Using Clickbank

When starting out figuring how to use Clickbank can be a daunting task. I'm going to give you a few tips to help.

First, realize the Clickbank is, in my opinion, the greatest affiliate network in existence. If you're just thinking about promoting Clickbank products, don't just think, do it. You will not be sorry.  You have just one account and you can promote over six-thousand different products, checks are cut every two weeks like clockwork. Even better, they're all digital, which means product merchants can afford to giveaway larger percentages of sales. They have no costs of goods sold to contend with so most vendors can pay 30-70%, which is insanely high. So there are enormous sums of money to be made.

Okay, how to use it. The very first key is to find great products you want to promote. Most people go to the Clickbank Marketplace to find these products. That's fine, but realize the marketplace has very limited information and search functionality and there are better places to search for products. My recommendation is cbengine.com. They provide historical sale's data, gravity, refund rates and provide lists of hot products to promote. Plus the search functionality cannot be beat.

When looking for products I first recommend working in a category you know. Maybe you have a lot of investing knowledge; maybe you're a retired teacher or a sport's coach. Find a topic of knowledge, or at least interest. The reason is because if you like what you're doing, if it holds your interest and you have some knowledge, you're going to do a much better job promoting products that fall under that category. Just imagine if I didn't know anything about Clickbank or didn't love it, my articles wouldn't be very effective.

So type in your subject of interest on cbengine and if you see results you have some products you can further evaluate for promoting. 

So get together a list of products based on your topic... Now examine their gravity levels. I like a gravity of at least 10 and no more than 100...  Under 10 the product likely isn't doing as well, over 100 there are too many people promoting the product and setting down any traction is going to be tough. However, don't forget to look at the date the product entered the marketplace. If it was last week and the gravity is 6, it's a new product that could jump to 15 by the next week.  Next look-up their return rates. Are some of them sky-high? Cross them off your list. I don't touch most products with a refund rate above ten-percent. Sometimes I'll extend my rule to twenty-percent if I think I can do a good job promoting the product, but I never ever want to promote junk no matter how much money I could potentially make.

Once you find a group of products narrow it down to two or three and then pick your marketing technique to start driving sales. There are many different ways to market Clickbank products and I don't have time to review each one, but here is a list: article marketing, forum marketing, eBook marketing, video marketing, newsletter marketing, PPC, CMP, direct mail, newspaper advertising plus many, many more.

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