Have you ever been tired of work? Why your productivity is suddenly going down, your ads are getting worse and your accounts are banned more often than usual? Even the most diligent affiliates need a break, so why would you resist? Because summer is for fun! 

   Have a break and head up to Barcelona! Affiliate World Europe is coming alongside with the thunder of fun and hardcore networking. Bold, brash and colorful are the adjectives that come to mind when thinking of Barcelona. Combine the hyper-focused e-commerce speeches, panels & networking with the beach parties and having fun! The vibe of the city, people you meet and everything around just fit the event perfectly.

    This time you are going to meet AdCombo and Ecombo teams under one roof! Whether you like ecommerce or affiliate marketing – we’ll show you the tips and tricks that will impress you! Don’t miss the chance to learn from the affiliate-enthusiasts. We are going to set up a closed Facebook Ads Mastery Mastermind for trusted affiliates and friends. Grab the insights and many more at AWE19.

    We are located at booths 25 and 26. There you’ll have the chance to chat with your AM in person. So, hurry up, get a pass and come! We’ll be truly happy to have an appointment with each of you

Contact your AM and arrange a meeting:

George

telegram: @georgeadcombo

email: george@adcombo.com

skype: egor.kacherovsky

Una

telegram: @unaadcombo

email: una@adcombo.com

skype: sunnyads88

Eliza

e-mail: liza@ecombo.com

skype: nikiforova.manager

Lol, flat nonsense. You are on the battlefield, my friend. You’ll never know if certain creative materials will give you a sky-high ROI or a severe ban by Facebook moderators. Right now there is only one way to check up your creative materials –  to TEST them.

Basically, your testing strategy should look like this:
STEP 1: Create 15-20 unique creative materials. Use different combinations of images and headlines for that is the best way to find the winning combo.
STEP 2: Run these creative materials for a couple of days to see which of them has/have highest CTR.
STEP 3: Finally select 1 or 2 creative materials with the highest click rate and it is basically done.

DISCLAIMER:
We are surely aware that using spy tools will be faster in most cases. However, we are not seeking any shortcuts since we want all tips for your attention to be backed with knowledge. Plus a good spy tool is rarely free, and we spare your expenses.

Some tips for making a good creative material.
To begin with, you should have some basic Photoshop skills. Otherwise, I would strongly recommend you to watch a couple of videos on youtube to understand what layers are and how to edit them.

As it was said above, unfortunately, there is no ultimate formula for making a good creative material. But in most cases it should be:

• Bright and interesting. Therefore, animated banners usually win over static banners. But don’t push too hard. You don’t want a banner to be flashing like a Christmas tree.

• Contrast. Quieter colours in the background and brighter coloured fonts with the call to action buttons are preferred.

• Informative. If images contain text, remember that a short clear message works better than long complicated sentences in small hardly readable characters.

• Inviting. Call to action buttons will definitely be a huge plus.

• Positive. As it’s known, banners with a positive message and overall positive attitude usually have higher CTR.

• No misleading. If you will promise a fortune to everyone who clicked on your banner, it may produce a better CTR but your final conversion rate would be low as hell.

• Credible. Appeal to an authority that people trust. For example, like: «Rated number one by pediatrics association».

Some banner examples:

Before/ after teasers

Works pretty good since there is a simple logic behind this: now I am fat and ugly like the person on the left. Then I will eat that diet chocolate bar and magically I am young and beautiful like the person on the right.
We also recommend using real people images rather than models. Because it can increase trust: If she was able to do it, then I also can.

WTF banners

The main objective here is to trigger people into asking a question and thus clicking on the image. The rule is the more incomprehensible picture, the better.

Where to look for images?
Here Google Images can be of great help, and you sure know that. So, below are some other sources for image hunting.

Alternatives to Google Images

http://bing.com/images/

https://pixabay.com/

http://www.everystockphoto.com/

https://morguefile.com/

http://2leep.com/

Weird and funny pictures that can be used for teasers

http://www.freakingnews.com/galleries.asp

WARNING! Links to nudity and sexual content are below.

If you are promoting ADULT offers, you can use:

http://ratemyexgf.com/ and http://hotgirlswithiphones.com/

!! gay shit !! -> http://guyswithiphones.com

+1 LIFEHACK

Situation: You found a great picture for your creative material but it has watermarks on it. How to get rid of those watermarks?

Answer: Upload your picture with watermarks to the Google Images and hit the Search button. There is a good chance that in search results you’ll find the same pictures but with no watermarks.

