Post: #1

Has anybody had any success with ClickBank? Somebody told me that a guy they know makes six figures with it. I've got a couple of websites that I think might be able to make good money with a decent affiliate product, but ClickBank stuff looks pretty fly by night to me.

Post: #2

If you have your own sites already, like you indicated, put up ads for top performing Clickbank products and compare the CPM with the current ad inventory. I'm assuming your sites already have lots of traffic.

Back in 2007ish I knew a few friends who were making big money from Clickbank as affiliates (six to seven figures over the course of their runs), I have not heard of anyone doing that in years.

Post: #3

I had decent success promoting other people's products for a while before the Google updates bitch slapped my Google rankings. But I have one of my own products on Clickbank that sells so-so to this day (a couple hundred bucks a month on autopilot).

The thing to understand about Clickbank is that it's just a marketplace. For some reason people have gotten it into their heads that all you need to do is "go on clickbank" and you'll make money as a vendor or affiliate. When in fact, it's become even harder to make on Clickbank because many serious vendors and affiliates prefer to work through private affiliate programs which are more flexible and don't take a big ass cut of the money.

The other reason Clickbank is so hyped is because vendors think (again, erroneously) that magically, affiliates will start promoting their product and do all the heavy lifting for them. It's true that as soon you put your eBook or course or whatever on Clickbank, you'll get a ton of affiliates. And 99% of them will sell exactly zero copies of your product for you.

What they WILL do, however, is spam the fuck out every corner of the internet and associate your brand with that marketing style, if you can call it that. It's also pretty common for shady affiliates to outrank you for your own keywords in Google and essentially intercept the sales that were coming directly through you, so that they can take the commission and you can take it straight up the ass because you have no recourse in the matter.

Personally, as I roll out my digital product catalog, I'll be running my affiliate program strictly in-house. And I'm going to be as selective about who I allow to promote for me as I am about who I let into my life. Because these aren't just affiliates, they're silent business partners that can harm or bolster your reputation, brand, and product line.

So, in conclusion, "go on Clickbank" isn't a business model; CB is just a marketplace and doesn't do anything extraordinary in and of itself.

Post: #4

Great stuff Vincent. I've pretty much given up on click bank. I have 15,000 people on my email list and am still running the well dry selling cb products. My best week was months ago and I think I barely made $500.

Now I will be lucky to make $100 in a week. It's still money though but my email software runs me about $150 a month so right now I'm pretty much breaking even.

Post: #5

Thanks guys, I understand the affiliate model and my sites have good traffic and make good money, but I'm always looking out for ways to make more and the right affiliate deal could add on a lot more revenue each month. I guess maybe VV's point is most important. Maybe quality products aren't on ClickBank so much anymore?

Post: #6

Vinturi: thanks for the heads up, ive been looking into the digital products market for a while, barely getting my toes wet. Posts like yours are a great help.

Midnite: Google Sendy, its a piece of software that you install in your server and manages your mailing list through Amazon AWS, supossedly the total cost for you is $1 for every 10k mails. I cant say anything about it yet, as I just bought it last week and havent been able to install it in my server yet. Let me try it out and ill report back.

Post: #7

I've made money off of Clickbank back in 2009 but it was a lot of effort for very little reward.

My personal opinion on affiliate marketing is that the guys who sell the programs to be an affiliate marketer are the guys who are making the most money out of it.

I made about $800 in 3 months after about 1 week of slog and leaving the articles to do what they did. Then, as I was using ezine and squidoo, the articles got deleted automatically after a matter of time and I couldn't be bothered writing more.

You have to target keywords as an affiliate that you know many big companies or websites aren't using and get in through the back door that way. It was good SEO experience for me which is helping me now but it's chump change I think. As Vincent said, things have changed in google so I don't know how things are for affiliates these days.

If you have a website, why not stick some adverts on there as already suggested? Get some PPC links too.

The serious money for Clickbank has been and gone as an affiliate, I think. I could be entirely wrong though as it's been nearly 5 years since I was doing it.

Post: #8

I just use it as a marketplace, I wasn't aware it was anything but that.

Post: #9

(11-24-2013 08:22 AM)MattC Wrote:  If you have a website, why not stick some adverts on there as already suggested? Get some PPC links too.

The serious money for Clickbank has been and gone as an affiliate, I think. I could be entirely wrong though as it's been nearly 5 years since I was doing it.

My sites already have ads and other revenue makers. I just want to make more money :-D

Every once in awhile I try new stuff and if the new stuff makes more than the old stuff, it's out with the old and in with the new.

So if ClickBank is dead, what's the best alternative now? I have Google AdWords, but I don't trust Google and I'd rather diversify that as much as possible.

Post: #10

I make a full time living online and clickbank is 'one' of the major networks that I use to find relevant affiliate products to promote.

Try building a niche related email newsletter and promote the affiliate products internally to your list. Creating a sales funnel that flows well is the trick.

This way you have maximum control of your business from traffic generation> content> products you promote.

Post: #11

(11-23-2013 01:14 PM)MidniteSpecial Wrote:  Great stuff Vincent. I've pretty much given up on click bank. I have 15,000 people on my email list and am still running the well dry selling cb products. My best week was months ago and I think I barely made $500.

Now I will be lucky to make $100 in a week. It's still money though but my email software runs me about $150 a month so right now I'm pretty much breaking even.

if you have a targeted list of 15k youre sitting on a goldmine.
ask them what they want and then build your own product from this feedback. I dont understand why people bother with affiliate marketing anyway, why take a cut if you can pocket all the profit?

Post: #12

I know. I started building my list just last year, still is under 1k without any paid traffic or signup offers. I really should have started earlier.

Post: #13

Its not just about the size but also how engaged they are and how bad they want what you have to offer.
One of my partners recently made 20k Euros from a launch on a list with 900 people.

Im planning to do a seedlaunch once I hit 500 subscribers to my list, here check it out:

http://productlaunchformula.com/blog/see...ike-crazy/

Seriously guys you are throwing money away by sitting on your lists and not doing anything with it.