But this is an eBook, so it's not really a high dollar item. I sell it fairly cheaply, but I could beef it up and sell it for more. In my case I was trying to keep it cheap as I felt that would generate more sales as I was getting started. But what is considered a good price for an eBook? Does anyone have any feel for the target amount of many of the affiliates?
yeah man they is a difference between you selling your ebook from from single site and 100s of people selling your product. Without Dealers GM and Ford is nothing. so go for it
Well, I don't know whether you would agree with this, but me as a vendor of an ebook would probably want to try 50% and other levels and find the sweet spot, don't you think?
One thing I keep seeing overlooked in this thread. How big is your market? Is this a product with wide appeal, or in a very narrow niche? If it is a very narrow niche, you may be better off selling and marketing it yourself. In a wider niche, with good appeal, it would make sense to have an army selling for you. The danger in your finding the sweet spot starting at 50%, is many affiliates will take one look at your offer since it is new, they will see 50%, and head for the next persons ebook. Especially if your price is low. It comes down to dollars and cents. Your affiliates are taking a risk of creating content, sites, spending a lot of time doing the promotion work for you, they want to be rewarded with substantial income.
Definitely, go with Clickbank, or hell go with PayLoadz.com that's where I started. However, you will be missing out greatly if you skip either of these. I did and I lost a bunch of potential sales as a result.
Well, this brings up an interesting point I think. Why not pay out 75+%? Basically anything I get from an affiliate is "free money" anyway, right? What I mean is that I can continue selling my eBook myself on my site (through Clickbank I assume) and so I don't see how I can really lose revenue, right? In other words, I've got nowhere to go but up, eh? Imo my market is fairly broad, i.e. if I could sit in front of a random crowd of 100 people and give a little speech I could hold the attention - trust me - of about 20% of them easily.
Payloadz?? Sorry, I've never even heard of that. How do you know which is bigger? More suited to your niche?
Check the terms of service on both places. You might be able to run the offer on both sites, and see which one converts best for you. You might find it makes sense to do both. Most likely there are affiliates who use one, and not the other. Sounds like you're on the right track, with a higher percentage, and a good market to appeal to, you might attract a bunch of affiliates, and get a good bump in income.
And I really have nothing to lose, right? The reason I'm asking is that I was reading the other day some hypester who was describing ways to find ebooks in clickbank. He then was talking about ways - I think legitimate - to redirect the sales page and even the thank you page and stated that he "could get all the sales yourself". Now I don't know what he meant by that, but I guess I'm basically asking if there's any way to game clickbank to where a person like myself does not get his sales or maybe that it would even hurt his sales? And thx for the advice btw...
He's not going to be able to redirect away from the Clickbank sales pages, unless they are coming from one of his pages. I cannot think of any way he is going to steal sales from you directly, or easily from other affiliates, without having malware of some sort installed on the buyers computers. But I'm no expert on that issue. I cannot think of any reason you would not want to at least test the waters on Clickbank. You have every right to remove your product at a future time, if it either proves unprofitable, or is creating problems for you.
That's what I figured. What did you mean, though, "unless they are coming from one of his pages"? I thought the sales page was on my site, right? So he can't have a sales page of my book on his site, can he? Or am I not understanding something about clickbank? Btw, thx for the time.
That would make sense probably but I know that many affiliates don't even look at a product unless the payout is real good. I'm not a big baller over at clickbank... I sell under 400 ebooks from them a month so I may be a poor example of the guys that do real well.
Whisper999, As long as the link is coming from your site, you could attempt to keep the move to Clickbank in a frame, or use some type of script which could give the effect of sending the buyer to your Clickbank page, and then redirecting them away. There would not be much advantage to it, that I can think of. Jax, I started laughing, only 400 books per month, and you're saying you are not a big player. I imagine most people only dream of selling 400 books per month from Clickbank. I know there are much bigger sellers, but that looks pretty impressive to this guys eyes.