Is Clickbank still relevant in 2014?

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I have tried promoting Clickbank a few years ago, but fail miserably. Since I haven't look for the website for a long time, I just would like to promote it once more. Does anyone here still promoting clickbank products?

Is it a great idea for me to start it over?
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  • Profile picture of the author Mack
    Promoting ClickBank products is still a great way to make lots of money...

    What have you tried in the past that failed? That would help us understand what experience you currently have.


    Here's a quick tip:

    Provide honest reviews on CB products through YouTube videos. Actually read/use the product and if you can, show some of its features in the video. Then of course, you'll have your call to action during the video mentioning how they can purchase or learn more about the product by clicking your affiliate link in the description.
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    • Profile picture of the author cyberzolo
      Originally Posted by AffMack View Post

      Promoting ClickBank products is still a great way to make lots of money...

      What have you tried in the past that failed? That would help us understand what experience you currently have.


      Here's a quick tip:

      Provide honest reviews on CB products through YouTube videos. Actually read/use the product and if you can, show some of its features in the video. Then of course, you'll have your call to action during the video mentioning how they can purchase or learn more about the product by clicking your affiliate link in the description.
      Be careful and don't be too promotional of affiliate products, many channels have been getting banned.
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  • Profile picture of the author Trey Morgan
    Clickbank is great. I'm very happy with the company and how easy it is to get signed up and start making sales.

    I think you should start over and make a goal for yourself. Just focus on making your first sale. Once you know how to make your first sale, then you have to figure out how to increase the frequency of sales. It usually comes down to traffic and conversions.
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  • Profile picture of the author Copeland Becker
    Clickbank is still very relevant.

    A lot of the Internet Marketing type products are slowly moving away from Clickbank, but if you ever operate in any other niches like relationships, fitness, pets, sports, etc...Clickbank is still the go-to marketplace for those niches.
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    • Profile picture of the author Deeno Zee
      Originally Posted by Copeland Becker View Post

      Clickbank is still very relevant.

      A lot of the Internet Marketing type products are slowly moving away from Clickbank, but if you ever operate in any other niches like relationships, fitness, pets, sports, etc...Clickbank is still the go-to marketplace for those niches.
      I agree with the above, if you are operating in a niche such as fitness. Clickbank is surely the way to go.

      Rather than that clickbank is not what it use to be in 06 or 07 when even I was more active with the promotion side of their affiliate program.
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      • Profile picture of the author AlisonM
        Clickbank offers a professional and reliable service for affiliates. No 1 is that you know you will get paid the correct amount and on time.

        The best advice I can offer is choose your products carefully. I only promote products I have used or tested myself. That way I can write reviews that I feel comfortable with.

        The search tools for finding products to promote via Clickbank are helpful. When you have chosen your niche you can search by popularity or gravity to find products that currently get decent sales. And you can filter those results to search for only products with recurring sales. After all it is much more fun to do the work just once and get repeat payments.

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    • Profile picture of the author lisamarie1010
      Originally Posted by Copeland Becker View Post

      Clickbank is still very relevant.

      A lot of the Internet Marketing type products are slowly moving away from Clickbank, but if you ever operate in any other niches like relationships, fitness, pets, sports, etc...Clickbank is still the go-to marketplace for those niches.
      Couldnt agree more -We ourselves are just getting involved in a massive JV launch for Self help and prosperity by one of the major guys. Give me a PM for anybody that wants to sign up for themselves! CB is ALIVE!!
      Last time it did over a quarter million- 260K. So yes - find the Good One!! This is it. You can sign up too for your list...
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      • Profile picture of the author celente
        Originally Posted by lisamarie1010 View Post

        Couldnt agree more -We ourselves are just getting involved in a massive JV launch for Self help and prosperity by one of the major guys. Give me a PM for anybody that wants to sign up for themselves! CB is ALIVE!!
        Last time it did over a quarter million- 260K. So yes - find the Good One!! This is it. You can sign up too for your list...
        Great stuff, I think the self help and prosperity is a big niche.

