I am in neverblueads right now and they have banners, emails, links forms of advertising, but how do you actually promote it? How do you promote ringtones? you right about it and put the banner at the bottom of the article? I read about these people selling products etc, but how do you exactly sell it if its just a banner? Is it just that I'm on neverblueADS. do CJ and Azoogle offer forms of selling? im kinda confused.
No problem at all. Put banners on your site and check how they convert into leads... Another way is to buy traffic on cheap second tier PPC (check payperclicksearchengines.com) and send visitors to NB landing pages using your affiliate link... Track convertions
If you have popular sites, then yes, you just put the banner on your site, and get paid when your users click it and enter their info (lead), or buy something (sale). So if the offer requires that the user submit their zipcode, the amount of money you get everytime somebody puts in their zipcode (the CPA, cost-per-action, 'action' is inputting a zipcode in this case). If you don't have a popular site, you can still make money, although I won't list more than these methods because the rest would be illegal or unethical (fraud or spam), or impractical. 1) Make a site or a blog and work on making it popular. This is very time confusing - but rewarding because it tends to provide passive income eventually. This will take 6-12 months before you see _any_ profit. 2) Upload a page to your host, which will either redirect the user to the landing page (which is on each offer in NeverBlueAds), or display the banners of that offer. Obviously you need hits, and unless you do option #1, you'll need to basically "buy hits." This means paying to have that page with the offer on it displayed to targeted users. This is pay-per-click. You pay everytime somebody clicks your ad, but the point is that you make more than you spend. So you might spend $100 on advertising in 1 day, and at the end of the day if you make $140, that's a $40 profit. Then you can scale.. if you see the offer is doing good, you can invest a lot of money into ads. It's not uncommon for a lot of the 'upper affiliates' to spend thousands a day, or hundreds of thousands a month. They might spend $100K and make back $150K, a $50,000 profit. This page explains it in a straight forward manner: http://seoinplainenglish.com/2007/11/30/affiliate-marketing-for-the-masses/
do the second tier PPC's actually convert well? how much are the CPC's? can you give me an example of a CPA ad and some keywords you used?
are you familiar with neverblue? are landing pages, under "other creatives" then html creatives. its like a whole page ad, where you sign up etc. But about the banners, who really buys something from an ad banner? I know that I never would. Should I assume that a majority of the internet population does?
That's your problem. You aren't a businessman, and you don't view the world with that mentality. "Nobody" buys anything from banners or email spam, but even if only 1% of people are buying stuff, it's enough to make you rich. Why do you think you keep getting spam email? (Besides the fraud/phishing email) Because people click and buy viagra, diazepam, xanax, etc. If nobody bought, it wouldn't be lucrative. Back in '97 I knew a spammer who was making about a million a year. Had ~10 computers and T1 on scouring the web for emails and then spamming them with real estate ads, and then selling the mailing lists. A lot of these spammers are still around and it's a _huge_ business. But anyway, you need to target traffic. Meaning, you need to have your ad display when the user types something specific, like "ipod retail price" or "prom dress prices" - etc. These people are more likely to buy. If you get 10K clicks @ 0.10c a click. You're paying $1000, but let's say 2% enter their information ("a lead") on the site. That's 200 people, and let's say each lead paid $7, you'd get back $1400 - giving you a $400 profit. Then you flip that, meaning you take that $1400 and use it all on PPC, and again, 2% of people convert, but this time instead of 10K clicks, it's 14K (2% of which is 280), you make back 1960. Profit now is higher than before.. $560. etc. but here's a short basic answer to your Q: People buy stuff. Advertising works. It's extremely powerful. We are more like robots and can be controlled to buy/do things by psychological means. It happens to us daily, and will always exist. See consumers as a system rather than a very chaotic/random group of people. Start seeing constants instead of thinking everything is variable.