[Case Study] Propellerads advertising for CPA offers

Kratos168

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The objective of this case study is to study in depth on the possibility to generate a positive ROI through CPA advertising via Propellerads.

Disclaimer: The services mentioned in this case study is not affiliated to myself in anyway and it is only mentioned for the purpose of better understanding.

Steps:
  1. Identify potential CPA offers to consider. For this case study, I would choose payday loan offers.
  2. Next I will design a simple HTML based landing page that loads fast.
  3. Test the landing page using different devices to ensure the landing page looks decent
  4. Setup a droplet with digital ocean for hosting, server will be located in USA as that will be my target market.
  5. Setup CDN, I will be using cloudflare paid version ($20 per month) for this purpose
  6. For tracker, I will be using Bemob. Will setup a landing page to track clicks and redirect to offer when visitor clicks on CTA button. This step is crucial. Will explain later on.
  7. Load my funds to propellerads, will be using around $500 as test budget.
  8. In propellerads, I will setup the pop traffic campaign using CPA bidding mode. The min budget to use this bidding mode is $250 test budget (which gets burned out very fast). However according to propellerads, this mode will grant me access to several premium high converting traffic zone. I guess this is just a sales pitch but I am taking the bite here.
  9. Will be targeting USA, desktop user, major cities (as I assume there are more demand for loans there).
The plan above looks simple but the twist lies with step 6. Since I am tracking who are the ones interested in loans (aka clicking the CTA button), I will be able to identify the zones that offer clicks ratio that is siginificantly higher. Next I will compare this with conversion rate.

The second part of the plan will be to create a second campaign using the data collected, targeting those high click zones, collect revisitor cookies through landing page and then promote various different loan offers to them. At this stage, I will be using SmartCPM. Since I am targeting only a few zones and only to those retageted visitors, my cost of advertising will drop siginificantly. Which means I will be getting premium traffic from Properllerads at extremely low cost even with tier 1 traffic.

Third part is to test other offers to these group of people. I assume people who need loans will need business opportunities to make more money. So I might push these offers to them as well.

I shall update the result on a weekly basis, most likely on Sunday since the rest of the days I will be very busy.

Any suggestion for improvement will be much appreciated.
 
Your organisation is turning me on, watching this case study to the end.

The twist at stage 6 - IS SICK! I would never have thought of doing it that way.

Be interesting to see if you can get Green with properller ads, good luck.
 
I would be interested in knowing more about step 6 as I didn't find anything new in it or maybe I need more enlightment on that part...
 
I would be interested in knowing more about step 6 as I didn't find anything new in it or maybe I need more enlightment on that part...

The biggest problem with pop traffic lies with untargeted traffic. Step 6 make use of CPA bidding mode and take advantage of potential loophole to slide a better advantage to the campaign.

CPA bidding mode means you pay only for conversion after propellerads system manage to optimize the campaign for conversion. You will still pay for impression before this stage.

By paying only for conversion and using a click through tracking I will then be able to get more traffic compared to simply paying for impression. And these traffic will go through further filtering so as to identify traffics from zones that are into your offer promoted.
 
I loved the idea of using retargeting in such cheap type of ads... Really looks interesting!
Good luck and waiting your updates...
 
The biggest problem with pop traffic lies with untargeted traffic. Step 6 make use of CPA bidding mode and take advantage of potential loophole to slide a better advantage to the campaign.

CPA bidding mode means you pay only for conversion after propellerads system manage to optimize the campaign for conversion. You will still pay for impression before this stage.

By paying only for conversion and using a click through tracking I will then be able to get more traffic compared to simply paying for impression. And these traffic will go through further filtering so as to identify traffics from zones that are into your offer promoted.
As they say in Jamaica - BADMAN!

@Kratos168 has this specific move been fruitful to you in the past on propeller ads? Or is this twist on its first run?
 
Media buying is always lucrative and all the best to achieve your goals...
 
I loved the idea of using retargeting in such cheap type of ads... Really looks interesting!
Good luck and waiting your updates...

The trick I think lies with tricking Propellerads to disclose their premium zones (if we suppose that their sales rep is speaking the truth) so that we can target those zones. Usually you have to invest tons of money to reveal these zones.

As they say in Jamaica - BADMAN!

@Kratos168 has this specific move been fruitful to you in the past on propeller ads? Or is this twist on its first run?

I did not have any successful venture on propellerads before this. I did make some conversion but my ad cost is so much more expensive. To make it worse I receive leads reversal (as I was promoting email submit previously) since the leads were not converting into profits for advertiser. This is why I decided to go with payday loan as I will only be paid on per approved loan. This will ensure that I do not see any leads reversal.

Run by Bunch of Kids.

You mean propellerads network?

Media buying is always lucrative and all the best to achieve your goals...

I hope so too. :) Keeping my finger crossed.
 
Wow, Loved the detailed step by step. I tried Loans with propeller as well, as and got mixed results all and all. Anybody tried any other network? from my understanding the push notification networks at the moment regarding is the best. Interested to know if can implement what Kratos168 explained here on there traffic...
 
Update:

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I have blanked out the deposit date so that my campaign privacy can be protected. Deposited $500 as test budget.

Submitted my Campaign for approval on CPA bidding mode targeting USA mobile users instead of desktop as I was told that the conversions were alot better by my AM from the CPA network.

Bemob is setup and tracking as I type here.

Shall update in a weeks time with regards to the ROI.

Points to note. I have changed my hosting to Amazon S3 bucket as hell it makes lot of difference as the loading speed for static page is amazing.
 
Yesterday stats update:

12,182 visits
716 clicks (CTR: 5.87%)
1 conversion ($40)
Test Budget ($110)
Net loss ($62)

I will be starting another smartCPM campaign today targeting the zoneID that have click through.
The low click through rate could be due to poor design of landing page or ineffective zone. Need more test data to find this out.
 
Nice yesterday's stats! So, you're getting sales. Just keep doing your thing and more will happen :)
 
Nice yesterday's stats! So, you're getting sales. Just keep doing your thing and more will happen :)

Still at a loss so nothing much to be happy about. :)
I modified my method slightly and remove any zone ID that has 100 unique visits but no click through. Hopefully i can improve the ROI further.
 
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