Currently, I am in Medellin, Colombia. I am here because I miss traveling and being stagnant has kept my brain stagnant. I believe in traveling and seeing perspective because it helps with life views. Now while I am out here in Medellin, I am reconsolidating my business as there are too many things I am currently doing.
What I love about the internet is you can do and try new things without ever leaving your apartment. It is fairly easy to do once you understand the basics. The thing about trying everything is you don't become amazing at it. Instead of doing it 100%, you tend to do it 10% among 10 different projects.
Here is a video of me on Facebook Live, explaining the move and my mind.
So during the pandemic, I started exploring Print on Demand as my traffic started to dip. Yes, affiliate commissions is a rollercoaster. It was easy, you just create an image, buy some ads, and sell some T-shirts with your design. Easy. It actually was.
Over time I got bored of it, the process was in place it was fairly automated. I did not have to touch my Etsy store. It was making money. Now since everyone was home, everyone started buying t-shirts.
The supply chain started to break, but I held through and it still made money. The cost started to increase and it wasn't fun anymore. I def can expand into something more legit, but I figured how to be successful on Print on Demand and got bored. If I was able to just hand it off to someone then I would be open to it and just take a small cut.
Amazon FBA, one of my favorite ways to get into eCommerce. I even created a post on how to get started with Amazon FBA here. This is fully automated and I don't really touch anything. The problem is the fees, they are getting higher. What used to be a good 25%-33% ROI is now under 20%.
The fact you also have to constantly feed Amazon is another issue because if you do not feed Amazon your score dips and your Buy score also dips.
So this Colombia trip for me is important because it is opening my mind up and trying to map my life out the way I think it should be. I want to end up back in Asia as I feel my 'home' is in Asia, specifically Vietnam. I am going towards what I am good at, my blog, my marketing, and creating online products that I feel passionate about.
Making money online is pretty easy, we have access to information and all we have to do is execute and put a system behind it. With this clean slate, I believe I am better off doing what I enjoy the online creation and strategy. I also want to start building a team or partnerships to my ideas.
This is another concept I may explore, for example instead of my handling my Amazon FBA, someone else can do it and I just get a smaller cut. If someone wants to run the Print on Demand, let's collab and see where it goes. I think segmenting and having teams is important but how to utilize them is a concept I gotta understand more in-depth.
I have had huge teams before VAs and physical teams, but they do tasks instead of creative execution. This is the next step in my growth journey I believe. Hopefully, this post didn't bore you!
The other day I wrote about how to set up a push campaign on PropellarAds. Creating a campaign is just one part of it and then optimizing it by conversions is the next, but what if you can create an audience and optimize the base of ad actions? Similar to how retargeting works, you gather a pool of actionable users and readvertised back to them.
What is Retargeting 101:
97% of people who click on your ad for the first time leave without taking any action, and then they’re lost forever. Unless you can bring them back.
This is where PropellerAds Audience 2.0 comes in. If your clicks or any actionable item happened on your page or ad, you can send them another ad creative. This will allow them to or remind them to take action
Introducing Audiences 2.0: New Retargeting Toolbox. What is this? Audiences 2.0 – a set of tools aimed at helping you create custom audiences and enjoy the most precise targeting you can find at Propeller.
Audience 2.0 basically aims to reach and engage audiences on a personalized level. You get to pick the action of a more specific audience that is well fitted to your campaign needs or demands.
Building an audience isn't that different from what you currently know now. Retargeting is basically building an audience that has taken action whether that be a landing page visit, a click, a download, an optin, etc. PropellerAds Audiences 2.0 works in the same way and I will break them down below.
Quick preview of what is available.
The first is the most basic, Click-based targeting.
This is where users click on the creative, whether this is a push campaign or an interstitial campaign. The end-user finds your ad interesting and decides to click on your ad. No conversions? Find that user again and send them a new creative with a new landing page and to intrigue them into taking an action. That action can be lead gen or a download. It all depends on your campaign.
Engaged visitors is the next option you can use to help retarget users.
This works well with OnClick or Popunder campaigns and will target users who have engaged more than 2 seconds on your lander. This uses PropellerAds Viewability Pixel to determine the engagement with your campaign. If users just bounce off then you can assure yourself those users are not the ones you are looking for.
If they did peak at your campaign, then there might be some interest to show, but the landing page didn't entice them to move forward. Recreating and retargeting these users will allow you a second chance to get them to convert.
Conversion are what matter in this industry.
Creating a pool of users base on conversions is really the goal here, in my opinion. You want ot focus on conversions, then gather data on conversions. Re-populates your audience and sends them a new offer. In the past, I considered this re-marketing because you are marketing to these users again with a different offer.
Since they have already converted on your first offer there is a higher chance of them converting again on a new offer.
Retargeting Pixel, the old method is always the new method. All things mentioned above are ways of creating a specified pool of users based on an action. In essence, they are going to be retargeted. PropellerAds is taking it a bit further to showcase other ways to retarget users base on where the click came from.
In the past, there was never a good way to retarget users from traffic platforms similar to PropellerAds. I personally have used push traffic to create retargeting campaigns with Facebook, Native, and Google. It allowed me to arbitrage clicks to create a lower CPC on the higher tier platforms.
Now, can expand my retargeting with PropellerAds database of users and continue to monetize a cheaper audience than of Facebook or Google.
I have a routine every day to go to the gym. While I am at the gym I prep my day by getting on the treadmill to warm up and then I start to warm up my mind with a podcast. Podcasts help motivate me, set my mood for the day, and just stay informed with the ever-changing life of the internet.