        Especially after the 08 stock market crash, people had not money and had to find themselves so to speak, and this niche is not dying, we did well in this nice just after 2009 - 2010 and as the market skidding up higher, they had no money to invest.

        I agree CB is alive and well. There are big affiliates in here [top 100] that actually post in here in the warrior forum, so you must listen to them. Its how we do well on clickbank.

        Its not hard to do well on clickbank, when you relise you have to build a list to do well there. you have lots of things and opportunities. The thing is most people here on WF bag Clickbank, as they do not want to build lists, or they do not know how to in the first place?

        How do you think the big guys on clickbank are doing it. Its not by spamming crappy articles, or forum posts, its basically doing paid traffic and building LIST< big ones. When you realise you can do well by just having a list of 800 - 1000 and clickbank, a whole other world will present itself for you.

        The thing is, are you going to work hard to build a list, or just sit back and read comments in here about how clickbank is a waste of time, by people who have never build a list. ?? That is what it comes down to.
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        • Profile picture of the author Ged Clayson
          Clickbank still works and works well. But it has got harder. Certainly when using PPC.

          Back in the day, you put up ads on Google Adwords and it was relatively easy to get sales and make a good profit. Then Google more or less banned affiliate marketers - turns out they suddenly hated long sales pages on one-page sites. So PPC marketers moved to Microsoft Adcenter - Bing as it is now - and off we went again. Not quite the same amount of traffic or quality but a lot cheaper. Well Bing is now going the way of Google. They are making it harder. I've recently had my account reviewed and have been made to jump through hoops to get it running again.

          I wouldn't advise anyone to try to sell Clickbank products on Bing anymore. That isn't to say no to PPC affliate advertising at all, just don't send their traffic to anything with a long sales page making 'vague and sensationalistic claims' (as a Bing support person explained it to me).

          I'm using 7Search at the moment (as well as Bing) - traffic so far is poor.

          Create a web page about your Clickbank product on your niche website and send PPC traffic to that instead. You can ask Bing to review it if you wish.

          Best of all, build a list. Clickbank products (and JVZoo products) do sell very well on targeted lists.
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  • Profile picture of the author H.Miller
    Clickbank is still relevant. The key is to focus on one niche and not spread yourself too thin. Sometimes people will try to have 10 or 15 review sites going at one time. When you are first starting you should focus on one. Make it successful and then build another.

    You also need to be consistent. I think one of the biggest reasons people fail to make money online, with Clickbank or any other method, is because they aren't consistent with their efforts. So pick a big profitable niche and give it all you've got.
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    • Profile picture of the author entrepreneurjay
      Originally Posted by H.Miller View Post

      Clickbank is still relevant. The key is to focus on one niche and not spread yourself too thin. Sometimes people will try to have 10 or 15 review sites going at one time. When you are first starting you should focus on one. Make it successful and then build another.

      You also need to be consistent. I think one of the biggest reasons people fail to make money online, with Clickbank or any other method, is because they aren't consistent with their efforts. So pick a big profitable niche and give it all you've got.
      Well said I couldn't of said it better myself.
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  • Profile picture of the author Adie
    Originally Posted by masterqif View Post

    I have tried promoting Clickbank a few years ago, but fail miserably. Since I haven't look for the website for a long time, I just would like to promote it once more. Does anyone here still promoting clickbank products?

    Is it a great idea for me to start it over?
    Every year, my CB sales actually keeps increasing and I don't see a reason why CB will have a problem this coming 2014. I only see upside and not downside.
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    • Profile picture of the author masterqif
      Originally Posted by Adie View Post

      Every year, my CB sales actually keeps increasing and I don't see a reason why CB will have a problem this coming 2014. I only see upside and not downside.
      What type of your traffics? Is it from SEO or PPC?

