So you want to become an Network Affiliate, one good way is to signup with an APN called Clickbank. You may know this already, signing up for Clickbank is free so you can be an affiliate for free. However after signing up is just the beginning, you have to have a long term commitment with the website / company to see any kind of returns from this.
So, did you sign up yet? Alright sign in then? Go to this website http://www. clickbank.com and on the top right hand side there is a small link saying log in. You will be transfered to a page where it is asking for your username & password along with several key high selling e-books & featured vendors which you can worry about later.
Is this your first day with Clickbank? If it is, it is best that you understand where everything goes & places to go to in order to get some affiliate links.
So once you logged in you will see “Account Home : USERNAME”, look around further and you will notice some basic stats telling you how much you have earned with your links. With mine, my success hasn’t started yet as I am doing the research as I work them out to the net. I’m going to be honest with you I have had no luck yet (I wasn’t trying to be honest, this time I am though).
Below that you will see this message
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Welcome to ClickBank!
The sales subtotals below provide a snapshot of your recent sales activity. For more information on pay periods, payment processing and payment distribution read our Accounting Policy. For more detailed transaction reporting, click on the “Reporting” tab above. New to ClickBank? Click here to get started.
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On the right hand of the screen you get some CLICKBANK NEWS & SYSTEM LOG. Down below this message you will see a snapshot of your daily sales which is fairly basic compared to other APN. However enough to give you an idea if you are getting anywhere or you are getting somewhere at your game.
And below the snapshot area of your daily sales are dates telling you Clickbank’s Official Server Time & Date, including the date you opened your account with Clickbank & the durations of the next pay period.
This was the Account Home Tab, now under Account Settings are information basically about you, please remember that if you change anything major about yourself on this page, they will freeze your account for 7 days preventing you from changing any information during this day. They are pretty tight with security.
Now with some basic stuffs that you need to know to work Clickbank. Now that you know this much, you will have to find a product to promote. Your clickbank username is your nickname in this world. Now you are ready to find a product to promote. Unless you have a product in mind that you wanted to promote already, the best place to start your adventure with Clickbank is at the Marketplace. Here you will find so many products that you’re interested in promoting by searching on particular keywords or browsing by categories and sub-categories. Once you hit go, you will be presented with a list of products matching your search criteria.
The list is very long, it is up to you to find one that you are interested in promoting and promote them. Upon the search you have a choice of clicking on the description title to find out if it is a viable link to promote. My advice is here is to purchase the item requested so that you can make an honest review of the link. A lot of these pages says that they are earning a lot of money but these are just words & without action will never find out if this is true. Plus if you are promoting something & the item you are promoting is not good then people will have difficulty trusting you. So please make the purchase before promoting the product.
Ok, did you pick one already? Wait before you create a HOPLINK please view the Vendor’s Spotlight. This is the 3rd link underneath the description saying “Vendor Spotlight” Click on it and investigate on how popular this link is on clickbank. At least you will have basic information vital to your success. For example, something that may be important to you is the commission you will get from this vendor. Some vendor are offering you 50% of the product value & up to 75% of the product value will go to you in your pocket. Information like the total amount value is really important as some weary customers are just not interested in loosing a large amount of cash and the value of the product is rubbish. A safe product price would range from $30 – 75. Anymore, people will start having doubts of buying the product.
Again, it is your choice, in a later article I am developing I am going to teach you how to blend your affiliate link with Google Adwords to maximize your sales online.
Once you have selected a product, click on CREATE HOPLINK below the selected product listing. This will open a new window, where you’ll enter your ClickBank nickname, along with an optional Tracking ID, and click Create. This will create a Hoplink that’s specifically tied to your nickname and the particular product you choose. It is automatically encrypted for your protection.
You’ll see two versions of the same HopLink. The top version, in black text, is in plain text. You’d use this option if you want to share your HopLink via email, Twitter, Facebook, or any other method where you don’t need to create HTML code yourself. The second version, in blue, is formatted in HTML code in case you want to insert the link directly into your own website or another source that requires HTML formatting. On the second option, you can change the part that says “Click Here!” to say anything you want, such as “Check out this great product I found!”
Guys & Gals, it is recommended that you copy & paste your new HopLink into a text document or save it in some other way on your computer, as ClickBank does not store HopLinks for you. If you do’t save it yourself, you’ll need to return to the marketplace each time you want to generate the HOPLINK, which can rather be time consuming.
Well, once you have your HopLink, you have to start promoting it. The question is where should you actually start promoting your HopLink? Trying to decide this can surely be where you spend most of your time & effort & it can be a bit overwhelming at first, but you’ll get the idea soon enough. Here at this site, I’ll offer you some strategies as to where you can start.
Now, you have mastered the basics your imagination is the only limit to the ways you can promote ClickBank produts.
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