What We Really Need From Clickbank (IMHO)

What they need to do is focus on adding value for (and trying not to get too much in the way of) vendors and affiliates, allowing vendors and affiliates to sell more. The more sales that vendors and affiliates make, the more money cb makes as a natural consequence.

For the last few years i feel that cb somewhat lost sight of this.

First there was the attempt to extra money from vendors and affiliates, by selling them training and stuff. Why wouldn't cb want all their vendors and affiliates to be maximizing sales rather than extracting a few training $ from those few who pay for training? Or to put it another way, for the training to be worthwhile it must offer something that isn't available otherwise - which either means the training isn't worthwhile, or if it is worthwhile, they are deliberately keeping stuff back from most vendors/affiliates.

More recently, there is the attempt to set up a retail portal. This seems, at best, a distraction. It's unlikely that cb's portal could ever sell more than a tiny fraction of what vendors sell from their sites (how could it? there is no comparison between a few lines of text on cb's site, and vendors' sites which tYpically contain many pages of content, videos, mailing lists, and in bound links from many related subject-specific sites.