How Come We Never Hear From The "Vendors" On Clickbank?

I have a bunch of products in Clickbank but fellow warrior Harvey Segal is the reigning CB expert and has been for years. He can give you much better info than me or most other people can.

If he doesn't respond, his site is over at: How to Make Money on the Net

Andy

Success comes down to the marketer, my friend. Robert Kiyosaki told a woman on a TV show something like, "Of course you know more than me about this, I'm just a better marketer...".

Clickbank has always been a decent place but your ability to get affiliates will come from your ability to network and JV. You can find them one at a time, or 1000 at a time depending on your understanding of leveraging.

Good luck,
Eric

ESR


Depends on how much work you're willing to do to get affiliates. Just
listing your product will not guarantee that you'll get a lot of people
promoting it for you. Also, the $50 is not for the listing. It's just to
have Clickbank sell your product for you. Truth is, if after 30 days you
don't make any sales (the first 30 days you're listed under new products)
you get removed from the marketplace.

Aside from the listing, the only other Clickbank benefit is that you'll
get paid regularly as long as you make sales. Of course if you just sell
your product through PayPal, you can transfer the money immediately.
So in that respect, Clickbank has little to offer there that I can't get
elsewhere.

You promote, just like you would the actual product. You create affiliate
tools and make it attractive for affiliates to want to promote you, including
giving a very generous commission percentage. Most give 75% today. Plus,
if you have a higher end product (above $50) you'll attract more affiliates.
Affiliates don't want to bust their tails for a $10 commission.

No, you would use the main URL of the site. Of course you could open
up other accounts as an affiliate and sell the product through those IDs
in order to raise your gravity, but you'd have to open quite a few accounts
for it to make any significant difference.

Yes.

I don't actively seek affiliates so I would say no, I have not been
successful.

I've been selling products through Clickbank for years. I got lucky with
my first one and got hold of a super affiliate who sold quite a few of them.
But since that time, nobody has come close. If I get 2 or 3 affiliates
promoting one of my products at a time, that's a lot.

Clickbank is not an "automatic" money maker for merchants or affiliates.
It takes lots of work on both ends.

Just like anything else in this business.

Anyway, hope his helps.

Thank you all, especially Steve. I suppose I was looking at Clickbank, for all these years, as the end-all, be-all for getting affiliates to sell my product, but I can see now how wrong I was.

I'll research every avenue before deciding. Thanks.

Yeah I defintely echo what Stephen had to say...its not a get rich quick road at all and you still need to have the relationships with affiliates to do the JV's etc. My first product that I stuck up on CB received exactly 0 affiliates promoting it...so just pumping something up there and hoping your goign to have 1000 pimping it is unrealistic.

Best of luck

I've used clickbank as a merchant for years with great success. If you're going to promote a product anyway, why not put that same effort forth in promoting to and gaining affiliates? That same effort will be multiplied exponentially if you gain affiliates to do the work for you. I have several products that I've spent months on gaining affiliates, and now they bring me in hundreds daily with no effort on my part. Rinse and repeat, and then go on vacation while your affiliates are still hard at work making you and them money.

Hey
I'm with Steve.
I have found that if you are sellign soemthing without the benefit of a big product launch with lots of affilaites and JV partners, I've found it better to use Paypal and RAP script.
I've not done yet a big JV launch but if and when I do, I'll use CB for that. However, I have found in other nichess, PP and RAP work well enough without the $50 up front.

My two pennies worth

Simon

Hi Andy

Yeah, good point. I've not thought of that angle. How does that work in practise? How do you offer the WSO through Clickbank at a discount and still retain teh full price version for other affiliates to find?

Thanks

Simon