How Do Email Submits Make Money?

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I submitted an email address on an affiliate offer to see what the user goes through once they have submitted their email for a free $500 gift card (or whatever).

The site it took me to was asking the user to sign up to 2 of a number of affiliate deals (book clubs, surveys and the like).

I recognised a number of them and the payout for them is only $20-$40 CPA, so how are they making money giving them a $500 giftcard?

Surely there is not that many people that only fill out one offer?
 


many people only sign up for an offer or 2 then stop plus these companies now have an email address. read the fine print - the customer doesn't get the free gift unless he signs up for a few of these. They lose on the one that fulfills the requirements but come out ahead because of all the people who don not completely fulfill the requirements.
 
Plus Information about demographics.. i remember seeing this video from some guy at millnic saying that they wholesale the info to major stat companies.
I.e transformers free movie pass... who would want one reeeeally bad well a guy b2n 16 to 30 and they use that info to decide where to target more advertising to you next time when they are promoting i am legend. :) all they need is your email or zipcode. :)
Think big bro there are some crazy smart mo fos out there
 
The deal is usually that you have to complete X amount of offers from each page. The last page, in my experience, usually has 2-3 loan related offers, and the site usually requires you to fill out two of those (which almost nobody does). Coreg info usually pays for the affiliate commission from what I believe, and the rest is almost pure profit.
 
Just as a test, I started filling out an e-mail submit to get a free apple laptop a few months back.

You had to buy a product from each of 3 stages and you couldn't preview the next stage until you completed the one you were on.

First stage, I pay S&H for a trial of some skin product. I'm fucking gorgeous so I returned it as soon as it arrived.

Second stage, I sign up for some Columbia House DVDs. Feeling good, only one stage left.

Stage 3, they send me to a furniture website and tell me I have to make a minimum purchase of $1800.

Yea.

You gotta figure at that point they've already made $40-50 off you, and they know damn well you're not about to re-furnish your home just for a laptop. Plus, now they have your email address and personal info, as well as information about the types of products you're interested in. Info they can use themselves or sell to other companies.
 
aim said:
Read the fine print. It's damn near impossible to actually get the gift card, and if you ever did, you'd technically be at a loss.
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Actually that isn't the case at all. If you're selective on what you choose, you can come away gaining a $500 gift card and spend no more than $100 at the most.
 
dogfighter said:
Just as a test, I started filling out an e-mail submit to get a free apple laptop a few months back.

You had to buy a product from each of 3 stages and you couldn't preview the next stage until you completed the one you were on.

First stage, I pay S&H for a trial of some skin product. I'm fucking gorgeous so I returned it as soon as it arrived.

Second stage, I sign up for some Columbia House DVDs. Feeling good, only one stage left.

Stage 3, they send me to a furniture website and tell me I have to make a minimum purchase of $1800.

Yea.

You gotta figure at that point they've already made $40-50 off you, and they know damn well you're not about to re-furnish your home just for a laptop. Plus, now they have your email address and personal info, as well as information about the types of products you're interested in. Info they can use themselves or sell to other companies.
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It sounds like you went through the producttestpanel.com site. Those guys are borderline criminals. There are more reputable sites you can go through where on the third page all you have to do is sign up for a credit card offer.
 
I'm an advertiser that works for a company that produces email submit offers like this. A lot of people from the outside think that were making $40-$50 per user and then only paying publishers $1.50+ per email submit. There might be some users that net out at that high of a rate, but then you have a ton that net you nothing. All in all, this model isn't nearly as profitable as it once was. Most companies are lucky to net $2-2.5 per user.
 
I've always kind of wondered if people actually get anything. I was promoting a free pink iphone, so I googled it, and realized they hadn't even released a pink iphone.
 
joshmv said:
I've always kind of wondered if people actually get anything. I was promoting a free pink iphone, so I googled it, and realized they hadn't even released a pink iphone.
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Some companies in the space have redemption costs in the millions each year. However, there are less than honest companies that don't give away anything.
 
My Take on it.

Well, I like to explain it like this… If you use paid search, and I think we all have at least don’t it once. It all comes down to your EPC (Earnings Per Click), if you are spending more per click on what is earned per click you are wrong. So, let’s say you pay .10 per click, and earn on average .25 per click, that is a .15 cent profit.

Now this may seem like a small number, but what if you are doing this thousands of times per day? That is where the real money is, volume. Now, let’s turn it around: The advertiser is offering you 1.00 per action/sale/ whatever, but they earn an average of 2-4 per click. They are earning more in the long run.

Its virtually the same thing, just with larger amounts of money.
 
eMail submits are co-reg paths. They monetize the user by showing them excessive amounts of offers and bait them along making them think they might actually get what the landing page promised. I could be wrong though.
 
Yep... launched my first email submit ppc campaign the other day and its been making me about 40 bucks a day profit.
 
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