Mike Schenden is one of the owners @ CPA Prosperity Inc. Mike and his wife have been married for 3.5 years and live in north Georgia. He has been in the internet marketing industry for over 9 years. He started out in the adult industry with blogs, TGP’s , MPG, and etc. He then moved from the adult industry to the CPA Industry about 7 years ago. Ever since he built his first Blog he has not looked back and continues to build his business portfolio daily.

Q – Tell us a little background info about yourself. Where are you from? How long have you been working in this industry?

A- I’m one of the owners @ CPA Prosperity Inc. I’ve been in the internet marketing industry for over 9 years. I started out in the adult industry with blogs, TGP’s , MPG, and etc. After that I moved from the adult industry to the CPA Industry about 7 years ago. Ever since I built my first Blog I never  looked back and continued to build my business portfolio daily.

Q – What made you to join this industry and leave the offline world?

A - I have always been really into computers, website, and well technology in general. I really owe my internet success to a retail store that I was an assistant manager for and that went out of business. I dabbling in the net space while working there but really didn’t have the time with school and work. However, when they went out of business it gave me the extra time to really start up my internet empire. If it hadn’t of been for that company going out of business I probably never would have had the time to learn and try new ideas online.

Q - What are your great accomplishments so far you are proud of ?

A- Man this is a tough one! I have so many things I am proud of… If I have to choose one I would say just the ability to beat all odds and hardships in my life to be at the point in my life now with my family and business portfolio.

Q – What do you think it takes to become a successful affiliate?

A – Endurance! To become a successful affiliate it takes the ability to be able to get hit by every punch in life and be able to take it and keep on your feet. I couldn’t tell you how many times I have wanted to give up just because my site wasn’t converting or no traffic was coming in but I kept on fighting and finally won a round then won the next round and so on. You have to be able to keep going and trying new things until something works.

Q – At what age you made your first Affiliate Income and what was your age at that time?

A – My first Affiliate Commission was when I was 15. It was when I got my first conversion from a dating site. Man that was a damn good day!

Q- As an Affiliate what are your favourite traffic sources ?

A – As an affiliate I have tried several traffic sources and I would say my favorite has to be social media.

Q – What was your biggest failure which frustrated you?

A – Spending Tens of THOUSANDS on a website thinking I came up with the biggest and best master plan to rule the internet world and once it launched it completely flopped! All I can do about it now is laugh at how GREEN I was then.

Q – Tell us a bit more about CPA Prosperity and what makes CPA Prosperity different from other networks around?

A – CPA Prosperity is truly a network that is run by publishers. The partners who started CPA Prosperity were all very successful publishers. They all have experience being a publisher for a minimum of 6 years. They are so many networks who cater to their advertisers. While CPA Prosperity also cares about their advertisers they also favor their publishers more due to their “publisher” mind set from their past experiences. We know how it feels not to have a manager pay attention to you because you’re new. We know how it feels when your manager doesn’t give you their full attention just because you are not their top 5 publishers. Since we truly know how all this feels we make sure that all of our team members put our publishers at the top no matter what their experience is or what their monthly revenue is.

Q – How many offers does your network has and what are some of the Best offers you have and are converting like crazy ?

A – At CPA Prosperity we do not strive ourselves to get as many offers as we can. We see it as what’s the point of putting the lowest converting offer on the network? It’s a waste of your time and money if you try the lowest converting when we know what converts the best already. So what we do is we get the top converting offers for each vertical. This way you know when you come to our network that any offer you pick up its going to convert well for you. Right now the best vertical in our network is Health and Mobile.

Q – If you have to recommend something to a new Affiliate then what resources you will recommend to him?

A – http://cpaprosperity.com and the reason why is because where else are you going to find 1 on 1 coaching for FREE?!?! If you are a publisher of CPA Prosperity every day you can get 1 on 1 coaching from any of our managers since all of our managers have their own expertise in the industry.

Q – What do you do when you get tired by working? What are your hobbies or interests ?