I have decided to share what is currently on my podcast list and why I think they are good to listen to. Before I list them I do have a range from internet marketing to eBay/Amazon to self-improvements. In any case, these are the podcast that completes my thought process.
Here they are in no particular order.
The Tim Ferris Show - This man's podcast is unique as he is always trying to find a shortcut to everything. He wants to make sure he can have the most results in the shortest amount of time. This ranges from work to mental issues to stay in the gym for just 15 minutes. Not only does Tim discusses topics on his own but lately he has had several guests speak and talk about investing, sports, chess, etc. Listen Here
My First Million - I really like this podcast a lot because most of the time it is just talking about ideas and execution. Shaan Purl and the Hustle will even take a business that is already awkward and breakdown how they have executed and why it was great execution. The podcast is a normal conversation style and sometimes it is just one person talking. I enjoy it because it discusses ideas. Listen Here
Affiliate Business Conversations - This is a podcast I host weekly and I try to get into the topic discussion about online marketing and the industry as a whole. We get guests on to discuss the conflicts, offers, traffic strategies and just to shoot the shit about our ever-changing industry. It is very related to what I do as an online marketer. Recently started, so make sure to check us out. Listen Here
The Daily Stoic - Short 2-5 minute excerpt of wisdom. There is a 2000 year philosophy of how to live life daily. A 'passage' is spoken and then explained. These personal ethics are lost in todays' world. It is super helpful to be reminded to be a good human being. It is a great quick reset to understand what to focus on and what to move towards. These are super simple quick listens, a great way to just start your day with a quick positive vibe. Listen Here
Real AF by Andy Frisella - A super motivating real podcast to get your blood pumping and mind opened. If you like the Joe Rogan Show, then this is more up your alley as it has guests talking about business. A lot of the conversations are about what is currently happening with society, trending issues, and hot topics others wouldn't discuss. Andy had a Youtube show called MFCEO, not sure if it turned into a podcast but this is more about society and life. Listen Here
Serious Seller by Helium 10 - First, Helium 10 is software and they do a hell of a job at content marketing. If you are into Amazon FBA then this is a super talented podcast to listen to. It breaks down a lot of the strategies on Amazon FBA and how to get started. Some episodes have guests and most are just talk and chatter about Amazon. This is the only podcast on Amazon that really goes deep into the strategy. Listen Here
There you have it. I do listen and am subscribed to more podcast but these are the ones I tend to look forward to listening at hte gym or early morning. It is the only time I listen to a podcast as it sets the tone for my day.
PropellerAds is an excellent marketing platform for Push, In-Page Push, Popunder, and Interstitial campaigns, but success still very much depends on how you are going to set up your ads and make them irresistible.
To get you started, here is a quick guide and a few helpful tips on how to make successful and profitable push campaigns with PropellerAds.
Before we jump right into creating your campaign, you should first think about what you are going to offer to your market, and it should be something that not even you can say ‘no’ to! Are you giving away prizes and freebies? Huge, jaw-dropping discounts? Limited edition items that people would sorely regret not getting?
Once you have decided and you are fairly certain that your offer is too good to pass, then let’s get on to creating your actual push campaign.
Tip: I use my favorite spy tool, Anstrex, to check out other campaigns and from there, I can easily check out other push ad campaigns that are running on different countries and platforms. You can even view their landers or check out their ad strength or their Alexa rankings.
Just FYI, adult content on PropellerAds is prohibited. Propeller makes sure their publishers and advertisers get the best of quality traffic and content
The way your ads look is a huge and important factor in ensuring the success of your campaigns. While there are other details to consider when making them, such as affiliates and audience activity, trust us when we say that the creative side of your ad is going to be the deciding factor on whether you will make it or break it. It has to look good to be able to catch those few seconds of attention.
The creatives section is where you can input the title and description of your ads, as well as upload the photos that you will be using for the campaign. Remember to create multiple creative IDs and test out different combinations of all your ad ideas. This way, you will be able to know which titles, descriptions, and photos are effectively catching people’s attention and making them click on your push notification.
If you have a lot of creatives you want to use, I suggest that you organize it well or even list it down, if you will. This will substantially help you oversee which combinations are more effective than others or apply minor tweaks to if you have to.
This is a good opportunity to test creatives and optimize your Push campaigns using Smart Rotator. It's a PropellerAds tool that allows you to upload up to 8 creative ad sets in one Push campaign. In other words, you don’t have to create 8 different campaigns.
Just a quick rundown of what you should remember when uploading creatives for push campaigns:
Tip: To avoid ad burnout, refresh your ads at least twice a week. When creating your ads, you can easily utilize Propellers preview to see how your ads will look on desktop and mobile.
The CPM or the cost per impression is something you should carefully consider. You would not want to act like a cheapskate and hold back by bidding too low unless you are aiming for underwhelming results.
At the same time, bidding too high might make you lose more than what you originally bargained for. Weigh the pros and cons, look at your audience activity, and adjust your CPM bit by bit depending on the results you are getting.
If you are still having a hard time setting a bid, do not worry because PropellerAds will show you a recommended and maximum bid you can place that is based on your targeting and your CPA goal.
If you want to launch a CPC campaign, but are unsure of your optimization skills, use the CPA Goal. All you need is just to set the desired conversion price and the tool will optimize the bids and ad zones.
If you prefer to optimize CPC campaigns manually, try Custom Zone Bidding. This PropellerAds feature allows you optimize bids by zones without wasting your time on creating White List campaigns
PropellerAds will let you decide when you want your ads to appear. Do you want them to show up in the mornings, the whole day, or late at night? Do you want them to pop-up during the weekends or every day of the week?
