Okay, how do people make money from Clickbank?

I have 8 different niche sites, all of which I've started off over the last two and a half years.

I'm trying to build them up gradually into "authority sites" but the definition of that term is of course pretty subjective.

They all have a prominently incentivised opt-in on their landing pages, for list-building.

I'm primarily an article marketer (I'm not suggesting that's the "only way", of course - though however you look at it there's going to be some content-writing involved). They're content-rich sites, anyway.

Almost anything that you can use for a list opt-in for any sort of internet marketing site, really.

I've always offered a "free report" and promoted it strongly on my landing pages as the reason for people to opt in. I think "newsletter subscription" might not - perhaps - sound like quite a good enough incentive to some people? Because they might take it as a euphemism for "marketing emails", i.e. "see through it". Basically, you have to offer them "something of perceived value" to get their email address.

Ah, now ... actually that's the one thing that's not allowed.

You can give "extra bonuses", but not "rebates"/"discounts" (ClickBank's rules).

But these things (for me, anyway) would come at a later stage, after I've done some pre-selling and got them interested in the product to start with, which I need (or at least want) them on my list to achieve. I don't actually use anything like that, though, myself. I want people to buy these ClickBank products through me because I'm the person they trust, not because I'm giving them something extra. That's like "competing on price", which I'll never do. I do think, in the long run, "trust" is a better way to sell than "price", because once you have "trust", you can then go on to sell them other things, too, without needing to find new customers all the time.

Up until recently I'd have said "no" and explained my reluctance to try that. But I've now tried it and (so far - in one niche only) it seems to be working out well. The physical product I'm offering is something that pays me roughly the same commission as the ClickBank product, and I've managed to introduce the physical one and make some sales with it without it apparently making me sell any fewer of the e-book. So I can tentatively report that it seems to work, with some care. (I do think there are some potential pitfalls with it, though ... and I wouldn't want to be promoting anything as an "either/or", or something that paid me significantly less than the e-book.) Just my perspective.