Well I decided to try Clicksor. It had no initial deposit required, so I decided to give it a shot. I have to say it's sucking pretty bad right now. I decided to try their CPI method and as of right now I am at 3,251 Impressions with 0 Clicks. So my CTR is 0.00%. So I stopped that campaign.

I'm going to run a CPC now on their market to see if I can do any better with the funds that I have left in the account. After that I'll probably be done with Clicksor.

Few tips to get started in PPV, this is everything (or almost everything) you need to know!

Budget
PPV is about testing, tracking, and optimizing. To get into CPV networks you need a minimum budget to work with.
Traffic Vance: $1000 + Referral
Lead Impact: $200
Media Traffic: $200
Direct CPV: $100 ($25 Bonus using code "CPV25")
Addon: $50
Linksador: $50

If you are working with a small budget of $50-$300 like me, start with email/zip submits and possibly small forms that payout $1-$3. You will need to test multiple offers of multiple amounts of each payout. If a email submit pays $1.50 you could get enough data to optimize with $10 spend. If the campaign shows promise great, optimize and scale. If not move on and try new campaigns.

If you have a bigger budgets of $300 or more try short form lead gens. They can pay from $3-6 a lead. If you have thousands of $ to spend you can try short forms, long forms, mobile, trials and cost per sale offers.

Once you find a winning campaign your campaign may die down after a couple of weeks and become unprofitable. This is normal so keep building new campaigns. You've probably already made a lot of money if you had a profitable campaign.

Tracking
Track everything down to the keyword and url level. Use tracking202 or the all new bevo media. This is key to finding out profitable targets on your campaigns. Track url/keyword spend, landing page click through rates, offer conversion. Delete or lower the bids of keyword/url targets that don't convert.(You do not have to be #1 bidder to get traffic.) Dump or improve landing pages with lower ctrs. Switch offers with low conversions. If a campaign doesn't seem to work out don't rule it out just yet. Try a different approach to market it. If you feel that it just won't work out then keep your head up and start a new campaign from scratch.

Split Testing
You can split test these things:
Traffic source - not all campaigns have the same results on the same network
Landing page - Get the highest CTR you can, Change headlines, images, layouts. Grab their attention, make it stand out, but keep it simple, don't put too much. You want them to click through, not read a full review.
Offers - Rotate similar offers, across different networks. The exact same offer will have different conversion rates on 2 networks.

Getting targets
There a few ways to find targets for your campaign.
Brainstorm keywords and scrape top search engine results from each keyword.
Brainstorm sites you want to target and find similar sites on Alexa Quantcast and URLS
Target a specific demographics using Alexa and Quantcast Ad Planner
You don't need 1k urls and 1k keywords. Start out with 50-100 good urls and kws that you built by hand, test, add another group of urls.
You will notice most URLs won't get a lot of traffic unless its high up the alexa rank.

Think outside the box
You have a credit report offer, are you going to target credit report sites, and competitors? So is everyone else. Ask these questions:Who needs or might be looking for a credit report? People buying or leasing new or used cars. People looking for mortgages and refinance.

Implement major trends with your campaigns.
You have a direct TV offer. You're going to target satellite and cable companies? Thats ok. How about HDTV review sites weeks before the Super Bowl?

Landing pages
Many times you need a landing page to bring a medium between the offer and the target. Relate why your visitors need to complete a CPA offer. Longer forms and cost per sale offers don't usually perform well without a landing page. Your offer may not even fit on the window size allowed on the PPV network. Here are the network specifications:
Traffic Vance - 800 x 600
Lead Impact - 800 x 600
Addon - 720 x 300 and various banner sizes
Media Traffic - 750 x 550
Direct CPV - Full Screen, within the same browser window, no pop
Look into each PPV network when you sign up, they can offer pop ups, pop unders, link ads, or within a website banners

I have a profitable campaign. Now what?
Scale. Search for similar links or urls of your good converting targets. Make variations of them and misspellings. Are you targeting moneymakerdiscussion.com ? Try moneymakerdiscussion as a keyword or money maker discussion .
Take your campaign across different PPV networks. Create similar campaigns targeting a different set of audience. Is your credit report offer making you money targeting people looking to buy used cars? Good now target people looking to buy new cars. People to buy luxury cars. Then try people looking to rent an apartment. If you go this far you are probably making hundreds a day by now.

Take your campaigns to PPC and Media Buys. You have an idea on what keywords and type of sites are working. Now try to target them using google search and content network. See if you can buy banner space on your converting websites. You will get way more traffic and money.

Further Learning
There are training courses and ebooks with more specific info (even though I covered everything) and you can find a few of them right here on MMD.
Here are some links
http://www.moneymakerdiscussion.com/...kside-ppv.html
http://www.moneymakerdiscussion.com/...rdan-cosh.html
http://www.moneymakerdiscussion.com/...-formula2.html
http://www.moneymakerdiscussion.com/...-trujillo.html

Community
Join a quality ppv forum. Being able to share and discuss up to date strategies, case studies, and form mastermind groups in a closed/private environment is a big plus. My favorite is ppvplaybook.com and I recommend them. Besides who else would buy drinks for each member on an Affiliate Summit get together meetup. Cool guys.

CPVDen.com looks good as well though I never tried them. You can find others and their reviews using with a quick google search.

Best tip
For every 9 failures even if you put the most effort on each campaign, 1 will be a success, and it will make up for all your losses.

I guess nobody ever mentioned it here neithere in any other marketing forum, if I remembered it correctly. Its a very good course by Ed dale for those who want to get started in media buying.

If you are experienced in IM field, you must have heard his name a lot of times. One of the guys who know his shit. And there is also a myth floating in marketing forums that Ed Dale is the creator of Market Samurai(great keyword research tool). Which is completely false. Ed neither created it nor he market for it. He just promoted the discount codes for his list. I guess he was the first to promote it, so the rumors started like that.

This course is concerning the media buying to landing pages to merchant affiliate/CPA offers model. Again, it's all video content. Over the shoulder, step by step "awesomeness" as Ed would say. :proud:

Here is his optin page: and if you dont want to be in his list, then here is the direct access to all his training stuff. Though, I recommend to go by signing up for his list. Then everything will be step by step and easy to understand.

Ahh!! Just now I remembered that Dan has a similar course too. Let me freshen up my mind and search my vault for it. Till then enjoy this course.:deal:

Note: I am in no way connected to this thing. Neither am I trying to promote Ed Dale. Yes, I know him, we did shared a couple of ideas, but still I am in no way connected to this. Not alteast to promote his optin page. :hahaha:

Edit: just noticed that I posted this in PPV section. Couldn't find the media buy section. My bad. Mooderators can guide this thread to its appropiate section.