CLICKBANK AFFILIATES...what are you doing and what are you NOT doing...and WHY NOT???
Clickbank's new analytics are very informative, it really shows a LOT, now vendors get to see patterns of affiliate activity. I’m surprised more affiliates don’t click all the way through to the order form, that’s the first thing they should do, to make sure their Clickbank name is at the bottom of the order forms for all the programs they are promoting.
Only a few affiliates clicked thru ALL pages to visit the order forms. Why isn't every affiliate doing that? Most affiliates just trust every vendor to have every link set up correctly? Then wonder if they're maybe losing sales? It's each affiliate's responsibility to click thru EVERY page to EVERY order form before starting to promote each program.
Affiliates needed to earn 75% commissions for TopBizToday multi-programs:
Get your encrypted link here: http://lodewig.jmap.clickbank.net
Affiliate tools here: http://www.topbiztoday.com/affiliates.html
This is the pitchpage: http://www.topbiztoday.com
CLICK THRU YOUR CLICKBANK AFFILIATE URL...
There are 15 additional pages leading from the TopBizToday pitchpage (7 products and 7 order forms, plus the freebie 6,000 reports page). Have you clicked thru your Clickbank URL and visited 7 products and visited the order forms for each? Plus items 2 thru 6 also have an additional upsell at the bottom of each product page, have you clicked thru all the upsell Clickbank logos on those 5 pages that lead to the Product 1 page, and then go to the bottom of that page and click thru the order logo? Have you clicked thru the 6,000-Library logo at the top right of the pitchpage then gone to the bottom of THAT page and clicked back thru to Product 1?
Also, the 3 book graphics at the left side of the pitchpage lead to 3 product pages, AND the small rectangular Clickbank logo near the top right of the pitchpage also leads to Product 7. You should click thru all those and click thru the order logos at the bottom of those sites and make sure your ID is at the bottom of every order form.
Make sure you ALWAYS click thru EVERY page-link and click thru EVERY Order-Link and make sure YOUR Clickbank ID is at the bottom of EVERY order form, not just for this program, but for EVERY Clickbank affiliate program you're promoting!
That's why your Clickbank link is called a HOP-LINK, no matter how many hops the customer takes from the pitchpage thru all other pages, your Clickbank ID should always be on the order forms, your ID should never get lost thru all those hops.
Now back to the Clickbank vendor analytics:
I especially like the new pie-chart feature, we can see that the few are doing the most! I don’t know why more affiliates don’t advertise more, the earnings are FREE. Clickbank is a MONUMENTAL FREE MONEY MACHINE, all people need to do is get prospects to the sites, it’s easier than standing on the side of the road dressed as a pizza-slice, and it pays much more!!
Clickbank has paid out $1,322,000,000 (ONE BILLION, THREE HUNDRED-TWENTY-TWO MILLION) in less than 11 years, that amount grows exponentially every year so it doesn't average out to an exact 9% of that amount in each of the past 11 years, it started small in 1998 and it gets much higher every year. So if only a small percent of affiliates are bringing in the most sales and income...imagine what would happen if everyone advertised a little bit more every day? Everyone would earn more! The money is there, it's FREE for affiliates, the customers ARE buying products...every 4 seconds as you'll read below!
HERE'S MORE GREAT INFO:
About ClickBank
Founded in 1998, ClickBank provides digital content - e-books, software, memberships and subscriptions - to consumers around the world through an expanding network of product publishers and affiliate Internet marketers. The ClickBank network includes more than 100,000 active affiliates and over 12,000 publishers of 35,000 unique digital products.
ClickBank is a privately held company with offices in Broomfield, Colo., and Boise, Idaho. The company employs approximately 45 people.
ClickBank is one of the most visited and highest converting businesses on the Internet, selling something to someone on the planet every four seconds. On an average day, ClickBank processes more than 20,000 orders from more than 200 countries around the world.
