Hi, I have been a successful affiliate for a while now. I started looking into being a clickbank publisher after writing thousands of articles and noticing that for most of the items sold on Clickbank, I can probably make a better item! Here is my question...strictly from a technical perspective, I know all I need to be a publisher on clickbank for 1 product is a "pitch page" and a "thank-You" page. Say I want to sell an ebook, or a report...why don't I just put the full report/ebook/item directly on the thank-you page? The product will be on the thank you page...so as soon as the customer pays....they go directed to the thankyou page and there is the item! Is this allowed? Alot of you might try to persude me against doing this, but I have my reasons, (mostly because setting up download buttons and etc, causes alot of problems with people not knowing how to do it...plus I can concentrate on mass producing a number of products) Is this allowed?? Have you ever heard of it? They recommend it on the clickbank publishers guide.
I'm not too sure what you have read elsewhere but I'd say 90% of vendors do this anyway. The other 10% might pass them through a mailing list sign up form before directing them to the thank you page anyway. In fact you have to have your product on the thank you page
Some straight points for you. 1. You sign up to CB 2. You create your product. 3. You create the pitch page where you will sell the product with buy now buttons. You get it approved by CB along with your thank you page where your product sits. 4. The customer comes to your pitch page, clicks 'buy', and pays through CB's payment gateway. 5. If the transaction is successful - they get to your thank you page - Your product is sitting on the thank you page. There are no other scenarios << This is how publishers products work - and yes many people grow from affiliate to publisher, and either make it or break it Here is a link to a blog post re launching a digital product: http://www.norbsmoney.com/how-do-i-launch-a-clickbank-cj-or-paydotcom-digital-product/ **And to answer the question in your title - no - it's not that easy However take a crack at it - it's a good learning curve to go through. Best, N.
It is easy when you have people to actually promote the product - then you just sit back, hit refresh, and watch the money roll in
LOL - I wish it was THAT easy - to be honest with you, when you have a successful program (Say 50-150 sales a day), it is NOT as automated as you may think. If you don't feel like reading the above blog post - here are some things that most don't take into consideration when becoming a PUB. Post Launch. You might think that as a vendor you have it made - things are easy - everyone is working for you - you just collect fat pay checks. Well ok some of that IS indeed true. However here is a part of being a vendor one often overlooks and then finds it tedious to have to render: *Customer support - IF YOUR PRODUCT goes HUGE - YOU will have a LOT of customer support to deal with. That’s a ‘good’ thing though. I would rather deal with small little problems all day due to payments and order instead of chasing them to begin with - If I can make a million by dealing with peoples download problems or other delivery problems - my only answer is “pass me the phone I’ll start right nowâ€. *Affiliate recruitment - You’re always going to be recruiting into your army - ALWAYS - you’re like a gang leader, and must preach to your crew that they need to recruit too - however they will refuse because they want a small team - not a saturated one. You will always be recruiting don’t forget that. *Affiliate support - Often uderestimated. Affiliates have their own set of needs, and you must tend to them. You must help them shape their campaigns, offer them advice, give them what they need in order to make YOU money. *Maintenance/updates - You will need to make new creatives once in a while, new articles, new videos, new ’stuff’ in order to keep you and your affiliates campaigns fresh. *Competitive Intel - You will need to watch those close to your circle, and see if they are doing anything sparatic that can potentially harm your positioning. Always know what your competitors are doing. *Management - Day to day you will have various little things you’ll need to do. You’ll notice a few of your affiliates might be bad apples, you’ll notice your site slow down or error or get hacked, you’ll notice you’re NOT converting NOR is anyone for a while, you’ll have to keep your ship running smoothly and with a smile yet firm and confident nature. Don’t forget - you are the owner of a big operation now - and you have a huge sales team to look after - a huge monetization closed loop that you must keep squeeky clean in order for it all to equate to that elusive first thought and end goal - MONEY. If you do all of this, and you succeed - what do you do? Launch another product, and another - soon you will have an array of revenue streams, some will outdo others, some will fail miserably, overall though - THAT is leverage. Before you come to market, do some great research on both your idea and what’s already out there. chances are whatever you are thinking of launching - has already been done over and over - however don’t let that stop you, just DO IT BETTER and you WILL succeed! Yours In Success, Norb.
RE: hard to get affiliates It depends. I've dealt mainly in the dating/seduction market thus far and yes, it is difficult for me. But just a couple can really bring in the money. My new product will have a broader appeal and over twice the payout ($42 and $62) so should be interesting. High payouts should help.
Hi...thanks NC Media for the comment! I looked at your blog and products...very professional! I notice that you are from Toronto, me too! I work in Yorkville! Anyways, I think what I meant by having the product on the "thank-You" page, was having the actual HTML product on the thank you page as opposed to another download link. NC Media...you should offer a service where someone comes to you with a product, and you "technically" help them set-it-up. We will worry about the web copy and the product promotion, you just help technically set-it-up!
Yes most people do have the product on the thank you page as I stated but regardless of what you are thinking they still have to download it, you can't just magically make the product jump on to your computer without downloading it so a download link is required I think he does offer a service like this but as you can imagine for that type of quality you would be paying a bit, check out his niche choppers forum for more info.
Aahhhh............finally clicked I've purchased a ton of products over the years and I honestly can't remember ever coming across a page like that. All have required a download of the pdf or report (unless it was a membership site of course). I don't see what the benefits of doing it that way would be?
the benefit would be that the buyer would have no problems what so ever getting the product...and it is much easier for me to build, thus focusing my attention on getting more and more products out there
While you might get the odd one or two newbies who don't know how to download a pdf they are really far and few between. The downside of doing things you way is that you would have to be online to read the report where as I like to take pdfs with me, I read them on my laptop and psp so I don't have to be online, with your report I wouldn't be able to. I think it would be even harder to make a report where it's just online on one big page, you will have to go through making numerous anchor and hyperlinks in your page whereas most of this is so simple to do using adobe pdf or anyof the other pdf makers out there. If your way of thinking was more beneficial then everybody would be doing it that way but it's simply not the case, I'd say 99.9% of vendors who offer a pdf downloadable report do it like that for a reason, it works. In the end it's your product and your site so do what you want but the answer would be is that yes it is allowed but no it's not the norm.
Thanks alot of your input! My problem is I am a great marketer and a great writer...but the technical aspects of being a publisher are the ONLY things that are holding me back! I have made hundreds of thousands as an affiliate marketer, and of the stuff that I have bought, I can EASILY make a much better product myself! I think that I am a great marketer...but the technicalities of publishing, make me a bit uneasy. Any suggestions of what I should do?
nice to see someone with so much determination. i would suggest that you just concentrate on the part that you do best and outsource the rest. Its a waste of time to try to learn everything when you can easily have it done by someone experienced in the field at cheap rates... cheers!
That's a great suggestion, if your having problems compiling the report and this is the only thing that's really holding you back then just outsource it to someone as it won't cost buggar all and you can carry on writing and building sites. It's really not that bigger jump from being the affiliate to being a vendor.