Nevertheless, the best way to decide your ads’ schedule is for you to know your audience and audience activity. You would want to release your ads at the time of day when your targeted people are active and responsive. Still, results may vary and it will take a few runs and tests before you can identify the perfect schedule for publishing your push campaigns.
Finding the right timing isn’t just about time but advertising the ad to the user who were active. This is where you can utilize Audience 2.0 within Propeller.
With it, you can collect custom "by interest" or "by vertical" audiences using your own campaigns. Collect an audience of users who clicked in your sweepstakes campaigns, and use this audience for promoting other sweepstake offers. You'll be surprised by increased CTR & CR.
Essentially you are growing a more active user base which you can re advertise later on
One super important factor is determining the user activity. For example, with low activity you can get as many conversions as with high and medium ones. But you need a proven creative for such results. Due to the huge volume of cheap traffic, the low user activity targeting can bring very good results. You just need to have proven creatives which is why it is important to refresh and test multiple creatives in a campaign.
You might think that the user activity will pave the way for your campaign’s success, but we beg to differ. In fact, while it still affects the performance of your ads, setting the user activity to high will not automatically give you the results that will exceed your expectations. Also, keep in mind that by selecting high user activity, you will also be paying a higher cost.
So what do we recommend? Opt for medium user activity. You can expect more favorable results without having to unnecessarily spend too much at this level, especially if you are just starting and testing out a new campaign. This way, you also have more flexibility to work on different variations of your campaign.
You can’t have everybody on your campaign or else, you’ll lose more than you can earn! So, with that said, we are going to be more specific here with our targeting. In this part, PropellerAds will give you a bunch of options that will allow you to be more in control of your campaigns.
This goes beyond just the time schedule and audience activity because in the Targeting section, you can further segment your target user by location (GEO), platform, types of internet connection, operating system (OS) and versions, devices, ISP, browsers, and even browser language. That seems to be a lot at first but the extra effort of providing these pieces of information can help you make the most out of your budget.
I personally start broad as it is better to cast a wide net and filter out the bad. Collecting data with any type of arbitrage traffic is critical. You find out which browsers are working, which publichs are solid, and even what devices might be converting better.
Narrowing it down even more, maybe you just want to target a capitol or several smaller cities because they resulted in more conversions. This is the power of segmenting and narrowing your audience.
A quick tip is to segment countries, it isn’t good to bundle 1 campaign into for example an english speaking campaign. I personally would do it by country such as UK, USA, CA etc.
The only audience you cannot reach with push campaigns is iOS users. But this problem can be easily solved with In-Page Push traffic.
While In-Page Push notifications look exactly like traditional Push Notifications, this feature provides you with the ability to target more platforms and iOS types. So if you suddenly feel that your push campaign’s audience is too narrow or just running out of juice, you can expand the campaign with this traffic.
The real key to success in making campaigns is non-stop testing. The logic behind it is simple: the more tests you conduct, the more information you are able to gather, and that data will help you better optimize your campaigns!
For instance, when you first created your push campaign, you cannot say for sure which pictures, titles, and descriptions will make for a compelling ad. Furthermore, determining the schedule by which day or time is best to run your ads is also more or less a guessing game at first. But after a series of runs and tests, you will be able to gather enough data to make reliable and accurate decisions that can wield promising results!
There’s no fixed formula for this, just test, test, and test. Take advantage of what the platform has to offer, and optimize until you achieve the best version of your push campaigns.
Learn from PropellerAds channels
You can find a lot of useful insights about running campaigns in the PropellerAds blog, Quick Start Guide, and emails.
It should also be noted that PropellerAds has a benefits program for advertisers - Propeller Priority. The program works to reward repeat customers. Besides, in their Telegram-chat PropellerAds gives out bonuses to the most active members every month. Don’t miss out on these benefits!
Happy Friday and I just want to mentally just post this for the history of this blog.
It has been a crazy week and I thought last week was crazy during this WSB (WallStreetBets) frenzy. If you do not know what is going on, here is a quick video of what is going on. I do hold stocks and crypto but I have not been in the stock TA game at all. I think it is just a place to hold money and let it grow.
More recently, it has been entertaining to watch and a skill I have come to realize I have research and analytics. Though I am not a true technical analysis person, I do watch what is going on the internet. I am always ahead in the affiliate game because I listen, watch, and continuously keep my ear to the ground.
Since starting to learn about the market a bit more and having friends that do this more full time, I have the resource to ask them questions, but this WSB frenzy is literally another level. Not really true market speculation but just to give a FU to the big guys.
Now yesterday, (1/28/2021) $GME and $AMC have been restricted to be traded on the popular trading app Robinhood. I trade on Robinhood because it is easy. I am not an expert in this game, so I just use it to make orders and let it sit. If I was more sophisticated in the trading world maybe I would use a platform like TD Ameritrade or Webull.
This opens doors to my mini project on the financial game. Just like how I created this blog to learn online marketing, I have created a new website to learn stock trading. It isn't done but it is a very unique website I think, as it is a resource that I need myself. In any case, a lot of people are saying Robinhood is crap and people should move away from it. Here are my reason as to why I will not move away and why Robinhood played a huge role in this 'short squeeze'.
First, Robinhood is an app which millennials, moms, grandparents can download from the app store and just buy a stock. It is super simple, it gives you the basic information you need to know and you swipe up and buy a stock. DONE.
