Can I promote my own product on clickbank?

Yes, you can. If you go to their website they will walk you through it, depending on if you're an author, expert, whatever, etc.

RoD

Yes, you can do it

Not a great idea. Then you won’t be paid until ClickBank sends you the money. Plus they hold back money for refunds when you start out. It’s your product; you should be paid as the sales come in. Stick with PayPal and get yourself download protection software that works with PayPal API... The only benefit for ClickBank is if you want affiliates or don't want to deal with refunds and such. Checkout the sites below: My favorite is aMember pro.

amember.com
dlguard.com

It isn't a stupid question at all.

The answer is yes - you can do it in either of two ways: either acting as your own affiliate, or by having the sales processed without an affiliate at all. You'll get the same amount of money either way.

What you shouldn't do is what's suggested in the post immediately above, though: that could be a terribly expensive mistake to make, and I'm extremely surprised to see it suggested here. No serious, pro-affiliate will be willing to send traffic to a ClickBank offer which has an alternate "vendor's PayPal-only sales page" elsewhere, because that would constitute a serious "payment leak" from the affiliate's perspective. Very few people buy a ClickBank product at their first visit to a sales page, and if affiliates are aware that our "cookied prospects" might (for example, following a Google search for the product) return to a different sales page and pay in a way in which our cookie doesn't earn us anything, naturally enough we'll simply promote someone else's product instead, which doesn't give us that problem.

The few affiliates this mistake might cost you would be very likely to be the ones who'd make the most sales (because they're the more experienced ones who appreciate this point - fewer than 5% of affiliates typically make more than 95% of the affiliate-referred sales!).

You can ... or you can just "not use an affiliate link at all" and still make 100% of the sale. But using your own affiliate-link might be more profitable for you if you think any of your own prospective customers might already be cookied by another affiliate.

For these reasons, it's actually common for ClickBank vendors to promote their own products as their own affiliates: it makes little sense to lose the best affiliates unnecessarily over a "payment leak".

You wouldn't promote your product as an affiliate. You would just promote your product as a vendor by sending people straight to your salespage.

As for wanting to use Clickbank "instead of stupid Paypal", I think you will find conversions on a Paypal order form higher than those on a Clickbank order form, just because way more people know of and trust Paypal. So if that's the only reason you want to move to Clickbank, then you may want to reconsider. Also keep in mind the Clickbank fees are much higher than the typical Paypal fees. 7.5% + $1 compared to 2-3%.

Thanks everyone... and yes I'm using clickbank for affiliates too.