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There are 2 types of people who will read my blog.

  1. The ones who read everything, comment and ask questions, but never do anything.
  2. The ones who decide to take action ASAP.

The second group is going to get results and learn mobile performance marketing a lot faster than the rest. Even if they don’t read each one of the articles I write.

Why?

Because to become successful at one thing, you need to do it. And to be good at it, you need to take action and fail several times. This quick start page is crafted for action takers (A.K.A. the ones who’ll make money, AK.A. YOU!).

If you want to get started ASAP and launch your first mobile campaign before the end of the week, here’s what you need. Let me guide you step by step to get started and then you can learn from my posts and improve your campaigns to get profitable.

If you’re running CPA offers already you can skip steps 1-4 and go straight to point no.5.

Pro tip for starters: Bookmark this page.

Here’s what you need right now:

1. Money

Yes! Do make money you need money. How much? I’d say at least $500-1,000 to get started. $2,000 or more is highly recommended but you don’t need to have all that money at the beginning. So if you’ve got $500 or more you can get started.

Don’t have enough money? Get a job. Sell a few things. Save some money from avoiding clubs, trips and similar stuff for a few months. Do whatever you need to save those $500-2000 to get started and come back here to launch your first campaign. I know it sounds harsh but that’s what most people do. Don’t be foul and think that making money with mobile CPA offers is easy and that you’ll spend your first $100 and get back $500. That won’t happen.

2. A VPS or CDN account

Not a shared hosting account. Not a dedicated (unless you can afford it and you’re doing good volume already). A VPS is the sweet point to get started with CPA marketing. You need fast load times to make sure your visits see your landers and click to your offers. A shared hosting can kill your ROI and a dedicated or a super fast VPS can improve it a little (I’ll release some tests about this later on my blog).

Many affiliates recommend Beyond Hosting, Liquid Web, etc. If you feel comfortable with $50 a month to get started, go for it. But you can also get an unmanaged VPS from Vultr for $5 per month and it will load up as fast as a dedicated. That’s up to you. You’re just adding landers to your domain via FTP, so there aren’t special requirements at this point. What matters is to get started fast and collect data to learn.

3. Ad Network Account

This is where you’re buying traffic. A few sources to get started are: Inmobi, PopAds, Popcash, Airpush and MGID. Also, many people recommend to get started because their interface is user friendly and they have tons of parameters to track. Fore more networks check out the Resources area.

I’d recommend picking up 1-2 traffic sources maximum and deposit your money there. First time I got started on mobile I deposited $500 in a traffic source and got a sweet deal for another $500 bonus. The point I’m trying to make clear is that you should pick up 1 traffic source at a time and dominate it. Don’t spread your $1000 in to 10 traffic sources with $100 deposit each. You’ll regret it. I guarantee it.

4. Tracker

A tracker isn’t optional. There’s CPV Lab, Adsbridge, iMobiTrax, Thrive and Voluum. If you don’t have a tracker already, pick up Voluum or Adsbridge. Adsbridge has a 30 day trial (nobody else has this anymore). Or use Voluum and you’ve got free clicks if you’re running traffic from Zeropark. I prefer Voluum, but Adsbridge is really good too.

5. CPA network with great offers

Not all CPA networks are equal. Some of them have tons of Toolbars and Game offers. Some of them have offers in specific niches like skin, diet, etc. but some are specialized in mobile. That means at least 50-60% of their offers of not all, are mobile.

If you’re starting you need a network with a low payout limit and quickly payments. Some networks offer weekly payments with a min. amount of $50-100. Make sure you sign up with them if you’re low on cash or you’re a beginner. Trust me. You don’t want to spend $500 in 1 week and then wait 45 days until you get $300 back from your network to launch more campaigns. A few networks that are easy to get in are Furthermobi and Mobpartner. Yeahmobi also pays on a weekly basis but they require you to prove you can make at least $1,000 per month.

