If you have a business opportunity that you want more people to know about and you have already tried posting to your social media then this blog post will introduce you to four of my best traffic sources for business opportunity leads. 

When looking for business opportunity leads, or rather leads of any nature, you should be looking to specific markets that provide those type of leads, because then you will be able to tap into a traffic source that is actually wanting to consider your business opportunity. 

The key to marketing or promoting an opportunity of any kind, is to make sure that you go to a targeted outlet. 

That means, that the outlet is filled with your ideal audience and you know if you invest in that outlet you will get a return on your investment. 

Over the years that I have been promoting several business opportunities, it is these four places that I go to, to find quality business opportunity leads. 

In this blog post I will share with you those four platforms, how to get started with those platforms and how to best use them so you can maximise your chances with getting qualified people to consider your offer. 

Here’s What You Will Learn:

• Udimi Solo Ads and how to find the best vendor for business opportunity leads 
• MLM Leads and how to get the best results from this solo ad provider 
• Herculist and how to get the best results from this safelist provider
• Bing Ads and how to use this search engine to generate business opportunity leads

Udimi Solo Ads And How To Find The Best Vendor For Business Opportunity Leads

What is Udimi? 

Udimi is simply the brand of a solo ad marketplace. 

Ok, so what is a solo ad? A solo ad is simply the term given to an email promotion that you send to the owner of an email list of subscribers. 

That owner may have a very targeted email list of subscribers. For example, their subscribers may be interested in weight loss information, they may be interested in how to make money online, or they may be interested in any niche-related subject. 

The benefit however of using a solo ad to find business opportunity leads, is that the solo ad provider already has a relationship with his email list. 

Therefore he or she is able to communicate your promotion in a way that is more attractive than you would, if you were to send that promotion yourself. 

When you build a relationship with the solo ad vendor, he or she may be able to help you get better conversions on your offer. 

He or she may be able to provide advice on whether your business opportunity offer is good for his email list or whether the offer has already been promoted and has no chance at success.  

When you choose a solo ad vendor to help you attract business opportunity leads, these are some of the things that help vendors pay attention to, to help their clients get the best results that lead into sales. 

Since I have started affiliate marketing and promoting business opportunities, I have turned to the Udimi marketplace to find vendors to help me get sales of my products. 

To get started with a solo ad and generating business opportunity leads, you do need to join Udimi as a buyer and create an account with them.

Once you have joined Udimi by entering your name and email, you will come to your dashboard. 

From your dashboard, Udimi already provides some helpful tips for you to get started. 

But what is important and crucial to you getting the best results, is how you select your vendor. 

So here are some strategies that I use to get a high chance at sales conversions on my business opportunity promotions.

Step 1

Click on the Find Sellers tab from within your Udimi dashboard.

From this tab, you will be able to see a list of all sellers, of any niche on Udimi. However, what you want to filter down to, is business opportunity solo ad providers.

Step 2

Also you want to pay attention to any vendor who has a good profile. To make sure you are selecting some of the top sellers who deliver good results, here’s what I recommend you select when filtering.

Visitors this is the minimum number of visitors that a vendor is able to send to your business opportunity offer within 100 hours. When promoting a business opportunity and if you are testing a new solo ad vendor, I recommend that you send at least 100 visitors to your offer.

Because this is the testing phase you are entering as you “test out” new vendors and how good their email list is, keep your expenditure to a minimum. 

100 visitors is sufficient to understand whether your chosen solo ad vendor has a quality list; whether the subscribers are responsive and most importantly whether you achieve a good opt in rate to your sales funnel and eventually sales. 

It also helps you test how convertible your own business opportunity offer is.

Ratings this figure helps you to understand whether the vendor has positive ratings from other buyers. Ratings isn’t the number one factor that you should consider when selecting a vendor, as vendors with lower ratings also achieve good results. 

But for the sake of having the best chance at your first solo ad, a vendor who has a great positive rating means that they have helped their clients achieve great results and is proof that their email list converts. 

Start within You will know when you want your solo ad promotion to run from. Therefore use this filter to find vendors who are able to start your campaign at your desired time. 

Price In my opinion, this is one of the most important filters that can influence whether you get good or poor results.

