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Promoting Email Submits? Don’t!

by Melvin · Apr 28, 2009

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When every newcomer enters the world of affiliate marketing, he’s normally advised to try out the low-risk email submit types of offers. Why not, I mean email submits are pretty easy to convert. All you need to get a lead is an email of a customer. Also you don’t need to compete for those very high keyword competing keywords Promoting email submits ‘could’ really be the way to start for newbies.

Anyway here in this blog I have written some email submit walkthroughs that I have done (which has become outdated already). The last successful email submit campaign I had was last year when I heavily promoted the Obama vs. McCain thing. The campaign nearly brought me $20+ for almost 1 1/2 straight months and I was promoting them through Copeac.

Just to let you guys know email submits work this way. The merchant  ‘is ‘said’ to pay affiliates (us) $1+ for every email submit lead. The truth behind the offer is that when someone enters his email, he is then presented to 20+ more incentivized offers which the merchant runs as an affiliate as well. Affiliates get scrubbed when the certain customer enters his email but never completed 6-7 more offers (both paid and free offers). On some shitty email submits offers, they even demand 15-20 offers to be completed before they even get you the $1.50 per lead! Sucks? Yes it does!

For the customer’s side (our lead) here is how it goes.  So what is going to happen about that “free” something on email submit? Well as I’ve said they’d be entered into a larger plethora of offers in which in order to get that freebie, they have to complete those. To be able to complete, they have to purchase something and again in the end, it’s like they just paid  that free stuff.

Convert2Media founder Ruck told me in their IRC channel that these types of offers are something that they don’t have control at. So the best thing they did is just to eliminate all email and zip submit offers. If you look around the other affiliate networks, Copeac has taken down all of them as well, Market Leverage on the other hand has lessened theirs. It seems like the once mighty and in-demand type of offer has rapidly plunged down.

So to end this one is it still worth promoting email and zip submit offers? Hmmm, partly? Well if you could go for other higher converting offers that don’t scrub your balls that much then why not just go for them instead? I would very much love to hear your opinion about it

Filed Under: Affiliate Marketing, Internet Marketing, Ramblings Tagged With: Affiliate Marketing, affiliate scrubs, email submits, zip submits

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  1. zalds says

    April 28, 2009 at 1:23 pm

    lead scrubbing is normal in zip/email submit offer but as long as we are getting profit from the money we invested then its worth it.

    i have a friend who is doing 8x,xxx a month just by promoting 2 zip/email submit 🙂

    zalds’s last blog post..The Google Ad Auction

  2. Agent 001 says

    April 29, 2009 at 3:54 am

    Wow! I had not much of knowledge in this field. Something new to learn for me. I will have to do some research on Zips. Any suggestions.

    I know one thing for sure Emails are really converting.

    Agent 001’s last blog post..Why Did I Followed 17 People on Twitter

  3. Best CSS Gallery says

    April 29, 2009 at 9:35 am

    Interesting info, I’ll have to think about this

  4. Paulubiadas says

    April 29, 2009 at 1:21 pm

    I already tried them but it never earn me a since cent.

    Paulubiadas’s last blog post..Download the free copy of the MasterPlan

  5. Melvin says

    April 29, 2009 at 4:52 pm

    well i would pretty much guess he couldve had made more if he would promote stuffs outside the email & zip submit types 🙂

  6. zalds says

    April 29, 2009 at 7:40 pm

    he is also promoting per sale type of offer.. so his earning is more than that..

    what i’m just saying here is that promoting zip/email is still worth a try..

    so if you want to start quick and get an easy conversion go to zip /email.. if you want a challenging campaign then join the hot niche..

    zalds’s last blog post..The Google Ad Auction

  7. Tech @ InkAPoint says

    April 30, 2009 at 6:08 am

    Well. I love this blog. Good work dude.

  8. Farrhad A says

    April 30, 2009 at 8:14 am

    This sooo sucks. I never knew it works like this.

    Farrhad A’s last blog post..Ways To Make Money On Youtube

  9. Hugo Santos says

    May 2, 2009 at 7:41 pm

    first incentivized offers now email submits… i guess it’s the laws of the markets…
    any way.. do you know a company that offers incentivized offers?

  10. d3so says

    January 23, 2011 at 4:46 am

    I test offers myself first before running them. So, I know first hand what the customer has to do in order to convert.

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