Geo targeting is pretty simple but used correctly can increase your CTR pretty dramatically. In this post I’m going to show you how to implement geo targeting step by step and talk about some practical applicatons. Step 1 – Get the script A simple script to set up and use is http://www.maxmind.com/app/javascript_city Step 2 – [...]
Something you need to watch out for with physical product merchants is the ‘return day’ analysis. What return days mean, is the amount of time that elapses when people come back and buy something. Here is a screenshot from Shareasale As you can see, the majority of sales comes from people who come back 15 [...]
We are going to be doing another mastermind session, this time at Affiliate Summit East. We have previously done them at ASW and adtech San Francisco, so we are looking forward to doing one on the East Coast. When & Where Sunday August 21st from 3pm-6pm est. Who & What This is going to be [...]
There are some great affiliate managers, some bad affiliate managers and a whole bunch in between. As funny as some of these are, this post is a collection of real stories that have happened to me, or someone I know when dealing with affiliate mangers. Your affiliate manager might suck if… 1. You hear the [...]
Most people are spending way to much time building their landing pages. It’s tough for people to accept that really ugly, sloppy landing pages work great! With that in mind, here are 3 simple ways to build high converting landing pages for PPV traffic fast. 1. The screenshot method This is something I have been [...]
A couple posts back I wrote about scaling ppv campaigns. One of the ideas was to split test offer across different CPA networks. I wanted to expand on that idea and show an example from one of my campaigns where this made a huge difference. Affiliates often get blindly loyal to one affiliate network, which [...]
Most of the readers of this blog, or members of the forum are into CPA marketing. What a lot of people don’t realize is that there is a whole ‘other world’ of affiliate marketing promoting physical products. This post is meant to be an intro to some of the things you can do with physical [...]
In part 1 of this post, I asked you to vote which pic you think got the highest CTR. Here’s how you voted: #1 – 2% #2 – 25% #3 – 7% #4 – 24% #5 – 5% #6 – 7% #7 – 13% #8 – 16% 7% of you got this one right [...]
This was from a campaign I ran on Facebook a while back. The targeting was male, 30+, in Brazil. I posted this on the forum but was curious what my blog readers would vote. So, out of these images, which do you think got the highest CTR? In the next post, I’ll reveal the actual [...]
The first thing people want to know when they hit on a winning campaign is ‘what’s next?’. Lets cut to the chase and talk about some ways you can scale. Ask for a payout bump This has got to be the easiest, and kind of surprisingly overlooked, ways to scale a campaign. Any payout increase [...]
