Affiliate marketing most people will say is becoming saturated, as almost every niche has become to a very large extent exhausted; However, as a performance based marketer who deals with mostly Cost Per Action offers, below are 15 sure ways you can beat the stiff competition and successfully sale your CPA Affiliate offers even in a niche or market space that seems over-crowded.

1) Identify a Hungry Market to Sell Your Offers to: Remember the whole space is over-crowded, but this is not to say that all kind of offers will sale or does it mean that there's no room for you to operate and sale your offers, the answer is no,as you can effectively operate and be very relevant in your chosen niche. If only you can make good researches, be at the right place, with the right people and at the right time. From this, you'll find out that there's still so many un tapped niches, hungry and ready to buy: niches like debt management- people want to get out of debt especially in a recession as we now have; Mortgage and Real Estates: people want to buy and sell properties and therefore need professional advice; Stocks and Investment- This recession having knowledge of good stocks to buy and sale is very essential; Dating, Sex and Relationship-People need to meet new people who share the same interests, passion, obsession and desires like them; Health and Fitness- of course every one wants to be healthy and if possible live for ever; Astrology: so many people believe in zodiac signs to know what luck awaits them. These are niches that will never get exhausted except mankind goes into extinction which I doubt!

2) Avoid Offers That Requires a Credit Card: Most pay per lead offers require the prospect to leave credit card details before he can access the offer, though CPA Affiliate offers that require credit card details seem to pay more. Some pay as high as $32 per lead, but the sad thing here is that promoting offers like this means that you'll be competing with the very best who have the clout and resources to run expensive ads, so avoid offers like this for the mean time, rather promote offers that pay little, but convert more. These kind of offers will pay as little as 0.80$ per lead, but if you are serious you will definitely make substantial money from this kinda offers. Just imagine promoting a debt relief offer that pays say $1, remember as a result of the present economic down turn so many people have incurred some very bad debt with so many homes on foreclosures and more, so to these group of debtors, such an offer will be highly welcomed; picture the prospect of promoting and signing up 100 leads, so how much have you got? 1.00 X 100=...guess?

3) Write Good Reviews and Endorsement to Differentiate Your Offers: Of course you know you are not the only one who is promoting this offer; recently I was promoting an offer I think on Max Bounty a weight lose diet that's really making a lot of waves referred to as Acai Noni - The hottest new diet of 2009! if you can (that is if you want to look like the couple David and Victoria Beckam) then take a look at it, and in the hubbers spirit sign up and give me the $28 I deserve or don't I?. Well sorry for digressing a little bit, I was talking about writing good product reviews and endorsement, so write good reviews, list the benefits of using what you are promoting, if possible list the side effects of you offer as this will make your prospect see your offer as something decent and trust worthy, sound very friendly and personal, avoid blatant and spam like promotion to avoid being termed a scam artist, and above all be real and keep your zeal!

4) Network with other Affiliates especially in Your Niche: The bench mark for success in performance based marketing is networking, and for you to get to terms with what is going on around you, especially in a rough and over-crowded terrain as such, you need to learn how to network effectively with the top guns and mafias in your niche, this will help you know your competitors, the top networks, product stats and more. Funny enough with web 2.0 apps like twitter, FaceBook, Myspace etc, networking have become relatively easy and possible. While making your interactions make sure you sound as resourceful as the other person or you'll be viewed as a waste of time and even as bad luck...

5) Use Ezines, and if Possible Start one: Though I am yet to start one, but so far I am really making preparations to get one started. The power of ezines in niche marketing and performance based marketing cannot be over emphasized as it is much easier to make more conversion from your current subscribers than some one new (what I term the 80-20 rule). It is a known fact that 80% of your business dealings will come from 20% of your top clients (which should come from your list of ezine subscribers); just imagine starting an Ezine on Golfing, and in one of your publications you decide to promote a CPA Affiliate offer that has to do with a good Golfing Bat that will send the ball even more further resulting into more Bogeys and Pars, tell me won't your ezine subscribers run to sign up for this offer? just imagine... This is the power of Ezines, get the clue.

6) Sell Your Offers while They are Still very Hot: Know this, apart from recurring Affiliate offers like web hosting, auto responders, membership sites etc most Affiliate offers, CPA offers inclusive, have a limited time for it to sell after which it looses its original market value; so make sure you promote and sell your offers while they are still new, fresh and very hot; while others are yet to make a conversion, you are one step ahead of the game promoting the next high converting offer.

7) Use the 4 A-I-D-A to crave the Indulgence of your Prospect: You might be wondering what I refer to as the 4 A-I-D-A, well it simply means "A"=Attention "I"=Interest "D"=Desire "A"=Action With this very effective strategy you first of all grab the Attention of your prospect using good attention grabbing headlines and phrases, then you stir his Interest, make him Desire, then call him to Action, try this, don't tell them I told you when the leads starts pouring in.

