The Secret of Our Success
June 24th, 2008
Posted by: Dush Ramachandran, VP of Sales and Business Development
At parties and social gatherings people often ask me what I do, and I tell them I work for ClickBank. This answer is usually greeted with a puzzled look and a quizzical “Who?” But when I tell the ClickBank story, the puzzlement is often replaced by wonderment and admiration, and the inevitable follow-up question is “What’s the secret of ClickBank’s success?”
Even though the person asking the question is always different and is perhaps expecting a different answer every time, I answer the question in exactly the same way every time: “Our affiliate network.” If it weren’t for our incredible army of motivated and innovative affiliates, all of the hard work we’ve put into ClickBank over the years would not amount to very much.
It is our simple, low-risk approach to becoming a ClickBank affiliate that causes an average of 2,000 people to sign up for a ClickBank account every day. And a fair number of those people go on to become successful and earn a decent income from ClickBank. Some of our affiliates have even completely replaced their traditional income with their ClickBank earnings. With over 110,000 active affiliates generating revenues, ClickBank’s affiliate network is truly at the root of our success.
We think affiliates are so important to our success that we’re going to be at the Affiliate Summit in Boston on Aug 10 to 12, and our CEO Bob King is going to be on a panel discussion about trends in affiliate marketing. If you’re planning to attend the Affiliate Summit this year, come see us at Table 23 at the Meet Market on Sunday Aug 10, between 12:00 noon and 6:00. We’d love to meet you, and say thanks for being the secret of our success!
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Hello,
I am a Click Bank Agent for over 5 years now. But unfortunately I hardly earned any money, even though I advertise my Click Bank Links at many places. But in spite of all this I am not successful. I have a strong feeling that people when they like a ClickBank Product advertised by any CB Affiliate, will change the Hop Link to theirs and Buy that Product. So when anyone changes my hop link with theirs, I lose commission and only the Buyer gets commission.
This can be avoided by removing automatic CB Affiliate Enrollment. May be I am wrong, but that is my opinion.
Thanks
Murali Krishna A
Sweet. CB does it’s best to take care of its affiliates.
Hello Murali Krishna A,
Erwin here. I totally agree with you. I have found
a few solutions to your dilemma if I may suggest
no.1 – Not cloaking aff URL does not work, they
can always change it once they see its clickbank at check out right?
no.2 Use an affiliate product that dont display
an affiliate sign-up on the page.
no.3 remedy I do is create a landing page and offer
my visitor free ebooks and lot of other useful ebooks
if they order using my AFF URL link which the others don’t offer , others may call it unfair advantage, but we have to think of ways to gain trust of clients.
no.4 know where the most effective and responsive advertising are, do not go for all the free ones, although I have a few effective free ads.
What kept me going on despite these challenges is one saying from I dont know who, he said “If Its To Be, Its Up To Me”
Good Luck everyone happy clickbanking….
ERWIN PASCUAL
i am from indonesia, and what a pity, i cannot register with clickbank affiliate program. Help me….
I signed up for Clickbank a few months ago and I love Clickbank.
Well, I have heard that “people will steal your link” concern many times.
The solution usually boils down to one thing…value.
Provide value to your visitors, gain their trust, build a relationship with them…and they won’t be worried about “stealing your commissions.”
However, with that being said…
I wish Clickbank would come up with a system to disallow affiliates to buy products with their own affiliate link…and gain an unauthorized discount.
That should not be allowed.