cost a lot of money that consumers don’t want to put on their credit card. It requires a good pre-sell and the right targeting to get a sale.

What are some steps to take? Just like a rebill campaign, or any other campaign, you’d do the same thing. Choose an offer you think will perform well, keyword/demographic research, competition research, build landing pages, write copy, design ads, launch campaigns and split test, split test, then split test some more. There are no short cuts I can give you without just giving you my profitable campaigns. Don’t count on that!

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