ClickBank Promotion (If You Started Today)

I'd look for a product with lifetime commissions or multiple products in one funnel.

That way you could send leads, and get paid for months as people go through the seller's sales funnel.

Either way, I'd expect to work at least 2-4 weeks before seeing any sales and I wouldn't give up until I was earning as much as I needed to outsource that line of work.

I'm not one that looks for superior riches ($20,000). $7,000 a month is good with me. So.... i find it easy to get multiple $27 sales daily to be easy. So for a Clickbank product, a commission of around $30 is good to me.

if you are using adcenter etc to buy the ppc traffic then the products have to have a commission of at least £15 to be viable unless it is recurring income which will eventually offset the losses in a few months. If it is free traffic such as search engine traffic then I would go for less than £10 commission products to increase the volume of sales.

I don't know as anyone has addressed the 'your time' aspect realistically yet.

What do you think your time is worth? Really? $10 an hour? $20 an hour? Or more?

Then look at how long it takes you to get free traffic. Forum commenting, creating promo videos, social bookmarking, setting up a review blog, writing articles, it all takes a lot of time.

Most new marketers don't value their time, putting in all this work and then making a few $20 commissions here and there must eventually become disheartening until you 'get it'.

And that 'it' is through building your own list as part of the product promotion. Then you can improve ROI by promoting many products without doing any more than writing a few emails.

If it wasn't for that no pro marketer would bother with $27 products. Even then I like to see a good back end, higher ticket offer.

That's what makes this question so tough. The answer is relative. I remember back in 1999 when I made close to $200k, a figure I've never been remotely close to again (though nonetheless I never felt as financially secure then as I do now). I was asked what my time was worth, and my answer was something like $50 or $100 per hour. I would never give that amount as an answer now, even if it's achievable.

I work a day job, which provides enough to live on, barely, so I look at IM work as icing on the cake. Whatever I get I'm happy with. If I were to quit my day job, I'd want to know at least what I could do to get by, preferably enough to have some left over to invest, a figure that varies wildly. Many workers in Asia work for $2 per hour, which I have heard some people say they feel bad paying, but for those people, that's a high standard of living.

Even in the US, there can be a large discrepancy. I have looked into moving south and figure I'll need maybe $13/hour for a 40 hour week to maintain my current lifestyle, about half what I would need where I live now. Many people would not be satisfied with that amount and/or would not want to move, but for me it provides me a potential avenue when I decide I'm tired of working for someone else. This is the beauty of working online. You can do it from just about anywhere.