How to Use Clickbank to Sell Your Product
Most people become familiar with Clickbank as an affiliate.
You sign up and get an affiliate ID to promote someone else's product.
When you get that first affiliate check, you feel this is the most exciting way to make money ever.
This excitement continues for awhile and then the itch to be on the other side sets in.
The itch to have your own product and have affiliates working for you.
So, you go ahead and create your product.
Now, it dawns on you.
How am I going to sell it? How am I going to get affiliates to promote my product? Signing up to be an affiliate was easy.
But now you are on the other side.
If you have developed your own opt-in list, you can do a mailing and let them know about your new product and a few of them will buy.
You have read about doing a joint venture with an internet guru, but being fairly new at online marketing you don't know any gurus that well.
Then it dawns on you, why not just sign up with Clickbank as a publisher or seller.
If you already have a Clickbank ID as an affiliate, you don't necessarily need to sign up again as a seller.
Clickbank uses the same sign up box for both sellers and affiliates.
However you might want to have a little more professional name as a seller.
The reason for this is that the name you select as a seller becomes your brand name.
When your affiliates sign up, they do so under this brand or company name.
Also people feel more comfortable giving their credit card information to a business rather than an individual.
When you signed up as an affiliate, the sign up was free but as a publisher there is a one time activation charge of $49.
95 before you can list your first product on their 'marketplace'.
You must have a sales site already built for the product.
This sales site must have at least two pages, the sales page and a thank you or download page.
In the past Clickbank only accepted payments for one time sales, in other words a customer came to the site and made a purchase and that was it.
Recently Clickbank has added recurring sales transactions.
This opened Clickbank to membership sites that receive monthly membership payments.
They also now accept installment payments.
This works well for higher ticket items or for customers that might be short of money at the time of purchase.
Next, you should determine the percent of commission to be paid to your affiliates.
This is pretty much up to you, but don't be stingy.
Although several things will enter into an affiliate's decision to sign up with you, commission will be a big factor.
You will find that being generous will benefit you in the long run.
This is an overview to get you started on the decision as to whether becoming a publisher or remaining as an affiliate would be the best road for you to take.
Before deciding you should look into the matter much further.
You sign up and get an affiliate ID to promote someone else's product.
When you get that first affiliate check, you feel this is the most exciting way to make money ever.
This excitement continues for awhile and then the itch to be on the other side sets in.
The itch to have your own product and have affiliates working for you.
So, you go ahead and create your product.
Now, it dawns on you.
How am I going to sell it? How am I going to get affiliates to promote my product? Signing up to be an affiliate was easy.
But now you are on the other side.
If you have developed your own opt-in list, you can do a mailing and let them know about your new product and a few of them will buy.
You have read about doing a joint venture with an internet guru, but being fairly new at online marketing you don't know any gurus that well.
Then it dawns on you, why not just sign up with Clickbank as a publisher or seller.
If you already have a Clickbank ID as an affiliate, you don't necessarily need to sign up again as a seller.
Clickbank uses the same sign up box for both sellers and affiliates.
However you might want to have a little more professional name as a seller.
The reason for this is that the name you select as a seller becomes your brand name.
When your affiliates sign up, they do so under this brand or company name.
Also people feel more comfortable giving their credit card information to a business rather than an individual.
When you signed up as an affiliate, the sign up was free but as a publisher there is a one time activation charge of $49.
95 before you can list your first product on their 'marketplace'.
You must have a sales site already built for the product.
This sales site must have at least two pages, the sales page and a thank you or download page.
In the past Clickbank only accepted payments for one time sales, in other words a customer came to the site and made a purchase and that was it.
Recently Clickbank has added recurring sales transactions.
This opened Clickbank to membership sites that receive monthly membership payments.
They also now accept installment payments.
This works well for higher ticket items or for customers that might be short of money at the time of purchase.
Next, you should determine the percent of commission to be paid to your affiliates.
This is pretty much up to you, but don't be stingy.
Although several things will enter into an affiliate's decision to sign up with you, commission will be a big factor.
You will find that being generous will benefit you in the long run.
This is an overview to get you started on the decision as to whether becoming a publisher or remaining as an affiliate would be the best road for you to take.
Before deciding you should look into the matter much further.