Juan’s bonus case study

Juan lives in a Spanish coastal town called San Sebastian. During the summer and tourist season he works as a lifeguard, but in the winter apart from drinking there is nothing much to do. And since he recently dropped out of a college he had a lot of spare time but a little shortage of money. So, once he heard this magical phrase  – «CPA marketing» and his life changed. Sounds familiar? Yeah, we’ve all been there He began eagerly exploring the topic and as a result – surprise, surprise – he ended up registered with AdCombo.
What next? He decided to run his first campaign on Facebook. A bit foolish from my point of view. Anyway, he chose Adcombo’s most recent offer at the time – Diet Star (completely whitehat btw) with Spain as a GEO to run in. I think you guessed why Spain. Reason number 1, this is Juan’s home country and he thought he understood the market pretty well. Reason number 2 – there is the highest payout for that offer – 18$. Ha-ha classic! Typical newbie’s mistakes.
And what his creative materials looked like? Now, have a look:

* written in Spanish: fat-free

30 seconds into the campaign and BOOM! His account is banned! Why?
Look closer. Closer… Still nothing? Facebook moderators didn’t like the word «grasas» which in Spanish means fat. Such bans are common practice on Facebook and mature fellows know that. Usually after a few days of writing to Facebook Support your account will be eventually unbanned. Yet, this is not a nice way to start your CPA journey.
At the same time, you’ll be able to come across stories from CPA legends who managed to run a campaign on Facebook with dick pics as their creative materials. Basically, they are good at cloaking and their accounts usually have a high trust rate. But this is another story…
To conclude, my word of advice is – be really careful with your creatives materials, especially if you are a newbie in CPA marketing. And bear in mind, all technics that we discussed above remains just a theory. You should go out into the battlefield and TEST. This is the only way to verify if your creative materials are good or not.

Always yours,
AdCombo

Guys!
We already announced our Secret Affiliate party that will be held during the AWA2017 Conference in Bangkok. And since the tickets to the party are strictly limited, we inform you that only 20 tickets left!
Don’t hesitate, hurry up and get your own ticket! Here’s what you have to do:
1. Click the “going” button on the event facebook group.
2. Then drop your application here.
3. Visit AdCombo booth B39 during AWA event to get your pass to the party and that’s it!

If you have any questions about the event, contact your affiliate manager. Looking forward to seeing you all there!

Without further ado, we are ready to present our first video in «AdCombo Academy» series! It will covers everything we will go over in these videos, as well as introduce you to some of the basic concepts in affiliate marketing. We will also talk about some important nuances affiliate market has and things you need to know before you start working with it. Check it out on our YouTube channel.

Hope that today’s episode will be useful for all of you. Next episode will come out in a week. Good luck out there!

How to make money with CPA without any effort

Ever heard of a saying “to get rich, you have to be making money while you are asleep”? Well, sounds like crazy talk you may think.

Referral system’s mechanism

You know how it works. Referral system is easy as 1 – 2 – 3:

1. Invite your friends to Adcombo with referral link
2. Make them work
3. We will pay 5% of their overall revenue as your affiliate reward

TIP: Help your friends with your knowledge and good advice, that they could be more effective. Share your tips with them and they’ll make more money for you.

Every referral account gets an ID. You can check how much money your referrals make and what your profit is. Keep in mind that you cannot refer yourself.

Now, some recommendations from our side:

1. You can have as many referrals as you can invite. You never know who will be the next billionaire affiliate;
2. Do not forget to speak to your referrals from time to time;
3. Only experienced affiliates make you money, so do not hesitate to share your knowledge with them

Take a look at these results:

That is all for today. Good luck and have fun, my friends.

Guys, there is a huge announcement for you today – we have launched a very much requested offer since its demand beats all the records worldwide – Fly Bra!

Right from the start, we would like to point out that the Fly Bra price on AdCombo landing pages is two times cheaper than it is on the competitors’ ones. Now you know whose product will be much more desired to obtain: OURS!

Besides, this product is not season related and women buy FlyBra all year around, so it is an evergreen source of stable income for you.

And the main point is that Fly Bra has a universal size. It makes things much easier both for women because they don’t need to worry about the right size anymore, and for webmasters as well, because it expands greatly the target audience in general.

Bearing in mind that nearly every woman wants to make her breasts look bigger, there will be no stumbling blocks for you, guys, to convince every woman on our planet that she needs this kind of bra.

When running this offer you will save much time on approval process of your creative materials in any ad network since this offer is whitehat and doesn’t require any hidden ads.

