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Clickbank - Selling Your Own Product As An Affiliate

by Snow_Predator
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Hi all

I am a vendor with Clickbank. I wonder if I would be permitted to sell my own product as an affiliate?

The reason I ask is it would enable me to use affiliate IDs to track which specific webpages/articles are bringing in my sales.

If this is not permitted, then is there an alternative solution for such tracking as a vendor? Or can I perhaps do it with a second Clickbank account that has the same credit card details without getting caught :s

Google Analytics goal tracking just don't seem to give me reliable data.

Thanks!
#affiliate #clickbank #product #selling
  • Profile picture of the author RHert
    I haven't done a lot with clickbank so take this with a grain of salt.
    Personally I'd just set up an affiliate account and try. You can place in the same information or even use a different account/card if that's what you're looking for. I don't see why it wouldn't be permitted.
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  • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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    Originally Posted by Snow_Predator View Post

    I wonder if I would be permitted to sell my own product as an affiliate?
    Yes, you can do that - ClickBank has no problem with it, at all.

    (Note that your new affiliate account will have to comply with the Customer Distribution Requirement and so on, even if you've already done that once.)
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    • Profile picture of the author Snow_Predator
      Thank you Alexa

      This opens up a whole new window of opportunity. I can split-test my articles and put my sales into overdrive ^_^
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      • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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        Originally Posted by Snow_Predator View Post

        This opens up a whole new window of opportunity.
        Yes, I can see it's convenient for some purposes. As against that, of course, you're paying ClickBank's 7.5% + $1 fees on every transaction, which is more than you'd pay on non-affiliate-referred sales, for selling without CB, e.g. through PayPal, Google Checkout, or many other payment processors. It's "swings and roundabouts", I suppose.
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  • Profile picture of the author Dann Vicker
    You can definitely operate a new affiliate account to sell your own products. Big vendors actually use this strategy to notch up their product gravity a few places.
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  • Profile picture of the author Nicola Lane
    Or of course you coulod just use tracking IDs:

    From:All About HopLink

    Adding Tracking IDs to Your HopLinks

    ClickBank will automatically track and report results from any HopLinks you use. However, you may wish to perform some additional tracking of your own, so you know which of your promotional efforts are working best for you.

    For example, let’s say you’re promoting the same product on a blog, in a forum post, and on Twitter. Since you’ll be posting the same HopLink in all of these places, ClickBank’s reporting will just show you how many clicks your HopLink received, along with any sales you created. However, you won’t be able to tell exactly which source accounted for these sales. This is where Tracking IDs (also called TIDs) come in.

    Tracking IDs are short descriptions you create that are added to the end of your HopLinks. The Tracking IDs can be up to 24 characters long, and must consist only of numbers and/or letters (no punctuation or other symbols). When a sale is made using one of your HopLinks, the Tracking ID is passed into ClickBank’s reporting, so you’ll be able to see exactly which of your promotional efforts led to the sale. Your Tracking IDs are visible only to you, so the vendor you send customers to won’t be able to view your Tracking IDs.

    For example, if you had a HopLink and wanted to track that it’s coming from your a blog post you created on June 9, 2009, you could use the Tracking ID blogjune92009. When attached to the end of your HopLink, it would look like Sell Products - ClickBank. Then, if a sale was made, in the sales reporting you would see that Tracking ID listed in the TID column, indicating which of your promotional efforts led to the sale.

    You can easily add Tracking IDs to the end of your HopLink when creating HopLinks via the Marketplace. However, if you want to manually create a HopLink for any reason, as shown above, you just need to add ?tid= followed by your desired Tracking ID to the end of the HopLink. Please note that ?tid= needs to be in lower case only.

    For more information on using Tracking IDs, see Tracking Your Promotions.
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