      I have tried to create reviews website before, but never worked. I haven't tried PPC for Clickbank before, so is this a great choice?

      PPC I would like to use is Bing Ads.. Adwords is too competitive I guess..
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      • Profile picture of the author Adie
        Originally Posted by masterqif View Post

        What type of your traffics? Is it from SEO or PPC?

        I have tried to create reviews website before, but never worked. I haven't tried PPC for Clickbank before, so is this a great choice?

        PPC I would like to use is Bing Ads.. Adwords is too competitive I guess..
        My sites are designed for long-term purpose so I never buy any PPC ad campaign. It's always SEO. See a little details here:
        http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ing-money.html
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  • Profile picture of the author ufshane
    We decided to try something new with clickbank, with the broadcast function build into PS4, we are actually using a couple of clickbank campaigns in our profile below the video player UrgentFury - Twitch we have already had some conversions and the traffic cost us $0
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  • Profile picture of the author OnlineAddict
    The problem with clickbank is that all websites using them look the same. Same design, same squeeze page look, same everything...and on top of that, same quality of products, clickbank products suck! Seriously, I have seen hundreds of clickbank products and most of them are just trash, something you can find within 5 minutes for free.
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    • Profile picture of the author 4q
      Originally Posted by OnlineAddict View Post

      The problem with clickbank is that all websites using them look the same. Same design, same squeeze page look, same everything...and on top of that, same quality of products, clickbank products suck! Seriously, I have seen hundreds of clickbank products and most of them are just trash, something you can find within 5 minutes for free.
      The problem is, you don't have the first idea what your talking about.

      You have seen "hundreds of CB products".....so you bought them all and reviewed them constructively and critically.....did you? After all, to substantiate your claims, pls refer us all to your review pages of these hundreds of CB products.

      There are over 100,000 CB products available at the mo.....I take it you speak for them all yeah?

      Your a misguided fool making irrational and false claims without a shred of evidence nor proof to back them up.

      If Im wrong, then pls feel free to correct me.

      If you have evidence to back up your claims, we are all waiting to hear it.
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      • Profile picture of the author OnlineAddict
        Originally Posted by 4q View Post

        The problem is, you don't have the first idea what your talking about.

        You have seen "hundreds of CB products".....so you bought them all and reviewed them constructively and critically.....did you? After all, to substantiate your claims, pls refer us all to your review pages of these hundreds of CB products.

        There are over 100,000 CB products available at the mo.....I take it you speak for them all yeah?

        Your a misguided fool making irrational and false claims without a shred of evidence nor proof to back them up.

        If Im wrong, then pls feel free to correct me.

        If you have evidence to back up your claims, we are all waiting to hear it.
        I do have an idea. All clickbank offers look the same. They all look like from 1 person. Long boring pages which make you scroll for 1 hour and mention all the useless crap thats supposed to be unique, special and I don't know what else. Then you have to browse to the bottom to see the fantastic price of not $10000, not $1000, not $500, not $200 but "unbelievable" $67 or something similar. Seriously, its a joke, as are most products in clickbank. Most people on clickbank sell crap in the hope newbies will buy it.

        But go ahead, prove me wrong. Since there are 100k products in CB, as you say...show me at least 50 good ones. Even thats too much.
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    • Profile picture of the author Adie
      Originally Posted by OnlineAddict View Post

      The problem with clickbank is that all websites using them look the same. Same design, same squeeze page look, same everything...and on top of that, same quality of products, clickbank products suck! Seriously, I have seen hundreds of clickbank products and most of them are just trash, something you can find within 5 minutes for free.
      Casual customers who search products on google does not care about the looks of the sales page or how many similar products listed in clickbank. Some doesn't even know the existence of clickbank. Someone who is looking on how to cure his toothache and stumbled into a CB product does not really care about clickbank. All he care about is to help himself and if he found the product helpful, he'll buy right away.

