Help (question) - Re how poeple build lists using clickbank and offering 100% commission

Hi Marc,

100% commission is very tempting for anyone to help you market your product....
and this motivates the marketers to promote the product again and again
sending tons of traffic to the sales page....

and to get the bought product, the buyer must opt in before accessing the download
page of the product.

Hope this helps,
John

It can be a good way to build a list. However affiliates do look at more than just commission rate.

Affiliates, especially the heavy hitters, tend to look at how much they make (on average) per visitor they send. So a 50% commission and a 4% conversion rate is better than a 100% commission and a 1% conversion rate. However, a 100% commission will attract some attention.

One problem is this... CB limits the affiliate payout to 75% so you are responsible for sending the affiliate the extra 25%. So now you are responsible for collecting tax info from the affiliate and sending out 1099s to US affiliates.

And don't forget... it's against ClickBank's TOS to require buyers to opt-in to a list before getting their product.

Its like this:

You build a product, get your affiliate section ready and sit.
Since its 100% commission, affiliates will flood you with sales. You can force the people to opt in as mentioned in the above post.

Now, you have a "List of people who actually purchased a product". That is gold my friend. If they have purchased one, they are more likely to purchase another. Here you chip in. You email them about the upgraded version of the product or something related. Now, this email will make you money. All the purchase here will go into your pocket.

Affiliates happy+You happy.. win-win
and if the product is good, customer happy-->more purchases on every mail u send-->

edit: Ya the above post abt clickbank is true. You can instead do it with paypal script.

hmmm...that is definately an option for you Marc, but could be a slight headache with Clickbank like Scott said. There are other options for you:

1.) If this is a good quality product then you could give it away for free and use it as lead bait. People get it but must sign in. This only works well if the product is actually really good. Check out what Mark Ling does with Affilorama. Bottom line is that people tell people when they score something of quality for free.

2.) You could approach other product owners in your niche and ask if they will put your product in their members area as a bonus (again quality matters and this tends to work better once you have made a few sales for them)

Hope this helps.

With 100% commission, you get:
1) Super affiliates who will promote your products
2) To build your list faster
3) To sell your multiple OTOs

The RAP script, or the $7 Selling one will both allow you to give 100% to affiliates, without any need for you to collect tax data from them (in both cases the customer pays the affilaite directly, so you don't collect the money).

Also, both systems allow you to put the download link behind a squeeze form. That's the whole point of them.

What has been said about CLickBank earlier is correct - their maximum affiliate commission rate is 75%. However, it isn't completely correct that you can't use a squeeze page with them. Their TOS prevents you from making the download of the product dependent on the customer giving their email address, but there is nothing to stop you asking for it on the download page.

Martin

hi Harvey.
cleared up my head halfway. i am in the same predicament.
why can i not offer the affiliate 100% com?
well naturally less your percentage.
and a bit to feed the office cat.
rob

The goal here is to collect e-mails of BUYERS. The product typically will address a specific need that the prospect is currently experiencing with the later chance of offering a more expensive product that compliments the first product.

For example: you create a $7 report on how to build a blogger blog and start making money with Adsense. You offer 100% commission. You sell products, pay out the commission, and you've got the buyers e-mail address. Then you will start offering products on how to increase his Adsense earnings and price it at $17; next you will offer a product on traffic generating strategies and price it at $27; next you will introduce a product on affiliate marketing at $47; next could be product on how to make lots of sales by using Adwords and price it at $67; next you will offer a membership with videos and charge monthly fee; then you can offer a traininig seminar and price it at $2,500 etc.

This is of course a generalized example, but you get the idea.

I don't fall for products that offer to pay 100% commission. I prefer selecting products that have high conversion rate. What's the point to offer a product that pays 100% commission if it doesn't convert?

I think this has already been answered in good detail, but I just wanted to add that I sell an adwords course on clickbank and the delivery method is via email

... which means, people MUST give their email address in order to receive the product. This is a good way of ensuring you capture to your list