New Member ( Need Help & Guidance )

[anandbernard]

Hello Everyone
Finally I Made My Mind To join Dojo , I am very much excited to start my Affiliate Journey with Great Forum

Some Quick Questions Before i Take Any Action

• How to Get Approved in Max Bounty and Other Good Affiliate Network
• Which Offer Should i Promote
• Which Traffic Source is Best depending Upon The Offer
• Minimum Budget to Start ?
• All Your Valuable Opinion (Which I should to Take Care Before Launching any Campaign)

Waiting for your valuable suggestion

Thanks and Regards

 

[T J Tutor]

Hello Everyone
Finally I Made My Mind To join Dojo , I am very much excited to start my Affiliate Journey with Great Forum

Welcome to AffiliateFix ad the Dojo @anandbernard , it's great to have you here.

Some Quick Questions Before i Take Any Action

• How to Get Approved in Max Bounty and Other Good Affiliate Network
• Which Offer Should i Promote
• Which Traffic Source is Best depending Upon The Offer
• Minimum Budget to Start ?
• All Your Valuable Opinion (Which I should to Take Care Before Launching any Campaign)

Waiting for your valuable suggestion

Thanks and Regards

1. How to Get Approved in Max Bounty and Other Good Affiliate Network?
   • Getting accepted to top tier networks like MaxBounty will be dependent on your business acumen, ability to communicate well, business and personal background, country of origin, and a number of other specifics.
   • The smartest thing in applying to networks is to be 100% honest, be sure to be ready to take their verification and interview call, and have a game plan for promoting offers ready to explain.
   • Keep in mind that if you are not initially accepted to a top tier network as a Newbie, you will get in at a later date once you have proven to be a marketer running clean and profitable campaigns.
2. Which Offer Should i Promote?
   • This is dependent on the vertical you want to initially master. In the beginning, as a new marketer, you want to master a single niche in a vertical. Select a vertical, drill down to a niche you want to market to, and start reviewing offers that are a good match for the niche.
3. Which Traffic Source is Best depending Upon The Offer?
   • You want to use a second tier traffic source in the beginning. The reason for this is that is much cheaper than top tier traffic sources. You want to master traffic orientation for you offers and you want to do it as inexpensively as possible while you go through your learning curve. You will need to learn how to block bad traffic (partner blocking), orient campaigns for time of day conversion optimization (day parting), develop your contextual and display ad skills, develop your copy and color skills, landing page designs, split testing skills, and very importantly your skills with the tracker you selected to start with. Your tracker may be the most important tool in your war chest. Learn to love it and master it and make it your best friend. This is a data driven business and the data is largely found in your trackers results from the campaigns you run.
4. Minimum Budget to Start?
   • Typically this will be dependent on what type of marketing you will start with. In today's marketing, you want to run campaigns for at least a week at a time to derive enough data about days and times offers convert best. Keep in mind, that as a beginner you may only receive payments from the networks every 30 days, sometimes every 15 days. So you need a reasonable budget to run campaigns for an entire month or a full two weeks. I personally recommend having at least a months worth of paid traffic in the budget.
5. All Your Valuable Opinion (Which I should to Take Care Before Launching any Campaign)
   • Below is the advice I offer to all Newbies for getting started.
   • Everyone has to start somewhere. Be active, ask loads of questions, take action, and be committed. That's how it gets done!
     
     Use this forum as a mentor. It's full of members at every level of experience which makes for many balanced perspectives for a Newbie to learn from. Take the time to read through the forums here and see for yourself that the Newbies achieving success have actually dedicated themselves to success in this industry and reaping the rewards by following the advice of fellow AffiliateFix members, being dedicated to success, putting the time in, and making the necessary investments. You cannot shortcut the learning curve. It goes slower for some and it goes faster for others. Everyone has their own intellectual absorption rates, skill development pace, commitment level, and budgets.
     
     You are a FIX'er now and that means you have the world at your feet with IM. Here are a few suggestions:
     
     Read and learn through extensive reading in this community. Select one vertical. one tracker, and one traffic source. Learn from your fellow members here to master each one of them (a couple of months). Then you can expand and replicate your successes.
     
     As a Newbie, you need to read, study, invest, and implement. Perseverance, dedication, and taking action are the cornerstones of the success you will obtain.
     
     Read
     Read through the various areas of the forum to learn about the types of marketing available for your new business. Make a list of all the types of marketing and take some notes along the way. Then determine which area of marketing with which you will start your journey.
     
     Do this to select an area of marketing to start, as well, do this to select a tracker, a traffic source, and to select a vertical.
     
     Then read up on the affiliate networks and select two to begin with that will serve your needs and the types of offers you would like to promote. Put your application in and they will call you for an interview. Be professional and be prepared to answer some questions about how you will promote offers, do you have a website, are you a Newbie, etc. Please note, if you join the Dojo, we have a thread there that can offer assistance in getting accepted to some of the networks.
     
     Study
     Now that you have selected a basis to begin, read all of the threads in this forum that relate to your initial selections so that you have a rudimentary understanding of their features and benefits.
     
     Invest
     You will require some investment. A VPS server, domains, traffic, landing pages, etc. You will need a budget for daily, weekly, and monthly expenses. This will change over time and you will need to update it often so that you know exactly what your costs and earnings are.
     
     Implement
     This is where it all starts to earn. You must now begin to implement what you have established as your foundation for your business.
     
     Here is some advice and guidance that will help you establish your initial goals:
     
     Make sure you complete the following first.
     
     Every business needs:
     
     1. a plan
     2. a schedule for research, learning, and execution
     3. a budget.
     
     Remember to read through our WIKI and get to know the basics as well as some of the buzz words in the industry.
     
     I also recommend reading the following thread:
     
     As a Newbie, What Stops You From Getting Started
     
     Here is a set of immediate goals:
     
     1. Get a VPS
     2. Select a vertical
     3. Select a tracker
     4. Select a couple of networks and get your approval
     5. Select a traffic source
     6. Create a schedule for researching, learning (training), and working. This is a business, treat it as such!
     7. Create a budget for every expense (daily, weekly, monthly)
     8. Be very active in this forum by researching, asking questions, helping others when you are able.
     
     Remember This! : Nothing has to be perfect before you start. Read & study, but invest and implement at the same time. You cannot learn all of it from reading and studying. A great deal of your learning comes from implementing!
     
     Good Luck!
     
     T J