      Your type of thinking is the exact reason why most CB skeptics failed..
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    • Profile picture of the author GlenH
      Originally Posted by OnlineAddict View Post

      The problem with clickbank is that all websites using them look the same. Same design, same squeeze page look, same everything...and on top of that, same quality of products, clickbank products suck! Seriously, I have seen hundreds of clickbank products and most of them are just trash, something you can find within 5 minutes for free.
      What rubbish!!!
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  • Profile picture of the author agmccall
    Originally Posted by masterqif View Post

    I have tried promoting Clickbank a few years ago, but fail miserably. Since I haven't look for the website for a long time, I just would like to promote it once more. Does anyone here still promoting clickbank products?

    Is it a great idea for me to start it over?
    It is a great idea for you to figure out what kind of business you want. Just because you failed miserably does not have anything to do with clickbank, it has everything to do with you. You need to read, learn, and implement. Ask about how to do certain things.

    Questions like yours are a waste of your time and ours

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  • Profile picture of the author sherah
    Originally Posted by masterqif View Post

    I have tried promoting Clickbank a few years ago, but fail miserably. Since I haven't look for the website for a long time, I just would like to promote it once more. Does anyone here still promoting clickbank products?

    Is it a great idea for me to start it over?
    Promote Clickbank offers with YouTube. I think strong method!
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  • Profile picture of the author alliance
    Clickbank is still strong in the health niche. I also agree that video marketing is converting for affilitates.
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  • Profile picture of the author Randall Magwood
    Clickbank is great. It's still possible to make alot of money with it. Just make sure your marketing is on point.
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  • Profile picture of the author parmarjeet
    Until now i believe Clickbank is the best source of online income. In the beginning everybody have to face lots of problems like huge competition but once you understands the internet marketing then money will flow towards you.
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  • Profile picture of the author theimexpert
    I'd say 90% of my income comes from Clickbank so I'd certainly say it is still relevant!
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    • Profile picture of the author tanya5487
      so tell me how !!
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  • Profile picture of the author johnweyer
    Great thread. Thank you Adie. That patience thing is vastly underrated. I believe it is why so many people (myself included) go to the next shiny object and abandon potentially good sites or ideas. AffiliateAlan has summed up Internet Marketing perfectly, I think.
    "Google confuses the shit out of me"
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    • Profile picture of the author Daniel Evans
      Relevant to what?

      CB success is entirely subjective in accordance with niche, selected products, your methods of marketing, your ability to market and your degree of marketing much like everything else.
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      • Profile picture of the author thriftgirl62
        Originally Posted by H.Miller View Post

        You also need to be consistent. I think one of the biggest reasons people fail to make money online, with Clickbank or any other method, is because they aren't consistent with their efforts. So pick a big profitable niche and give it all you've got.
        Excellent Advice. H. Miller!

        masterqif, I'm glad you started this thread because I never had much going on with Clickbank either but that's because I didn't do the work, the research and didn't understand how the commisssions were paid. This Ron Davies video will tell you the 5 biggest mistakes affiiates make: Five Biggest Mistakes Marketers Make

        Apparently the pre-launch is for the big list owners to Pre-Cookie everyone they possibly can before anyone else does. Then the launch is for people with smaller lists that have many of the same subscribers so you don't get credit if they buy through your link if they're already cookied.

        But, last week my eyes were opened, wide open when I found out how everyone without a big list should all be promoting Clickbank products if you want to make any money. I just got a check for almost $200 to prove what I'm saying. You can't promote the top 20 popular product launches because all you're doing is giving the sale away to the big list owners who got there first and cookied them all during the pre-launch.

        And you don't have to use the sales pages the Vendor supplies. Most of those have "affiliates" at the bottom and all that does is invite people to sign up and get commission on their own perchases even if they never get 5 sales with different pay methods to qualify to get paid for the sale.

