How to use ClickBank to earn money
If you have a blog or website promoting your network marketing or MLM business, some additional affiliate marketing can bring you additional income and is an opportunity to bring a wider range of products to your customers. For example, if you’re in a health product-based MLM, you could include affiliate products like personal development programs, fitness programs, or even e-cookbooks full of healthy recipes.
One of the easiest places to start with affiliate marketing is ClickBank. I like ClickBank because they have a wide variety of products to choose from and the website is easy to use. You can also join ClickBank as a vendor and other affiliate merchants will sell your ebook or web course for you. You don’t even need your own website to start selling ClickBank products. Here are some step by step instructions to get started with ClickBank.
1. Go to ClickBank.com to open an affiliate account
2. Sign up by clicking on the “Affiliates” tab.
3. After completing the registration process, return to the home page and click on the “Promote” tab.
4. A list of all products will appear. You can browse products by category from the bar on the left of the screen or use the search button at the top to find all products.
5. Once you have a list of products, you can order them in a number of ways to help you decide which one to promote. The “order” button shown below has the following options:
Popularity: This ranks the products in order of which ones are most promoted by other affiliate merchants. Usually, a product is popular because it sells well, which is good, but if you have thousands of sellers selling it, you’ll have a lot more competition.
Severity: Severity is based on how many sales the product has and how recent they were; a severity rating of 30+ is best.
Average $ Per Sale – This is the average payment made for each sale to the affiliate marketer. This is not a good way to rank products, as the payment amount may not reflect how many people actually buy. Ideally, you need to promote a product with a reasonable commission – you’ll have an uphill battle to make millions selling $2 products.
Average % per sale: This is explained by the percentage of the sale price that is paid to the affiliate. Like $per sale, this is good for helping you make a decision when you’re stuck between two or three products, but it’s not a good way to rank them to begin with.
$futures – This lets you know if you’ll get future sales, i.e. if the customer signs up for a subscription or monthly payment. These can be good if you can find them because it builds residual income in the long run.
Total $ per sale: This is the price for which the product is sold; this is not the amount they pay you. The amount you receive as an affiliate is the average $ per sale. Please note that if multiple products are sold (ie upgrades, bonuses, downgrades), your actual commission may not reflect any of the figures in the information provided, so averages are calculated instead.
Referral %: This is the percentage of people who saw the ad for the product and then decided to buy the product. If you have a small list, you may want to go for a higher conversion rate to counteract this.
6. The best way to sort is by popularity or gravity. Vendor highlights are another way to help you find a good product, as they are featured ClickBank articles on certain products. You will see the provider’s featured link under the “Promote” button
7. If you plan to email people your product link, find a provider with pre-written sales emails that you can cut and paste—easy! Go to the provider’s website where you should be able to see affiliate tools like email letters, buttons, and banners.
8. When you’ve found a product you’d like to promote, click the green “Promote” button.
9. A new screen will appear asking for your account nickname that you entered when you signed up. You can also enter an optional tracking ID, but you don’t have to worry about that. When you click create, a link will appear that you can cut and paste to use. You may want to shorten the link using bitly.
10. You can promote your products by sending an email to your list of customers and prospects, pasting the link on your website or blog, or posting the link on your social media feed like FaceBook, Twitter, or MySpace. You can also make the link part of your email signature. Or, if they bought the product for you and you loved it, why not write a review on your blog? Soon you’ll be laughing all the way to the (Click) Bank!