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CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION – WHAT IS CLICKBANK AND WHAT CAN IT DO FOR YOU?

1. CREATING A DIGITAL BOOK
1.2 Choosing A Topic
1.3 Planning Your Book
1.4 Hiring A Ghostwriter
1.5 Setting A Price
1.6 Creating Recurring Sales

2. SELLING ON CLICKBANK
2.1 Creating Your Marketplace Description
2.2 The Pitch Page
2.3 The Thank You Page
2.4 Getting More Out Of Affiliates

3. BECOMING A CLICKBANK AFFILIATE
3.1 Who Can Benefit From ClickBank’s Affiliate Products?
3.2 Picking The Right ClickBank Products To Promote
3.3 Promoting Your Affiliate Product

CONCLUSION

INTRODUCTION – WHAT IS CLICKBANK AND WHAT CAN IT DO FOR YOU?

The Internet has opened up business in all sorts of ways.

It costs nothing to start a website.

Anyone can write a blog.

Putting ads on your pages takes minutes and requires no selling, no effort and almost no work at all.

And the revenues can be fantastic.

Millions of people have joined the Internet business revolution and have either swapped their day job for days of writing articles, or are enjoying some useful extra money with a hobby they love.

But earning on the Internet isn’t limited to ad clicks and free content.

Some of the most popular goods bought and sold online are digital information goods.

These are items that you can’t find in stores and which can only downloaded from the Internet. They might include software but usually they’re ebooks and newsletters.

The advantage for the buyer is that he doesn’t even have to leave his house and drive down to the bookstore to buy them. Nor does he have to wait for an online store to process his order, stick the package in the mail and for the mail carrier to deliver before he can receive his purchase.

With a digital information product, a customer can buy what he wants from his living room and receive it immediately.

That’s a huge benefit. And for the creators of the products, building them is simple, marketing them is easy and once your system is up and running, you can sit back and leave the money to come in all by itself.

That’s really the biggest benefit of information products like these. They can create a passive revenue stream that continues to generate income even while you’re sleeping, watching television, soaking up rays on the beach… or working on your next great idea.

You won’t have to find a retailer, fill your garage with wholesale goods or lay out on expensive production costs in the hope that the sales will recoup your investment.

With digital information products, you just have to create the goods, upload them and take the money when people want to download them.

And the really good news is that you don’t even have to create an information product of your own to benefit from this opportunity.

It’s also possible to take a share of the sales price of other people’s information products by promoting them on your websites.

That’s very simple to do and it can still generate large amounts of passive income without any of the work involved in producing a product yourself.

Whether you choose to sell your own information products though, or promote others’ for a cut of the sales price, there’s one service that’s just invaluable.

ClickBank.com is the place to find digital information products to buy, sell… and to promote.

The site lists thousands of items in a range of different categories, and lets any publisher submit their own products.

For publishers, it means that you already have one good sales outlet for your products.

But it also means that you have access to thousands of affiliate sellers who can’t wait to promote your product for you.

In this report, I’m going to explain how to get the most out of ClickBank.

I’ll start by talking about creating your own information products. That’s where most of the money is and it’s really not as hard as it sounds!

If I can do it, anyone can do it!

I’ll explain how to pick a topic for an ebook, plan your chapters… and hire a ghostwriter if you don’t want to do it yourself. Then it’s almost just a matter of and setting a price and sitting back to enjoy the income.

I say “almost” because while ClickBank is a very powerful marketing tool you have to know how to make the most of it.

Having explained how to create the sorts of products you can sell through the site, I’ll discuss some of the most important marketing strategies you’ll need to employ to generate sales and pick up affiliates.

And finally, I’ll talk about how you can make money selling other people’s products that you can find on ClickBank.

This is how most of ClickBank’s users make their money and there’s no reason why couldn’t join in that bonanza too.

Whether you want to be a producer or a seller, ClickBank is a hugely valuable tool for every online marketer. It’s certainly something you should know about — and use.

Let’s start by creating an ebook…

1. CREATING A DIGITAL BOOK

Many people dream of becoming writers. They love the idea of spending all day turning the stories into their heads into books that people will pay to read.

Very few people ever manage it.

ClickBank won’t help you to do that either.

It won’t turn you into a Nobel prize-winning novelist.

But it can turn you into a writer who gets well-paid for producing manuals that bring real benefits to readers.

In fact, you can expect to make more money for each sale than any top-selling writer ever receives.

That’s one of the amazing things about information products sold online.

Write a book about earning from videography, for example, find a publisher and get it into bookstores, and you might make a buck or two from the $24.95 cover price.

Write the same book and put it on ClickBank and you can charge $50 and receive over 90 percent of the sales price.

It’s a huge difference, and it’s having a real effect on anyone considering turning what they know into a product that can help others.

And it’s the help the book brings to others that’s the point. Selling ebooks is never about the product. It’s about what the product can do for the people who buy it.

That’s why anyone can be an author.

Everyone has access to some specialized knowledge that other people want to know… and would pay to know.

If you’re a doctor, you’ve got plenty of knowledge about staying healthy that other people would love to enjoy too.

If you’re a top-selling insurance agent, you’ve got all sorts of sales strategies that business owners would love to hear about.

If you collect model railways, every other model railway enthusiast would want to know where you buy your trains and how you keep them running.

If you have information that other people want to know and everyone has information like this then you can create a book that can pick up sales on ClickBank.

1.2 Choosing A Topic

ClickBank offers publishers a broad range of categories.

Traditional publishing is a difficult business. Publishers have to pay an advance to their writers. They have to pay the printers, the graphic designers, the editors and the transportation costs involved in getting the books to the stores.

And then they have to find ways to persuade the stores to put their books in places where buyers are likely to see them.

Most books don’t make those costs back. Publishers hope to fund them by producing the odd blockbuster that covers the expenses of all the loss leaders.

That means that publishers are very choosy about the books that they agree to take on. They want to be sure that each book will generate enough sales to cover their expenses, and they want to keep their list of loss-making publications to a minimum.

The result is that publishers tend to focus on a few topics that they’re reasonably confident will make money.

ClickBank works in a very different way.

It makes no difference to ClickBank whether it’s offering a hundred books or a million. It doesn’t matter whether those books are explaining the secret to working the money markets or teaching people how to knit a sweater their grandchildren will love.

It doesn’t even matter to ClickBank if those books never sell a copy, and if no book it offers ever receives more than three downloads each.

That’s because it doesn’t cost ClickBank a penny to offer products on its site. It doesn’t have to shell out for printing costs or any other up-front fees.

All it has to do is offer a list of products that affiliates might want to sell and give those affiliates a way of getting paid for them.

That hardly costs a thing and it means that Clickbank has no reason to say no to any book because it doesn’t think the topic will sell.

In theory then, you could write a book on any subject you can think of, place it on ClickBank and earn from it.

In practice though, what you’ll find is that there are far more books on ClickBank that promise to make you rich than there are books that promise to keep you nice and warm in a hand-knitted sweater.

There’s a very good reason for that. If you’re asking someone to fork out $25 for a book, they’ll expect to be informed and entertained. If you’re asking them to fork out $50 for a book, they’ll expect their money back…

That’s a much easier expectation to meet if the book explains how to make a fortune selling lemonade from your garage, or how to work two hours a day outsourcing everything you do to a team of beavers in Burkina Faso.

It’s not too hard to justify charging $50 or more for products like these.

A book like this is certainly one option and anyone can write it. All you have to do is think about how what you know could help someone else earn some money.

So if you coached a junior soccer team, you could write a book explaining how to set up a business selling sports equipment.

All you’d have to do is describe what you know about the companies you deal with every week. If you love cooking, you could write a book explaining how to sell recipes, market cakes or become a personal chef. And if you’re an insurance agent, a financial analyst or a Realtor, you shouldn’t have any problem at all coming up with a book idea that promises to make people money.

But that doesn’t mean you should. Books like these are a crowded market. You have to be able to persuade people that you really can deliver the results your book promises and you have to persuade them that it’s worth $50 or whatever you’re planning to charge for it.

The Web is full of books that promise to make people rich, so you’ll need an excellent landing page to stand out, build trust and generate sales. They’re not for everyone. An alternative option then is just to create a book that teaches people to do something that you know… and other people would like to know. That could be a book about soccer coaching techniques.

It could be a book about cooking Creole food. And it could be a book about home decoration, knitting or absolutely anything else. You might not be able to charge $50 for books like these but with the right marketing, you might sell more copies at a lower price and generate more profits overall. Most importantly, if they’re topics you enjoy, they should be more fun to write… which would make them more fun to read too.

When you come to choose a topic to write then, you can either opt for a business-style book which will require hard marketing and tricky sales writing or you can go for something less commercial but more fun and could even be equally profitable. That’s a choice that only you can make.

