MaxBouty is a Cost Per Action (CPA) affiliate network that has been around since 2004. The challenge is it can be difficult to be accepted into the network, and there are pitfalls you should avoid.
Someone doesn’t need a website for MaxBounty, but it’s “very” nice to have!
Keep reading, and I’ll share 5 things you have to say to get accepted into the program, 5 pitfalls to avoid with this business, 4 ways to promote their links, and how MaxBounty makes money.
Why Do MaxBounty CPA Affiliate Marketing?
Maxbounty is a great tool in your arsenal as an affiliate marketer. They also have many different ways of paying you, such as…
- CPA (Cost Per Action) – This means you get paid if someone clicks on your link. Usually, this involves an action such as signing up for someone’s email list.
- Revenue Sharing – This means you get a percentage of the revenue.
- Per Sale – You can get paid for every sale you generate for a company.
MaxBounty earns money from advertisers and passes some of that payment to affiliates.
Like “every” affiliate marketplace, some offers are better than others. The bad news with this network is that some offers (especially the good ones) have a daily cap on how much you can earn per offer.
The reason for this is that some people abuse the network, and the people paying for the lead don’t want to waste money.
Also, MaxBounty is strict on who they allow in the network, but some of the offers that pay “a lot” of money are also strict on who they allow.
You might have to do business with some of the offers that don’t pay as much before the better offers will accept you. You might have to earn some “street credibility.”
More bad news is that you MUST earn at least $100 to get paid from the network. At this point, you may be wondering why EVEN bother with this network.
The reason is that some offers are really good! One offer, for example, could be Nutrisystem, which will pay $200 per lead.
You could earn $200, and someone doesn’t EVEN have to buy something! Crazy stuff, right?
How often does MaxBounty Payout?
You start out getting paid on the 15th day of the next month. Then, when you start to earn money, you will get paid weekly.
MaxBounty uses the following methods to pay affiliates.
- Check
- Intercash (It’s like PayPal from the UK)
- eCheck
- ACH (automatic clearing house)
- Wire
How to Get Accepted into MaxBounty?
If you apply for this affiliate network, there are a few questions you HAVE to answer correctly!
What’s your experience? Pick the options where you have some experience and have received at least 1 payment. MaxBounty does NOT accept brand new affiliate marketers.
Describe your past experience with Affiliate marketing? When you answer this question you want to list ALL the experiences you have ever had. The more the better!
How do you promote offers? List how you will be promoting them! It could be social media, search, paid traffic, email, or something else.
What campaigns are you looking for? A good answer could include email submits and free sample offers.
Is this account for incentive traffic? You HAVE To answer NO! They don’t want incentive traffic. This is where you pay people to fill stuff out, and the lead isn’t as good.
Include Website Address? If you don’t have a website, you can put a social media account like your YouTube channel or LinkedIn profile.
You also have to promise not to sell your MaxBounty account and NOT send fake traffic to offers. Lastly, you have to talk to someone over the phone to get accepted into the program.
When I did the phone interview, it lasted 1 minute and I was asked 2 questions.
- How are you going to get traffic?
- What niches are you going to target?
Oh, and you also have to take a picture of some type of photo ID.
If you’re interested in applying to the network, you can click HERE to check it out.
Largest Pitfalls to Make with MaxBounty?
One of the largest pitfalls someone can make (not just with MaxBounty) is by always consuming information and never producing.
You will earn NO money if you don’t produce content online. It doesn’t matter if the content is video, written, paid ads, email, or social.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m open-minded to improve, and I’m always learning. When you do learn something, it’s good to put it in action “in the real world” and see what happens.
Marketers get paid to fail! Not to constantly be consuming information and overthinking everything.
The second-largest mistake you can make is having short-term thinking. This means doing stuff that will make you a quick buck today, but get you banned and hurt you in the long run.
An example of this could be to use a VPN to complete and fill out your own leads online for money (don’t do this).
I know this rule firsthand because I used to do “a lot” of black hat techniques, and the white hat guys passed me up like I was standing still (actually, I went backward). Black hat means I was doing stuff to trick the search engines, and it hurt me in the long run.