        Here's an example of one I did for paid social media jobs that should have started with a squeeze page to build your own list and then direct the to the offer which I changed to this one instead of just sending people to the page they tell you to. Paid for Social Media Manager Jobs

        There are so many different promotions you can do for Clickbank products that don't rip people off like this one I did for Tristan Bull that starts on Facebook. https://apps.facebook.com/tristan_no_bull/ and eventually collects the name and email here:tristan_bull

        If anyone is interested in forming a Clickbank 2nd Time Around Group, put your thoughts in this thread because I've got lots of ideas that work better when there's team effort so nobody has to do everything and end up with something unfinished or mediocre instead of great.

        I know you can make alot of money with Clickbank products if you don't make those 5 mistakes in that video and if you have old, dusty domains laying around doing nothing, you can put them to work too so let me know if there's any group interest or if anyone knows of a group we can join, that works too.
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        • Profile picture of the author veeco
          I also on my way back to clickbank, this thread is a great one... keep rolling on

          But this time, i will try as affiliate, back in 2009 i join clickbank as vendor when forex and automated tools wasearly days... in 2011 the market get saturated and clickbank release new policy thats makes me and my partner stop developing product for clickbank
          (Surprisingly... several subscriber doesn't care/aware to stop subscription, so the billing still rolling out till now. But as my partner hold the account and does not want to stop the billing.. 'the sin' on him)

          Now back to clickbank, these several days i am trying to find course about clickbank related with paid traffic through fb ads.. but i can't find any... so any of you guys have a course reference about him.

          Why clickbank and fb ads ? Because i see with my own eyes how my friend can get good result around 1500 on weekly basis through clickbank.. he spent less than $200 on fb ads.
          I ask the formula and he refuse to explain it.. so i don't know if the $200 is the only expense or not

          I'm on my way to find this 'hidden' formula and hopefully someone in this forum can give me ideas to make it fast.
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  • Profile picture of the author celente
    still making 10k per month with clickbank. Even if I go to the beach.

    List building and clickbank have been working since day 0 for us way back.

    I doubt it will be going anywhere, unless the sun dies, the moon freezes up or a big tsunami comes and wipes out the states. Now while all this could happen at once, even by tomorrow....I would say that is the lesser odds right now. LOL.

    So until all these cataclysms happen, my clickbank business is pretty safe i would say. LOL
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  • Profile picture of the author EPoltrack77
    Clickbank is only getting stronger and stronger. Thats why you see a lot of garbage on the clicksure network. Because anybody and put anything on clicksure. You want to offer good information products to your prospects and clickbank has some of the best products out there. You need to research and find a good product. I had a goal of making $200 per day with clickbank in 2013 and I will gladly admit I blew that right out of the water. My goal for 2014 is to make $1,000 per day with clickbank! I'll do it. I know I will. Rinse and repeat... Rinse and repeat...
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    • Profile picture of the author Karen Blundell
      Clickbank is very much relevant - so much so that people continue to make quiet fortunes even when everyone else thinks they couldn't possibly be doing so well
      I don't see Clickbank going anywhere - and there are quite a few products on Clickbank in categories other than MMO that are outstanding.
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    • Profile picture of the author lucidzfl
      Do you stand up sites specifically to target click bank products or do you have existing sites that push click bank products?

      Also, if you're a blogger, how do you get people to trust you on these products, are you actually trying them yourselves?
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  • Clickbank is relevant if you have a good way to promote it. For instance, you could create the Youtube review videos suggested earlier and then post to your niche Facebook page to capture the social crowd. This would give you access to people who are really interested in what you are selling and could result in easy sales.
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  • Profile picture of the author abbe77
    Clickbank is great but as newbies, we need 'Fcous' and lots of 'Patience' ....
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  • Profile picture of the author JohnPeters1983
    I been sending traffic to squeeze pages and emailing them offers... works great YouTube and clickbank can still work but like someone said a lot of videos being banned lately!
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  • Profile picture of the author Nikhil V Nair
    Originally Posted by masterqif View Post

    Is Clickbank still relevant in 2014?
    Let me put the same thing in a different way

    Is promoting or selling Information products that solves
    peoples problems still relevant in 2014?

