I'm new to Affiliate marketing and I've already had some success, making about 200 dollars in a few days. I've compared some of the various affiliate hub programs out there and it seems that ClickBank offers some of the lowest quality products I've ever seen. I could probably create better products and web pages (ebooks, how-to-guides, videos, software, etc) on my own and toss them onto the ClickBank site. Rather than sifting through the garbage on this site, has anyone had any success publishing on ClickBank?
Apart from the handful of clickbank millionaires and the members here who do this full time......no, no one
I am making good amount as an affiliate, Its more easy to be a affiliate rather than publisher. being an affiliate is all about getting targeted traffic and doing a quality presell it is as simple as that, here you investment amount is too low for testing were else becoming a publisher is lot more difficult there are tons of factor you have to look for..
Well, even though I'm not a ClickBank publisher (but do create my own products that I sell on my own for 100% profits), I do believe the exact opposite of what you're saying. Think about it - If you launch a best-selling product, you can have so many affiliates doing all the grunt work for you. Sure, the affiliates take out a big chunk of cash from each sale, but regardless, you're still making money. Yea, you have to do some upkeep and keep in touch with affiliates and other administrative tasks, but I would rather do that than put in all the work the affiliates do. Let's say your product sells for $100 and you give out 75% commission (or, $75 per sale). I won't get into CB fees and all that mess, as this is just a rough example, but that leaves you with $25 after the affiliates commission. Would you rather make 1,000 sales at $25 or a couple hundred sales at $75? As a publisher, you'll make more sales, because you have that affiliate reach, whereas if you're an affiliate, you can only make so many sales on your own. Eh, just my 2 measly pennies....
I totally agree with ultimate* as a publisher you'll have to build and maintain a GOOD relationship with your affiliates remember they're the ones making you money so the more you have and the happier they are the more you'll make. Yes there are some EXTRA costs and other factors involved as a publisher but at the end even if you offer 75% commission you'll be making not 25% of the sale but 25% of the WHOLE thing. Think about it.
Publisher will make more money in the long if the product is good. I would say start out as an advertiser to learn the business thoroughly then move into publishing. Once you know the ropes of the trade you will know exactly what to do when situations arise.
Get good at selling other people's products, then sell your own. If you can successfully sell your own, awesome, but you'll learn a lot from trying to sell someone else's product just about selling.
Long term it is better to have your own "quality product" being promoted by hundreds of others. It is basically free advertising having others doing the leg work.
Getting quality affiliates is not easy as it seems, in long run you not only have to keep good relationship with current affiliate you also have to collect handful new affiliates. check out this http://www.cb-analytics.com/ there are 14306 Inactive products compare to 7655 Active products. this clearly reflects that its easy to promote a good gravity product compare to launch an new one and invest coupe of thousands for product. Guys if you have good list or top ranking sites publishers will come to you asking for JV. I had done both affiliate marketing and published a product. I get good ROI in affiliate marketing compare to published product. I have my own views based on my experience may be you guys have your own views.
Not all affiliate sales get tracked mostly due to deletion of cookies and tracking problems. So as a publisher, you may earn 100% many times.
If you decide you want to publish, send me a PM Ihave two clickbank products that are ready to go that I simply do not have time to market. One is a Health related Ebook and the other is a technology ebook. Website ready, all you have to do is turn them on and start selling. Would consider partnership.