Starting Clickbank ~ Words of Wisdom?

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Hello. I am going to start selling some products through clickbank. I have done some research and found the niches I want to use.

I am now looking for the services/products that I want to sell. There are so many, it is overwhelming.

This is what I am doing so far:

-Researching the products.

-Arranging by gravity - looking for gravity between 20-70

-I want to make $20 minimum off each sale

-I will research the product/vendor before committing. I want to make sure it is legitimate with little to no complaints.

I will be building my own site using wordpress.

I have a marketing plan in place.

Any advice for a clickbank newbie?
How to find the best products?
Maybe share some mistakes you have made in the past?
Share some techniques you use to be successful?

As always, thank you.
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  • Profile picture of the author Brendan Vraibel
    A big mistake that I made when I started was not building an email list right away. Get people to know, like and trust you through your email campaign and you will be able to sell them affiliate offers even easier than by them coming across your website.

    Best of luck.
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  • Profile picture of the author Rachel Zaouche
    Personally I would avoid clickbank like the plague but if you are dead cert that you want to promote it, I would read or test anything you try to promote. There are some, a few, good products on there but the majority are overhyped rubbish and unless you are selling under a pen name you are going to destroy your reputation faster than you will make money.

    Just my two cents and bound not to be very popular:rolleyes:

    Actually thats a great idea from B&B and as you are a writer Lori what you could find is that there is a gap in the market for a decent product. Write your own and then you can be the one using other affiliates to sell your product. But having written it yourself, you will know it is decent and not some crxp put together to make $$$$ (I looked at a clickbank product recently in the real estate niche that was all copied from wikipedia - the whole thing - not just references!)
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  • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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    Originally Posted by Lori Kelly View Post

    Any advice for a clickbank newbie?
    How to find the best products?
    Yes, indeed: http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post2161932

    Originally Posted by Lori Kelly View Post

    Maybe share some mistakes you have made in the past?
    My two biggest ones - which, between them, prevented me from earning a living for quite a long time - are discussed in the last paragraph of the post linked to above.

    Originally Posted by Lori Kelly View Post

    Share some techniques you use to be successful?
    Personal opinion only, coming up here: I think your gravity-range of 20-70 is less than ideal. I think you're likely, overall, do better by looking at a gravity-range under 20. It's easy to "over-inflate" the importance of gravity. It's not the "be all and end all" and it's not clear the extent to which it should matter to you anyway. So my opinion here is only a tentative one, anyway. That said, if you do want to know more about gravity, this post contains an explanation of sorts and some detailed "illustrative examples": http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post2495251

    And if you want a whole thread (only a short one!) to read, rather than an individual post, there's always this one: http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...clickbank.html

    One caution: on the subject of ClickBank, in particular, more so than on other subjects in which I find myself drawn into discussions here, it seems to me that there's quite a lot of "widely believed information" that turns out to be entirely mistaken.

    And I wish you very good luck! There are hundreds of different niches available, as you probably already know, many of them with "hidden gems", and many of them not even remotely "scammy" or "over-hyped".

    Originally Posted by Rachel Zaouche View Post

    the majority are overhyped rubbish
    How many of the over 15,000 currently active products have you looked at, yourself, Rachel, to make such a dramatic and sweeping assertion? :confused:

    I ask because I'm currently an affiliate for about 22 products, of which I sell collectively about 500 copies per month at the moment, and I don't and wouldn't promote anything overhyped, no rubbish, and nothing I wouldn't happily recommend to my own parents. I was wondering if perhaps your comment was limited to the "make money online" niche and completely ignored about 499 others?
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    • Profile picture of the author Rachel Zaouche
      Originally Posted by Alexa Smith View Post

      How many of the over 15,000 currently active products have you looked at, yourself, Rachel, to make such a dramatic and sweeping assertion? :confused:
      Alexa

      In the five plus years I have been marketing online I have found one (yes one!) product on clickbank that I would be happy to put my name behind and promote in the niches I am interested in. I NEVER promote anything that I don't first check out myself. And in the niches I am in, the products on clickbank tend to be overhyped rubbish!!

      Have I checked all of them - no of course not. Are there gems in there - probably which is why I suggested to Lori that she check anything she promotes as there may be 15,000 products on clickbank but you only have one reputation.

