Monday, January 25, 2010

Getting Accepted To CPA Affiliate Networks

By Tyson Bradshaw

By now you must have knowledge of the fact that you will find too many aspiring affiliate managers out there who're vying for affiliate programs to advertise. Therefore, whenever you look for these offers a very powerful part of this search involves your application to the manager of a CPA internet network.

Make sure to fill all of the criteria mentioned in the form supplied. Just in case there is some space asking for information which is not applicable in your instance, instead of leaving it blank you need to complete in a "N/A". This is part of completing the form. Keeping it blank is keeping your application incomplete. Provide a valid and functional e-mail address or any other contact information that's needed to get a follow up by the manager.

Affiliate managers are very quick in responding to such applications. Consequently, odds are you may receive a telephone call or an email concerning more information the network requires before hiring you. There are lots of people who miss out on this call or ignore the email. If so your potential CPA network will simply go forward to another potential marketer who just like you had applied for the same position, but differs in that they have reacted to the follow up call or email.

Be expert in your approach whenever you deal with the follow up from your manager. They may ask you questions that pertain to additional information regarding your skills in the field, your experience and your ideas. Be certain of what you do at the program to make the maximum possible leads for the affiliate offers of the network. After all that is the reason why the cpa network manager would bother approving you.

Use a website which you own, as opposed to settling for the free ones offered. This makes you look professional, and gives you the added advantage of an exclusive domain name and email address. Use this email address to correspond with all your potential CPA Marketing Networks.

You can use the website to your advantage even before you work as an internet marketer with the cpa network you have signed up with. Post relevant details about your past work, experience, feedback and other such important facts that the cpa network manager would be interested in going through. If you are not sure about the content that you should put up on your website, look into the various web directories out there for the same.

If and when you receive the follow up call, you should have a laptop and a pen at hand so that you can note down anything important such as an address, phone number, date and time of a meeting or an email id. If you have to search for the paper and pen while keeping your potential CPA web network on hold, this might spell doom for your prospect with them. Make sure that there is not too much noise around you while you are on the phone with your cpa network manager.

You will find a lot of affiliates out there searching for exactly what you are, applying to the same places and answering follow ups to the same CPA network managers. Therefore, unless you prove yourself to be on top of everything at the right time and place, then you will lose out on lucrative opportunities.

Although there are obvious restrictions to creating an impression on your potential CPA network, be as confident and eager about the prospect of this job during the follow as you can. Your network manager should believe in the fact that you want this job and that you can handle bringing something different on the table.

Since the follow up emails or calls can be prompt, if you don't receive any feedback from the cpa network to which you had applied a considerable amount of time back, then it is okay to place a call by yourself to them. This by no means makes you look pushy or aggressive. It only shows that you are truly interested in taking the job up.

There's every chance that the network manager will ask you about your plans and ideas of approaching the affiliate market. You should be ready with more than one idea and know what you are talking about to be able to explain briefly yet efficiently what exactly you plan to do for the program so that there are sufficient leads generated and develop of traffic to the website. Make sure you mention that you are going to use direct linking measures so that people have to redirect through your blog in order to be able to reach the network page.

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