Most buyers tend to go for the cheapest cost per click as a way of saving money, but sometimes the cheapest cost per click is not the best option for you. I am always of the view that a high quality email list, attracts a better chance at good results and therefore attracts a premium price. 

So you should start your cost per click at $0.50 and above. Whilst this is not a hard and fast rule, it is up to you to test other prices but try to aim for vendors whose cost per click are $0.50 and above. 

Got Sales Here is another important factor when selecting a vendor. As you invest in solo ads, you want a good return on your investment. So you want to select a vendor that has a “buyer’s list”. 

A buyer’s list is simply an email list that comprise mostly people who have taken out their credit cards and purchased something that the vendor recommended. 

This is the best type of email list. 

Although I am recommending selecting a vendor who has helped their clients get sales, I want you to understand one thing. 

The purpose of a solo ad promotion is not to get sales, but to help you build your email list, so you can build a relationship with your new business opportunity leads. 

When you build a relationship with these business opportunity leads, you have a better chance at converting them later on; so keep this in mind. 

The real return on investment happens on the backend. If you do get sales on the first solo ad run, treat that as a bonus, but do not give up on solo ads if you do not get sales from a first run. 

To determine whether a solo ad is successful, consider the opt in rate you achieve and if you do get sales, then count that as a bonus. 

Niche This is an obvious category. It is basically the niche that you want the vendor to be in. As you are seeking business opportunity leads, then marketing is the best selection you can choose here. 

Once you have filtered your categories, you will be given a list of vendors to choose from. Pay attention to the side bar of the specific vendor, which breaks down their stats.

Step 3

Your research does not end here. You still need to do a bit more leg work before actually selecting a vendor to buy from. 

Click into the vendor you are interested in and look at their profile. Their profile is found under “About The Seller”.

In the above profile I highlighted some keywords that stood out to me. The vendor said that his email list is 100% top tier. This tells me that the traffic that I am likely to get comes from tier one countries, which as an affiliate marketer, I know that tier one countries have more buying power. 

He also says that he provides a 10-20% overdelivery. This means that if you paid for 100 visitors to your offer, he is likely to send 110-120 visitors to your offer. 

This is simply a courtesy that vendors pay to their clients to attract them. By having an overdelivery, you will realise that your cost per click works out cheaper. 

So for example, if you selected a vendor that charged $0.50 per visitor and you ordered 100 visitors but got 120 visitors, then your cost per click works out to be $0.42. 

This vendor also gets 1000+ new subscribers everyday. This is crucial because it means that the email list he provides is fresh. The subscribers probably have not been saturated with the same business opportunity offers as yours and it gives you a higher chance at getting great results. 

Finally he mentions that he has a buyer’s list included. Remember what I said about buyer’s lists? It means that you do have a chance at making sales but do not rely on this to determine whether your solo ad run was successful or not. 

Step 4

Another thing you want to examine about the vendor, is the testimonials provided by other buyers. 

We both know that testimonials act as proof of credibility and trust. This shows that previous sellers have used his service and have been satisfied or not. 

Spend some time reading the vendor’s reviews.

Step 5

Then if you are happy with it, go ahead and select the vendor and place your first order with them.  

When placing your order here are some extra tips to help you: 

• Always send visitors to a sales funnel. Don’t know what a sales funnel is? Click here to read all about sales funnels. 
• Make sure that you have an email marketing sequence set up properly. Click here to read what you can say in your email sequence to generate more sales. Click here to learn how to set up an email list. 
• Test your funnel. Is it working? Opt in to your own funnel. Is the content helpful and encouraging? Have you received your own email in your autoresponder?
• Track everything! Most important. You want to make sure that your vendor has delivered on his promise to send you the number of visitors that you paid for. I recommend that you use the Clickmagick tracking software for your affiliate marketing campaign. Click here to read my review and why it is important to use a tracking software. 

MLM Leads And How To Get The Best Results From This Solo Ad Provider

MLM Leads is a solo ad provider but unlike Udimi, it is not a marketplace. So you will not find more than one vendor here to get your business opportunity leads from. 

Instead MLM Leads is owned by a single marketer whose name is Enrique Garibay. As the name suggests, he sells leads for network marketers but you can get leads for any type of business opportunity or home based business, all based in the US. 

Here are the different types of products that MLM Leads has to offer.

