Nowadays, it is not a secret anymore that native ads are one of the most promising tools for sales and content monetization. However, that leads us to a major disadvantage of native advertising – a high level of competition on the market. To overcome that competition rate native ad campaigns usually require a significant amount of investment. With that in mind we can draw out a conclusion: NATIVE ADVERTISING CAN’T BE DEFINED AS BEGINNER FRIENDLY.

I understand that after such a disclaimer we lost a huge amount of the audience, but for others who are still here, let’s talk about what budget Media Buyer should have to succeed with Native Ad Networks.

First of all, let’s discuss the role of budget in native ad campaign. The logic is pretty simple: the bigger budget you have, the more tests you can run with your banners. And the better banners you have, the more quality traffic you attract.

On the contrary, the smaller budget you have, the lower chances you have for success. Small budget can even lead to а complete disaster when not experienced Media Buyer can not only lose all of his investments but also he won’t gain any experience. So, bear in mind old but gold saying: «If you buy cheaply, you pay dearly.»

Secondly, there is no definite answer to what amount of money beginner Media Buyer should have in his pocket to start a campaign on Native Advertising Network. Usually that number will be between $5,000 and $20,000 depending on where you are looking for relevant information. That’s a huge gap you may say, well, it is, but we can say what campaign budget depends on:

1. The number of spots the Native Ad Network has;
2. The amount of banners you use;
3. Spy tools you use;
4. Payment per Lead and the difficulty of conversion.

all of it you should take into account when forming one’s budget.

Now let us discuss how budget strategy is formed. Researching the market will save you a significant amount of resources and time. You’d better use the spy tools you have access to. They are perfect for monitoring your competitors’ advertising strategy and can save you a lot of money. Don’t rush here and take your quality time to analyze market, because you should have the information about what targeting options are best to use, as well as what banners are most suitable. Trustworthy ads are usually those which are having the majority of views and are being run for a minimum of 7 days. Out of those trusted ads, choose landers and the offer to test.

As Picasso once said and then Steve Jobs repeated: «Good artists copy; great artists steal.»

Once you’ve completed that stage, you should start forming the blacklist and the whitelist. You should decide on the spot prices and make a list of sites with positive conversion rates. Only those sources will have a good potential for your native ads. For example, with a payout of $20 for each lead, like AdCombo has, we strongly recommend to spend only 80% of that sum on your campaign ($16 in our case). That’s how you hedge your risks. So, if there is no conversion at all, you will lose only $16, but if there is at least one lead your gross profit will be $4. To make it clear, with two leads you will earn $24, with three – $44 and so on. Unfortunately, we all understand that at the beginning you should lose some money to get experience but for the sake of future profits add those unprofitable spots to the blacklist to avoid them next time.

As we discussed earlier, the more money you have, the larger variety of sites you will be able to test. If there is a thousand sites and you spend again $16 per every spot (but then you see that there is no conversion on all of them) – you will lose $16,000 but eventually your blacklist will gain 1k new sites. And then, based on it, you will set a new campaign with an already existing blacklist.

However, if after reading this article you are still willing to experiment and take a risk, feel free to contact us on Skype. We will recommend you most profitable offers as well as best landings. Just don’t hesitate.

Cheers!

Always yours,

AdСombo

So you decided to be a Media Buyer and you are full of ambition. Found a high-paying affiliate program, ready to earn millions but those networks won’t accept you and won’t tell you the reasons. Why? Let’s see.

It’s not a secret that it’s hard to get into affiliate networks if you’re a newbie. If affiliate networks accept you, they will take risks. What risks? Well, they have to check creative materials, show you how it works and if you make a mistake, they could lose money. Eventually, they spend their time helping you and their time costs a lot. Managing a new one is a lot harder than managing a seasoned affiliate, that’s why nobody wants to raise newbies. So if network refuses you, don’t get it personal, don’t be upset and, most importantly, don’t give up!

The problem is, to become a seasoned affiliate you need to start somewhere. Every super affiliate started as a newbie someday. But how will you gain experience if no one will give you a chance, right?

Some people try to fake their proofs of successful projects but it doesn’t work at all. Newbies make fake screenshots of the last offers where they (of course) have earned a lot of money. Don’t be like that, professional AM understands that it’s fake at once so better don’t even try or you will have a bad reputation or even can get banned.

So, what can you do? When you decide to be a Media Buyer, applying to a network shouldn’t be your first step in affiliate marketing. You should begin from researching, then see what others are doing, learn about the available verticals, different traffic sources, tracking, read blogs and forums. Better pick one or two verticals to focus on and learn all you can find about it. You have to be ready so if AM wants to test you, you will act like «Yeah, I know that». And don’t try to look like a super affiliate, if you’re a newbie, tell them that, be honest.

Here, in AdCombo, we don’t have newbies. But our team is glad to help them! We’ve prepared some «Dont’s» from our affiliate managers:

1. Don`t play with fake screenshots, affiliate managers really easy to find out if you’re playing with them or you’re a serious affiliate.
2. Don’t start your messages with «I’m a newbie, please, accept me!», it looks like you’re desperate. Try to impress them with what you already know about affiliate networks.
3. Don’t write to them again and again if they don’t answer for a couple of hours. Be patient. They are pretty busy people and have a lot of applications like yours. Give them 3 days and if they don’t give you any response, shoot them a follow-up email. In that email, you can include the business plan and your credentials.
4. Don’t treat your manager as someone who can help you with your campaigns right away. AM doesn’t have to teach you stuff so you’d better be prepared and learn all the information you can find by yourself. Most often they appreciate it.
5. Don’t apply to many networks at a time. Choose one, max two and see how it goes. You don’t want 10 accounts and not enough traffic to send to all of them.
6. Don’t be shy and ask questions if it’s important. For example, ask your manager about his time zone and if there’s a huge time difference then ask for a manager who lives closer to your area.
7. Don’t be silent if something goes wrong. For example, if your offer goes into the red, ask your AM, he will help you find better creative materials and traffic sources. A manager is always interested in your traffic and will do his best to help.

