The Truth of Email/Zip Submits
Email and Zip submits have a nasty reputation within the industry, and rightfully so. The way they work is you click on an offer and place your email address or zip code to recieve your FREE product. Of course the product is never free and you have to fill out an ungodly number of pages to have the CHANCE to recieve that offer. In most cases you end up spending more money than theat particular product is worth! Futhermore the information you place in the fields is passed around from one marketing agency to another. You can expect a healthy number of spam emails in the future.
An example of an Email Submit is located here.
While these email submits can be very misleading, the truth of the matter is they proved very profitable from a marketers stand point. When email/zip submits first came out, all the user had to do was click fill out the first page (the email address or their zip code) and the marketer got paid anywhere from $1 - $2 a lead. Not a bad deal!. Eventually the market became much more saturated with these offers and the advertisers requested that 2-3 pages of information be filled out before you’d get paid.
I promoted these email submits up until about a year ago. While many people bashed them, I was able to make a serious amount of bank hawking the newest FREE (fill in the blank). In fact the way I went about winning that Lamo ( for a few days) and the Vegas trip was about 60-70% email/zip submits. Looking back it proably wasn’t the greatest offer in value to my users. I also ran into a bit of legal trouble through some of the offers I promoted as well. I heard stories within the industry about the advertiser receving hundreds of thousands of leads only to give away one free ipod, for example.
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