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08-24-2016 08:08 PM #1 eternum (Member)
Bests CPL & Sweepstakes Networks (No aggressive interviews) really needed.

Greetings best forum on the net, my name is Artyom a 2 weeks on the business newbie.
I'm loking for those networks because I've had some interviews and nothing yet.
I'm wrong or the interviews are sooo looong and disturbing.

08-24-2016 08:28 PM #2 racket (Member)

I agree some networks are pretty annoying, we have to fight to be accepted into the network for us to make money for them....they should be the ones fighting for affiliates. Oh well, I believe yeahmobi has instant approval if you want to see their offers.

08-24-2016 09:17 PM #3 beckslash (Member)

What do you mean by aggressive interviews? Networks usually ask about your experience, verticals you're interested in, if you're working with other networks, etc. Tell us what you find aggressive about their interview so we can help you out.

What I'm saying next might sound a bit harsh. They run a business. If you feel like you have to fight to get in, you're probably just starting out and feel intimidated by their legit questions (no need to worry). From their perspective they don't know if you're going to make them money or not. You could actually lose them money having to waste time with your questions and not getting them revenue since their affiliate managers get paid to do that. If you have some experience their interviews don't seem aggressive at all.

On the other hand, if you go to a regular job interview they ask you more questions to see if you're qualified. The potential is so much bigger in the IM industry, so is it really that hard to put a little time to go through network's interviews? They ask for very little to be honest. They just want to know that you will at least send some traffic and not waste their time just asking for top offers and not taking any action. If you aren't able to pass their interview that's a very good sign that you don't know the basics....because if you know the basics you can sugar coat (lie) your answers.

Of course you can be a total noob and make money for them. But the probability of that happening is very slim and they better focus their time managing people with more experience where the probability is higher.

Let me give you some examples of questions/answers:

Where did you hear about us?
STM (gets you a big head start mentioning STM)

What vertical are you interested in?
I'm interested in running sweeps (replace with anything, even if you are going to run something else) on mobile in USA and I've read on STM that you are one of the best networks for this.

Are you running this vertical at the moment?
Two options:
Yes, I'm running with another network (mention one if you want) but I want to split test with the offers on your network.
No, but I want to expand into this vertical and I've read on STM that you have some good offers in this vertical.

Are you running any traffic with other networks?
Two options:
Yes, with XX (doesn't matter if you are or not, they can't check)
No, but I have a dedicated budget of $5k to do media buying and make this work.

I hope you get the idea...If you don't and you're having trouble coming up with answers like this, maybe you should learn more and understand better how things work. You don't care about networks' time, but it will save you time and money for sure.

08-24-2016 11:30 PM #4 matuloo (Legendary Moderator)

Quote Originally Posted by beckslash View Post
What do you mean by aggressive interviews? Networks usually ask about your experience, verticals you're interested in, if you're working with other networks, etc. Tell us what you find aggressive about their interview so we can help you out.

What I'm saying next might sound a bit harsh. They run a business. If you feel like you have to fight to get in, you're probably just starting out and feel intimidated by their legit questions (no need to worry). From their perspective they don't know if you're going to make them money or not. You could actually lose them money having to waste time with your questions and not getting them revenue since their affiliate managers get paid to do that. If you have some experience their interviews don't seem aggressive at all.

On the other hand, if you go to a regular job interview they ask you more questions to see if you're qualified. The potential is so much bigger in the IM industry, so is it really that hard to put a little time to go through network's interviews? They ask for very little to be honest. They just want to know that you will at least send some traffic and not waste their time just asking for top offers and not taking any action. If you aren't able to pass their interview that's a very good sign that you don't know the basics....because if you know the basics you can sugar coat (lie) your answers.

Of course you can be a total noob and make money for them. But the probability of that happening is very slim and they better focus their time managing people with more experience where the probability is higher.

Let me give you some examples of questions/answers:

Where did you hear about us?
STM (gets you a big head start mentioning STM)

What vertical are you interested in?
I'm interested in running sweeps (replace with anything, even if you are going to run something else) on mobile in USA and I've read on STM that you are one of the best networks for this.

Are you running this vertical at the moment?
Two options:
Yes, I'm running with another network (mention one if you want) but I want to split test with the offers on your network.
No, but I want to expand into this vertical and I've read on STM that you have some good offers in this vertical.

Are you running any traffic with other networks?
Two options:
Yes, with XX (doesn't matter if you are or not, they can't check)
No, but I have a dedicated budget of $5k to do media buying and make this work.

I hope you get the idea...If you don't and you're having trouble coming up with answers like this, maybe you should learn more and understand better how things work. You don't care about networks' time, but it will save you time and money for sure.
Beckslash is right, the questions they ask are very general and easy to answer to anyone who knows a few things about AM. All the info you need to answer those questions is to be found on this very forum, just take your time and do some reading On top of that, the networks can't really verify if what you say is true, so if you exaggerate a bit when it comes to numbers, they won't know

Here is a guide we have for this exact problem : http://stmforum.com/forum/showthread...-First-Network
And you might face the same one with traffic networks so read this as well : http://stmforum.com/forum/showthread...affic-Networks

Good luck

08-25-2016 07:02 AM #5 gotzha (Member)

Hey Eternum,

I would be more than glad to help you out here. The biggest vertical in our network is definitely sweeps/leadgen. You can add me on skype: gotzha.fabi
You will see that the interviews are nothing to worry about!

Cheers,

Fabi

08-25-2016 09:01 AM #6 rkqls922 (Member)

@Fabi

Added you on skype.

