A Guide for ClickBank Affiliates!

By Jason Smith  |   Submitted On April 27, 2016

  

Many choose ClickBank for their affiliate marketing efforts. Do you know ClickBank enjoys about 3,000 or more digital sales every single day and boasts more than six million users who develop and sell digital products on there? But, the best part - you don't need to necessarily create a product to be part of ClickBank! Yes, you can either list your product or promote products listed by others and earn commission. And the commissions are between 5 - 75%.

So, how do you promote products on ClickBank?

A good idea is to have a website and promote affiliate offers for ClickBank products. You could promote the offers with good content. I prefer using WordPress because it is easy to set up, run and also gets listed in search engine results better. Articles are the best way to grab more traffic and attention, so come up with interesting and winning content to promote products.

Now that you know you need a site and good content, what's all that without traffic? Online traffic is what makes you money - the more the visitors, the more possibility for conversions or sales. For getting targeted visitors, you need to identify the right keywords to create content around them to drive traffic. Many recommend long tail keywords, which are search phrases and they garner more targeted hits and guarantee better conversion.

The key is to keep the site updated, free from errors and up and running always. Tracking the progress, number of visitors, responding to comments and whatnot, is all very important. You can offer free videos, tutorials, or documents for regular visitors. Most of us love freebies - so as long as they're useful and relevant, your visitors are going to stay loyal. Give them what you like and they like, it is a win-win situation! There's nothing wrong in trial and error - no one gets it right the first time.

The best part about being a ClickBank affiliate is that you don't need anything. Anything and everything you ever need as an affiliate; ClickBank offers - account, affiliate id, etc. You don't even need a website if you don't want one, since there are ways to work around it.

This is how the entire process works:

You create an account in ClickBank and you get a nickname, which will also be your affiliate id. This is needed for tracking your earnings. The account creation is free. Choose one that you wouldn't mind flaunting, as it reflects you.

Now, search the marketplace for products and pick the ones you want to promote. You could pick them based on type, product or keyword.

Now, use the "create hoplink" option to go to your affiliate link. Here, you will see the products or vendors you have chosen to promote and the commission you can get.

Now, enter your nickname in the "ClickBank Nickname" field and wait for the link to appear. This is the link you will be using to promote the product(s) you just chose.

Once someone decides to buy the product, ClickBank handles the rest and your commission is automatically sent to you, every two weeks. You can either get it as a check or bank deposit.

Ready to get started?

Steps for Success

To be successful with Affiliate Marketing, here are a few key steps to follow. The best part - it is affordable and works effectively. It is a good idea to follow the order for best results, instead of skipping a few steps for quick results and getting none or falling short.

Picking your Niche: This is a very important step that should be done with care and caution. Never rush this, as it is your base and will decide whether or not you will succeed! Pick your passion and expertise, for best results. More on this in our future posts!

Developing Your Online Real Estate/Website: Now, the second step is building your online property - your website. You should get this right for drawing traffic and getting conversions. This again, we will go over more in detail in our future posts.

Promote: Now that your site is ready, it is time to promote it and garner traffic. Do you know how to get in traffic? No worries, we will be explaining more about this later.

Now is the time to pick your products. A niche is different from products, which you would have known by now. You could pick one or more products and promote them, though make sure you go through every other step with adequate time for each.

Last but not the least - promote your products!

Dos and Don'ts of Affiliate Marketing

When you are starting off, it could be confusing or there could be an information overload with you trying out or hearing different stuff. So, let's skim through a few basic dos and don'ts, shall we?

Dos

• Pick products that are good and what you would personally choose to buy. You can market what you believe in and know better, than something you aren't sure about. That's true, isn't it? You don't have to buy, though owning it will help you market it better.


• Most firms offer tutorials and ideas to help their affiliates fare better. They even give suggestions on keywords and some firms also offer a relationship manager who can be of assistance.


• Always make sure your hoplinks are working.


• Try new techniques and always assess if they work, before fully investing your time on them.


• Be willing to make changes and amendments as necessary.

Now let's look at a few Don'ts

• Never resort to spamming for promotions.


• Never resort to advertising campaigns with a negative slant - Is this "Product" a Hoax?


• Never promise gifts or special offers for your visitors if they go through your hoplink, because ClickBank doesn't like it! Play by their rules.


