A Closer Look at ClickBank

Let’s take a closer look at ClickBank;

Not so deep in detail that you will run from the
room screaming because your brain hurts, but deep
enough to REALLY get you excited about the
opportunity for absolutely ANYONE to make a
hockey-sock full of money using ClickBank and
1stPromotion.

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First and foremost, ClickBank is an online retailer.

They handle online financial transactions for clients, called
“vendors”. ClickBank has about 40,000 clients,
but only about 5400 or so of them are of any value
to you as an Affiliate Reseller. (more on this later)

That’s because only about 5400 vendors have set
themselves up to allow other people (Affiliates)
to sell their products in exchange for a
commission. The other vendors just use ClickBank
to process their online transactions for them,
without offering an affiliate opportunity.

I am not sure why a vendor would not accept
affiliates, as it is like opening a few thousand
franchises for free, but some vendors nonetheless
choose not to do so.

These 5400 or so vendors that do offer the
affiliate sales opportunity represent
athousand of of products and services upon
which affiliates can earn commissions of 1% to
75% on.

Most are in the 40 to 60% range….pretty
exciting! These products, (or most of them), are
found within an area of the ClickBank website
called the Marketplace.

Now, you could spend a heck of a lot of time
browsing through the different categories trying
to locate a certain product, (if you have time to
kill.) but, if you want to find what you want,
when you want, (and want to pass on the same
courtesy to your visitors), you would need some
type of search feature.

Matter of fact, if you wanted to build a link to
promote each of those 11,400 products or services
you are in for quite a task!

Let’s say you could find each of the thousands of
products and each product’s vendor’s user name
and then build a link you feel confident enough
to promote in 3 minutes each.

That would work out to 33,000 minutes or 550
hours. That means if every thing ran smoothly and
you actually found every product and service
within 3 minutes that to make a link for each of
these would take 550 hours or almost 23 days
working around the clock!

Now, why did I say most of these products, not
all are in the Affiliate Marketplace?

Well, if an item is new to ClickBank, it will not
appear in the Marketplace until it has had a
valid affiliate sale. This means at least one
copy of the product must be sold by an affiliate,
and not the vendor, to qualify for entry to the
ClickBank Marketplace. It may take up to 30 days
after this happens to appear in the Marketplace.

The Marketplace is actually updated weekly. If a
product or service in the Marketplace has not had
a valid Affiliate sale in more than 30 days, that
product will fall out of the Marketplace, but
will go back in on it’s next valid sale.

If you would like to promote any one product, the
“hot sellers” and the most marketed are the top
results in the Browse Marketplace section of
ClickBank.

BUT…

don’t think for a moment that it implies that
they are the best products, or even the best
value, in many cases it just means these products
are marketed more vigorously.

Since they are marketed vigorously, chances are
your visitor has seen them advertised dozens of
times by other sites and marketers, and probably
have literally hundreds of cookies set to make
sure that someone else gets paid in the event of
the sale, not you.

We’ll have more info later on why you should NOT
just stick to popular items, and why many top
affiliates avoid them almost entirely.

When you make a sale, ClickBank for credits you
that sale and it is added to your other
commissions on account at ClickBank until it
reaches the minimum you establish for a check to
be mailed to you.

ClickBank sends the checks out every 2 weeks, and
I know for a fact we have never had a late check
in 4 years. You can set your clock by ClickBank’s
prompt payments. (if in the USA you may also
choose to receive direct deposits instead of
checks!)

As I said earlier, ClickBank is an online
distribution center for over 11,400 digital
products and services that are delivered via the
web (via web pages, files, or email). If they
cannot be delivered via the web, ClickBank does
not handle them. Every product sold by these
vendors can be promoted through the ClickBank
network of over 140,000 marketers (affiliates).

Vendors inform ClickBank of the commission rate
they are willing to pay affiliates for selling
products on their behalf. Affiliates promote the
vendors’ products by referring interested
customers to the vendor’s web site via a special
tracking link called a ‘hoplink’. This means you
don’t really even need a website.

The vendor’s web site describes the product, and
passes the customer directly to ClickBank for the
actual credit card transaction handling.

ClickBank pays the vendor and the affiliate.

Affiliates may freely promote any product and be
assured that they will be paid for sales they
generate. Vendors can freely accept new
affiliates without fear of fraud or
misrepresentation.

So, Marketer, what does this mean in plain English?

Once you send a customer to the vendor site and
they make a purchase, ClickBank & the vendor
handle everything, including:

the customer receives the product they ordered;

the vendor receives his payment; and best of
all..

ClickBank ensures you receive the commission due
to you! Remember, commissions from ClickBank
range from 1% to 75%, but typical commissions are
in the 40 to 50% RANGE!!

In short, ClickBank is a virtual goldmine for
those that make the effort to promote the thousands
of products and services offered. There are
ClickBank affiliates out there making well over
$20,000.00 a MONTH!

We know that 1stPromotion is helping others right
this minute to attain the online incomes they
desire. Using the leverage of 1stPromotion and
the power of ClickBank combined into the most powerful system
anywhere, you can too!

Did You Know:

As a member of 1stPromotion, you are instantly
tied to each and every one of ClickBank’s products
from over 5400 vendors all through a single
web page?

As a matter of fact, with 1stPromotion, you can
also place the complete ClickBank Marketplace on
any website using our Search Box Generator

Many of our members find that these little search
boxes generate more revenue for them than Google
AdSense ads.

Sound good to you? Why not give it a try. Get the
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