08-25-2016 09:54 AM #7 manu_adefy (Veteran Member)

Quote Originally Posted by racket View Post
I agree some networks are pretty annoying, we have to fight to be accepted into the network for us to make money for them....they should be the ones fighting for affiliates. Oh well, I believe yeahmobi has instant approval if you want to see their offers.
This is certainly not correct. Affiliate networks use resources to provide a service to affiliates. If affiliates cannot cover the cost of those resources, affiliate networks lose money. It's normal for them to choose who they work with. And most networks probably make the most money from 1% or less of their total accounts.

Getting in is easy as long as you show yourself to be professional about it. The threads that matuloo linked tell you everything you need.

08-25-2016 11:08 AM #8 simon_zdm (AMC Alumnus)

I've also found in the past that it can help you feel more at ease if you come up with a list of questions that you want to ask them before you actually talk to them.

i.e Their Payment terms, what platform they use, etc.

08-25-2016 12:30 PM #9 cbrughmans (Member)

Speaking as a network owner, networks make it more and more difficult to get accepted in the network because they want to know who they work with, and more importantly control the traffic and traffic quality that is being send on the network. There are many cheaters and fraudsters out there and accepting their traffic on your campaigns will lead to the campaigns getting paused by the advertiser, which is a huge loss of potential revenues.

As a network, we want to know who you are are, what your experience is with AM, who you work(ed) with and more importantly how you are going to drive traffic to our offers. Our ultimate goal is to deliver high quality traffic to our advertisers, which leads to higher payouts, faster payments, etc. which in turn is good for affiliates. This is impossible to achieve when working with bad traffic quality affiliates.

I would agree that the interviews and the whole approval process are not agressive, but it is becoming more diligent and detail-oriented which is a good thing in my opinion.
No one wants fraud traffic or bad quality traffic so the interviews are aimed at filtering the good vs bad/fraud affiliates.

That doesnt mean you need to be a BIG affiliate (+1K$ a day in revenues) in order to get accepted. We have tons of affiliates that deliver between 50 and 100$ in traffic on a monthly basis from their blog, website, email database or small media buys. As long as you are legid and buy real traffic and want to work with the network together on optimizing the campaign towards Quality, you'll get accepted no matter how much revenue you bring. Of course the more money you make for a network, the more personalized the approach gets. But even the smaller affiliates are welcome and will get paid very fast as well (weekly) if they deliver Good Quality .

08-25-2016 12:58 PM #10 matuloo (Legendary Moderator)

Quote Originally Posted by gotzha View Post
Hey Eternum,

I would be more than glad to help you out here. The biggest vertical in our network is definitely sweeps/leadgen. You can add me on skype: gotzha.fabi
You will see that the interviews are nothing to worry about!

Cheers,

Fabi
Fabi is your man, he was one of my best AM's ever!

08-25-2016 01:24 PM #11 eternum (Member)

Thanks for your time everyone, this is a great forum, the best, all of you gains a tons of revenues and help me like a friend, really thanks for that.

08-26-2016 03:58 AM #12 gotzha (Member)

Quote Originally Posted by cbrughmans View Post
Speaking as a network owner, networks make it more and more difficult to get accepted in the network because they want to know who they work with, and more importantly control the traffic and traffic quality that is being send on the network. There are many cheaters and fraudsters out there and accepting their traffic on your campaigns will lead to the campaigns getting paused by the advertiser, which is a huge loss of potential revenues.

As a network, we want to know who you are are, what your experience is with AM, who you work(ed) with and more importantly how you are going to drive traffic to our offers. Our ultimate goal is to deliver high quality traffic to our advertisers, which leads to higher payouts, faster payments, etc. which in turn is good for affiliates. This is impossible to achieve when working with bad traffic quality affiliates.

I would agree that the interviews and the whole approval process are not agressive, but it is becoming more diligent and detail-oriented which is a good thing in my opinion.
No one wants fraud traffic or bad quality traffic so the interviews are aimed at filtering the good vs bad/fraud affiliates.

That doesnt mean you need to be a BIG affiliate (+1K$ a day in revenues) in order to get accepted. We have tons of affiliates that deliver between 50 and 100$ in traffic on a monthly basis from their blog, website, email database or small media buys. As long as you are legid and buy real traffic and want to work with the network together on optimizing the campaign towards Quality, you'll get accepted no matter how much revenue you bring. Of course the more money you make for a network, the more personalized the approach gets. But even the smaller affiliates are welcome and will get paid very fast as well (weekly) if they deliver Good Quality .
I agree with Christoph but I do hear it quite often that pubs don't get accepted into the affiliate Networks. For me personally, when I see that an affiliate is eager and serious about AM I will always give them the opportunity to start running with us, even though they don't have any experience whatsoever. We should always keep in mind that every big affiliate started out small once

08-26-2016 06:30 AM #13 imocash (Member)

Hi guys,

we are running an affiliate network. We are living from Affiliates the big ones and the small ones. But all our industry is growing so we need to protect our network and also our advertiser. I would say 50 % of all sign ups are not answering the questions or dont answer our emailrequest. Those affiliates will not expect but everybody else is welcome to join us or any other network. I totally agree all of us have a quite big problem with quality and fraud this is the reason why we all are quite careful to double check our partners. but is the same for the affiliate. I guess if somebody is telling you affiliate network x will not pay you you will never work with them.You can also see on the questions from an affiliate network how serious there are.

Cheers,

Nawid @ IMOCASH

09-08-2016 10:01 AM #14 expertmobi (Member)

Hi,
You can try ExpertMobi. We have a lot of campaigns for APK, CPI mobile android/iOS, sweepstakes. Drop me a pm and I'll help you get started. My Skype: supportexpertmobi, live:nadya_394

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