Clickbank is a place where product owners and affiliates meet.Whether you are a shopper, product owner or an affiliate who wants to make money online, you can’t ignore Clickbank because ClickBank has the most active marketplace on internet. As a product owner you can leverage clickbank marketplace to make tons of money and all it will cost you is fifty bucks out of your pocket.
Profiting from ClickBank as a Product owner
As a product owner ,you can get your product listed at CB marketplace ar $50 which is the only out of pocket expense you will make towards CB before your product generates any profit.All you need is a website with your product uploaded called the Product Delivery page.Once you have the website in place , visit the ''Sell Products'' page and read through the benefits of becoming a publisher.Click on the Signup button and fill in the form to get started. You can use the nickname you register with to promote your own products or other products listed in the marketplace.
By listing your product at CB you are placing it before a huge group of active affiliates many of whom earn hundreds of thousands of dollars every month marketing CB products.
To make sure that your product generates enough interest keep the affiliate commission high. Clickbank allows you to pay an affiliate commission between 50-75%.My suggestion is to start with an affiliate commission of 70% for your product. This is the amount you will pay an affiliate when he generates a sale through his affiliate site.So,if your product is priced at $50 and you have selected a %/sale of 70% then you will pay an affiliate $35 for a sale he generates. You can always bring down the commission percentage once your product gets popular.
The affiliates promoting your product don’t just help you make money for free but also form a customer base for all your future products provided your products are credible and useful.
Another very important advantage of being a product owner is that with a digital product you don’t have to worry about shipping and handling them. They are promoted and downloaded on purchase from the product delivery page and instantly available to your customers.
Another advantage of being a clickbank publisher is that you never have to hire any staff or buy softwares for tracking your sales or paying your affiliates. The Clickbank tracking system automatically tracks the sales for every affiliate site promoting them and makes payments to affiliates every fifteen days.That is another reason why clickbank is so popular.Affiliates never have to fear delayed payments or no payments for sales generated through their affiliate urls unlike other third party sites where the tracking mechanism and payments are often flawed.
Make Money as Affiliate from ClickBank
If you don’t have your own product ,you can still make handsome money from CB promoting hot products from CB marketplace as an affiliate.Your first job is to visit the CB marketplace .Once there , select a category of your interest.I have selected Google Adwords as an example.You can find the popular products for Google Adwords from the CB marketplace listed on the page. The first product is Get Google Pay-Per-Click Ads Free!.Just under the product is the $/sale ($37.63).This is the amount an affiliate gets paid for each sale of this product.Next is the %/sale ($75) This is the percentage of the product price that an affiliate earns from every sale.So if the %/sale for this product is 75% and the product is priced at $50 ,then an affiliate will earn $37.50 for one sale from his affiliate link.If you join as a product owner then I suggest you keep the %/sale between 65-75%.
Next is the referred percentage which basically means the number of affiliates promoting the product.The higher the referred percentage ,the higher the popularity of the product and more the competition.:-) As an affiliate I would select a product that has a reasonably high refd % so that the selected product is still in demand but doesn’t reach market saturation soon after I start promoting it.
Apart from having it’s own merchant account ,CB also has it's paypal account. So, if you live in a country not listed in paypal ,you can still accept payments from customers via paypal and get paid by clickbank fortnightly through cheques.No payment processors will be involved in getting paid from Clickbank.
So,as an affiliate I list the products that have a lucrative %/sale and atleast $23/sale.This is to make sure that I stay in profit even if I have to purchase traffic and if the traffic has a low conversion ratio.Conversion ratio is the number of purchases divided by the number of visitors the page receives.
Why buy from Clickbank ?
Clickbanks refund policy favors the buyer more than the affiliates or product owners.This is to prevent scammers from running away with your hard earned money as clickbank offers their buyers an eight week period from the date of buying a product for claiming refunds.
Downside of Clickbank
Refunds – The buyers advantage becomes the sellers disadvantage. With an eight weeks window for refunds some customers might claim a refund to get a free lunch and as a product owner you are at the receiving end , but Clickbank bans a customer with record refund claims from making future purchases through their site. After three consecutive refunds a purchase can’t be made with the same credit card.
Processing Fee- I find the processing fees at clickbank which stands at 7.5% + $1 per transaction on the higher side but with the added benefits of tracking system, showcasing the products to huge base of savvy affiliates and automatic payment to affiliates made biweekly and on time I think it’s a small cost to pay towards Clickbank , especially when it’s not an out of pocket expense.If you have a digital product to offer ,then ClickBank is the place to be and the CB affiliates won't disappoint you.
One of the hottest product at clickbank is : Ultimate Wealth Package
Friday, June 29, 2007
Make Money With Clickbank
Thursday, June 28, 2007
Make Money for sharing your opinions
If you were to charge $1 for every online program that turned out to be a scam , you'd probably already be a millionaire.There are very few online programs that deliver what they promise and Mylot is one such site.
Mylot is a rapidly growing online community that pays you for posting and responding to discussions on their site.The site has been online for almost a year and has always paid it's members before the scheduled payment date.Presently,the member count stands at 98,511.