A - Honestly… Affiliate Marketing! When I am tired of working… I switch gears and start playing with my own campaigns. There is nothing more fun than watching stats! Now if I didn’t have internet (which that day better not happen lol) I love cars! I love everything about them from driving them to building them.

Q – What have you been up to recently? What projects are you working on?

A – My most recent projects consist of expanding my business success not just online but offline too. I have focusing on making sure I diversify myself in business or making sure I don’t put all my eggs in one basket.

Q – Is there anything else you would like to tell us which you feel to share with the Industry? 

A – Some things I have saw in the past few years with the FTC really cracking down on some ideas and marketing ideas is that several people let the FTC beat them up and get them down and they end up folding on this industry and giving up. Do not give up! My pockets among many others were effected by some of the FTC new rules and regulations and yes at times I wanted to give up and move onto something else but instead I rolled with the punches and adapted. Please stay with it dont let the FTC beat you down learn to adapt and come out bigger and stronger!

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Thanks Mike for your time and sharing so much precious knowledge and experience with us! We wish CPA Prosperity to grow and hope you achieve success throughout your life

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Affposts is a new blog post aggregator website created by Luke Kling. Affposts is a website where you can find fresh and new contents on top of the website which is updated frequently. AffPosts contains lots of famous blogs and websites which will serve you with new and informational posts.

Reasons why you should consider Affposts:

• You get Fresh and New contents on Top of the website.
• You don’t need to open every blog/website to check what new posts they made. Just visit AffPosts and scroll down to see whats New on every blog/website
• The website’s look is very simple and easy to understand!
• and lots more..

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Affposts allows you to subscribe to their newsletter which is like subscribing to normal email lists. You simply fill your name and email and you’re done!  The best thing about the newsletter of Affposts is you dont get 20 emails a day!

Affposts will simply send you 1 email a day which will contain top/new posts. Receiving affposts newsletter is like reading newspaper

I’d like to Thank Luke from the bottom of my heart for creating such a wonderful website! I strongly recommend my visitors to Visit Affposts as well as to Subscribe to its newsletters

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Are you no more making as much you used to make few days back ?

ARE you getting ROBBED?

ALERT! Maybe the “SCRUB” is behind it!

So What is SCRUB and Why you should care/know about it ?

Basically a SCRUB means: When an advertiser take’s your info and compare it with his existing database, If the leads you’re giving him  is already in their database, then the advertiser won’t give you credit for that lead. You don’t get paid for that particular lead because advertiser already has that person/email in his database.

What you read above was a fair thing done by advertisers. BUT.. Its not the END!

Sometimes Advertisers scrub your leads without any specific reason!

Shocking eh? Yes, It’s true!

Many Advertisers will scrub your leads because they love money so much that they dont feel like giving it away! Some Advertisers will tell you some sort of fairy tale making you look like you did all the Cr@p to them and you are responsible for that and lot more…..

How you can protect yourself from this?

Well, Honestly till now I have not found any concrete method to save myself from the “SCRUB”. Tho, You can do a few basic things to protect yourself:

• Always split test your offers
• Maintain good relationship with your manager so that If you smell something suspicious you can talk with him/her and sometimes your manager will himself give you hints that you are being robbed
• If you get $10 for an offer from “X” network and the same offer you see on “Y” network for $15 then there are high chances that you’ll see scrub because Advertiser will maintain their budget by scrubbing your leads. So, If you see 10 conversions on “X” network then you will probably see 3-4 Conversions on “Y” network!
• FINALLY! If you feel like you are being scrubbed without any proper REASON!… Then its time to MOVE ON!

Alissa Crusher is a young and dynamic entrepreneur, striving forward in the internet marketing industry with a true vision and passion. Her impressive work ethics are unmatched, and she has launched several successful CPA campaigns in a very short period of time. Currently, she looks over the business development operations at Fivestar CPA. Along with that she also plays the role of being an advertiser, and is looking forward to share some of her experiences with the masses

Tell us a little background info about yourself. Where are you from? How long have you been working in this industry?

