Clickbank is one of the top affiliate marketplaces where regular people can pick and promote products (affiliates) or place their own product for other people to promote (vendors) , in this article I’m going to give you some great tips to start making money with clickbank.
Make Money as an affiliate
Clickbank is a great place to find products to promote , best thing about clickbank is that it is free to join and They pay you on time , no delays at all !
picking a product
Picking a product can seem easy for some people but it isn’t , when choosing a product you need to ensure that the product you are promoting converts .
First you need to head to the marketplace the choose a category , after that you will see a list of products , now you need to find a product that converts , to do that you need to check the gravity in each product , you can also sort products by gravity to get the best converting products.
what is Gravity ?
Gravity is a indicator in all clickbank products , it tells you about how much people promoted it and made at least a single sale in the last 30 days , so the higher the gravity is the more the product is going to convert for you !
choosing the promotion method
Now after picking a great product to promote you need to drive traffic to those offers in order to make commissions , the 3 most popular promotion methods are the following :
Email marketing
Email marketing is the most common traffic generation method used by Internet marketers nowadays , all what you have to do is set up a squeeze page , join an autoresponder service , install the opt-in code in your squeeze page and start getting email leads !
most popular autoresponder is aweber.
SEO
In order to promote your offers using SEO you need a website , these are the steps you need to follow to setup a website that gets traffic:
-Keyword research : you need to pick a keyword related to the product you’ve chosen ,don’t aim for the keywords with too much traffic as they have too much competition.
-Set up your website , do proper onpage SEO based on what keyword you’ve chosen , and write couple of quality articles (make sure you use original articles on your site)
-now build few links to your site .
PPC
This is the easiest way to promote your clickbank offers but this will require that you invest money to get traffic , this is what we call pay per click traffic , most popular PPC network is google adwords.
Make Money as product vendor
Making money as a product vendor is probably not for new internet marketers as it require that you create your own products and services , to give you straightforward instructions here is what you have to do to become a product vendor at Clickbank:
-First you need to create your own product , pick a niche the write an ebook about a certain issue or you can record 5 to 6 videos (this is way better than the ebook) , you don’t have to do this yourself you can outsource someone else to do this for you at odesk.com or freelancer.com
-Write a sales letter for your new product : here is a great article about writing effective sales letters at powerhomebiz.com
-Now join Clickbank as a product vendor or add your product , it will cost you a $49.95 to activate your product , it is a one time fee.
-Now start promoting your own product at forums or using PPC and find affiliates to promote it for you.