The variety of GEOs is pretty big, just have a look them:

11732 – FlyBra – IT

11733 – FlyBra – ES

11734 – FlyBra – PT

11737 – FlyBra – CY, GR

11738 – FlyBra – RO

11739 – FlyBra – PL

11740 – FlyBra – BG

11741 – FlyBra – CZ

11742 – FlyBra – SK

Hope that this short overview was really useful. We do our best to provide you with the best offers Affiliate Marketing world has ever seen!

Hi all!

AdCombo is glad to tell you that we got a new offer!
Almost all girls or women want to be skinny and almost all of them don’t want to be on diets or do some training. So we present you the other way to get thin – WAIST TRAINER corset.
It already has attracted women’s attention because it not only makes you look thinner when you put it on but also helps to lose weight. We know that this product has already been used as an offer by other affiliate networks and got a lot of negative comments. But that’s why we didn’t present it earlier – we were searching for a reliable supplier so we could get high-quality products. And we have succeeded! This offer is totally whitehat and you won’t have any problems with having your creative materials approved on websites.

Another positive point about this offer is seasonality. Women wear it only under their clothes, that’s why it’s not really popular in summertime. But autumn is getting closer and the weather is getting colder so in 1-2 months women will order this corset way more often than now!

Target audience for this product is pretty large because most of women 16-50 y.o. want to lose weight and want to do it easily. So there are a lot of options where to place creative materials. Almost every women website suits it well. Especially, if you use teaser banners, it is the most effective way to advertise this kind of products.
Also, spy tools are full of all kinds of banners so finding a really good one for advertising won’t be a problem to you.

WAIST TRAINER has very high competitiveness because there are not so many products that help to lose weight without abandoning tasty food and doing everyday training. Moreover, this corset makes women look thinner instantly, they just have to put it on.

You can find the offer links below:

• [11688] Waist Trainer – IT
• [11689] Waist Trainer – ES
• [11690] Waist Trainer – PT
• [11696] Waist Trainer – CY, GR 
• [11697] Waist Trainer – RO
• [11698] Waist Trainer – PL
• [11699] Waist Trainer – BG
• [11700] Waist Trainer – CZ
• [11705] Waist Trainer – SK

Have a nice day and stay tuned!

Hey there, dear friends.

Possibly, some of you, guys, have already seen our special activities like Traffic Hunters and ChocoLead in AdCombo. These splendid events are about to be finished, thus, the only thing we are to do is to award the winners. But we want to have more fun with you, mates. That is why we’ve launched one more super-contest Teaser Challenge with our colleagues from MGID.

What’s the deal?

Any affiliate, having joined our agency in MGID, receives a 10% of money spent in MGID during the event BACK! I mean, you have the traffic 10% cheaper in fact. Moreover, every 100 of approved cash-on-delivery leads in AdCombo will be awarded with a bonus $100 on your balance in MGID platform.

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This really looks interesting, but the fact is we’ve faced an unexpected problem.

Lots of either newbie or experienced affiliate marketers still do not know what MGID traffic is, where it’s from and how it works.

So, today’s How-To will be about MGID and how not to screw up while dealing with it when dealing with it. It is time to fill gaps in your knowledge, friends. I will disclose some secret facts about MGID, show you an actual case-study and give you a little useful hint. So stay focused while reading.

Let’s go!

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So, MGID itself insists that it provides NATIVE DISPLAY traffic.

Everybody knows that Display traffic is the most delicious and most wanted for the majority CPA-offers. When this Display clicks are also native – such stream of traffic must really bomb!

But not so fast! We know that every Ad Platform declares its traffic to be of the highest quality. At the same time they trade you bots (you can read about it here).

And, please, let me be boring, as I will never stop repeating: Before having even a single click of traffic in an Ad Network purchased – investigate its quality and origin, find the reviews of your colleagues.

There is an interesting graphic in MGID blog. Let us have a look:

Splendid values. But the very important thing about traffic is its origin. Don’t get yourself fooled with such numbers.

As MGID uses its domain (mgid.com) to track and redirect traffic, it is possible to investigate the traffic via services like SimilarWeb and Ahrefs without using any spy tools.

This trick will not work with e.g. Zeropark or Exoclick, as they use tracking domains different from their major one.

Have a look at the main sources MGID get traffic from:

Truth be told: that is a good portfolio! Most of the sources are video-sharing websites, news websites, and some minor Ad Networks (MGID arbitrages traffic from them at higher bids). As huge number of networks have Adult Websites in their list of sources, news and videos are good news (sorry my tautology ^_^ )

Got it? Moving further…

What are the top Geos? Have a look:

Top geos of MGID are OK. I like that 5.46% of traffic coming from Spain. It is much promising for AdCombo. We have a lot of offers for this region.

