Who here ACTUALLY make consistent Clickbank sales from 1-cent PPC Clicks?

Thats a tough path for sure. In that ridiculously crowded niche you'll have to do far more than the norm for conversions, particularly with a well-known product that's been on the market for many years.

And one-cent PPC campaigns on the content network are usually worth what you paid for them. You tend to get international traffic, often from countries where PayPal is out of the picture.

As you'd image it's extremely tough.

Note that I did say "usually", as there ARE plenty of people using various one-cent-click campaigns from WSOs that have sold well and making it work...but they're a low percentage.

The vast majority struggles with that method for a variety of reasons.

Which is what I'm trying to find out here.

Looks like you have half of it sorted!

Maybe you can arrange a discount for your list with the vendor and then do a blast to try and get some sales?

I had a site that I used to monetize by driving people to a CPA offer right after opting in - but not the salespage directly, but a review type of page. I used to get 3 sales of 100 subscribers, which is pretty high.

Try that - people might not be ready to PAY for the ebook right away, but they might have no problem taking some other type of action on that page

Please excuse the comment that it would not occur to me that it would be possible to make any sales with this method. (Why would/might it be?).

Surely everyone or almost everyone on the list you're building has already seen these sales-pages before? You'll have to have (at the very least) a really compelling reason for them why yours should be the site/correspondence through which they decide to buy it, having previously decided not to buy it, I think?

It may be that your "could improve here I guess" about the email marketing you're trying is worth thinking about - if anything. If you can add enough value, through professional email marketing, reinforced by an impressive enough, content-filled enough website to which you keep linking in the emails, something might be possible, perhaps? But from what you say, there does appear to be a pretty fundamental mismatch between the product(s) you're promoting and the target audience you're acquiring to whom to promote them?

Also, if you'll excuse the observation, they're mostly not countries in which I'd be trying to promote at all ... but I suppose that's why the clicks are so cheap?

Sad but true. Have as many as 400 over hops but 0 sales.

I suspect there are 2 problems here:

1) the traffic itself (but then again, some people make some money off it? Which is why I'm asking you guys here.)

2) the email marketing (I've tried long [informative aka EZA style] vs short [summarized version of information with more personality and conversation], altering the entire 7-day email series)

Looking at your traffic, the product niche you're targeting is wrong.

Skin lightening creams are huge business in those countries, as in billions of dollars a year.

Find an affiliate offer or cpa offer for one of those and try again.

James

You know what guys, before posting this thread, I was thinking about promoting these CPA offers too, in the email.

Hm... too bad. I'm a strong believer of Tom Venuto's book. That book was responsible for making me gain 15-20 pounds of pure muscle in 2010. Since reading that book, I never had to read another bodybuilding article ever again. So many bodybuilding myths were annihilated off my life which had accumulated entire years.

OTOH, I've been in the PeerFly CPA network for a while.

Some "email arbitrage" sounds good for 1 cent per click.

I should try that now.

Btw, thanks for the skin lightening tip there James.

In my experience, the conversion rate of products like Tom's book (which is excellent) are just not very high. I've spoken to product owners of other popular CB products that have excellent reputations in that niche (not Tom) and it seems to confirm that. I've had campaigns with only .3% conversion rates, or about 1 in 275. The product owners confirmed that while a bit on the low side, it wasn't terribly out of line. Note that rate was for highly targeted visitors, in English speaking countries, a couple of years ago, when those products had less exposure / saturation.

That's just my experience, yours may be different.

I don't even know if there's such things as 1 cent clicks anymore on the display network. That seemed like it was "in" about 5 years ago or so until a ton of marketers flooded it. About 7 months ago I was getting 2-5 cent clicks but adwords killed that on me and I haven't been able to get back there yet.

Hmm...I thought you could geo target location on Adwords to include only countries like US, UK, Singapore, Canada and Australia. You should give that a try.

Hey cal,

Just saw this. I wouldn't promote Burn the Fat - stick to products that are in desperate niches, with problems that are universal. Feel free to geo-target your campaign, but be aware that you may have to pay slightly more than $.01 to see a ton of impressions - maybe $.03 - .04, so still super cheap - depending on how narrow you go.

Other than that, it is ALL about your ability to pre-sell the traffic. In this case, I think it's just that the product is wrong, but just in case, for the next thing you promote, PM me your squeeze page. I'll opt-in and have a look at your sales sequence and see if I have any ideas about what you can improve. Cool?

Russ

I would setup a follow up. Send them high quality content (article or video) and 10th email should be a review (video would be great). Create content like always just at the end talk about a product that you saw and you think it's great and solves a problem related to the content. Add a link and that's it.

If your getting a lot of clicks but no sales from clickbank why not try to make some money with adsense?

Very interesting thread as ive started with 1 penny clicks on the display network selling my own teeth whitening products so no clickbank or other peoples products.

What Ive found so far is getting a good number of keywords is vital to get the impressions needed. So in effect you are pulling in impressions from a huge number of locations in a scatter shot effect rather than the targeted keywords used in adwords itself. Its down to your ads to convert the impressions to clicks and your landing page to covert clicks to sales, the whole process needs thinking about and tweaking.

The main issue I have is the time it takes google to accept the ads its taking a week a time at the moment so its not a simple thing to tweak their side.

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