Selling through affiliates and own site?

That is a very good point! A payment leak is an absolute no-no for an affiliate. So is an opt-in page instead of a "Buy Now" or "Add to Cart" button.

Alexa has been pointing these things out in several posts, see here for example:

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"No leaks on the sales page: (no opt-in, no "free trial", no "contact the vendor here" etc.)"

CB Vendors still do it all the time (are these guys ever going to learn?) Out of 61 possible CB products for my niche 21 of them have an opt-in (do they really think I am interested in building their list?)

Unfortunately, it looks like Alexa's comment on the 95% naive associates is right on the money: mean Gravity for the ones with the op-in in my list is 42, mean Gravity for the ones without is 8 ... :confused:

Just have your own sales go through ClickBank. One site. One order page. One place to keep track of data, get affiliates, and get payments from. Simple.

Just launch and don't overthink this.

Sorry - I can't begin to advise you about that prospect. Others who know more about coaching/weight-loss may reply.

Doesn't sound too terrible, to me? :confused:

There's nothing to stop you from selling your product at ClickBank and still using your own marketing methods and driving your own traffic to your own independent squeeze page, anyway, if you want to, as long as it isn't a potential payment leak for your affiliates? But don't expect ClickBank affiliates to be willing to send their traffic to a sales page with an opt-in on it: http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...oduct-opt.html

To attract affiliates, you need proven conversions. And more to the point, to retain affiliates, you need the sales page to be converting targeted traffic, and so on.

"If no good, then go the affiliate route" isn't an answer to anything: if you're going to go the affiliate route, you need it all to be "good", not "no good".

You see what I mean, perhaps? There's little point in putting any time/effort/energy into attracting affiliates without having proven conversions first? And you will have to put time/effort/energy into that - very few will "appear on their own" simply because your product's listed at ClickBank. And those who do appear won't stay, if your sales page isn't converting their traffic.

Maybe. But the serious affiliates will very often look only at products inside established networks like ClickBank, where they're not dependent on the vendor for payment. This is a huge issue. Please don't imagine that I mean it impolitely, but I wouldn't be willing even to look at the product on the basis you suggest, unless I knew the vendor very well and had had favorable previous dealings with him. Just being realistic, here!

I, also, would just have your own sales go through ClickBank, with one site, one order page, one place to keep track of data, get affiliates, and get payments from, exactly as suggested above. Start off selling it yourself, and when it's converting and you've finished testing/tweaking the sales page, then start trying to find affiliates? No need to make it complicated, or cause delays?

Yes, in principle.

An "affiliate-friendly" sales page is one with no "leaks".

If you don't mind doing it that way, that works for affiliates. It's actually possible (but much more complicated) to have two different versions of the sales-page, both used at ClickBank, one for affiliates and one for yourself with an opt-in on it).

This post, if it helps you, gives a sort of indication of roughly "what serious affiliates typically look for" when they're selecting products to promote: http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post2161932