A "REAL" ClickBank screen shot...

It's refreshing to see someone being honest about this. I don't doubt some of the screenshots people show are real...but we all know some are fake as well!

This is nothing to ashamed of at all, especially If you can ramp this up over time and make it grow.

Good luck in the new year!

Dude, teach me how you earned that $33.12!!!

You earned $33.12 this week? Coolness! *not sarcasm*

And I agree, I do think that some marketers exaggerate their clickbank earnings.

No arguments here.

Many of my sites have similar stats.

A single site or product might not be making a killing but with enough sites and products it does add up.

Many eggs, many baskets.

Okay so as Jason stated above.. do you guys have multiple "set and forget" sites.. which generate $20 here and there.. and ultimately add up like he suggested. Or are those sites kind of like "Testing" grounds for you guys?

Here's mine. Pretty sad :-( I've got $85 sitting in there from a couple of months ago but can't get it because I can't seem to get the 5 different sales. I can only keep trying.

Weekly Sales Snapshot


Week Ending Gross Sales (current week) $0.00
12/22/10 $0.00
12/15/10 $0.00
12/8/10 $0.00
12/1/10 $0.00

'Shopped!!

I can tell because of the pixels.

HAHAHA Michael, I love it!

I had the idea to show clickbank screensot before, so let's share it. Here is mine. Although very little, but they were from the articles which I wrote many months ago.

One thing I want to note is that I write these articles in English, and my English is not good since my mother language is not English. So I think that article marketing really works.

wow, what product are you guys selling, which niche are you in? lol...i want in.

The thing that I like about this is that it is free money. Once I receive it, then I don't have to do any additional work in order to keep it.

That makes it an unbeatable money source.

With services, I have to do the same upfront development and promotion, but with services, once I have made the sale, I have to do real work.

Nah you want something more like this:

What can't be faked these days,

Kingsley

Good gosh Steve, why are you outing me the purchase I made from you :p I'm old that's all

Michael once again you bring the truth forward. The same little stream of income finally started paying off this past year for me. Several checks rolled in from clickbank and a couple were over $100.00.

But I have to tell you the one I received on the 10th of December made my wife crack up. It was $13.00. But the thing is it added to our other streams of income. And that is the name of the game. Multiply streams of income.

One of my partners and I are so convinced that these small income sites are extremely viable, we have just set up 50 of them and will have another 100 by the end of March if not sooner. Ultimately our plan is for a stable of more than 500. 90% of them will be for ClickBank products and the other 10% will be for hard products.

I know your smiling but actually that is a darn good question. I can't answer for Michael, but I can speak from personal experience.

When I pick a ClickBank product I have a marketing plan all set up. there are many avenues to do this which won't cost you a dime, just some time.

I do my keyword research, look for keywords that have searches under 10K preferably. Then check for searches of at least 1000, but will drop as low as 100 searches, especially when the competition is basically non existent. Remember if its a "desperate problem" for the consumer and your #1 - 4 on Google or the other SEs, you have a good chance of getting a targeted visitor to your site. Actually you can get targeted traffic from being 1-40 on the SEs.
You don't have to be #1 to make a sale.

I use articles, news release (but I'm not very good) then I use a steady stream of backlinks. To make a long story short I use all the same methods most of you guys use. and the fact is when I stop or slack off marketing that is when my sales drop. As evidences by my $13.00 check the first of this month.

The primary point I won't to leave you with is you can make the money with ClickBank products. However, you must Focus and Take Action.

Sorry Michael I didn't mean to hijack your thread. ClickBank can be very lucrative. But you have to stick to it.

Ken

The Old Geezer

Photoshop?! That's old school!

Just insert a single line of javascript into the address bar and then you can change your earnings to anything you desire.

Now YOU too can be a multi-millionaire! ; )

Mine looks similar to most of yours, but everything is zero.

Wait a minute now. People are being dishonest and faking income screen shots??

Please remember to take a photo of the check once you meet your payment threshold (in four to five months)

...Couldn't resist.

Probably the funniest thread I've read this year.

how do you take a screenshot like that?

Mike,

are you sure you're showing your real clickbank account? 'cause it sure looks a lot like mine and I you're a better marketer then me

Leslie

I'm transitioning out of this as I grow as a marketer but my primary business model was to create set and forget affiliate product passive income sites.

It works for me since I enjoy building sites but I don't enjoy managing them.

Jason, I know you have heard it before, but you can hire someone to manage for you and at a darn reasonable amount. Why give up an income stream when if its profitable enough a manager will keep it active for you. Just my 2 cents worth

Ken

Excellent niche Steve. One without stiff competition always pays off :rolleyes:

Jeff

Michael,
Lol...too funny as your account looks pretty much like my Clickbank accounts. My paypal account looks much better but unless I do some form of a promotion for a product I don't make a ton of clickbank sales as it really isn't a focus for me.

Unfortunately, I wish more people showed accurate clickbank accounts instead of a bogus bloated account that was artificially inflated with a recent promotion.

