Is CPA marketing better than affiliate marketing?

[kayode10]

Affiliate marketing is very popular among the beginners because it is pretty much easier to get started.

There are lot of people who are making a lot of money with affiliate marketing only.

Another thing is affiliate marketing is scalable. You can repeat it a winning strategy across all the niches you are promoting.

Affiliate marketing can be run on autopilot once you have master every steps you need to take to earn consistent commission.

CPA stands for cost per action. CPA is a type of affiliate programs in which you get paid for every action performed by the website visitors.

You don't need to generate sales before you earn a commission from CPA affiliate marketing.

So I want to ask that is CPA marketing better than affiliate marketing?

 

[Jasmine]

Affiliate marketing is another term for CPA marketing. Both of these are same things, you cannot make comparision between CPA and affiliate marketing as both are the same concepts. When you promote affiliate products on your site, it is affiliate marketing or CPA marketing. When you use CPA ads, you are promoting affiliate products

 

[kayode10]

@Jasmine, though CPA marketing is an aspect of affiliate marketing. But there is a slight difference between between both of them. You don't need to make a sale before you get paid with CPA marketing. There are some CPA programs that pay you for every sign up from the people you refer. With CPA Marketing, you can get paid if people drop their email, sign up with programs, download etc.if you don't make sales with normal affiliate program, you will not earn anything.

 

[Hennie]

CPA, definitely, I love email or zip submits, sometimes you get really good offers going up to about $10 per lead or even higher, you can make money real fast if you do proper promotion.

 

[Chibson]

Different strokes for different folks. There are many people that consider affiliate marketing and there are people that consider CPA marketing.

The both fall under the category of affiliate marketing but they are probably different. In Affiliate marketing for example, you really need to sell a product before you can be able to make money but in CPA marketing you actually do not need to sell any product but all you need to do is to get people to complete some actions like dropping of the emails and a whole lot of other things like zip codes.

The truth is that on the long-run affiliate marketing is much more sustainable because you can open a blog and dedicate to promoting Affiliate products but you can probably not do the same for CPA marketing because it needs a lot of ads for you to be able to realise profit.

You can start affiliate marketing for free and make a lot of money from it on the long run but the same thing may actually not be the case for CPA marketing because you need some targeted audience and that can only be possible by carrying out ads.

Honestly speaking, I would choose affiliate marketing over CPA marketing any day any time.