A Step by Step Guide to Creating A Affiliate Program with ClickBank

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1 A Step by Step Guide to Creating A Affiliate Program with ClickBank Elizabeth Redd 1 P a g e

2 Content 1. Affiliate Program with ClickBank 2. Introduction 3. Content 4. ClickBank 5. Sign Up 6. My Product 7. A Payment Link 8. Save changes 9. My Product 10. Special Affiliate Pages 11. An Affiliate Newsletter or List 12. Apps to Help you Run Your Affiliate Program 13. Pricing Your Product 14. Consider a Higher Commission Rate 15. Wrapping It Up 16. Conclusion 17. Important Legal Information 2 P a g e

3 Introduction Marketing is forever altering and evolving. And while some of you may state' progressing? seriously?' Yes it genuinely is for the serious marketing professional. Marketing has never been complimentary, so when the opportunity pertained to make use of the world's greatest affiliate program as a significant complimentary marketing tool you can wager business opportunists and innovators were all over it. It was never ever going to last permanently. Nothing worth having is ever that easy! And believe me the chance in front of us is to utilize the power of ClickBank to catch our prospective customers attention with this FREE marketing Tool has actually never ever been greater. Individuals are more attuned to marketing messages, they're far more likely to click an advertisement or a sponsored story than they were a couple of years back. The algorithms are more advanced making sure that real and quality material gets direct exposure while spam, rubbish and laziness is disregarded. This is excellent news for the major marketing professional/ company owner. If you're searching for a technique, a fast fix or something you can do with minimum effort, please put this report down now. As it's not for you. If you're prepared to put in a bit of effort, have interest about your business and your clients and desire to enjoy the rewards for your efforts, then keep reading! ClickBank offers you opportunity to make substantial amount of cash and to have the freedom of possessing a viable home based business. By utilizing this business with the intention of leveraging your company and sales is a fantastic thing. 3 P a g e

4 ClickBank is a fantastic chance to earn possibly significant amount of money and to have the freedom of possessing a viable home business By joining an affiliate program and promoting offers to site visitors and/or an advertising list, affiliates earn some kind of payout. While there are lots of methods to make cash online, affiliate marketing is one of the most financially rewarding, and has unlimited possibilities one of the finest methods to create an online company with extremely little start-up expenses. ClickBank.com is one of the easiest places in which you can sell your products and allow affiliates to sign up to sell your product. When you first get to the home page of ClickBank you will see that you can: Sell Your Products Become an Affiliate Read about Their Platform Browse Featured Products Above that area you will see: Gear Marketplace About Us Order Support Sign Up 4 P a g e

5 Login Blog You want to choose Sign Up first. Fill out all the information it asks for including your country, your contact information, and how you want to receive s. You'll also pick a ClickBank name and ID for your access to your account. You will use this if you want to sell other people's products and services. Your nickname will be visible to everyone who sees your products so choose wisely danilovesrex is probably not a good choice. You'll also need to choose a strong password to keep your account safe. ClickBank guides you in this process. In addition, you'll need to choose a Payee Name. This is who the checks or electronic payments are made to. Write down all the information you choose to input so that you won't forget your password or user name. Finally, you'll need to confirm. An will be sent to the you provided within a few minutes. If you don't get it within just a few minutes check your spam folder. Click on the confirmation and sign in with your username and password. When you sign on for the first time, you'll need to go to Settings to enter in your Tax ID information. Just click edit, then enter the number you want to enter. It could be your social security number or your employer identification number (EIN). If you're outside of the USA you may have a different requirement but since you entered your address it will all be set up according to your home country. Also under Settings is a link called My Products. 5 P a g e

6 To set up your products in order to start your affiliate program you'll need to click My Products. When you click My Products you'll be taken to a page that enables you to set up your products. Before you can have an affiliate program you'll need to have at least one product uploaded and approved. You have choices of what type of products. Your choices are: Standard Products - These are products like ebooks, videos, anything just available for a one time purchase. Recurring Billing Products - Anything you want to bill on a recurring basis such as membership sites. PitchPlus Upsell Flows - This is a great feature that allows you to create upsell flows up to 3 levels deep. It's great for cross selling other people's products too if you're a Joint Venture Partner with them. Shipping Profiles - If you offer physical goods, you'll need the shipping profiles. Before you go further you need to have some things finished on the back end, including: A Ready Product - Something you'll be able to sell from your own server and hosting account. A Pitch Page -This is your sales page. You can have a mobile friendly pitch page or just one pitch page but you must have one. You must include everything that ClickBank wants you to include which is in detailed in their directions and could change over time. The pitch page needs a product description, the price of the product, how they'll be billed, and when and how they'll get their product. In addition, you need to explain exactly what form the product will be delivered in, is it a zip file, a Word document, or something else. Don't forget the disclaimer required by ClickBank. Simply cut and paste it in. 6 P a g e