1.3 Planning Your Book

Once you’ve decided on a topic and just about any topic can work the next stage is to decide what you want your ebook to say.

This is actually the most important part of preparing a document and the hardest. Once you’ve got this behind you, the writing will be relatively easy.

Fortunately, there is a way to make the planning easy. You can cheat. Buy two or three books through ClickBank on a topic similar to yours.

You should own them anyway to see what your competitors are doing. Head down to your local Borders, order a giant cappuccino and load up on other books on the topic. Then take a look at the tables of contents in each of those books.

Those are the books’ layouts. Pay attention to the topics each volume covers and how the subjects are organized. Decide which subjects you have to include. There will probably quite a few of those maybe chapters describing the background of your topic or basic steps that everyone needs to know.

Then list the original content that only your book will contain. That should give you all of your chapter headings. You can then fill in the details by sketching sub-headings for each of those chapters too. This sounds like a lot of work, but in practice it isn’t. It’s very simple and shouldn’t take you too long to do at all.

In fact, the degree to which you struggle over the preparation of the book’s layout is a pretty good sign of how good the book will be. If the ideas flow quickly, then that’s a solid indication that you’ve thought about the topic and know it well enough to write about it easily.

If you struggle with the layout, you could well find yourself struggling with the writing too… and maybe even never finishing it.

Planning your book shouldn’t be difficult at all, especially if you take your lead from other books on the topic. But there’s another way shortcut you can take: you can hire someone else to do it for you.

1.4 Hiring A Ghostwriter

Elance is stuffed with writers who can create your information products for you. The biggest advantage of creating and selling digital products is that once the system is up and running, it’s effort-free. With your ebook on ClickBank and affiliates pushing sales for you, you’ll be able to kick back and cash the checks. But you’ll first have to write the ebook and that’s where most of the effort lies.

If you like writing and you’re good at it you can do it yourself. You can set yourself an hour a day, churn out a couple of pages in that time and keep going until your product is done. (The longer the book, the better online, quantity counts but 70 pages of rock-solid information can be enough to generate sales.) Or you can hire a writer and ask a professional to do it for you.

Elance is a good place to look and the writers at ConstantConversions.com could help you too. Be sure to check the reviews and don’t be tempted to go for the lowest bid.

You often get what you pay for when it comes to writing services, so make sure that you choose a writer who’s written on your topic, writes clearly and can deliver on time.

It’s also a good idea to give the writer your layout rather than rely on your hired hand to produce all the concepts for you.

You might not be doing the writing but the ideas should be yours that’s what the public will be paying for.

Finally and most importantly is : calculate how many sales you’ll need to make before you’ve earned back the cost of the ebook.

A good, professional writer can cost several thousand dollars depending on the size of the book, and will probably be your biggest expense. You want to be certain that you’ll get that money back.

1.5 Setting A Price

One of the most important factors in any commercial business is getting the price point of the products right.

With ClickBank for better or worse much of that power is out of your hands. But not all of it, and the power that’s left to you is very important.

It’s very easy to get the pricing wrong, find that you’re not making any sales and dismiss the whole system. That would be a big mistake. The trap is that ClickBank sets limits for the amount you can charge. The lowest you can sell a standard product for is $3 and the highest is usually $50.

When you submit your product for approval, ClickBank will tell you the maximum amount that you can charge.

The temptation then is to charge that amount. That’s not always a good idea. We’ve already seen that some products can be sold at higher prices than others. Just because ClickBank lets you sell your guide to homestyle knitting for $50 doesn’t mean that that’s the price that will maximize your revenues.

You might well find that a much lower price will give you many more sales and many times more profits. This is where a little research comes in handy. Create separate landing pages with different price points and spend a few weeks marketing each one of them.

The text and the sales message will be exactly the same. The only difference between the pages will be the price of the product. (You could use a tool like URLSplit.com to make the marketing easier. This lets you enter a number of different URLs and receive one link in return. When users click that link they’ll be taken to one of those URLs at random.).

You could either sell the book right from that page or announce that the book will be released shortly and take email addresses from people who are interested. Over a short space of time, you should be able to see which of the sales points generates the most revenues overall.

1.6 Creating Recurring Sales

I’ve mentioned that the main advantage of ClickBank’s system is that once your product has been created and affiliates busy promoting it, you can kick back and enjoy the income.

Your affiliates though will be busy. They’ll have to keep bringing in new buyers. Someone who’s bought your ebook once is unlikely to come back and order a second copy. Create a product that has a subscription model however, and you can enjoy repeat sales from every buyer.

Instead of selling one product to one buyer and never seeing them again you’ll be able to continue selling products to people you know are interested in your content.

It’s a fantastic way to generate continuous revenue and get more out of each sale, but it does require a little thought. The first thing you have to consider is that ClickBank has lower maximum prices for rebilling. The top rate for standard products is $50; for subscriptions, it’s $30.

While that can still be a sizable amount of money it’s more than the price of most books in stores you might want to think about creating smaller products rather than complete 100-page ebooks when you’re earning much less for them.

Newsletters can be good solutions, as can a series of short reports on a range of topics in your field.

Remember though, whatever you provide has to offer real value! Buyers will be quick to cancel their subscriptions if they don’t feel they’re getting their money’s worth.

Each time you send them a product, you have to persuade them that their subscription fee was worth paying and is worth paying in the future. That’s only going to happen if your newsletter or reports actually provide information that your readers can use and appreciate.

While offering products like these can be a great way to give yourself a steady revenue stream, they do mean a lot more work. You won’t be able to just upload your product and relax. You’ll have to keep working month after month to deliver the products that your customers expect regularly.

It’s a commitment and you’ll have to know exactly how to keep it. Again, if you’re happy doing the writing yourself, this should be an easy, profitable and enjoyable job. And if you want to outsource the pen-work, all you’ll have to do is pass on the ideas each month to a ghostwriter and make sure that each product is good before it goes out.

Creating your own product to sell through ClickBank isn’t difficult. It requires a little bit of effort and a fair amount of thought but it can be a lot of fun too. The next step though is to market it…

2. SELLING ON CLICKBANK

ClickBank makes very few direct sales itself. It’s not a retailer; it’s a wholesaler.

The sort of people who click through the site looking for products tend not to be end-users. They tend to be other website publishers looking for affiliate products to sell. That makes ClickBank a very powerful tool, and it’s what lies at the heart of the company’s success and the success of the publishers and the product creators who use it.

In the next chapter I’ll explain how you can make the most of ClickBank as an affiliate but first, let’s see how you can make the most of the affiliates on the site when you’re selling your own product.

2.1 Creating Your Marketplace Description

Marketplace descriptions don’t always make the most exciting reading, but why shouldn’t they?

What makes ClickBank so powerful is that it’s just so easy to use. Affiliates who want to promote a product only have to sign up, search the marketplace then paste what ClickBank calls a “hoplink” onto their Web page.

A hoplink is just a fancy name for an affiliate link. (ClickBank calls it a “hoplink” because once users click on it, they “hop” to the seller’s site leaving a trace that allows ClickBank to credit the affiliate and send them a check.)

One difference that marks out hoplinks though is that they take a very simple form. Every hoplink looks like this: http://AFFILIATEID.PUBLISHERID.hop.ClickBank.net/ That’s very simple.

Less simple is creating the text that will persuade someone to paste your hoplink onto their Web page.

You’ll need to complete a number of different fields and do it very carefully.

The first field you might want to complete is your Hoplink Target URL. You’ll only need this if you’re planning to sell more than one product through ClickBank.

Because you only have one publisher ID, to sell multiple products, you’ll need to create one landing page then filter users to the products of their choice. The affiliate will be credited wherever the user goes.

That’s simple enough. But you’ll then need to enter your product’s Marketplace Title. That’s not so easy. Remember, the idea of your Marketplace Title and Description isn’t just to persuade a buyer that your product has value. It’s to persuade a reseller that your product will sell.

Your Marketplace text doesn’t leave you much room to do your selling. For the title, you really only have two options. You can either use the same title that you used for your product or you can use a different title geared to resellers rather than end-users.

In general, if the title of your product is strong and has a good sales appeal (something like “How To Earn $3,647 A Week Printing Postcards”) then use the same title in the Marketplace.

If the title is more informative than lucrative (something like “Knitting For Beginners And Enthusiasts”) then you might want to create a title that’s a little punchier for affiliates.

Just choose something that suggests that the product will be valuable for the person promoting it. Something like “Knitting A Guide To Low-Cost, Home-Made Luxury”

The only way to know for sure which title works best though is to come up with several and test each of them over a set period of time.

