OK, forget everything you know about affiliate marketing. The tactics of the past few years just don’t work anymore. And if you don’t change your tactics, you cannot survive.

You’ve been duped

Unfortunately, you’ve been led to believe affiliate marketing is easy. This is partially true. It’s far easier that developing, selling and supporting your own product. But that doesn’t mean it’s easy.

The cold hard truth

The worst part is that the information you’ve received is all wrong. You’re told to pick one of more products to promote. Next to look for easy keywords to target. Then to use these keywords to buy ads promoting the product. And sit back and collect the profits. But, it’s all wrong.

Don’t bother with keywords

This method worked a couple years ago. But keywords are too expensive now. So, throw it all away.

A better way

All is not lost. Here’s a new method that works!

• Do CPA marketing instead of product promotion
• Do demographics research
• Use image ads

Get into CPA marketing

CPA means Cost Per Action. It’s so much easier than promoting products. Because you don’t have to get people to spend money. You get paid when they take an “action”. Like completing a survey. And it’s much easier to get them to do that.

Do demographics research

Keywords are no longer relevant (you’ll see in a minute). So spend your time doing demographics research. Once you’ve picked the CPA offer to promote. Then go to a site like Quantcast.com. And discover the exact demographics of your ideal prospect.

Do image ad marketing

Now you have your offer and your demographics. Display networks allow you to target demographics with your ads. And let images do the work. And you don’t need to know or buy a single keyword. The biggest advantage is price. Keyword ads are expensive, but image ads are still cheap.

Summary

This is powerful method to make money online. Because it’s free to get started in CPA. It’s much cheaper to do image ads than keyword ads. You can laser target with demographics. And getting them to take an action is much easier than making a sale.