They offer national business opportunity leads, local business opportunity leads, real time business opportunity leads and even female business opportunity leads.

National business opportunity leads

If you have never ran an ad campaign on Google Adwords, then MLM Leads would like to take that effort away from you, so they can do it for you. 

By using their national business opportunity lead product, they will send their targeted web traffic directly to your network marketing sales funnel, making this an option that delivers fresh business opportunity seekers, that has probably never seen your offer before. 

The difference between this option and using Udimi, is that with Udimi you may send a promotion to an email list that has been targeted by so many affiliate marketers. 

MLM Leads with their national business opportunity lead product, is guaranteeing that all leads that are sent to your network marketing funnel, is fresh as they are coming directly from the web and not an email list. 

There is a disadvantage to this, in that the leads have no relationship with MLM Leads so there is no trust built. They are being sent directly from Google traffic campaigns directly to your network marketing funnel, so it is up to you to ensure that your landing page is highly convertible. 

Whilst I can see that this may be a problem, MLM Leads has provided guidance as to what a good funnel should look like; so you can be sure that you have a good chance at success. Click here to also read my sales funnel guide.

Local business opportunity leads 

Local business opportunity leads are for those of you who are seeking leads that are local to you or a certain city. 

I know there are home-based business owners, who prefer a closer connection with their recruits. Maybe they’d like to meet in a local coffee shop and network in person.  

Well this is a service that you can use, to generate business opportunity leads that are local to you. 

It’s also a service that you can recommend to your downline, if you are a network marketer, and not worry about competing with your team. 

On their offer page, it does appear that the leads that you get with this service will come from web traffic, so I am assuming that Enrique creates ad campaigns using pay-per-click services like Google Adwords and submits your network marketing funnel URL so that visitors can see your web page.

Real-time business opportunity leads

This is an interesting concept that MLM Leads provide. They say that real time business opportunity leads are leads who complete their own form. 

They say that the lead completes a form that has the headline “how ordinary people like you are making an extra $1,977 per week, part time.. start a business from home… minimal investment required”

The lead also provides their telephone number and may provide their address, city, zip code and date of birth. 

The reason why this type of lead is of a higher quality, is because as the lead generator, the more information you ask of someone and they provide that information, the more interested they are in receiving more information about your offer. 

If you have your own sales funnel and all you ask for is a name and email address, anyone can complete that form out of curiosity. However if you go on to ask for a name, email address, telephone number, address and date of birth and someone completes all of the above, then there is more interest shown by that person and they actually want to hear from you. 

The real business opportunity leads are provided for national and local areas and can be segmented to female leads as well. 

So you may wish to consider this premium product as opposed to the other above products. 

Without a doubt MLM Leads is a more premium quality business opportunity lead provider, so your chance at converting the leads generated into buyers of your business opportunity product is a good one. 

Not only do they provide business opportunity leads, they also offer consulting services and prospecting training for purchase.

How to get started with MLM Leads

To get started with MLM Leads click here. 

Select the product that you want by navigating to the products tab.

On the product page, this is where you can select the number of visitors you would like to visit your offer. MLM Leads refers to visitors as clicks, so you can select the number of clicks that you want.

I recommend testing MLM Leads as a business opportunity leads’ provider by choosing at least 100 clicks. 

If this is your first time using MLM Leads, do not go overboard and buy their largest package. 100 visitors is sufficient to see if this provider is worth your money for your specific business opportunity offer. 

Select the number of clicks you want, click calculate total then move on over to continue with order.

As a new user of MLM Leads you must create an account.

Once your account has been created enter your billing information and then select the business opportunity that you are promoting. 

If you cannot find your business opportunity offer in the drop down, enter it into the “other” field. 

As you continue towards your payment, enter the URL for your lead capture page if you have selected their web traffic product.

Enter your payment card details, select if you would like to sign up to their autoship program, agree to their terms of service then submit your payment. 

Typically MLM Leads starts delivery of your order within 48-72 hours. So remain patient. 

If you do try this traffic source for your business opportunity leads, let me know what you think of it.

Herculist And How To Get The Best Results From This Safelist Provider

So I’ve provided two of the most premium spots where you can source business opportunity leads from. 

If you’re looking to spend a bit more, Udimi and MLM Leads is where I recommend you go.