8) Network on Niche Based and High Traffic Forums: Believe it or not Forums especially Niche based forums; remain one of the best ways to get more sign ups for any CPA Affiliate offer you are promoting. Knowing how to Network effectively on these forums is one technique that will help you make the difference positively. To network on forums, make sure you register with High Traffic Niche Based forums; you can visit WWW.BIG-BOARDS.COM, for the real stats for any of the forums, any forum listed on Big-Boards I will assure you is a high traffic forum, after registering, start making positive and resourceful contributions, be selfless, sound very friendly and very helpful. Soon other forum members will start associating with you, many will want to know more based on the information on your reply to threads, and in so doing will want more resources, and this is when you'll want to recommend your offer as a solution or antidote to their problems, desires or obsession. This is exactly what I did on one of the contributions I made on one of the threads I was following on a dating and relationship forum, on this forum someone wanted to know how he'll sexually satisfy his partner for fear of losing her: I told him what to do, and in the process when he contacted me for further help and resources, I used this opportunity to present a CPA offer I was promoting on I think, is it "How to keep your romance alive" (not so sure I will check my sales stats to be sure), he got the message and immediately signed up for the offer and gave me my I think $1.80 just like that. This is power of Networking on Forums, get the clue...

9) Write Good Articles and Submit to Article and Ezine Directories: Remember you are operating in an overcrowded market, so when you know how to write Good and Resourceful Articles, this will be one of your most potent and lethal marketing tool against your competitors. When you write and submit articles it gives you a guru and Expert Status, and if you drop powerful and resourceful content, your reader might decide to click through to your blog. site or sales/landing page to see what you've got, and who knows he might sign up for your CPA Affiliate offer, you'll never know...

10) Never Ignore Social Bookmarking/Networking Sites: If you ignore the social medias on cyber space, you do so at your own peril because take it or leave it Social media is Hiring (and even Firing), sites like hubpages, squidoo, facebook, xanga, yahoo 360!, MSN Spaces etc have known to bring in good conversion for CPA offers especially dating, sex and relationship kinda offers: so knowing how to effectively manipulate these sites for profits will get you more sign ups and ultimately more checks (which is why the heck you are into this!).

11) Advertise Using the Right Platforms: One common mistake of most Affiliates when running affiliate marketing campaign is under-advertising and over-advertising. This could be as a result of not knowing the right platforms to advertise your offers. Another thing about advertising is not just knowing where, but Who?, How? and When?. Understanding this concept will make you know Where to advertise, Who to advertise to, How to advertise and When to advertise. Then of course you can now choose the right media to advertise your offers, the list could include Forums, Social Media, Good Classified Ad sites (not mediocre ones), pay-per-click (if you have the resources), ezines, press releases (that is if you know how)etc.

12) Learn How to use Paid-to-write-Reviews and Answer Sites: These days many Fortune 500 (or is it 1000) companies and B2B Firms now understand the power of a good and well written product and service consumer review. This is what lead to the current trend and proliferation of third party sites like Ciao, MyLot, Dooyou, Shvoong etc who allow ordinary publishers like you and I to register and write reviews and get paid for it. In an ever increasing and demanding market like we currently have, using these sites will help you make more sign ups for your CPA offers if you understand the recipe for writing a good review that sales; on the other hand using Question and Answer sites like Yahoo Answers!, Qunu, IwantYourAnswers.COM, ExpertBEE.COM Etc, have proven to be another effective way for marketing your offers, because when you answer questions, those who come across your answers will see you as the man to contact to solve their vast problems, and if you can stylishly recommend one of your offers that you know is relevant and seem right to take care of their problems, desires, worries and obsessions, then Bingo! you are on anticipating when your next pay check will be hitting your mail box.

13 Tweet if you can: Twitter.com will continue to be one of the best web 2.0 web apps that we will continue to celebrate for all times; and those of us who are savvy enough,have manipulated this web app to our very advantage; knowing how to write good tweets that will increase followership can and will increase turn your followers to prospects, and if your tweets are good enough the chances of converting these followers/prospects to leads increases, as these leads decides to click through to see what it was you are talking about via the links you left on your tweets,they might decide to sign up for any of the offer in the offing for you to make this money. So make sure you get those useful tweets coming.

14) If you must, Understand SEO, and Implement it in your Blog Posts, Articles, and Write Ups: Search Engines Optimization will continue to be the most important issue in cyberspace and in Internet Marketing Parlance, this is so because if you understand it, then you will be getting targeted hits to your blogs, articles and so on from search engines. Remember 60% of your traffic will come through search Engines, and understanding the language of search bots (which is SEO) will mean more prospects, more leads and more checks. To help you with this use free tools like Google adwords free keyword suggestion tool, wordstracker.com free keyword tool, free Alexa Ranking tools, Fr free Google Page Rank Tools etc.

15) Write and Compile Free Special Reports in EBOOK Formats: If you understand the concept of viral marketing, then you will know the importance of writing free and resourceful special reports. When you compile this report based on a particular niche, it could be dating, stocks and investment, Internet Marketing, Home biz Tips, FOREX, Boating, Gardening etc; make it free then upload it to ebook and file sharing directories like scribd.com, esnps.com, 4shared.com etc. The good thing about the above sites is that they get crawled by search bots every other day, so when you upload your report to the prospect of getting your ebook with links to your blogs, write ups and offers indexed is greatly increased, which will mean more people downloading and distributing your report, which will translate into more leads, more sales, more traffic and more pay checks see how sweet it is being a CPA Affiliate Marketer.

These are 15 ways you can make more not just CPA Affiliate sales, Internet marketing as a whole or what do you think?...