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A lot of people took some things I said in this post the wrong way. Yes, it included some poor information and for that I apologize. I wrote it quick and wanted to get it out which I shouldn’t have done without getting my facts straight. Sorry, sorry, sorry. Anyways, let me explain one thing, specifically this paragraph:

“You’ve got much better options else where. Think about it. You get paid about $1 per email you send in. 100 emails = $100. Alternatively, you could promote games for about $2 a lead = $200 per 100 leads. Orrr you could do dating and get paid $4 per lead = $400. Insurance and credit offers nail you $10 – $20 per lead, adding up to 1k – 2k dollars at the end of the day. Get started in rebills and you double that. See what I’m talking about here? Would you rather spend time optimizing a campaign for $100 or $1000?”

There seems to have been some mis-communication here. If you throw an email submit up on a traffic source and get 100 leads from it, you can’t expect the same amount of leads throwing up a weight loss rebill offer on the same traffic source. This should be common knowledge, so for those that were thinking I was saying the opposite here, well, I’m not that stupid.

What I’m saying, is do you really want to be focusing on (generally) short-term email submit offers paying you out a buck-10. You don’t have to focus on rebill offers either, and I’d almost advise against that as well. I’m just saying that I think we as affiliates have much better choices out there. For any traffic source, there is almost always a leadgen or sale offer that can out-perform any email/zip submit with some optimization. They require more work, yes, but in the long run, through my experience, are more stable than any email/zip submit offer you can run.

There are some email submits, though far and few between, that do work. The email submits that get sign-ups for mailing lists convert and covert well over a long period of time (recently, we’re seeing a lot of stock/penny stock offers doing this). The ones that require the user to fill out offers to get their prize generally get thrown on to the fail boat after a couple of days.

It’s really down to what you want to promote and how much effort you want to put into testing and setting up a campaign at the end of the day. Email submits are pretty simple. Set up a link on a traffic source, rotate through a few until you find a winner and sit on it until you start getting scrubbed. It’s easy to set up, but in most cases, very short term. If you’re setting up a lead gen, it can take a bit more time. You might have to set up a landing page and test those to, which adds another step. But, after that is taken care of, you’re set to go for a much longer amount of time and through that initial testing, you can much more easily scale it out without having to worry about changing offers, rotating through different affiliate networks, etc.

All offers do die, many scrub no matter what style of offer (submit, lead-gen, sale, rebill, etc), but I think many will agree that their lead-gen offer campaigns have lasted much longer than “free prize” email/zip submit campaigns. Hell, lead-gen offers can start sucking after 1 day, however, again from my experience, that isn’t very common. It’s happened a few times. Many times I get a week or two. But several campaigns running with lead-gen offers on the right traffic source, for me, have lasted months at a time.

I don’t run an offer because it pays out more, but because I see more potential and long term scalability out of it. To me, I just don’t see this in email submits. It’s a short-term hit and run campaign unless you like managing and switching out offers on it everyday. I feel my time is better used working on other campaigns. If you can scale an email submit to $1000, well that’s damn skippy. I think its possible, especially if you’ve got exclusive access to any sort of decently sized traffic center (a list, your own network, a large website), but I think you’re much more likely to hit $1000 a day long-term, with a different style of offer.

Maybe some of you can stand to take on that kind of workload and the micro-management you’d have to deal with. I can’t, so I don’t see it as a scalable source of income vs. the amount of time it would take to manage.

Those that called the post idiotic and nonfactual are completely justified to do so, and looking back on it I had to facepalm myself, but I just want to let you guys and my readers know, with more clarity, why I don’t run email submits. Now go make some money, dammit.