This next source is for low budget affiliates who are looking for a more cost-effective option.

I actually stumbled upon Herculist in my early affiliate marketing days. In fact, Herculist was among four other safelist providers, but gave the best results ever.

What is Herculist?

Herculist is a safelist that allows you to send emails to its members. 

Unlike solo ads, the email list subscribers are not your regular subscribers but rather internet marketers like yourself, who have joined with a membership. 

So essentially, if you do use Herculist, you are sending your business opportunity offer to other internet marketers. 

Is this really effective marketing? In my opinion, I do not think so. The reason why I say so, is because if someone is already an affiliate for a business opportunity, how likely are they wanting to join another business opportunity? 

Surely there are those who outgrow their business opportunity and there are others who are looking to join more than one business opportunity. So you may be able to catch some of these users and have some success with Herculist. 

But if you wanted to build a sustainable affiliate marketing business, this is not the best way.  Click here to learn how to build a profitable and sustainable affiliate marketing business.

Herculist is a cheaper traffic source, you can get sales of your offer, but you will need to send a large number of visitors to your offer and the conversion rates of your sales funnel may be lower. 

These are just some key things to pay attention to. 

For example, to send your email promotion to over 22,000 potential buyers costs $24.95 on Herculist. From experience, you may get a less than 10% click through rate to your sales funnel and then a less than 5% opt in rate. 

So if you are tracking your progress with this traffic source, do not be alarmed that your sales funnel has converted so poorly. 

This is the nature of safelist marketing. So let’s break this down for you. 

Supposing your send a promotional email to 22,000 potential buyers and 10% of those people click through to your sales funnel; that means that 2200 have seen your offer. 

Now let’s say that only 1% of those 2200 visitors have opted into your funnel for more information. It means that you would have acquired 22 leads for $24.95 which isn’t bad at all. It only cost you $1.13 per lead.

I just wanted to show you the type of numbers that are likely to happen with Herculist. So once again, do not be alarmed if your conversion numbers “appear” low. 

How to get started with Herculist?

To get started with Herculist, you do need to become a member. 

I recommend that you become either a gold or pro member for $25/year or $15/year respectively to take advantage of their traffic options. 

You may also wish to consider their Herculist solo ad specials if you wish to purchase a one-time package. 

Their log-in ads is also a good option. 

Herculist has many options for the budget conscious affiliate. Hopefully you are able to use it to your benefit.

Bing Ads And How To Use This Search Engine To Generate Business Opportunity Leads

Lastly on my list of places to source business opportunity leads is Bing or Microsoft Ads.

Bing Ads is a search engine ad platform, like Google Adwords, where you can place ads for people searching for specific things. 

This ad platform is not a targeted marketplace like Udimi, MLM Leads or Herculist, but you can make it targeted when you set up ad campaigns targeting business opportunity seekers through the use of keywords. 

For example, business opportunity seekers might look for more information on “how to make money online”, “how to start a home-based business” or “good business opportunity to start” and if you position your ad correctly, with the right ad text, you can generate hundreds of leads into your sales funnel.

In order to use Bing Ads to generate business opportunity leads, there are a few things that you will need to get started. 

Tools you will need:

• A Bing Ads account. You can start your Bing Ads account here and get $100 when you spend $25. 
• A sales funnel builder like LeadPages or you can use Clickfunnels
• An email autoresponder like Aweber or you can use GetResponse
• An ad tracking software like Clickmagick. Read my review of Clickmagick here.
• Any business opportunity offer

There are two strategies you can use to generate business opportunity leads with Bing Ads. 

You can either use an ad to blog post to sales funnel method or you can use an ad to sales funnel method. 

I recommend testing both methods to see which strategy delivers the best results in your ad campaign.

Step 1

Get started by building your sales funnel for your business opportunity offer. If you do not know how to create a sales funnel then I recommend joining the Clickfunnels, one funnel away 30 day challenge, that helps you design the most highly convertible sales funnel. 

Here’s what you get from The One Funnel Away 30 day challenge: 

Week 0 Train your mind so you can shift your belief into one where you think that you can build a profitable funnel.

Week 1 Learn what is a good offer and how to create one. You may have a business opportunity offer already. Learn whether this is a good offer and if not, how to create one yourself.