We know that making the first step is always difficult – you’re afraid of making mistakes, you doubt a lot and not sure you can do it. The beginning is always the hardest part but there’s no sweet without some sweat. The more you work and try, the more you will understand. And don’t forget that the best way to learn and remember new things is practice. A lot of practice.

As we said before, AdCombo doesn’t hire total newbies. But we’re ready to work with people who already have at least a little bit of experience and a lot of ambition. So if you think this is about you, then contact us. Who knows, maybe we will work well together

That’s it for today and good luck out there!

Everybody starts something at the first time: first exams, first job, first try to succeed in affiliate marketing.  And every newbie has started his own long way as a publisher. But there is one feeling that consolidates all the pioneers  –  a fear of uncertainty.  A lack of experience creates the fear of failure. Newbies in affiliate marketing  have felt this on their own skin.

But first of all, we need to define who a newbie is. A newbie –is a person who just started his/her way in affiliate marketing, but he/she has already known what internet traffic is, where to get it and how to route it well. He/she may use his/her own web sources of traffic or any other sources, it doesn’t matter.  All the others who have just heard the phrase “internet traffic” for the first time in their life still need to grow to the newbie level.

Let’s go back to our topic. As we’ve already mentioned before, for every newbie the big day comes when he makes a decision to monetize his knowledge about how to hunt on internet traffic with a good profit. And this is the time for the first step. More than one hundred newbies choose AdCombo every day. So let’s see why they do this.

1.Experts recommend AdCombo.

First of all,  newbies try to find more information about the best affiliate networks. That’s why they are looking for a good expert advice. And they find it on the affiliate marketing  forums. Also, almost at every forum, there is  a rating of the most popular affiliate networks. During the conversation with experts on these forums,  newbies start to compose a top-list of the best affiliate networks they would like to work with.  AdCombo has a good reputation among the affiliate marketing professional community. That’s the first reason why newbies trust AdCombo and choose it.

2. Personal affiliate manager.

After our newbie registers his AdCombo’s  account he gets a personal affiliate manager to help him work with the network. The affiliate manager does not provide only technical support but also helps the newbie working with offers. The publisher can ask how to choose the right offer, what kind of traffic is better for work in particular case etc.  The affiliate manager helps to find the best way to monetize traffic. After newbies’ account was approved the publisher and the affiliate manager become a one team which hunts on profit.  For newbies, this is important because they can understand rules of dealing with traffic in general but often don’t get the principle of working with specific geos and offers. And at this moment a super hero – affiliate manager, –  comes and saves the newbie.

3.”Ready-to-work” localized landing pages.

For experienced publishers creating landing pages can be easy because they’ve already know how it works or know a professional who can do this well. But at the same time, it could become a big problem for a newbie.  AdCombo solves this problem easily.  For every offer at the network, there are a ready-to-use localized landing pages and several pre-lands for making a good offer’s promotion.  Lands and pre-lands are already translated into regions’ languages. This tool is very useful and helps to start working very quickly. There is no need for a newbie to spend a lot of time learning how a landing page should be composed for a good sale, and there is no need to find a translator to make a good selling text for it. AdCombo economizes newbie’s time and cash. All he needs to do is just to sign up, choose one of the best offers with a prepared landing page and bring good quality traffic on it.

4.New unique GEOs with low competition.

For a newbie with a humble budget, it is hard to compete with experienced publishers in a popular geo. Firstly, a price for one click or 1k shows in these regions is too high for beginners. Secondly, even the newbie tries to get traffic there the result is not always so good as was expected. AdCombo has solved this problem too. The affiliate network offers exclusive new geos with low competition. The price of traffic in these geos is x2, x5 or even x10 times lower than in US or UK, for example. That’s why newbies have a good chance to get not only a good experience but a good profit there as well.

5.A wide range of niches for newbies specialized on different traffic sources.

Newbies come to affiliate marketing from different fields. It is a rare case to find an almighty person who knows how to work with all types of internet traffic. Usually, publishers specialize on two-three types of it. That’s why it is important for the newbie to find offers which will accept the type of traffic he knows how to get. AdCombo gives to its publishers a lot of different offers’ niches that allows beginners to feel more confident to start. This is the 5^th reason why newbies choose AdCombo.Payments twice a week. Quick reinvestment to the new ad

6.Payments twice a week. Quick reinvestment to the new ad campaigns.

The last but not least argument for choosing AdCombo network is money. To be a more specific – high and regular payouts.  Publishers can get their payouts twice a week. And this is a unique offer from AdCombo.  It’s not only about comfort terms of work but it is the opportunity to reinvest publisher’s budget quickly. It’s not a secret that it is important for newbies to reinvest it ASAP because they try to speed up  the work process and earn much more in a short period of time. It  allows publishers to use their money more effectively. And this is the 6^th reason why they choose AdCombo.

We have just briefly looked through 6 reasons why newbies choose AdCombo. And these are not all of them. If you want to know more about AdCombo’s advantages ask our affiliate manager about it, don’t be shy! Choose AdCombo.