Compare the results from each to see which gives you the best results for your market.

There’s a limit to what you can do with your Marketplace Title. Your Marketplace Description is much less limited… but it’s still pretty restrictive.

ClickBank gives you just 255 characters to make your pitch. That’s not much at all, but remember the goal isn’t to sell your product. It’s to persuade an affiliate to look at your pitch page.

It’s the pitch page that will show whether or not your product looks tempting enough to deliver sales. That means you don’t have to do too much in your Marketplace description to generate those clicks… especially when you look at the competition.

Many of the sellers on ClickBank have beautifully-written, perfectly-designed pitch pages. They’re well-planned and created by a professional copywriter with the goal of generating sales.

The Marketplace descriptions however often look like they were thrown together by someone with a big temper and a long shopping list. You don’t have much space, so you want to get your point across quickly and persuasively.

One way to do that is with the equivalent of bullets. This description, for example, does a neat job using numbers to mark out sales points:

• Note how the very first point describes the amount of money the affiliate can earn. That’s the most important thing he wants to know and this description has put it right at the front in a way that’s very easy to spot.
• The second point suggests the product sells well so the affiliate will actually see those commissions.
• And the third point adds a nice little detail that helps the product to stand out and appear both unique and valuable.

It’s a very easy model to copy and one that I think can be very effective.

It’s certainly a lot better than filling the space with a series of single words that tell the affiliate little and are more likely to put him off.

There’s one more difficult decision you’ll have to make on the Marketplace form. You’ll need to decide how much of a commission to give to the affiliates. By default, the rate is set at 25 percent but you can change it if you want.

There’s no right answer to the amount you should give away just as there’s no one answer to the amount you should charge for the product.

Too much depends on what your competitors are doing so look at what other products in your field are offering and pitch somewhere in the middle.

2.2 The Pitch Page

RecipeSecrets.net uses images, headlines and even a sample table of contents to tempt buyers.

One of the most remarkable things about ClickBank is that the most important part of the process of earning with the site doesn’t happen on the site at all.

Whether you make sacks of cash or feel lucky to generate a sale once a month will depend largely on the quality of your product and the persuasive power of your pitch page.

The pitch page is your sales letter. It’s where you place all of the sales points that will guide the reader from interest through desire to purchase.

How exactly to write a pitch page that achieves that goal is a subject for a whole other report.

There are a number of different approaches but just about all of them start with a hard-hitting headline, make the reader understand that they have a problem, position the product as the solution, include testimonials and end with a call to action. Sales letters like these sound complex but they’re actually fairly simple to put together.

There’s a formula that works and once you understand it, it’s very straightforward to follow and very effective too.

You can either learn how to do it yourself, or you can pay a copywriter a few hundred bucks to do it for you. This is not a place to look for shortcuts though. Your pitch page is the most important link in the chain from Internet publisher to your affiliate and from user to buyer.

They all meet here and it’s the quality of the sales information on that page that will determine whether or not you make sales.

Ideally, you should create a few pitch pages perhaps with different headlines and test them to see which works best before you submit it to ClickBank.

2.3 The Thank You Page

ClickBank requires that producers have two Web pages before they can start selling through the site.

You’ll need the pitch page but you’ll also need a “Thank You page.” That’s not just because it’s polite to thank your customers although that’s certainly a nice thing to do. It’s because once you’ve made the sale, you’ll want to supply the buyer with a little information.

In fact, ClickBank requires that you supply the following information:

• A thank you message;
• Your email address for questions and technical support;
• A reminder that the charge will appear on the customer’s credit card as “ClickBank” or CLKBANK*COM;
• A rebilling schedule for subscription-based projects;
• And an exit link so that customers can leave the page easily.

While I’m not sure that ClickBank should be demanding all of these things, they are all good ideas. Sellers should be implementing them whether they are a requirement or not. But I’d go one little step further.

The exit link is an opportunity. You don’t want customers to just click away from you. You want them to click somewhere that will do you good.

You could send customers to your blog, where they can learn more information that will help them get the most out of your product and give you more money by clicking on ads.

You could send them to a site that offers more of your own products and generate more direct sales. Or you could use a hoplink to send them to a related product on Clickbank.

After all, you know the customer is someone who buys information products so maybe they’ll buy more, giving you a welcome commission.

The Thank You page is a necessity but that doesn’t mean you can’t make the most of it too.

2.4 Getting More Out Of Affiliates

Building up a long list of affiliates ready to promote your site is a vital part of your success with ClickBank.

A good product will be critical in persuading publishers to promote your goods. A persuasive pitch page will be vital at generating sales and at showing that you can generate sales.

And a carefully-written Marketplace description with a competitive and generous commission will be important too if you want to stand out and show affiliates what you can do.

All of those elements will help you to build up a sales team who will do your marketing for you. But you can also encourage affiliates to sign up by using ClickBank’s Join My Affiliate Program (JMAP). This simply involves adding a link to your page that invites publishers to sign up at ClickBank and take your hoplink.

The link looks like this:

<a href="http://PUBLISHER.jmap.clickbank.net" target=jmap>TEXT</a>

A linked invitation like that might help to give you a few more affiliates, depending on how hard you market your site outside ClickBank.

But you want to do more than just recruit affiliates. You want to help them generate sales for you.

Clickbank won’t give you the email addresses of the publishers who have agreed to promote your products but what you could do is create a page full of advice for affiliates who have signed up or are thinking of doing so.

Instead of just putting a link at the bottom of the page marked “Affiliates” and sending interested publishers to ClickBank, create a pitch page for your affiliate sales. It wouldn’t have to be long, but it should contain a number of points.

• First, it should describe the benefits of becoming your affiliate. That means putting an emphasis on the size of your commissions, your high conversion rate and your negligible refund requests. Numbers can say a lot here so don’t be afraid to say exactly what percentage of people who read your pitch page actually end up buying. That will let potential affiliates see what promoting your product can actually bring them.
• Then you can go on to give the affiliates tips to boost their clickthrough rates and their sales figures.
• Explain what your customers are interested in and list the unique sales points that the affiliates could emphasize as they promote your product.
• Really explain how good your product is.
• Remember, while you’re pitching the page to potential affiliates, there’s a good chance that it will be read by potential customers too.
• By being seen discussing the quality of the product behind the scenes of your business, you create the impression that everyone really does agree that it’s a fantastic deal.
• Finally, invite the affiliates to sign up at ClickBank and start earning right away.

Do you see how a page like that would be so much more effective than simply adding a link to the bottom of the page?

Creating a product requires a little work. It means choosing a topic that has a market, writing a book or building a program, then creating a Web page to turn users into buyers.

It’s not very difficult but I can understand if not everyone wants to do it at least not initially.

Becoming an affiliate can be much easier. I’ll explain how to use ClickBank to do that in the next chapter.

3. BECOMING A CLICKBANK AFFILIATE

I’m always saying that a well-balanced online business should have multiple revenue streams.

It should have targeted ads (which AdSense does best) so that you can earn money when users click away.

It should have ads that pay for every thousand impressions so that the business owner can get money for every user who visits. And the site should have affiliate ads because these can bring the highest amounts of money for each sale.

ClickBank is one of the best places to find affiliate products to promote on your website.

3.1 Who Can Benefit From ClickBank’s Affiliate Products?

I could say that absolutely anyone can benefit from ClickBank’s affiliate products. It would, after all, be true.

ClickBank contains such a huge range of different types of products that it’s never very difficult to find something that matches the topic of any site.

But in fact, some sites can get more out of ClickBank’s affiliate products than others. Sites that have a good relationship with loyal users are likely to generate far more affiliate sales than the sort of sites that bring users in once and hope to earn a little money when they move on.

If a user doesn’t like the content on a Web page, he won’t mind leaving through an ad link.

But he will mind taking the publisher’s advice to buy a product that costs $50.

Affiliate products sell best when the publisher actively recommends them. Users are most likely to act on those recommendations when they trust the publisher. Blogs, for example, can be great sites for promoting affiliate products like those available from ClickBank provided, that is, you choose the right products.

3.2 Picking The Right ClickBank Products To Promote

When you’re looking to create your own product, you have to consider whether there would be a market for it and how much you’d enjoy producing it.

What you won’t have to consider is the quality of the product. Because you’re in charge of production, you can be confident that what you produce will be good.

That isn’t the case when you’re looking for a product to promote, but quality is going to be crucial.

Ideally, you should buy the product yourself before you promote it so that you can see it and use it. That will make sure that it really is good and it will also mean that you can talk about your own experiences when you come to promote it on your website.

That’s always going to be the critical part of successfully promoting affiliate products.

But you still want to make sure that when you do come to talk up a product, you’re praising an ebook or a newsletter that your users won’t just love but will pick up sales.

