How do I get started selling information products on Clickbank

Stop thinking about what's valuable to affiliates and start thinking about what's valuable to CUSTOMERS.

What you will find is affiliates wanting to promote your offer if it's of amazing value & has a great sales page.

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Will

Actually ClickBank allows up to 100% affiliate commissions (in spite of the wording on their site mentioning 75%).

Melanie, I promise I don't mean this impolitely in any way, but I'm finding it difficult to understand how you've decided which retailer you want to use, to sell your products, before you've even started creating them. How and why did this happen?

From the customer's perspective, the fact that something is "a ClickBank product" is barely relevant at all and means almost nothing to most customers anyway. They're attracted because the product's relevant to their interests/needs, and they visit the sales page on your site, and so on. To all intents and purposes, there's no such thing from their perspective as "a ClickBank product". It's just a product they need and want, which happens to be for sale through ClickBank when they get their credit-card out to pay for it. (Ok, these days it's possible actually to have your sales page hosted at ClickBank too, but that's brand new and not really relevant to what I'm saying anyway). Nobody gets up in the morning and says to themselves "I'm going to go to ClickBank today and see what's for sale". It doesn't work that way. So it really isn't easy to understand why this was your own starting-point?

I can't help wondering whether the explanation for that might be connected with some perception you have that "ClickBank is where all the best affiliates are" and that that's "therefore" a way to get people to sell it for you? Think again, if so. The fact that ClickBank has many affiliates is not in itself going to make them promote your product. You need to start from a position of having proven conversions before you can attract any sensible affiliates.

No, no, no ... this is all wrong - sorry. That isn't the way to attract good affiliates at all.

That's exactly the way to attract bad affiliates. Most affiliates who need/expect the vendor to supply a free giveaway for them aren't going to make you very rich or successful at all. :p

There are, broadly speaking, two different "classes" of affiliates at ClickBank. (I'm simplifying only a tiny bit.) There are the 95% of affiliates who hardly make any sales at all, and some/many of those will indeed be attracted by "affiliate resources and a free giveaway". And then there are the 5% of affiliates who collectively make 95-98% of the sales. These people may or may not even look at your "affiliate resources" and certainly won't be influenced by them, probably won't use them at all, and will want to produce their own anyway.

Here, if it helps you, is a fairly representative list of the factors that serious affiliates (i.e. the ones who will make almost all the sales for you) are likely to take into account in deciding which products to promote: http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post2161932

Again, no rudeness intended at all, Mel, but it's not the most appropriate question! You need to create a product that's valuable to your customers. Without starting from that premise, it won't be possible for you to attract and retain any serious affiliates anyway!

i agree with all the comments above.
Concentrate on your costumers and make the best product for them.

I believe , if your product is good enouf, and converts very well, you have great chance to make big money from affiliates only.
I have a few adult sites, where i even never sent one single click, all the sells coming true affiliates.
But, don't think it's so easy....
You know, all those WSO " create a products in 6 hours", it's bulshit.
You will never make quality product in 6 hours.
Sometimes, only research take me more than 2 month.

Concentrate on the product, concentrate on marketing yourself.

Don't rely on affiliates to do the leg work for you.

There are plenty of successful vendors in clickbank who by themselves out sell all their affiliates combined.

Think about that for a moment.

Then think why that might be: the vendor has more product knowledge, possibly more Market knowledge of their niche, and certainly far more motivation and focus than all their affiliates combined.

To an affiliate, even a super affiliate, a vendor is just one of several possible streams of income, and usually one that can easily be substituted for any number of reasons. For a vendor, their sales really are the core of their business.

I'm not saying affiliate sales arent nice for a vendor, just that you probably shouldn't build your entire strategy based just on them.

As a Clickbank vendor myself. I can say you should listen to the folks above who are saying you should make sure you create a high quality product and focus on getting low refunds.

After you have the quality product created you will need to do the initial "affiliate grunt work" yourself. You will need to create some review sites, social media accounts, etc. This will help to get some buzz started about your product. Hopefully you will be able to start making some sales on your own.

Once your own sales start coming in your product will start to move up the ranks inside the Clickbank marketplace and more affiliates will start to notice it. Eventually affiliates will pick it up and if it converts well for them it will draw more affiliates.

Unfortunately, when I was first starting I though all you needed to do was create a product and put it on CB and the sales would roll in. That is not the case and you should be prepared to do lots of work to get the ball rolling.

Hope this helps.

Cheers,
Coby

Thanks for all the advice really appreciate it