Making Money With ClickBank
It seems that every other internet Guru tells us that the fastest way to make money online is with ClickBank. This is supposed to be one of the best ways to start out with affiliate marketing….
Is this really true? Yes, it can be… but… there are some pitfalls in this road to profit. If you’re wanting to make money online, more specifically make money with ClickBank, you should be aware that it isn’t as easy as finding a ClickBank product in your niche and promoting it.
In fact, I’ve been reading on some of the forums that I “lurk” on that many new marketers are finding it hard to sell ClickBank products in their niches as affiliate marketers…
The problem, in my opinion, that these marketers over think their potential marketing. There is nothing magical about ClickBank. There are good products and bad products there, as well as good and bad vendors. You have to be choosy.
Some of the stuff in the ClickBank marketplace will sell well, and some wouldn’t sell if you offered it as a free bonus for a bus ticket to guaranteed profits.
Just because the product is on CB and fits your niche, it doesn’t mean that you can put up a lousy webpage promoting a product as an affiliate and you are going to make lots of moolah…
At the very least, you have to attract interested, targeted people to your webpage… and do your best to make it less spammy and with better content than other affiliate’s pages.
You might also want to give some of that traffic an incentive to buy through your link rather than keep on shopping for a better deal… Bonuses that you provide might be the extra incentive that is needed…
This is called marketing… You go out and attract people to your offer – you create your own market for the product. You might create traffic with paid advertising (pay per click is one example) or by free methods such as article marketing.
When you’ve got them to your webpage the next skill has to be brought to bear on them… pre-selling the product. Your pre-sell page needs to sell the idea of buying the product. Actually, as an affiliate, you’re trying to make them want to visit the product’s sales page where the real selling can take place.
That’s it… ClickBank affiliate marketing in a nutshell: create a market by advertising or free methods, capture the names and email addresses, if you can and pre-sell your targeted traffic on the idea of visiting the ClickBank product’s sales page to make the sale… And give a nice bonus to them if they buy from your link.
If that sounds simplistic, it is. But why make it any more complicated when simple works? It’s a formula that works…
Here’s the truth, though… not all ClickBank products are equal… Here’s one of the big the problems with ClickBank… Some of the sales pages for the ClickBank products are not the best and they don’t convert the way you would like them to.
They might be great products, but their sales page sucks, to say it mildly… Many of the sales pages in ClickBank are just plain “spammy”. Once you’re done your job of pre-selling the product, the merchant’s sales page turns your visitors off from buying…
When I first started selling ClickBank products, I saw this time and time again… There are two ways that I have overcome this problem during the years that I have done ClickBank affiliate marketing.
The first way that I discovered is in my pre-sell page I would tell the visitor that the sales page sucked but the product didn’t and to just go to the order button and get the product… simply ignore the sales page and buy…
This works, but not all the time…
The second method that works is to simply re-write the sales page… load the re-write to your own server and send the traffic to the order page directly through your own order link…
In other words, you do a better job of copywriting, making a better sales page. The nice thing about this method is that you can do your own testing and tweaking of the sales page so that it converts the best…
If you want to make money with ClickBank as an affiliate, you need to carefully choose those products in your niche, read the sales page and evaluate it as would you buy this product, then, if the sales page doesn’t look like you would buy, re-write it and test and tweak your re-write till it has maximum conversions.
Next post I’ll get into how to re-write a sales page, how to test in, and how to link the order button to the ClickBank order page with your affiliate link so that you receive the commission… till then…
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Posted: March 7th, 2010 under affiliate marketing.
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