After getting success in AdSense and making your successful presence on Cyber World, this is the time for you to move on to something bigger and more profitable. If you are thinking that AdSense is the only limit when you are running a successful website on any niche, then hold on and take a cool breeze because you are still unaware of the CPA which stands for Cost per Action or Acquisition. The term CPA is very famous among experienced marketers and can be considered as a next level of earning money online.
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How can you earn money with CPA?
To make it a little easier & simple, let’s take some help from your existing cyber knowledge. You must have known about AdSense which is very easy to use PPC (Pay Per Click) ad network, after you get an approval from Adsense then the rest of the  process is very simple you place the ads alongside with the content on your website and whenever a person clicks that ad and go to the respective site, you are paid for valid clicks because you referred a visitor to the advertiser’s website (Advertiser not Google AdSense).
Also read about: Top 10 Adsense earners in 2010
The process is quite same here with CPA (Cost per action), but you would need to search for advertiser on your own and there is no other medium like AdSense. The reason that most of experts and advanced bloggers and webmasters move to CPA and say goodbye to AdSense is that the earning potential in CPA is much more than AdSense. Through AdSense, you share the profit with Google up to 30 to 40 percent, but here in CPA, you would be enjoying the whole profit without sharing a single penny with any third party platform..
What do you need to become a pro CPA marketer?
Getting excited, huh? So let’s start with the very basic point. If you even totally new or have a small knowledge about how to drive traffic to your website then in both cases you must take an internet marketing course at a local community college near your house and get an Associate Degree or may be an Online Certificate will do well for you. In this course you would be learning about different aspects of Affiliate/Digital Marketing and this course will help you to save much time and stay away from so many mistakes that you can make if you start it without learning the pros and cons of Affiliate Marketing. Make yourself habitual of constant researching and reading the work of different experts in your field. To give you an intense view of CPA marketing, we suggest you to see this slide on SlideShare
What’s next After Taking the Basic Course?
After getting that basic knowledge to get started with CPA Marketing, you should make a test blog or website and start with different kinds of campaigns before you enter into the CPA world and connect with those big platforms which are high paying and legit. Make a website on any interesting topic you have in your mind and learn how to drive  specific traffic to your website and how will you interact with them so that they click, download or sign up on your sponsor’s link.
There are different kinds of offers from where you can earn money like you may apply for a program where you will be getting paid for every download or  on every signs up through your referral link etc. So you should master in doing that by starting with little things and then after you get success in doing that, you can go advance to use some tools and run BIG campaigns over facebook.
To know how would you do that and learn more about this kind of trick which would definitely help you, you can take help from YouTube videos and various kinds of tutorial available on the internet both paid and free.
Additional Tools:
Making a website is not enough for getting that specific audience that would convert into a lead or sale for you. So try different social platform to connect with related people. For instance, you can create a Facebook Fan Page or a Twitter Handle by a brand name from where you can grab a quite reasonable amount of targeted traffic, CPA marketing only rocks when you have targeted people in your list, who actually have deep interest in that product you are going to sell or promote.
Alternatively, you can go for different Ad campaigns like Google AdWords or Microsoft Ad Center and make a campaign for any particular product for your website in order to get paid  & targeted traffic to your website. The reason for making all these efforts is that you can understand the behavior of different users on your website so that you can make a smart move according to that data.
Where to Apply?
Now, after getting all the needed knowledge and experience it is time to share with you some of the existing and trusted platforms from where you can easily start your journey to make money with CPA marketing.
This is an ultimate rule to start with small steps and then hit the big market. So the same rule applies here and you can easily take start with websites mentioned below:
- Commission Junction
- LinkShare
- Impact Radius
- ClickBank
- Amazon
- Peerflyoffers.com
Make your account here and monitor how your earning stats work. Learn about PPC (Pay per Click) Advertising to a better view of this entire scenario so that you make your journey full of experience and fruitful knowledge before you compete with pro marketers.
After when you have got all that basic and advanced knowledge and know how to not only make a campaign and build your credibility on the internet, but also getting that targeted traffic in different time period and for various events, this is the time when you should go for big markets to earn big amount on every sale.
Apply here on these websites mentioned under and fill out their form in which you would be telling them about yourself and your working experience with latest successes so far:
- MaxBounty
- NeverBlue
- C2M
- ClickBooth
- ROI Rocket
- Azoogle
These websites are very strict, so more chances are that you may not get approved on your first attempt and you should be very careful by abiding to their terms of conditions so that you work with them for a long time without getting banned.
Quick Overview:
To give you a quick overview of all the process that you would be going to do for a few months here is a bulleted list about what you will be going to do:
- Take an Online Course.
- Make a Test Website.
- Create Different Campaigns.
- Apply for a CPA program.
We hope that this post will definitely help you to not only understand the CPA Marketing but also let you take your first step towards this advanced level of online earning. For any further query or recommendation, you can use the comment box below.