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I know all the pros and cons of each of them.

I've sold on eBay for years and years with PayPal and have a reputable PayPal account as well.

I am looking for affiliates to promote my membership site and so for that reason, Clickbank would be ideal.

But I am in a non IM niche - so there aren't a lot of people that know about Clickbank and so don't trust it as much.

So I'm thinking Paypal would have better conversions - I was going to use both of them on 2 identical separate sales pages (one with clickbank and one with paypal)...

...but I don't want my affiliates to lose out on their hard earned money.

Which one to choose??
#clickbank #paypal
  • Profile picture of the author hustlinsmoke
    Well you can still have two separates while keeping the jv's seperate.
    Just use clickbank for one and jvzoo for the other. Your not taking from the jv's since it is two different promotions. I call it split testing.
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  • Profile picture of the author talfighel
    Originally Posted by zloveday93 View Post

    I am looking for affiliates to promote my membership site and so for that reason, Clickbank would be ideal.
    If you are going to have affiliates promoting for you then I would take a serious look at Clickbank.

    Originally Posted by zloveday93 View Post

    But I am in a non IM niche - so there aren't a lot of people that know about Clickbank and so don't trust it as much.
    Are you referring to affiliates because the last time I checked, there are MILLIONS of affiliates there promoting products for others.
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  • Profile picture of the author zloveday93
    Thanks for the reply, but I thought about this as well...

    ...isn't it wrong if say an affiliate sends someone on their list to my site using their affiliate link affiliatelinkexample.com/example (sales page accepting clickbank) but then they stumble across affiliatelinkexample.com (sales page accepting paypal) and decide to pay through that instead - so then the affiliate doesn't get commission?

    How would that work?
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    • Profile picture of the author wordwizard
      Originally Posted by zloveday93 View Post

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      But I am in a non IM niche - so there aren't a lot of people that know about Clickbank and so don't trust it as much.

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      Actually, I think CB works even better with non-IM niches since most non-IM buyers don't try to buy stuff through their own links.

      So I'm sure you'll have plenty of affiliates - even IM people, who'll appreciate the resulting higher percentage of commissions.
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      • Profile picture of the author talfighel
        Originally Posted by wordwizard View Post

        Actually, I think CB works even better with non-IM niches since most non-IM buyers don't try to buy stuff through their own links.

        So I'm sure you'll have plenty of affiliates - even IM people, who'll appreciate the resulting higher percentage of commissions.
        And I heard that CB now are very strict on who they allow in as new websites in the work at home and internet marketing niche.

        If you apply for an account with them as a vendor and submit your website for approval, there is a good chance that you will not get accepted.

        If you have a non IM niche product, it will be a lot easier to get into CB as a vendor and then recruit affiliates to sell your product for you.
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    • Profile picture of the author Stephen Saha
      Originally Posted by zloveday93 View Post

      Thanks for the reply, but I thought about this as well...

      ...isn't it wrong if say an affiliate sends someone on their list to my site using their affiliate link affiliatelinkexample.com/example (sales page accepting clickbank) but then they stumble across affiliatelinkexample.com (sales page accepting paypal) and decide to pay through that instead - so then the affiliate doesn't get commission?

      How would that work?
      If you plan to split test using both CB and Paypal, I would suggest use two different URLs for them .. like yoursitename.com/cbpage and yoursitename.com/paypalpage rather than using the root domain yoursitename.com for either of the Two. In this way the possibility of bumping into the root URL by chance is limited.

      You can use the root URL as a landing page or blog.

      Rgds

      Stephen
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  • Profile picture of the author hustlinsmoke
    I don't really think they will do that for the most part, it might happen. but when someone clicks in an email its usually an implulse buy.

    I am not saying it won't happen but we do it all the time. Its really impossible to split test a product with jv's unless you use different platforms or split the jv's into two seperate groups.

    I have did it before and never had a problem.
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  • Profile picture of the author hustlinsmoke
    I used to get mad a dozen years ago when I would buy a product and find that exact product from the same seller for five bucks left. Its called split testing though and happens on a daily basis, without it we would not know how to price our products or make our sales pages better.
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  • Profile picture of the author zloveday93
    Thanks for the help guys
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  • Profile picture of the author zloveday93
    Thanks for the reply Stephen, but I already have another domain for my landing page and blog - any other ideas?
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