I’ve been having a look at ClickBank as a way to make money. I’ve seen it about for ages but have never signed up previously or studied it at any depth.
I can’t form any definite impression of the program as yet, as I only joined a couple of days ago, but many people claim to be making worthwhile money. I’ll experiment with it over the coming few weeks and I’ll let you know how I get on.
At the moment I’m looking at it from an affiliate angle - it’s also possible to sell your own products through ClickBank.
There are thousands of products to choose from which are all listed in their MarketPlace these fall into nine broad categories:
Business to Business, Health & Fitness, Home & Family, Computing and Internet, Money & Employment, Marketing & Ads, Fun & Entertainment, Sports & Recreation, Society & Culture.
These in turn are divided into subcategories to make it easier to find the right products for a particular niche to match your blog or website.
You simply choose the products you want to promote and get what they call a hoplink. This is simply a link with your chosen name included.
Nothing needs approval so you can be up and running with ClickBank in a short period of time.
Promotional material, however, is often in short supply so you may need to create your own. Otherwise it’s necessary to go to the websites, of the chosen products, to see if they have an affiliate link. If they have, there may be banners, ads etc. to use. I found though that some don’t offer this so all you end up with is a link.
As for the products they are a mixed lot and seem to mostly be ezines, courses, information and so on. A few examples:
Download Movies: Over 90 million movies and TV shows! The best place to download online - unlimited TV show downloads.
Blogging To The Bank: Create highly profitable blogs that suck in thousands of target visitors every day.
How To Be Irresistible To Women: Discover the powerful, step-by-step secrets of how to meet, attract, charm, impress & seduce the kind of woman you’ve always wanted …using techniques that give you immediate results!!
Get Paid For Shopping & Eating Out: Make money as a Mystery Shopper and be paid $10 to $125 per assignment.
Commissions vary but can be 60% or even more of the purchase price.
Note that commission is earned from product sales, you are not paid purely for clicks.
Payments are made to affiliates every two weeks. The payout threshold can be as low as $10 - but you have to go into your account and amend the default figure which is set at $100.
My first impressions …
The Good:
Thousands of products, something like 10,000!
Possible to get paid every two weeks.
High commission rates on some products -40%, 50%, 60%+
Instant sign up, no approval needed.
You can start promoting products immediately.
Can be promoted wordwide.
No products to handle personally.
Can be done anonymously.
The Not So Good:
Not always good promotional material available.
Have to make sales to make money.
Some of the products look a bit dodgy, so take care with your choice.
Need traffic to get sales.
I haven’t done any real promoting as yet with ClickBank. All I’ve done so far is place a few ads on a couple of my current blogs.
I’ve got a couple of ideas to try, such as starting a new blog on a defined niche and filling it with associated ClickBank offers. I’ll give it some proper thought and see what I come up with.
I think it’s worth a little experrymentation.
Good luck,
Mike.
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