After all, you could be promoting the best product of all on Clickbank but if the pitch page is weaker than a wet paper bag, you’re going to struggle to make sales. (That doesn’t mean you won’t make sales though.

It just means that you’ll have to do the marketing before the user reaches the pitch page, which is more work than you might want to do.) And you want to be sure that it’s going to earn you money too.

While the size of the commission and the actual amount that that commission is worth will only be some of the factors helping you to choose a product, they are going to be important.

At least some of that information you can pick up in the Marketplace when searching for products to promote. The figures in green don’t always mean go… but they might.

At the bottom of each marketplace description is a bunch of green figures. They look very difficult to decipher but what they really mean is this:

Sale is the average amount you can expect to earn from each sale, taking into account refunds and chargebacks etc.

Future $ only refers to subscription-based products and tells you how much you can expect to continue earning after your first sale.

Total $ also only refers to subscription-based products and tells you how much you can expect to make overall. %Earned/Sale is the size of the commission.

Referred tells you how reliant the seller is on affiliates. Gravity reveals how popular the seller is with Clickbank’s publishers.

Most of that information is valuable but it doesn’t tell you everything you need to know. It also tells you things that look interesting but which actually give you more information than you really want to know.

Some of what’s missing you can calculate fairly easily. None of the figures, for example, tells you how often buyers ask for refunds a sure sign that the product is disappointing.

But if you can see that there’s a big difference between the percentage of the sale price and the $/Sale figure, that could be a sign that lots of buyers are sending back the product and complaining.

Recommending a product like that wouldn’t do your reputation any good at all. Nor do the %Referred and gravity figures tell you a great deal either although they both look interesting.

A site that sells a great deal through affiliates might just suggest that the seller prefers to use affiliates for his marketing rather than do the work himself. It doesn’t tell you anything about the quality of the product or its value.

And while Gravity is supposed to represent popularity, products that appeal to a general audience are always going to have more potential affiliates than a niche product. But a niche product is likely to generate more conversions within its smaller market… and that’s the vital figure that’s missing.

Knowing that you can make $24.95 on average for each affiliate sale is nice, but if you have to spend $50 to send hundreds of users through your affiliate link before you generate one sale, then that’s not good business.

What you really want to know is the conversion rate and that’s not a figure that Clickbank supplies in the Marketplace details.

The only way you can find out for yourself how many of the users you send to the seller’s pitch page actually earn you revenue is to pick a product that looks good, which has a persuasive pitch page, market it as best you can… and keep a record of the results.

You can do that in your stats or what Clickbank calls “Analytics.”

Again, there’s a whole bunch of information here, but the really interesting figures are the “hops per order” and the “$ per hop.” Those tell you your conversion rate and, even more importantly, the amount you earn on average for each user you send to the seller’s landing page.

ClickBank offers lots of affiliate stats. These are probably the most important. That means that you can keep track of the amount you’re paying for your users on your own site’s stats and compare that figure with the amount you’re receiving when you pass them on to the affiliate seller.

If you find that you’re earning less than you’re paying, you need to take either a close look at your marketing or at the products you’re promoting. There is one more piece of information that those figures in green won’t tell you… the quality of the product. As I’ll explain in the next section, the most important part of generating affiliate sales is to recommend the products.

You can only do that if they’re genuinely good. The numbers are important and should influence your decision, but more important is always going to be the product itself.

3.3 Promoting Your Affiliate Product

The conversion rate is one figure you’ll want to keep track of when you’re promoting affiliate products.

Another is the clickthrough rate the percentage of people who click from your site onto the hoplink that takes them to the seller’s pitch page.

Both of those figures can be influenced by the way you promote the product you’ve chosen on Clickbank.

Marketing a product well on your site will both generate clicks on the affiliate link and increase the chances that the user will buy it even if the pitch page isn’t particularly strong.

The simplest way to market an affiliate product is just to place a link or even a series of links in a sidebar. But don’t expect many people to click on them let alone buy the products.

You’ll always be much better off recommending the products you’re promoting in your content and doing it repeatedly.

One good strategy then might be to pick three or four Clickbank affiliate products that are relevant to your field, implement the strategies the book contains and write a review of each of the products. (You don’t have to be absolutely gushing in your praise of the product, just generally positive.

Finding a few negative points too can make your recommendation look more honest and more trustworthy.)

Place that review in your sidebar where people can find it easily. Then every so often, mention that product in passing when writing one of your blog posts and include a link not to the product but to the review.

The review itself will include the affiliate link to the pitch page and prime the user for the sale. The user will be curious enough to click the link to read the review and the review will be encouraging enough to drive sales.

4. CONCLUSION

There are lots of different ways to make money online. You don’t have to pick and choose the best. You can make use of all of them or at least as many of them as you can squeeze sensibly into your website and which you enjoy doing.

One of the best ways is to use information products. You can create one and allow other publishers to sell it as affiliates. Or you can become an affiliate yourself and promote other people’s information products in return for a share of the sale price.

With the right products marketed in the right way, this can be one of the most profitable methods of bringing money into an online business. And ClickBank a service that brings together producers and affiliates, and pays the affiliates for their sales makes that very easy to do.

In this short report, I’ve just tried to give a brief introduction to how ClickBank can help an online entrepreneur make money.

I started by explaining how to create your own digital information product.

That’s much easier than many people think. Because everyone is an expert on something whether it’s buying stocks, training a dog, or decorating a child’s room anyone can create a product that other people want to buy.

I discussed how to create it, how to outsource it if you don’t want to create it yourself and how to set a price for it on ClickBank so that you’ll generate the most profits.

I then explained how you can use ClickBank to build a team of affiliates who can’t wait to sell your product for you.

The most important way to do that on ClickBank is by writing a tempting Marketplace description. That’s possible to do even in the limited 255-character space that ClickBank provides.

And finally, I discussed generating revenue as a ClickBank affiliate. This is the easiest way to make money with the site, and while it does involve the most effort overall you’ll have to keep marketing and watching the stats while a producer can just sit back and relax once his product has been completed it is a great way to get started.

I explained how to choose the right product to promote and which figures to follow when you make your selection and when you’re marketing.

There’s a lot more that could be said about ClickBank, but the best way to learn about the site is to register, choose a product you like and start promoting it. It won’t just be an education it will be one that pays you too. Get started with Clickbank now.

5. About the Author

Joel Comm is an Internet entrepreneur who has been building successful web sites since 1995. Dedicated to providing a family-friendly Internet experience, Joel’s flagship site, WorldVillage.com, continues to be a popular family-safe portal.

Joel is the co-creator of Yahoo! Games and author of the New York Times Bestseller, The AdSense Code.

Joel makes frequent appearances at Internet marketing conferences and seminar, conducting workshops and training others in the latest ways to make money on the Internet.

He is the host of the world’s first Internet marketing reality show, The Next Internet Millionaire. Joel’s sites include:

JoelComm.com – Joel’s Blog
AskJoelComm.com – Question submission page
AdSenseChat.com – Google AdSense Member Forums
DealofDay.com – a popular bargain-hunting community
FamilyFirst.com – Family-friendly sites reviews More Resources by Joel Comm
Learn the secrets of making money online in The Secret Classroom

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a) the graphics (carrier) which must be opened by reader – i.e, “what does it look like?”
b) the offer: the way the proposition is phrased – i.e “what’s the deal?”
c) the copy: the compelling description that gets the reader to buy or act – i.e. “how is it said?”
d) the list: the targeted audience most likely willing to buy or act – i.e. “who is it sent to?”

2. Perhaps the most important element is the list since an excellent offer, with a striking carrier and compelling copy – if mailed to wrong list – can be a disaster.

   Others believe copy is most important, but don’t let ranking bother you since each element is important.

   Take all reasonable steps to get, use and keep the most accurate and up=to-=date lists possible to increase your margin of success. Set up a system to add names and keep’em current.

3. Heed “Daly’s Law” – “Everything takes longer and costs more!" So. it’s wise to start project in ample time to make all elements come together in easy manner.

   Use “reverse timetable” to plot what needs to be done and when. For instance, you probably need to order lists first.

   Then, don’t forget the envelopes, printed stock, other enclosures , etc. Allow time for delivery and return action plus follow-up mailings.

4. Direct Mail is a demanding taskmaster, so if it fails it’s probably you who missed somewhere, not the medium.

   If possible, “test” some or all portions of your program so you can alter methods if needed.

5. Writing compelling Direct Mail copy only seems simple so don’t be deceived.

   Heed basic principles of writing to single person in simple, straight forward manner – yet with style. For success, remember the 3 “S’s” of successful copy are: (1)Simplicity, (2) Sincerity, (3) Serenity.