Now there are other trading platforms like Webull, which is a competitor to Robinhood. It is also the app that is always mentioned next to Robinhood.
The reason why I do not use Webull is that it has too much information, it is definitely for a person that has upgraded off training wheels and moved on to their hand me down brother bike then onto the BMX.
It is a bit complicated and this is why I like Robinhood, even after the fiasco that has happened.
In marketing the less friction a person has to accomplish the goal you want is a far better experience. This is true when it comes to a website layout, to an app UI, to buying stocks. The less friction you have to generate a lead or a conversion the higher your ROI is, this is why Robinhood is the app of choice for most users.
Here is a simple diagram on what happens with less friction:
This is also why Robinhood had a play in this, as millions of users are using the app and depositing cash and buying fraction shares or buying just 1 stock. What is 1 stock going to do?
Simple, the Reddit WSB thread has over 2million users and 1 stock from each person counts toward their goal and purpose. Easy to execute, easy to buy a stock, easy to create a transaction in the palm of your hands.
Everyone says to leave Robinhood and I know people are going to leave the app, but a lot will end up coming back because of its simplicity. Swipe up, your transaction is done.
When you create your ads, your creative, your ad copy, your landing page, etc - the goal is to get the highest CTR or conversions possible and remove a lot of friction to the end-user. This is why Robinhood wins and why I will probably end up staying. Once I become more of an expert then maybe I will move to thinkorswim or even Webull.
In the end, watching this and slightly participating in this craziness is entertaining. There is NOW a shit load of new users who are interested in trading. Most will probably actively switch to be a trader and do their research, but currently, the goal is to put these hedge funds in prison and bankrupt them.
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Affiliate marketing is a trend that is continuously growing. With that more communities are growing as well. If you have ever read Attila's blog, then you know he came out with a paid forum. I have talked about the 2 popular ones already Afflift vs STM Forum in this post prior.
Today, I am going to talk about Attila's forum, iAmAffiliate. It is a very in-depth hardcore forum into the opposite world of white-hat. If you have read any of Attila's blog posts you know he breaks his strategies down. So much so that his blog post is mostly for the visual reader.
When I went to visit him, we had a discussion about online marketing gurus. Why most don't do what they teach. It is amazing that gurus make most of their income from information that they do not know. A lot of the content is outsourced or licensed. This is why forums are amazing because the owner of the forum is in there helping out and putting himself out there as the expert, helping everyone with their questions.
In the video we recorded we discussed how there are gurus and people that know their shit. There is a difference between these types of people, people who do their strategies vs the ones that read about it and repeat it.
Glad Attila and I have the same perspective of what a guru is.
I bring this topic up because Attila's I am Affiliate forum is a no BS forum. He truly loves the topic of online marketing and media buying. As you can tell in the video we have a passion for it. Attila shows it even more in his forum, just the way he would break down a strategy to his members. You thought his blog post was informative, the forum has great details on how he runs his campaigns and how you should do it.
Gurus just send a PDF then take your money and run. iAmAffiliate is a forum geared towards BH marketing but every aspect in marketing can be used for WH as well, just gotta know when to dial in on the strategy.
Now the forum isn't hardcore BH but there are workarounds to let's say account bans and retargeting. Attila breaks down every part of the fundamentals and then how to revert around it. Most of the content is truly in-depth breakdowns of how to run PayPerCall and FB workarounds.
When you are a member you even get access to all his ebooks, here are just some of them.
As you can see there is already an insane amount of information being provided without even looking through the forum. The ebooks are a great way to be super focused on a topic or strategy, then you can easily dig deep in discussions to get more information out of Attila.
With several topics being discussed, you will find something you are doing or want to start doing. It is important to have a goal in mind because there are a lot of strategies to work within the online marketing space. I tell this to everyone who wants to join any type of forum, people do get lost in the information and just want to do it all then lose at the end.
Here is a quick snapshot of the forum topics and details.
One advantage Attila's forum has is he participates in every thread, even if he just wants to clarify a strategy or go break down a strategy. Attila is involved and will let you know what you are doing wrong. His personal touch makes the forum more robust as being involved in your campaign truly increases the chances of you being more successful.
You just have to make sure you will take action on his process and strategy. Another difference is the posts his own case study within the forum for members. He does post on his blog specific case studies, but there are ones where it is more private and he puts his theories to the test.
Why is this important? ... Strategies and ideas are always changing and it is important to get a new perspective or angle on a topic. Here is one where he does a brand loyalty campaign while doing it legit. He will test his theory and if it is successful you can do the same with your brand or campaigns.
Imagine letting Attila test and fail so you can avoid the mistakes. If Attila does a successful new strategy then you can replicate it and make it work for your own campaigns.
How does Attila Forum truly differs?
You are going to ask this yourself and tell yourself which to join, sure it is natural to ask yourself that especially when spending money on a forum. The main question is how actionable are you, Attila will push you and give you tons of advice. He gives me advice to this day on life and campaigns.
So it is important to note, have you taken action on campaigns before? If yes, then I suggest you join. Is it comparable to the other forums? IDK, they all have their pros and cons. If you enjoy Attila's blog then you will definitely enjoy the forum just because it is rawer with information.
Past 2 months I have been pretty busy with a merge that I am excited about. ADvengers was a way for me to get in contact with everyone during the pandemic and help out, share my experiences with everyone. I know that I am not a great teacher, I am more like a coach. I can help you along the way but not starting if that makes sense.