Hey Sam, thanks for the warm welcome. My name is Alissa, I am originally from Chicago,  I have been involved in the industry for 3 years now. I had a normal job but didn’t exactly “fit” in it, I always wanted something of my own, such as freedom of choice, freedom of decision making, etc. I was tired of people having enormous control over my financial life. I knew there was something better out there and I was determined to find it, no matter how long it took. I started on ebay selling my own household products. While this was happening, I quickly began to run out of things that I had to sell. I began looking for alternatives, and came across the word, “affiliate marketing”. Shortly after, I signed up for affiliate networks, and began the journey of promoting others’ products. After much trial and error, and making a bit of profit online I was hooked onto the game. I knew making profit was possible, and at that stage, all I had to do was scale things up, and that was the most critical part. I had done almost every kind of work online, and after going thru a lot of methods that didn’t fit my interest, I had finally come across what suited me the best, CPA marketing.

What made you to join this industry and leave the offline world?

Some distinct experiences in my life had made me decide that I was not going to be a someone’s employee. If there’s anything, it would be me creating employment for others. My soul always craves for freedom. I like the flexibility to work within my own interests, and during my own hours.  Choosing my own direction lets me integrate passion into all my projects, and it is the passion towards discovering new things that had brought me into this industry.

Additionally, it was also the leverage and potential that I saw in the industry, that inspired me to continue forward.

What are your great accomplishments so far you are proud of ?

Running my first profitable campaign was the greatest achievement that I am proud of. To me, achievements are like milestones ; There’s one after another until I reach the end destination/goal. Broadly speaking, some of the other achievements include, focusing my profitable campaigns, niche wise, and then scaling up, rather than working with every imaginable vertical, until I see success. I believe that my passion towards the work I perform, will aid me in achieving future accomplishments.

What do you think it takes to become a  successful affiliate?

An affiliate has a chance to become successful when he/she proceeds with passion, determination and persistence. Whether it is the passion towards the money or persistence towards making a campaign successful, having the ‘right mindset’ is a bonus. Personally, I had the passion to discover new methods and try them out until I have reached certain limitations, and on top of that, I usually test a campaign with persistence until it is profitable.  Most of the affiliates drop out during this stage. An example that I would like to share would be, my partner and I were running a dating campaign on fb, targeting similar demographics. We couldn’t break even for the first few days, I think for about 3 days, we lost quite a bit in the PPC costs, and then my buddy automatically quit it, but I had continued to optimize it constantly and wanted to see how it would turn out. Even after optimizing, the 4th day wasn’t profitable, but I was close, and from 5th day onwards, it was a game changer. So i’d definitely recommend persistence towards the project.

On a side note, I’d also like to share a quote, “Action takers are the money makers.” It is the courage to take action that sets you apart from the rest of the online marketers that are lacking to take action.

As an Affiliate what are your favorite traffic sources?

Some of my favorite traffic sources include Pinterest, twitter and facebook.

Latelty, Pinterest has been one of the best converters for me. I know there are a few people who will disagree, and I am ok with that. I haven’t had any overnight success with pinterest. At first, I was targeting my markets just like everyone else did, and the results weren’t that great at all. Rather than trying to artificialize my promotional tactics, I started to keep things more natural. Most of the pinterest’s audience are women, and since I am one of them, I felt more ‘connected’ to my audience and started off by promoting beauty products.

My pins have gone viral, bringing in a huge amount of targeted traffic. I haven’t had much success with the email submits or dating offers though, and I believe the reason for that is they look quite too spammy.

Speaking of which, twitter wasn’t a great performer for email submits either. Facebook was the best, that had accommodated dating and email submits. To this day, I still run profitable dating campaigns with facebook.

As a side note, I would also like to mention that I am going to try both tumblr and POF for dating campaigns and I will update the readers of this blog with my results.

What was your biggest failure which frustrated you?