   Long copy is not necessarily bad, in fact it can out pull short copy. Focus on main message you intend to convey. Never forget you want action to occur…NOW.

   Be sure copy answers the always-asked questions: “What’s in it for me?” Always keep reader’s perceived needs in mind. Do the necessary research to determine them.

6. Closely analyze your potential markets and your offer so you can hone lists and copy to target your approach.

   Though you mail by the thousands, remember Direct Mail is more akin to a rifle than a shotgun. Write your copy to be read by one person at a time.

7. Remember Direct Mail is a substitute sales representative.

   Where an in-person sales representative can immediately answer prospects’ questions and overcome objections when raised, Direct mail copy must anticipate all aspects and insure logical points are covered.

8. Incorporate an action device – coupon, order form, reply card or envelope, phone number – to make it easy for recipient to take desired action.

   Repeatedly tell recipient what action you want and make it simple to do. Put nothing in the way of getting an order or response. Use all action devices cited.

9. A letter almost always works better in a Direct Mail packagethan a package – even a catalog – without a letter.

   Don’t worry if the letter repeats what’s in the catalog, brochure or order form. It’s there for a different purpose. The sales letter is a one-to-one communications to explain and sell, to get the recipient to act. The postscript is often the most-read part of the letter.

10. If all elements of package are good, it is imperative repeat mailings be made. It’s difficult to wear out a good list and, unless mailings are overdone, you can’t wear out your welcome.

    Let statistical probabilities and the laws of economics work in your favor rather than allow difference about making frequent mailings deter you. A common error is not to mail often enough or to a wider list.

11. Keep detailed records of everything you do.. Follow a “systems approach” so you know what happened, when and why.

    That way you can repeat successes and avoid failures. Sometimes the difference of a tenth of a percent or less is all it takes to tune a marginal performer into a winner.

12. Study all elements of your package so you can know what’s working. Is it the price? The geography? The timing? The phrasing of the offer? The list? The copy? The product?

    Which of those myriad elements, in combination or without one element, makes the critical difference in the return? Analyze your records closely and continually until you know why you’re winning and can repeat success.

13. Keep current with changing postal rules, rates, regulations and procedures.

    Regularly monitor your procedures to insure you’re in full compliance. To illustrate expensive errors, a frantic client called after the Postal Inspector visited.

    We can help with postal problems.. Had he checked with us before the visit, the $5000 per word differential postal cost and worry most likely could have been avoided.

    We offer professional authoritative postal expertise but seldom can avert unchecked mistakes. Check in advance. (We can supply you with a checklist of valuable postal publications upon receipt of addressed, double stamped #10 envelope.)

14. Save, subdivide and study the good Direct Mail you get to learn what to do – and maybe what not to do. Remember some of the things that appeal may, in fact, be “tests” that, when results are known, are failures. Never underestimate need for simplicity and complete honesty.

15. People who take actions by mail are different from those who don’t. Thus it is wise to isolate them so you can easily remail with new or different offers. Remember the axiom: “People who buy by mail”…buy by mail…buy by mail…” Best lists are of mail buyers of similar products or services who recently purchased in same price range.

16. Do what’s necessary to make your mail stand out, even “look peculiar” since it has to fight all types of competition. If it doesn’t get opened, looked at, and read…there’s no chance it will bring the action you want. Clever “teaser copy” on outside of carrier can work wonders.

17. Wise mail merchants work at differentiating between “suspects,” “prospects” and (best of all) “customers.” Once they can distinguish names on lists among those three categories they are able to achieve cost efficiencies that novices can only dream about. So keep good records of what happens and when it happens with mailings to a particular list with a particular offer. Capitalize on success.

18. Testimonials can be effective promotional tools, especially if they’re heartfelt and cogently express what the average user might feel about a product or service.. They’re even better when offered by celebrities or persons well-known to the audience. Treat testimonials like the jewels they are and gather more.

19. There’s no such thing as a “normal” percentage of return that’s universally applicable across a wide range of products and services but, over time and by keeping careful records you can determine what some norms are for your offer (s). Goal then is to “beat your best”…if only by 1/2 or 1/4 of a percent!

20. In producing Direct Mail programs these seven words may be cliche – but only because it’s true: “Nothing is as simple as it seems.”

    Continual care needs to be exercises at every step of the planning and conceptual stage, though any step in the conception-production process can become critical if close attention isn’t paid to what’s happening. “To error is human.”

    Yes. I’m aware of the error but that’s exact spelling of sign I spotted in printer’s window and I reproduce it to emphasize how vital it is that extreme care be given to this facet of production. Proofreading in a professional manner is essential.

21. Direct Mail Copywriter John Yeck long ago cautioned me to be aware of these two “sinful” acronyms: KISS and CIPU.

    The first, “Keep It Simple, Sweetie” describes how to tell your message, while the second cautions us to avoid lapsing into business or industrial jargon which “we” understand but most everyone else doesn’t. CIPU stands for “Clear If Previously Understood.”

22. While the Power of Mail will long be with us (even though the nature of the Postal Service might change) wise direct mailers see themselves practicing in the fields of “direct Marketing” or “Direct Response.”

    They become knowledgeable of the synergistic value from use of print media (magazines, space ads, newspaper inserts, etc) as well as electronic media (radio and/ or TV) to supplement their mail promotional efforts. The combination can be powerful.

23. Continually study and be alert to what’s happening in this dynamic medium.

    It may seem that not much is new, when in fact, there are subtle but important shifts in many of the areas delineated in each of the four elements cited in Principle #1. (Our seminars, workshops and speeches point these out to
    sponsor’s audiences.)

If you have answered yes to any of the questions stated above, then affiliate marketing is indeed for you.

Of course, you have the option just to start right out or start with the help of an affiliate marketing guide. If unsure which path to take, then take a look at the following reasons…

1. It is your first time to enter this kind of business and you know zilch about marketing
If you have minimal knowledge when it comes to marketing then the best approach would be to come armed and ready. Of course, a guide can serve as your best weapon against ignorance and against not being ready to face your new business.

2. If you want to make the most of what affiliate marketing has to offer
There are people who get satisfied with just being on the wagon just the same way that some people are content with earning just a little profit. If you want to make the most of what this type of marketing has to offer you in terms of profits, then making use of an affiliate marketing guide is wise.

3. If you want to be ahead of the competition
Since this type of business is a profitable and popular one, it is no longer surprising to know that there are thousands of others on it too. So you can have your edge among many others, you must be ready not just before starting out the business but during implementation. There is no better way to do this than by having a useful guide at your side.

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Well, you are not mistaken. You can be one of the successful ones. However, you should also know that in reality, you also need to put in time, efforts, and brainwork so that you will not end up losing not just your investments but also your hopes. One way to ensure this is to have an affiliate guide that you can use. Of course, you need one that has been proven to work for may others.

Here are the pros and cons of using an affiliate marketing guide. Read them to become more informed on what’s real and what’s not when it comes to affiliate marketing

The Cons

1. You have to buy your guide, in most cases. Whether you are after an ebook, a strategy or even a software, it is highly probable that you have to pay for it. There are many kinds of guides and programs which can help you with affiliate marketing but you have to pay up to get them.

2. You have to learn to use or understand your guide. If your guide is an ebook, then you have to read it. If it is a strategy then you have to learn to implement it. If it is a software, then you have to install it. The idea here is that you have to do your part, however small that part is.

The Pros

1. Your affiliate guide can help you start up an affiliate business on solid ground. You do not have to go blindly into this kind of business even if you are a newbie. With a good guide, you can expect to easily learn the ropes of the business and make profit from it as soon as possible.

2. Your guide can help you make more money. All affiliate programs and guides have the ultimate aim to make you earn more money. Even if you have bought your guide for a price, you can feel confident that you can get more in return.

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AdSense
Introduced by Google, in AdSense text and image ads targeting web page content are displayed and the site owners earn a commission on the basis of price per click.

AdWords
This is Google’s Pay Per Click, or PPC advertising program in which ads are displayed on Google’s Search Engine Result Pages.

Affiliate or Associate
Affiliate is a website owner who promotes products and services of another merchant on his site and earns a commission according to the number of leads or sales, for example : SFI Affiliate Center.

Affiliate Agreement
This agreement states the terms of an affiliate partnership for both, the affiliate and the merchant.

Affiliate Marketing
It is an arrangement or a deal for online revenue sharing between online merchants and affiliates. Affiliates get a commission for the leads they generate and the merchant gets more customers.

Affiliate Network
Involvement of a third party for important services like tracking, reporting and processing payments.

Affiliate Program
It is an arrangement in which a merchant pays a commission to the affiliate for generating leads through ads or links displayed on his (affiliate’s) site, you can click here for more understand about Affiliate Program.