It aggravates the heck out of me knowing that some marketers in the IM niche generate tons of sales using deception and false promises but alas lamenting over it doesn't create content, drive traffic or make money for us.

Respectfully,
Tim

I forgot to add that I have a friend who knows nothing about IM other then what he has learned in the last two weeks in conversations with me who has sold more Clickbank products then I did this week.

His committment and focus on achieving sales with Clickbank proved the power of taking action to me because I saw it first hand. The really cool thing is he was tickled pink to have made severl hundered dollars in sales for a product that he likes.

Respectfully,
Tim

Here's another 'REAL' Clickbank screenshot

I personally can't stand promoting clickbank stuff... But, every once in a while I get a bonus, just like ya said, and I didn't have to work hard for it

Heres mine - 100% authentic.

I was just thinking about this today actually. I've got a couple little revenue streams that just sit there and put away... One of them will probably only do about $250 this year in revenue, but I haven't touched anything about it in over 2 years... so I'd say that's pretty good.

Another will do closer to $900 and it's basically the same type of thing. Every now and then I'll work on something small for it, out of sheer boredom, but for the most part it's set and forget (literally, i can't remember the web addresses for these mini sites since they're on a blogger (i think) blog somewhere).

It's nice to have the little bonus on top.

I recently logged into the payment console on those two clickbank accounts and turned the payment threshold way up so by the end of next year I'll have a nice chunk of change just sitting there waiting for end of year.

Good stuff Michael.

Here are my real earnings.

I will tell you how i made that $36.58 for just $36.58

What I mean by manage is I'm not a blogger or someone who has an interest in being active on a site or adding new content on a daily or weekly basis. My attention span for a site or project is a couple of weeks, after that I start to tune out and thinking about the next shiny niche site I want to create. I know me and I know how to manage my wandering attention span. Short and simple, like a European vacation romance.

Workflow in a nutshell...

I'll create my site, do all of the SEO work and create enough content to last a couple of months and up to a year. Once that is done I use scheduled posting to add a new post every couple of days or weeks. From a visitors and SE bot perspective, the site is live and active but for me I put in all of my work for that site in a week and after than I just check up on it periodically to make sure it's running, not hacked etc...

CDarklock has a WSO about this, zombie blogging, that uses a similar approach with blogger and PLR content. With my approach, I'm using my own domains and putting a little extra effort into my content.

So I figure, a week of work for a site that is going to run on auto pilot, if it can pull in a sale every couple of days, I'm good with that.

Something else I like to do is let my sites age with some basic content and throw in some initial SEO work a couple of weeks or a month in advance before I get around to the real work. This gives me a chance to get the site indexed, aged a little bit and through my initial SEO I get an idea of how much additional work is needed to get the site ranking well.

My approach vs MFA and mini-niche sites. I'm aiming for mass internet saturation. Why settle for a single page or 5 page site when I can have 20 or 50 or 300 pages waiting to be found through various long-tail searches. I'm also working broader niches than single product sites (fitness,dating etc...) so I can attack more keywords through more content. The primary keyword may be Senior Fitness but I'm working all of the little long tails through each post which is something you can't do with a mini niche site.

I can also revisit my sites later in time, see which posts are ranking fairly well (a long tail sitting at #5 or #15) and give those pages some extra SEO love to bump them to the top of the list.

Why not just autoblog? Not a fan. I've messed around with it and I have the tools to do it but I don't find it very satisfying. <--- wrong attitude. These sites should be about making money not my personal satisfaction, we all have flaws

Get enough of these sites up and running for a couple of years and before you know it you've got a bunch of nice little aged niche site with hundreds of pages of content. Done right and this is the bottom tier of your blog farm.

They pay for themselves and require very little work and as brought up by the OP, it's a nice little side income the brings a smile to your face.

Over the years tools have been developed to make some of this stuff easier and more automated but I tend to stick with what works for me instead of jumping every new tool and plugin.

Oh well, nothing new but some ideas to chew on.

Really, all of you! I earn TOOOOO much that its hardly comprehendable. Heres a screenshot of my 100% REAL earnings.

MJSquare @ Home

Thanks for the honesty.

Clickbank can bring in a nice stream of passive income, but you've got to get things set up the right way - meaning, content sites of PPC ads.

Here it is Christmas Eve and this post inspired me to see
if I had any money in by CB account. And guess what...





Now all I have to do is determine which/who
these product are. As of right now I have no
idea.

Find where I'm promoting them and then start
driving traffic like crazy to them. Now here is why
I say that.

Over the last 6 or so months these little surprises
have popped into my CB account. Although I have
to be hit over the head with a sledge hammer, to
spot what could become very profitable niches for
me, by building backlinks to where I'm promoting
and other traffic generating methods I suspect
I could do 3 or 4 of these every month.

As I have the initial work done, I'll implement the
marketing plan I already have set up with my other
successful online business and should start getting
a monthly check, rather than every 3 or 4 months.

Lets face it, you and I both know, CB products can
be another profitable income stream. We just have
work at it, take action, jump on top of it or whatever
acronym you want to use.

