Budgets for starting doing affiliate marketing ? (4)
Hi friends,
I am newbie in Affiliate Marketing, but in digital marketing I am for about 3 years. I read lots of amazing sources here at STM that are amazing.
I got approval from A4D for their Snow products, that some affiliates there recommend that are good to start with. But problem is that I am limited with budget. I can put aprox. 500-1000 USD. If I know It will work I will mortgage more money and not quite sure what to do as begginer with limited budget.
What would you recommend ?
Some affiliates there recommend me to start with some lead gen campaigns to collect some money/budget to invest in mentioned products like this Snow on A4D, because with current money I cant do so much with that product, specially for testing. My question is also: What do you recommend , which network to choose , which product to choose to start with small money and than increase it how I will earn it. Please understand me that I am new in this kind of business, and that I am on starting point with money, budget is low from perspective of Affiliate marketing. I dont want to quit very fast from this Affiliate Marketing, I would really like to continue develop my career in affiliate, but I need some money for budgeting campaigns, testing, I need to find a way how to earn some money to fund my future campaigns for products like this Snow from A4D.
I would appreciate all you suggestions how to start to build house from the begining and collect some money to continue play big games such as this product I mentioned.
Hope here will be someone who will suggest me what to do I will really appreciate this.
You are asking a lot of question, which is fine, but this is all just theory... So let me ask one thing, did you launch at least a single campaign? Whatever vertical or traffic source?
The thing is, there is NOTHING like the BEST vertical or traffic source to start with. You simply need to start somewhere and learn the basics with it. Once you start running real campaigns, it will all start to come together and you will get a better understanding about all the things we talk about here on the forum.
In the beginning, you need a cheap traffic type and low payout offers, in order to cut down the initial costs... so POPs or PUSH traffic and low payout leadgen offers, such as sweeps are your best bet. You will lose money in the beginning, there is no way to avoid it, and a $500-$1000 budget probably won't cut it. But it should be enough to see if this is actually for you or not.
As for the networks, all the commonly recommended ones here on STM are ok to start with ... clickdealer, gotzha, glize, a4d ... you can find more by searching the forums. It's not like one of them stands out a lot and that's the one you have to go with.
Do not overthink this whole thing, just start testing 
First of all I would say don't get too attached to an offer.
That particular offer pays $49 but costs the consumer $150, which is a very low payout, but let's just say for the sake or argument it converts really well. Your budget is still not going to go very far trying to test that and you could easily spend $500 without seeing a single sale while trying to learn the ropes on a given source - it happens.
That's why its advisable to start with leadgen and low payout offers that don't require the customer to pull out their credit card. You'll get much more conversions and data points to learn from.
Taking action and launching something is definitely the first step, but try to focus on learning one source to make your money go further.
This question I'm answering relevant to your budget, maybe e-com is the route you want to follow further down the line though? But unfortunately a budget of that much will be hard to make it work, thats why I really agree with taking the lower payout leadgen offers on a push or pop source. With that budget its the best chance you're making yourself to get a return early. You can also make mistakes in your tracking and optimisation and still not bleed too much, get your feet with a calculated risk. Faster turnaround on cashflow too to re-invest it. I'm not saying its impossible to make stuff work with a lower budget, but its a bit difficult to juggle all factors.
Try a source like propeller/datspush/zeropark and a network like wewe, gotzah, yepads to get running quite quickly with up to date offers. Lots of sweepstakes offers, or even COD offers available as well lower payout $6-10 range in geos like TH/MY etc
Problem is with $500-1000 budget on Facebook or Native a couple steps in the wrong direction, and your entire budget will be gone. A product of that pricetag and niche will require that in testing minimum to get any idea imo.
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