In 2007, the company exceeded sales of $1 million in a single day for the first time in its history, and that benchmark has now become a regular occurrence. ClickBank’s 2005 revenues ranked 54th in the Top 100 E-retailers, ahead of such notable companies as Saks Fifth Avenue, Disney Direct and J Crew. 2006 revenues were in excess of $200 million. Revenues have grown more than 50% from 2004 to 2006.
ClickBank’s Business Model
ClickBank was founded on the idea that the Internet could be utilized to create a new and extremely effective marketing and distribution channel for digital products. ClickBank’s success is the result of bringing three key groups together in a unique way:
Product publishers who sell their intellectual property through the ClickBank eCommerce network;
Affiliate Internet marketers, focused on promoting and advertising products to consumers worldwide in exchange for attractive commissions; and
Consumers shopping for unique products not typically found in traditional channels.
ClickBank serves as the trusted intermediary for the three groups, controlling the money flow for each transaction, while providing complete transparency for publishers and affiliates alike including guaranteed tracking of sales, state-of-the-art fraud protection and a totally secure platform.
As a result, ClickBank is a closed network solution - meaning participants, primarily product publishers and affiliates, do not need to augment the ClickBank solution with other vendors. Everything they need to succeed is provided within the ClickBank network. Specifics on the benefits for each group are outlined below.
Product Publishers
The common thread of all publishers within the ClickBank network is that they have a specific expertise and intellectual property with an entrepreneurial desire to sell their products. Some key benefits for product publishers include:
Unrivaled access to a motivated army of affiliates
Payment of all affiliate commissions
Instant global product distribution
Comprehensive client support
No need to establish a merchant account or other banking relationship
100% effective marketing (publishers pay for marketing exposure only when a sale is made)
Comprehensive fraud management
Affiliates
ClickBank affiliates are Internet marketers who earn commissions by promoting ClickBank products. ClickBank’s network offers a great value proposition for affiliates including:
Attractive commission rates
Comprehensive tracking, analytics and reporting
Single commission check for all sales from trusted intermediary
Large variety of products to promote
Dedicated client support
No requirement to have individual contracts with each publisher
Comprehensive fraud management
Consumers
Consumers utilize the ClickBank network in order to purchase specialized, niche products and services that are typically unavailable in brick-and-mortar retail locations. Key benefits for consumers include:
Unrivaled access to a wide variety of products and services
Safe and secure purchasing process
Fast and friendly customer service
Consumer friendly policies
ClickBank in Action
To illustrate, here is an example of how ClickBank works:
An author writes an e-book on dieting and chooses to become a publisher on the ClickBank network. He features the book on his Web site and offers a 60 percent commission to ClickBank affiliates who successfully promote the book to end consumers.
Twenty different affiliates feature the dieting e-book on their sites.
Each time a visitor to any affiliate site clicks on the product link, the visitor is referred back to the publishers’ site where the product can be purchased though ClickBank and downloaded. ClickBank completes the transaction (processes the payment and screens for fraud, etc.) and pays both the publisher and the referring affiliate.
ClickBank also processes any sales from the publisher’s Web site that are not referred through a ClickBank affiliate. In those cases, ClickBank pays the publisher only, as no referring commission has been earned.
More Information on Affiliate Marketing
Affiliate marketing is a method of promoting Internet-based merchants in which an affiliate (promoter) is rewarded for every sale resulting from his or her efforts. Affiliate marketing is one of the fastest growing Internet businesses today because it takes advantage of the intersection of three powerful and growing trends:
The continued rise of Internet commerce.
The proliferation of high-speed broadband to homes, making electronic distribution (downloads) of even large files fast and easy.
The accepted change of distribution methods from physical to electronic for a wide variety of products.
The Internet continues to grow and evolve as a central, global economic hub and marketplace, as evidenced by the fact that online sales are expected to top $1 trillion annually by 2010. Jeff Bezos, chairman of Amazon.com, said "This [affiliate marketing] is simply the first step in the ongoing migration of the $4 trillion global retail economy onto the Net."