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PPC marketing is a fantastic way to make money with affiliate products, but it does take a lot of thought, planning, and practice. It is very common to lose money for a while in PPC, until you learn how to set up profitable campaigns.

PPC takes quite a bit of investment. Although most PPC companies don’t require you to pay up front, you will have to pay your bill in about a month.

If you don’t pay, your ads could be suspended, and you could even lose your account and be banned for life.

The problem is, most affiliate marketing companies won’t pay you in time for you to pay for your PPC marketing costs. A lot of affiliate companies pay monthly, or even quarterly. The checks might not arrive before your bill is due.

Plus, if you spend a lot of money, sometimes the company will require you to pay for your clicks ahead of time. For example, if you suddenly ran up $500 in clicks at Google AdWords, they might temporarily halt your ads until you paid for the $500 you had already spent.

Considering that you could easily spend $500 in a single day if you set up a lot of campaigns with large daily limits, you might lose your account long before an affiliate check had time to arrive in the mail.

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When you join CPA networks, you will often be given the opportunity to choose between a CPA or Revenue Share model.

With CPA, since you are paid one lump sum for each completed action, you must consistently work at generating new leads and prospects.

For example, if you are promoting a gambling website, such as a poker gaming company, you may be paid out each time someone you refer to the poker website signs up for a free account or takes advantage of a free trial offer.

Once that prospect has completed the required action, and you are paid accordingly, you will no longer earn money from that particular person and must go on to recruit and refer others in order to continue to receive payment.

With Revenue Share, you are offered a percentage or an ongoing payment plan for each prospects activity. In the example of a poker website, if you referred a user who joined the website you may be paid out a percentage of their account funding when playing the games, or a flat rate for specific amounts that your prospects spend while a member of these websites.

When you are new to CPA offers, choosing whether to join the CPA offer or the Revenue Share model can be a difficult decision to make. Many new CPA affiliates typically go with the CPA offers because they are unable to effectively gauge how valuable each referred prospect may be, and how much more money they are given the opportunity of earning from each person rather than consistently scouting our new referrals.

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Forum marketing is one of the easiest ways to generate back links to your website, as well as potential subscribers and customers.

With no shortage of active communities to choose from, regardless of your niche market, you can instantly develop an online reputation and reach out to prospects all within a few posts and a well crafted signature file, featuring links to your landing pages.

One thing to keep in mind when participating in online forums, is to start off slow and steady. You don’t want to bust onto the scene, spamming the threads with a lot of “me, too!” responses, because it won’t be long before you find yourself banned or simply ignored.

Be helpful, share tips, resources and information, and approach forum marketing in a similar way that you would approach social networking, by offering help and slowly building awareness of your brand.

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Once all of the basic elements like the headline, bulleted information, and sign up forms have been added, you'll want to seriously think about the fine details. Sign ups are great, and they are the main purpose of the squeeze page, however getting a solid marketing base is not what makes money. Turning those interested people from simple onlookers to actual customers and email newsletter subscribers seeking more information is the real goal of creating the page to begin with. There are several ways you can do this in order to ensure actual sales start rolling in.

First and foremost, you'll want to make sure that the squeeze page uploads fairly quickly. Five seconds to fully load should be the maximum, so make sure you have a good server that will allow the page to show up fast. Every second that the web page takes to load fully, you have the potential to lose customers. People who use the Internet frequently expect the web pages they visit to show up quickly. Make sure your page comes up fast, so the reader stays interested and fixated on the page.

Graphics are absolutely important to a successful web page, whether it's your home page or your squeeze page. Choose colorful, modern graphics that really reflect what it is you stand for and what you are offering the subscribers. Think about things that will bring a positive image to the mind, and then look for graphics that go with that theme. Don't use generic clip art if you can avoid it; this will make your page look outdated and unprofessional. Try to either use modern stock photos or customized graphics instead. They will definitely help to peak interest in the page.

Aside from graphics that express what it is your business is all about, think about tactical graphics as well. Tactical graphics means things like arrows, colorful exclamation points, and "starbursts" around text that help to make certain items and areas of the page more eyepopping. This may seem like an almost trivial thing to do, but in reality it works. Psychologically, people are more driven to do something on a website when they see certain things call attention to it. Arrows, stars, and other typical marketing graphics might seem a little bit behind the times, but they actually do still work very well.

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You can also use Craigslist to build your list. Actually this may be the best of all the ways to profit using Craigslist! Why? Well we have all heard the saying, “the money is in the list” and it’s very true.

Sit back and think about this for a minute… if a person clicks on your affiliate link in your Craigslist ad and then doesn't buy the product, you have most likely lost them forever and you make no money off them.

However, if that same person were to opt-in to your list in before they see the sales page or product you get to email them over and over. You could email them weekly or even daily. Make sure you provide some good information so they will stay on your list, but you can recommend affiliate products to them every once in a while. This drastically increases your chances of making money from your Craigslist ad and it might not be just one sale. If someone buys a product you recommend and is satisfied, there is a strong chance they will buy from you again.

Building a list using Craigslist is a great way to build a long-term income stream for your business. After a while you can post far fewer ads yet still be making more and more money off of all the people already on your list. It’s a pretty sweet deal if you ask me!

One great way to profit from your list while making it even easier on yourself is to pre-load an e-course into an autoresponder so when they opt-in to your list the messages automatically go out to them at set intervals. That way you don’t have to remember to email them or take the time to manually do the emailing.

Make sure each message in the series provides valuable information that your readers would be interested in and can actually use. But you can also put an affiliate link to a recommended product in each message. This is a very good way to build a strong relationship with your list because you are providing them with a valuable e-course for free. And it’s a great way to make affiliate profits. Everyone wins!