Is there any other online retailer besides Clickbank? Would you recommend to start with Clickbank or any other retailer? I also thought about Plimus. Plimus is an online payment gateway and I believe they support more payment options than Clickbank but you can't sell your product on their website. I'm also interested in selling subscriptions but I don't know how is this done. I noticed Clickbank and Plimus claim they can sell subscriptions to your website but what is the procedure to this? Let's say I have a private forum and I want to sell montly subscriptions to it, how can I do this with Clickbank? I also thought about third party membership website scripts. Any suggestions?
Paydotcom is another good place to start. It's easy to sign up,free to join, you can provide your affililiates with promotional tools and you can collect monthly subscriptions via Paypal.
Hi There - Simon from Plimus here! Setting up an affiliate-supporting account with Plimus is pretty simple. All you do is: - Sign up for an account - Upload details/deliverables for your products - Set each product to be available to affiliates - Invite affiliates to join the Plimus affiliate program You have control over commission rates, as well as being able to (for instance) create coupons and promotions specially for the affiliates, so that you become their favorite vendor! They also can have the products sold through a page that looks like yours, or one that looks like theirs, so that the right consumer branding is presented for maximum conversion. WRT subscriptions - these are actually no harder than selling perpetual licenses! When you upload your product/service, you simply define a contract for subscriptions, and we will take care of re-charging credit cards periodically, and of giving the consumer a place to cancel their account, where applicable. If you'd like some more specific info, feel free to PM me at simonj@plimus.com
Simon, It sound very interesting. However, ClickBank has a huge number of affiliates. With ClickBank you get the chance to sale your product to more people. I do agree that ClickBank has some weaknesses: I don't like the fact that ClickBank only pay by Check. I wire transfer is mandatory for us. I just read a nice thread here at DP: http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?p=6424965
For membership management, you may want to consider aMember. aMember supports a number of payment processors and website integrations. You can integrate it with phpBB, wordpress, vBulletin, etc... DLGuard can also do membership site. But last time I checked they can only do subscriptions with Paypal. DLGuard is designed more for digital product delivery though...