Instant Profits Guide On Affiliate Marketing Tips to Clickbank Success E-Book

Hillary Scholl

• Herausgeber: Publisher s21598
• Kategorie: Fachliteratur
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2019

Beschreibung

Affiliate marketing programs has never been as popular before as it is today. Why? There can be a number of reasons. Today, both the merchants and the affiliates can see clearly that affiliate marketing can work for both of them.  The merchant sees affiliate marketing today as the chance to advertise their products at a lower cost.  The affiliates, on the other hand, sees affiliate marketing as an easy way of earning profits online by doing what they like most, and that is by creating websites. Just as the popularity of affiliate marketing has shifted into greater heights, so has the people's outlook about it changed.  No longer is affiliate marketing considered today as an alternative method for the merchant to advertise his products, or as a source of additional income for the affiliates.  For merchants and affiliates alike, affiliate marketing is now considered as a main source of profits and revenues. Instant Profits Guide On  Affiliate Marketing Tips to Clickbank Success Venturing into the world of the Clickbank marketplace requires that we start from a fresh slate and not go in with any presumptions.  The two presumptions that seem to slow people up the most is that Clickbank is for internet guru types who know every trick of the trade of internet technology and marketing to be successful.    But Clickbank isn't a marketplace that requires that you have tremendous technical knowledge to use.  The designers of Clickbank have made most of the functions you need to operate either as a merchant or as an affiliate in the system fairly easy to use.  That is one of the keys to why Clickbank is so successful.  So to smooth your entrance into using Clickbank, it pays to look at the inner workings of the gears of Clickbank to get a feel for what you should expect when you sign up and want to get going fast making money there. Like a lot of successful online markets, Clickbank doesn’t make anything and it doesn’t sell anything.  The value Clickbank adds to the world of internet commerce is that it provides a "place" for vendors of digital products can place their goods for sale and for people skilled in marketing to take those products and sell them to a large internet community.  Clickbank has cashed in on two basic principles which are (1) people who make things don’t like to do marketing and (2) people who love to do marketing don’t like to make things. By getting these two groups together, merchants, affiliates and Clickbank all take away a nice profit because each makes the other successful. Clickbank then at its core is a clearing house that works as a meeting gourd for merchants, affiliates and customers who can order the product, pay for it and download it or receive it by some other digital delivery system .  Clickbank also offers real value to both merchants and affiliates because they handle all of the financial details and take a lot of the administrative work off of its members.   

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Instant Profits Guide On  Affiliate Marketing Tips to Clickbank Success

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TABLE OF CONTENT

A Clickbank Mindset to Start With

How to Choose a Product to Promote

Article Marketing As an Affiliate

Promoting With Forum Marketing

Promoting With Interviews

Social Marketing as an Affiliate

Instant Payment or Long Term?

Using Webinars and Google Hangouts as an Affiliate

Featuring Other Marketers in Your Download Pages and In Your Products

YouTube Marketing as an Affiliate

How to Set Up an Affiliate Review Site

How to Set Up an Affiliate Review Site (part 2)

How to Set Up an Affiliate Review Site (part 3)

How You Can Earn a Full Time Income as an Affiliate

Starting Your Own Affiliate Program

Secrets of Writing Great Pre-Selling Content

5 Simple Little Ways to Grow Your Affiliate Marketing Business

ClickBank Marketing

How Do 3-Layer Conversion Systems Work for ClickBank Marketing?

Quora  Answer Marketing

How to Select a Niche Product to Promote - THE SMART WAY

Get 20 New Affiliates and Create Awesome Affiliate Materials

Getting More out of Your Affiliate Marketing Campaigns

How to Make Sales as an Affiliate through Free Reports

Using Bonuses to Make More Sales as an Affiliate

How to Choose a Merchant to Promote

Automated Marketing Technique

Taking Clickbank to the Next Level

A Clickbank Mindset to Start With

Clickbank is among the best affiliate marketing program there is around. Clickbank has many products in the market place for affiliates to market.

Among the greatest questions that individuals ask most is "how do I bring in money pushing Clickbank products?"

There are a lot of ways, methods or techniques we may consider.

Even so, the most crucial thing that most individuals tend to overlook when it comes to making cash marketing Clickbank products is mindset! The mindset that you have is really essential for your success; you’ll need it to become successful at making cash promoting Clickbank products. Affiliate marketing is full of stresses and right from the first day, your mentality will determine whether you're going to become a Clickbank winner or not.