      Thats my opinion - as I said it wasnt going to be popular. I should have clarified that I hadnt checked the whole marketplace but I would hope that Lori could read the post and get the point I was trying to make.

      @Lori

      I believe, very strongly lol!, that there are much better ways to make a living online than to promote certain clickbank products. The amount of crxp I have seen on there does color my judgement and if that tainted the advice I gave you, I apologize.
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      • Profile picture of the author Lori Kelly
        Originally Posted by Rachel Zaouche View Post

        Alexa

        . . . Thats my opinion - as I said it wasnt going to be popular. I should have clarified that I hadnt checked the whole marketplace but I would hope that Lori could read the post and get the point I was trying to make.

        @Lori

        I believe, very strongly lol!, that there are much better ways to make a living online than to promote certain clickbank products. The amount of crxp I have seen on there does color my judgement and if that tainted the advice I gave you, I apologize.
        Hi Rachel. I appreciate an honest opinion and would much rather hear the truth and in my opinion, with so many people on a forum or even in real life, that means diversity. I don't like sugar coating. If all I heard was "wow, you will make a fortune selling clickbank products," etc., I would dismiss the opinions altogether.

        I agree too that there are much better ways to make money online than clickbank products. Starting a clickbank business is simply one of the eggs in my basket and I must keep my eggs in separate baskets. : ) I have thick skin. I think that is one of the requirements of being an entreprenuer.
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    • Profile picture of the author John Romaine
      Originally Posted by Alexa Smith View Post

      Yes, indeed: http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post2161932



      My two biggest ones - which, between them, prevented me from earning a living for quite a long time - are discussed in the last paragraph of the post linked to above.



      Personal opinion only, coming up here: I think your gravity-range of 20-70 is less than ideal. I think you're likely, overall, do better by looking at a gravity-range under 20. It's easy to "over-inflate" the importance of gravity. It's not the "be all and end all" and it's not clear the extent to which it should matter to you anyway. So my opinion here is only a tentative one, anyway. That said, if you do want to know more about gravity, this post contains an explanation of sorts and some detailed "illustrative examples": http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post2495251

      And if you want a whole thread (only a short one!) to read, rather than an individual post, there's always this one: http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...clickbank.html

      One caution: on the subject of ClickBank, in particular, more so than on other subjects in which I find myself drawn into discussions here, it seems to me that there's quite a lot of "widely believed information" that turns out to be entirely mistaken.

      And I wish you very good luck! There are hundreds of different niches available, as you probably already know, many of them with "hidden gems", and many of them not even remotely "scammy" or "over-hyped".



      How many of the over 15,000 currently active products have you looked at, yourself, Rachel, to make such a dramatic and sweeping assertion? :confused:

      I ask because I'm currently an affiliate for about 22 products, of which I sell collectively about 500 copies per month at the moment, and I don't and wouldn't promote anything overhyped, no rubbish, and nothing I wouldn't happily recommend to my own parents. I was wondering if perhaps your comment was limited to the "make money online" niche and completely ignored about 499 others?
      This is the best advice you will get here.

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      • Profile picture of the author Lori Kelly
        Originally Posted by ramone_johnny View Post

        This is the best advice you will get here.

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        Hello ramone_johnny. Thanks. I agree.
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    • Profile picture of the author doingwrite
      Thank you Lori and Alexa and all. I was pretty confused about the importance of gravity, but this quote (picked up from Alexa's post on one of the threads she referenced), really put it in perspective:

      Per Alexa:

      Nearly all internet marketing guides make the howling mistake of advising beginners to promote only high gravity products. This has a hugely distorting effect on the market and its observed statistics. There's a big and constant turnover of new affiliates trying to sell high gravity products, failing, dropping out and being replaced by others repeating their experiences. This of course boosts those products' gravity figures further and further, because gravity measures the number of affiliates who (eventually) make a sale, not the number of sales made.

      Makes so much sense!
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    • Profile picture of the author Lori Kelly
      Originally Posted by faithnice View Post

      i also want some info about click bank how i get maximum profit from Google ad sense and one can help me?
      You can help yourself.
      Consider this a learning experience, you're going to school. You are taking online classes but you will be teaching yourself.

      This forum is full of information on clickbank. Start here. Follow Alexa Smith. Copy her posts into a word document. Create your own "Clickbank" manual. Keep it organized by topic. After you get your manual created, also create a list of definitions. Understand the definitions of the words, i.e. gravity, etc.

