Originally Posted by willyboy104

Hey everyone, thanks for reading and replying I appreciate everyone's support here and thank you for subscribing those that have. Firstly, allow me to apologise this thread is a bit behind, I left Groupon UK this week and have been interviewing for several PPC Search Executive roles in London.

Amidst all this I have completed several of the first steps for this 30 day challenge, so lets activate this challenge from today the 1st July 2011.

30 Day Clickbank Sale Challenge: Started 1st July 2011: First Steps

Day 1: Product Research & Keyword Research

OK, first we need to head over to Clickbank's Marketplace now this is your starting point for any marketing campaign you will create. There are others ways of doing product research which I will mention in a later post but for now let's keep things simple.

In the search box on the marketplace page, type in a market/product that interests you, something that interests you, something you would enjoy writing about and marketing to other people, something you have a passion for. After clicking search you will probably find several results, each of these are different products and underneath each result you will find a load of random numbers and statistics.

Which will look like this:> stats: Initial $/sale: .xx | Avg %/sale: xx.x% | Avg Rebill Total: .xx | Avg %/rebill: xx.x% | Grav: x.xx

Each of these highlight important factors of the product it's self, such as:

Initial $/sale = The basic revenue you will make per conversion. Although this isn't always accurate as it is now popular on Clickbank for vendors to have upsells and downsells or different price points such as 10% discounts on the exit page.

Avg %/sale = This is the commission percentage you will receive per sale. For example if the initial $/sale value is $20.00 and the Avg %/sale is set at 75% (most common commission) then you will receive approximately $15.00.

Avg Rebill Total = The amount of revenue you will receive if the product you are selling is on a payment plan. For example a monthly membership product which has an initial $/sale of $100 plus an Avg Rebill Total of $75 means you will receive 75% of the initial sale ($100) plus the %/rebill (explained below) of $75.

Avg %/Rebill = This is the commission percentage you will receive per recurring payment/rebill, as explained above.

Gravity = Now, this is a very conflicting, easily manipulated number which is not to be taken very seriously. The gravity is a number which calculates the amount of different affiliates to make 1 sale with the same product in the last 8 weeks.

For example: If 100 affiliates made a sale on a brand new product within an 8 week period the gravity would be 100. However, if 100 affiliates were to make 5,000 sales in an 8 week period the gravity would still be 100.

Why? Because the gravity only takes in to account one sale per affiliate, per every 8 week period.

This figure can be easy manipulated by creating new Clickbank accounts or by adding unique affiliate IDs to a rotation system before the payment page to ensure that every sale is pushed to a unique affiliate ID.

The reason vendors do this is to be further exposed on Clickbank and on other sites which record product growth statistics such as NicheJunky.com & CB-Analytics.com.

What I did when looking for a product?

I enjoy hunting for new niches, sub-niches, trending markets and up and coming market areas and I am not only an affiliate but also a vendor. However, when it comes to product research I like to use several tools to help me find the right product for my next campaign.

Step 1: Check out Flippa.com - See what's selling, if it's a Clickbank product check how many sales they have made, what products they are selling, how they drove traffic to the site and what methods they used for driving traffic to the site.

Also see what's not selling, this is important because at the final stage of your campaign you will inevitably sell your website so you want to ensure you enter a market which you can A) make money and B) make more money by selling your website.

Step 2: Clickbank.com - If Step 1 didn't bring you any results (doesn't always) then as I mentioned earlier trawl the marketplace for markets that interest YOU. Find a product with a good commission, and good price then click through to the sales page, read it, try and get yourself in to a customers mindset, forget all your marketing knowledge and pretend you know nothing about Clickbank and nothing about the market, your just interested in the product and see if you would purchase. If your not even half-interested in purchasing walk straight away, move on to the next product until you find something ideal.

Personally, I enjoy products with a relatively low gravity 30+ and a commission of 75% for a product that sells at $30-$60. Why? Because a gravity of 30+ means it sells, they are probably not manipulating the gravity score, so it converts and it's not overly competitive.

Step 3: Once you have found the product you are going to promote in the market you are interested in developing a campaign within it's time to do your keyword research.

Here are some Keyword Research tools:

Google Keyword Tool

Heck, I am just going to give you one! Why? Well you don't need any other, you don't need to spend a dime and this will serve the very purpose you need for your keyword research.

