Clickbank Cash(part-3)
Chapter 7:The Ultimate Goal One Should Have When on Clickbank
If there is one thing you should aim for when it comes to earning from Clickbank then it is to take advantage of its larger-than-life numbers. The figures that Clickbank produces in terms of affiliate marketing or Internet marketing in general are huge---in a good way.
It does not matter either if you want to penetrate the Internet’s #1 marketplace as an AFFILIATE or as a MERCHANT. The numbers will remain in your favor, and the only thing you need to do is to figure out a way to make them work for you!
Clickbank Affiliates: 12,000 Products to Market
Notice that the word ‘choose’ wasn’t used, and that’s because you do not really have to choose one product to market per se. You can choose a variety of them to start with if you feel that’s what’s best. And if not, there’s no reason why you can’t start from scratch again with another set of products to promote.
However, Clickbank strives hard to make it easier for affiliate marketers to choose the best products for them to promote.
Products are sorted out according to different categories to help affiliates find their ideal “niche.”
Statistics are provided for each product. Such figures include the product’s commission percentage for affiliates, initial earnings for every sale, and gravity. More about the last factor later.
Unique and encrypted links for affiliates can be created in an instant
Affiliates are given a system to use for tracking clicks and sales they generate
Gravity, by the way, is based on a formula that Clickbank uses for computing the number of unique affiliates that have sold the said product in the past eight weeks. A high gravity score means you are competing with a lot of affiliates for the same product – and vice versa.
Although a lot of people will advise you to go for products with low gravity scores, what’s really most important is to find a product you truly believe in and with a gravity score that you are confident of your ability to handle.
Clickbank Merchants: 100,000 Affiliates to Sell Your Products
On the other side of the fence, product owners or merchants get to enjoy over 100,000 of the Internet’s most promising and successful affiliates in search of new products to sell. Now, the trick to getting the best affiliates to sign up with your program is simple: you need to offer them a product that’s guaranteed to generate sales.
In Clickbank, bestselling products are typically characterized by the following:
Information that is unique or known only to a few
“How-to” advice that will aid customers in earning more money and preferably more quickly than usual, too
Personal experiences to share that will be of value to customers or readers?
Many people think it is easier being a product owner than an affiliate marketer. While that may be true, it does not mean a merchant’s life is without its own challenges. For one thing, you need to make sure that you have chosen the ideal commission percentage for your affiliates. Something too high can drastically hurt your sales while something too low can discourage affiliates from signing up with your program.
Chapter 8:The Most Successful Case Studies
The great thing about case studies is that you get to prove which works or not with completely validated results. After all, you were the one who handpicked the elements used for the case study and you were the one who performed all of the steps. You were there to see how things progressed from scratch. And with Clickbank, you can certainly try out a case study of your own as well. Just be sure to keep the following pointers in mind.
One Model at a Time
Admittedly, there are more than a few existing models which have proven successful for those who want to make it big in Clickbank. Of course, they vary from each other in any number of ways. Some of them may be more complicated while others may require more cash injection than you’re able to provide.
Obviously, you should choose what you feel most comfortable and confident about. But the one thing you should really keep in mind is to work with one model at a time.
A Case Study on Niche Marketing in Clickbank
For your own case study, here is something that will help you discover your moneymaking niche in Clickbank
How to Find a Money-Making Niche
A niche can be defined as a group of people – which will serve as your target market – that share the same hobbies or interests as well as problems. In order to choose the best niche, just perform the following steps.
1. Check out the list of product categories in Clickbank. Choose at least 10 categories that appeal to you the most.
2. Research these categories one by one. Find out which ones are the most profitable.
3. Consider the gravity when choosing a product under a category you have selected.
With these three steps, you’ll have an easier time coming up with 10 products that you are most confident and comfortable selling.
How to Measure Niche Popularity
Google is your best friend here or – more particularly – its external keyword tool. Determining the most popular keywords in your niche will help you discover the following:
The size of your market
The type and size of competition you are up against
Related keywords that your competition hasn’t used yet
How to Measure Niche Probability
A niche can be popular without being profitable. In order to ensure your niche has the capability of generating sales, you need to focus on these three factors.
Sales Potential – If advertisers are spending tons of money on advertising in your niche, then it only means they see money-making opportunities in it.
Affiliates – What merchants earn are different from what affiliates get from commission. Affiliate earnings will be much smaller if there are too many of them already for a small niche.
Entry Barriers – What other things could prevent you from penetrating your niche market successfully?
The Best Type of Niche Website to Create
Go back to Google and base your query on the following:
(Your keyword) comparison
(Your keyword) results
Your goal in this step is simple: you need to determine what kind of site works best in your niche. Examples of sites commonly used by affiliates today have been listed below.
