Case studies

    Enough talking theory :) In this section I will give you four case studies of my campaigns that I ran in the past with three different affiliate programs. I hope it will give you an inspiration and motivation to start your journey as a successful affiliate marketer.

    Remember: Always use materials for creating your banners or pages which are not copyrighted, otherwise you risk of being sued!

Case study 1

    Niche: Mainstream dating

    Offer: ChinaWomen (targeting users 25+ yrs of age)

    Payout: $7.20 per free registration

    GEO: [REVEAL]

    Affiliate program: [REVEAL]

    Traffic source: [REVEAL]

    Devices: [REVEAL]

    Angle 1: "Rules page"

    Angle 2: "Chinese girls need roommates"

    Actions

    Created 10 banners with pictures of attractive Chinese girls and engaging texts like "Like Chinese girls?", "Desperately need a boyfriend!", etc. Created two landing pages with my angles. Set up a proper audience on [REVEAL] based on location, device, age, gender, interests. Split tested my campaign elements based on the audience. After running it for approximately a month, optimizing and before [REVEAL] changed AGAIN its advertising policy (I was forced to stop it), I came up with this results:

    Results

    Clicks: 13,473

    Conversions: 903

    CR: 6.7%

    EPC: $0.48

    Spent: $600

    Revenue: $6,501.60

    Profit: $5901.60

 

 

Case study 2

    Niche: Adult dating

    Offer: Sexigdate (targeting users 18+ yrs of age)

    Payout: $5.50 per free registration

    GEO: [REVEAL]

    Affiliate program: [REVEAL]

    Traffic source: [REVEAL]

    Devices: [REVEAL]

    Angle 1: "Rules page"

    Angle 2: "5 questions about what kind of girls visitor likes"

    Actions

    Created 10 banners with pictures of attractive girls or sex poses and engaging texts like "Fuc*k her tonight!", "Meet cheating moms!", etc. Created two landing pages with my angles. Translated all creatives with OneHourTranslation. Set up a proper audience at [REVEAL] based on location, device, category and website source. Split tested my campaign elements based on the audience. After running it for approximately 7 days, optimizing and before it stopped to give me satisfactory results, I came up with this:

    Results

    Clicks: 1,125

    Conversions: 107

    CR: 9.5%

    EPC: $0.52

    Spent: $220

    Revenue: $588.50

    Profit: $368.50

 

 

Case study 3

    Niche: Health and Beauty

    Offer: BustCream

    Payout: $10 per sale

    GEO: [REVEAL]

    Affiliate program: [REVEAL]

    Traffic source: [REVEAL]

    Devices: [REVEAL]

    Angle 1: "Angie has a blog and she describes how she made her breasts grow without surgery"

    Angle 2: "Fake news article about pros and cons of a given product"

    Actions

    Created 4 banners with pictures of girls measuring their breasts or girls with big breasts and engaging texts like "Small breasts?", "Increase your bust size fast!", etc. Created two landing pages with my angles. Sent the text for banners and landers to be translated at OneHourTranslation. Set a proper audience at [REVEAL] based on location, device and website source. Split tested my campaign elements based on the audience. After running it for approximately a month, optimizing and before it stopped to give me satisfactory results, I came up with this:

    Results

    Clicks: 22,503

    Conversions: 196

    CR: 0.87%

    EPC: $0.0881

    Spent: $630

    Revenue: $1,983.00

    Profit: $1,353

 

 

Case study 4

    Niche: Penis enlargement

    Offer: MaxRoar

    Payout: $10 per sale

    GEO: [REVEAL]

    Affiliate program: [REVEAL]

    Traffic source: [REVEAL]

    Devices: [REVEAL]

    Angle 1: "Joe has a blog and he describes how he enlarged his penis without surgery"

    Angle 2: "Fake news article written by a 'doctor', explaining how a man can enlarge its penis, recommending a given product"

    Actions

    Created 4 banners with pictures of sexual poses and large penises. Came up with texts like "Small penis?", "Increase your penis size fast!", etc. Created two landing pages with my angles. Sent the text for banners and landers to be translated at OneHourTranslation. Set a proper audience on [REVEAL] based on location, language, banner size, OS, browser and category. Split tested my campaign elements based on the audience. After running it for approximately a couple of weeks, optimizing and before it stopped to give me satisfactory results, I came up with this:

    Results

    Clicks: 10,397

    Conversions: 108

    CR: 0.87%

    EPC: $0.104

    Spent: $340

    Revenue: $1,081

    Profit: $741