What is Clickbank?
I spent about 3 hours yesterday afternoon trying to answer the above question. What is Clickbank? My secondary question was…How do I use Clickbank to further monetize my Internet real estate. AdSense has been a great start, don’t get me wrong, but I’ve spent the last year as a one trick pony. That strategy is not going to work in 2009 if this is the year I figure out how to make $5000 a month via web investments. And by the way, I’ve decided that I’m going to figure out this online income thing without buying anyones Carbon Copy System. Maybe that is stupid, but I consider myself of average intelligence, so I darn well should be able to figure things out this year.
ALL THAT BEING SAID, Clickbank seems to offer some interesting opportunities. The deal is that you sign us as an affiliate and get paid a commission on any products that are sold from leads generated from your web properties. This is great, but I see a bit of a problem. I DON’T EVER want to suggest a product that I don’t believe in 100%. I know that there are great opportunities there, but I need to sift through the thousands of Garbage Opportunities to find the jewels that I can promote and suggest.
So that is where I am, and I would truly appreciate any comments regarding your experience with Clickbank and what products, if any, your have found that truly add value to peoples lives…because that is what it is all about for me. I want to help, every day, even if it is only in a little way.
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January 19th, 2009 at 9:05 am
We are thinking alike when it comes to cutting through all of the internet “how to make a zillion dollars with your blog” products out there. I am definitely interested in sharing info about what works and what is b.s. I’m trying to avoid wasting my hard earned cash but I have no problem investing in my own business if the info is worth while.
T
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January 19th, 2009 at 4:47 pm
I’m of no use to you at the moment Tam, as I’m in exactly the same place, so I’ll keep checking back here to see if other bloggers post on their experience with Clickbank. Like you, it’s on my list of things to investigate. If I found out more, I’ll come back and let you know!
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January 19th, 2009 at 9:48 pm
No experience here with Clickbank but have a friend who likes it. I have been using Commission Junction and Amazon Associates for any affiliate links.
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April 28th, 2009 at 12:51 am
I had Commission Junction running for well over six months and made nothing from it. Not even clicks - I didn’t find it worthwhile at all.
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January 20th, 2009 at 12:25 am
As much as I’d hate to put up any ads on my blog, I feel that it might be time to put some some sort of sponsors and try to make some extra money. With recent revenue slumps, I need to figure out a way to make up for the losses. I’ve definitely heard of Click Bank (I think I have an account with them and things didn’t go so well), but it might not be the best way to monetize the blog depending on what your traffic is after.
I’m thinking about going CPM and getting paid based on impressions from my traffic, but it’s hard to find a decent ad provider!
I’ll be looking out for another article about what you decide to do ;). I’m going to be exploring options and hopefully implementing once I have some sort of redesign going on. Hard to monetize blogs where your traffic know the ins-and-outs of the “make money online” industry, LOL.
Best of luck!
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January 20th, 2009 at 9:54 am
Fantastic post there on Clickbank. I can’t agree more with you. I guess i don’t need to write about clickbank as you have pretty well summed it up
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January 20th, 2009 at 12:49 pm
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January 20th, 2009 at 11:18 pm
Would be very interested to hear about how clickbank goes with you! A majority of my domains are NOT developed, so the decrease in revenue and finding alternate sources isn’t that practical for me (uhh… a large amount of domains, lol) since development would probably be the way to go for those that own 1-2 dozen domains. As for monetizing developed domains, that’s something I’ve lacked in. I have some domains that are developed that bring in a large amount of traffic just because they are built on generic domains, but definitely don’t really do ‘enough’ to maximize revenue. I’ll be looking around and will definitely keep you in mind if anything good comes up!
Alright I’m probably rambling and repeating sentences right now, so I’ll just stop. Cheers to being millionaires one day! Your blog is definitely one that I’ve bookmarked recently ;)!
