Sell digital products within and without Clickbank/e-Junkie simultaneously?

Of course you have to pay the fees. If you want lower fees, use PayPal. If you want to create different sales page, you can. Create the same sales page with different buy now button. One is for ejunkie/clickbank affiliates, one is for yourself.

Nope, you need custom script for this. I hope you're good with php or asp.

It strikes me that there are two main things you need to know, here ...

(i) Unless you're a well-known vendor with existing affiliates and a stellar reputation for paying your affiliates promptly and reliably, you may find it very much easier to attract affiliates at ClickBank (or DigiResults or RapBank) because those companies handle the affiliate payments. The huge importance of this, from the affiliates' perspective, is that we're not dependent on the vendor for payment (something that isn't typically an acceptable set-up to the more serious affiliates who have the potential to bring you most of the sales).

(ii) It's inadvisable to try to use both. Very, very few serious ClickBank affiliates are going to put their time, energy, effort and resources into promoting a product that has another sales page elsewhere when they don't have to, and have about 15,000 other products from which to choose.

Would you? :confused:

The affiliates' problem here is that our prospective customer (with our Clickbank cookie on his PC), not having bought at his first visit to the sales page (which most don't, of course), can find the product again the following week via a Google search, which then takes him to the PaySpree/PDC/E-Junkie/whatever sales-page, and our Clickbank cookie is no good to us there.

If the Clickbank sales-page is the only sales-page (as is usually the case, of course), we still get paid, even if the customer gets back to that page via Google. This is why vendors on Clickbank who have another sales page elsewhere, or another non-Clickbank way to pay, can attract only affiliates who haven't quite thought it through. Call me a judgmental skepchick but I would venture to suggest that those are perhaps not the affiliates whom many vendors would ideally wish to attract?

In other words: it will make a difference to some affiliates, but those will typically be the ones who make most of the affiliate-referred sales.

There's a kind of way round it, but it involves repackaging the product under another name (some vendors do this). This can work, but you can also get a few refund requests from people who've inadvertently bought it twice, and it might be less than ideal for "goodwill".

The "jargon term" for that is "fake urgency", and it will also put off many serious, professional affiliates, I think.

Bonuses are fine (if they're relevant and if there aren't so many of them that they detract from the value-perception of the item being sold). Urgency is fine, too. But this isn't urgency: it's "fake urgency", and people typically see that for what it is, and it alienates many people. Professional affiliates know that the vendors doing that haven't actually split-tested it, because the ones who have split-tested it aren't usually doing it any more.