Ebook in Clickbank, Affiliates advertising but no sales...

11 years ago

Nate,

As you have found out, just creating a product and listing it on Clickbank is definitely no guarantee of sales or success.

Did you do your market research beforehand? Are the people in your market actually willing to spend money on the type of information you are selling?

I'm not sure if it's the same type of product as in your signature (related to running), but if it is then without doing any research my instinct would tell me runners are not the type of crowd that would be spending money on info products. I may be wrong but just a hunch.

The best info products are those that solve a problem or desire. Weight loss for example is helping people solve a problem. Weight is something people fall asleep worrying about at night.

How fast they can run, is that something people really worry about?

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butters

11 years ago

Originally Posted by WillR

Nate,

As you have found out, just creating a product and listing it on Clickbank is definitely no guarantee of sales or success.

Did you do your market research beforehand? Are the people in your market actually willing to spend money on the type of information you are selling?

I'm not sure if it's the same type of product as in your signature (related to running), but if it is then without doing any research my instinct would tell me runners are not the type of crowd that would be spending money on info products. I may be wrong but just a hunch.

The best info products are those that solve a problem or desire. Weight loss for example is helping people solve a problem. Weight is something people fall asleep worrying about at night.

How fast they can run, is that something people really worry about?

The man has cracked the golden coconut on the head and it's leaking out, start collecting it

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JasonBennet

11 years ago

Originally Posted by WillR

Nate,

As you have found out, just creating a product and listing it on Clickbank is definitely no guarantee of sales or success.

Did you do your market research beforehand? Are the people in your market actually willing to spend money on the type of information you are selling?

I'm not sure if it's the same type of product as in your signature (related to running), but if it is then without doing any research my instinct would tell me runners are not the type of crowd that would be spending money on info products. I may be wrong but just a hunch.

The best info products are those that solve a problem or desire. Weight loss for example is helping people solve a problem. Weight is something people fall asleep worrying about at night.

How fast they can run, is that something people really worry about?

I agree with what he has mention. It is always better do so some market research first so that we will know in advance the kind of information that people are willing to pay money for.

I personally like to choose evergreen market where people will face problem as long as they are around. Examples like these 3 general markets:

1) Dating and Relationship
2) Health and Fitness
3) Making Money

It is true that the markets are very competitive but I believe that there is still large profit share for people to get their own share.

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Alexa Smith Banned 11 years ago

Originally Posted by bkkmma

I'm surprised affiliates are promoting it if you haven't proven to them that it can convert.

This.

If you know how to sell it successfully, you can advise your affiliates accordingly (by having a suitable affiliate page which incentivizes them to opt in, and so on).

If your affiliates are all people who started promoting it without first satisfying themselves that the vendor was already selling it successfully and has a sales page already proven to convert targeted traffic, then they're not affiliates who'll bring in sales. Probably. 5% of affiliates bring in about 95% of the affiliate-referred sales. I suspect you have a selection from the other 95% who don't sell much?

If you can't sell it successfully yourself, don't use up your time seeking affiliates, because however many you successfully recruit, if the product doesn't sell to their traffic, then you can't retain them in a meaningful way which produces any income for yourself, anyway. I'm not trying to criticize you, but this is simply "the way it is".

Don't imagine that "affiliate gimmicks" (banners/articles/whatever) are in themselves going to attract serious, pro-affiliates who can actually sell it. The affiliates you most want/need to recruit typically have no interest in those at all and probably won't use them anyway. They care about the quality of the product and the converting-power of the sales page.

Proven conversions come first, affiliates come later.

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How fast they can run, is that something people really worry about?

"I don't have to outrun the bear: I only need to outrun you".
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Randall Magwood

11 years ago

Promote it yourself and dont rely on Clickbank alone (if you ARE using Clickbank alone). Do heavy promotion on your site too.

Did you give your affiliates marketing tools that they can use to promote your product? If not, this is very important to helping your affiliates succeed.

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WillR

11 years ago

Originally Posted by Randall Magwood

Promote it yourself and dont rely on Clickbank alone (if you ARE using Clickbank alone). Do heavy promotion on your site too.

Did you give your affiliates marketing tools that they can use to promote your product? If not, this is very important to helping your affiliates succeed.

Going heavier with the promoting side of things will not fix a product that isn't selling. He has already told us affiliates are actively promoting his product and making no sales.

This does not tell me he needs to ramp up the promotion efforts. This tells me he needs to step back and look at the product and/or sales page -- probably both.

If people don't want something it doesn't matter how hard you flog it, it will never sell.

