I am a new affiliate and been marketing Clickbank products for 3 months. Now I have been working hard untill I got good conversion rate and 2-3 sales a day. Then from 10 of September everything stopped (like what happended to many other affiliates). I would like to hear from experienced affiliates.. Are there problems of reliabillity with Clickbank? I read threads that proove it to be true... I guess no-one would like to drive full gas on neutral I'm raising up this thread because I dont simply want to check if there is any kind of technical issue, but I do want to know if you can basically manage to make good business with Clickbank?
There have been already 3-4 threads discussing this issue. Many affiliates are noticing a significant drop in sales, including me. We don't know exactly what's happening, it might be Clickbank having some issues.Noone knows for certain except the Clickbank employees
Of course you can make a good business with clickbank, just look through all the threads on this forum, there's more than enough proof of that. Do they have problems? The consensus would be yes but I'm more than happy to take the good with the bad....
But still, its not reliable enough to base a real business upon it, at least not as a sole source of income. Picture yourself depending on clickbank money and it stay for a month screwed up, which will result in loss of money for you - it will be like digging your graveyard. You need at least another source of income so that in bad times you can still eat and pay your bills
I'd have to disagree, I know people who make full time businesses solely with clickbank, these are real businesses that bank real cheques. The fact that there is the odd hiccup is just part of business, you would be hard pressed to find any business that doesn't go through an occasional blip every now and then, I mean take a look at the banking system is the US currently and what's happening there, it doesn't mean that you will stop using a bank does it? If you are solely a PPC marketer however then it's a totally different story. Any little "blip" can result in massive losses and I'd agree if you were solely relying on Clickbank and PPC then it may not be viable to base a real business on it (or at the very least it would be more difficult). However a cheap ass like me who doesn't rely on PPC it's much easier to handle these "outages" and still maintain a business (albeit a small one ) because I'm just using free traffic from the SE.
Everyone got his insight and rightly so, but im sure that you talk like this simply because of your lack of experience. (You most probably have another job, depend on the money on your parents or dont have any monthly rent and bills to pay) Obviously yes one can base his own business on clickbank, but thats very risky. And when i mean a business i dont mean a 16 year old kid making a couple of sales a day. By business i mean a real company with employees that need their salary and the ongoing expenses to run it. Never put your eggs in one basket, likewise never depend only on one entity, especially an entity like clickbank which messes with each update - this year clickbank reported at least 3 messups like this already so its highly unreliable....
Sometimes it happens that a product in the clickbank marketplace is bad reviewed by a mass of poeple especially in forums and when that thing happens you end up with sales stop, very few or none. I have experienced it. Go around the marketplace there are many products to market.
I'm leaving clickbank today after promoting them for almost 1 year. I'm going to promote cpa and other stuffs, I may come back to promote clickbank maybe after a year or 2. Right now, adwares and other problems are stealing almost 30-50 % of our sales. That's what I (think I) know. It also depends whether you are been attacked so you can't really promote to the fullest because the thief will notice you and come to attack you. That's what I (think I) know.
I still doubt that ClickBank is actually experiencing a problem, I see these threads all the time but it is just a smathering of affiliates with low sales. The major problem is people promoting programs such as Zango which chew up commissions by injecting their own affiliate ID's in.
Adwares? what is that? ok that's fine, Clickbank has been working just fine for me. if you want to make a living from CB (Absolutely possible) you have to know how to play the game. as simple as that.
I was wondering the same thing. Just getting started. I see others doing well with clickbank, so I decide to trust. Thanks.
Actually I have quite a good few years of this under my belt and my online business pay for my mortgage in addition to my kids schooling and more. By definition a business is not a " real company with employees that need their salary and the ongoing expenses to run it" .A business is nothing more than an activity performed for profit. It's really risky relying on one "entity" as you put it, that includes the millions that are stuck in the 9-5 cycle that a job offers but thats not what question was, it was "Is clickbank reliable?" So again I disagree that you can't solely rely on clickbank for a business, again I'm sure there are plenty of people that do rely solely on clickbank. In all the years I've been doing this clickbank have never missed a payment to me, I think they are very reliable. If you think it's so highly unreliable you should stop promoting their products or selling through them and look for someone else but the hard fact is that there is no one else out there like clickbank, remember no one is forcing you to use clickbank.
This conversation is pointless mate. You are just saying the same thing as me with different words and yet still disagree. Should a business be based on clickbank alone? Yes it can (Many Do) but its very risky, what if clickbank got sued or something? Never say never in today business especially online based once.... I understand your point since you have been getting clickbank checks for years, so do I, but if you dont have a secondary source of income then your business foundation is not good enough and thats a real problem. If this is really your case, I would give you the advice to invest some resources on a secondary source of income like commission junction, a web service or a portal based on advertisement for example. Thers no need to make your secondary source as large as your first but just enough so that if something goes wrong (and in some point and time it will) you can keep going and not return to a 9-5 job like many do. You will sure thank me later if you do so. Cheers
My first post was "Of course you can make a good business with clickbank, just look through all the threads on this forum, there's more than enough proof of that."......, you were the one who said that "its not reliable enough to base a real business upon it" to which I disagreed with........don't worry about the pointless conversation, there tend to be a tonne of these on the forum now a days But you could say that about any business, there are a tonne of "what if" scenarios that could apply both offline and online to any business, imagine what would happen if the US banking system hit the fan...... Yes and no, I'd agree if it's your sole source of income then it's not a good solid foundation but try explaining that to someone who makes money solely with clickbank and have cheques and the toys to show it Don't worry about that mate , I never said clickbank was my sole source of online income, I have adsense sites and paid advertising sites as well but even then that's really not diverse enough to be safe. My plan is to get rid of the mortgage and then look at offline opportunities whilst still maintaining the online presence but I'm always aware that my sites aren't really tangible and at the whim of Google can be gone at the push of a button. I now think we both agree that you can run a business solely on clickbank (as I stated in my very first post) but it wouldn't be a good idea to just rely on clickbank..... God.......I think were boring everyone........
Yes we look like 2 old folks that dont have anything to do lol Lets get some beer and drink on all the money that we lost because of the latest clickbank issues or whatever lol!
True.....I think we were so boring the person that asked the question only posted once then left.....lol
whatever u do dont put all ur eggs in the same basket ...... i know this has been said a lot of time ...but there is a reason ....things like this happen .... it is not an reliability issue with clickbank as many of us here r satisfied ..it might be some tracking issues ...