Hey there everyone. Today is my first attempt to define what I want to do after I took a look at the clickbank marketplace and how to make money with clickbank products. My rationale for using clickbank in the first place is two-fold. First, I’ve bought many products from clickbank, so I know it works. Second, you get paid a higher commission that you would if you sent someone to Amazon.com. They pay a mere four percent, or something like that. That’s a lot of work for four percent. I am sure it’s worth it though when I take a look at all of the work that I am doing for a few clicks…lol.
The downside to the clickbank marketplace is that most of the stuff is crap on there. I’ve been told that and I’ve experienced it first hand. It’s probably true. But, that’s the experience I have a lot at the bookstore anyway. One of the books I looked at this weekend at my local borders was called How to Make Money Online with eBay, Yahoo! and Google. This book is available on Amazon.com. A whole four people reviewed the book. The first one said it was crap. I can confirm that at least in my opinion when you compare it to Griz and the Keyword Academy it doesn’t rise to that level.
So, the problem is not that clickbank marketplace offers crap, it’s that clickbank marketplace reviews are crap. It’s all in what you promote. Finding the good stuff would be hard without buying it all. The clickbank marketplace search doesn’t really help you out much. Then you have terms like gravity and stuff that I don’t really understand. Who cares? The question is this: Is it quality. All of us are happy to promote quality stuff that we like in a heartbeat.
I guess it’s possible that I could then do some searching and even ask for a review copy of what they are selling before I got it. I am guessing that they get a lot of those requests though and to tell you the truth, I’d probably be skeptical if someone I never heard of wanted a free copy. Let’s face it, make money bloggers are a dime a dozen, myself included.
So, after I wrote up my post last night about the Clickbank Startup, I laid down to go to sleep and my mind started working on what would be the best thing to do here to make money with clickbank. And here is what I came up with.
We’ve all been seeing these 100 item challenges. A hundred hubs in 30 days, a hundred blog posts in 30 days, how to pick up a 100 chics in 30 days, you know the story. And, I thought why not a hundred clickbank promotions in 30 days. Seemed like a good idea. But then, it dawned on me that maybe I couldn’t find 100 good products to promote on clickbank…lol. So, here is what I decided to do. I decided to treat this just like a blog experiment challenge. Here’s the plan:
- Write 100 original clickbank products. One every week.
- Make them short and concise, like 12 pages with some videos.
- Charge $12 per clickbank book
- Provide as much value as I can for $12 bucks
In the end, I won’t feel bad promoting something I don’t like or don’t know. I don’t want to recommend products I haven’t tested. But I can feel 100% comfortable about promoting something I’ve written and know to be true. Will they all sell, I doubt it. I might waste some time here. If it’s anything like the hub challenge what I will probably discover is that I’ll hit a topic here or there out of that 100 and it will take off, just like a hub and just like a blog page.
So, my plan for today is to do one simple task:
- Brainstorm my first product for the clickbank marketplace.
Got to run. Now go get some work done!
UPDATE: Made my first clickbank sale on September 9, 2009 for $25.97.
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I had a distantly related idea a few weeks back. Approached a couple authors selling ClickBank products for review copies. If they had answered back and said, ‘sorry, we don’t do that, do this and this and this, or read a review here or there’, I would have some respect. Instead, absolutely zero response from all except one who was using an outsourced customer support service whom I don’t think was even able to understand my email.
Lessons learned? All the ones who didn’t respond are off my possibilities list. Even worse than sending customers to a so so product, in my view, would be sending them to authors who are rude.
Number two … make liberal use of ClickBank’s return policy. Perhaps under a pseudonym. I don’t know at what point CB ‘shuts down’ purchasers who serially buy and refund, buy and refund, but authors who are rude certainly contribute big time to CB’s unsavory reputation in some circles.
Third take away … if I ever sell via ClickBank, provide absolutely top level customer service … that alone would differentiate my product from virtually any others out there.
So my thinking was kind of on track. Yes, I agree. If you are going to sell a product on clickbank, it seems to me that if you make an outstanding product that would go along way. It is such a great idea selling books electronically, that it seems stupid to have to hard sell all of them. Now that I’ve put it out there, just trying to figure out the best approach. I know that I’ve read clickbank will shut down customers returning to much stuff and I’ve pretty much ruled out asking for sample copies. Thanks for saving me a step.
You’re certainly welcome. A thought that goes wide of the origi
nal assumption is .. becuase there is certainly money to be made selling other people’s products on ClickBank does not translate directly to the conclusion that if one has his/her own product it should be sold on ClickBank.
Why not sell it on your own? another thought that I subscribe to is $12 is way too cheap … but then again, that’s kind of a personal decision. In my case, though, I wouldn’t even visit the landing page for a $12 product … I have, however, visited a lot of more expensive authors and ahve spent as much as $89 for something I was sure I was going to get a rate of return on.
Yes, as I research this option, it might not be an option to sell at a price of $12 through clickbank. There minimum might be $50.00. My thinking is that you sell on clickbank in order to attract affiliates that might push your sales through the roof. I too have spent my share of “big” money on programs I thought would make me money all on clickbank. It seems smaller how-to reports, which is what I had in mind, it might make more sense to sell those through another service like pay pal. In creating products, creating smaller pieces that eventually comprise a larger program seemed an easier hill to climb to an end goal. And then, if you are going to break your creation phase down into smaller units, you might as well make those parts available for sale right away to make money while you create it.