I think almost anyone who looks for ways to make money on the Internet eventually tries to make money with affiliate programs. There are many ways you can earn money doing affiliate marketing.
My favorite way to make money with affiliate programs is cost per action (cpa) programs. These are also referred to as pay per lead programs. Today they are even marketed as joining an affiliate program and becoming a traffic broker.
These programs appeal to affiliate marketers for several reasons.
1. It is an easy way to make money without asking your customer purchase anything. The easier you make it for your website visitor the more likely they are to do it.
The only thing easier than the CPA programs would be pay per click affiliate programs such as Google AdSense. This is where you make money on every click. However these do not pay as well and it takes a lot of web pages and clicks to earn decent money with them.
2. CPA programs really appeal to people who enjoy Internet marketing. Your emphasis is on promoting splash pages that you create or landing pages the affiliate program gives you. You are not really concerned with making money by pre-selling your product as much as you are enticing them to fill out a short form.
The reason this is referred to as traffic brokering is because you drive traffic for the various products you represent. You bring the traffic to the offers, the website visitor fills out a short form, and then the merchant begins to follow up from there. So these programs are perfect if you enjoy generating traffic to Internet marketing.
3. You can quickly be making money based on what is happening in the marketplace. If you see a trend in ring tones for example, you can find a few good ring tone offers to promote.
You quickly develop a landing page (or use the one from the offer), and began promoting those on the internet and making money the same day.
You could do the same thing based on making money online by promoting taking paid surveys offers or any market you want to get in. This is really fast and it is exciting when you realize how quick you can be making money.
4. Over time you can develop campaigns in numerous niches and really make an unbelievable amount of money. Although the majority of your website visitors come from pay per click advertising a well-crafted CPA campaign can still earn you up to a seven-figure income per year.
There are even examples of people earning six figure incomes per day with cost per action programs.
You certainly should look at cost per action programs if you are considering ways to make money with affiliate marketing. You can join various affiliate networks which give you access to offers in multiple niches and begin making money almost instantly.