    YES. Absolutely Yes

    It will be relevant as long as people have problems and
    they want quick and easy solutions

    hope it helps
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  • Profile picture of the author tdbasha
    Yes, information products from Clickbank are worth promoting.

    Actually, it's not Clickbank that should be promoted. But rather, the products that can solve, fix, or change someone's problem. Lesson number one: find big problem and deliver it to the market looking to solve that problem.

    Lesson number two: learn how to promote that product. It takes a full blown education to take on multiple products and niches effectively (read - make money).

    So drill down into a niche with traffic. Then deliver ways for that traffic to find your information.

    I can attest that info products do sell often. It's the right product to the right market. That will always equal success, even from Clickbank products.

    Persistence in learning and consistently applying what you have learned; works every time.
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  • Profile picture of the author Pedro Lopes
    The simple answer is yes, as long as people continue to have problems, there are going to be people coming up with solutions.
    And people will pay good money for these solutions, and if you stick around you'll learn how to perfect the monetization of this..
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  • Profile picture of the author RickCopy
    I know this will get some flamage but honestly just from an end-user's perspective, I think there needs to be a little more originality as far as landing pages go. The only big evolution ive seen is going from super-long text landing pages to super-long video landing pages, same annoying outgoing popups. In all honesty to the end-user its just sketchy looking.

    Obviously i havent seen all 100,000+ landing pages on CB so this may vary by niche and ymmv.

    I know from experience that CB converts and makes money... I just think there's a lot being left on the table design-wise that could increase sales. It would also be nice to be able to sell CB stuff without sending them to a CB landing page... maybe some sort of CB checkout widget that you could put on your own site with your own copy and design. I think this could inspire a lot more variety out there and could even lower refund rates.

    I dont know... I doubt much will ever really change with CB, but it's fairly easy money if you can get traffic...so as to the OPs question... yes, as long as people on the internet can be sold on info. products CB will stay relevant IMO.
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  • Profile picture of the author twranks
    Originally Posted by masterqif View Post

    I have tried promoting Clickbank a few years ago, but fail miserably. Since I haven't look for the website for a long time, I just would like to promote it once more. Does anyone here still promoting clickbank products?

    Is it a great idea for me to start it over?
    Had this issue as well and it's great that you brought it up on the forum!
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    • Profile picture of the author heavysm
      I did a test a while ago testing out clickbank conversions against my amazon sites. Just two sites that received 100+ visitors daily in the same niche (muscle building). I was curious which converted better and even if there were lower conversions for clickbank, if their higher commission would make up for that.

      This test led me away from using amazon so much. I made dozens of sales from direct products recommended on my site and quite a few "add-on" products that the customers chose to also buy. The clickbank site would do a sale maybe every other day, sometimes as infrequent as every few days, but the commission was such that it made up for those dry/inactive days.

      My point: clickbank is still hugely relevant. Like other posts have said you have to grind though and get decent traffic levels to you sites to make statistical significance of clickbanks lower conversion rate.

      Take note that I didn't make much effort to recommend the product on the clickbank sites. I just put up the information and made the link a sort of "click here to learn more" type of thing. The landing page sold the visitor.
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      • Profile picture of the author AffiliatingAlan
        I have a few review type sites on the first page of google. I have yet to earn a dime from clickbank. Although there only 1 month old.
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  • Profile picture of the author Ripster
    Yes, it's still possible to earn with ClickBank in 2014.
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  • Profile picture of the author ZedyDiamond
    Clickbank is still relevant. I saw a big increase with sales a week ago.
    I believe that CB will still be relevant in the next 3-5 years.
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  • Profile picture of the author greenowl123
    I still am earning with Clickbank in 2014 - even on the days I go to the beach and do some girl watching...