• Don't expect quick money. You will do better putting in your time and energy for lasting results, than quick results that vanish and earn you a negative hit with Google!


• Don't resort to black or grey hat marketing methods.

I hope this quick guide gives you a glimpse of what ClickBank Marketing is all about and helps you get started, or decide if it is right for you. Stay tuned for detailed posts on each step, to guide you through to your ClickBank Success!

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How To Create Products To Sell At A Profit By Talking and Listening

By David H Pool  |   Submitted On February 18, 2013

  

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There are people who I know who would tell you, if you had the opportunity to ask them, that I talk too much at times. Well, that may be true, but after a lifetime in Sales I also know how to listen. Talking and listening are crucial in any sales process.

Talking and listening can also be very important tools in producing digital products that you can sell at a profit. Interested? Then read on!

One of the easiest ways to do this is by recording an interview and then selling it as an MP3 downloadable product.

The interview can be done in various ways. If you're an expert in your niche market you could get someone to interview you. Alternatively, if you don't feel confident enough to do that then identify an expert and ask if you can interview them.

You will find that most experts are only too pleased to talk about their subject and will be grateful for free publicity.

Put yourself in the shoes of your potential customers and think about the questions they have and the style of interview they would like to hear. A useful tip is to list the 12 to 15 most common questions about your niche and then to work your way through them.

A relaxed informal interview style works well and appeals to most people. For your first product, aim for a 30 minute audio product. You may think that seems a lot but if you work it out that's just 2 minutes per question if you have 15 questions.

Factor in an introduction and a conclusion and it's even less per question. The reality is that you will probably run out of time and not be able to cover the 15 questions.

In terms of technology it's fairly straightforward. You'll need your computer, an internet connection, a microphone and some free software. Audacity is ideal for recording and editing sounds.

If you're doing the interview over the phone there are various providers that will record the conversation for you and then send you the MP3.

Once you have your MP3 you need to upload it so that your customers can access it. There are various ways of doing this e.g. you can use your WordPress site or a service like ClickBank.

If you use ClickBank to sell your MP3 it has the added advantage that affiliates will do some of your promotion for you.

So there you have it - a straightforward way to create a digital product that can be selling very quickly. It's a great place to start if you haven't yet got any products for sale and if you like talking and listening then what better way to get your business moving.

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How I Got Affiliates to Promote My Product

By Sean Mize  |   Submitted On March 02, 2016

  

I could not build momentum. I was doing what I teach folks to do: get five sales on your first product, then you do another one next week and sell ten. You do another the next week and you sell fifteen, and that's a lot like how I started. In fact, that's how I started. But it wasn't working to try and break into this market.

Affiliates weren't promoting for me, and I had somebody tell me that affiliates don't promote until you have fifty or a hundred sales. So what am I going to do to get over this?

I needed a strategy to recruit affiliates in a big marketplace like the Warrior Forum, ClickBank, JVZoo, etc. I was using the Warrior Forum...

The light bulb went off. What about solo ads? Instead of sending my solo ads to an opt-in form, or instead of sending them to some "Thank-You" page, I can immediately get the subscriber if I send them to the WSO (Warrior Special Offer) page, and then I would just send them to whatever my current WSO was, and get fifteen, or twenty, or thirty sales, I found that was paying for my solo ads prices, not completely, but it was helping pay for it. Then with my back end it was paying for it.

This allows me to monetize my solo ad leads, and so I was just buying solo ads left and right, sending them to a WSO (it didn't even have to be my current one - it might be the top performing one). Send it to a WSO, get as many buyers as possible, put them into my twenty-one day conversion campaign, where people were spending like $18 - $20 within twenty days in the conversion campaign, by enrolling in coaching, prepaying some things, just various things that were in the integrated conversion campaign that I put together. It was really a phenomenal thing.

Now you're thinking "Why are you telling me all of this?" I want you to see the WHY behind it. Because, one of the things that happens in your business, you may find, is that you hit obstacles, and you just don't know what to do.

I hit an obstacle and solo ads weren't performing as well, so I decided I'd stop those. Then I saw the opportunity on the Warrior Forum and I put them together like I described above. Then I ran into another obstacle!