I was chatting with my brother Akie from Affiliate Business Club, a popular networking event throughout Affiliate World, Meetups, etc. He had the physical network going with his events and just putting people together. I had the online side of things,(ADvengers), I always wanted to get into the info space and share my knowledge but I didn't want to get on the guru level.
After chatting we decided it would be a great synergy to put our 2 platforms together and grow it. I want to show you some aspects we are working on and the goal of ABC. Currently, there are areas of ABC that I wanted to do with ADvengers, but doing everything on your own and managing VAs was tiresome.
Now set up with a proper team, we plan to grow and be the go-to platform for networking and learning. Social Learning is the term I am using for this because you want to be among peers that are hustling just like you.
We have several aspect of Affiliate Business Club that I want to break down for everyone, first is the chat:
Affiliate Business Chat is a real-time chatroom for affiliate marketers. It allows everyone to discuss in real-time what is going on and get immediate feedback on your campaigns. The other great part is if you want to shoot the shit, you can. I wanted a chat where I can just express the Facebook issues, complain about bad offers, just a place to vent, etc.
The chat allows old messages to get deleted, which was important to me because old marketing strategies are never relevant. The chat allows users to interact and get feedback when needed.
A newsletter is what I wanted to do as well, with my writing being so 'not amazing', which is strange since I been writing on my blog forever, it was hard to really get things out. I also consume a lot of marketing news and what I think is important might not be for others since there are levels of information that people read.
Affiliate Business CatchUp is about taking relevant information regarding the online marketing space, affiliate marketing, and tactics sent to your inbox weekly. We know there are other competing newsletters out there and they are good.
They give a general overview of marketing. We want to focus on the industry and traffic, if you are already keeping up with online marketing then the general news is already part of your daily radar. We tend to find information within our chat, Reddit, Twitter, Quora, etc.
The core of it all is our social community. Affiliate Business Club is a place for everyone to network with everyone online. We want to centralize affiliates and online marketers alike. We also want to consolidate users and help each other motivate one another. The purpose of the community is to encourage everyone to be better and do better.
Having a social feed with everyone will allow users to see what we are doing to better ourselves, while also encouraging others to participate and ask if they are stuck as well. We want a community where it is ok to ask and just express yourself.
Now, content is the toughest part of any community. Affiliate Business Courses is a vault with tons of videos, continuous guides, and an 'appsumo' model to other people's courses. While we grow the backend with information people want, we already have over 136 hours of videos from Affiliate Virtual Summit and eCommerce Virtual Summit.
We want to be a library of knowledge, where you can just pick out the information you need as if you are checking out a book in a library. We want to solve the problem of overloaded information. You know your issues, so just check out a book and see if it will help you with your campaigns.
Affiliate Business Club also has a group section similar to Facebook groups. There are 2 differences here, one part allows you to post anything relevant in a group like you probably already do inside Facebook groups, the 2nd part is the discussion threads within the Group. This allows topics to be specific to the group and open a discussion if need be.
Unlike a forum, the discussion can be closed when it becomes inactive or irrelevant. That is one important thing we wanted, to make sure irrelevant information is not being passed around. I believe this is a very unique way to approach a discussion, as I myself see FB groups can be broken and lost. A group with a discussion board makes it more simple to focus on the topic.
Now, we did not eliminate forums, as we stated, but we did adjust it just a bit. Our goal here is to be a focus on what you are running. The current problem with forums is you see an activity feed of information that may not be related to your goals. Since we do have attention issues, we tend to read that interesting headline and try out that strategy, even though it doesn't pertain to our current campaign. This is what we want to avoid.
The discussions in the thread makes the topic hyper focus on just the topic ad hand and nothing else to disturb you from your goals or focus.
I enjoy talking to everyone in the industry, especially if I can learn from them and we can just shoot the shit. Affiliate Business Conversations is just about that. These interviews are more like conversations about the industry while adding knowledge to our chats.
These conversations will be with industry known affiliates, authors, myself, and anyone we think can bring a great conversation to the hectic online marketing industry.
Another part we are working on is Affiliate Business Coupons. These are going to be deals we deemed fit to the direct response and affiliate marketing space. There are a lot of deals out there but we want to focus on the industry and what we think is useful. This way you are not bombarded by other promos such as hosting which should be obvious.
Most of the tools mentioned will be by other affiliates, direct response marketers, who have been in this industry and thought of a better way to manager campaigns, landing pages, etc.
There are a lot more things happening to Affiliate Business Club. We have a point system in which you can exchange for credit to open new courses, exchange for gear, exchange for traffic credit (in the works with ad networks), and just so much more to come.
We also plan to release some basic tools for new users to use and learn from. We want to be the starting point for any online marketer, if they want to upgrade to a bigger tool then so be it, we love watching everyone make their first M.
Make sure to join Affiliate Business Club today. We are in the first stages and we already have a decent size community within our platform. Get access to everything we currently have while we work on the platform and help you connect with more marketers just like you.
Lithuania based affiliate tracking platform has the goal of helping media buyers and affiliate marketers get higher ROI in their campaigns. The platform supports various kinds of data deployment such as SaaS, Cloud, Web, and many more.
Many people applaud RedTrack not just for its high-quality affiliate tracking and analytics platform but also for its top-notch customer support. Aside from the swift response of the team, RedTrack also provides training materials for new customers to help them in the onboarding process.
Here is a quick summary of the things you can do with RedTrack:
Although RedTrack doesn’t share the exact same level of popularity as Binom and Voluum, it does receive a lot of good props from former clients. Let’s take a look at its features to see if it’s really as good as people say it is.
Let get a quick overview of what RedTrack is before we dive into the features.