Keyword research is basically extensive market research, you may know you have an interest in Snooker or in Weight Loss but you might not know exactly what people are looking for, that's why you use a keyword tool.

The Google Keyword Tool will tell you exactly what people are searching in to Google and how many searches each key term receives on a monthly basis. All of this from just entering one generic keyword in the search box titled 'word or phrase'.

So, enter your 'word or phrase' keep it generic, simple and short...so if you do like a weight loss product, type weight loss. After this enter the captcha code and click search.

Note: The tool may automatically target a specific country related to your IP address, you can leave this as the search will also bring up a global match.

You will find approximately 100 results, from short tailed key terms, to long tailed key terms and besides each of these you will find global/local monthly searches.

You want to look out for 'buy'/'product' type keywords, keywords which give you the impression the user may be looking to research in to purchasing a product, or is actually looking to purchase a product. Whether they want an answer to a problem or are searching directly for a product.

For example: Sticking with the weight loss market:

'How to lose weight' - if you confront a user who has just typed this in to Google and clicked search with a detailed article which highlights several ways you can lose weight and at the bottom suggest the user to take a look at such a product, then heck they are likely to click through and check that product out.

This is a buying type keyword, another example below:

'Weight Loss Program' - these users are probably desperate to lose weight, they are looking for an answer and YOU will give them one. Develop your landing page and communicate with ALL of there inner emotions, their desires and thoughts - think like a customer!

Now back to the results you just found, compile a list of buying/product type keywords and use these to do further research.

The best type of keyword is a buying/product type keyword with lots of searches per month (at least 1,000) and little to no competition (100,000 pages or less). However, being realistic this doesn't happen often especially with Clickbank products so take what you can!

Since this is a guide to making a Clickbank sale in 30 days using free methods, I plan on using article marketing, video marketing and social media marketing as well as a bit of SEO (but hey I have 30 days!) to make my sale. Therefore with the keywords I found I plan on writing articles and creating videos surrounding these areas.

As this is getting to be quite a long post I will cut it short and leave the rest till tomorrow, but let me conclude, after doing the product research and keyword research I have chosen the following:

Market Choice: Online MMORPG Guides
Clickbank Product(s): Rift Supremacy & Xeres Rift Guide

Rift Supremacy: Price: $26.57 (75% commission) & upsells - Gravity 28.85

Xeres Rift Guide: Price $19.88 (60% commission) & upsells? - Gravity 51.11

The reason I chose these products is because the Rift niche is a growing market, the game is similar to World of Warcraft however I don't have as big as expectations for the game I believe creating a campaign surrounding the products would be very effective.

After doing the initial keyword research I have found a huge amount of long tailed keywords, which means there is a large amount of low competition keywords with a sufficient amount of searches (1,000+ per month).

Tomorrow, I will update this thread with the domain name choice and landing page information. Until then, if anyone has any questions please let me know.

Originally Posted by Nicole K

I visited this thread couple times. I see that no one has taken up the challenge. Let me take it up - and that with a step ahead.

My Plan - Make one video a day and upload it to a video sharing site with a direct link to a Clickbank product. My aim is to make about 30 videos by mid-Feb so that I earn an average of at least $1 per video each day, $30 per day.

I'll keep posting updates. Anyone else wants to join me?

Originally Posted by Nicole K

I visited this thread couple times. I see that no one has taken up the challenge. Let me take it up - and that with a step ahead.

My Plan - Make one video a day and upload it to a video sharing site with a direct link to a Clickbank product. My aim is to make about 30 videos by mid-Feb so that I earn an average of at least $1 per video each day, $30 per day.

I'll keep posting updates. Anyone else wants to join me?

Originally Posted by Nicole K

I visited this thread couple times. I see that no one has taken up the challenge. Let me take it up - and that with a step ahead.

My Plan - Make one video a day and upload it to a video sharing site with a direct link to a Clickbank product. My aim is to make about 30 videos by mid-Feb so that I earn an average of at least $1 per video each day, $30 per day.

I'll keep posting updates. Anyone else wants to join me?

Originally Posted by Nicole K

^^^ That's a good suggestion. In fact I was going to try this strategy after uploading my first few videos. It is more work but may be worth it in the long run.