are clickbank products still a good option?

I think so, especially because of the payment terms. Once you get your first check, it won't be long before you qualify for direct deposit and can get paid on a weekly basis (every Wed.). I would recommend doing both product reviews and articles on related stuff. I get traffic from both. Also, if you find that there are a lot of crappy products selling well, I recomend leveraging that traffic to promote a legitimate product to avoid high refund rates. When a product is bad, there's no point in talking about if you aren't going to offer them an alternative because they still won't know what to do in the end.

Good luck,
Joey

That's a good way, but a better way is to build an email list of interested prospects.


Andrew

I'm not sure, but it's certainly a valid approach, and one that works very well for some people.

I'm not sure that there is "a best approach", actually: it really depends partly on your own skill-set and on what you want to try to do and the sort of business you want to develop.

It strikes me that there are various different "stages" at which you can try to "catch" potential buyers of information products.

At one extreme, you can try to attract people who are "looking for something in the niche" who may not even be aware of the existence of the products you want to sell (this isn't necessarily easy, as one will have to "do more with them, before a purchase", but it has the potential advantage of lending itself to methods that don't make your business entirely Google-dependent, which is a huge plus for your business's long-term security and stability).

At the other extreme, you can try to attract people who are already considering buying a specific product and almost ready to do so - this typically produces a much higher conversion-rate, but is also more product-dependent and SEO-dependent, both of which can be disadvantages (and perhaps more usual for an "Amazon-affiliate style of approach").

And there are various other approaches in-between.

Almost however you look at it, I think it's fair to say that selling ClickBank products steadily all boils down to three main things, though ...

(i) You have to select the products wisely: obviously enough, without getting this part right, it doesn't much matter what else you do;

(ii) You have to pre-sell effectively to well-targeted traffic;

(iii) You have to build a list and form relationships with the people on it, so that they'll buy on the strength of your recommendation. Without doing this, your conversion-rate will typically be somewhere between "very low indeed" and "non-existent".

These things aren't optional: you really do need to do all three of them. There's a huge turnover of affiliate marketers trying other ways and not being successful. The above overview - simplistic and superficial though it is - is representative of those who make a living from it, however we choose to attract our traffic.

thanks guys....do you think i should:

1. build a niche site that ONLY offers a "free report"

2. then...market clickbank products through email marketing....

Sorry for the dumb questions...i'm so used to setting up amazon product review sites that building a list kinda throws me off..