      Once your manual is complete read it.
      And then read it again.
      And then read it again.

      And then you put together a marketing plan. You can find one online and tailor it to your business.

      Then set goals. Short term and long term goals.

      Every day write down 5 things you will do the next day. Take the tasks from your goals and your marketing plan that details how you will achieve your goals.

      If you rely on someone to simply tell you how to do something, it doesn't work. I don't mean to be disrespectful, so please don't take it like that.

      YOU and you alone are in control of your future. Take control. Make a plan, stick to it and you will succeed.
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  • Profile picture of the author Lori Kelly
    Originally posted by B and B
    A big mistake that I made when I started was not building an email list right away. Get people to know, like and trust you through your email campaign and you will be able to sell them affiliate offers even easier than by them coming across your website.
    Best of luck.
    Thank you, B and B. That is great advice. I have an aweber account so I'll be dropping in the opt-in. Somehow I completed neglected this in my marketing plan. Thanks again.

    Originally posted by Rachel Zaouche
    Personally I would avoid clickbank like the plague but if you are dead cert that you want to promote it, I would read or test anything you try to promote. There are some, a few, good products on there but the majority are overhyped rubbish and unless you are selling under a pen name you are going to destroy your reputation faster than you will make money.

    Just my two cents and bound not to be very popular:rolleyes:

    Actually thats a great idea from B&B and as you are a writer Lori what you could find is that there is a gap in the market for a decent product. Write your own and then you can be the one using other affiliates to sell your product. But having written it yourself, you will know it is decent and not some crxp put together to make $$$$ (I looked at a clickbank product recently in the real estate niche that was all copied from wikipedia - the whole thing - not just references!)
    Thanks Rachel. I appreciate your honesty. You mention a clickbank product in the real estate niche. I am looking at real estate since I have extensive experience in that market. And another reason I know I will be successful with clickbank. I won't be copying from wikipedia or anything else. I could never sell anything I wouldn't buy myself either. So as far as promoting crap, I wouldn't do it for any amount of money.

    And honestly, I'm getting bored writing for other people. I am making money from writing but I want to write for myself too.

    ALEXA - I feel like you should send me an invoice. I'll pay it if you include your recipe to califlower soup

    Love the links. Can't believe I couldn't find them in my advanced search. Thanks for the advice on the gravity range. I'll read all the links to the threads you posted. I'll continue to do research on the internet too. I'll also continue to research clickbank and I will find those hidden gems.

    I make it a point never to rush into anything but to have a well thought out plan - that seems to work well for me.

    Many thanks Warriors.
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    • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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      Originally Posted by Lori Kelly View Post

      Love the links. Can't believe I couldn't find them in my advanced search.
      "Advanced searches" here are not so easy, I find. Not always clear what to search for to find what you want while avoiding getting 1,000 results! :rolleyes:

      Originally Posted by Lori Kelly View Post

      I make it a point never to rush into anything but to have a well thought out plan - that seems to work well for me.
      For me also.

      "You'll do fine".

      I believe that when it comes to ClickBank, in particular, far more people fail through "taking action prematurely" (without understanding what they need to understand) than through "over-analysis and not taking action".
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  • Profile picture of the author Lori Kelly
    Alexa, thanks for the links. Daaaa mnnnn. Lots of good info. Thanks again.
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    Originally Posted by Lori Kelly View Post

    Hello. I am going to start selling some products through clickbank. I have done some research and found the niches I want to use.

    I am now looking for the services/products that I want to sell. There are so many, it is overwhelming.

    This is what I am doing so far:

    -Researching the products.

    -Arranging by gravity - looking for gravity between 20-70

    -I want to make $20 minimum off each sale

    -I will research the product/vendor before committing. I want to make sure it is legitimate with little to no complaints.

    I will be building my own site using wordpress.

    I have a marketing plan in place.

    Any advice for a clickbank newbie?
    How to find the best products?
    Maybe share some mistakes you have made in the past?
    Share some techniques you use to be successful?

    As always, thank you.
    Once you find a profitable niche that you like, don't bounce from one niche to the other -- at least not until you have started making a good amount of money. That way, you will have an idea of what things worked for you out of the gate and which things didn't.

    Good luck,
    Joey
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  • Profile picture of the author Anthony W
    I would start with the niche first, THEN find affiliates offers rather than the other way around.

