If you'd like to make money with ClickBank, you are not alone. ClickBank facilitates around 30,000 digital sales each day and has over six million registered users who create and promote digital products.
There are two main ways to make money using ClickBank: one is to create your own product and list it, and the other is to skip the product creation step and list other people's products while taking a commission from each sale. ClickBank commission rates range from 5%–75% depending on the product being promoted.
So, let's see how you can make money from ClickBank affliate program, step-by-step...
1. Sell your own product
If you have an e-book or online course that you'd like to promote, ClickBank makes that easy. Once you sign up as a vendor you can list your product with them and set the commission percentage you are willing to pay to anyone who chooses to market and promote your product for you.
Once your product is listed, other ClickBank users will start promoting it on their own websites. This will drive traffic to the sales page on your website and hopefully result in sales.You can promote your digital product all around the internet and get some people (affiliates) to promote your product for exchange of commission. So if you want to be successful here, set your commission rates really high.
2. Drive more traffic
Like all the affiliate programs, the traffic that you will drive to your Clickbank affiliate links is really important.
If you're selling a product on ClickBank, you need to make sure that your landing page (the page all your affiliates are sending traffic to) is user friendly, sales-oriented, and has a clear call to action. Otherwise, visitors will simply click through and then bounce away, leaving you with lots of traffic but very little in revenue.
It is also better to view ClickBank as a tool for generating leads, instead of hoping to sell 100,000 copies of your e-book immediately. Use ClickBank to drive visitors to your website, then get them on a newsletter list and market to them repeatedly. You may want to offer a contest or freebie along with the newsletter to encourage people to sign up with you.
There are 3 main ways I recommend you to go after traffic:
SEO: If you’re going to create content, you might as well optimize it for search engines.
Facebook: Pretty much all audiences are on Facebook and you can get very cheap traffic. Just build a big fan page, engage it and drive traffic through organic reach.
Content distribution networks: Judging by the number of people running this tactic across networks like taboola and outbrain I imagine this must be fairly successful. This works especially well if you’re covering a widespread issue.
3. Promote other's people products
Once you sign up to become an affiliate with ClickBank, you will immediately be able to browse the different products available to sell. ClickBank has tens of thousands of products available, so in the beginning it's helpful to search by niche and commission percentage until you locate offers that you want to promote.
Make sure you take the time to look at the vendor's sales page before promoting their product. They might be offering a 75% commission rate, but if their website doesn't look trustworthy or put together you aren't going to generate many sales, no matter how much traffic you drive their way.
Ideally, you will already have a website that contains articles and other affiliate offers similar to the ClickBank products you want to promote. If you haven't set one up yet though, don't worry. WordPress is a great free content management system that you can use to start a website and begin publishing articles immediately. Use your articles to draw readers in, then present your ClickBank affiliate offer within the article. You may also want to develop a newsletter for your own website and use it to promote your ClickBank offers to your audience as often as possible.
4. Pick the right product
One of the best ways to make money on Clickbank is to start as an affiliate, promoting pages that have already been optimized, in order to build your sales funnels.
Much like keyword research for SEO, picking the right product to promote on ClickBank is extremely important. No matter how good you are at promoting if you drive traffic to a sales page that doesn’t sell, you will not make much money.
Screening offers is a big part of knowing how to make money with Clickbank. Here are the things we look for when it comes to screening offers to promote:
Low-cost initial offer with up to 3 up sales
Video sales pages & “native” sales pages (pages that feel like content)
Products with good reviews online (low refunds = more money and less list burnout)
Gravity above 20 (means that the page converts fairly well)
5. Learn how to build a funnel
All the methods we talked about before tend to work to some extent but they’re usually worn out and overused by everyone in the industry making it very competitive and hard to scale unless you have a site with hundreds and hundreds of reviews.
You can start linking people to the offer from the thank you page and start emailing people about the offer so you make sure they don’t miss out on it.
But wait! If I only show my offer to those who opted in am I not losing on sales?
Well, if someone doesn’t care enough about the topic to give you their email address, they probably won’t give you money for it.
This system is the best out there, in my opinion, for the following reasons:
You keep your front end clean of commercial offers meaning you can get tons of links/shares etc.
You can target viral topics or high traffic keywords related to the problems the offer solves meaning there’s no traffic problem.
It can run 100% without PPC if that’s not your thing (many of those run purely on organic for us)
You’re building an email list meaning that you own the audience. This means that you can sell more things to them once they reach your main list, and the value of your media property is greatly increased and compounds over time.
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