CPA offers are just another form of affiliate marketing. You are still promoting someone else’s product for a commission. The only difference is that you don’t have to convince anyone to buy anything and no sale has to take place for you to get paid. All you have to do is get some one to sign up for an offer, request a quote or fill out some sort of form.

Let me give you a real life example. Lets say you are promoting a CPA offer for insurance quotes and the offer pays out $3 every time you refer someone and they request a insurance quote. That means that anytime someone clicks on your link and fills out the request form, you get paid. Millions of people search for information about insurance quotes every month. That means you could make a really nice income from home with this type of offer.

Insurance quotes is a very popular niche. But it is just one of the many niches that pay per action. Which by the way is what CPA stands for. Cost Per Action. The visitor only has to perform a certain action for you to get paid.

Some other popular niches are dating, weight loss and the medical field. So as you can see, the earning potential with CPA offers is virtually unlimited. However, if you are completely new to this whole work from home thing, then you will want to start off with basic affiliate marketing first.

You see, most CPA networks have an approval process and they won’t approve you unless you can prove that you know what you are doing. So get your feet wet with basic affiliate marketing first and then graduate to CPA offers.

There are of course ways you can maneuver around the CPA networks and get approved but truthfully that’s not what you want to do. The top CPA networks pay close attention to how much income you are bringing in for their network. If you are producing decent results each and every month, most of them will disable your account.

So start out with a basic affiliate network such as ClickBank. Once you learn the ins and outs of affiliate marketing and you understand traffic generation, you can go sign up for a few CPA networks.

A good idea is to start building a list right out the gate. That way when you move into CPA offers you will already have an audience you can promote to.

by H. Miller