    Also, study what your successful competitors are doing, COPY THEM (dont plagerize of course) and improve. Saves you a lot of time

    Unless you're trying build sniper sites for popular CB products, which I don't think you are.
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  • Profile picture of the author Brendan Vraibel
    I'm sure that Alexa had covered this in one of the threads that she linked to but if not - another thing to worry about with gravity is that if it is extremely high that means there are tons of people who have likely already viewed the offer. It's just a small factor to keep in mind when you are coming up with a long term marketing plan. If half of your list has already been introduced to the offer before you send them your link, you probably won't have much luck.

    It's always best to try and get involved right when products are launching so that you can be the first to sell to potential customers.
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    To Alexa: Can you please share the keyword you use to promote the cb products? Are they long tail buying keyword or just any keyword with high search volume? Thanks..
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  • Profile picture of the author Rich Struck
    Originally Posted by Lori Kelly View Post

    Hello. I am going to start selling some products through clickbank. I have done some research and found the niches I want to use.

    I am now looking for the services/products that I want to sell. There are so many, it is overwhelming.

    This is what I am doing so far:

    -Researching the products.

    -Arranging by gravity - looking for gravity between 20-70

    -I want to make $20 minimum off each sale

    -I will research the product/vendor before committing. I want to make sure it is legitimate with little to no complaints.

    I will be building my own site using wordpress.

    I have a marketing plan in place.

    Any advice for a clickbank newbie?
    How to find the best products?
    Maybe share some mistakes you have made in the past?
    Share some techniques you use to be successful?

    As always, thank you.
    Your first big mistake is using Clickbank, unless of course you cherish the thought of seeing your money evaporate as Clickbank gleefully returns it to the countless serial refunders who rape their system.

    Your second big mistake (which is actually a BIGGER mistake) is promoting someone else's product. If you want to make real money, create your own product and promote that.
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      Originally Posted by Rich Struck View Post

      Your first big mistake is using Clickbank, unless of course you cherish the thought of seeing your money evaporate as Clickbank gleefully returns it to the countless serial refunders who rape their system.

      Your second big mistake (which is actually a BIGGER mistake) is promoting someone else's product. If you want to make real money, create your own product and promote that.
      It sounds like this guy may know what he's talking about!
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      • Profile picture of the author Lori Kelly
        Originally Posted by Daniel Brock View Post

        It sounds like this guy may know what he's talking about!
        Hello Daniel. I do like what Rich is saying. I'm learning that I can do both ends of this clickbank business, affiliate and vendor.

        Originally Posted by Rich Struck
        Your first big mistake is using Clickbank, unless of course you cherish the thought of seeing your money evaporate as Clickbank gleefully returns it to the countless serial refunders who rape their system.

        Your second big mistake (which is actually a BIGGER mistake) is promoting someone else's product. If you want to make real money, create your own product and promote that.
        I am not done researching and if my results reflect the possibility of using clickbank is a mistake, I'll move on to another one of my ventures. However, right now, I am finding that I can make money as an affiliate. As far as serial refunders, there will always be serial refunders in any business, and not just IM.

        I agree that making "real money" can also be had by creating my own product and promoting that. I will be doing that too. I will spread out my eggs as I say often. Hedge my bets so to speak. If one segment of my businesses tank, that's fine. I have plenty of others that will succeed. Thank you for posting.
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    • Profile picture of the author Kelly Verge
      Originally Posted by Rich Struck View Post

      Your first big mistake is using Clickbank, unless of course you cherish the thought of seeing your money evaporate as Clickbank gleefully returns it to the countless serial refunders who rape their system.

      Your second big mistake (which is actually a BIGGER mistake) is promoting someone else's product. If you want to make real money, create your own product and promote that.
      Serial refunders aren't an issue in all niches.

      I agree with the second half of your second point. It's not a mistake, however, to use a Clickbank product to test the water, then continue to get paid while developing and building out a competing product.

      Lori is a writer who knows her subject. When the time comes, she'll feel the push to create her own product.
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  • Profile picture of the author ddDonPaul
    i didn`t really understood what you`re trying to sell, your own products or become an affiliate and sell other people stuff?
    if you want to sell your own products, then you must create a high quality, converting product. even so, the chances that you`ll get rich are low, unless you find a way that the big affiliates on clickbank will start sending your product to their email list...

