Being Quick On Your Feet
One thing you MUST be as an affiliate marketer is quick on your feet. What this really applies to is CPL campaigns, the campaigns that pay a fixed amount of money for someone to either submit their email or zip, or for someone to create an account. The reason you need to be quick thinking is because these campaigns often come and go all the time.
I had one campaign that I had been running at Commission Junction (CJ), and most currently the Google Affiliate Network (GAN), and it was doing pretty decent for me. I was making $100 a week with it, with about 10 minutes of promotion a week. Well, CJ dropped it, so I had to scramble to find a new campaign to insert in it’s place as the link was still getting traffic. I filled it with one campaign that made me about $30 in 3 weeks, until I finally found GAN and got the original campaign going.
I got an email a few days ago saying my leads were not making money, so they cut my commission down by 80%. I quickly emailed back stating that there was no way I was going to continue to promote this campaign for 80% the cost that I was getting before. I also stated that I find it hard to believe that you can tell that leads are profitable in as little as 5 days. Se la vie. I quickly found another offer to drop in it’s place, and it even looks to be making more than $100 a week.
See the point here. Like when eBay dropped me, they gave me 7 days, so I needed to quickly think about what I was going to do to replace the content on my sites. When your affiliate company drops one of your campaigns, you need to be able to adapt and find a new campaign for it’s place. That is why I like to apply for as many affiliate companies as I can.