I don’t consider anything failing except for not trying.  I look at each result as a learning experience, to do better. I have had a number of frustrating instances where my profitable campaigns would dry up and I would regret not running more campaigns while the others were profitable. A distinct example would be, once I was running a few dating campaigns that were profitable, and during this time,

rather than doing some research on scaling up or running new campaigns, I had just wasted a little time in not really doing anything. Result? Those dating campaigns dried up, and I was back to square one. I learned from my mistake and realized the sort of frustration it had caused, and since then, I always tried to diversify in my promotional tactics.

If you have to recommend something to a new Affiliate then what resources you will recommend to him?

New affiliates – Stop searching for that “magic bullet” that doesn’t exist. Gone, are the days when anyone could rehash some garbage to make it profitable. I’d recommend obtaining some start up cash to fund the campaigns. Don’t buy into the ‘get rich quick’ bullshit that’s been sold across the internet. Offering services on Fiverr is a good place to start to obtain some funds. Similarly, combination of CPA and youtube is also a pretty good spot, as there is much room to leverage your creativity. Reading affiliate blogs and forums and taking action is a must. Don’t get me wrong on this, reading is very important, but falling into the “info over load” is a disaster. I’ve been there and it isn’t the best place to be. In such cases, you’re better off taking a little break from the online world, perhaps a couple days off, and then going back into the game with action.

What are your goals and where you want to see yourself in next 6 months ?

Short term goals : Take a peaceful vacation with my bf, getting my dream car the Chevy Chevelle SS.

Long term goals : Leverage my advertising campaigns to achieve the maximum performance.

I spend a large portion of each day online, so sometimes it’s nice to step away from everything for much better thought process and clarity. In 6 months, I would certainly be gaining a lot of experience in new areas of online marketing, as well as would be networking with more great people. I am also moving more towards being an advertiser in email submits vertical, so I believe such projects will result in a great ROI

What do you do when you get tired by working? What are your hobbies or interests ?

I love my job and my life, most of my interests are internet related, I enjoy playing video games (xbox specifically), and watching movies with friends.  I have so much fun doing what I do, that I would have trouble ever calling it work.

I also love the creative aspects of my job, such as brainstorming ideas in JVs. I have graphic design skills, and always strive to improve them.

What have you been up to recently? What projects are you working on?

I am working as an advertiser for some of my email submit campaigns. We have our own geo targeted offer wall built-in that is optimized to offer the best EPCs for the networks/affiliates running our offers. Additionally, I also work with offline clients and help them adapt to the emerging mobile industry. As an individual, I run a few inhouse fb campaigns. For the future, I am looking to get my feet wet in the PPV markets. I have done it a little in the past, but it wasn’t anything major.

Is there anything else you would like to tell our readers?

Thanks to everyone for taking their time, and showing interest in me and my recent success. I’d recommend viewers to follow sam’s tips, as well as check out a brilliant forum – emillionforum.com.

Sam shares a lot of valuable knowledge which would otherwise be not available for free. I appreciate his efforts, and additionally, please do check out affbuzz.com for latest news from industry leaders.

Wishing everyone a great Success,

Building a responsive 5000 list can be done within 90 days, if you know what you are doing. List building is all about specializing in a niche that has a big market need and using your marketing skills to represent immense value.

The lead generation methods that I’m about to share with you, you can do every day for about 2 to 3 hours. I know that most people online are not full time yet and have limited time available. That’s all good, as long as you are willing to work 100% during the time you are sitting in front of your computer.

Let’s have a look at what those lead generation strategies are..

FREE WSOs:

Free Warrior Special Offers (a product you can market at WarriorForum.com) is one of the best ways to generate targeted and hungry leads!

If you are not a member of the Warrior Forum yet, simple sign up for an account NOW. Start participating in threads that are relevant to your product, and you do that by sharing your advice with others.

All you really need to do here is to come up with a special report, providing solutions to a niche targeted problem. Simple put together a report that has immense value, a report that people would pay you money to read.

