Do Not Promote Clickbank Products

Posted by Feiyie on May 24, 2009 in Clickbank | 0 comments

I’ve been a Clickbank affiliate for a year now and here’s one reason why I don’t promote a CB product here on my new blog. Obviously, I don’t really mean what my title says. There are thousands of people making money from Clickbank around the world. In fact, they’ve sold over $1 Billion worth of digital products since they’ve launched.

Clickbank has thousands of digital products you can sell if you want to make money online. Of course, there are different niches so you can really choose what product you want to sell. And there are lots of ways on how to market them. There’s blogging, PPC, forums, bookmarking, and others. In fact, the vendors give you what you need to promote their products.

Now, this is the reason why I don’t promote CB products here.

About squeeze pages or free report opt-in’s of Clickbank products

There are some Clickbank hop links that when you type in to your browser, it goes to a squeeze page. Obviously, this is a great way for vendors (product owners) to capture leads. Meanwhile, all clickbank salespages have an opt-in. Mostly, it’s a pop-up. They are capturing the prospect’s name and email in exchange of a free report. This is great, of course. As internet marketers, we are taught to do this, right?

Let’s say the prospect opted in for the free report where you send them, great. Now, they started receiving email follow-ups. And after 3-5 days (up to 90 days because that’s the life of the CB cookie), they bought the product. Sweet. You get the commission! BUT… What if that same day or even an hour before they buy the product you tried to sell them, they have visited another hop link of someone else’s CB affiliate to another product? Or it could be that same product. That means, your prospect’s computer already has someone else’s cookie now. Apparently, when they bought the product you’ve sent them to, it got credited to the other affiliate, even if they opted in to the first one, which is through your link. One lost sale for you. But what if this happens every time? If only Clickbank embeds your affiliate link to the autoresponder, you would never lose a sale. Some affiliate programs do this, but not CB.

An effective way to really sell a Clickbank product is by ‘pre-selling’ them. I could say blogging, writing articles, and posting to forums are some effective and proven ways for pre-selling prospects. But the most effective way is building your own list and offering a bonus when they buy through your link. Based on my observation, I think that this is why whenever there’s a new CB product on the block, the only people that tops the affiliate contest leaderboards are those known internet marketers and top CB affiliates.

As you see, this blog of mine doesn’t have CB products (I think there’s only 1). Since I’m in the internet marketing niche, I’m pretty sure my readers are also in the same boat. They are also CB affiliates and they could be promoting that same product I could be promoting here. That’s why I use the banner space for non-CB products, which I think is practical.

I hope this blog post helped people (specially those newbies in the internet marketing niche) who are struggling to make money from Clickbank. XD

Toodles,
Feiyie