Thread: Day 1: Applying to Various Networks

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Let's start off with some simple preparatory tasks - like registering for accounts, and getting into the right mindset.

But first - a disclaimer:

DISCLAIMER: Affiliate networks, traffic networks, and any other products/services I mention in this or other tutorials on STM, are my personal suggestions ONLY. They are not endorsed by STM. Please use these products/services at your own discretion and risk.




1)First of all, let's sign up to a few affiliate networks that are newbie-friendly, that have offers we can direct-link to without having to prepare landing pages.

I'll also suggest some sample answers for when you're filling out the applications. These suggested answers are based on the assumption that you're completely new to paid traffic and affiliate marketing. If you already have some experience, then please fill-in accurate and truthful information that reflect your actual experience level.





-Go to https://app.zeydoo.com/signUp. Fill out your contact information and click "Next".

-For the next set of questions, here are sample answers if you have zero experience running campaigns:



-Click "Sign Up" when done.

-You should receive an email from them in seconds. Click on the verification link within.

-You'll be asked to set up your password.

-After setting up your password, your account will be in pending status. You may see a chatbox popup that asks for more information about your experience and traffic sources, how long you've been in affiliate marketing, whether you have a PropellerAds account, etc. Here you can reply in the chat to increase your chances of getting accepted. Introduce yourself and talk about your aspirations and goals for affiliate marketing. Treat this like a job interview - convince the network that if they accept you and spend time working with you, that their efforts won't be in vain.

Spend some time crafting your message. Zeydoo has lots of great offers - they'd be worth your time.

-Zeydoo should reach out in the next days either via chat or email. They may ask you additional questions, and then they would either approve or reject you.

Please POLITELY inquire about the status of your application, and be patient in waiting for a response. AMs are busy people – most of them are taking care of affiliates practically 24/7 except when they’re sleeping. So be understanding and don’t hound them.

-Ask your AM for a list of their best offers that can convert on pop traffic WITHOUT using a pre-lander (i.e. offers that can convert when linked to directly), that have low payouts of below $1, preferably even below $0.50. Also ask them to share a list of top geos and mobile carriers for each offer - at the time I'm writing this they have offers that accept traffic from multiple geos, so we'd want to narrow down the number of geos to choose from. They may give you a link to an image like this:



Or they may just give you a list of geos and carriers in chat. Don't forget to ask them to approve the recommended offers for you!

-Lastly: In the Zeydoo interface, go to the Finance in the left menu > Billing settings and complete your billing information so you can get paid later. In the process, you will likely need to provide some sort of personal documents to confirm your identity.





-Go to http://publisher.haka.mobi/signup. Fill out the form asking for contact info and click "Submit".

-You should receive an email from them in seconds. Click on the verification link within.

-You'll be asked to set up your password. When you finish doing so you'll be directed to the affiliate dashboard.

-Click on "Offers" in the left sidebar menu. You should see the message "Your account is now pending approval! Before we approve you offers we would like to know a bit more about your traffic. Please fill in this and your account will be approved shortly." Click on the "form" button and you'll land on a google form. Fill that out. Below are suggested answers to some of the questions:

Q: Please select best which describes yourself
A: Affiliate Individual

Q: Years of Experience in Affiliate Marketing
A: Newbie (0-5 months)

Q:What traffic sources do you run with?
A: PropellerAds

Q: Top Verticals currently running
A: CPA VAS / Click 2 SMS
(This is actually what you want to start running with them. If you're currently already running campaigns and your vertical is listed, by all means choose that instead.)

Q: What are your combined affiliate revenues across networks per month?
A: 0-5k

Q: How did you hear about us ?
A: STM

When done, click "Submit".

-Haka should reach out either by email or by skype. They may ask you additional questions, and then they would either approve or reject you.

If you don’t hear back in, say, a week, you can contact Shivang via skype: shivang-gude

Again, please be polite when inquiring about the status of your application - I've covered this above in the Zeydoo section.

-Ask your AM for a list of their best click2sms offers. Also ask them to share a list of top geos and mobile carriers - at the time I'm writing this they have offers that accept traffic from all geos, so we'd want to narrow down the number of geos to choose from. They may give you a link to a spreadsheet like this:



Or they may just give you a list of geos and carriers in chat. Don't forget to ask them to approve the recommended offers for you!