The purpose of a free WSO is to redirect people to your squeeze page from the Warrior Forum to capture their email address. Once the lead has entered his email address, you will follow up with an autoresponder, sending him the download link to his free gift.

This is incredible effect and a really good and solid way to build consistent leads.

General Forum Marketing:

Here you simple register at a targeted forum for your product/services and simple start contributing useful and incentive threads. Become active on one or more forums to share your knowledge with others and by doing so sooner than later you will be acknowledged as an expert, leading to other people clicking on your signature link.

As for many other online marketing techniques, forum marketing is all about driving targeted traffic to your offers. The best way to do this is by having a great perspective on what you do, having a great amount of marketing skills, and by offering a product that has immense value in the eyes of your potential customer.

Article Marketing:

Article marketing is still a very effective way to drive high targeted traffic to your squeeze page. The number one article directory on the internet is Ezine articles.

Article marketing is a free method that you can use and can bring you significant traffic within days. To be an effective author at Ezine article English should be your first language, if not then you could outsource your article to a native writer.

Write articles that provide up to date information and make readers click on your signature. As for any other method, you want people to click on your signature to generate traffic to your website.

PPC:

PPC stands for pay per click and can be done on major search engines such as Google or Yahoo. Basically, you start running advertisement campaigns on a search engine and every time your ad shows up for a certain keyword and the searcher clicks on your ad, he will be directed to your website.

This is a very effective way to drive traffic to your squeeze page, if you know what you are doing. You can literally drive thousands and thousands of targeted visitors to your website overnight.

The downside of PPC is that it does take some money to start and it does take some time to learn the business model.

Facebook:

As you probably know, Facebook is the number one social media website and has massive amount of users. While quite a decent amount of those users is just here to connect with friends, many people are also here to look for information on making money online.

The strategy here is to build a solid relationship with people who have invested interest in your niche market. You can find those people through pages/groups or you can connect with them through friend recommendations.

If you know what you are doing with social media, Facebook is a wonderful way to create wealth.

Ad Swaps:

Ad swaps is known as the process where you advertise another marketer’s offer to your list, and in return the other marketer will advertise your offer to his list. This is a win-win situation if you do it with the right person.

Just make sure that you don’t swap lists with other list builders every day. This might lead to having a 10,000 after 30 days, but it will also lead to your list getting cold.

If you ad swap once a month with the right people who can prove to have a responsive list, it can be a wonderful way to add new leads to your list.

JV Giveaways:

That’s one of the better ways to create more targeted leads for your business. Here you are simple looking for finding online marketing events that allow you to contribute free gifts, meaning reports or Ebooks.

Simple do a Google search on JV giveaways and fine some upcoming events that allow you to contribute free reports. As usually, the leads will receive your free report on your squeeze page via opt in.

As you can see, there are many ways to generate an immense amount of targeted leads. The most important thing is that you simple get started with at least one method today to start growing your list in the infinity!

Oliver Kenyon Also Known as “K” has recently launched an awesome newbie guide for New CPA Marketers who are getting started into the industry!

I’ve reviewed this guide inside out and all I can say is WOW!  The Newbie 411 Guide is a no fluff, no BS Guide which lays out step-by-step strategies on how to make money with CPA.

Below are Few points why you should consider reading newbie 411:

•  Learn Effective Methods & Strategies That Have Been Tested & Proven
•  Learn How To Properly Setup CPA Marketing Campaigns Correctly
•  No Stone Left Unturned (Everything Is Covered!)
• Over 70 Pages of Valuable Content
•  Infograph Blueprints
•  Step By Step Walk-Throughs
• And Loads Of Things You Cant Even Think Of!

This is a very detailed and informative book. Gives you a plenty of new directions and aspects to think of. The guide is well written in a concise and clear language.  The simplest methods have been outlined in such a manner that even the newest of newbies can follow it without difficulty.