Week 2 Learn what sales text to include on your funnel so you impress your funnel visitors with the right story to grab their attention and make them want to opt into your funnel.

Week 3 Build the funnel. 

Week 4 Learn how to drive traffic to your sales funnel. But make sure to come back to this blog post where I will show you how to generate business opportunity leads using Bing Ads.

Step 2

Every sales funnel that is selling a product, must have an email follow up sequence. Your follow up sequence is where you will provide valuable content to help convert the business opportunity leads that you generate. 

If you have yet to build your first email list, my blog post will help you do just that. Head on over there and learn how to set up your first email list. 

Also check out my email marketing strategy that will help you create a highly convertible email funnel sequence.

Step 3

Set up tracking for your business opportunity offer using Clickmagick. Read my review of Clickmagick here.

Step 4

Create your ad with Bing and promote your sales funnel.    

Whilst this blog post will not go into the details of setting up a Bing Ads campaign to help you generate business opportunity leads, my free Profit With Affiliate Marketing course teaches you how to dig your own traffic well and how to promote your business opportunity using sales funnels and paid ads.

Plus you will also learn how to create a profitable online business from scratch and get access to over 8 bonuses when you finish the course and join the Super Affiliate masterclass. 

Click here to get access to my free course now.

Wrapping Up

As an affiliate marketer, you need to learn how to dig your own well to find leads for any offer that you want to promote. There are tons of people who are looking for business opportunities on the internet and if you know where to find them, you could have a wildly successful business. 

The key to being successful with promoting business opportunities, is to build a community of people that know, like and trust you. This is the best way to build a sustainable business, that lasts a long time. 

I urge you to commit to creating a strong foundation for your business. You can promote business opportunities or any affiliate offer but one thing remains the same, you will never have long term success, unless you learn how to build a reputable brand and name for yourself and you serve a community of people who trust your guidance. 

I hope my sources help you out as you work on building your community. Let me know in the comments which source has worked best for you. 

If you found my content useful and helpful, I would be super grateful if you would share it with someone who needs to learn this. 

Have a great affiliate marketing journey. 

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I want to focus on the good ones and point you in the right direction from jump, but I’ll also tell you which traffic sources you should avoid like the plague. 

If you are an affiliate marketer like myself, then you should already know that to make money with affiliate marketing you need traffic and a lot of it.

If you are promoting an affiliate product but don’t yet have a strategy to follow then I recommend that you read the following resources to guide you:

• 10 Step Blueprint For A Profitable Affiliate Marketing Campaign
• Clickbank Affiliate Marketing Strategy

If you landed on this page with not a clue of what affiliate marketing is, then here’s a quick tutorial.

Affiliate marketing is basically recommending a third party’s product or service to potential buyers, promoting the purchase of the product or service and in return receiving a commission as the referrer of that buyer.

The process involves four main parties – the affiliate, the affiliate network, the advertiser, and the buyer.

The affiliate is in charge of the basic running and maintenance of a website. He/she is the one who receives the commission once a purchase of the affiliate product is made.

The advertiser pays to post advertisements on the affiliate website. In this way, the advertiser can be the owner of the affiliate product.

The affiliate network hosts the affiliate product and the buyer makes a purchase through a link on the affiliate website generating a commission for the affiliate.

I hope that does not confuse you, but as a beginner, I would strongly recommend that you read this post for a more in depth understanding of affiliate marketing.

Affiliate marketing is an ideal way of promoting a business owner’s product or service because it allows them to gain access to a targeted audience without doing all the hard work.

The affiliate is the one who has to think about the traffic source to promote the product on and find creative ways of advertising the product or service. It therefore becomes cost efficient to the business owner since he/she only pays the affiliate after someone has visited their website and converted into a sale or lead.

Crash course in affiliate marketing over . Let’s move on to the traffic sources that I would highly recommend you use, to promote your affiliate products.

Paid Traffic Sources for Affiliates

There is a long way to generate affiliate sales and conversions and then there is a short way.

Although the short (and fastest) way to generate affiliate conversions is through paid traffic sources, I strongly recommend that you start implementing sustainable affiliate marketing strategies with long term objectives in mind.

Such strategies include starting an affiliate blog or website or building an email list which are two fundamental assets in any online business.

