This blog is all about Clickbank.
( It’s where I make most of my money.)
Let’s take a closer look at ClickBank, First and foremost, ClickBank is an e-commerce provider. This means 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.
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 approximately 11,400 products and services upon which affiliates can earn commissions of up to 75%.
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.
That is where CBmall comes in.
It will affiliate you with about 2,000 of the best selling products on the clickbank program via the free website that they provide for you.
When you make a sale, ClickBank credits you for 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,. (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.
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.
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 11,400 products and services offered. I am told that there are ClickBank affiliates out there making well over $20,000.00 a MONTH! I have no reason to disbelieve them.
I am not in that position yet, but I’m on my way.
If you want to get in on the act, with a free website thrown in, use this link; Do what I do. There is enough for all of us.
Homer.