Hey guys. I'm in the process of designing my site which will be selling digital products of my own creation. I've decided to use an Affiliate Marketing site rather than a standard shopping cart for 2 main reasons: 1 - Affiliates can help bring in business, build backlinks and spread the word. 2 - It seems quite easy to integrate shopping when I go through something like Tradebit or Clickbank. The question I have is not, "what affiliate network is the best"?, but rather: Could someone recommend me an affiliate program which allows me to place a "BUY NOW" button on my website, and have the prospect taken directly to their Paypal payment, or to a page which looks professional and trustworthy? I'm currently experimenting with Clickbank and Tradebit, but I'm aware that there are others. With Tradebit, I'm not keen on the prospect being taken to the Tradebit product page, but appearantly I can copy the URL from the subsequent Paypal payment page, and use that on my site instead. I hope someone knows what I mean here and can verify this is possible. I'm also interested in peoples views on Clickbank. Do you think the Clickbank payment page might put off some potential customers? Perhaps one of the other networks allow a vendor to create a BUY NOW button which brings the prospect directly to Paypal. Thanks for any advice here.
The clickbank payment page traditionally has been known to put customers off, but recently they have made some big changes - vendors can now have their own branded header and footer, and can also include a product image graphic so you can show your ebook, or brand there again too - this is a lot better imo and definitely shouldn't set off alarm bells as it used to You can check out my checkout page for an example, also I know http://www.earth4energy.com has one and I believe they are fully rolling this out as an option to all vendors now. I love clickbank, they have a lot of active affiliates and it is a very open system for new affilaites to be able to signup and promote you, but it is not magic - there is still a lot of work involved in actively recruiting affilaites too.
Thanks for the reply. It looks like the Clickbank Order Form has indeed been improved. This is very encouraging.
Hi Condra, If I'm not mistaken PayPal actually has the software to launch enterprise level e-commerce solutions. Try this link here I searched for in Google: https://cms.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/?cmd=_render-content&content_ID=developer/solutions Alternatively, you can look into Plimus E-Commerce which is a very professional platform with a built in affiliate network. It has a great support system, very secure and easily customizable with some basic html/css skills. Try searching Plimus in Google for that one. Alternately, you can try selling digital products across an array of affiliate networks (like clickbank ect.) to gain some additional exposure/linkbacks. Good luck!