When you start an affiliate blog or website, your focus will be on optimising that blog for the search engines which can take time. This however can help you leverage free and organic traffic which means that you have the potential to earn money from affiliate sales, without exhausting any advertising dollars. 

If however, you prefer to skip the SEO optimisation phase, you can buy traffic from an outside source or traffic network to increase the number of visitors to your website.

As an advertiser, a traffic network can help you market your content on numerous target sites at the same time. The following list of paid traffic networks will help you get started.

Google/Bing Pay-Per-Click (PPC)

Google and Bing are among the top search engines, used by the online audience. Whenever someone is searching for a product, service or general information about a topic, they usually go to Google or Bing as their starting point.

As an affiliate you can tap into the power of these search engines by purchasing leading placements that will give you access to immediate targeted traffic.

For example, if you are promoting a singing course as an affiliate, you can use Google or Bing PPC to target people who are searching for keywords that are relevant to acquiring knowledge through a singing course.

Therefore when you place an advertisement on Google or Bing, and you pay (bid) for your keyword ‘best singing course’, your ad may show up as the top search result on either search engine for someone who is searching for “best singing course”.

When the user clicks on your ad and provided you have set up your campaign correctly, the user will be redirected to the affiliate product’s website. If a purchase is made, you will earn the commission.

When using PPC campaigns, there are a number of factors that you must consider as the affiliate.

• Whether your ad is visible to your target audience is dependent on how much you are willing to pay for your keyword to win the advertiser’s auction. Google and Bing use bids to determine how high your ads appear in the search results, so if your keyword bid is lower amongst other bidders, your ad will not achieve a favourable position in the search results.
• When you use PPC campaigns you only pay if someone clicks on your ad. Therefore pay attention to the ad copy you use in your ad. Make sure that it is relevant to the product or offer to avoid generating wasted clicks that do not lead to purchases. A great hack to qualify a click is to include the price of the product in the ad. This qualifies the user because it means that they have already considered the price before the click and so have a higher intent to purchase the product at the stated price. Below is an example of an affiliate’s ad where he places the price in the ad.

• To ensure that your ad is relevant to your affiliate product and to help you put your ad in front of people who are ready to buy, use buyer-intent keywords. Buyer-intent keywords are keywords that show that the user has a higher probability of buying the product because they are specifically searching for the exact product. For example buyer-intent keywords are “Canon MG3022 Printer” or “JBL Flip 4 Portable Bluetooth Speaker”. Therefore to improve your click-through rates, include as many buyer-intent keywords in your campaigns.

Before you set up your Google or Bing PPC campaign, conduct some market research to identify how other affiliates are designing their landing pages, the type of ad copy they’re using in their ads, the potential keywords that they are including in their campaigns to display their ads.

An important point to remember is that Google and Bing will charge you less and reward you if you come up with smart targeted advertising. Don’t waste time trying to figure it out on your own. Do your research properly to see how the best performing ads are crafted and do not be afraid to model after them.

Watch the video below to see how to do competitor research for your affiliate campaigns.

Facebook/Instagram Ads

Since Facebook and Instagram are two of the most popular social networks, using the ad platform can lead to increased traffic due to more website clicks, conversions, mobile application installations, and video views.

To get these type of results however, you must know how to use the advertising platform properly. Check out my post for more tips and strategies on how I was able to use this traffic source to generate over $10k in affiliate commissions.  

Facebook and Instagram Ads are complimentary products. Even if you don’t have an Instagram account, you can still create an Instagram Ad using your Facebook account – the option is available in the settings.

Furthermore, the platforms allow you to minimise your marketing costs by targeting your ads to the right people.

For example, if you are promoting a popular Woodworking affiliate product from Clickbank using Facebook and Instagram ads, you can target your ads to people who love woodworking, DIY, carpentry.

The targeting options are so defined that any peculiar niche that you’d like to promote a product in, you can find it. 

Keep in mind that Facebook and Instagram are social network sites where people go to hang out and socialise. As an affiliate it is important to understand how to interrupt your audience so that they pay attention to your ad.

As a result, Facebook and Instagram Ads will ensure that your ads reach only those people who are likely to be interested in what you have to offer and take the action that you desire.

They also allow businesses to reach the targeted traffic through innovative methods such as placing the ad in the news feed or on Instagram stories. The advantage of using this strategy is that the ads don’t look like they are out of place. Users are therefore likely to be more receptive and click on the link to your site.

