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[hi1027]

Hello seniors, I'm a newbie in affiliate marketing (actually, I've been doing Brand Bidding for a year now). The problem I'm currently facing is that I don't have access to good offers. I can only spend money and time testing them, but this testing process feels like a waste of both resources. I wonder if you have any suggestions?

Another issue is that I'm not sure whether I should keep running an offer. For example, if an offer only generates one sale per week, but the profit from that one sale covers my costs, should I continue running it? I'm worried that the offer might suddenly take off one day.

 

[T J Tutor]

testing process feels like a waste of both resources

That is as untrue as saying the world is flat!

All of us, no matter if we are a newbie or a super affiliate, we are testing offers, copy, angles, hooks, triggers, landing pages, conversion pages, etc., on a daily basis. You cannot proliferate an affiliate business without testing all of these elements regularly. Anyone can do a set of offer tests in a week. Testing multiple sets of copy, angles, hooks, triggers, landers, etc., to find the winning combination.

I don't have access to good offers

If you don't have reputation for fraud, then the affiliate networks will let you join. There are 107,179 companies that make up the Affiliate Networks industry worldwide. This industry is projected to reach $37.3 billion in 2025, with affiliate marketing spending around $15.7 billion.
If you are trying to convince us that you can't find what you call "good offers" among them then you aren't making the effort! There are literally 10's of thousands of offers out there and you can discuss the highest performing offers of an affiliate network with your affiliate manager. They are always happy to provide a path to your success promoting their offers because when you make money they make money! Of course, they expect you to make a reasonable effort in promoting offers and to do so with skill and a reasonable budget.

From the little information you have provided, I suspect you are just treating your attempt(s) as a casual effort.

Have you researched what seems to be a single offer? Have you researched what combination of copy, angles, hooks, triggers, landers, etc., are currently working for other affiliates?

 

[Graybeard]

I'm a newbie in affiliate marketing (actually, I've been doing Brand Bidding for a year now).

Make that clear to any affiliate network, or affiliate program, and ask if they have any offers that will allow brand bidding --if you want to continue with that.

 

[T J Tutor]

ask if they have any offers that will allow brand bidding

Do any of them ever allow newbies to do that? My experience is they only break towards a very small circle of affiliates for that and those affiliates are typically vetted by the brand to make that happen.

 

[Graybeard]

We allowed our brand name to be used in search engine marketing (SEM) ads, the only restriction is that affiliates couldn't place bids on our trademark names, but if an affiliate wanted to use our trademark name on some other long-tailed *(or generic) keyword bid why would we care? They just had to not use a broad match.

Do any of them ever allow newbies to do that? My experience is they only break towards a very small circle of affiliates for that and those affiliates are typically vetted by the brand to make that happen.

We were an independent company owned affiliate program. This was part of a strategy and added 50% to our revenue over 5 years. PR created better brand awareness in new markets with low, or no, awareness.

The problem for the affiliate was the ROMI factor, the program was revshare only, and there was not a fast ROAS --there was a margin issue.