Mylot has members from almost every country including UnitedStates ,Philippines ,India ,UK ,Indonesia,Canada ,Australia ,Malaysia ,Singapore,China and many more.They pay to their members once every month via paypal or moneybookers.The official date for payment is 15th of every month ,but so far they have always managed to pay before the scheduled payment date.
Members of Mylot get paid for participating in discussions.You can sign up for free and start earning by posting immediately. They have a method of rating their members with (+) and (-).When your posts are perceived to be helpful and sincere you receive a (+) and if they are abusive or violate the guidelines ,they get a (-).The (positives and negatives contribute towards a star that you receive once you reach your 100th post on the site.Different colors of the stars signify different reputation points .After reaching 100 posts your earnings increase.The exact algorithm that the site admin uses to decide the earnings is not revealed , but it's based on the number of quality posts you make and the number of quality posts your discussions receive.
If you don't have enough time to post at Mylot , you can still make money with their referral program that pays 25% of each of your referral's earnings.This isn't deducted from the referral's earnings but comes from the site Admin's pocket.
Another reason you might like to join the site is that they allow you to advertise your blog to their members for free. You can either add your website to your profile or submit your blog to Mylot via the Blog link after registering at the site.The site is bursting with activity and very close to hitting 100,000 members. Thus, it can also be a great advertising platform for your site.
Monday, June 25, 2007
How To Make Money With Your Blog
Online advertising has been experiencing astronomical growth .According to research conducted by Interactive Advertising Bureau and PricewaterhouseCoopers internet advertising revenues touched $16.8 Billion during 2006 which is a 34% increase over $12.9 Billion generated in 2005.What does all this mean to you and me? Well, what it means is that you can get a share of the online advertising pie.
In the bygone days , a technically challenged person had to hire a web designer to put together a website.When it received enough traffic ,he began searching for profitable unobtrusive ads.There was always the fear of losing the visitors with pop ups,pop-unders and irrelevant ads cluttering the site.All that is now in the archives of our memory lane.Now it's so ridiculously simple that you don't even need a website to earn from the internet advertising boom.You can create a blog on a topic of your interest and have thousands of advertisers stalking you and fighting for space on your site through bidding wars.If you don't already have a blog ,you can start your blog at Blogger for free.The advent of contextual ads has made it possible for you to show highly relevant ads your blogs and never have to fear about disgruntled visitors.
The foundation for contextual advertising was laid by google with their Adsense program and numerous entrepreneurs followed suit introducing a platform for serving contextual and customizable ads.If you have a blog , then you can sign up with one of these advertisers or more and start earning from the traffic your blog receives.At the top of the list is Google Adsense :
Google Adsense : My journey with adsense began when I read an article about an online entrepreneur earning $90,000 from his dating site.Honestly, I didn't like the layout of his site , but it's the content and the traffic that's more important when it comes to internet advertising.To have Adsense ads showing on your blog you have to signup for a Free Adsense account and wait for your blog to be approved by Google.Once approved you can add google adsense to your blog or website and start earning from the contextual ads.You can customize the ads that you show on your site.The minimum payout for google adsense is $100.They have some strict terms to be fair to their advertisers.I suggest you go through their terms in details and join Google Groups if you signup with Google Adsense.They pay via cheque or electronic fund transfer depending on your demography.
Bidvertiser : Bidvertiser pays you handsomely for their ads showing on your blogs.Once you signup for a Free account with them you can choose which ads to show on your blog or website from a categorized directory of websites.The minimum payout for Bidvertiser is $10 and they pay by Paypal.Paypal is an online payment processor owned by Ebay and you can signup for a free account with them. Like Google Adsense ,you can customize the layout of the ads for bidvertiser as well. The best part is that Bidvertiser displays the ads from the highest bidder on your blog|website.
Adbrite : Another site making waves with it's Advertising program is Adbrite.In addition to text ads and banner ads they also serve Active Interstitials (AI).AI is high-paying full-screen ad shown on the third pageview.You can signup as a publisher at Adbrite for free.Their minimum payout is $100.The site pays you 75% of the amount an advertiser pays per click.
Bidclicks : This is a site with a difference.It let's you , the publisher, set the price for your site and advertisers compete to advertise on your site .Thus by selling the space to the highest bidder you can generate the highest profits from the ads.They have a large pool of advertisers.As of now they have 11,000+ advertisers on their site , but they need a higher quality site than the others ,including Google adsense.
Valueclick media: As a publisher of Valueclickmedia you can earn not just by displaying their banners and pop unders ,but also video ads.They pay for cost per thousand impressions (CPM).You can also earn with them for generating leads.They have a minimum traffic requirement of 3000 impressions per month to join as a publisher.If a new publisher links to ValueClick Media from your website and/or joins the site, you receive a bonus of 5 percent of their net earnings for the first 12 months the referral is active.The minimum payout is $50.They pay by cheque and paypal.
Several other advertising networks are competing to break into the contextual advertising domain.You can show their ads on your blog or website for free and make money online through internet advertising .Most of these ads can be displayed along with Google Adsense but if you want to run two different advertiser's ads on your blog , I suggest that you get the confirmation from the respective ad networks.If the internet advertising boom in the recent years is any indicator ,then it won't be a surprise if most of the mainstream advertising programs start paying for showing video ads soon.
