Clickbank affiliates, do they find you?

The short answer is no.

The long answer is you have to work your tail off to get affiliates.

There are too many products in the marketplace to compete with. The only
way to get affiliates is either...

1. Sell so many of your product that it reaches the top of the marketplace
charts...in which case you wouldn't need affiliates anyway.

2. Recruit them like you would try to sell your product or membership or
whatever.


Just putting your product up there isn't going to do a thing.

I once put a product up, wrote a catchy description that showed on the marketplace listing and got around 15 affiliates promoting my product...

It would say it's possible

Ebbi,

Actually, it depends.

There's definitely exposure from being listed on CB.

But your conversions and visibility in the marketplace are big factors in HOW MANY affiliates will find you.

However, there's thousands of affiliates who search for new products daily looking for an early run at profits.

And all it takes is one capable affiliate with a well-converting offer...

-Chris

P.S. Combine this with factor with the visibility and results of your own efforts, and by actively recruiting affiliates by showing them your own conversions.

Clickbank is a very powerful front-end business builder.

This is about what I imagined to be. I suppose also offering a
product in a niche that's not to crowded would increase the
chance of affiliates picking up your product... but then again
there has to be a market for it

There are so many factors you have to consider before joining
clickbank if you want to do it the right way.

Thanks for your comments guy's.. I really appreciate them!

Ebbi

I pick my products by the Niche I am looking to promote at the time. I have been contacted by a number of people looking to get affiliates.

But, I stick to what I am working on at the time. I go to Clickbank, type in my keywords, & then sign up for what I think will sell to my group.

So, yes, just listing can get you Affiliates.

But, as Steve stated, you have to actively SELL your Affiliate Program to get a good result. That is what a lot of people don't realize.

Gary

shreder seems to be lucky in finding affiliates easily. Others would have to really work hard for that.

As an affiliate, I'd just like to say that finding affiliate products to promote is often just as hard.

I run my own list, which is why I am particularly committed to offering only quality content. If I try to peddle junk even once, it'll come back to haunt me.

As a result, I end up sticking to products that I know from experience are worth buying - and, more often than not, it's usually the Top 5 gravity products as shown by CB Engine.

In turn, this means that anyone with a new product will get left out, simply because I'd rather avoid risking my subscribers by promoting to them a product I haven't heard about. In other words, the owner of the product will have to work twice as hard to get me on board.

If it's of any help, I usually sign up to the mailing list of all major merchants in the industry where I work, and I tend to go by what they promote. For example, if, say, Mike Filsaime promotes product A that I haven't heard of before, I will at least take a look at it.

George,

i LOVE new unknown CB products Some gems to find.

There are some less well know gems where you can make sales for $1.80 a conversion if you prune hard and target the right buyer.

A decent gravity score does attract some affiliates, and there are methods and scripts out there that can help to build your gravity - without affiliates.

Also if you do a little searching - there are clickbank forums out there that have affiliates that are constantly looking for new products to promote. I've had my best results just by announcing any of my new products to the clickank forums.

With that being said - the most important factor in getting affiliates - is the sellability of your product. Your product has to convert. If you can't sell any of your product yourself, it's hard to expect anyone else to do it.

Clickbank is quite a puzzle. There are many factors which determine your product's visibility and affiliates' interest. For getting a better response from affiliates try the following:
1) Promote your product on your own (some people create another account with CB and promote their own product... DON'T DO IT). As the number of hops to your site increases, your 'popularity' on CB for your two chosen categories will increase, which is a MAJOR factor for some affiliates trying to choose a product to promote.

2) Make it a point to have the affiliate's area on your site as helpful as possible. Make a special 'Area' for affiliates (like you made a members area for your customers)

3) Try to put a convincing line in your Marketplace listing, with a line about the product, conversion stats and affiliate url. Make it easy to read. Some thing like : 'Affiliates Join. Huge Profits. Amazing conversions. Do join us, Affiliates.' - WONT WORK. (but, very rarely it does)

4) Try to follow an affiliate recruiting process Initially. Its very important. The more number of affiliates promoting your product, the more your GRAVITY.. Hence, even more affiliates join you..

Wishing you all the best Ebbi...

Ritoban

What I meant was : A person needs to promote the product to their affiliates on their own rather than wasting time selling their product through their multiple affiliate links. Time is important you see..
The factors determining popularity are:
1) Commissions per sale : Dependent on vendor
2) % Commissions per sale : Dependent on Vendor
3) Gravity: THIS basically will shoot up your rankings.. The more you promote your product to find your affiliates... more number of affiliates will join you.. more sales happen via unique affiliates.. more gravity.
4) %referred: I would take back my earlier point and would like to correct it. Create ONE affiliate account (not multiple) and promote your product. Hence, your % referred won't be affected by the sales from that hoplink

Hope that helps

I have a couple CB products and a small army of affiliates that found them without any promotion. But none of them send send major amounts of traffic by any means.

I just launched my product (see my sig file) last week. It was listed on the marketplace yesterday and I notice that 6 separate affiliates have already sent at least one visitor to me. I got one affiliate sale out of it. I have no idea how these guys found my product, but I'm hoping that the quality of my landing page helped inspire confidence.