Normanski

Venturing into the affiliate marketing world

Friday, April 11th, 2008 | Online Marketing | No Comments

The past 6 months has been and still is a roller-coaster ride. I got some good bucks from the networks that i have been using like AdSense, adbrite, widgetbucks and cpxinteractive however I’m still curious to know what lies further up the food-chain. I realized that using CPC programs, though very easy easily implemented are somewhere in the baseline of internet economy.

Thus I spent most part of the night researching for CPA networks with good track record and has a paypal payment method. After 2 years of fulltime web publishing and several lost checks in the mail, I’m now avoiding programs that doesn’t pay through paypal. After narrowing down the list of the affiliate networks I signed up to about 4 or 5 networks.

My application to most of them was declined and the common reason was that I’m an “international publisher”. It seems that these networks are trying to avoid publishers which are not based in the US (I’m based in Manila, Philippines). Yeah yeah it sucks, I’m beginning to realize the hindrances of web publishers outside the US and specially my fellow Pinoy dot-comers ( though we have our own share of advantages right?)

Luckily, I was accepted with CPA Storm. I think their support is great since the account manager which was assigned to me was very friendly and they do not reply with canned messages. I have started running some campaigns by purchasing some CPM ads and banner placement to my websites.

Advertising Scam - Tumri Sucks

Monday, March 31st, 2008 | Online Marketing | No Comments

I recently dropped the Tumri Adpods from my websites after running them for several months and earning more than $1,000. I thought that they were good since a fellow webmaster was using them and claimed that he was being paid regularly. However its been 6 months since I have started using them and I have’t received a single cent from them. The user-panel displays that they have sent a check last January 2008 but its already April and not a there’s trace of the check in my mailbox.

I tried to email them for a number of times and I haven’t received a single feedback from Tumri support team. So for webmasters who are thinking of using the Tumri Adpods, I would suggest that you stay away from them until they clean-up their act.