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Talks are ads for newbies, VIP tickets are money down the drain, and a booth only pays off if you’re hunting affiliates. So why go at all? For a hundred business cards, an accidental PR guy, and a deadline that finally makes you ship.

An offer catalog, a dashboard, rates, support, lead distribution: all important, and none of it is what you get paid for. Any web can build a middleman for $250 and deal with the advertiser directly. So what is the commission for? For making sure the money arrives even when the advertiser stiffs everyone. We go through five myths about a network’s value, and why the guarantor is you.

Anyone can spin up an affiliate network: a quarter of an hour and eight bucks a day. That’s exactly why a network like that is worth nothing on its own. Real ones grow out of a media buying team with traffic or an advertiser with offers. We break down both ways, plus the third one, “from nothing,” which leads strictly nowhere.

We’ve already counted how much money it takes to open an affiliate network on a shoestring. Quick reminder of the answer: a flat hundred bucks, and that’s not a typo. Now let’s do it in …

I promote a healthy approach to building a business in the form of my affiliate network. In any case, I sincerely consider it sound. Get started quickly and cheaply. You can throw money away for a bunch of cool and even useful stray in the form of your own engine and a large staff of hipsters later. But it’s better to spend on blackjack, rum and…

We have already discussed how many people are needed to open an affiliate network at the minimum wage. This option is suitable for those who want to quickly and cheaply test a hypothesis and develop the enterprise in case of initial success. What if we want to get down to business right away? Have you attracted a lot of investments and are doing an adult affiliate program? Or another situation. We created an affiliate program at the minimum wage, everything went up and it’s time to grow. Who to hire?

The answer is simple. We need one person. Well, at least two. And a cat. Life is no good without a cat. Double the cat sounds not bad. This post could have ended. But I feel like I need to explain a little.

This article especially emphasizes the title of my cozy blog “How to create an affiliate network and not go broke.” The situation that will be discussed today, its causes and consequences, is guaranteed to lead to the death of several networks at once. And the rest of the victims will be left afloat only due to the airbag or resourcefulness of the management. Let’s move straight to the sweetest part.

In the beginning there was a word, and the word was two bytes… Every project, even the fattest one, started somewhere. What is now familiar to you as AlterCPA from the WR team also has …

This year I have already witnessed several scam stories from affiliate networks. The scenario is very similar in all cases. And the worst thing for me is that these scenarios use ready-made engines for creating affiliate networks, including my AlterCPA Cloud. I will tell you about these two cases.

As an arbitrage techie to the bone, who single-handedly created the AlterCPA Pro affiliate network engine, I have a deep understanding of processes. I often laugh at how affiliates perceive and try to solve problems, creating another cargo cult. Myths on one of these problems I will destroy today. And let’s talk about malicious software – the simplest mistake in Google advertising campaigns.

Five minutes with a wannabe network owner is all I need to know his affiliate network won’t live to see its first payout. Here are the five tells, so you can check yourself before the eulogy gets written.

Why is such a huge chunk of traffic arbitrage made up of grey niches — gambling, crypto, nutra, dating, adult? The answer is pretty obvious. There’s a ton of money in those verticals. Massive demand, …

In the previous posts we worked out how to open an affiliate network for gambling, crypto and nutra. Today, let’s tackle dating. Why should you only get into building a dating affiliate network with serious …

In this series, we’ve already covered gambling and crypto. The column is meant to help people just starting to build their own affiliate networks get their heads around the finer points and quirks of running …