Review and/or scam sites
Bypass type – Customers “bypass” merchant site and download directly from the affiliate’s site
Standard affiliate site
Once you’ve completed all these steps, you will only be left with two other things to do: registering a domain for your sites and building content for them. With this case study, your goal is to make $200 from each niche site.
You should have an easy time replicating the system for every niche site you put up. See for yourself how simple and easy this system can be. If everything works fine, then you will be earning more or less $2,000 every month.
Chapter 9:Special Places to Go on Clickbank for Your Product Advertising
While you may already have more than a few good ideas about where best to promote your products outside Clickbank, what about marketing that you can do within the site? Believe it or not, a lot of sales may be generated from Clickbank alone. Ultimately, it all depends on knowing what those “special places” are and how to maximize them.
Resource Listings from Other Products
The strategy you’re about to learn may seem like fraternizing with your enemy, but you can also look at it the other way as helping each other for the “greater good”. Or it could even be as simple as the all too true cliché of “if you can’t beat them, join them”.
To start with, look for the three hottest products at present in your category. Does your own product have a lot in common with it? Can your product be considered a complement of sorts to any or all of them? Most importantly of all, do you think your product deserves a “slot” under the list of Other Resources found inside the product?
If you answer ‘yes’ to even just one of the above questions, then you’ve found one of the best places on Clickbank to promote your product. The only thing left for you to do is to figure out a way to convince the other merchant to help you out. In most cases, offering one or a combination of the following can be considered a worthwhile exchange for a resource listing.
Exchange of resource listing
Exchange of subscription lists (provided that you have the authority or permission to do so)
Perform SEO marketing for the other product owner
Paid Promotions
There’s another and easier way to promote your products in Clickbank. It’s the best shortcut because you are getting Clickbank itself to help you out. In other words, you just have to pay the site to promote your products to its affiliates. This is obviously not the most affordable strategy to use, but it’s likely to have a better success rate compared to other Clickbank marketing strategies.
With paid promotions, you need to be more careful about the way you choose to market your products. Clickbank will do its best to make your products visible to the best affiliates. The site will also provide you with the necessary tools to help polish your ads. However, the one thing that the site cannot do is the most important thing you must do as well: come up with a targeted and successful ad for affiliates.
Other Special Places for Advertising Clickbank Products
Although promoting within Clickbank is a great strategy for product advertising, you must also give the same effort and attention to advertising your product elsewhere on the Internet.
Website and blog – Always have a place to call “home” online where you can freely write about your products.
Social networking sites – This is typically the starting point for building contacts and keeping them updated.
List building – In order to get people to subscribe to your list, you must come up with a great digital product that you can offer them for free.
Wrapping UpThings You Will Need to Know about Hosting Clickbank Sites
You’ve finally come to the end of the line, and you’re just one step away from starting your journey to Clickbank success. That one last thing you have to do to generate sales either as a product owner or as an affiliate marketer is to create a website – and preferably a blog as well – for yourself.
Every online marketer needs a place in the Internet to call “home”, preferably with its own address rather than merely using someone else’s. You get to enjoy a more professional image as well if you have your very own website and blog to promote your products or share your affiliate links.
To do that, you need a web hosting package. There are countless to choose from nowadays, but as a Clickbank user, you will need to prioritize the factors listed below.
Affordability
For most first-time Clickbank users, affordability is the most important factor to consider with regard to web hosting packages.
However, do not think of this as advice to choose the cheapest package. Rather, it’s best to focus on hosting packages that are most reasonably-priced.
Domain Purchase
This may not have anything to do with website hosting per se, but it should nevertheless be part of your package. This way, you can make a single payment every month or every year for continued use of your domain name and web space.
Website Setup
Most web hosts nowadays also offer free website setups, which basically means you do not need to know or understand any kind of web or programming language to build your site from scratch. This is a must, as it will save you a lot of time and headache. Remember: you are better off spending your time improving your Clickbank marketing strategy than trying to get through Website Building 101.
Blog Integration
This is also a must-have, as it will ensure that your customers only have to click a single link to visit both your site and blog. In this case, your blog will appear as one of the pages in your website even though it may have its own theme, layout, and settings.
Pre-Made Templates for Affiliate Marketing
This is particularly important to Clickbank affiliates and would be a great help if you are promoting more than one product, but all of them have enough similarities to be marketed in a single place. Templates, however, must also be easily customizable.
Scripts and Plug-ins
All the usual plug-ins and scripts must be available. And if there is something that you need to download elsewhere, your web host must make it easy for you to install it.
Auto-Responder
It would also be great if you were able to enjoy the use of your own auto-responder from your web hosting package. With auto-responders, you can ensure that people who take the time to contact you will receive an immediate response---even if it is automated initially.
User-Friendly Control Panel
Last but not the least, it would be best to ensure that your preferred hosting package will come with an easy-to-use control panel. Without it, your beautiful website will still remain unproductive as you are unable to set it up and manage it the way you want and need to.
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