What do you guys think of clickbank?

I wouldn't say clickbank is better, just different.

I personnaly prefer working with info-products, so I like clickbank. It's incredibly easy to join and start promoting. Works perfectly with list marketing.

"Lately I've been hearing a lot about clickbank and how people are making a lot of money with it"

It's been around a while...

But all that aside, Clickbank really is like any other affiliate networks with a focus on digital products. You'll also find a lot of rubbish products on there so just be careful with what you promote.

I am a currently an affiliate and I was a vendor on ClickBank for around three years, but I got fed up having to pay a fee for every product that I wanted to have listed in their market place.

It's true that they have a large amount of Affiliates to promote your products, but the reality is not that many of the affiliates actually make any sales, and the ones that do have to jump through hoops to get their commissions when they first start out.

I know it's changed a lot at CB over the last year or so, but I'm still not tempted to go back to sell there. I'm still an affiliate via CB and receive regular cash deposits from them, which works quite nicely.

I agree with IDontPayForClicks about not having to pay for the training...I think they missed a trick there, but it seems to be working for them.

cheers
Steve

I use clickbank and find it OK. I have made a bit of money, but not earth shattering amounts. I am still learning the ropes though and I can never be bothered learning all the optimisation stuff.

Take a look round clickbank see if gthere is a product there that interests you. setup a blog around that subject then add the affiliate link to your blog pages. If people click on this link and buy the product you get a healthy commission.

You do have to make, I think, 5 sales where people pay by different payment methods before you can get any money out of them - this took me about a year to start with

If you make lots of money out of clickbank be sure to come back and tell the rest of us how you did it.

Good luck

It's like everything else in internet marketing, really. Some people are making a lot of money with it (I'll disclose my bias: I'm one of them, and have been for 5+ years) while a lot more are struggling. If you "get it right", it can really be extraordinarily well paid.

Well, you have to bear in mind, when hearing the "rave", that ClickBank's been longer-established than Google and is therefore incredibly well known to marketers, that it's really hugely successful, and that it's so far paid out nearly $3 Billion to its vendors and affiliates, and that's serious money by anyone's standards.

I think it's a combination of the fact that it's so long-established, so successful, so automated, so reliable, and so on ... all in an industry in which those things are (with some good reasons) widely perceived as being the exception, rather than the norm.

The commission-payments to affiliates are strikingly different from Amazon commissions.

I know less about that. It's more for physical goods, I think? There are some physical goods, and some services, offered through ClickBank as well, but as you mention, that isn't what it's known for. Anyway, in summary I don't disagree at all with Steven's comments just above.

Clickbank is flippin AWESOME.

That wasn't my opinion 1-2 years ago but once you start making actual money with it, it's incredible. They just keep mailing me checks even though I haven't done much in the last 9 months.

Don't get me wrong, it took A LOT of work to learn. I had to do a ton of testing in the course of 6 months just to figure out what works and what doesn't. And it would take about a 350 page book just to explain all the things I learned over the last year. But once you find a scalable method you can make A LOT of money.

Consider this. If you subtract the time it took me to learn Clickbank, which was roughly 6 months (I was only investing about 10 hours a week into it)... after that period, it took me about 100-150 hours worth of work AFTER I figured out what was working. I don't consider the work I did before that real "work". It was more or less me training myself and experimenting. The real "work" didn't start till I actually knew what I was doing.

But because I invested that small amount of time, I've been getting paychecks every other week for the last 12 months. And in the last 12 months I've made $24,000 + or - just from all the videos I have ranking (it's usually around $2k / month).

That's not a lot of money, but Clickbank isn't my main source of income. And I make about 3xs that amount with local lead gen.

The point is though, I know in my head if I can dedicate about 200-300 more hours into making and ranking videos, I can easily double or triple my current earnings.

And what people really don't understand about Clickbank is once you have a piece of content that is both ranking and converting, you can make money from that content for years without doing a thing.

Like I have 1 channel I made exactly 13 months ago. It has almost 20 videos. And ALL of those videos have been ranking in the top 5 of youtube for that period of time. 3 of those videos have been ranking in the top 3 of Google. And I have NOT TOUCHED that account in a little over a year.... but Clickbank is STILL sending me checks every 2 weeks.

And that's why I love Clickbank. I've said it before, but it's almost like a form of welfare.

Because I've been busy working on my local sites and making money with them, but to have that added "buffer" of money makes life so much easier. Like 2 weeks ago I had to go to the dentist and got slammed with $5,600 worth of bills. Normally I'd try to figure out some payment plan so I can pay it off in smaller payments over a long period of time. But instead, I withdrew cash from my Clickbank account (I have a separate bank account just for CB) and I told the dentist I'd pay her in cash if she'd take 7% off the fee. She agreed. I paid it all off in 1 shot.

But the best part was, I felt like I got the work done for free. Because I basically did nothing to earn that money (that's a bit exaggerated but not really).

-RS

clickbank does not work do not try it.

At least, alot of those threads pop up all the time say that, but then you see what they were trying to do and you just scratch your head saying WTF?

Clickbank and list building is not only fun, its very very lucrative if you know what you are doing.

God bless clickbank.

My first sale in IM business was made through Clickbank, so I will always kind of promoting it. It is still no. 1 affiliate network and you can still earn a decent money with it, if you do it properly and if follow the right strategies.

ClickBank has cookies.

That's the difference.

Alright, since the replies here seem generally favorable, I'll go ahead and check it out though I must admit some of the claims do come across as a bit far-fetched.

Regardless, you've given me reason enough to at least sign up and do some more digging despite that nagging feeling I always get whenever I try to start something late in the game. It always feels like most of the potential earnings has already been hauled off and I'm left scrapping for left-overs. Oh well...

clickbank is awesome but go after low gravity products

Well I usually will pick my niche first before ever promoting a product there. You also have to watch out for the products that don't have much supplies for affiliates.

Clickbank is a great place to find a profitable niche to get into...

I don't understand why so many people struggle with Clickbank...

The product creators already did all the leg work. If It wasn't a good niche they wouldn't of created a product in that niche.

Type in google the products keyword that is related to it, and see what the competition is doing by looking at the paid advertisements.

If your on Google, scroll all the way to the bottom. Google populates other related keywords that people are actually typing in.

I then type those keywords in to the search bar, and if I keep seeing the same ads popup that tells me, that the competitor is:

1. Either profiting or testing the market, either way if they're paying for it take a closer look.

2.If they have a nice looking landing page and seems like they are capturing leads to build a list to re-market to, then I'll replicate it by outsourcing to Fiverr. Don't make it the exact same but damn close...

3. Then test , test , test (split test) pick the best one and scale up!

Hope this was of some value

I still find it difficult to follow in clickbank affiliate, please help me to be able to dominate clickbank

Its a good website but becoming a vendor gives the most leverage in my opinion

I've done some work with clickbank but it was years ago. I need to check it out again, I made some decent money promoting products with it back in the day.

Clickbank works really well for Internet marketing products. If you're promoting other products, say a health-related info product, you might want to look elsewhere.

I like them because they have a lot of affiliates and willing affiliates will promote your product/service. I'm actually thinking about using them alongside ClickSure.

Does anybody have any other sources for affiliate/merchant networks that are similar to these two?

What about networks that accept recurring payments as well?

Cheers!

Definitely CB is a good place to start your IM business by promoting their products.
Be more careful when you selecting their products.
i think CB is working well...