September 3, 2008 | 5 comments | Affiliate programs, Site Reviews, make money
T3leads - A new concept in pay per lead
Affiliate marketing is a very profitable business, and this profitability makes new companies appearing every month. The competition is high and h(w)ealthy (for bloggers hehe), This makes companies hit hard on advertising. That’s what t3leads.com is doing right now. They want to get known on the web and you probably have read about them in another blog or site.
T3Leads is a new pay per lead affiliate program that specialises on the finance niche market.
So i have decided to give them a try and registered there.
When you visit their site you will see that they have the highest paying Pay per lead affiliate program…. Yeah.. Who doesn’t?
A lead can generally pay a value that is between $5 and $150. They even say that a client can save 20% over other companies prices.
Here are some advantages to work with T3Leads (accordingly to them):
- T3leads does not resell generated leads. Our affiliate program directly cooperates with a large network of banks and other financial institutions. We sell generated leads through a unique auction system that allows our affiliates to make maximum profits. We pay for each customer sent to us when they respond to your offers for qualified products and services.
- We provide our affiliates with an arsenal of promo tools that are constantly being refreshed by our creative team for maximum performance. You can work with both public web sites, and private web sites own by you.
- The high quality of T3lead promo tools ensures high conversion rates in our affiliate network. At T3leads we guarantee the highest conversion rates in the industry - ranging from 1:6 to 1:9.
- Our affiliates can order free ePassporte cards for greater convenience. Major partners can get a VIP ePassporte card free of charge, with a total maximum transaction limit of 10K per day.
- Friendly affiliate support is always available, and ready with answers to any question. The support team can also help with technical problems. You can find answers to commonly asked questions on our forum: http://forum.t3leads.com
Registration Process
This was actually an easy process done in a few seconds. An Ajax system will give you feedback in the process, and in the end you will need to insert a captcha code. Don’t worry… This one is really easy to read… 
You will be sent a PIN number to your mail. You need to save that PIN number in case you need it in the future.
Control Panel
The first impression i got when logged in for the first time was actually good. The design is clean and simple, made of a single top menu with 6 tabs with drop down menus. And each drop down menu doesn’t have more than 7 options. This respects the usability rules, making the navigation easy.
Campaigns available
You have two options: Public Websites and Private websites.
Private sites are your own sites where you can use their feed to generate leads.
Public Sites show’s you a list of all available offers. You can see a thumbnail of the landing page, then and link of the offer. You can also have access to a list of keywords to use in PPC campaigns. I don’t know if this is a good idea, because these keywords will be used by a great number of members, increasing the competition and ppc prices.
Strangely, i can’t see what is the payout of each offer… well, I thought it was strange until a find out why. More about that below.
Promotional Banners
In this tab you have 4 options.
Referral banners: This is the place to grab some nice banners if you want to advertise your referral url.
Banners, Popup ad and JS or IFrame: the other options are for regular banners where you can choose what product to advertise, or chose to use a javascript, iframe or a popup to advertise the products.
Payouts
A thing that intrigued me was why i couldn’t see what was the payout of each campaign available. I didn’t realised until i read more info about it, and the answer was right in the front of my eyes.
The answer for this was already mentioned on the top of this post.
A publisher does not know how much will receive for a lead because T3Leads works on a auction lead model. This means that the advertisers bid for the lead. This is a unique concept on the market. A little dangerous for ppc marketing campaigns because you don’t know what you can spend. You are kind of blind.
Approved accounts
Their approval method is a bit different. While other companies call you to confirm your account, in t3leads you will to generate 2/3 leads first and then send a ticket to begin the approval system.
Conclusion
T3Leads looks promising. They focus on a niche that can bring big big profits, as long you know what are you doing.
The only thing i didn’t liked was the auction system, that makes the users a little blind. But in the end this really could work to benefit the members.
And if you visit the News sections you will see they care for its members, giving prizes for their activity.
I reccomend you to register at t3leads, even if you don’t plan to use then as an affiliate but to take advantage of their referral program.
Popularity: 10% [?]
Yan has a nice $2500 contest running. Did i say nice? Way better than that. $2500 is great! Want to get a chance? then 
Adsense and other networks: $15- What the hell? i know i screwed my adsense revenue but i didn’t expect this result!
