What you need:
1. An Aweber account.
2. An email address(es) that can be forwarded (preferably ones from your CPanel).
3. An account at a CPA site like Neverblue or Affiliateer.
4. A working Craigslist account.
The system:
What you are going to be doing is advertising CPA offers on Craigslist in the “free” section or other related sections. These have to be offers like: Free Ipod, Free Wii, Free telephone, Free flatscreen, etc. (you can find tons of these on your CPA site).
Here’s how to do it:
1. Set up an email address for EACH offer. Name the email address whatever the offer is. For example, if you are going to give away a free Ipod, call it freeipod@whatever*com
2. Set up a list in Aweber for each offer. You’ll need to write 1 follow up email, and this is where you will deliver your link to the CPA offer. The process will be totally automated. Now, on your confirm email, make sure you title it something like: “Confirm your request for a free Wii”, or whatever your product is that you are “giving away”.
3. Forward the email address to the Aweber list. It will look something like this: yourlistname@aweber*com.
4. Set up your Craigslist ad. Do NOT put any links in the ad. Put your email address instead. I usually really make it look realistic. I’ll say something like, “I have a Wii that I am giving away for free. It will probably go fast, so please respond to this email as soon as you can.”
Keep it short and sweet.
What happens is when they send an email to the address, it will forward to your Aweber account and automatically send out the confirmation email. When they click the confirm link, it will trigger your follow up email, and that one will contain your CPA link to get the “free wii”.
Now, you CAN just put your link in the confirmation email, but I like to send them a follow up to soften them up a little and explain a little how they can get the free wii. Also, you can use this email to promote other products or offers you may have as well.
You will have to set up a web page to send them to when they confirm. I think Aweber calls it the “success page”. This can just be a simple blank page with some black text telling them to go back and check their email right away foer their free wii information.
I have been getting about a 50% confirmation rate on some of the offers, and of those people that confirm, about 10% are actually filling out the offer.
So, the stats will look like this for you.
Let’s say 100 people respond (I’ve had ads where 170 or 180 people responded on the first day).
About 50 of them will confirm, and of that, you’ll get 5 or 6 to actually fill out the offer. Let’s say the lead pays $2. You just made $10 -$12 for doing basically nothing.
Now, if you put the ad in every day and in multiple categories, you’ll make more.
Let’s say you’ve got 5 offers going at $10 per day. That’s $350 per week. AND you are also building a list to market more COPA offers later.
I’ve just started doing this, and I only have 2 offers going.
I’ve been making about $15-$20 per day from it with just one ad for each.
Is this black hat? some would definitely say yes. I say it’s borderline.
I’m pretty sure that it’s safe with the CPA company, as long as they allow email marketing for the offer.
It’s not safe in the regard that most CPA offers have to be marketed to an existing list already that you have to run a suppression file against, and you aren’t doing that in this case.