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wakey7

11 years ago

Originally Posted by Randall Magwood

Did you give your affiliates marketing tools that they can use to promote your product? If not, this is very important to helping your affiliates succeed.

This is really important. There needs to be some sort of JV tools page that includes banners that your affiliates can use, as well as email swipes etc. A real must. You want to help your affiliates to promote your product as much as you can.

If you were to use a different platform, like JVZoo, you would have direct access to your affiliates and could hold a webinar, for example. Just some way to get in touch with and/or help your affiliates out.

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ckdaro

11 years ago

Make sure that your product is up to scratch before you even think about promoting or advertising...

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SandraLarkin

Banned 11 years ago

You need traffic and your sales letter needs to convert. Have you tried to drive targeted traffic, have you tested your sales copy out?

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11 years ago

can you please tell us about your product niche , so we can help you better?

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11 years ago

People buy from people they trust.

1. Build trust over time

2. Demonstrate your expertise

3. Finally, SELL.

Most people do it backwards

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bkkmma

11 years ago

I'm surprised affiliates are promoting it if you haven't proven to them that it can convert. Sell some copies yourself, figure out how, and then give that information to your affiliates.

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theaccountant

11 years ago

Originally Posted by bkkmma

I'm surprised affiliates are promoting it if you haven't proven to them that it can convert. Sell some copies yourself, figure out how, and then give that information to your affiliates.

I agree with this post and everything willr has written. Everyone rushes to clickbank before they even know if there is a market for their product. Years ago I tried it didn't get one single affiliate tweaked the sales copy and made sales.

I will tell you this : you have not positioned your product correctly if there is indeed a market for it and clearly your copy stinks.

I hope we are using different copywriters.

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livitweb 11 years ago

What everyone's saying here is right. If you did market research before you started promoting your product, you shouldn't have a problem selling it, especially if affiliates are actively promoting it.

Check out what's popular nowadays and build a product out of that one. Try using Google trends to find out which ones are popular and to what demographic. But do not choose the top of the list, though. Chances are, you will be up against some pretty stiff competition which you might have difficulty penetrating.
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- Michele Miller 11 years ago
  
  First of all, you didn't give the URL, but IF the URL is the one in your signature, the one that is .com/blog, well, it is 96% slower loading than all tested websites, so that isn't helping is it?
  
  I waited FOREVER for it to load...
  
  Then I get a graphic and a few links below that. None of which encouraged me to click on at all.
  
  Since you have not shared the URL page, I cannot help you further. But if you are sending people to this page, the one in your sig, and it takes over 38 seconds for it to load, and then it's a simple BS graphic... something is wrong...
  
  Your page should be loading in under 3 seconds.
  
  You are seriously not sending affiliates to this slow loading graphic are you?
  
  Not trying to be mean here, but I think if you provide a bit more info,
  we could help.
  
  As I said, without you providing the landing page, it's hard to say, but based on your:
  www.rundreamachieve.com/blog an extremely slow loading page, (38.9 seconds), and nothing but a boring graphic, plus the page doesn't fit the width of my browser, and nothing inspires me to click at all. It's a far cry from a squeeze page in itself even. I would be checking the stats on that page, and doubting anyone is hanging around. What for??? What are you offering?
  
  Like I said, you wanted to know why, and you didn't provide much info, but based on your sig, hopefully this info WILL help you and you won't be offended.
  
  Your poor affiliates are trying to send traffic to a page that takes about a year to load... I think that might be why....... Unless of course, you are sending them to another URL, but based on your load time in that URL in your sig, I am doubting you optimized your site for your affiliates...
  
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Beverley Boorer

11 years ago

If you are sure you product offers value, try renaming it. A different, more catchy title could swing things your way.

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djleon1

11 years ago

Have you checked the analytics from your site to see if people are visiting from these affiliates?

Getting affiliates sounds great because you may feel you can now sit back and let them do all the work but if there are no sales you are going to have to look at your sales page to start and at your product itself.

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David Raybould

11 years ago

Nate-

Is this your first product? Have you ever
put together something that sold online
before?

Aside from everything everybody else
said, chances are your salespage isn't
up to scratch. Clickbank affiliates aren't
always the best at driving targeted
traffic, but if you have multiple affiliates
driving more than a trickle of visitors and
you're still not seeing sales, your salespage
simply isn't cutting it.

Your page needs to get your prospects
riled up, have them drooling, foaming at
the mouth at the very idea of
downloading your product. It needs to be
the best thing they've seen that day,
resonating with them on a deep, gut,
level.

If your site doesn't do that... if it doesn't
reach through their monitor and slap them
awake, then it's not doing its job.

If you want to post a link, I'll give you some
feedback.

-David Raybould

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