Argentina is a great market, it is simply illogical to lose all the Argentinian customers. Add Argentina to the list of allowed countries.

Having just stumbled upon this post now and cringed at the first mention of “videos”, then cringed again and again and again as others supported the use of video tutorials/guides; I take it that my contradictory view on these is not going to feature in the “popular vote”!!!

That notwithstanding, the heading above reads “Leave a Comment” so that is exactly what I will do! LOL

I am personally dead set against the concept and implementation of video tutorials for two main reasons:-

1. #2 took way too long to write so I’ll *TRY* to keep this one short and to the point!!!

VIDEOS cannot be “searched” nor can they be printed out, nor can they be ’scanned’ or ‘browsed’ over, and … no matter what anyone says, videos simply cannot contain as much of that ESSENTIAL ’stuff’ called DETAIL!!!

Like myself, there is a fairly large percentage of the population who only ever refer to “The Manual” as and when needed and even then only for that moments 1 or 2 very specific bits of information. In my most humble opinion *g* … absolutely nothing can or will ever beat good old plain and simple TEXT and when it comes to larger organisations, especially ones who have large “user groups” as you do … then the implementation of a WIKI is, to my meaning, the very best solution from every viewpoint!

2. Little or no thought is ‘normally’ given to the highly frustrated end-user who just happens to live in a country/town/area/etc where the word “broadband” is little more than a vicious rumour and who, like myself until just 2 days ago, has to contend with an unstable internet link which varies between 0 and 32Kbps (or thereabouts) download speed/throughput. Tutorial Video’s are simply not an option in this case as the stream would more often than not time-out, and downloading the videos would take way too long and/or eat up way too much prescious bandwidth.

Now before I get “flamed” from on high … I “intentionally” used the word NORMALLY in the first sentence above because I would obviously never dare to suggest that CB might blunder as heroically as some other companies have and are still right at this very moment … and who, I might add, are blissfully unaware of the fact that they are CONSTANTLY losing out on sales/signups/affiliates/clients/etc.

The most obvious culprits are, Indiscriminate use of unprofessional video capture and editing resources, little or no optimization done on the video files, not offering multiple “resolution quality” (file size) versions of each video file, and failing to label/name or indeed INDEX each of their video files.

WORSE than any of those however is my last point!!!

VERY VERY OFTEN when a company has decided to go the video route, they are so proud of their videos that they ignore/forget about/discard/delete/burn any and all other resources which, as I hope you can now appreciate, leaves a whole bunch of us … in the lurch!

*jumps off the soap box and smiles … innocently*

LOL Sorry bout the ESSAY … been awake/working solidly for 72+ hours and the brain is “wandering”! *g* I do hope that at least some of it made some sense to someone!

All the best
Grant

I think this is a very good idea. The learning curve for newcomers is a steep one, so it is important to make it as easy and clear as possible.

We don’t want them to get discouraged and give up. I think one way to prevent this is to help and guide them as much as possible.

Rich

I have to come back again to clickbank and read more to understand. Promoting and improving new idea is most welcome. E-mail to new comer is also is agood news.

For benefit for buyer, seller and promoter, I would like to give and idea if clickbank could set up a step by step video in Youtube.

I think with that you can increase affiliate.

Thank you.

The Clickbank initiative to send an email out to starters is certainly very welcome. Having read the sample online of: “The Top 5 Beginner Affiliate Questions” this is exactly what is wanted. Well done and thank you.

May I ask one simple and what may appear to be a really stupid question? Clickbank clearly is a vehicle for handling payments as a result of sales as an affiliate which I understand and provides a source for information on numerous publishers but does Clickbank actually promote an affiliate within its site or does the promotion have to be through a website or Google Ads or Blogs etc etc?

Thanks!