How Does CPA Affiliate Marketing Work?

CPA or otherwise known as “Cost-Per-Action” marketing is one of the simplest methods for a beginner to start making fast and easy money online! For years, this type of internet marketing was thought to be an “Insider Secret” that only the big players knew about. In fact, it was never really a secret at all. Most affiliates were too busy promoting traditional offers for commissions while the big kahunas were cashing in on a whole different level!

This CPA affiliate style marketing requires consumers to complete specific actions in order for you to get paid. A few typical actions could be filling out a form for a free product, or signing up for a free trial for a sample product. In some cases, it involves asking the consumer to fill in their information to receive a free sample along with a small shipping fee.

So exactly how does this work and, more importantly, how do you get paid! As the offer promoter, you get paid when your web visitor performs a specific action. As a basic example, let’s say a company in a given CPA network wants to collect feedback on a new product they are introducing to the market. This company will supply you with a web page containing an offer where they agree to pay you $1.50 for each person who submits their email plus zip code into that offer. Your job is to simply direct traffic to that web page and earn $1.50 for each person who fills in their email and zip code!

That example is a fairly standard type of promotion. Other offers pay as much  as $40 for a form fill. Usually when the payout is higher, the offer may require the customer to fill in more information or ask for a small upfront shipping and handling payment.

In essence, you are simply a traffic broker. You purchase traffic (or use free traffic methods) and send it to a CPA offer page, and then get paid based on how well the offer converts. Sounds very simply doesn’t it? It can be very easy, but generally it can be a little more difficult than most online marketers tell you.

The main reason is because it’s so profitable, therefore, CPA marketing can be very competitive. For a beginner, this can be intimidating when attempting to compete with super-affiliates that consistently make $500 to $1,000 a day running CPA campaigns. If you’re new to this type of marketing, you will be up against all that competition, and it can be a little challenging. The truth is, a lot of the beginners get frustrated, then give up when they realize that CPA affiliate marketing can be difficult plus expensive.

Even though this can be a little challenging to the beginner, you can find a lot of very useful information online that can boost your success with CPA marketing. Check out this link for a complete step-by-step CPA affiliate marketing system that will point you in the right direction so that you can start making money almost immediately while avoiding the stress of losing money!

This is a guest blog post written by Mounir Mebtoul, see how he earns his money from CPA offers here.