    Build a list and send helpful messages to people who are willing and able to buy what CB offer you promote to them. If your subscribers like you and trust you, eventually they will purchase the CB product you suggest to them...
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  • Profile picture of the author malcsimm
    Yeah, CB is still relevant. But it's all in how you promote the products you recommend.
    Also, it's powerful to gather the email addy of your punter before forwarding them to the CB offer. That way you can email them.

    To make this work it's best to stick to the one niche so you can email people interested in the same thing.

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  • Profile picture of the author rwbovee
    I have made a lot of money over the years with Clickbank products. Penny Stock Egghead is a good product to promote there.
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  • Profile picture of the author aceshigh888
    I got checks from them from 2000 to 2011 like clockwork. Then they changed to that new system. I think it's that you have to get 5 orders from 5 different buyers before they pay you. I'm not sure if that's still in play or not, but after they implemented that, they closed my account for no reason at all, and said I'd have to start under the new system. Talk about ridiculous. And even under new accounts I haven't gotten anything. I'm thinking some affiliates must still make money, just not me. ha ha. Freaking weasels. But that's what all big corporations do. Once they grow big enough, they get greedy and then try and screw the little guy. Why, who knows, it's pretty rare that it's the opposite where they try and give you more. So everyone flocked to jvzoo.
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    • Profile picture of the author malcsimm
      Originally Posted by aceshigh888 View Post

      I got checks from them from 2000 to 2011 like clockwork. Then they changed to that new system. I think it's that you have to get 5 orders from 5 different buyers before they pay you. I'm not sure if that's still in play or not, but after they implemented that, they closed my account for no reason at all, and said I'd have to start under the new system. Talk about ridiculous. And even under new accounts I haven't gotten anything. I'm thinking some affiliates must still make money, just not me. ha ha. Freaking weasels. But that's what all big corporations do. Once they grow big enough, they get greedy and then try and screw the little guy. Why, who knows, it's pretty rare that it's the opposite where they try and give you more. So everyone flocked to jvzoo.
      You are saying you got regular checks for 11 years and that they stopped when they change their system?

      Well, that's mighty strange.

      I opened my account before 2011 and they didn't close mine.

      It's a shame you had a regular source of income. There and then it suddenly disappeared :|

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    • Profile picture of the author Daniel Evans
      Originally Posted by aceshigh888 View Post

      I got checks from them from 2000 to 2011 like clockwork. Then they changed to that new system. I think it's that you have to get 5 orders from 5 different buyers before they pay you.
      If you had been trading with them for 11 years you should have already met and far exceeded the CDR requirement as it only relates to new vendors.

      Even if you had just opened a fresh account, the CDR requirement wouldn't be a cause for closure neither.

      What they did do, is introduce the rating system which had a knock on effect to some accounts that scored badly.
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  • Profile picture of the author absolutelee
    ClickBank is still part of the game. I promote some CB products, and they tend to do well.
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  • Profile picture of the author jgmark
    Clickbank is still very relevant, the problem I see is not the products, it maybe be the affiliate itself as well as the vendor.. I believe we have to use our own judgement on what you promote and not promote anything that you haven't use or you are convinced is going to work because at the end of the day if it doesn't for the customer it will all end up on refunds.

    Affiliate marketing works in the sense that you are relevant to your audience.. even though is not your product you need to understand who it is intended too... probably vendors should be more clear when creating an affiliate program and communicating with their affiliates the target market and other relevant information because that will increase the conversions and also create a great relationship with your affiliates...

    A lot of the times affiliates are looked as somebody promoting a product but in reality they are an extension of your product, brand and company...

    Clickbank offer a great service maybe the vendors have to re-evaluate their offers to affiliates... training maybe?
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  • Profile picture of the author celente
    clickbank and listbuilding are doing even better this year than last year. But you do have to know how to list build that is for sure.
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