A lot of individuals wind up giving up or failing with Clickbank, merely because right after they have signed on with Clickbank, they begin by putting up a blog. After they post the blog they "hope" to sit by and get money. This is true. However sorry to say that you'll never succeed by simply doing this, this is because correct mindset is required. Using Clickbank and other such affiliate systems is not without certain inherent failures which plague the correct tracking of the affiliate’s performance and thus denying the fruits of his/her labor in promoting and transferring quality traffic to the advertiser’s website.

Inherent problems of Clickbank sites?

A number of reasons chief among them are the inability to track the performance of the prospect after s/he leaves the website of the affiliate is main among them. Another problem is anonymous webs browsing patterns of users.

Anonymous Web browsing and the problems that they offer to publishers.

As an affiliate it is a very disturbing thing that a majority of the web browsers and other software that is used to browse the web allows anonymous browsing. They are designed in a way so that publishers cannot identify or intrude into the privacy of the surfer. Bots, auto installing software etc. if implemented an easily get a website into trouble by getting itself banned by the major search engines and browsers.

In this scenario when consumer privacy is a major issue, publishers and affiliates have to be very careful how they plan their marketing tactics to promote the advertisers products and services.

Cookies are the only great solution in this regard as they are allowed by most normal privacy settings of browsers and are although sometimes flagged as security alerts and red flagged by some anti-virus software they are universally accepted as a standard of handling user experiences on websites.

Most websites will not even function and explicitly ask you to enable your browser to accept cookies before allowing you  to use it. Cookies are mainly of two types; persistent and temporary cookies.

Temporary cookies are usually used for managing the user experience on the website like navigation, page history etc. they may also be used for storing shopping carts etc when browsing an ecommerce website. They are usually destroyed or cleaned when you close the browser.

On the other hand persistent cookies are used to store information such as login preference and login credentials to remember a user and log him back in without manually typing the credentials again. Such cookies are stored as small text files on the computer of the user.

If you clean your browser cache and history you are likely to destroy all persistent cookies and reset your browsing history and preferences for any website that you may have saved previously.

Hoplinking

However potentially Clickbank is still the best overall network and it is pertinent to remember that they are aware of most of the issues undermining the efforts of honest and hard working affiliates. Clickbank has recently upgraded their hoplinking which now allows setting up of multiple landing pages for the advertiser.

Landing pages are the ones where the referral traffic or the potential customer goes to from the referring affiliate’s website. This could be a home page or a page deep inside the advertiser’s website containing the desired call to action. How does the hoplinking works? Just like any http linking on the web, hoplinking is essentially a link as well.

However the beauty in this is that hoplinks directly does not link to the advertiser’s website. In fact when you click on a hoplink it first connects to the hoplink web server at Clickbank.

The hoplink server identifies the referring affiliate’s id and also the advertiser’s website and makes a record of the same and then redirects you to the advertiser’s website. Earlier Clickbank had provision to set only one landing page as the hoplink.

The new hoplinking system also overcomes a number of security loopholes and now it is difficult to do a click fraud when the new system is in place. Reputed affiliates are now aligning more on to the new hoplinking system which is safer and more credible.

Persistence with Clickbank affiliate systems

For the most part any marketing effort requires patience and a smart plan for marketing the products and services of the advertiser. It does not have to be too different to a normal offline marketing plan but online marketing certainly has its own advantages and disadvantages.

Clickbank affiliate system has been tested to get results and having been in business for more than a decade they are certainly not a fly-by-night operator. In fact their payment system and fraud processing is very good; plus the benefits that they provide to an advertiser is immense and as such has a lot of potential for the affiliate marketer.

However in order to succeed you need a plan.

One particular user from Oregon who has been a Clickbank affiliate and has been marketing eBooks for a while says that he started off with very bad response for the first few months. In fact he almost thought about quitting online marketing saying that this is worse than betting.

However he got a brilliant idea from a friend who is also a Clickbank affiliate and started a new approach. He first chose a standard eBook that he felt covers a niche subject and then wrote a few small articles which were reviews of the book in a very subjective and critical approach. Next he submitted those articles on to an ezine and waited for the articles to be indexed.

Once they were indexed these articles were picked up in search results and other users who are looking for relevant content started visiting and using those articles on their website with credit to him.

These helped in getting a sizeable amount of traffic back to his affiliate link. A few weeks into his experiment, he started getting up to 5 times more leads and an increased conversion from those leads.

Most businesses looking to create a long standing relationship with their customers would be trying to engage their customers and find out whether they are happy using their products and services. They would have an efficient customer service department backing their sales team dedicated to ensure any problems are taken care off immediately and solved within hours rather than weeks.

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Long term business approach in Clickbank for a merchant.

