I publish products in the investment niche and I've noticed a significant lack of successful recurring billing products. There's the one huge one, but not much else. Aside from the huge one -- I'm sure you know who I'm talking about -- there's a few with a gravity around 10, but most have a gravity less than 3. I'm confused as to why more publishers aren't producing recurring billing products. The investment niche is perfect for recurring billing. Outside of CB, the investment niche is full of newlsetters, membership sites, etc -- many of which are extremely profitable. A valuable recurring billing product can be much more lucrative, in the long-run, than a standard product. Think about earning a commission of $10 or $20 every month per conversion, for a year or more, instead of earning a one-time commission of $30 or $40. It seems to me that adding long-term value is a much more lucrative proposition to both publisher and affiliate instead of a one-time sale. I might be missing something, but is there a reason that there are so few successful recurring billing products in the investment niche?
I've never received any recurring commissions for doubling stocks and i've sold over 200. (25% refunds). very strange..
I've never sold any, so I can't speak from experience. CB lists them under recurring billing products and I've seen the same label applied across a few CB analytics platforms. Don't they have a back-end? Maybe that counts towards a recurring billing product. I don't know... Either way, there aren't many successful recurring billing products in the investment niche. Yet, many, many recurring billing products are launched in the investment niche but never make it above a gravity of 2 or 3. Maybe the market is saturated for this type of service in this particular niche...
I'm in the investment niche and have a recurring subscription product - wallstreetwindow.com. I'm not on clickbank and have lurking here for the past month thinking about using clickbank to start an affiliate program for my site. I've been running this site for 9 years and consider myself an expert on this niche. My take is there are two reasons. First it takes a lot of work to run a recurring financial subscription product that it is worth a customer money. My impression is that most of the successful clickbank publishers have experiience publishing multiple products in different niches that aren't recurring. Ebooks etc. They aren't really suited to run a recurring investment product. The product you mentioned I think I have looked at and studied and think it is probably a subpar product, but has a great conversion rate because of the marketing of the page. SEcondly - the people in the investment niche for the most part are not using the same marketing techniques that IM marketers are using. Most of the large investment newsletter companies were around before the internet and have brought their direct mail businesses to the internet and market the same way. Gather leads, email list instead of snail male list, sales letter to email list. Very very few have affiliate programs of any kind. I can only think of half a dozen large investment sites with affiliate programs to them and none of them are on here. That is why I am thinking of putting mine up here. Be curious to know what your experience is on here with your products?
Another thought too - from an affilaite marketers standpoint. They may rather make $30-40 or more on an initial sale rather than lets say $10 for a recurring payment - they may rather make a smaller amount upfront than more spread out over months in order to pay their ppc and other marketing costs back immediately. In other words given a choice of making $40 now or $10 and then $50 spread out over months they rather just take the $40 pop and turn that money over quicker.
Im surprised there aren't any sucessful reccuring forex products like Forex Killer or The forex auto pilot system.