While a lot of people here are publishers, I am sure that there are a few merchants out there on DP. Please do us publishers a favor. When you list your items on ClickBank, please describe your item using a few keywords related to the available sales support content, AND NOT just what the publisher will get out of it. I am tired of searching for products manually to see which products have for example, autoresponder messages to use or banners, and coming up with only PLR graphics and Email Millions in the results. I see lots of product descriptions such as " Affiliates get rich every day with this product". That tells us nothing, and only shows up in browsed results. It would do individual products who take this advice good, understanding that affiliates SEARCH the CB database for products, and that tools are important to us, should be basic taken advantage of knowledge, but even the most seasoned merchants have ignored this fact, laughably, most commonly amongst Internet Marketing and SEO products. That's my two cents. Anyone agree?
I agree w/ you about tools and providing tools being very important. However Clickbank only allows you a certain number of words to describe your product to affiliates. And being also an affiliate, I can tell you that I don't ever do my searches based on what available tools are in the description. Most affiliates search for products that are in the niche they are promoting. So it only makes sense that a merchant use as many highly searched keywords in the description as possible. Which leaves no room left to describe available tools. Maybe clickbank should provide radio boxes next to every description that can be checked off for the different tools available - like emails, banners, tracking or whatever.
Thank you for bringing up about tools. I am a Clickbank merchant but am very amature as far as providing tools for affiliates. I have a few banners and recommendations, as well as a special affiliate center where affiliates can sign up and receive stats and an instant email every time they make a Clickbank sale. But that is the extent of it. I am in a niche that is for the most part not too well-known as yet.
Yeah, I agree. You'd think that publishers would be smart enough to realize this? Affiliates are the ones doing the promoting, you don't need to pitch to them, just tell them exactly what you have to offer!