besides the fact that i am not doing a lot with clickbank right now... Just a thought: (and pelase correct me if i am wrong) The majority of the clickbank programs have extremely high commisions like 75%. This means, someone (owning a site with sales letter and download capability) selling an ebook for, say $50. I, as the one providing a link to the site/product get 75% (!!!) of the revenue....so i am the one making money while the original person having written the book and owning the site only gets the remaining 25%. Does this make any sense ? Assuming the majority of all offers/products on CB and how they work....how is actually the policy...eg. if i just go and clone a site...or with very little effor direct-link to the OTHER download site for the product.. Basically pretending i am selling book X...but in reality merely re-use all the other resources and dont set up anything on my own..maybe write my own sales-letter...but then refer to the original page where the actually product is downloaded from (NOT my site) by the customer. Since it is the case that it still benefits the "seller" (even tho only 25% will go to him and 75% to me)...is this practice widely tolerated ? Or would i be in (legal) trouble since i only clone/mimik a site and claim i have found solution XYZ (as so many do on CB with their producst) ..but then just refer to the other guy ? I get my commision, he sells his thing...everything great. just my thoughts
I think I'm a little confused about exactly what you are asking about, but I'll try to clear this up for you and anyone else who might have questions with these following scenarios. For the sake of the scenario, it doesn't matter what percentage you make or such. Scenario 1: You direct link to the merchant's sales page. You make cash. Perfectly legal. Scenario 2a:You write a sales letter & host it to your domain, talking about how X product is wonderful and great. You link this to their sales page. You make cash. The preferred way of doing things. Scenario 2b: You write a sales letter & host it to your domain, talking about how X product is wonderful and great. You link this to their checkout page. You can do this, but you must have permission form the merchant first, as Andre explained in his blog here. Only advisable if the product you really want to promote has a terrible sales page. Scenario 3a: Without their permission, you copy the merchant's sales letter exactly, word for word, graphic for graphic, put it up on your site, & directly link to the merchant's own checkout page for the item. Illegal; plagiarism. Scenario 3b: With their permission, you copy the merchant's sales letter exactly, word for word, graphic for graphic, put it up on your site, & directly link to the merchant's own checkout page for the item, or have the merchant set up a "mini affiliate site" for you that mirrors their own. Legal, but not really much advantage other than tracking aside from direct linking to them. Scenario 4: You copy the merchant's site, download their ebook and put it up as your own on Clickbank. Illegal, unethical, and a very poor choice. There ya go, I hope this helps you and anyone else who might have questions along these lines. -T
correct me if I'm wrong: you want to create your own sales letter, then have a vendor account for yourself, then let customers purchase from you, and once they've purchased you send them to download the product from the original vendor's website? Or in any other way you want to send customers to the vendor's thankyou page. If I found out that you did this for any of my products I'd have your CB account canceled. You are bypassing the membership fee here... Don't make things complicated. Find a product that you like, promote it, and make 75% commission. 75% from $44 is $30... that's not too bad.
yes..there is no question what plagiarism is and i cant/dont want to "claim" someone's else's work as my own. There is also no point doing this - and the point is exactly the fact that the commisions are as high as 75% just by LINKING to them and maybe making a sale through a CB link. It just wont in my head that the owner of the original product is the one getting merely 25%..while any 3rd party non-related CB linker gets most of the money ? So..how would i go making money ? If i read the "classics" ebook in that area (RJ <- ) it sounds as the best way to do is selling some eboook, say i set up my site, sales-letter, encrypted download link and CB thank-you-page. I might spend some time writing some ebook or whatever. But seeing it as from that perspective that i (as owner of some ebook etc.) get only 25% i wonder whether this is at all worth it ? ASSUMING that most sales are made by many 3rd party people linking to my product via clickbank, THOSE people getting the most out of it...not myself. EXCEPT...if i have my own promotions for my own product....and i'd have *many* own websites running so i get enough traffic and sales where i can cash in the 100% of the product - THEN i can see the other people promoting my stuff as aditional income source (although only 25% will go to me), but it might add up in the long run. It's just something which strikes me as odd...and i try to see the benefits. MAYBE the benefit is that it is an enormous motivation for others to link to my product (teased by the 75% commision)..so the shear amount of people linking to me via CB is what makes the success...even if i only see 25% of what i could sell the product otherwise. short: the problem is the contradiction of stating how much money you can make with having some ebook to download....and the fact that its much easier and more profitable JUST to link/refer to someone instead having your own product.
Oh, okay I see.. you're saying why go to hard work to make a product that you might only make 25% of the sale on, vs it being easier to not have to create a product and sell others' products for 75%? The whole key is affiliates. If you do have a good product or a good idea for a product, you can make a killing. Say for example, I could choose to work as an affiliate and make 75% of 40$ sales for 30$ profit/sale, and maybe I could do reasonably well and make 5 sales a day for 5*30$ = 150$ profit/day. But what if alternatively I have a great product that I've done the research on and written a really great ebook on. Then say I tell people promoting it that they can get 75% of my ebook sale of 40$. So, let's say I do pretty well and I get 10 affiliates like myself who can make 5 sales a day. That's 50 sales a day, * 10$/sale. 50 * 10$ = 500$/profit/day. Sure, those numbers are made up.. maybe I have 50 affiliates making 1 sale a day, ... or maybe it's a hot hot market and I get something like 100 affiliates making 1 sale day... that's 1000$/day, and I don't even have to promote my own product, other than promote it to the affiliates who are going to do so for me So, the answer is, it's kind of a tradeoff decision A) how great a product do you think you can make in how hot a market, and B) how well do you think you can get affiliates to sell your product?
no..sorry for overcomplicating Well i didnt even think that far...as said no need...since the biggest junk of cash would go to me as referrer anyway...so why bother with "tricks" or whatever.
yes i think you brought it down to a point. the key is the shear number of affiliates, a great product and many interested affiliates wanting to link to me / selling my product.