If you’ve been running web/desktop offers before and you’ve got earning screenshots and cash flow I’d recommend you to try: ClickDealer, Mundo Media, Gotzha, Yeahmobi, AppFlood, Adsimilis and Advidi.

Once you get approved add your manager via Skype or send him an email. Ask him/her for the top offers of the last days/week by Volume or Revenue. EPC doesn’t matter at this point, so Volume/Revenue is what you need to know. Check the top 50 offers and select 1-3 similar offers in the same niche.

The conversion process can be via Leads Generation (SOI/DOI), CPI (App installation and open), PIN submits (1 Click, 2 click flow, MT FLOW, etc.) or CPS (per sale or revenue share). Select an offer with a low payout (below $2) and 2 similar offers to split test. There are several niches, including coupons, dating, adult, utilities, sweepstakes and more.

Add the offers and landers to your tracker and submit your banners/landers to your traffic source to launch your first campaign!

Congratulations

If you made it this far, you’ve launched your first of many mobile campaigns. you’re already ahead of the rest that didn’t take action. The only thing that’s worse than failing is not to make anything at all.

Want to learn more? Read my blog articles and subscribe to my weekly newsletter on the sidebar. I’ll write weekly articles with tips and case studies to help you learn more and create winning campaigns.

Talk to you later!

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Comments

  1. Raul says

    April 23, 2018 at 7:06 am

    Hola Servando,
    Durante un tiempo, he estado corriendo todo tipo de ofertas CPA con Facebook ADS, pero me gustaría meterme en media buy. Con que tipo de tráfico me recomiendas iniciar? Tengo un presupuesto de unos 1.500$.
    Un saludo, y felicidades por tu gran blog 🙂

    Reply
    • servandosilva says

      April 25, 2018 at 4:22 pm

      Hola Raul. Con ese presupuesto te recomendaría tráfico pop.
      Me tienes en skype o email?

      Saludos!

      Reply
  2. Obafemi Agbongbon says

    January 28, 2018 at 1:32 am

    Master Servando,
    I am a newbie and I have been following your posts for long from affiliate fix.In short I love them all…you are great sir.
    I am having adworkmedia,cpagrip,targelon and aragonadvertising CPA networks.Which one can you recommend for me among them and will not land me into regrets.
    Also,facebook ads have a good tracking tool,with that,do I still need the likes of adsbridge and voluum.
    Lastly,you mentioned adplexity tool for spying.what do you think of admobispy and whatrunswhere?
    Please I will appreciate your response as soon as possible.
    Thank you sir.

    Reply
    • servandosilva says

      January 29, 2018 at 11:23 am

      Adworkmedia is good and the other I have heard about them but I don’t work with them so I can’t really say anything good or bad.
      Facebook ads doesn’t have tracking tools for a lot of things, so it’s always good to use an external tracker.

      Finally, Adplexity is definitely better than whatrunswhere and admobispy. I’ve tried them all.
      Best Regards.

      Reply
      • Obafemi Agbongbon says

        January 29, 2018 at 9:15 pm

        Thanks so much my dear brother!

        Reply
  3. Mr Rathore says

    December 27, 2017 at 3:14 pm

    Sir i have a pharmacy business and i was work with 7 Search but they shut down the business and i was make a account with zeropark but they declined my application.. i am looking keyword targeting PPC .. like i was work with 7 Search there i can check my competitors bid .. can you please help me this .. request to you..

    waiting for your email

    thank you

    Reply
    • servandosilva says

      December 28, 2017 at 12:20 pm

      Try 50onred. Also you can try bing ads and adwords since you were using search ads before.

      Reply
  4. El Hossine says

    December 8, 2017 at 5:35 am

    Hey Mr Servando
    I’ve tried multiple times mobile CPA marketing but I have problems with traffic sources, I always get bot traffic and it annoys me, wat should I do ??

