Ringtone Affiliate Marketing - Status As Of April 7 2008

If you have been affiliate marketing for more than a year you probably tried your hand at ringtones. I was talked into promoting ringtones recently by my affiliate manager. I was reluctant at first because I knew the market was crowded and I heard the ringtone market was down-sizing.

Well 2 weeks later after losing money for 5 days trying to figure out if the market was bad or if I just had a bad landing page I made a profit for 3 days. Then after those 3 days I lost money..

I had several keywords with 1 impression - 1 click - and 1 lead. This really got my excited because on other offers I promote leads don’t convert so easily. But, even though the ringtone leads converted easily it seemed pretty random.

After talking to Jonathon volk and asking him what he thought, he said it was probably my keywords.  Well I thought so too, so I got some new keywords and re-grouped them.

I saw an increase in profit within 2 hours after making the changes.

So, is ringtones still something worth promoting? Well the keyword here is “is ringtones WORTH” promoting. I would say no because I can promote a lot of other things without all of this hassle and make 3 times more than I have made with ringtones.

With that being said I think that ringtones are not something a new affiliate marketer should promote because the leads (at least for me) are pretty random. And in the beginning if you don’t know your stuff you can lose a lot of money.

Also don’t forget to check out uberaffiliates post on ringtones.