RedTrack is integrated with FraudScore which is an AI-powered fraud protection platform. With that, you will be protected from bots-induced traffic that reflects as part of your traffic spend.
To avail of this service, you would just need to add an extra fee to your plan. You could also test out this feature in the trial version but know that fraud detection does not automatically foreplay in your account unless you ask customer support prior.
With privacy concerns now being a hot topic because of the Zuck himself. Tracking was solely dependant on cookies. But browsers such as Safari and Firefox are disabling cookies for their consumers. RedTrack evolved fast and now has cookieless tracking.
This makes tracking a bit harder as cookies are like a kid that had too much chocolate chips cookies, you know he was in the chocolate chip cookie jar. Without cookies, RedTrack now uses no reference data to properly track your clicks.
The campaign tracker comes with an instant start. Even without servers, you get fast redirects anywhere in the world. You’ll get your reports in real-time.
RedTrack is integrated with AI technology which will help you gain better ROI. Each click that has been based on past performance will be distributed through data Al-based algorithms and this is what will lead to your maximum ROIs.
This pertains to the use of LP tracking pixels in conducting rotation offers as well as split testing.
Using an AB Test to a complex ruling system, you can boost traffic distribution through smart streams based on custom parameters and presets.
RedTrack lets you group data across several variables that you can easily save. The advantage of using custom dashboards is that you are able to efficiently drill-down reports to find winning combinations of these data.
This platform is equipped with an advanced and powerful infrastructure that will support all of your campaigns with performance indicators across various GEOs.
You can share access to your RedTrack account with the rest of your team. The best part is that you can customize the settings so that you only give them access to certain data.
This feature lets you automatically do the following:
RedTrack is a decent affiliate tracker alternative for BeMob, Voluum, and Binom. While it lets you enjoy a lot of excellent features that you won’t find anywhere else, it requires you to have a willingness to really explore and master RedTrack since most of these awesome features are well-hidden.
Voluum is considered a veteran in the world of affiliate trackers. This belief probably stemmed from the fact that this company was founded by the same person who founded ZeroPark which is a traffic network.
Having stemmed from a company of affiliate networks, it is no wonder that Voluum already knows the ins and outs of affiliate tracking. Right off the bat, Voluum is already aware of the kind of data affiliates often need. This helped it become more in tune with new market trends.
Let’s take a look what you can do with Voluum:
Now, a closer look at the features.
Voluum has 6 multiple data centers that make it one of the fastest affiliate trackers to date. It can simply redirect users to the nearest data center. Since 2015, Voluum’s multiple data centers have ensured people 100% with no click loss while tracking your campaign.
Self-hosted affiliate trackers come with complex setup, security breaches, constant updates, and a lot of other things that can lead to hidden costs.
Since Voluum is cloud-hosted, users can simply focus on scaling and optimizing their campaigns. They don’t have to invest money on various servers which is what usually happens when one uses a self-hosted affiliate tracker.
On top of that, cloud solutions can also be helpful in targeting other locations without the added delay. Delay in loading time can affect your revenue quite negatively.
The more data you have, the more power you have in terms of your marketing capability. Having come from an affiliate network, Voluum is aware of this. Hence, Voluum makes this one of its priorities in providing for its clients.
Each visit, impression, click, or conversion has about 30 data points. With that, you can go specific with your data as much as you need. Proper data analysis can help you improve your ads revenue.
For instance, if you notice that a particular device type is leading you towards lower profit, you can simply deactivate this device type from your traffic sources.
We love Voluum for its advanced capabilities but if you have to learn all the process all on your own, you’d be losing a lot of profit opportunities in the process. This is why Voluum is committed to help you solve any issues or concerns you could possibly have as you utilize their platform.
On top of that, Voluum also has video tutorials and step-by-step guides at your disposal. If you are a newbie, it will surely help you a lot to go through all of their guides.
Let see Voluum setup a campaign on their affiliate tracking system.
Similar to BeMob, Voluum also supports a user-friendly and easy-to-navigate interface. I truly enjoy how to organize they do their naming of a campaign.
Both Voluum and BeMob lets you create separate access accounts for the rest of your team for better collaboration.
On top of that, Voluum also offers a feature that lets you share live reports to all team members regardless of whether they have multi user access to your Voluum account. There are also the white label shared live reports that you can publish on your websites without a tracker watermark.
When you work with single offers, Voluum can provide you with the split testing option. What this means is when you create a single offer and a few split testing samples, your traffic for the single offer can be redirected to the samples so you can access which one can bring you the most profit.
Automizer is one of Voluum's campaign automation modules that helps it expand how most affiliate trackers serve their clients. Automizer makes use of Voluum's full integrations as a way to take control of your campaigns as well as automate the control that it has.
Here are some of the things that you can do with Voluum's Automizer:
Voluum is equipped with known Bot Filtering, Rule-Based IP/UA Bot Blocking, Auto-Detection And Anti-Fraud Details, and Bot Traps that provide your landers with extra lines of defense from ad spy tools.
Voluum is integrated with its parent company which is Zeropark.com. With that, you can easily buy traffic and have seamless integration hassle-free.
Voluum is a complete package for both beginners and advanced affiliate marketers as far as affiliate tracking is concerned. This tool gives you flexibility in how you want to strategize in boosting your ads revenue.
Although Voluum requires you to master some technical aspects of ads management, it’s all good because they provide their clients with all the necessary materials to learn your way through it.
The only drawback of Voluum is its rather pricey rates (prices start at $69 per month)
Out of all the affiliate trackers mentioned in this article, Binom is the only one that is self-hosted. This basically means that you are the one responsible for maintaining and managing your server.
