There are affiliate programs and services that allow you to offer their products and services at no cost to you. The premier site for this is ClickBank, a source of digital downloads of eBooks and software. When you sign up and create a unique account, you can create affiliate links for products you wish to promote that will earn you a commission when a customer clicks on your link and buys the product.
In order to attract people to view your offer and click on your affiliate links, you’ll need to "pre-sell" them and direct them "read more about it". The best way to do this is to write short, informative articles related to the benefits of your affiliate product and put those articles in front of thousands of readers.
Having an affiliate website business is an important step toward making money online from the Internet. As an affiliate business owner, you are probably in the process of researching the Internet in order to find the perfect affiliate program that will make you money. In fact, you are probably overwhelmed about the various choices. The general commission rates for physical products are in the range of %2 to %5 with %2 being the norm. The reasons for such low commissions stem from the fact that physical products require huge sums of capital to produce, to store, to invoice and to deliver. Hence, you need a very strong logistical and financial background for the sale of these physical products and thus the profit margins are low.
However, you are not without options as on the face of these facts you can become an affiliate of digital products. With digital products, the usual manufacturing costs, storage costs, and delivery costs do not apply. In addition, the corporate taxes, Value Added Taxes etc. do not apply to most of these products and hence this allows for a higher commission rate on digital products that you can directly download.
ClickBank offers you all of the above including a safe internet environment for you to become an affiliate of the thousands of digital products available there. ClickBank is one of the first and oldest affiliate program on the Internet. Through ClickBank, thousands of people have made millions of dollars in the last decade by the sale of digital products. These digital products range from various e-books on a variety of subjects to polling solutions, e-investment solutions, etc. The commission levels in some products are as high as 75%, as the production costs are negligible and all products are delivered immediately by downloading them.
Thus, by becoming an affiliate of ClickBank, you can become an affiliate of the thousands of products that are found in ClickBank. You are not limited to a single product range and this greatly improves your chances for income. However, you need to make sure that you are comfortable with the products that you may be marketing. Although, all of the products on ClickBank are digital products, you need to sift through thousands of products to choose the ones that you are comfortable with. Then you sign up with the producer of the product through ClickBank, by applying to them. In most cases, you are automatically approved and you can start selling those products right away.
Once you make a sale, then the appropriate commission is transferred to your ClickBank account. You can make money as soon as you sell your first product at ClickBank. In case, you may be worried about the technical aspects of preparing a ClickBank affiliate website; you can always get help from EZ Affiliate Website Builder. This way, you can have your ClickBank Affiliate website up and running in couple of hours.
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I usually don’t have a site dedicated to a Clickbank product, I create a link in my article copy or use a resource page. When I use a resource page I talk about one of the Clickbank programs and then provide a link to it with my affiliate ID attached (and cloaked).
Hello Jorge, Nice overview on having a Clickbank Affiliate site. I was wondering if you had any plans for a post on product selection. I was thinking in terms of showing the best way to select based on %sales, %referred, gravity, etc. It would be great to get the real info from someone who actually knows what they’re talking about (that’s you Jorge). Thanks again for the wisdom and honesty in the advice you give. Mark
@ Luanne, that is another good way of promoting ClickBank products.
@ Mark, you’re welcome. Yes, I have a post ready for tomorrow
the post will talk about How to Determine the Best Affiliate Products to Promote.
Also, I suggest you look at these posts:
http://www.ezaffiliatewebsitebuilder.com/blog/3-great-strategies-for-finding-new-niches-for-your-affiliate-websites/
and
http://www.ezaffiliatewebsitebuilder.com/blog/how-to-make-money-with-ezawb-creating-clickbank-review-pages/
On the last one I talk about a site to look for ClickBank products were you can determine %sales, %referred, gravity, etc.
Jorge
Hi Jorge,
Thank you very much for your timely advice.I learning alot from you am confident that soon i will be an expert in web business.
Michael.
Michael, you’re welcome