Affiliate Program Directory
It is a directory that provides information about affiliate programs. It may or may not include commission structure and number of affiliates, etc. You can browse here for more detail info about Affiliate Program Directory.

Affiliate Program Manager
The individual responsible for managing the affiliate program. He is required to communicate with affiliates and other key people and resolve their concerns with respect to the affiliate program.

Affiliate Solution Provider
The company that provides software and services for an affiliate program.

Affiliate URL or Link
Codes used in graphics or text links for identifying which visitors has come through a specific affiliate site. For example: http://www.ezinfocenter.com/10817453/FREE.

Auto-responder
The automatic response generator that does not need human intervention.

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Banner Ad
Graphic ad used in affiliate advertising to attract the attention of the target audience.
Example:
<a href="http://www.ezinfocenter.com/10817453/FREE" target="_blank"><img border="0" width="468" alt="Free Internet Home Business Opportunity!!" src="http://img136.imageshack.us/img136/151/photo8eq5.gif" height="60"/></a>

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Click Fraud
Artificial means of generating traffic to advertisers through automated or manual means.

Click Fraud Detection
Service that detects and monitors clicks from PPC campaigns and acts against click frauds.

Click-Through
Clicking on a link that leads to another website.

Click-Through Ratio or CTR
Proportion of visitors who click on a merchant’s Web site.

ClickBank
Digital product marketplace and affiliate network offering online billing and marketing services.

Cloaking
An affiliate linking code.

Commission
Known as the referral fee for generating a sale or lead.

Co-branding
Where affiliates are able include their own logo and/or colors on the merchant’s site.

Contextual Link
Placement of affiliate links within related text.

Conversion
When a site visitor makes a purchase, he converts from a visitor to a buyers and this is called conversion.

Conversion Rate
Percentile of visitors that convert into buyers.

Cookie
Information that is sent by a Web Server to the Browser software and is retained for future use.

Cost per Acquisition
Amount required to be paid to the customer.

Cost per Click
Amount paid to the company when a surfer clicks on a listing.

Creative
Promotional tools used by advertisers use to attract users.

Cross-linking
Linking various domains with each other to increase search engine popularity.

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Disclaimer
This document sets terms and conditions for the information used in the site, and are used in case of breach of copyright.

Domain Name
Unique name provided for the identification of an Internet site.

Doorway Page
Referred to as bridge pages, entry pages, gateway page, and portals or portal pages improvise the search engine placement.

Download
The process of transferring files.

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Endorsement Letter or promotional letter
A formal product review for outlining its benefits.

Email Link
The affiliate link that connects with the merchant site.

EPC
The terms used by the Commission Junction affiliate network.

Exclusivity
An agreement that restricts the affiliates from promoting other competing products.

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Forum
The online community for reading and posting topics and comments of common interest.

Hit
This is the single request from one item for the web browser.

Hypertext Markup Language or HTML
The basic language used for creating Web pages.

Lifetime Commissions
Reference to retention of customer for life.

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Merchant
The business marketer who sells goods or services.

Multi-Level Marketing or MLM
This is also called Network Marketing and includes the elaborate process of different levels of retailers, distributors, etc.

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Niche Marketing
Marketing program that focuses on a specific market segment.

Pay-Per-Click
An advertising model where advertisers pay only when his ads are clicked by potential customers while surfing the net.

Pay-Per-Lead
The affiliate program where an affiliate gets commission for each lead generated through him or her.

Pay-Per-Sale
Affiliate programs where commission for each sale is provided.

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Reciprocal Linking
Exchanging links with other websites for getting search engine popularity.

Recurring Commissions
Getting commissions on initial sale and subsequent purchases for a particular product.

Referring URL
The URL that leads to your site.

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Search Engine Optimization
A set of activities performed on the site code and content to increase search engine ranking. Some SEO activities are not performed on the site like link building and article marketing.

Super Affiliates
The main 1 or 2% of affiliates responsible for generating almost 90% of the earnings of any affiliate program. For example SFI Super Affiliate

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Targeted Marketing
Marketing of products or services that is done focusing on a particular market segment or group of customers.

Third Party Tracking Software
Software used for tracking and recording visits to your Web site. This software is located on a server other than where the site is hosted.

Two-Tier Program
This is a type of affiliate program where commission is earned by affiliates when webmasters buy or register for program supported by them.

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You don’t need an office space or staff to get this business going so it’s a convenient way to earn money at home.

Becoming an affiliate marketer is not as complicated as others make it seem. As long as you have the knowledge and the tools to get started within your reach, affiliate marketing will seem like a breeze.

Do you want to know more on how you can earn money at home by becoming an affiliate marketer? It can be a very easy endeavor as long as you thoroughly learn everything there is to know about affiliate marketer.

And you have to realize that success won’t come overnight.

You need to be determined to finish all the tasks and effectively follow through what you learn. If you are able to put everything you will learn into practice, I assure you, the rewards when the time comes can be endless.

Look for expert advice on how you can start your affiliate marketing business because success in this field follows a tried and tested formula that has been created by masters of the affiliate marketing field. It’s all about mimicking their techniques and allowing the same success to happen to you.

There are many other ways to earn money at home, but there are only a few that can guarantee you and your family a better life. Do you want to know more about affiliate marketing and how it can change the way you live your life? Seek advice from an affiliate marketing expert and learn all you can about this field. With the proper amount of willpower and creativity, you’ll be successful in no time.

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Affiliate marketing is a proven technique for making money online, but getting started can be a bit tricky if you do not know where to begin.

Affiliate marketing, in the most basic sense, is just the online promotion of a product or service in exchange for compensation for your efforts. The basic idea is to drive traffic from one or more websites to that of the seller sponsoring the affiliate program.

When people come to the seller’s website from one of the affiliate’s websites, the seller pays the affiliate for the successful promotion. The more people the affiliate brings to the seller’s website, the more money the seller pays for the service.

Generally it is best to become an affiliate of a product or service that you have used and like. When this is the case, you know the appropriate market to promote the product in and can make more convincing arguments in support of the product. After all, by describing how you were won over to the product, you are more likely to win others over to it.

However, experience with the product is not strictly necessary if you are able to identify the appropriate places to promote it online. While many successful affiliate marketers focus on products and services they genuinely believe in, this is certainly not always the case.

Affiliate marketers are usually independent entrepreneurs, and there are no strict qualifications or certifications to become an affiliate marketer. This means the field is open to anyone interested, but it also means that it can be difficult to learn the tricks of the trade and that at least some people will frown on your effort. This negative impression is because since the field is unregulated, many unscrupulous operators have entered it using techniques that are unethical, and in some cases, even illegal.

Often the seller that operates an affiliate program will impose rules of behavior on its affiliates and a few of the major affiliate networks have issued binding codes of conduct that apply to their members. Failure to comply with the terms of an affiliate program can result in the seller not paying you, meaning all your efforts were for naught.

Once you understand the basics of setting up an affiliate marketing business online and how to operate it, the rest is entirely up to you. Like anything else, the more time and energy you put into making it work, the more successful you will be.

Today there are thousands of people who do make all, or at least a decent portion, of their income through affiliate marketing. You can become one of those people as well once you learn the basics of setting up your online infrastructure.

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Why is being an affiliate marketer good for you?
Online affiliate marketing is great for people who have even the most basic skills in sales. Contrary to popular notion, you do not have to be an expert in marketing for you to become a successful and rich affiliate. What you need mostly is common sense and the ability to anticipate the needs of your clients (Online businesses) and buyers (online shoppers).

How much can I earn per month with this kind of gig?
How much you earn every month depends largely on you. If your production is good, you can expect more money to come in. It also matters which online tools you use in generating traffic since there are some systems that are more effective than others.

How much time should I devote to this earning opportunity?
Joining an internet marketing affiliate program would entail that you have to spend considerable amount of time building your system and getting to know how online businesses work. However, this does not mean that you automatically have to give up your day job, if you have any. A few hours every day would suffice but you have to make it a point to set personal goals and quotas on a daily basis.

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There are so many schemes and so many people aggressively promoting the ‘only’ way or the ‘best way’ to make millions of dollars online. This is bound to be confusing to a newbie.

If you are a newbie, what you need is a plan, a simple checklist of things to do to start and launch a profitable internet business.

Of course as a beginner, the most sensible thing to do is to become an affiliate marketer, promote products for others. Once you become proficient, you can develop your own program or product and market that.

Here is a checklist of things that you need to do to set up your very own affiliate business and get it running:

1. First you need to find your own market, target its needs. This is important as your market will determine the product you need to affiliate for and sell.

