I have read all of the stories about how people can create a digital product, promote on clickbank and make tons of money. I say this because, I wrote a great php script that was a cj affiliate store where you choose your advertiser from the admin section, give a generic name to search for and voila, your database is full of products. As a free gift I was giving an ebay niche store script that was similar to BANS but very SEO friendly. I never made one conversion from this in 8 months and was giving 85% commission on $147 sales. What do affiliates look for? I ask this as an affiliate of other programs too. I usually go for a good product that people can use and has a high commission. I have taken the site offline momentarily while I revamp the program. Can you guys give me insite on what I should do? Thanks.
Well you know the product is only half the story... Your distribution channels (ie: affs) are the other 50%. It doesn't matter how good your product may be; if no one is promoting it you are toast. Did you actively promote your product in the right places? And the $147 price tag seems high for a bans / mall style script. Maybe drop the price, actively promote in the right forums and try building some momentum. Without a link to your product this is educated conjecture.
I wouldn't promote it if it were a clickbank product for the following reasons: the people who would buy a php script would be people who know a good amount about affiliate programs, and no webmaster in their right mind would buy under someone elses affiliate link. they would simply buy under their own clickbank ID and save 85% It may be a good product, but the chances of making good money from webmasters like this is nill. And without affiliates the product will wind down.
Agreed, I believe BANS did well because a ton of affiliate bought it for themselves, although I actually sold a few copies from my 'powered by BANS' link with my hoplink on one of my sites lol. Made me more money than ebay sales ever did on that site.
Thanks... I never did get many people promoting it. And I did eventually lower the price, hoping that it would catch on. I don't have the site up now because I was more afraid that the sales copy wasn't adequate, (i.e. I didn't show as much attention to how much money could be made using the script as I did promoting the features of the script.) I never promoted it in forums because I never thought of it. I really had no network of affiliates promoting it for me because I thought that affiliates got links from the CB marketplace. I appreciate that bit of insite. Whenever I get the salescopy re-written, I will definitely promote it more in forums.
If http://phppig.org is the site which you are saying for? If it is, then I have some strong solutions by which you can over come this situation.
phpPig, Judging by your post count it doesn't seem that you've made a good effort to make your product known (at least on DP) this and other stuff mentioned above is what probably caused 0 sales.
I haven't really posted in forums about the products. I just posted the product on clickbank. I have been programming for years but sales and marketing is new to me as well as graphic design. That's not the site, but rather a site that I have used to showcase a few of my scripts on. When the product is available, there is a url on the corresponding pages on phpPig to follow through to the sales page. Please PM me with anything as well. I definitely need help with the graphics end of the programming because I have not mastered photoshop and am not even pretending to act like I have. I guess that I suffer from "The Field of Dreams" syndrome because I thought that if you build it, they will come. Nothing could be farther from the truth and I am only now beginning to learn the full potential and power behind forums such as DP.
Yep, it's like what color is the rose when nobody is looking at it? In the context of internet that rose doesn't exist for all practical purposes and has no color
CJ is a hard place to go to when you're tight on cash - both as a publisher and as an affiliate. From what I'm seeing with my own CB products as a publisher, people are going for what is unavailable or not overcrowded in the market. A microniche if you will.
To put it in short, its all about the art of creating HYPE. If you can get a bunch of affiliate excited about making money with your products affiliate program, and provided it is a decent product that provides some value and their is a good market for it, then you will be pretty sure to make a killing.... I guess you were missing one of those factors