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Now let us check the promos MGID uses.

As they name themselves a Native Display Ad Network, I think it’s rather controversial. Now, have a look at the contents MGID provides. These are the most popular examples of a network:

And such creative bring you traffic when you deal with MGID. You may look through this top-list here:

http://mgid.com/mg-product.html

The very NATIVE DISPLAY ads look exactly like this:

I do not know why this Russian ads is displayed to me ^_^

Such kind of Ads is called teaser. The aim of a teaser is to attract the attention of a user. The teaser itself does not promote the offer (nevertheless it should be relevant to a product you promote). In this way, it should consist of the contents inducing the interest of the user.

The teaser itself usually sends the user to a prelander website. Prelander motivates him to follow the Landing Page. And it is quite obvious when the elements of combo teaser+prelander+landing page do not 100% match each other.

There is no need to be a genius to find out that such a scheme provides the affiliate with not well targeted traffic. Such clicks need to be targeted with additional options that the affiliate could find the right audience. But unfortunately, MGID doesn’t have such options:

You are allowed to choose from the Country/Region, web-browser, default language and platform. A truly bad thing, indeed. But the chance when the affiliate marketer outplays himself with targeting audiences  is gradually decreased.

By the way, every piece of the information needed to target campaigns in MGID you may request from your Affiliate Managers. They will not be opposed to share such data.

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Now it’s time to test MGID ourselves.

Opinion makers usually share a good idea: None of the manuals or guides is true until they are tested.

Any voodoo with SimilarWeb magic and dances around the Ad Platform will not test the source of traffic for you.

According to the top list of teasers, one of the most popular niches in MGID is nutra-products. There are dozens of banners with weight loss contents. If they are used, then they work. That is why diet offer was chosen.

I’ve already noticed that Spain is a top Geo in MGID. Cash-on-Delivery model is rather popular there. The cost of nutra CPA-products in AdCombo is lower than other “classmates” have. So we are in.

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MGID works on the basis of eCPM model in RTB (real time bidding) mode. The crucial fact you should know about eCPM is => you may get traffic cheaper, when your promos have high rates of CTR. And that is the reason why top teasers are not completely relevant to the products they promote. Using this method affiliates get cheaper traffic to the offers.

To tell the truth – you’ll start shitting bricks before CTR climbs to the good values. Seriously, this is spadework, because usually good CTR is achieved after multiple restarts of dozens of teasers until it “catches the wave”.

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We tested the following combo:  MGID traffic + AdCombo Affiliate Network + Chocolate slim – ES offer

Here is the lander of the offer itself:

To get traffic at a lower price we had to produce a HUGE amount of tests with promos. Have a look:

To get traffic at a lower price we had to produce a HUGE amount of tests with promos. Have a look:

Sorry, but we have censored the most effective teasers, as some swift boys may use them and make it competitive.

The campaign is active at the moment, the affiliate is making money on it at THIS VERY MOMENT.

There had been totally purchased more than 20 k of clicks and $1380 spent:

What are the results? Let us see:

*Please, bear in mind, that traffic managers in AdCombo have lower payout rates (75%) than the affiliates (100%) That is why the payout in the screenshot is $13.5 instead of $18.00.

Of course, there will be the guys telling this case-study is a trash as $1417 of profits minus $1380 of money spent => is only a $37 of profits. BUT HUSH!

It is a running campaign and 64 of leads are still waiting to be handled. I predict that at least half of them will be approved sales and the total profit will grow.

What is more!  Remember, that the traffic is purchased via our agency account in MGID, so it is 10% cheaper. By the end of the month, $138 will be refunded to affiliate’s account. And do not forget about the $100 bonus per every 100 of approved leads. Summarize the total benefits, and there will be a good profit indeed.

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Now let us think it over and give you the brief review:

First – Traffic from MGID definitely works, no matter what others say

Second – The quality of this traffic is not, well, excellent. 50% of cancelled leads on COD offers is a really baaaaaad value 

Third – The only chance to make money on COD offers in MGID is to be a hardworking boy. You have to play with CTR rates of promos to get traffic at low prices.

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And no more lyrics for today. There is money in MGID for affiliates, but most of you will not even try to take it. For now, I’m going to give you the most effective piece of advice: Do it! Grab all the traffic, make a try!

0% of the efforts that hadn’t been made brought any profit. So, make a try then!

That’s it. Bye!