An Online Money Making Idea - Clickbank!

Friday, August 8, 2008 20:42
Posted in category Internet Business

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by Allison Thompson

It does not matter whether you have only just got involved in internet marketing or have been doing it for some time and are now looking for an easy and profitable way to make money through affiliate marketing. One can’t go far wrong if you choose to sell Clickbank products. However, Clickbank isn’t in fact an affiliate network in the strictest meaning of the word. What in fact Clickbank is is a place where products are for sale and can be purchased safely by those customers who wish to buy them.

Just over a year ago Clickbank sent out a press release which stated that during the first day of trading last year a total of more than 1 million dollars worth of sales were completed. Certainly since this date Clickbank have regularly been seeing sales of more than 1 million dollars per day have now become a regular occurrence for them.

But it is not only Clickbank’s daily sales figures which are proving to be impressive; there are other statistics which you can look at with regard to Clickbank which are proving to be just as impressive. It is these statistics which will provide you with some reasons why it is worth considering using Clickbank as a way of providing you with a regular source of income online.

1. Clickbank has now more than 1.25 million registered affiliates on their site and of these 100,000 is known as being active, whilst another 12,000 or so are known as publishers.

2. Currently all sales that take place on Clickbank are currently running at 30% more than they were in 2007.

3. Currently there are more than 35,000 products listed and an additional 30 new ones are being added to this list each and every day.

4. The average price of items being sold on Clickbank are working out at about $41 each and the average commission rate being paid to affiliate members on the products they sell is around 55%.

5. On average the number of sales which take place on Clickbank on any given day is working out to be around 25,000.

Clickbank’s strength lies in the fact that it caters both for affiliates and also publishers and this means that the average customer has the chance to decide whether to promote their own product or to promote someone else’s instead. But really what is making Clickbank such a success is the 70% of sales that are generated by its affiliates. Promoting any one of the many products that are offered by Clickbank is a sure way of being able for you to generate an income quickly.

There are a number of ways in which you can start to promote Clickbank products, the easiest of these being to set up a blog providing information about the product and then create a review in relation to it. The next best thing to setting up a blog is to write some articles and then submit these through to various article directories. It is through the resource box at the bottom where you can place links that then direct readers to your blog or the sales page you have created for the product.

Another way of promoting Clickbank products which are used by some of the more experienced marketers is to create Pay Per Click Adverts which you then put on to networks such as Google Adsense. You need to learn everything about the various techniques involved in creating the right kinds of adverts if you want to be assured of getting a regular income from them. Ideally, I wouldn’t recommend using this method unless you really have gained the right amount of experience first.

Being a publisher on Clickbank is not that difficult, the main criteria being that you have something that you wish to sell. As for the writing of the articles etc., this is something that you can outsource to a specialist writing if you wish or you could purchase Private Label Rights e-books or articles instead. With these then all you have to do is alter them to suit you and make them unique to you. Then once listed this provides you with access to even more potential new affiliates for your business.

So if you have not tried Clickbank before then it is worth your while taking some time out and looking closely at just what they have to offer.

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