1. Pick a Niche
I would suggest that you pick your niche first, if there is a good Clickbank product that will help your visitors than sure promote a Clickbank product. But if there really are not a good product then go with another affiliate program, there are lots of them out there.
ShareaSale and Commission Junction are two general affiliate sites, that offers a lot of different affiliate programs.
But also look for more specific programs for your niche, this you can do by typing in ”niche + affiliate program” so say you are looking for an affiliate program for dog food then type in ”dog food + affiliate program”.
So lets go back to Clickbank, if you have decided that your niche is say ”organic food” you are building a site around how to create your own garden and grow organic food. You now need a product to promote on this site.
Lets head over to Clickbank and see if there is any relevant products to this niche.
In the end of this tutorial I will add a link to a great training of "how to pick a niche".
Just thought I would add that the reason CB comms are so high is because the products are Digital.Once purchased the products are delivered by means of downloads and therefore don't require any logistics, ie - there are no delivery costs, storage costs, advertising costs etc.
Generally Physical products (like Amazon) have lower comms because of their associated costs such as all the logistics involved etc.
Personally I purchse the Click Bank product to determine if the product is any good and secondly I can find useful info about the product to promote.It also gives me as the reviewer a bit of credibility.
ClickBank offer a refund of 60 Days which is handy if the product is no good - BUT this element has a downfall as once a product is downloaded the ownership falls in the hands of the purchaser.If your customer requests a refund from Clickbank within the 60 days , they will obtain the refund but will always have the product.You as the affiliate will now lose the comms. The point I'm trying to make here, is don't emphasize the 60 Day return policy as you will get people that will try and game the system for a Freebie. On the other hand don't purchase the product for the sake of reviewing it and then request a refund as Click Bank will ban you if you do this a couple of times.Also be sure not to purchase a Clickbank product through your own Affiliate Id,with the intent to get the comms back to your account - this can also get you banned. Colin
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Thanks for the extra info on this subject, excellent.
I absolutly agree about purchasing the book or even get it for free other than "make money ninche" vendors are pretty good about giving out their ebook to affiliates.
As far as the refund, you can check the initial earnings by sale at cbengine it is impacted by refunds and chargebacks, this will give you a good idea if there is a lot of refunds.
I have not been promoting any "make money" products from Clickbank but I can see that the refund might be a problem here. I have not seen many refunds with the products that I have promoted.
Thanks Colin great points,
Veronica
I know clickbank has a bad reputation for selling rubbish but you do find some nice gems in there too. Your tip about searching for lower gravity usually filters out a lot of the scammy products too. They always seem to have extremely high gravity!
- Luke