2. Create your marketing pitch: You need to understand that people do not buy products; they buy ideas, concepts and solutions. This is a very important feature to understand about customer psyche. When selecting a product, do not study the features and benefits; instead ask yourself if the idea is new and catchy, does it solve a problem?

3. Market your product by aggressively driving traffic to your website. If you have no traffic, you will have no sales. You have already identified your target market, now get that traffic to visit your website. Your website is your shop, your business place. It needs footfall or traffic for it to succeed. This is a major part of you’re the way you run your business.You need to create your very own “opt in’ page in your first sale letter and then go all out with your marketing. Do whatever it takes, run pay per click campaigns, blog about your product, build backlinks through forums. You should never lose sight of what you are doing, you are building your list. This list is about people who showed interest in your product and they are your target market. You have to always market your products to this list. Always have two things in place, your “front end” offer, and a “back end offer”. You should also have a steady income, so affiliate with a product that will pay you a monthly residual income, like a forum or membership site that you promote.

4. Back end offer: Front end offers are the initial sale you make, your follow ups are your back end offers. Your steady income will come from your back end offers .It should offer you a better commission.
   Duplication: Build multiple web pages so that you have other product lines that boost up your income. Always add to your product line. Keep checking new opportunities. This is the best way to build a internet business. Follow these steps, then slowly you will formulate your own checklist as your experience and expertise grows.

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Clickbank Pirate is a program to do exactly that. They’ll relieve you of all the time consuming tedious tasks of affiliate marketing. If you are up to your neck in the daily workload, or if you are looking to start affiliate marketing but don’t have hours and hours to spend, the program is for you. It is a turnkey system for affiliate marketing.

What is the Clickbank Pirate system? In short, it is outsourcing most of your affiliate marketing efforts. Your responsibility is to drive traffic to an opt in form for your email list. You accomplish this through creating free informative PDFs that you give visitors in exchange for their email address. You’ll have to do market and keyword research to discover what information people need. You need to create the PDF. Finally, you’ll have to generate traffic to your free PDF and opt in form. Your goal is to grow a list of email addresses.

Clickbank Pirate takes over from there. Your hosting will be through the program. They will manage the email list. They will create the sales pages for affiliate products. Keep in mind that they will decide what products to offer your list. They use Aweber to send auto responder email messages to your list. They entire process becomes outsourced beyond collecting email addresses.

Soren Jordansen & Cindy Battye are professional marketers that do all of this for a monthly fee. They manage multiple lists, and they are able to keep costs down to a manageable monthly fee. They have tackled the problem of market saturation by limiting the release of any one product to 200 of their subscribers. That means that not every member of their program promotes the same product. You are guaranteed a degree uniqueness.

What is the catch? The main problem is that you don’t own your websites or your email list. Instead, you are leasing them. Stop paying the monthly fee and you lose them both. The program is a true commitment to Soren and Cindy, because after you invest the time and energy building your email list you do not want to lose it. Is this a major problem? It is only a problem if you do not realize exactly what you have signed up for. You outsourced everything. They control your website(s) and your email list. That is the heart of a turnkey system.

Another thing to keep in mind is that email lists don’t just happen overnight. This is not a problem with Clickbank Pirate, it is just a fact of the marketing business. It takes time and effort to build an email list. Don’t expect to make any money until you have a respectable email list.

Is Clickbank Pirate worth purchasing? That is a question you’ll have to answer for yourself. Affiliate marketing takes time and effort. Do you want to research affiliate products, build email lists, auto responder messages, websites and sales pages yourself? Or would you rather pay someone to handle all of those tasks for you?

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This is simply an advertising model which aims to make people do specific actions, such as filling up forms or inputting certain data. When CPA marketers successfully make people do these specific actions, they are paid commissions.

For information on how to get into CPA networks, Read on.

The first step on how to get into CPA networks is to make it appear that your application is truly honest. the networks can sense very easily if one is honest or not. The next thing you must do is to build up your site to make sure that you can attract many leads. The networks are concerned about leads and leads alone.

Anything other than that is worthless. When you apply for CPA networks, they will sometimes call you about your application. They will only do this to confirm your address and other bits of information in your application. However, be prepared for them to also ask you questions about your advertising and marketing strategies. This is one very crucial step on how to get into CPA networks.

Once you master these ways on how to get into CPA networks, you are off and running to earn commission for every successful lead. Remain honest in the field and a promising career lies ahead of you.

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This method is called affiliate marketing and this is how it works: If you have an internet connection plus a good and working computer, you can start creating your own personal webpage. Your webpage need not be very elaborate or glamorous as long as it contains information that is sure to be of interest to many web surfers.

Then allow people to view your page or let them leave a comment on it. The more visits you get, the better for your site, because this means that you have a very interesting and popular webpage. As the traffic you create increases, companies are likely to notice your site. Once this happens, you are on your way to really earn money online. At this stage, I am already telling you one method on how to earn money online.

After a certain company decides to link its site to your webpage, the next thing to do is to bring as many visits to this link as much as you can. As the number of visits you bring to this site increases, your earnings will also increase. You only need to promote their site while also enhancing the popularity of your page and presto!

You know already one way how to earn money online.

This method is extremely profitable, but it may take you some time to start seen some profits because you have to promote your website first. This even as easier, faster and more profitable way to make money online as an affiliate and it is pretty easy to learn. I’m talking about promoting other people’s products. This is very simple and you don’t even need a website.

I usually pick a product to promote some free advertising in two or tree days later I usually start to see some profits. That’s how easy it is, and there’s absolutely no reason you can’t do the same.

So waste no more of your time and start learning additional information about this method so that you will be earning money the soonest possible time.

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As it often happens, I only became a true believer of one of these stories when I saw a friend (more of an acquaintance) suddenly spending a lot of money and working a lot less than he used to. At one point I thought he was into something illegal, but no, it was a lot simpler and far more harmless than that: he had simply started an affiliate marketing business.

Faced with this reality, I decided I had to start my own affiliate marketing 000000business, certainly inspired by that “if he can do it I can too” thought. However, once I started working on it I realized something else: this business is not easy, because sure it is a lot easier than any other business I can think of, but still it is not a ride in the park, it is hard work particularly in the beginning.

Indeed, the first challenge I was faced with was finding the best educational resource available, because as it turns out, this “friend” was not really my friend and therefore, he never fully revealed to me how he did it or how he learned it. He did recommended me some resources which helped me to some extent, but I was not really getting anywhere, at least not where I wanted to be (which was working from home making enough money to live comfortably).

Therefore, I knew I was in for some trial and error, and despite knowing that it would probably cost me a few hundred bucks, I decided to see it as an investment. This process was painful because I wasted some good dollars and some of my valuable time, but in the end it was worth it because I learned what I needed to know in order to turn my efforts into actual results.

This is precisely what allows me to tell you with a greater level of certainty what works and what does not when it comes to making money online, and where you should begin building your business.

First, I can say without regret that affiliate marketing is the best place to start a business, because aside from some basic investments in education, tools and other resources, you really need no money to get it up and running to its full potential. It will only be a matter of time and work.

Secondly, you must be aware of the fact there is no way to effectively start and develop an affiliate marketing business without quality education and training. You need know-how and you need tools, just as you would if you had a bakery or a restaurant.

However, the good news is that the know-how you need to become efficient and profitable is easily digestible by anyone who can read and write basic English, since affiliate marketing is not quantum physics, it is only about putting to use a set of proven strategies with organization and dedication.

You will need to set your mind to “learning mode” and commit your brain power to growing yourself as a person, as a professional (affiliate marketer) and as a business person for several weeks.

After you have gone through this process in an honest way (meaning that you have truly put your back into it), you can be sure that you will start getting results, no matter if you have not ever surfed the web before. Believe me, I started from there and I became almost an expert in the field in less than six months, which has enabled me to make living out of this business.

For this to happen of course, I had to go through that process of trial and error I mentioned before, until I found real online business education along with the suitable tools and resources to create and run a profitable affiliate marketing business.

Therefore, it is perfectly possible for you to start a profitable business based on affiliate marketing, but honestly, if you really want to make money you have to forget about easy money and start thinking about learning and working hard at least in you early stages.

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One of the main reasons for this to happen is not because they don’t have any special skills when they start or because they lack the money to invest when they start their online journey. The real reason that most folks fail to make good money on the internet is just because they get the whole thing wrong from the beginning.

As affiliate marketer, you will promote of advertise other people products and you will make a commission if the prospect make a purchase. Other times you get paid a predetermined amount of money just to generate a lead. It will all depend on the type of affiliate marketing system that you choose.

So, how does affiliate marketing work? It is not only important to know how does affiliate marketing work in general terms but how to make it work for you as a beginner. Just because you know the steps to get up and running as an affiliate doesn’t mean you’re going to end up profiting from it. Most people never get to realize a profit through affiliate marketing.