The key difference between Binom and other cloud-hosted affiliate trackers is that this one focuses more on data security.
Super affiliates are scared of their data. We assume other affiliates, networks, ad traffic sources are out there to steal our data. This is the reason why Binom has a platform for you to install on your own server.
But apart from the full control that you often enjoy when using a self-hosted affiliate tracker Binom, there are a couple of challenges that you will encounter along the way such as complex setups and the need for technical expertise.
A beginner may have trouble running the tracker on his own self-hosted VPS server. This is why I created a step by step guide on how to install Binom.
Binom did mention in their company website that they designed their affiliate tracker to be utilized by bonafide pros.
But the question is if it’s worth it. Let’s look into the features of Binom.
Similar to both Voluum and BeMob, Binom also comes with a notification alert feature. But this one gives you the extra flexibility of creating your own triggers. This means you can determine what kind of changes you want to be notified about.
Here are some specific examples of how personalized triggers can work for you:
Even though Binom is an affiliate tracker, it is equipped with a feature that lets you switch landing pages.
For instance, if you were split testing three landers, once a visitor lands on your page, the second time he clicks on it again, he will be delivered to the second landing page instead of the first one that he already saw. The same goes if he clicks the link for the third time.
This feature lets you block access to your landing page if the visitor has no landing page token taken from your campaign URL. This means people won’t be able to just share your campaign with anyone.
Also, if someone tries to open your campaign in a different browser, he won’t be able to see it. This gives you a good line of protection from competitors who are trying to spy on your campaign.
This is most applicable to affiliate marketers who run campaigns for eCommerce COD offers. We know that running COD campaigns can change your approval rate from 40% to 70%. While there is absolutely nothing wrong with these fluctuations, this might lead to issues in tracking.
As traffic keeps coming in and out, spend keeps on increasing. Meanwhile, the conversion time can vary depending on the call center overload.
The great thing about Binom you will be able to set the expected approval percentage on your campaign settings. Once you’ve done that, you can open up the columns for the Expected ROI and Expected Profit.
This is truly unique to Binom, you can create custom conversions based off a lead and a truly converted lead. It allows you the option to also tag clicks with leads that have been rejected, allowing you to decipher the data even more.
One of the newest features of Binom is that you get to change the color of certain campaigns so that you can easily recognize them as they show up in the stats report.
The platform currently supports 12 colors. This is a feature that is most useful for people who tend to run multiple campaigns at the same time.
When a visitor goes to your landing page and then clicks the back button, he will instead be delivered to another landing page offer or a SmartLink system.
This feature is relatively simple but it’s one of my favorites. Each campaign, lander, and offer, is integrated with a notes feature so that marketers can write anything they want about that particular ad.
It lets you keep everything organized as well as help you remember the last updates that you performed for your offers, campaigns, and landers.
Binom lets you create custom events for landing pages. For instance, you can measure the scroll percentage, screen resolution, bit percentage, and time spent on your landing pages. The platform lets you add up to 10 custom events in your landing page.
Creating custom events will help you understand just how engaging your current landing page is. It will also give you a good idea of how users behave as they interact with your landing page.
Binom is a really solid product. It can support most of the features that Voluum has to offer as well as other capabilities that you won’t find on Voluum more so BeMob. It’s quite affordable for such an incredible affiliate tracker. It comes with a 14-day free trial, make sure to use coupon code IANFERNANDO.
The only downside of Binom is that maintaining and managing it can get a bit technical but the customer is really pretty committed to helping new users set up their account.
It’s not that difficult once you have gone through the process. Plus, it's self-hosted which means that you get sole control over the tracker.
Make sure to use Coupon Code: IANFERNANDO at the checkout to receive a massive intro discount. Binom just went through a big update as well that has a ton more features you can see here.
BeMob is an affiliate tracker that lets you optimize your campaigns and filter them with over 15 parameters.
It’s an excellent choice for advertisers and affiliates who like to examine the fields for committing full-time. BeMob lets you use its platform with its free plan (which has a limit of 100,000 events per month).
Most beginners don’t really need 100,000 events per month so this makes it a great platform to start with.
If you want a better overview of the cost, below is the table for BeMob’s pricing:
| Basic | Professional | Business | Enterprise |
| Free | $49/mo | $249/mo | $499/mo |
| 3 months data retention | 6 months data retention | 9 months data retention | 12 months data retention |
| 100,000 events each month | 1,000,000 events per month | 10,000,000 events per month | 30,000,000 events per month |
| $0.16 charge for 1k surpassed in the event limit | $0.025 charge for 1k surpassed in the event limit | $0.013 charge for 1k surpassed in the event limit | $0.01charge for 1k surpassed in the event limit |
What are filters? It allows you to dissect your ad campaign to the most micro of details. The more information you know about 1 click the better decisions you can make with your affiliate campaign.
BeMob lets you filter your campaigns per the following:
Apart from the flexibility in terms of filtering your campaigns, these parameter options also lets you gain all the relevant information you need to optimize your campaign.
People can click off a landing page consciously or subconsciously. The factors for leaving a page are so scattered that one cannot simply identify a landing page as a good or bad one.
The key is to identify which ones will be good for your advertising and which ones need to be tossed out of the window. This process is called landing page rotation.
Manually rotating landing pages can both be taxing and time-consuming. One of the best things about BeMob, it is equipped with automatic landing page rotation rules.
With that, you can just pick out about four or five landing pages, and then BeMob will do the landing page rotation for you. This will enable you to filter out the least profitable ones until you find the perfect one that will best work for you.