This whole topic of long-term thinking can go MUCH deeper. This is why email marketing “can” work better than just sticking affiliate links in posts (if you know what you’re doing).
The money in “anything” is going deep, NOT shallow! In fact…
All self-help is thinking long term!
The third mistake is to be arrogant and not learn from people better than you. I’ve been guilty of this in many areas (one was crypto because I thought it was stupid).
Being open-minded and learning from people that (have gotten real-world results) can really shorten the learning curve.
The 4th mistake I’m going to say is to get too greedy. Pigs get fat, and hogs get slaughtered! I learned this lesson the hard way with domains by pricing them WAY too high and them not selling.
It also works with affiliate marketing.
Bigger CPA rates are not always better. Sometimes, lesser payouts convert better. Smaller payouts usually require less effort from a user to earn money.
Plus, if you’re new, then you’re going to see momentum and money, and this can help with motivation.
Start small and work your way up to bigger payouts!
The 5th mistake is never applying to MaxBounty or not answering the questions correctly when you do apply. Getting into the program is the first step, and usually, the first step is the hardest.
How do I promote MaxBounty Offers?
There really are 4 main ways to promote offers online, and this is paid ads, email, content marketing, and social media.
Sure, there are things like messaging (I used to do a lot), but they land in one of these buckets! I’m a HUGE fan of content marketing, and here is why!
- It’s free
- You do the work once and get paid forever.
- Can leverage the crap out of it (more on this later).
- Helps you gain credibility.
- Plus it helps you learn stuff.
- It can also be fun!
When I mean you can leverage content marketing, this means you can take content from 1 source (like a blog) and turn it into videos and a podcast. You could even submit the blog to multiple places for MORE views and traffic!
I prefer to start with a blog I own because I OWN it. If you put content on YouTube or LinkedIn, you don’t own it, and you’re playing in someone else’s sandbox where they make the rules.
With a website you own, you can also earn MORE money from ads, and you can sell the blog in the future if you want. It’s truly an asset you can leverage.
If you don’t want to own a website, you can still do content marketing on YouTube, Medium, TikTok, and many other platforms.
15 years ago, I got into affiliate marketing, and it was all about building a list. Today, it’s still all about building a list.
There are SO many benefits to building a list, it’s hard to list them all. Not only is it free or almost free, but you own the list.
- You can have a MUCH higher conversion rate
- Promote multiple offers
- Easier to get accepted into programs
- Can do list swaps
- You OWN the traffic
- Can grow your own social media channels with it.
I’m sure if I brainstormed, I could list WAY more reasons.
I’m giving away free training on how to build a list, get traffic to the list, and even what you do when you have a list HERE.
The main thing with a list is that getting traffic is NOT easy, so it ensures you get as much value as possible from the traffic you’re getting.
Whether you’re paying for traffic with your time or money, you don’t want to waste traffic.
A list helps you NOT waste traffic. Hope that makes sense.
Social Media is a mixed bag and can be MORE challenging. I’ve had a lot of success with short videos, and I highly recommend jumping in.
Plus, they are a SHIT TON of fun.
What’s SO cool is by making a TikTok video (which takes little effort) you can download it and upload the same video to TONS of places for more views and traffic.
I have a free guide that shares how to do this and gives 50 tips HERE.
Lastly, there is paid traffic. I have experimented with paid traffic, but you should be careful because you can learn money.
Interestingly enough, AI is constantly in the buzz; AI is driving lots of growth for stocks, and I’m not sure the companies are able to directly make money on the AI just yet, except with advertising (I think).
So a tool like this HERE, is a wonderful way to jump into paid ads very simply and easily. Plus, it does all the split testing for you.
It also helps you create the ads, and you can test them on multiple platforms. It’s REALLY cool!
Just remember to start small and track everything. Make sure you don’t lose money, right?
Conclusion
Affiliate marketing is a wonderful tool that we all can use to better our lives. Plus, it’s very flexible, can be done, I think, anywhere, probably anytime too.
The important thing is to take action and always be learning.
I hope this blog post on MaxBounty was helpful to you. Bye for now.