First of all, do you have a ClickBank account? If you do not have one yet than I’d suggest that you sign up for one now. It’s free to sign up. Clickbank has been around for just over 13 years and has grown into a huge money machine for so many online people. Whether you are a vendor (one who creates products) or an affiliate (one who promotes the vendors products), Clickbank has been a life saver for some many people in giving them financial freedom.
I have been an affiliate of Clickbank since 2007. I joined before that but never remembered my username and email I used so I created a fresh account. Didn’t make anything before 2007 with ClickBank anyways. I was a newbie who picked any product off their marketplace and posted the hoplink on forums and classified ad sites with a very poor sales pitch which was about 2 sentences. It took me a about 2 years with my new account to really figure out how to get a few sales with any product that I picked out after careful research.
It’s crucial that before you pick a product in the ClickBank marketplace is that you study that sites sales page. If the offer sounds to go to be true or gives you a gut feeling that the product maybe on the scam side then don’t promote it. Usually if the design looks cheap that set’s off a red flag to me to move on to something else. There are hundreds or even thousands of products in the Clickbank marketplace that are PLR products (Private Label Rights) and should never be promoted. You’d be setting yourself up for some refunds and it stinks that one minute you have cash and the other minute it get’s taken away from you. One time I was negative $200 in my clickbank account and I had to make a lot of sales to get back into a profit margin.
I’m not going to mention how I choose my Clickbank products but one of my research methods is searching on webmaster and internet marketing forum’s for feedback. I also search some blogs of highly successful marketing guru’s to see if they are promoting it. Let’s say you pick a product out, read the sales page and have written a good review of the product on your blog but all the sales that you made are refunded 1 week later. Either you are targeting the wrong type of audience on your blog or the product is just total garbage. I’ve run into this problem on several occasion’s and sometimes it will take the wind out of you and make you think about leaving the affiliate marketing game.
I don’t make a living from ClickBank but I do make a few sales now and then. Sometimes it’s from blog posts or articles that I have written months ago that got me a convert. Pick a product that interests you and write reviews of it on your blog. Use the social sites, forum signatures and other marketing methods that you know to get targeted traffic to your hoplink. If you are not making any sales the just move on to another product. Perhaps later in the future you will be like me and make some sales off a blog post that you had written month’s ago. Never give up on reaching your online goal’s.
If you want to really learn how to become a full-time affiliate marketer than I’d suggest that you subscribe to John Chow’s blog. You’ll learn from the best.
Thanks for reading this blog post. I was actually trying to motivate people with a few tips but I don’t think I did a very good job in this blog post at doing so. I have been very busy offline the past couple of days and I am trying to get back into marketing mode. Thinking that this blog post would fire me right up into affiliate marketing mode.
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