-Also ask your AM to set up your payment method with you so you can get paid later.





Some of you may have gone through the $1 Guide and already have an account with Mobipium - in which case you can skip this section.

Go to https://affiliates.mobipium.com/signup?origin=stm40day

(This is NOT an affiliate link. Mobipium just wants to track clicks so they’d know I’ve sent you.)

-Fill out the form.

For “Activity” choose “Media Buyer”.

For “Traffic” choose “Both”.

For “Vertical” choose “Carrier Billing”.

The rest of the fields are self-explanatory. When done click "SIGN UP".

-You should receive an email shortly, that has a confirmation link in it. Click on this link to verify your email.

-You should then receive an email with additional questions. Simply reply to the email with your answers.

Below are suggested answers to some of those questions. If they ask any other questions (because these questions can change), just answer honestly. They're friendly to newbies - just let them know you're following this tutorial so won't be bothering them with a ton of newbie questions.

Q: Do you do your own Media Buying? Or do you work with Affiliates?
A: I’m doing my own media buying.

Q: What kind of verticals are you interested in?
A: I’m following STM's 40-day tutorial, where I'll be running your carrier-billing offers to start.

Q: Which are your TOP GEOs in terms of volume?
A: I’ll be buying pop traffic from PropellerAds to start. I can run any geo where you have offers that convert well.

(By the way - for convenience, affiliates and networks like to use 2-letter country codes instead of typing out entire country names. You can find them here:

https://www.worldatlas.com/aatlas/ctycodes.htm)

-Give Mobipium some time to get back to you. If for some reason you didn’t get an email containing an AM’s contact information, here are some Mobipium AMs you can contact on skype – again, please be polite and patient in waiting for a response:

Flor Savasi: live:flor.savasi

Guillermo Lorenzi: guillermo.lorenzi

Manuel Perez: live:mperezmazzini

-Ask your AM for a list of the "best 1-click carrier-billing offers from tier 3 and 4 geos, with payouts below $1, that allow pop traffic", and ask them to approve these offers for you.

-Also ask your AM to set up your payment method with you so you can get paid later.


(I may add more traffic networks in this section soon - please check back later.)



2)Sign up for accounts on several pop traffic networks. These are places we'll be buying the visitors, aka "paid traffic", from.




-Go to PropellerAds.

-Click on "Sign Up" at the top, and choose to sign up as an "Advertiser". When signing up for any traffic network, we need to sign up as an "Advertiser" and not a "Publisher". However, when signing up with affiliate networks, we need to sign up as a "Publisher" and not "Advertiser". Confusing, but two sides of the same coin.

-First page is just some personal contact information - only fields marked with stars (*) are mandatory. The rest are optional. When finished click "Next" to see more questions.

-Here are suggested answers to some of the questions:

Q: Please describe your business model
A: I am an affiliate and want to promote products from CPA networks or direct advertisers

Q: What other traffic sources and CPA networks do you currently work with?
A: PopAds, Haka Mobile, Mobipium

Q: What advertising formats are you planning to use?
A: OnClick (Popunder)

Q: What verticals and market niches do you currently work with?
A: Mobile content

Q: Comments, e.g., goals of your advertising campaigns, your website, etc.?
A: Run pop traffic to legit mainstream CPA offers from affiliate networks such as Haka Mobile and Mobipium. I'm following the 40-day pop tutorial on STM.

-Accept the terms and conditions and click on "Sign up".

-Find the confirmation email from them and click on the link to activate your account.





-Go to PopAds. Click on "SIGN-UP".

-Most of the fields are self-explanatory. For "Account Type" select "Advertiser". Fill everything out, accept the terms, and click "Register".

-You'll receive an email from them - click on the confirmation link to activate your account.


(I may add more traffic networks in this section soon - please check back later.)





3)Lastly: If you haven't already, explore how this forum works by clicking into the various forum sections and subsections to check them out. Also read this post on how to contact STM if (God forbid) you ever get locked out of the forums (and save this information somewhere!)



