My buddy is trying to branch out with his payday loan affiliate campaigns, currently the only things working are spam emailing and cold-calling.
Has anybody had any success promoting payday loans online with media buys? If so, what approaches or networks should I try out?
Few months back I was running payday loan mobile offer. I used text ads and used JT as primary traffic source. It was quite profitable. If you want, I can share you the creatives I used. PM me.
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Spam emailing and cold-calling is not a good practice. Your buddy may have problems in future with regulators about soliciting people to take payday loans. It is better to start with one kind of marketing: if your buddy is good at SEO -- it's a good way to start to make a few sites or one cool site in payday or finance niche (but he will need about 3-5 months to start make real money). If you buddy cool in PPC (for example Bing ads) it's would be cool too but epl will be a little bit less than in SEO. You ask that type of a question that could be answered in hours
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