7 A Payment Link - Creating the payment link can be a bit confusing at first but it's really pretty simple. You can download an image for the ClickBank Payment Button and see more instructions about how to create the payment link here. The payment link goes on the Pitch Page. It includes your product number, your product ID, and other information. The link above gives you examples of how to create the order and payment link. A Thank You Page - In addition, you need at least one Thank You Page, a regular one or a mobile friendly one. Follow all the instructions that ClickBank provides as to what should be on the Thank You Page, including instructions to download the product, or the download link for your product and a way that customers can contact you if they have problems or issues. Let the customer know that the charge will be from ClickBank instead of your business, and how much, as well as any other information you need to include about the product. Note: You should also remember to test the Payment link. To do this: Go to the My Site link and look for Testing Your Product to generate a test credit card number to ensure that your links work and that customers will be able to pay for your product. Do this before going further. If you need help, ClickBank offers some guidance and help in this matter. Look for Need More Help on any page in ClickBank to get more help from ClickBank as to what should be on your Pitch Page and Thank you Page to be in compliance with ClickBank's rules and guidelines. Once you have created these pages, save the URL's so that you can insert them in the form as required. Setting Up a New Product When you click on each tab item you're given other choices. When you click on Standard Products if you look to the right you'll see Add New Product. Click this to add a new product. If you have your product pages ready, simply fill out the form on the Standard Product Editor which opens when you click Add New Product. Here, you'll fill in what you want to give for commission to your affiliates. The standard is 25% but you can offer a custom commission amount up to 75.0%. 7 P a g e

8 Once you've provided all the information they ask for regarding your new product, you click save changes, then you'll be able to finally request product approval. To get product approval you'll need to submit it by clicking Approval Request Required then filling out the requested information. Notice there are two places you can use to submit an approval request for your new product. A new form will appear, fill in the areas as required. You'll be asked to describe your product, as well as state whether you created the product yourself or not. Follow all requirements for your product pages before asking for approval. Ensure that you have the ClickBank payment code correct for the purchase link and that you include all the required content in your Thank You Page to ensure prompt approval. Always double check. Don't skip testing product checkout first. Go to the My Site link and look for Testing Your Product to generate a test credit card number to ensure that your links work and that your customers will be able to pay for your product. Finally, click Submit Product Approval Request. 8 P a g e

9 Once you submit your product for approval, you must wait three to five days for product approval before you can begin selling products or attracting affiliates. ClickBank expects you to host your products on your own server and that includes your Pitch Page (Sales Page) as well as your Thank You Page. The alternative is that you can sign up for ClickBank Powered Platform where information entrepreneurs that sell their information products can get more help with selling their products easier and quicker. Once you've received approval for your product, you can move forward with setting up your ClickBank Affiliate program. Once your product is approved you can upload up to 20 images per product. Ensure that your images meet their guidelines, and they'll be approved within a couple of days. Having an affiliate program can help you get more sales than you can alone. It's a lot like duplicating yourself. As you were creating your product you filled out what percentage you wanted affiliates to earn. If you don't remember doing that, click on My Products and look under your list of products, click My Site -> Marketplace Information. Here you can click Edit, and then update the marketplace description of your product as well as the commission rate. Tips & Tools For ClickBank Affiliate Program Success Clickbank allows anyone to search the Marketplace for products to promote but there is no real recruiting happening. You should recruit your own affiliates and you can make recruitment easier if you offer the right tools for affiliates to succeed. You can recruit via your blog posts, social media accounts, forums, mastermind clubs and more. If you know a super affiliate who markets products like yours, try sending them a free review copy to see if they might decide to promote your product. Don't just sit back and wait, go out and find affiliates yourself. 9 P a g e

10 Providing tools for your affiliates to sell your products is an essential part of making your own affiliate program a success. Since ClickBank is its own separate entity from your business, you'll need to set up a lot of this on your own outside of ClickBank. Special Affiliate Pages Provide your affiliates a special webpage on your website so that they can grab more images, understand which keywords work best to attract buyers, and product information to help them with selling your products. When you create your affiliate webpage include as much of the following as you can. How to Instructions - Not everyone will be familiar with ClickBank so it's important that you explain to them how to sign up with Clickbank and how to use their special ID to alter your links so that they can get a commission. Graphics, Banner Ads & Buttons - Beautiful graphics will help affiliates want to market your products more. The easier you can make it the better. If they can just cut and paste, and modify the code to include their HopLink so that they can collect the commission, all the better. Suggested Keywords - Letting your affiliates know how to market your products is always a good thing, suggesting some keywords for them to use to purchase pay per click ads is a nice and helpful thing to do. FAQ - Providing affiliates as much information about your products as possible will help them generate their own marketing materials to market to their customers. The more information you can provide the better. Tips & Insider Information - Always giving your affiliates information about affiliate marketing in general and how best to promote your particular products and service is a good thing to do if you want your affiliates to be active. 10 P a g e

