Clickbank is a virtual marketplace that was founded in 1998. It is a privately held company having offices in Broomfield, Colorado and Boise, Idaho.

 

 

 

 

I want to tell you more about Clickbank in this post as a follow up to Affiliate Marketing

 

What Is Clickbank?
Clickbank is an online retail outlet and an online payment processor. The products featured on Clickbank are digital products like e-books, software, and videos. It is regarded as the best place for people to buy or sell their digital products.

 

If you have a digital product or service that you are interested in selling,you can register at Clickbank as a publisher. As a publisher, you can make use of the over 100,000 Clickbank affiliates to find buyers for your products and multiply your profits.

 

The payment technology that Clickbank uses allows any publisher or vendor or seller to automatically pay commissions on sales to any affiliate that successfully links a paying customer to that seller. The customer is billed by Clickbank, then the seller is paid and then the affiliate. Clickbank maintains security and quality control over each and every transaction.

 

Advantages of Clickbank for Vendors/Sellers/Publishers

 

 

1  Credit Card Payment Acceptance Without Merchant Account
If you are selling an e-book or software and do not have a merchant account, Clickbank allows you to sell your product and accept credit card payments without having to get yourself a merchant account. You can even accept e-checks or online checks. Although Clickbank does require a fee, the ease of being able to accept credit card payments is definitely worth it.

 

2  Affiliate Program for Your Product
If you are a vendor, you can create your own affiliate program, you have the freedom to decide the commission percentage that you would like to offer any affiliate who successfully sells your product. You can choose anywhere from 1% to 75% depending on how you would like to structure your affiliate program.
3  Your Product Is Advertised for Free
As a seller or publisher, your product gets exposure through the free listings on the Clickbank site. Your product will also appear through the search facilities of other sites associated with Clickbank. This means that your product is advertised for free.

 

4  Referral Commissions
You can also earn money via referral commissions on the thousands of products in the Marketplace.

 

Advantages of Clickbank for Affiliates

 
There are many advantages of being a Clickbank affiliate and some of them are:
1  No Registration Fee
There are so many different affiliate programs available on the internet. Most of them advertise that joining is free but they charge when someone would like to become an affiliate. Clickbank is free. There are no registration fees and no hidden charges to becoming an affiliate.
2  Prompt Payment
Unlike most of the other affiliate programs on the net, Clickbank pays regularly and promptly, the payment is given every two weeks and the payments are on time.
3  Great Products
The sheer number of products available makes it easy for an affiliate to choose the products that he or she would like to promote. Products range from e-books, videos, software and many more. The moment a product that is being promoted by an affiliate sells a commission is earned.

4  Great Commissions
The percentages are very good. An affiliate can earn as much as 75% of the value of the sale of a product. This makes Clickbank a lucrative endeavor for many affiliates.

 

 

 

 

Clickbank Terminologies
There are many terminologies that are unique to each organization or program and the same holds true for Clickbank. If you are new to the online retailer, you may get confused with all the terminologies that may be new to you or different from the site you used to do business with. Here are some of the more common terminologies that you will find as you start your partnership with Clickbank.

 

1  Publishers/Vendors
Vendors or Publishers refer to the people who have digital products that they are selling or wish to sell. A person can be both a vendor or publisher and a promoter. The main thing to remember is that a publisher is the one that creates the products being sold.

 

2  Recurring Billing
Both promoters (affiliates) and publishers (vendors) will get to meet these two words rather often. Recurring billing refers to subscriptions that pay monthly, if you are offering a product or a membership of some type that requires monthly payments, Clickbank takes care of the nitty-gritty. You only need to relax and wait for the profits.

 

3  Promoters
These are the people who promote the products on Clickbank. They are also called affiliate marketers,  they go through the Clickbank Marketplace to look for products to promote and find buyers for those products.

 

4  Gravity
Gravity refers to which products are not being promoted actively but selling, and which are not doing so well. Simply put, the higher the gravity, the more attractive the product is to affiliate marketers because it means the product sells well. Therefore, if you are a promoter or an affiliate, you need to look for products that have high gravity.
However, this does not mean that you should not sell products with low gravity. There are products that may not be selling well simply because no one has taken the time to promote it properly.
I will be writing more on this in my next post so keep a look out for it.

 

Do you use Clickbank? if so how do you find it? I would love to hear your views on this subject so please leave a comment and share your thoughts.

 

To your success

Thanks for reading

Pauline