This is an AI like technology within BeMob that lets you simplify setting targeting of your advertising campaigns. It can analyze data up to over 2,000 different combinations of campaign parameters. With that, you are able to improve your ROI in a much swifter and convenient pace.
If you want to enjoy this additional service, you just need to upgrade your plan to an additional $25 per month. But this rate is nothing compared to the additional revenue that you will get on your campaigns upon using this tool.
Once you do, there is no need to set it up. Sixth Sense analyzes your campaign automatically every single day.
BeMob lets you use two types of custom domains: the Bemobs tracking domain or a custom tracking domain or your choice, meaning you can add your own domain or use theirs.
If you want to hide your audiences’ referrer data from the affiliate network, you will be able to do so perfectly through the cloaking domain.
Custom tracking domains are useful because it keeps you from getting flagged by traffic networks which usually happens when you use a domain that a lot of people are also using. Using a custom tracking domain lets you break free from potential negative records.
Here is a quick campaign setup in Bemob by Luke from AffLift.
This affiliate tracker is cloud-based. With that, the data changes and is updated in just seconds which saves you a lot of time in terms of analytical tasks. Generate a link and start getting clicks to it.
BeMob is also deemed as one of the easiest and simplest affiliate trackers to use. With that, we mostly recommend this software to affiliate beginners.
Most advertisers lose conversions due to slow loading time. With BeMob, you will be able to load your offers and landing pages instantaneously. The 11 Amazon data centers that BeMob uses around the world, you can rest assured that your links will have high-speed redirecting.
Bot traffic is presented in every traffic source. Even if the ad source is trusted, there is always a chance to receive bot traffic. BeMob can set up filters base on the conditions of the click.
Regardless of whether or not you installed the tracker into your browser, BeMob still protects your data from your competitors. BeMob provides you with known bot filtering and rule-based bot blocking to protect your landers from ad spy tools.
This will allow you to redirect the bot click and even generate a report to the traffic source to get credit back towards your ad account.
BeMob lets you create access accounts for the rest of your affiliate marketing team.
BeMob automatically alerts their clients through email each time changes are made to your campaign database to make sure that you don’t suffer any losses.
BeMob lacks advanced and more technical features that will give affiliate marketers a boost in flexibility. But overall, it is a pretty decent affiliate tracker for beginners. It provides you with most of the basic features the regular marketer needs for traffic ad management.
There are a lot of offers to promote in the world of affiliate marketing. You can start with CPS, the original style of affiliate marketing or you can start with the easiest way, CPA. I want to share with you an offer that is pretty common to start with as a beginner affiliate. Sweepstakes, it is the easiest offers to work with especially when buying really cheap clicks.
First, take a look at my mini-guide on sweepstakes and why I recommend this to new affiliates in the CPA space. It will give you a great breakdown of what sweepstakes are and what to look for.
Simply put it is a chance to win something for free in exchange for data. The consumer enters their details such as name, phone number, and email for a chance to win the initiated prize. It can be a new trendy phone, a gift card to a popular store, or it can be very specific which targets a very specific audience. Most of the time these offers and prizes are general keeping the audience net wide.
Here is a recent example landing page offer:
Now, there are a lot of networks pushing these offers to provide data to vendors. One network which I have been working with for a while now is TopOffers. I have worked with them with their dating offers and right now, they have been paying me a high payout on SOI (Single Optin) Sweepstake offers.
There are differences when it comes to the type of sweepstakes you want to run. SOI, DOI, CC Submit - each offer type has its own payout level as well because it allows the authenticity of the end user. The purpose of these sweepstake offers is to collect data and the more they verify themselves the higher the payout.
I tend to only work with SOI and DOI, I have done CC submit before but I feel better as an affiliate to just push the lead gen rather than a credit verification.
Now, what type of offers are available and in what country.
They are pretty much everywhere, as companies need data. TopOffers has sweepstake offers in every country and I think one of the higher payouts in the industry.
I usually work directly with the advertiser and TopOffers owns most of their sweepstake offers. This means that if there is a country that you want to run which they do not have, they can create an offer for your traffic source.
TopOffers is very intimate with their affiliates, the web portal has affiliate offers to preview but in order to get your link, you will need to talk to your affiliate manager to let them know how you are going to promote it. For example, what landing page, the traffic source, potential conversions, etc.
They want to make sure you are going to be setting up for success. They are even giving new affiliates $1,000 to those that run sweepstake offers till the end of the year. You have to qualify of course and you can find the terms here.
Now I started running a campaign in an English speaking country, now the USA, have a fixed lander based on what I found from spying and launched. My LP CTR is roughly 30% which is really good for a landing page, it is a very simple survey landing page.
The type of landing page is important because you want to make sure they engage and then after that engagement redirect them to the affiliate offer. Here are some results that I got early on after 24 hours on 20$ ad daily spend.
The traffic source is from 2 ad push networks. So after 24 hours, it converted but still in the negative. It will all be auto blocking sources from these networks.
With help from TopOffers, they can recommend me what I need to adjust as they do see pretty much the same data as I do. Which I can bring back to the networks and they can help me turn off specific sources in bulk.
I am going to test out a new landing page that I found the other day, it's a gamified survey. Truly unique, I think it may work well because it has curiosity with high engagement combined. Yes, it might be a bit longer to get to the CTA, but I think it can do well.
While I let that run, make sure to message TopOffers about their high paying Sweepstake offers. It is a high payout for comparable offers that are currently out in the industry.
