I have spent 1000's of hours building my self help business and I am about to launch it and try to promote PLR products, click bank products, and so fourth. I am curious how much money others out there are making. I don't want to be sold anything, just looking for realistic numbers from others who have put a lot of time into this. My feeling on CB is that if you spend 1000's of hours becoming an expert on internet marketing, SEO, PPC, and branding, you could make 100's of thousands of dollars. For example, to throw a few numbers at you. If I was selling a clickbank product that generated a 30 dollar profit for myself, if I managed to sell 1,000 copies of that product per month, I would be making $30,000/month. These numbers are totally reasonable. If I have a conversion rate of 2 percent, then if I managed to drive 50,000 people to my website each month, then I could easily make $30,000/month. So, in other words, to make enough money from click bank to support yourself, quit your job, and make real cash seems to consist of the following: Performing SEO properly on the right keywords. Pumping enough traffic to your site. Selling the right products. Branding your company right. If all of these things are true, there is no reason you couldn't make $50,000/month. People who don't make this kind of money don't make it most probably because they don't drive enough PROPER and targeted traffic to their site. And probably their site sucks big time, and looks like a high school kid coded it up while high in his garage. One thing about my web site that is better than any web site I have seen on the entire internet is I got rid of all the crap on the web site. 99.99 percent of all websites out there are filled with total and utterly useless crap all over the page. I am a hardcore software engineer and I am cool figuring things out, but people that can barely spell their first name, add 1 plus 1, or get their ass off the couch aren't going to be fiddling around with some crap websites 5000 links on their home page. They are going to leave the web page immediately when they see that crap. Another important thing to point out is that after a few 100 hours researching online shopping carts I realized that about 99 percent of them had WAY too many steps to checkout, taking users through unbearable and ridiculous clicks, disorganized information, awkward steps. If 100,000 people use these shopping carts, yet they efed up something so fundamental, I think it is obvious that people out there don't know that the hell they are doing. Want to know who did UI right? Look at the iphone. This is the first OS made for PEOPLE, not for programmers. What idiot in the right mind thinks that making people click through 500 buttons and becoming a programmer themselves just to figure out h ow to make a purchase is ever going to work? Treat people for what they are, make it easy, they shouldn't have to call tech support, they shouldn't have to figure it out. If you hit the nail on the head with those subjects, IMO, you could make 100's of thousands easily. This is exactly what I have dedicated myself to. I am pushing 100+ hour weeks now and have been doing this for the last 5 months. I started my company in January. Anyhow, good luck to you all! Anyone else generating large quantities of targeted traffic to their site using SEO and making a killing on selling clickbank products out there? Thanks.
Okay. You have a lot of "ifs" in that first post. Throwing out random numbers is nice (x traffic with x conversion ration equals $x per month) and spending hundreds of hours on it is also good, but at some point, you need to develop some high quality, unique strategies if you want to be really successful. I've had weeks of over $10,000 on CB, but not consistently. I also use several affiliate networks - Clickbank is nice but there are some very profitable niches that I have found in the CPA space...
You may not get enough replies here. Just go take a look at various successful clickbank products, say in health niche. Talking about SEO alone, do a search on google for those keywords. There will be a site at the top. The person who owns that site is the one making consistent sales. He may have many such sites, so he may be making a killing on clickbank. There are probably thousands of such persons at clickbank, and it isn't the only affiliate network out there. So yes, there are people making $xx,xxx per month promoting various products. Now this may sound obvious and funny but so was your question
Well, my question wasn't funny because when you read every single post on this forum, everyone wonders HOW to make money, and WHAT they can do to make money with clickbank, and everyone is selling something or telling us about how to make money. No one on here has really straight up said, look I quit my job, I make XXX dollars/month. Maybe because those people keep their mouths shut. But it would be nice to hear more from people who do well with clickbank. Just look at how many posts there are saying that people ARE STRUGGLING with clickbank selling. There are so many posts like that, and almost no posts where individuals just talk about their success's. So I am looking for more tangible stories, not theoreticals.
Because most people on this forum are idiots and don't make any money...but expect someone to give them a step by step guide to being successful.
Pretty much bang on lol. But to humor you: I quit my job xx years ago and started a design/media business servicing clients. Grew to HATE that and became my own client. Started flipping offers and making my own, and now make great money from xx different sources online. I didn't make it because I read all the shit on this forum, and yeah it is 98% filled with shit (sorry DP). I did it because it's a real business no different than a brick/mortar, and although I have no problems giving people helpful nudges or some sound advice when warranted, I'm sure as fuck not going to spill every last secret here just to prove DP has a few useful posters who bank... I did it because I want it THAT BAD! I did it because instead of waiting until shit is going really really bad and I was under pressure and needed to perform, I was the opposite. I am under pressure when shit is going WELL, and the better it gets, the harder I push, the less I sleep, the more I devote to that tiny teeny opportunity that showed itself to me. I did it because I was persistent with my failures and analyzing them in order to not repeat them. I did it because I was patient watching 10 campaigns die while 1 or 2 flourished... If you've done this much analysis from the forum you should know/see who the profitable members are, and I can name a good dozen off the top of my head that do six-seven figures who would also never just hold your hand all the way to the top no matter how nicely you ask or how frustrated you get. Don't forget this is a business, no different than offline, every day 1000's of business' start on and offline, and every day more than 95% of them fail (make that 99.8% at DP). Don't look at others, stop reading forums, do more testing until you find a profitable path, repeat while exploring and mining for your next one, overlap, repeat again... There's 1001 ways to make money online and everyone that is successful that I know has done it in their own unique way, not following guides or tricks but implementing anything that works and eliminating everything else that doesn't. *Also you'll never make your millions from one single campaign or source, or if you do you better know how to scale fast with more bank behind you than a bank. .02.
I like what your comparison says about going into an online business versus on offline business. Thousands of people start all sorts of businesses every day that fail, whereas some make it really successful. I would like to point out, however, why online is different for a few specific reasons, and I feel that these reasons give online business's a significant advantage over offline business's as far as difficulty, and chance to make big money, they are: 1) AN ONLINE BUSINESS HAS GEOGRAPHICAL REACH OF THE ENTIRE PLANET 2) YOU CAN WORK FROM ANYWHERE & PRETTY MUCH OUTSOURCE ANYTHING. 3) Startup and maintenance costs are extremely low. There is no way possible that a shoe store on the corner would be able to generate as much theoretical traffic as a website could by shear geographical reach. Not only that bug PULL marketing is so much better than push marketing. Traditional marketing through TV, radio, magazines, newspapers, the yellow pages are as good as dead.
It's the same as in real world. You'll find tons of liars here claiming they make $xx,xxx per month while they may not be making a fifth of that and might be under a debt of two hundred thousand dollars. Who knows? You can analyze the top ranking websites for any keyword/niche you are interested in. Study how they do it, analyze their backlinks, their pitching methods, etc. You won't find someone telling you exactly how they do it but all the successful sites are there for you to see. Even if someone tells they make a million dollars a year, you have no way to verify their claims. That doesn't mean this forum is useless. I owe all I learned to forums (especially DP, YES!) and blogs. Others may be shy of admitting but I'm not. If you got any question, you are free to make as many threads as you want. You WILL get good replies but try to post specific questions. Good luck!
While I tend to agree with you, that there are a substantial numbers of sites that take a ridiculous amount of time to ACTUALLY purchase a product...I disagree with your statement about the iphone OS being a "pioneer" into customer-friendly interfaces. However, you effectively made your point...and I especially like the rant about all the other websites being seemingly illiterate crap.