As a beginner in affiliate marketing there are some rules that you must follow in order to succeed online unless you know theses rules and follow them, you’re going to fail online as 95% of beginner does. This is a fact.

Unfortunately, as I said before most people focus on how does affiliate marketing work and not on the do and don’s of affiliate marketing.

I’m going to review these two basic simple rules and give you some tips to increase the probabilities of success online.

The first rule is: to get your hands in the right system to make money online. This system of set of methods should be sound well elaborated and very reliable. Most people do exactly the opposite; they find certain programs that promise overnight riches online or quick ways to make thousands on the internet.

These are usually scams. There are not shortcuts to online riches. Yes, you can make a lot of money online as an affiliate but you have to put time and effort to achieve it.

The second rule is: Do not allow yourself to get overwhelmed with information. This rule should never be confused with the first one. Remember the first one is picking the right system to fallow. The second refers to avoid being overload with information. You should focus in a single method until you make work for you.

This is the father of all the mistakes online and most people make it even without realizing they are making it. When you first start your journey of making money online, even if you get your hands in a good system, you will usually learn about a different way or methods of affiliate marketing and will want to give a try.

This will happen again and again until you face what is called in internet marketing as ‘Analysis Paralysis’. When you get analysis paralysis you lose focus completely and you’re not able anymore to concentrate in one sole system until you make it work. You will try different techniques at the same time and unfortunately this is going to result in failure.

So, instead of focusing on how does affiliate marketing work, focus on what to do to make it work and how to make sure you don’t make the mistakes mention above.

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I noticed my neighbor taking out the trash the other morning. Now this may not sound odd to you, but ever since they moved in two years ago, he would always take the trash out the night before because he was usually up at 3:00 AM to go to work as a delivery driver. I waved to him and wondered what was going on, was he on vacation?

Later that day, his son, Adrian, was at our house hanging out with my son Jim; the two were talking about college. I overheard that his dad had been laid off and that he wasn’t even sure if he was going to college anymore. I almost cried when I heard that.

I knew what it’s like my husband was in risk of losing his job as well, we also feared that perhaps our son may not be able to go to college.

Next, I heard Jim, ask his friend if he knew a way how a college kid might make money online. I panicked! If he was looking to make money online it must be a scam and I did not want them to get taken.

I knew you couldn’t trust the internet right?

Isn’t this a recipe for disaster; turning to the Internet to try to make money because you are in a desperate situation?

I myself had fallen victim to one of those late night infomercials. The promise that all I had to do was push a button online and profits would come pouring in. They said that any idiot can set this up in their spare time and have money pouring into their bank account without lifting a finger. I was so angry! I never made a dime off this system.

After that I felt like the idiot!

Sure you can get all the free web sites you can handle, but if you don’t have people going to those websites you are not going to make any money. They don’t tell you that in the infomercial; they make it seem so simple, but it’s not. You really need a detailed plan, a step-by-step guide to make it work.

I felt a little relief, that evening; I reminded him of what happened to me, he nodded and seemed to listen, Sometimes he can be so hard to read lately.

Then oddest thing happened, a few weeks later I got a letter in the mail. Actually the letter was addressed to my son but it was from a bank, since he didn’t set up his account yet, so I assumed it was mine. Opening the letter I found a check inside for $156!

My heart beat faster, and I could feel my blood pressure rise in my temples. I thought it had to be one of those checks they send you to sign so you’ll actually owe them back that money with interest.

You’ve heard of those right? I was sure my son was a victim to an internet rip off.

When he came that evening, I asked my son about it and he told me that he had earned that check by selling products online. He told me that he had searched on Google "how can a college kid make money online", and found an article about affiliate marketing, he had purchased a detailed how-to-guide; then basically all he did was find a hungry crowd of people looking for an answer to a problem and match them with somebody who had the solution.

I was stunned and proud, but a little doubtful. I checked into it myself, and it was true!

An independent third party called Clickbank took care of all the orders and paid him a commission. My son was quite excited about all this and so was I to tell the truth. My son and I spent the rest of the afternoon going over what he had done, and within a week I had my own campaign set up. I’m now waiting for my first Click bank check to arrive in the mail!

I was so happy! He could make money in college in his spare time, and we could actually get out of this mess!!

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However, a home based business opportunity is not always the answer to everybody’s problems; in fact most people who try to build their home based business never get to make money from it. There are several reasons for this. I’ll mention some of these reasons, and how to can improve your chances of success ding business from home.

First, the biggest reason of all: almost every offline home based business opportunity is a scam, period. We won’t go through all of them because there are so much that we would need over one hundred pages to review all of them. Just avoid them all and you will be fine. The best thing you can do if you want to be able to make tons of money from home is to build your own business online from scratch.

The reasons why most people don’t make money even from an online home based business opportunity is because they never get their hands on the right system. Others stumble up on the right system but never stick with it, persistently, until they make money from it. Other people allow themselves to get overwhelmed with information, which lead them to ‘Analysis Paralysis’. This is recipe for failure.

The best approach when you start to build your own home based business is to start as an affiliate marketer on the internet. This is basically the easiest way to generate substantial income from home. If you are looking a home based business opportunity offline you should stop right now, the real money is being made on the internet.

By building your own affiliate online business you have several advantages:

First; you will have the flexibility of working from anywhere in the word, I was in Puerto Rico for 2 months, and now have been in the Dominican Republic for 2 weeks and I never have stopped working, which is great. You may work literally from every part of the world; all you need is an internet connection.

Second; when you have your online business you decide how many hours you work, and what days. You basically own your life. The amount of money you can make is only limited for your imagination and the effort that you wish to put on your business. Making money online as an affiliate is the best home based business opportunity available, it is easy, fast and you can build it without any investment at all, if you get your hands on the right information.

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There are few things you will need. One is the product to sell, somewhere to advertise the product and of course make the money. But as easy as it sound it is a little more complex!

Finding the products to sell is easy. Today almost every company has the affiliate program, even the big guys like Walmart, eBay, Amazon and so forth. It is an extra traffic, and they don’t sweat to make the sale. We get to do that!

You can advertise the product for free, using the classified ads, article marketing and so forth. So it does not have to cost you much! But that is not the best way to do it! 

The best way to do it is to collect the leads. Meaning, you give them something of value, and in return you capture the lead (get their e-mail address)!

This method is called list building, but there are many people who are doing this wrong. Now this is really how the big guys and gals do it. Do you know why? Because, you can go back to the same list of people and make money of them over an over again. By now, you have seen at least one claim of $1000′s per day! It is all because of that list!

So the best way to get started with affiliate marketing is to actually get that list going right away, and there are Free Tutorial on list building that can show you how to do it. From A – Z!

Just keep this in mind, you will need to generate traffic to the site to really make it successful. And of course provide the valid info!

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Free affiliate programs are some of the best choices in the wide array of money earning opportunities as they are easy to join in and there is no money that is required up front. These affiliate programs are offered to individuals who can work with no supervision and be able to produce as much sales as possible for as little time as possible.

What you should look for in affiliate programs is primarily the type of products that you are supposed to market. There are some types of merchandise that are easier to market than others and this can affect your production.

Also, consider the level of your expertise or knowledge on the products that you will sell. You need to have at least a slight interest on them as well otherwise you run the risk of getting bored with the job and wasting the opportunity to earn big bucks.

Free affiliate programs are everywhere. This does not mean that you should just take every single offer that comes to you. In order to earn real money, you have to choose a good program that offers great compensation and a very efficient payout system so that you can easily access the fruits of your labour.

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But when computers started popping everywhere, the phrase ‘earn money from home’ got a whole new meaning. Now that internet use is getting cheaper because of the fast rate of technological developments and the increasing number of companies that are creating and maintaining internet connection, earning money at home can be done by everyone and is not limited to just selling or offering services to other people.

This type of method can be done in a variety of ways: With the advent of web page development and Blogging, things have become easier to earn money from home.

Here are some of the things you can do to make money while staying at home:

Promote other people’s site or products by linking them to your personal page:  some large company pay handsomely if you can bring visitors to their site. This is usually called CPA.

Or be an affiliate marketer, which is a person promoting the products or services of other people or even big companies. The previous example that has been mentioned could also fall under the category of affiliate marketing.

There are a lot of ways to take advantage of the growing number of internet surfers and how you can earn money from them at home. All you need is the interest to learn and to pursue that interest with some application and a strong dedication in your part. Nothing is impossible as long as you’re willing to try. So be in the know and learn in order to earn money from home.

The key to be successful is to pick the right method to earn money from home, get your hands on the right step by step information to achieve your goals and to stick with it, persistently, until you start profiting from the internet.

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