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January 21st, 2009 at 1:46 pm
I feel the exact same way about clickbank. I will not promote a product unless I’m absolutely, completely sure that it’s solid. I’ve heard that clickbank is kind of lacking in such offerings.
An alternate route that I might pursue at some point is to promote some products come out from my favorite bloggers (say Steve Pavlina, Scott Young, or Leo Babauta), that way I know I’m providing something of value and I can proudly advertise it.
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January 21st, 2009 at 11:20 pm
I’m a Clickbank affiliate, and I have kind of the same problem. I have advertised a few things I’ve hooked with off Clickbank, and almost all of them I have tried in some fashion. But one can’t try everything, which is one issue.
The other issue I have is that it’s hard to figure out how to push Clickbank products. Each product has its own squeeze page, so you can either pop a link on your site at random and hope people go there or write your own squeeze page, or your own blog post about it, and then send people to the product, which is still their squeeze page, and hope that works. Seems somewhat redundant, but that’s just how it goes.
But the big time marketers actually write these people and tell them they want a direct link and not the squeeze page, and they get it. But the rest of us have to prove ourselves first.
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January 22nd, 2009 at 5:10 am
Well, unfortunately I can’t offer any real input on ClickBank but I am certainly looking forward to learning more about it. There seems to be several of us here that are in the same boat. How can we collectively pool our knowledge and learn about it? I think a group study session is in order!
T
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January 22nd, 2009 at 7:31 am
Never used Clickbank before.
I did, however, want to offer my praise to you for having the integrity of not recommending a product that you don’t believe in. I wish more people were like that in this day and age.
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January 22nd, 2009 at 2:44 pm
Thanks all for the comments and help. I’m going to really dive into Clickbank this weekend and try to get us some more information. Keep me updated on what you find to.
-B
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January 27th, 2009 at 2:28 am
Good luck with Clickbank, I’m interested to hear how it goes.
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March 21st, 2009 at 6:44 pm
How did this investigation go TAM? If you have a follow-up post I’ll find it… clearly I’m checking out your older content today!
Sometimes it feels like the only way to make money is to buy an ebook that’ll say to publish another ebook telling people to publish an ebook explaining how to make money… a very circular franchise with no real solution.
I think the one true internet revenue genius is the dude who launched Plenty of Fish… I read about him recently. He has a free Canadian dating site and makes all of his income (over 100k/month) with adsense.
That tells me that we just need TRAFFIC! Now how do we do that?!?
Dave
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April 28th, 2009 at 12:54 am
Heard of Clickbank, but never tried it or looked into it. I’ve read the stories about plentyoffish.ca, though - great adsense success stories, so it’s possible… but there you have a unique, replenishable niche that won’t dry up anytime!
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April 28th, 2009 at 1:17 am
Of all the options, I’m most excited about Adsense, it is a proven winner…I’ve also read about plentyoffish…what an amazing story! I’m still trying to figure out clickbank, I hope I can find something on there that is worthwile and sellable!
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August 8th, 2009 at 6:11 pm
I think the shoemoney, and plentyoffish stories really made the adsense thing a reality for many, but I’m looking forward also on moving on to bigger ventures.
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October 9th, 2009 at 12:45 am
If you want to maintain your credibility and not become a blog or site covered in ads then it can be hard to stomach Clickbank. I am also interested to hear from people that have managed to use Clickbank successfully.
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November 6th, 2009 at 4:59 am
i have a clickbank account also, and making at least 3 sales per month, and i am promoting health ebooks which is not very highly competitive and have a gravity of 10-100.
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November 17th, 2009 at 12:53 am
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February 17th, 2010 at 10:11 pm
Super! I am reseraching all information I can find about ClickBank and ClickBank promotion. As I try to increase and make more money with CB.
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February 18th, 2010 at 2:46 pm
I started out online using Click Bank, they always pay on time. 100% approval for affiliates. A great way for newbies to start out before they start developing their own products.
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