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EXPLANATION

1)In this tutorial, we'll be running popunder/popover traffic - referred to as Pop Traffic in general - to CPA or cost-per-action offers.

If you're not familiar with what pop ads are, just go to any torrent site and click around until a full-page ad appears out of nowhere to take over your screen. Some of the most popular pop ads are push notification subscriptions ("[website.com] would like to use your Notifications" with the "Allow" and "Block" buttons), antivirus ("you have x viruses on your machine - subscribe to our service / install our software to protect your machine now!", and sweeps ("congratulations - you've won an iphone 11!")

These CPA offers can be obtained from affiliate networks. We can pop the offer page in the ad directly. Or we can pop a presell page (aka landing page) in the ad, and if the visitor clicks on a link on that page they'd be redirected to the offer page, where if they choose to sign up for the offer, we'll get paid a commission.

Pop is the cheapest form of traffic you can buy, which makes it a good traffic type to learn the basics of media buying - such as tracking, landing pages, testing, and campaign optimization.

Pop traffic is also the easiest to run, because there are fewer variables to test. No banners are involved, and there's minimal audience targeting. You either just send visitors to the offer page, or send them to a presell page first and then the offer page. Nice and simple.


2)The affiliate networks you've applied to above will try to contact you! Keep an eye on your email and chat messengers, and pick up on phone calls - basically monitor all the different methods of contact you've left on the application forms.

3)Some of the networks may want to have a chat with you before deciding on approving your account. Just be honest about your experience level - all the networks above are newbie-friendly.

Main things to remember are:

-Be professional,

-Make it clear that you'll do your best to succeed and that you're not just dabbling,

-Let them know you're a member of STM and following this tutorial, and that you can get help from this forum when you need to, and that 4)you'll abide by their terms of service.

The top concerns of affiliate network reps are:

-They want to know that their time spent with you will result in profits,

-They don't have to do a lot of hand-holding, and

-You won't do anything shady to get them into trouble (both with the affiliate network and with the advertisers a.k.a. the offer owners).

4)After you're accepted by an affiliate network, ask your affiliate manager ("AM" for short) for their skype/telegram/whatsapp whatever and add them - if they haven't added you first.

You can also log into your affiliate dashboard after getting approved - on some of the networks you'll find the contact info of your AM there as well.

5)Remember to set up your payment information with your AMs so you can get paid later. It would also be good to ask how often will payment be made, what the payment threshold is (i.e. what amount you need to reach in order to get paid in the next payment cycle), and whether you need to request

6)If your AMs ask you to set up your tracker postback, tell them you'll be doing that soon enough - we'll cover how to do that in the next couple of days.



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READING

Since you're just starting out, I feel it would be important for you to see what is possible in this industry - the motivation and inspiration will help you to set some good expectations for your journey ahead:

https://stmforum.com/forum/showthrea...ume-Affiliates

https://stmforum.com/forum/forumdisp...uccess-Stories
(Read at least 5 stories from this section.)



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And that's it for today. Think that was too easy? Don't worry - we'll get to the harder stuff real soon!



Amy

Originally Posted by jjlundy

It seems there's been enough STM members go thru Haka that they now just drop sms offers in your account before asking if you say you're from STM in your application.

SMS offers are not exclusive to STM members, it's just the conversion flow basically. I guess they have a set of offers that is opened for any new affiliate by default.

But yes, MANY affiliated from STM joined Haka based on the guides and posts here on the forum

Originally Posted by jjlundy

It seems there's been enough STM members go thru Haka that they now just drop sms offers in your account before asking if you say you're from STM in your application.

That's the power of this forum! There's definitely strength in numbers. Always great to see networks and affiliates collaborating effectively to make money together.



Amy

Originally Posted by adhish

Hello Vortex,
Thanks for your Toutorial.
Zeydoo has rejected my account, please suggest alternative.
I am really looking forward to learn and master affiliate marketing

Did you try Mobipium?

If you've applied and it's been a while and they haven't replied yet, please PM me the email you signed up with, and update me here. One network is all you need to go through the tutorial.

Once you have a good idea how to set up tracking links, you can run with any network basically.


Amy