Get Rich With Me (GRWM) - Affiliate Marketing Week 1

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Hey Guys,

I am officially inviting you guys to GRWM! Get Rich With Me!

Im on a never ending quest to be RICH! So, Im going to throw some of my efforts into Affiliate Marketing.

So lets see what I did in week 1:
1) Signed up with two affiliate networks
2) Tried and failed ads
3) Watched youtube videos to get inspired
4) Trying a new source of ads

1) Signed up with two affiliate networks.
I need affiliate offers.  So I needed to sign up with an affiliate network. I was referred to MaxBounty and PeerFly.

So I signed up with both of those. Max Bounty was accepted and active within 24 hours. PeerFly was a little bit longer of an application waiting process. But im officially active with them both now.

I started perusing the offers available and decided I would go with "safe" offers and/or offers I think would be easy to convert.

2) Tried and failed ads
Because I have a few e-commerce stores, im familiar with some forms of online advertising. I know that Facebook is really peculiar about ads that have a lot of words, plus they can be a money drain if not properly targeted.  I know that google adwords doesn't allow you to use an url that re-directs. So, I figured I would start off advertising on group boards in Pinterest and Reddit ads.

I added the image to Pinterest. I went back to edit the source url....and I got blocked... I tried this a few times. doh! So, I realized that Pinterest doesn't allow you to add urls that re-direct either.  So the way affiliate marketing would work for Pinterest would be to write a blog article. Post the blog and then hope someone signs up/buys from your blog post.  I didn't want to write blog posts for each of these affiliate offers I was going to work on. I want a quick fast win. I need to KNOW that this works. And that it can work for me.

So, I said ok. I've had success in the past with Reddit Ads for my e-commerce stores. Let me try there. Denied again. They also do not do url redirects.

Ok, I need a traffic source.

3) Watched YouTube videos to get inspired
Am I going about this the wrong way? Will this not work for me? I need some reassurance. I watched a couple of outdated youtube videos from ClickBank Success.  Particularly the one indicating that you can do affiliate marketing without a website.  I knew it had to be possible! I just needed to figure out how.  Do you ever watch a video, and then at the end feel SUPER STUPID... like. the basic gist of this is send traffic to targeted people that are likely to purchase or sign up for an offer. Im trying to make this overly complex.

The video showed how he sent people directly to the affiliate offer (using a redirect url) for PPC (pay per click) ads.  Thats what I want to do!  Yes, I understand the power of niches. I understand the power of building an email list. etc... but I need to know this works first. Before I put the cart in front of the horse. Lets just make some money first.

Ok, so I need a place that I can put banner ads or search ads that will allow my referral link. I came across this article huge list of traffic sources for advertising.  Its an older article, so not all of the companies listed are still in business.

So I needed to research... which of the ones are still active, and which ones have a low minimum deposit for me to get started with.

4) Trying a new source of ads
So, I decided to try out bidvertiser.  They have an offer that I will receive $20 when I initially sign up with them and make a deposit of $50 to get ads started.  If you click on that link, you can get the same deal.

So I've deposited my money and im waiting for my deposit and ads to be verified to get this party started. (Today's Sunday)

So in full transparency, here are the ads i'm working on this week:

I figure I should be able to get some good conversions from these 3 offers (1 other as well).  We will see.

This week:

I am / will

1) wait on approval from Bidvertiser. Make any adjustments to ads as needed.

2) Look into some other ad traffic sources. 

Wish me luck guys! I hope that you will follow along with me on this journey and GRWM so we can be rich together! Tell me in the comments what you are doing / have done in your first week of Affiliate marketing.