Do you think I will ever send you another referral?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\nThe answers aren’t that hard to figure out.<\/p>\n
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Here’s another “funny” incident. Another buddy was generating $1,000 to $1,500 per day off a particular rebill offer. In the last couple of weeks his earnings have dropped to $100-$200 per day. He probably shouldn’t have been relying on this one campaign for 90% of his income. So now with a family he’s got to tighten his belt quite tightly.<\/p>\n
If anything he’s boosted his marketing budget, optimized his landing pages, added more pop-ups, just everything short of throwing the kitchen sink at the campaign.<\/p>\n
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Yet another story. An AM I’ve known for about 2 years and talk with regularly was pulling offer sheets, bumping payouts for me last week and asking if I’d be at ASE because it’d be a good chance to meet up. I get an email that she’s decided to go back to school and I have a new AM assigned. “Go back to school”? Is that affiliate marketing code for something else?<\/p>\n
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In short, I think CPA marketing is exciting because you get a bunch of curveballs thrown at you every which way. Being able to adapt to changes is part of the game.<\/p>\n
At the same time, if you’re not setting up your own business or offers and shifting some of the control back to yourself, some of the changes can hurt. A lot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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