As a merchant working on Clickbank affiliate programs it is essential to remember that not always you will see scores of affiliates are downloading your campaign. It is essential that the beginning to think like an affiliate and find out how you can make your program more attractive to potential affiliates.

Needless to say more potential affiliates more are the chances for you to get customers. Affiliates prefer to take up campaigns and programs which are closer to their niche and they will first check out the percentage offered and the potential earnings before signing up for your program.

It is always better to keep the affiliates earnings high and keeping yours at an adjustable balance so that it can maximize your earnings on larger volume based sales.

Giving more to the affiliate means you are always giving an importance to him to sale more. Depending on the overall volume you also tend to earn because you will certainly have more than one good affiliate to work with.

Sometimes even after doing everything seemingly correct you will not be able to get good affiliates. The reason can be various however the approach is simple. Hold your patience.

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If you have done your homework and kept tings lucrative for the affiliates and also sure about the marketability of the product or service that you have put up for sale then allow some time. Even it is the same thing when sales do not happen after a few days or even a week after the campaigns goes active. Holding your patience is very important at that point.

Long term business approach and how it affects a Clickbank affiliate.

Clickbank has its own set of disadvantages for affiliates including those to do with the tracking of sales and the missing tracks which happens mostly after the prospect leaves the affiliates website and goes onto the website of the advertiser.

Clickbank has recently updated their fraud prevention and sales tracking system to ensure there is a greater transparency into the recording of sales. However in spite of this traffic conversions are a big issue and that is something not in the hands of the affiliate.

Often the advertiser’s web sites are not up to the mark and prospects lose interest after reaching the landing page of the advertiser’s website. often the landing page is not strategically placed and they are located in such a way that customer does not immediately find what he is looking for and have to again make a few clicks to reach the information.

Often a lot of prospects are lost because of this. It is important to continuously analyze these things and then accordingly select the one program which is good and meets your niche. Having a lot of time dedicated to research and finding what will sell well for you is the first step to make money using Clickbank. It is obvious that having a long terms approach is the best solution else one risks losing the interest.

Choosing Between The Path Of The Merchant Versus The Affiliate

Affiliate marketing is the process in which a third party would work for you and promote your products and services for a small fee. This affiliate could be a small firm or an individual who has a considerable experience and technical knowhow into promoting products and services on the internet.

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What is affiliate marketing?

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Usually an affiliate will work for a small fee which is charged on the sale price of the product or service; however there are various formats of affiliate marketing and some also allows the affiliate to share into the profits of the advertiser instead of a commission.

Affiliate marketing helps the advertiser immensely because for a small fee s/he gets access to the best sales force on the internet. They are highly skilled and know their work inside out. This helps the advertiser to leverage on their experience and boost the sales figures.

Affiliate marketing networks and how they work.

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There are a lot of companies which offers solutions for advertisers through their affiliate network of salesman and marketers. All an advertiser needs to do is to register on their website and provide details about the product and service they are selling and also offer the details of the affiliate commission that he is willing to pay on the sales figure.

An affiliate will search for the best offers and if he finds the details matching to his interest he will accept the terms to download the marketing materials and start working on it.

Affiliate Marketing and The Different Types Of It

Affiliate marketing programs has never been as popular before as it is today. Why? There can be a number of reasons.

The most probable reason, however, could be the fact that the benefits of affiliate marketing have become clearer to a lot of people now than they were before.

Today, both the merchants and the affiliates can see clearly that affiliate marketing can work for both of them.  The merchant sees affiliate marketing today as the chance to advertise their products at a lower cost.  The affiliates, on the other hand, sees affiliate marketing as an easy way of earning profits online by doing what they like most, and that is by creating websites.

Just as the popularity of affiliate marketing has shifted into greater heights, so has the people's outlook about it changed.  No longer is affiliate marketing considered today as an alternative method for the merchant to advertise his products, or as a source of additional income for the affiliates.  For merchants and affiliates alike, affiliate marketing is now considered as a main source of profits and revenues.

So the question now is what type of affiliate marketing will work best for you?  Are all affiliate marketing programs the same?  Are the benefits the same?  Or are there affiliate marketing programs that work better than the others?

There are actually different types or classes of affiliate marketing, and the number of types will depend on how one will classify them.  The most basic affiliate marketing programs, however, falls under two categories: pay-per-click (PPC), and pay-per-performance (PPP).

• Pay Per Click (PPC)

PPC is the most popular type of affiliate marketing for affiliates with small websites, and probably the easiest way for them to earn money.  In this affiliate marketing type, the merchant pays his affiliate whenever a visitor is referred to his site, that is whenever someone clicks through the merchant's banner or text ads.