Solo ad providers stopped being willing to sell me ads that just went to the WSO forum because they weren't getting as many clicks. Then, if they don't get as many clicks, they don't make as much money. So, the bottom line was I had a harder and harder time finding ways to do that, but! but! by now, I had hundreds of WSO buyers, that I had gotten through these solo ads, now if I launched a WSO, I could send it out, send it only the buyers that had bought from me before, that way I would keep my conversion rate really high. And then people would buy, and I'd get my fifty, or a hundred sales, and then affiliates started noticing, and started promoting for me.

And, what would happen was most of the time you would get like ten affiliates, they'd each do like five sales, and honestly, it's pretty discouraging. Pretty discouraging, I remember how discouraging it was.

How am I ever going to scale? People are either sending out a test e-mail, or all these people had really small e-mail lists, and, I think there's a mix of both. But, then, the big break happened.

Some of those affiliates, when they bought my product, they would study it themselves, and then they realized that I had really good training, and then when they promoted it to their list, they would tell the people that it was really good training, they would want to promote for me, they would start promoting for me on the first day instead of waiting until there were fifty or a hundred sales. Why? Not because of anything special at the Warrior Forum, not because of any hot copy, I don't write hot copy, I write copy that gets the job done.

But people were choosing to promote for me because they liked me!

Because I offered phenomenal training. And I think that that's something that motivated me, and said this is something that is very, very, very interesting. And then what happened was you know a few affiliates that really could pull a hundred or two-hundred sales, they started promoting for me. And then they would even send me e-mails that would say, "hey, when you're going to launch something, let me know I'd like to promote for you." Sight unseen, why? Because of the quality of the product, and so what do I leave you with when I say this. Your product's got to be great. It's got to have high quality.

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How to Earn Bigger Commissions With Affiliate Marketing

By Anne O'Dwyer  |   Submitted On March 14, 2016

  

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Affiliate marketing is a popular way to work online and enables people to work at home. Products are sourced from various online warehouses and commissions are made from sales. Clickbank is an online marketplace for eBooks. The trouble with some of these suppliers the commissions are very small and many sales have to be made to make any real money. Also working alone without advice when you begin can be stressful, as you don't know which are the "best sellers", you don't know how to find customers, or which marketing techniques work best, it is a bit scary and requires lots of trial and error. Lost time and funds.

There is a simpler way, start earning faster and with the help and guidance of a coach or mentor you won't feel so alone. Be guided by a mentor who is successful and works to a tried and tested plan of action and is bringing success to many other budding entrepreneurs, your mentor will provide excellent products in a range to help your customers grow in their chosen field also sales-pages so that you don't have to build websites, and maybe banners and other marketing tools will be provided.

Marketing is a large and important area to learn, trends change, and your mentor has funds to test and discover the best current marketing techniques. Because your mentor wants you to learn fast and sell lots of their products (for which you receive a generous commission, with a personal affiliate link); they will offer you great advice and training. They may have a Facebook group or forum where their protégées can communicate with each other, share ideas and tips and gain companionship and support. This can be very welcome when you are learning new skills.

Places to find traffic: Facebook is currently a popular place to advertise for paid traffic also Google and Bing for PPC. Solo ads also bring a fast return but use a monitored site like Udimi. YouTube videos also bring great results and continue to bring "clicks" (visitors to your sales pages) for years if they are popular well thought out videos, take a look at YouTube.

It does take time to master all these techniques, set yourself, one task at a time and learn it properly before moving on or you will suffer information overload.

However be guided by your mentor about what is working for them, you have expert advice available, use it. Also follow their plan of action. Realize they have probably honed their plan over many years online. Don't re-invent the wheel when it is done for you.

So to summarise: If you want to earn big commissions from a good selection of products, want a fast and easier start, want companionship and advice and don't want to waste time and money, a mentor is the best choice.

Books to help you:

Think and Grow Rich" by Napoleon Hill.

"Ask for the Moon and Get It!" by Percy Ross

"Awaken the Giant Within" by Anthony Robbins.

"The Power of Your Subconscious Mind" by Joseph Murphy.

"Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway" by Susan Jeffers.

"SEO step by step" by Caimin Jones.

"500 Social Media Marketing Tips" By Andrew Macarthy

"Turn your computer into a money Machine" by Avery Breyer

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