Before I move on, here are a few tips to accelerate your conversions with Facebook and Instagram ads:

• You probably have heard of the $5/day method. This method only works well, when you create multiple adsets at $5/day. It is very important that when using the Facebook/Instagram ad platform that you split test different interests, ad copy, ad creatives and you can only do that with more than one adset. So do not be fooled by marketers who tell you, you only need “$5 per day” for Facebook/Instagram ads. After spending thousands of dollars on the platform I can tell you that this is not true. What they forget to mention is that you should set up multiple adsets, each at $5/day and test the adsets against each other to see which one performs better.
  
• Think outside the box. Sometimes you may target a specific audience, such as women interested in weight loss and drive the traffic to a weight loss product. When running ads I have learnt that sometimes a niche audience may not work and you may have to look outside of that niche audience to find your target audience. For example, instead of targeting weight loss interests, try targeting interests that women in general have an interest in.
  
• Don’t let your opinion influence your decision. Let the data do the talking. It would be helpful if you understood how to analyse your Facebook/Instagram ads so you can optimise them for better conversions. If you do not yet know how to do this then I recommend taking the Social Traffic Blueprint course which teaches you how to leverage this powerful platform to create revenue in your business.
  
  Don’t be discouraged by the price of the course guys! I took that course and immediately implemented the instructions and within a few months I was able to see a 10x return on my investment.

YouTube Ads

Video marketing ads perform better than other forms of marketing, because they generate more emotional cues and help to engage your audience better. Therefore, consider including video as part of your affiliate marketing strategy to generate an increase of traffic to your affiliate campaign.

As the most popular video sharing platform in the internet marketing space, YouTube offers the best marketing option for your business.

YouTube Ads gives you the opportunity to market your business through video searches or viewership. It doesn’t matter whether the person was looking for your video, if you put your item on YouTube ads, it automatically appears before the viewer’s selected video plays. Interestingly, you only pay for the advert after the person shows genuine interest in your video by clicking it.

When creating a YouTube video, remember that it’s about the quality of the visitors and not the number. Traffic advertising works best when you attract those people that are interested in your product and what your business does.

You can include a call-to-action in the video as a way to drive traffic to your site – always tell the viewer what you do and why they need your services. You can also add a sentence or two in the description box to tell the audience more about you. Don’t forget to include your website’s URL so that interested viewers can immediately visit your website after watching the video.

Solo Ads

Do marketers still use solo ads? Actually yes they do . So no, solo ads are not dead.

The great thing about solo ads is that it gives you the opportunity to immediately tap into a warm target market using email.

Solo ads are email-based promotions that you purchase from other email list owners. Once you buy it, you can send dedicated messages about your products and services as emails to your target market.

Solo ads networks like Udimi or MLM Leads may not be available for every niche but there are ways that you can connect with list owners to see if they would give you the opportunity of sending an email offer to their audience.

Here are the steps you can take to find a list owner and send a solo ad. Now whilst this is a long process and may result in very little feedback, those who follow the steps consistently and are willing to dig through the dirt can end up finding the gems.

• Step one. Find an email list owner. These persons are usually blog or website owners who have a lead opt in form for capturing emails for persons who are interested in receiving their content. Before you contact the owner, check to see that content is frequently updated just in case the blog is an abandoned blog. Obviously, choose a blog or website that is closely related to your area of specialisation since the email list subscribers are more likely to understand what you are selling and hopefully buy it.

To find niche blogs use this hack – from Google type “url:blog “keyword”” where “keyword” represents the niche that you want Google to search for.

What this does is ask Google to return all blogs that have the keyword in it. So if I want to find travel blogs to start making a list of blog owners then I would type “url:blog “travel”” and my results would look something like this.

• Step two. Create a list of all the blog owners that you want to connect with. List their email address to contact them or find the way that they prefer to be contacted. Usually the blog will have a Contact Me link. Then call or email the owner of that list to ask for permission to email their subscribers. If you do not get a response, move on to the next. If you do get a response, then great.
  
• Step three. Since solo ad lists are for sale, remember to agree on a purchase method – you can either buy according to the number of people that will receive the email or pay depending on the number of clicks the advertisement receives. In some cases the list owner may already have a price list for email submissions which makes it easier for you to decide whether it is within your budget or not.
  
