Well it has been a while since I have written about something you can actually use and make money with. I been mainly just complaining and blabbing about lessons learned. Don’t get me wrong, i believe everything I have told you so far has needed to be said. Not only for you own good, but also for me personally because its important for me to have the reminder.

     Something I found to work and actually make a little cash with are gateways. For those of you who don’t know what gateways are I’ll tell you. A gateway is basically a form of CPA advertising that floats over website content. In order to view the content on the page, you must fill out a CPA lead. Once this has been completed then the user is allowed to view the content behind the gateway.

     I signed up to CPALead.com a few months ago, but really didn’t mess with it too much. When I did mess with it, I honestly didn’t use it correctly. The funny thing about all that is that I knew how to use it correctly, I just didn’t realize I had the right tools to make it profitable to me. The important thing to remember when you use a gateway type of ad is to put it over content that the users want to see. Quality content is key. I first tried to put it over “sexy” videos, but this turned out to be pointless because you can go anywhere for those kinds of videos. People don’t want to sit there and waste their time by filling out a survey to watch a 2 minute video. When that failed for me I kind of put the gateway thing off to the side and went with other ideas. I totally forgot that I owned a website with original content that got about 500 views a day. I was the only person with this content and If they didn’t fill out my lead then they would not be able to use the content I provide for them. This is a key factor in my recent success. Now I am not telling you that I’m now making good money, but I am telling you that if you have a website with quality content then you might want to check this form of advertising out. I was actually pretty happy with the conversions I have been seeing over the last couple days and am currently looking for more ways to take advantage of this.

     I read some stuff online and they did give a method that kind of ran with this same idea. Personally I am not going to run it myself, but I am going to try to expand on it somehow. Basically you make a WordPress website with the theme of TV shows. You want to find embed codes of television shows that are popular at the current time. Try to send some traffic to it via link exchange, SEO, or paid traffic. Hopefully you can get enough quality traffic that wouldn’t mind filling out CPA leads in order to view different TV shows on your website. Put the gateway over your websites content and hope for the best. Its a fairly simple method and may or may not work. I suggest you get good quality shows and update daily. The more legit it seems then the better conversion you will receive. This form of advertising depends completely on quality content. If you can find a way to get quality contnet then you will make a killing with gateways.

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     Okay, so i think I am ready to write my first entry about CPA marketing. I am picking this particular topic because it’s recent to me and I think that others will benefit from knowing about this company. I am talking about AdvantageCPA. This is my 3rd company that I have joined for affiliate marketing, but the first company that has actually tried to make me money rather than shove meaningless leads down my throat with no guidance. So, far I have been off on and with some of my methods in some months. One month ill make 65 bucks and the next I will make 5 bucks. This is to be expected since I am just starting. What I have Liked about AdvantageCPA is that I have been given some building blocks to start promising campaigns that can earn money in time. My Account Manager, Brandon Hall, has to be the calmest person I have ever met. I really don’t know how he has put up with me and my non stop IMs on AIM. I think he handles it so well due to the fact he ignores most of them, but he’s busy. ONLY KIDDING, I know he will be reading this and that would get his blood going a little bit. Truth is that I talk to the guy daily and have recently started to have webcam conferences with him via Skype. I suggest noobs, like me, to join AdvantageCPA for the sole purpose of learning. They know that if you make money then so do they. This is nice because they teach you and give you advice. Bigger companies don’t take the time, and why would they when they have to kiss up to the 5k a day CPA Pros.

     This world of Affiliate Marketing can be dirty. People don’t share and if they do they don’t tell the whole story in order to satisfy but keep their money making secrets. Trust is a hard thing to come by and that is really the main reason why I am writing about AdvantageCPA today. A few weeks ago I decided I would go to BlackHatWorld.com Forums and tell people about my experience with AdvantageCPA. Within the first day I had 19 people sign up to this Affiliate Company. Brandon saw what I wrote to members and how I responded to questions about the company. Since Brandon and I have been talking for a while he knew that I played Madden on X-Box 360. As a present for doing a good job and saying nice things about the company without being put up to do it, he sent me the NEW Madden 10 video game. I think this is pretty cool because he didn’t have to send me anything and I could have just been happy with my 4% per month referral percentage FOR LIFE. This type of thing builds trust and truly makes me want to make more money.