    Originally Posted by Lori Kelly View Post

    Hello. I am going to start selling some products through clickbank. I have done some research and found the niches I want to use.

    I am now looking for the services/products that I want to sell. There are so many, it is overwhelming.

    This is what I am doing so far:

    -Researching the products.

    -Arranging by gravity - looking for gravity between 20-70

    -I want to make $20 minimum off each sale

    -I will research the product/vendor before committing. I want to make sure it is legitimate with little to no complaints.

    I will be building my own site using wordpress.

    I have a marketing plan in place.

    Any advice for a clickbank newbie?
    How to find the best products?
    Maybe share some mistakes you have made in the past?
    Share some techniques you use to be successful?

    As always, thank you.
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    • Profile picture of the author Lori Kelly
      Originally Posted by ddDonPaul View Post

      i didn`t really understood what you`re trying to sell, your own products or become an affiliate and sell other people stuff?
      if you want to sell your own products, then you must create a high quality, converting product. even so, the chances that you`ll get rich are low, unless you find a way that the big affiliates on clickbank will start sending your product to their email list...
      Hello ddDonPaul. I am researching becoming an affiliate. However, the more research I do, the more I am considering creating my own product to sell. I might do both.
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  • Profile picture of the author sunnyimrs
    Hi..

    Gravity is the most important factor which one should look out for while selecting any product.Also look at the kind of Resources the vendor is providing for the affiliates.
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    • Profile picture of the author Robert H Cwik
      Originally Posted by Tony W View Post

      I would start with the niche first, THEN find affiliates offers rather than the other way around.

      Also, study what your successful competitors are doing, COPY THEM (dont plagerize of course) and improve. Saves you a lot of time

      Unless you're trying build sniper sites for popular CB products, which I don't think you are.
      I'd like to support Tony here. Yes, you should begin with the end in mind, and in this case the end is "who I want to offer the products to?". So choose a niche first (ideally something you are personally good at), see what's in store, and finally - who your buyers are (what problems do they have in relation with the niche you selected; e.g. if your niche is pregnancy, the problems women have might be: morning nausea and vomiting, weight gain, skin problems... you name it), and then select a product that answers the problems. That's a much more successful path.

      Originally Posted by Rich Struck View Post

      Your first big mistake is using Clickbank, unless of course you cherish the thought of seeing your money evaporate as Clickbank gleefully returns it to the countless serial refunders who rape their system.
      ---cut---

      This affects mainly the "make money online" niche and is quite understood as lots of products there are simply crap in golden wrapping, promising you magical-push-button-riches overnight and half a million in the next 24 hours. No wonder people return them so often. Other niches are much safer.

      Originally Posted by sunnyimrs View Post

      Hi..

      Gravity is the most important factor which one should look out for while selecting any product.Also look at the kind of Resources the vendor is providing for the affiliates.
      No, gravity is not the most important factor, and it usually is inflated in the "make money online" programs. There are other factors much more important than gravity. If you select niche first and product later, gravity seldom has any significance.

      Finally, Lori, make sure you also pay attention if the product you finally selected has any of these two features or (ideally) both:

      - it is a product with recurrent payment (means passive income for you; you sell once, you get money each time the customer renews the membership)

      - has upsells (they simply increase the potential earnings amount)

      I wish you success!
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    • Profile picture of the author Lori Kelly
      Hello sunnyimrs. I understand gravity is important, but I understand it more now that I have read Alexa's posts and other posts here and research online. Take a look at this:

      Originally Posted by sunnyimrs View Post

      Hi..

      Gravity is the most important factor which one should look out for while selecting any product.Also look at the kind of Resources the vendor is providing for the affiliates.
      Originally Posted by Alexa Smith View Post

      Even half of that would be WAY too high for me to look at it, myself.



      With apologies for sounding contentious, this simply isn't so at all.

      There isn't a correlation between gravity and numbers of sales, and there isn't a correlation between gravity and conversion rates, either.

      It's actually common for products with gravities around 5 -10 or so to outsell products with gravities over 100 - 200.

      Gravity is an indication of how much competition there is. It measures the number of affiliates who have each made one or more sales over the previous 8 weeks. Each affiliate gets, effectively, a "score" between 0.1 and 1.0 (according to when they made their last sale, but not according to the quantity they sold) and the total is the product's gravity figure. Sounds easy enough to understand? It isn't.