• Step four. After agreeing on the price and payment method, design an email that describes what your business does in a way that appeals to the receiver of the message. Don’t forget to include a link to your affiliate website. Make sure that you instruct the list owner to send the email as constructed to their list. In some cases, some list owners prefer to write the email so that the tone of the message is similar to what their list is accustomed to. It is a good idea to request to see the email before it is sent.
  
• Step five. I would recommend that before the email is sent that you insert a tracking link to track the performance of the email list. That way if there is any disagreement as to whether the list is engaged, you can always show proof using the tracking software. For tracking I recommend Clickmagick.

Watch the video below to learn how to use Clickmagick and how you can use it, to optimise your affiliate marketing campaigns to save you money.

Solo ad providers create their lists by offering free gifts to those people that are interested in exchanging it for their emails.

You can find a reliable solo ad provider by searching the internet or joining an online solo ad community. My favourite solo ad providers are Udimi and MLM Leads. Both offer solo ad services from various vendors all under one roof.

If you’d like to read a review of the solo ad provider you can read more about Udimi here, and MLM Leads here.

Native Ads

Native ads mimic and resemble the advertising platform that they are on. They feel and operate like the host media platform.

A good example of native advertising is news feeds on social media sites. Others include search and promoted listings that appear on top of your search items and content recommendations, which appear at the end of articles – they start with words like “recommended for you”, “suggested post” or “sponsored content”.

Native ads are created by various meta data elements, for example, a thumbnail image, URL content, headlines, and many more. Therefore, ensure that you create quality content if you want your native ad to be ranked first.

It is strongly recommended that before you pay the publisher to host the ad, do your homework on the specific publisher. You want a publisher with high reader statistics and one that focuses on your target market.

Another thing that you should concentrate on is your relationship with the publisher. Establish a good connection with your publisher so that they can tell you when the content is not working, and how you can improve it.

The response rate for native ads is high because people are more likely to open them since they resemble the content on the website that they are visiting. Many of them are well aware that the content is a native advertisement, but they are not bothered because they feel that it is less intrusive. Others click on it because they see it as part of the editorial content.

Bonus: Snap Chat Ads

Although I have not used this platform before for advertising, I am seeing a lot of noise in the marketplace about the effectiveness of this new advertising space.

Especially for low cost ads, an advertising network like Snapchat can be a winner for you, because not many people have directed their attention to it and it is an untapped traffic source.

In today’s marketing arena, most people focus their attention on Facebook and Instagram because of its super powerful ability to drive massive conversions for marketers. If you find that you are not making a dent with Facebook or Instagram Ads or you’ve exhausted it and want to see what else is out there for you, then have a look at SnapChat ads or Snap Ads as they are referred to, and see how it can help your marketing.

According to Adage, Snap Ads have gone from ungodly to very cheap. It says that compared to Facebook and Instagram, Snap Ads had the lowest ad prices, from $2.95 per thousand impressions whereas Facebook cost $5.12 and Instagram cost $4.20.

At the end of the day, to see whether Snap Ads are worth your investment, test the platform with a low budget and compare it to your marketing efforts used on other platforms.

Snap Ads are worth mentioning because a lot of your audience can be found on SnapChat especially if you are promoting an affiliate offer that is targeted to millennials.

To learn more about SnapChat Ads you can visit their website here.

Conclusion

Affiliate marketing and paid traffic compliment each other.

I seriously would not recommend using free traffic methods if you want to see quick success with affiliate marketing.

Free traffic methods like revenue-sharing traffic sites, Facebook groups and even forum commenting can take up much of your time and produce very little results.

If you have decided to fit paid traffic into your affiliate marketing arsenal, then using one of the above traffic sources would be immensely useful to you but only if you know how to use it properly.

Therefore take the time to invest in some valuable courses before spending your money.

A few courses that I’d like to mention include:

Social Traffic Blueprint for Facebook and Instagram Ads

Sean Bhageri’s YouTube Traffic Master’s Course for YouTube Ads

Brennan Zimmer’s Bing Ads Beginner’s Guide To PPC Course 

If I’ve missed any traffic source that you are using and you’re getting great results, tell me in the comments.

Cheers

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