Can you help me solve my dilemma when choosing a campaign?

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Hey everyone,

I'm brand spanking new to this and I hope you guys can give me which i hope is an easy answer. I've just recently signed up with an affiliate network and spoke with my AM, and asked for suggestions for what to promote yadda, yadda. Now there are two brand new products they have featured; he recommended one and there is another identical product which is offered through another merchant. The merchant site of the product he suggested has a much lower ranking on alexa than the other product they offer, although he said the one he recommended is getting more conversions(nothing substantial as of yet because its new.) So what to do, what do....?
 


Two ways I think： One is to test both and optimize them, then make a choice, the other is to choose one which is easily converted.
 
One small thing that I wish I figured out earlier.

Don't trust your AM entirely. Make sure you ask them very specific questions to back up whatever recommendations they're making.

Examples:
- how much rev are your top 3 guys doing EACH?
- how long have they been running it?
- how do you know they're running it on this type of traffic? (ie Search, PPV, FB, etc)

Some guys might trash me for this but a lot of people forget what happens when they're new. Network owners / approval departments find you to be of low value so they assign you to lesser experienced AMs. Eventually after a while you start getting some more trust worthy AMs who know their shit and know what kind of offers work with your traffic. But they need to earn that trust first.

But not to get too sidetracked. OP you need to calibrate your gut for what offer is right or not. Get used to making the decision because you're the only person who is accountable for your success. Personally I like to choose a market first then pick offers related to it, but to each their own. Once you narrow down to a few offers just try to guess which one will perform the best, but test all of them anyways so you know how right/wrong you were. Repeat.

It sounds like you're stuck in between 2 offers from different markets. Best thing to do there is to do a dirty test on both and see which one shows any movement (clickthroughs/conversions). Advertisers change domains quite often (at least for shady stuff lol) so it's hard to just pick whatever has more history on compete/alexa/quantcast. Try everything on the cheap and go towards whatever moves.
 
juntao65 said:
One small thing that I wish I figured out earlier.

Don't trust your AM entirely. Make sure you ask them very specific questions to back up whatever recommendations they're making.

Examples:
- how much rev are your top 3 guys doing EACH?
- how long have they been running it?
- how do you know they're running it on this type of traffic? (ie Search, PPV, FB, etc)

Some guys might trash me for this but a lot of people forget what happens when they're new. Network owners / approval departments find you to be of low value so they assign you to lesser experienced AMs. Eventually after a while you start getting some more trust worthy AMs who know their shit and know what kind of offers work with your traffic. But they need to earn that trust first.

But not to get too sidetracked. OP you need to calibrate your gut for what offer is right or not. Get used to making the decision because you're the only person who is accountable for your success. Personally I like to choose a market first then pick offers related to it, but to each their own. Once you narrow down to a few offers just try to guess which one will perform the best, but test all of them anyways so you know how right/wrong you were. Repeat.

It sounds like you're stuck in between 2 offers from different markets. Best thing to do there is to do a dirty test on both and see which one shows any movement (clickthroughs/conversions). Advertisers change domains quite often (at least for shady stuff lol) so it's hard to just pick whatever has more history on compete/alexa/quantcast. Try everything on the cheap and go towards whatever moves.
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OP:
It's likely that your AM doesn't know a goddamned thing, and if they did, they wouldn't tell you.
 
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