11 Brandable Content - Creating content like articles, blog posts, ebooks, and even videos that your affiliates can brand as their own with their HopLinks embedded will help promote your products even faster. Testimonials - Allow your affiliates to use your testimonials so that they can better promote your products and services to their clients and customers. Putting as much information on your affiliate webpage as possible is important. You can make the page private with a password for affiliates only if you want to use a plug in like Digital Access Pass. However, you must keep enough of it public so that your potential affiliates know about it. An Affiliate Newsletter or List If you really want to motivate your affiliates to make sales for you it's a good idea to start up a special affiliate s only newsletter. You can use software like Aweber to create it, and ask them to sign up via your Affiliate Webpage for the newsletter if they want to get insider information, tricks and tips, and special early bird promotional information about your products. Remember that no one has to sign up for your webpage or your affiliate newsletter in order to be an affiliate through ClickBank, so you want to entice them to join by offering them a reason to join. Coupons & Promotions - Regularly send out coupons and promotions that your affiliates can use to promote your products and services easier. If only those affiliates who signed up for your newsletter get the promotional discounts and coupons it gives an added incentive to join, open and read the information to your affiliates. Product Education - It's also a great idea to use your affiliate newsletter as a way to educate your affiliates about your products. This will enable them to understand what you have to offer and know what is best to promote. Contest Announcements - Offering your affiliates contests to promote more and sell more is a great way to encourage more 11 P a g e

12 promotion and sales. You can be sure that your affiliates will be highly motivated to sell more if there are additional incentives involved. Updated Merchandise Announcements - Let your affiliates know when you've included a new product, more graphics, updated an old product, or discontinued a product. Many won't even know if you don't tell them, which can be frustrating to an affiliate if they're spending time and money promoting something that's suddenly no longer there. Buzz - If you've had some product related buzz lately, share it with your affiliates immediately. For instance, if you were on TV, a radio program, or you've launched something amazing, let your affiliates know in advance or as soon as possible so that they can use it in their own promotions. Instructional Videos - It's also a great idea to put instructional videos not only on your Affiliate webpage but also send them in your affiliate newsletter. Instructions, like how to set up your Clickbank account, how to change links to include their HopLink, as well as instructional videos about your product are all useful to include in your affiliate newsletter. Apps to Help You Run Your Affiliate Program There are also terrific apps to help you run your affiliate program with ClickBank. One such app is Easy Click Mate. It touts to help you build an army of affiliates helping you promote your products without knowing any code. You can also integrate Easy Click Mate with DLGuard, Easy Download Protector and Easy Click Guard as well as various auto responders like Aweber.com. With this app you can create a very easy customizable affiliate center that will make your affiliates want to work hard for you due to all the banners, graphics and tools you create with them. Another tool to use is called My CB Manager. This software helps you make sales pages and thank you pages easily. You can add new members easily, 12 P a g e

13 and provide affiliates with the tools they need to promote your products. You can segment customers from affiliates, and even turn your customers into affiliates. You can increase sales, build a customer base, and so much more using My CB Manager. The script can be installed on any server and is easy to use. Think about products you help promote for other people as an affiliate and what you'd like to be included to make your job easier and offer that to your affiliates. The more you offer your affiliates in terms of help promoting your products, the harder they'll work for you and the more money you'll all make. Taking the time to set up the affiliate program correctly and completely will pay off. Pricing Your Products When you create a product it's important to consider your affiliates when you price it. If you're giving a 25 percent commission but your affiliate is only making a dollar or less they're not likely to do much to promote your product. Base Prices on Value - What kind of value does your product offer the users? If you provide value based prices you can often charge a lot higher price than if you think about how many pages your information product contains, or other factors about your product. Instead, focus on value. How much value does your product deliver? Price accordingly. If the price is too high you won't get too many people buying it, but if it's too low, you may also make people think it's cheap and worthless. Test Different Price Points - On ClickBank you can have more than one version of your product so it might help to try to list your product at several different price points and commission percentages to test out how these various price points and commission percentages affect sales. 13 P a g e

14 Consider a Higher Commission Rate - If you have a digital product you can make your commission rate 75 percent and you won't really be out any money. If your product is a physical product, naturally you must price your product so that you still make a profit while sending out the physical product. Even if you just make a buck on a digital product, you've still made a buck. The important thing to remember when pricing is to not be afraid to test various pricing levels and commission levels until you find the sweet spot. You can even ask your affiliates for help once they are on your list. Affiliates love having their recommendations taken into consideration. After all, they're on the front lines selling your product to their customers. Allowing them input can only improve your products and sales. 14 P a g e

15 Wrapping It Up Finally, to have a successful ClickBank Affiliate program you must have: Your Own Product A Sales Page (Pitch Page) A Thank You Page A Delivery Method (can be the Thank You Page or Autoresponder) A ClickBank Vendor Account One Product Approved by ClickBank A ClickBank HopLink for Checkout Affiliate Training & Motivation It's really that simple. Follow and meet all of ClickBank's instructions and guidelines and you'll be set up in just a few days. You can get started today, and its completely free if you use the basic account and don't upgrade to the ClickBank Powered Account for Vendors. If you do choose to upgrade the cost is under $50 dollars per month. I hope this short report has revealed to you how you can develop your own Affiliating marketing program with the use of ClickBank. And if you thought it would take up all your time, you now can see how you can quickly fit Affiliate Marketing into your schedule. If you consistently invest an hour a day, I bet you'll be surprised at the results. 15 P a g e

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