    Reply
    • servandosilva says

      December 8, 2017 at 8:52 am

      Optimize your campaigns. There’s always going to be bot traffic there.
      Optimize and block until you’re profitable and exclude most of the bot traffic sites.

      Reply
  5. Mariano says

    November 16, 2017 at 6:31 am

    Hola Servando, antes que nada quiero agradecerte por todos tus posts con consejos que compartes de manera desinteresada, realmente ayudan mucho.
    Quiero comenzar nuevamente a trabajar con CPA. Anteriormente lo intenté, pero leyendo en distintos blogs (como este!) y foros, me di cuenta que no tenía las herramientas necesarias (por ej. no utilizaba un tracker y ni sabía lo que era). Leí tu comentario sobre una pregunta acerca del futuro del cpa, y que recomendabas ahora mismo comenzar con e-commerce y tráfico de facebook Ads.

    Teniendo en cuenta que estoy por comenzar, ¿me recomiendas empezar a aprender a trabajar con cpa o directamente meterme de lleno con e-commerce? Y respecto a esto último, cuando dices e-commerce te refieres al dropshipping?

    Cualquier consejo será muy apreciado, un saludo y gracias!

    Reply
    • servandosilva says

      November 16, 2017 at 12:03 pm

      Hola Mariano.
      Gracias por tu comentario. Ecom y en general muchas cosas white hat de este mundo están creciendo en este instante y son el boom, por lo cual creo que si es una buena estrategia para iniciar. En e-commerce puede ser vendiendo tu propio producto, dropshipping, print on demand, etc. Eso ya depende de tí.

      Saludos!

      Reply
  6. mhub says

    November 8, 2017 at 4:52 am

    hey servando
    what s your opinion about the impact of google chrome built-in adblocker and cpa in the future ?

    Reply
    • servandosilva says

      November 8, 2017 at 11:07 am

      They’re going to be more difficult for beginners and affiliates will have to adapt or die to new things.
      Right now it’s a good time to move to e-commerce or learn white hat traffic sources like FB or Adwords.

      Reply
  7. eslam gaber abd almonem says

    October 24, 2017 at 2:15 am

    Hello,
    i have most of this tips and i tried many times, get profit but the most of campaigns i failed.
    can i know profitable methods.
    waiting your replay.

    Reply
    • servandosilva says

      October 24, 2017 at 11:17 am

      This are profitable methods. How many times did you try and how much did you spend so far?

      Reply
  8. Neo says

    May 11, 2017 at 8:21 pm

    Servando,

    Thanks for the great tips. Do you have any recommendations for offers if using PopAds? I want to get something to convert but haven’t discovered the right niche/product yet. Still working on it.

    Reply
    • servandosilva says

      May 12, 2017 at 10:49 am

      Hi Neo.
      The best recommendation would be to get a spy tool like Adplexity and see the offers and landing pages that are being run there. You can search by network (PopAds) and geos/OS, etc.

      That way you won’t need to discover the right product or niche and you can start with what’s already working there.

      Reply
  9. joo says

    March 6, 2017 at 4:11 am

    Dear Master Servando Silva,

    how Hide & secure My landing page from ( affiliate network and Ads network so from competitors, spy tools, compliance checks and stop people sharing your lp links ??!!!

    thank you

    Reply
    • servandosilva says

      March 7, 2017 at 9:49 am

      That’s something advanced that normally can’t be mentioned publicly.
      Try looking for DMR and also check the STM forums for more info 🙂

      Reply
      • joo says

        March 8, 2017 at 11:36 pm

        Master

        kindly Mr.servandosilva explain to us how do DMR

        thank you boss

        Reply
  10. John says

    February 23, 2017 at 8:05 am

    How about prosper202 for mobile tracking

    Reply
    • servandosilva says

      February 23, 2017 at 3:08 pm

      I don’t recommend it, to be honest. For mobile tracking (carriers, OS, etc) I think Voluum and Adsbridge are your best options.