This is something K could have easily charged $$$$ but He is giving it away for FREE!!!

Don’t miss this chance and grab your copy of Newbie 411 quickly, Before K changes his mind

Shadi Halloun is a known player in the internet marketing world, specializing in viral marketing. Shadi’s been doing internet marketing full time since he was 16 (now 20), despite his young age, he has already driven millions of visitors to his tens websites making thousands of dollars.

Lets say, You want to promote an Panasonic LCD TV related offer. In URL forwarding what we do is, Get a domain name like: freepanasoniclcdtv.com or getpanasonictvfree.com or anything related to the offer and then link/forward  that URL to your CPA offer.

So, When someone visit’s the domain he gets redirected to your CPA offers. As simple as that!

Strategy sounds too good and easy right ? Keep in mind, Not every yellowish shining thing can be gold …

Let me tell you the plus points as well as the minus points about this strategy.

Plus Points:

• Easy To Rank in Search Engines
• Visitors trust easily because they see a BRAND’s name included in domain
• Very easy to setup and get started
• Less investment required. Just get the domain and you’re ready to go!

Minus Points:

• Many times, Not allowed by CPA networks!
• A network can even BAN you for using this strategy!
• You may get in trouble because of using a Registered company name.
• You won’t be able to use Google Adwords for promoting the domain name!
• In a way you’re fooling others ( You Kno what We’re talking about )
• The domain name can be de-indexed by google for breaking T&C’s of companies!
• and many more…..

Do you see ? Very less advantages and many disadvantages.. The thing is, Its a clever strategy for sure but not a right path to move on!

But in case you plan to use this strategy then definitely consult with your Affiliate Manager and tell him/her your strategy honestly and ask for their opinion!

Below are few points you must keep in mind:

• A website is not an important part for getting approved into any CPA network.
• Many CPA networks don’t look after your website. They look after How you can promote offers,etc..
• Many networks allow newbies tho, if you have experience then that’s a PLUS!
• If you don’t have experience then don’t hide it! Tell them you’re NEW but you’ve got plans and all.
• Make your AM your friend and ask him to keep you updated with latest offers, Top Converting one’s,etc..
• Never lie anything in your application like you have 5+ Years of exp, You are a master of traffic generation,etc..
• Never send fraud traffic to your offers. You’ll get BANNED!!
• Dont ask your friends all over the world to complete offers If that particular offer doesn’t allows incent!

These were few points you must keep in mind !

Remember not to break any CPA network rule because if you do so you can harm yourself in big time

Keep making money and prosper

Top CPA marketers are making truck loads of cash from CPA as well as many regular marketers are making money from CPA, But they all are not using it to the FULLEST !

YOU! Yes YOU are not milking every drop of cash from the offers you’re promoting!

Shocked huh? You might be thinking what are you talking about Sam ? Are you drunk or something?

I’m making money from CPA and How can I now Make it to fullest and milk all the money ?

Well, Many people are aware of this but never reveal this secret. I’m doing it just FOR you because As A entrepreneur myself I love MONEY as well as Love helping my fellow marketers.

Do you know about PAY-BUMPS? and How to to use this power ?

PAY BUMP is an special treatment given to some special/super affiliates who are doing great money with their Networks. In pay bumps you get an SPECIAL rate for your current offer.

Lets suppose, You are promoting an XXXXX named offer and its current CPL is $1. After bumping its rate you may get $1.10 or $1.20,etc.. Depending on your network!

Now you see how much money you’ve been leaving on the table ?

If you make $1000 a week from $1/lead offer then after getting a little bump of $0.10 you’ll make $1100 next week.. Extra $100 

How to Get Pay Bump ?

Not everyone can get a bump to their payrates. In order to get a pay bump you must be a good affiliate for your network and should do good money with them!

You must be someone who is actively doing good money and making decent amount of money!

If you think you’ve been making good money with your CPA network then I suggest you Quickly get in touch with your Affiliate Manager and Ask for a BUMP on your top converting offer !