The affiliate gets paid a certain amount even if the visitor he referred does not purchase anything from the merchant's site.  However, typical fees for PPC affiliate programs are small, usually not exceeding a dollar for every click.

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• Pay Per Performance (PPP)

PPP affiliate marketing is the most popular among merchant and is also the most lucrative type for the affiliates.  In this type of affiliate program, the merchant only pays the affiliate whenever his referral translates into an action — that is whenever the visitor he has referred actually buys something from the merchant's site or when the visitor becomes a lead.

This means a lot of savings for the merchant.  On the other hand, it becomes the most lucrative type for the dedicated affiliate, for commissions in PPP affiliate marketing usually comes in the range of 15% to 20% of the actual product sales.

Pay-per-performance affiliate marketing can be further classified into two popular types: pay-per-sales (PPS) and pay-per-lead (PPL).

• Pay Per Sale (PPS)

In a pay-per-sale type of affiliate marketing, the merchants pay the affiliate a certain fee whenever the visitor he has referred to the merchant's site actually buys something from the merchant's site. 

Affiliates are often paid on commission basis, although other merchants would opt to pay a fixed fee.  But no matter what the basis of the fee is, it is generally higher than the fee paid to affiliates in a pay-per-click affiliate program.

• Pay Per Lead (PPL)

The pay-per-lead type of affiliate marketing is a slight variation of the PPS type and is often used by insurance and finance companies and other companies who rely on leads for their company to grow.  In this type of affiliate marketing, the affiliate is paid whenever the visitor he referred to the merchant's site fills up an application form or any similar form related to the business of the company.

Compensation for this type of affiliate marketing is based on a fixed fee whose rates approximate that of the fixed fee in the PPS type.

Aside from these three specific types of affiliate marketing, a lot of other affiliate marketing types exist.  If the classification is based on the depth of the affiliate network, it can be classified as single-tier, two-tier, and multi-tier affiliate marketing.

There is also another type of affiliate marketing that pays the affiliate each time the customer he has referred purchases something from the merchant's site.

• Single-Tier, Two-Tier, and Multi-Tier Affiliate Marketing

These types of affiliate marketing are based on the different levels or tiers in the affiliate network by which payments are made.  In a single-tier affiliate marketing program, the affiliates are only paid based on the direct sales or traffic he has referred to the merchant.  All the previously mentioned affiliate marketing types (i.e. PPS< PPL, and PPC) fall under the single-tier classification.

• In two-tier affiliate marketing programs

In two-tier affiliate marketing programs, the affiliate is not only paid for the direct traffic or sales that he refers to the merchant's site, but also on every traffic or sales referred by various other affiliates who joined the affiliate program through his recommendation.

Multi-tier affiliate marketing works the same way, although the affiliate gets additional commission for a wider number of affiliates in different tiers in the affiliate network.

•  Residual Income Affiliate Marketing

In residual income affiliate marketing, the affiliate gets paid not only once for every customer he has referred to the merchant's site.  Rather, the affiliate is also paid whenever the customer he has referred returns to the site and purchase another product.  Compensation for such type of affiliate marketing is based on either sales percentage commission or fixed fee basis.

The different affiliate marketing types would virtually work differently for merchants and affiliates alike, and each would generally have their own list of benefits.  Which type of affiliate marketing will work best for you?  It is not really for me to tell.

Rather, it is for you to choose which type of affiliate marketing program will suit your needs and characteristics best.

The Affiliate Marketing Pitfalls

More and More people are lured into affiliate marketing and you might be one of them. Indeed, affiliate marketing is one of the most effective means of generating a full-time income through the Internet.

It’s a fair deal between the merchandiser and his affiliates as both benefit from each sale materialized. Like in other kinds of business, a great deal of the profits in affiliate marketing depends on the affiliate’s advertising, promoting and selling strategies.

Everyday, as affiliate marketing industry expands, competition heightens as well so an affiliate marketer must be creative enough to employ unique and effective ways to convince potential buyers to purchase or avail of the products and services offered. 

Compared to traditional advertising practices, affiliate programs are more effective, risk-free and cost-efficient. But why do many people still fail in affiliate marketing? There are a lot of reasons and a lot of areas in the program to look into. The most critical aspect in the affiliate program is advertising.

Many affiliate marketers fail in this aspect because they lack hard work, which is the most important thing in affiliate marketing and in all other kinds of business as well. Although it pays to be lucky, you cannot merely rely on it. Affiliate marketing isn’t as simple as directing customers to the business site.