      Reply
  11. joo says

    February 14, 2017 at 11:47 pm

    Dear Servando Silva,

    about VPS
    what i need to setup VPS ??
    i have do steps to be ready for hosting my landing page ??

    thank you

    Reply
    • servandosilva says

      February 15, 2017 at 12:40 am

      Hello.
      I plan to write a guide about it next week. What are you looking for, exactly?

      Reply
  12. hafid says

    February 2, 2017 at 8:17 pm

    thnaks for those interseting information

    Reply
    • servandosilva says

      February 3, 2017 at 9:46 pm

      No problem.

      Reply
  13. Josh Bell says

    December 2, 2016 at 12:34 pm

    Hey Servando, great quick start guide. I’m curious, should a person put any content on these sites or just the CPA offers? Thanks!

    Reply
    • Servando Silva says

      December 9, 2016 at 11:52 am

      This is just for CPA sites with direct landing pages man. No content needed.

      Reply
  14. James Bradfield says

    September 23, 2016 at 6:30 pm

    Hey Servando! I’m new to PPC, but I’m hoping to make something out of this. I started looking into trackers, but Voluum is $99/month (no longer free?) and thrive is just as expensive. Would you recommend a noobie with a low budget using those trackers or should I get something like Prosper? Thanks!

    Reply
    • Servando Silva says

      September 28, 2016 at 11:30 am

      Try Adsbridge as they still have a 30 day trial.

      Reply
      • James Bradfield says

        September 28, 2016 at 7:31 pm

        Thanks! I’ll try them out

        Reply
    • Maxim says

      October 4, 2016 at 5:04 am

      Why don’t you try BeMob tracker? We’ve just launched the service, so we need you to evaluate the advantages of the tracker. Plus if you like it, you get complimentary month access. More info on bemob.com

      Reply
      • Servando Silva says

        October 6, 2016 at 12:51 pm

        I’ve been testing different trackers lately. I’ll add it to my to-do list. Thanks.

        Reply
  15. Ryan says

    September 13, 2016 at 5:02 am

    Hello Servando, I found my way here from your affiliatefix threads. Trying to find the bit where you said you mentioned “I’ve mentioned which kind of offers work in this traffic source before. it’s pretty much the same you can see in all pop traffic sources, including sweeps, av, some casino/bizop, dating, etc.”

    What worked best for you in ZP’s domain or PPV?

    Reply
    • Servando Silva says

      September 19, 2016 at 7:59 pm

      Ah, I mentioned that in the thread but basically it’s apps, sweepstakes, antivirus and a few dating/adult offers.

      Reply
  16. Kai says

    September 2, 2016 at 10:26 pm

    Hi Servando. have you used Facebook auto tool that can add friend by geo and gender, then auto reply a message? Thank you/

    Reply
    • Servando Silva says

      September 5, 2016 at 10:12 am

      Nah, but I’ve seen a lot of people doing similar strategies with a lot of head aches just to make $5 per day. I was never interested on it.

      Reply
  17. Admin says

    August 5, 2016 at 10:41 am

    Great post for newbies

    Reply
  18. Miguel Angel Arias Perez says

    August 3, 2016 at 6:12 pm

    thanks servando has been great help to me all this information .

    I need to learn to make winning campaigns in zeropark and how to select winning bids .

    greetings from Chile

    Reply
  19. Joseph Latham says

    April 20, 2016 at 6:26 am

    Good Post for the Newbies.

    Reply
  20. Felipe Oliveira says

    March 21, 2016 at 11:35 am

    Nice post Servando, thanks man !

    Reply
  21. Dennis Felyx says

    March 18, 2016 at 4:27 pm

    Thanks)

    Reply
    • Servando Silva says

      March 18, 2016 at 5:36 pm

      Thanks

      Sent from Outlook Mobile. Yes, it works with gmail.

      Reply

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