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Selecting a suitable product

To succeed with ClickBank, start by  searching for a product at the ClickBank Marketplace where several thousand publishers (vendors) display their products in an organized directory.

a) Look at the product price and commission rates

You should aim for products with a reasonable rate of commission, say 50%, to make your efforts worthwhile.
Be aware that ClickBank deducts transaction fees from a sale.

b) Is it an in-demand item?

The Marketplace listings are ranked by popularity, so you can see which are the in-demand items. Popularity is determined by a number of factors, the main being the amount of sales and the number of affiliates making sales over the last 8 weeks.

Note: a product at the low end may still turn out to be popular especially if it is new.

c) How effective is the sales page?

Visit the sales page of the product to confirm that the sales copy does a good job of selling the product. (There’s another important factor – sales page leaks – which we cover in the next section)
The next step to take to succeed with ClickBank:

Check out the affiliate support

The publisher should provide you with much more than just a link to join the affiliate program. Check for any useful promotional material (e.g. sample ads, articles, solo mailings, endorsement/reviews, signatures).  Ideally there will be an affiliate mailing list so that the publisher can convey useful news. You want someone reliable who won’t disband a program or make rule changes without telling you.

Warning – look for sales page “leaks”

As an affiliate you want the visitor to read through the sales page and hit that order button with you getting credit for the sale. There are a number of reasons why this does not happen:

1. There is an overt link to an affiliate sign up page. Your potential customer could simply become an affiliate and purchase the product himself.

2. The publisher offers multiple payment options so if ClickBank is not chosen you do not get the commission.

3. Your product is just one of many unrelated products on a page – a put-off for the potential customer. (The reason for this usually is that all the products belong to one ClickBank account which is restricted to only one affiliate landing page ).

4. There are many external links which distract the visitor from reaching the order page.

5. The publisher captures your commission. There are offers to join a mailing list or claim a free report: you should get credited for any sale ensuing from these leads but an unscrupulous publisher may follow up and make the sale via his own link.

Similarly the publisher may use a pop up upon exiting a site to convert a leaving visitor into a sale for which you do not get the credit.

Promoting the product

Once you are happy that the affiliate program is worth promoting and does not suffer from potential ‘leaks’ you can collect your affiliate link, known as a hoplink.  It has the format http://xxxxxxxx.publisher-id.hop.clickbank.net where you substitute xxxxxxxx with your nickname.  You should check the validity by clicking on it and following through to the ClickBank order page where you should see [affiliate=yournickname] at the bottom.  If not then you may have incorrectly formatted your hoplink or it’s possible that the affiliate program has been discontinued.

Link cloaking

The basic hoplink is not ‘protected’. A customer can simply substitute his own nickname and get commission for the purchase.  There are techniques and tools which can encrypt (or cloak) your hoplink to prevent link theft.

More Information

There was a famous bank robber in the U.S. in the 1920′s whose name was Willie Sutton. He was once asked why he robbed banks and is said to have replied, “Becaus that’s where the money is.”.

Willie’s reasoning underlys a very cool way to extort money from the internet.This method is often called the Google Commission Ritual method, or sometimes the Leech method. and has been taught as a way to quickly make money online in a variety of ways by a variety of gurus.

Basically, it involves targeting a truly ‘ready to buy’ internet researcher just at the time he has his credit card out and is ready to take the plunge.  It is proven way to  generate fast cash and recurring streams of passive income.

A successful sniper site can be making profit literally in days, and you could establish a whole network of sniper conversion pages online over a peried of days and weeks.

While the Google Cash Sniper method may indeed sound to good to be true, and in reality is not actually that straightforward, in can be done successfully if done properly.   Bottom line, you really need to know how it works, why it works and the best tools and techniques to make it work.

When you consider that 99% of internet searches are simply for information, it makes sense to target only those people who are really looking to buy something.

It’s particularly important to target those who may have already decided exactly what they want to buy, but are at the point of looking for confirmation, a better deal or a better supplier.

Consider how people do internet searches:

1. First, most people start by looking for general solutions to a problem or need
2. Second, they go through the process of narrowing available choices to the best ones for them
3. Third they are likely to make the final choice on what they need, which could be just information, or it may be an actual product they want to buy.
4. Then, they may be looking for final confirmation before they take the final buying step.

So, logic says, that you’d really like to somehow effectively intercept the ‘ready to buy‘ customer at the final confirmation and buying step. That way, you’d stand a really good chance to intercept or ‘snipe’ the sale provided you have a really compelling conversion page.  

So, sniping success requires these key elements:

• A great money channel sniping target that is keyword specific
• A place to snipe from, your top ranked website or blog
• The weapon, your compelling conversion copy
• The ammunition, your unique selling proposition

See Commission Ritual review for an example of a well constructed sniper site.

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