      Nearly all internet marketing guides make the howling mistake of advising beginners to promote only high gravity products. This has a hugely distorting effect on the market and its observed statistics. There's a big and constant turnover of new affiliates trying to sell high gravity products, failing, dropping out and being replaced by others repeating their experiences. This of course boosts those products' gravity figures further and further, because gravity measures the number of affiliates who (eventually) make a sale, not the number of sales made.

      If there are two otherwise equivalent and equally good products, with otherwise matching statistical parameters, but one has a gravity of 15 and the other has a gravity of 150, my own instincts are to suspect very strongly that (other things being equal) both the conversion-rate and the numbers of sales are actually very likely to be higher for the lower gravity product.

      So, I actually avoid high gravity products: the day I learned that (and a few other things) and started acting on it was the day I started earning some real money through being a Clickbank affiliate

      I promote about 17 different Clickbank products at the moment, and my two best-converting products, by far, out of all those, both have single-figure gravities. Some people think that's a "coincidence". I think they're wrong.

      I stay away from high gravity products because (as Clickbank now, finally, advises affiliates openly on their site) the one thing you know for sure about a high gravity product is that it's going to be competitive to sell.

      Here's a little example, which might possibly clarify the issues:-

      Clickbank Product A

      - Sales-page conversion-rate 2.8%
      - Solid product from well-known marketer
      - Product has almost no refund requests
      - He has 20 affiliates of whom 10 are superaffiliates who sell huge numbers of the product
      - Product is easy to promote and sell
      - Sales numbers are therefore very high, but the gravity figure is obviously very low (maybe around 10)

      Clickbank Product B


      - Sales-page conversion-rate 0.2%
      - Dreadful product from scammy marketer
      - Refund request-rate is higher, of course
      - Product had a "professional launch" with 100 "temporary affiliates" (accounts used once each to buy one product, privately refunded, and/or the figures were massaged in one of the other "customary ways")
      - Product is obviously a complete and utter nightmare to promote and sell because the sales-page doesn't convert well
      - Gravity figure starts out at about 110, and rapidly rises to 150/200 because gullible affiliates are attracted by the gravity figure, believing wrongly that it "validates the fact that the product is selling very well", and they all struggle and waste time/money, but eventually they obviously make 1 or 2 sales each anyway, and for this reason the gravity figure rises still further to 250/300 as the inevitable consequence of its self-fulfilling prophecy for the naive.

      Obviously enough, product "B" is the high gravity product.

      Obviously enough, product "A" is the one for which I want to be an affiliate.

      These examples are in no way contrived. They're both realistic and common.

      A product with 20 affiliates each making 1,000 sales will have a far lower gravity than a product with 500 affiliates, all attracted by the high gravity and struggling to make 1 sale each because the sales page hardly converts their traffic at all. But by the time they make 1 sale each, that boosts the gravity figure still higher. This is part of the explanation for the sometimes dreadful conversion-rates of the sales pages of the products with the highest gravities.

      Key points:

      (i) there's no correlation between the gravity figure and the conversion-rate

      (ii) there's no correlation between the gravity figure and the number of sales: specifically, for various reasons, low gravity products can have enormous numbers of sales without this showing. High gravity products can (and quite often do) have comparatively low sales. This confuses a lot of people.

      Here are more little examples of how the numbers work:-

      - A product with 100 active affiliates each making steady sales will typically (but not necessarily) have a gravity score around 50 - 70

      - A product with 100 active affiliates who all made their sales very recently will have a gravity score much closer to 100

      - A product with 100 active affiliates who all made their last sale seven and a half weeks ago will typically have a gravity score of about 10

      - A product with 100 active affiliates can't have a gravity figure higher than 100, however many copies they each sell

      - If product A has 100 affiliates who each made one sale last week but have never made any other sales at all, and product B has 100 affiliates who have each made 500 sales over the last 2 months, of which in each case the most recent sale was last week, then these two products have the same gravity, though one has of course sold 500 times the number of copies of the other. (This difference will be reflected to some extent in the product's "popularity score", but not in its "gravity score").

      If the five points above make sense to you, then you know how "gravity" really works.

      But imagining that a product "must be selling well" or "must be converting well" just because its gravity is high is, frankly, living in a dream-world; sorry.
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