What Am I Doing Wrong? Do New Clickbank Products Usually Take Several Years To Pick Up?

Hello. I am an affiliate manager of a clickbank product that we have spent thousands of dollars creating. I have noticed that we seem to attract mostly beginner affiliates or affiliates that do not drive a whole lot of traffic to our site. They make a couple sales here and there but we have not attracted any of the super or heavy traffic affiliates and I wonder if it is because of our niche which is addiction may not be a good choice. But to me, the product seems solid and in huge demand (I believe).

The sales page has a $15,000 dollar whiteboard sales video. The refunds are low and the refunds we have got we later found out were from affiliates that purchased the product and then moments later asked for a refund (to obtain a review copy, i believe).

Also, the stats are kind of random and strange, but I was told that the buying behavior of people is random and strange. For example, an affiliate that only sent two hops to our page, one bought. While one affiliate that sent over 100 hops only had one purchase.

Again, it depends on the traffic I'm sure. Most of these affiliate sales appear to be from review sites, and generate little traffic for us (about 5 -30) hits a week.

Anyway, could you knowledgeable and experienced warriors provide input as to a possible reason why the big affiliates have not promoted our product? I can handle hard critisizm if you dish it out

There was another thread here about attracting super affiliates, and I feel we have met the criteria:

I believe we have a good sales copy
Refunds low (above average status)
$15,000 whiteboard animation video seems highly persuasive
No opt-in from direct hoplink
EPC seems good but alters depending on source of traffic.
Very low competition on clickbank
This is probably the only product (i think) that is backed up by solid research and includes hundreds of references throughout the ebook and other materials.

I am only guessing, but are most super (or larger) affiliates limited in what they promote? The super affiliates I have heard about seem to spend the majority of their effort on products in the IM/Weightloss/dating niche. I hope im wrong but maybe they do not have promotional resources in the addiction niche (like a large addiction email list)?

Recently, I placed an ad on one of the top addiction forums and saw a dramatic increase in sales and gave me a three-fold ROI. I am considering buying a larger media ad on some addiction sites which might be a good option. But this is all new to me. I have been an affiliate for a few years, mostly dabbling in video marketing and articles.

I would love to hear some constructive critisizm and I am even willing to hear some harsh critisizm.

If you wanted to see the product to give input it is TruthOfAddiction | Overcome Addiction by A. Scott Roberts

I think your input would be invaluable and perhaps can also help other warriors that are getting ready to launch a clickbank product.

Also, the thing we are lacking are some testimonials. We have received about 4 testimonials (positive reviews) on the product already but they did not wish to have it published on the site. Probably because of the embarrassing nature (pornography addiction and drug addiction-don't want to be publicly known).

But we still get sales so it seems that testimonials aren't quit as important right now.

Thank You for any responses and input I receive! Much appreciated.