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Using ClickBank & PayDotCom together - thoughts?

by mywebwork
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Hi

I am putting together a product that I would like to market by recruiting affiliates.

The obvious action would be to put it on ClickBank, but PayDotCom has some benefits such as the instant PayPal payment and the zero cost for the initial product posting (to say I'm working on a budget here would be an understatement).

I know there are a number of differences between the two services and that is not what I want to debate here today, it's been debated on the forum many times before and no need to rehash it.

What I wanted to know was what yours thought were on using both platforms simultaneously? So as to not rob affiliates of their commissions I'd setup two separate domains to host the product, so there would be no issue with "whose cookie wins?". If I sold it myself via AdWords I'd use a third domain, again to avoid conflicts with affiliates.

I'd offer the same commission on both platforms. Of course affiliates could promote via both services if they wished to.

One reason I'd like to do this is to use the free PayDotCom account and refine the sales page and affiliate resource website before I pay for the ClickBank posting, where I'm sure I'll attract more affiliates.

What do you think - is this a reasonable thing to do or would it be a turn-off for potential affiliates in some way?

Thanks for any input

Bill
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  • Profile picture of the author Tanner
    For me, any product that I put up on Clickbank, I also list on PDC as it only takes a few extra minutes to set up and it gives my affiliates more options as well as potentially getting my product in front of more 'potential' affiliates.

    Truth be told however, 90% of my affiliates sales still come from CB affiliates, and while 10% coming from PDC isn't much, it is 10% in "EXTRA" affiliate sales that I wouldn't be receiving if I didn't have the product listed in the PDC marketplace.
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    • Profile picture of the author mikeyman120
      Bill,
      As a CB vendor and paydotcom vendor I have thought about this before. I never did it though. I got the idea from seeing others do it. They would have their CB site as mysite.com and their paydotcom site would be mysite.net. The sites were the same. If the payout is the same to affiliates I'm not sure if they would have a problem.

      You said paydotcom pays instantly? I remember Mike Filsaime posted a thread a while back about instant payments with paydotcom and paypal coming one day. I didn't know they started that. Are you sure about instant payments? This would be great if I didn't have to pay my affiliates on paydotcom.

      Mike
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  • Profile picture of the author mywebwork
    Thanks to both of you for your input, its very much appreciated!

    Mike, what I meant regarding PayDotCom "paying instantly" is that as the vendor you receive the full amount for the sale (minus PDC fees) immediately. It is still up to you to pay out to your affiliates, and to do the tax forms for the US affiliates who collect more than 600 dollars a year. Or at least that's how I interpret the info on their website, if I'm wrong than please correct me.

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    Of course that page may not have the latest information, it also claims that they have a number of new features coming for the Summer of 2009!

    Bill
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  • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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    • Profile picture of the author mywebwork
      Originally Posted by Alexa Smith View Post

      There are certainly others doing this.

      For me, it would absolutely exclude any potential for interest as a Clickbank affiliate.

      The situation I want to avoid is the one where I find a potential customer who opts in to my list on my website and I promote the product to him, and he has a quick look and therefore gets my Clickbank affiliate cookie on his PC but doesn't buy straight away. Later, he remembers, decides to buy, can't quite remember how to find it, puts it into Google to find it again, finds your PayDotCom sales page instead, and buys it there. I did all the work but don't get my affiliate commission. So, for this reason, I prefer instead to choose another Clickbank product that doesn't give me that problem to worry about. I won't knowingly become an affiliate for products which are also sold outside Clickbank because I can lose my commissions on them. It won't happen very often, but if I choose products which are sold only on Clickbank, it won't happen at all, and I prefer that.

      I'm probably in a very small minority here, Bill!
      A small minority perhaps but I've always valued your opinion Alexa, thanks for sharing it.

      It does raise a good point, one that I was hoping to alleviate by keeping the ClickBank and PayDotCom traffic on different domains. I hadn't thought about the possibility of one of the pages being discovered on Google, I suppose I could write the robots.txt to keep the spiders from indexing it but of course as a potential affiliate you would have no way of knowing that.

      One other thought is to give the product different names on each affiliate processors site to avoid this sort of conflict - of course that probably is a bad idea for reasons I'm not thinking of right now!

      Bill
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  • Profile picture of the author aaallday2010
    I can't imagine going through the hassle of paying my affiliates myself and then doing the tax forms as well. I mean, who's got time to do that?

    This is the primary reason I keep my sites with Clickbank. It's worth the extra charge IMHO.
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  • Profile picture of the author Goublin
    i'm having this same thoughts on this, i have both clickbank and paydotcom options on my site. Anyone got any updated suggestions?

    Cheers
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  • Profile picture of the author UMS
    There is another option.......

    If you use DigiResults, you can set it up so that you have one site, and if the user has been referred via a Clickbank link, they'll checkout via Clickbank, same for Paydotcom and DigiResults itself.

    Personally, I wouldn't want to set up separate sites for each affiliate network.
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  • Profile picture of the author Goublin
    Thanks guys you've helped me out make a decision
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