Ads4Dough | Official Thread - Helping Affiliates Grow Into Businesses (6)
Ads4Dough | Official Thread - Helping Affiliates Grow Into Businesses
I figured I'd start a new thread as the old one was started by an employee that's no longer with us.
Lorenzo if you could close it I'd appreciate it. Thanks.
Who is A4D?
For those of you that don't know who we are. We're a 5 year old CPA network with over 1200 direct to advertiser merchants and many of our own internal offers. Direct to advertiser & internal offers means less redirects, less pixel tracking loss and less people taking money out of your pocket.
We have the most solid track record in the industry for paying on time every time. 1k/week for weeklies but we'll work with you if you're under and scaling. Also, we'll pay faster then weekly sometimes to help you scale as well. We're here to help you grow.
We also really work hard at helping our affiliates grow to the next level from just trying to make money, to turning this into a full time business you can build a company on.
Need I say more?
About getting approved
Obviously we have 1000's of affiliate in our approval queue.
And we only have limited time and resources to service them. We really want to spend all our time focusing on the serious people who want to grow this into a business. We don't care if you're new or experienced, we just want to know you're dedicated, have a plan and stick to it. Do what you say and say what you do.
The first stage for us to weed out the people that aren't serious from the the ambitious ones is our Approval questionnaire. I encourage you to really put some thought into how you answer these questions because this really determines how you're going to build and grow your business.
It also gives us solid insight into where we can step in and help accelerate that growth even quicker then you could alone.
Obviously anyone that takes the time to send approvals@a4d.com their plan based on the questions below will be given preferential treatment and will be moved to first in line of the 1000's of applications.
I really want to thank everyone here for the continued support of A4D and look forward to growing business with all of you in the future.
Success,
Jason Akatiff
President, A4D
Skype: smaxoro
Aim: jasona4d
P.S. If you're a good affiliate with your house in order just PM me and I'll get you approved right away. I'll always take care of you 
QUESTIONAIRE EMAIL:
Thanks for the application [NAME].
We'd really like to have you working with us as a client.
After working with affiliates for years what we're finding is it's a limited few that really end up making this work. And of the ones that make it work they typically have 1 thing in common. They have specific goals and action plans to get to where they want to go.
Because of that finding what we're doing with our applicants is asking you to write up a short 1 page synopsis on where you are now and where you want to go.
Lets start with your 1 month, 3 month, 6 month, 1 year and 2 year specific financial goals. If we know this then we'll know where you want to go and help guide you to get you there.
Then tell us where you're at in affiliate business currently. Such as offers you're making work, daily revenue, traffic sources you're familiar with, amount of offers you've tested, what verticals you're good at.
Based on your 1 month and 3 month goals work backwards and build a loose plan of how you're going to get there. Both financially and logistically. It is best to work backwards from the numbers you're looking to hit. And have a specific macro step by step overview of how you're going to get there. Then what resources it's going to take on you part in both time and money in order to hit that goal.
A good format to follow is:
How did you get started in online marketing?
What is your 1 month, 3, month, 6 month and 1 year financial goal working with us?
What campaigns are you currently running?
What current revenue are you generating with those campaigns?
What budgets do you have available on a monthly or weekly basis to invest specifically into testing new campaigns?
What would we have to do to win that business from you and have you move it away from whoever you're working with now?
What resources could we provide you as a company to help you grow your business?
Lastly it's always helpful to know what hours you like to work. This way I can pair you with an affiliate manager that is going to best suited to accomplish that.
Once you've typed this up please send it to me at approvals@a4d.com and I'll personally review. After I review it I'll forward it to the affiliate manager that I think will be the best fit to help you grow your business. And because you're serious enough about this business to build a plan I will have someone call you back immediately or if at night or on the weekend then the next business day. If for some reason a special time works for you let me know and I'll make sure they schedule it then.
We look forward to growing our businesses together.
Success,
Jason Akatiff
President, A4D
*Extremely* helpful. So many networks have such vague approval criteria. This is very straightforward and gets across what you're looking for in affiliates. Even if not applying for your network, every aspiring affiliate should work through the above questionnaire as at the end they'll have a plan with goals. This is essential for success in business.
Hi Jason I just sent you a pm
What's going on here? I get the impression that the network is way more low key and internally focused now, but my old login still works (haven't promoted in a few years) but I have no AM contact and can't get in touch with anyone from the company except one guy I found listed as an AM who seemed way more interested in prying into my existing campaigns than actually talking about working together
The offer list, while small, looks extremely good!
The same, havent promoted for A4D for a long time, now i want to promote their offers again but can't seem to contact anyone, even their support. so weird! login still works
A4D is still operating and from what I can see, @Smaxor still has an active account here on STM... so let me tag him, maybe he will chime in 
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