4. CB Engine
There is another site that you can use to get a little bit more information, CB Engine Since gardening is kind of a seasonal thing I was curious to see if there are ups and downs in the sale cycle.
I go to CB Engine I click browse, find my category home and garden and then Gardening & Horticulture and look up my program. Regroup results by category and this will show:
Another way to look up the product is to look up the vendor in Clickbank:
Then put the vendor code into Vendor lookup over at CB Engine.
Nowadays CB Engine have a paid service and a free service, personally I use the free version.
Under payout you will find all kinds of good info. I can see that in March 2011 40+ people were making sales with this product. It seem like a product that will convert, it said on the affiliate page that conversion rate is 5.20%, pretty good.
Another thing I do suggest is to get the product yourself, try it out and read through it. You can purchase it or send the vendor an email saying you want to promote the product, it is not uncommon that they will send you a copy for free. Doubt that you will get any free copies in the "make money niche" but other than that it usually work.
To do a good job promoting the product you need to know what it is you are promoting.
Are you ready to go find your own Clickbank product to promote?
If you don`t have a Clickbank account just head over to the site and click Sign up and fill out the info, very easy and I have not heard of any body getting rejected so a good place to start.
Please feel free to leave any comments you might have and if you liked the training feel free to push the ”I like it” button :).
Oh, I promised a training on "How to pick a niche"
How to find a niche, a monkey see monkey do guide
https://my.wealthyaffiliate.com/training/finding-a-niche-a-monkey-see-monkey-do-guide
Here is a Wabinar – Finding a profitable niche
https://my.wealthyaffiliate.com/training/finding-a-profitable-niche
Best of luck to you!
Veronica
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