Ken

The Old Geezer

Wow! Lots of great responses here. Thanks to everybody else who shared their real stats, too.

There are so many ways to make money online, and getting even a small piece of them can add up to a nice chunk of change.

However, I still think it's best to focus your efforts on one area, and have that up and running consistently before you start branching out. Otherwise it's far too easy to jump on board with the "next best thing", and that very rarely works.

For the record, I used Jing to do the screenshot. It's $14.95 a year and also does video capturing. (I'm not affiliated with them in any way, but I like it)

All the best,
Michael

$33.12? $33.12? Thats....well thats $33.12 more than I've made. Glad to see you giving out a good perspective for people to take though. I mean if you are lucky enough to still have a job right now, don't look at internet marketing as your ticket out until you have supplemented your income. Look at it as bonus money. That should really take the stress out of things and make it easier to suceed.

So I'm taking this as meaning you guys earned squat then bought something off your own affiliate link to keep the account open right ?

Actually the only way I ever made $ off CB was by emailing the hell out of people with offers.But I think piracy has hit CB hard.

No list = no CB sales.

Am I the only one getting a boner from seeing these statistics?

No, but seriously, you guys are doing it right. My clickbank checks used to look like that. But not anymore. Doing my best to get back on track!

The correct term would be warrior wood.

Definitely fake. I can tell by the pixels. LOL, jk Mike. Nice to see some honesty in marketing, there isn't enough of it.

Ha! Thanks for cheering me up

Can I be awesome too? :confused: I made ..

2010-12-29 $20.03
2010-12-22 $0.00
2010-12-15 $0.00
2010-12-08 $9.62
2010-12-01 $0.00


How's this for honesty.. I can not for the life of me find the site that is making me sales right now. At least I know what product!

This is where we all start!

Guy that are awesome! Playing with the clickbank earning screenshop.

Also just to throw it in there...

Realski thanks

hahaa, great thread guys and gals. I enjoyed seeing others admitting to $0.00 weeks from clickbank. The constant advice seems to be, multiple income streams...


Thanks!

i would share mine but o don't know how to get the snapshot, but it only has 26.30

I think some people fake screen shots, but what I hate is when a product owner puts up a screen shot of an account where you know 98% of those sales came from JV partners/affiliates and they claim their product can make your CB sales look like that.

Then again who would wanna buy a product if you saw a screen shot of a CB account with $0 weeks or $100 weeks? People love the hype and the dream.

That's cool Michael. I'm the guy who bought the $33 thingie from you and I'm demanding a refund immediately. Repost your screen shot accordingly.

Seriously, if someone wants to game their CB earnings for a new product launch they don't even need to doctor their screen shots. Run an AdWords campaign and be willing to spend $5,000 over a 7 day period. Let's say you make sales totaling $3,500 for that week's period. Lost money? Not hardly.

Use a screen shot showing earnings of $500 a day on your sales page. That's enough to convince people you know your stuff. (You obviously don't mention it cost you $5k to make the $3,500!) A good product launch will make you back your lost $1,500 in an hour, maybe less.

Don't think anyone's ever done that before? Welcome to the real world of Internet marketing. Michael O., I pray you didn't spend $5k on AdWords to make that $33 sale!

That's something like would come out of my playbook. Ouch!

My Best... Mike

My CB Stats



Oh wait. I don't have a clickbank account.

Good news though...While I was on Clickbank I bought this



Now, 30 minutes later, I made so much money I just bought this

Yeah, I can't sell much on Clickbank, it's pretty darn slow

I remember seeing my first green bar. Easily noticeable because all the other bars around it were flat except for that day. I really couldn't believe it myself. It was by pure accident but nonetheless seeing that green bar gave me the smiles ear to ear.

I have just joined Warrior forum and would be very happy to see that in my Clickbank account. Actually I'd be happy to see any thing there.

I am not a heavy Clickbank marketer, but it's always entertaining to see an occasional sale here and there from something I did months, even years ago. Most marketers are incredibly impatient. (I'll even include myself in this group.)

Every time I see a random CB sale I sit back and think to myself, "Imagine if I would have continued to promote that product each day, instead of spending a day or two on a campaign and then moving on."

My primary business is offering web design services, SEO, etc. But I'd love to bring in additional affiliate income too.

This entire thread makes me doubt clickbank marketing. More importantly, it makes me feel I need to get my MMM refund. Just because I don't think the training was worth the hype.

My clickbank doesn't need their training, I mean, just look at these stats!



I'm awesome, I know.

Michael,

This is what you need. Trust me

Make $33.12 a thing of the past!!!

Adam

@Ty I agree with you. There are lots of products that are so similar, in terms of its sales page and gravity I mean, but the thing that really matters is quality, and if the product actually works!

but the problem is: how do you know its quality? try each one? maybe one or two, but try every one and decide which is better? I doubt.

david

OMG, you guys should do some product launch and use those screenshot...
I mean, people can literally banking by three easy steps... (close browser-> shut down-> smack their pc)

^^