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How to Promote Email/Zip Submits in 20 Minutes

Posted on February 5, 2010 by EricNo Comments

If you don’t know, an email or a zip submit is a CPA affiliate offer that requires the lead to enter in either their email or their zip code. Once the prospect enters that information, you get paid. These offers usually don’t pay a lot, but you can expect to get anywhere from $0.80 – $3.00 for these offers.

There are a ton of different ways of promoting zip or email submits. I want to share one that I have had success with, and it also doesn’t take long to setup. First up, you need to be a part of an affiliate network. My favorite right now is Peerfly.

That part will probably take you longer than 20 minutes, but once you’re setup with an affiliate network, then you want to pick your offer. Peerfly has a ton of zip/email submits on offer and you can pick out about 10 to promote. The key with email and zip submits is to promote a bunch and see which ones convert. They will not all convert, and out of 10 campaigns, you’ll probably only run into 1 or 2 that are really profitable.

Once you have your offers, you need some traffic. CPV traffic is really hot right now because it’s really easy to get started, and you don’t need to worry about quality score or having your own site. CPV traffic will create a popup over the browser of an internet surfer showing your ad. You don’t need to worry about click through rates, or anything else. You just bid on keywords or URLs and you get the traffic.

You can get some CPV traffic really quick by heading over to Direct CPV. When you sign up you need to call them to be approved, and then you can start getting traffic right away. Plus, you’re usually only spending around $0.01 per view of your ad!

Direct CPV traffic can be targeted in three different ways.

First, by category. This targeting is pretty broad and I don’t really recommend it because you don’t have full control.

Second by keywords. This targeting will show your ad when a lead views a website that has the keywords you select. It is best to combine this targeting with the third option.

URL targeting. This is the most exact type of targeting offered by Direct CPV. It allows you to target specific URLs. Just imagine, someone goes to the checkout section of WalMart’s website, when your ad for a $1000 free gift card pops up. Who wouldn’t want to sign up for just their email?

Remember, always test test test. And then, test some more. You will have some campaigns that don’t work… MANY campaigns that don’t work, but after a while you’ll get the hang of things and figure out what works and what doesn’t.