Are You a Female ClickBank Client?
Author: Beau Blackwell, ClickBank
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November 4th, 2009
November 4th, 2009
Posted by: Beau Blackwell, Community Manager
If you’re a woman who’s making money as a ClickBank affiliate or vendor, we’d love to hear from you! Please leave a comment below with your ClickBank nickname. Or, if you’d prefer for it to remain private, you can send an email to blog[at]clickbank.com with your name, ClickBank nickname, and any info you’d like to share about your success with ClickBank. We hope to hear from many of you soon.
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Glad to see this post because although I noticed a few women on affiliate forums it does seem to be dominated by men. However being an affiliate or vendor for clickbank is a perfect way for thousands of women to be able to work from home.
I stumbled on clickbank while travelling in Spain. We are staying in a very rural village whose main source of income is almonds, olive oil, wine, and vegetables. They already had those jobs covered within their families and there was little chance of us finding a steady income. The one thing we had going for us is that we had internet and our computers that we had dragged over from the USA with us. Determined to find a way to earn money on line I searched the internet for my answers. As you know, there are many scams out there but one name kept cropping up – clickbank so I gave it a go.
I started using clickbank in August 2009 and at first was not expecting too much. I thought it was only for the big guys with lots of money to spend on advertising.
I did not have a budget to blow on ppc so I started writing articles and watched the hits on my website start to increase.
There was a big learning curve for me as far as setting up websites and every day there seemed like there was another problem for me to work out and find the answer too. However, after the first month I had two sites up and running. To be honest I thought that if I get nothing out of this other than knowing how to get a website going then I would be happy.
Getting my first sales was so exciting but I still wondered if that was a fluke. Then the sales started to trickle in and each month they have gone up. I am on my third month now and this is proving to be my best one by far. My husband now understands why I am spending so much time on the computer and I am feeling like this is now a job (one that I enjoy) and can only see my sales increasing as I continue to learn and work on my projects.
I love it and aim to keep increasing my efforts now that clickbank has proven to me that it works. I am still learning but enjoying every minute.
Thanks
Karen
thank you for your post wyrm11268. I’ve only started working with clickbank a week ago. It’s very overwhelming thus far. I’ve created two sites and neither have done anything so far as I can tell. Honestly I’m not certain that I’m taking the right approach. I have written two ezines and am awaiting approval thus far in addition to the two websites. I’m trying to stay optimistic. This is my first ever blog but I love to write so I think I’m going to try that venue as well. Clickbank has a lot of good information so many subjects that can be a wonderful value. I just need to find the best marketing value for me.
I’m open to any advice available.
Hi Kristan,
I have only been doing this for a few months but for me writing articles is working best. For one thing, it is free to do and easy. You say you like writing so this could be a good way for you too. Write as many as you can! I then submit to free article sites and add the url to social bookmarking sites, ping them and link them to my sites. You should notice a rise in visitors as you write more articles. I also have a free blog related to my site and put articles on there too with an rss feed from my site that sells the products.
Good luck and I wish you every success in your venture.
Hi there,
This is my first attempt to make money online. I subscribed only minutes ago so I’m very new to all of this and not yet sure where to begin, but I’m very excited nevertheless. I am inspired by Karen’s response above, since I am in a very similar position myself as I am also isolated in a rural area with only my computer and determination to succeed. I’m glad to see that there are other women out there (well, one other at least!) and I wish Karen even more success with her clickbank ventures. I hope I can achieve similar success.
Any beginner’s advice will be gratefully received!
My sister and I created and co-wrote The 100 Calorie Diet after we lost over 100 lbs. the 100 calorie way! We went the traditional route with acquiring a literary agent to get The 100 Calorie Diet published. When our agent couldn’t close a deal with a major publisher, we decided to offer The 100 Calorie Diet on Clickbank. How great it has been that we can make ALL the money when we sell a book and 35% of the money when an affiliate sells! Going the traditional route, we would only make about $1.00 per book. Clickbank is truly wonderful!
Hi! I signed up on Clickbank a few days ago and like Kristan, I am quite overwhelmed. (So many products and topics to choose from…) I see so far that the main beginner’s advice is either to write articles and post them on ezine sites, participate in blogs or to create one’s own site or set of sites. All of this sounds easier than it really is, I think. For those of you that have been successful writing articles as Affiliates, how did you know which ezine sites, for example, were best for posting your articles? Was it trial and error or were you always participants of those sites prior to signing up with Clickbank? Sorry, I’m a bit of a rookie at all of this so any advice would be helpful.
I’ve been earning money with Clickbank for several years. I also learned how to set up my own vendor program, I think if more women would go thru the steps of writing their own product, setting up the pitchpage and thank-you page, and just knowing the basics, you’ll feel much more confident…empowered…the more you know, the more you’ll earn, and the less you’ll have to depend on other people (men) to help you. The internet doesn’t have to be male-dominated, just remember, it’s all about reading and clicking your keyboard, no extra body part required, LOL! We have to get rid of the mindset that women don’t know how to do whatever, it’s all a big urban-legend to keep us from doing stuff, from earning money. Just learn it and do it, you won’t forget once you learn how.
Whoever said the Internet is dominated by males to begin with? I have never heard such a thing until now! I’ve been making money on the Internet for years and have come across just as many women as there are men online making money in the industries I make money in. The thought that males dominate the Internet is absurd and should have never been a thought that entered anyone’s mind. Now males may be more dominate on certain sites but the Internet as a whole? No way! Are you on the same Internet I’m on? hehe. Females dominate WAHM’s forum all of which are making money on the Internet. Mystery shopping sites are predominantly operated by women (these are actual companies giving out assignments and not that scam stuff). There are more women participating in mystery shopping assignments than males. It really just depends on the site. If Clickbank doesn’t have a lot of females selling, then it could simply be because they don’t have an interest in making money online in this way. A lot of people (men and women alike) that I’ve encountered over the years tend to think that Clickbank products are overpriced and garbage while they also disagree with the cut Clickbank takes and their policies. Not saying all products but as much money as others are making at Clickbank, those who don’t are well within their rights to pick and choose what sites products they’ll promote. But regardless, this is the Internet we’re talking about folks; not a tiny town on the outskirts of some major city. It is not dominated by males and how would anyone have accurate stats on that anyway to make such a statement that it is. Why does gender even matter? I mean, who cares. Am I a woman? Yes. Do I use the Internet to make money? Yes. I know just as many males making money online as their are females all in different industries. Genders can be found dominating certain sites that take record of that at registration time (some sites don’t ask gender) but not the entire Internet as a whole. So nobody will ever know if the Internet as a whole is dominated by females or males. Why? Because nobody really cares.
I am both a vendor and affiliate on ClickBank. I started out ghostwriting for other top marketers (all but one were men) for years and finally realized their claims of making money here were TRUE (gasp). So I set out to do it myself.
I launched Social Networking on Squidoo first – the first author to write about Squidoo, and soon I had many competitors. I have since listed several more products and I frequently promote other vendors to my list.
Tiff
And that is NOT me in that gravatar pic! LOL What in the world? That’s an istock pic.
A CopyBlogger ( one of the foremost copywriting blog sites in the IM world) recently came out with the fact that she had wriiten with a male psuedonym for years. James’ articles got a lot more traffic and comments than her real name. That is sad. I’m a guy. I hate to think that bias is still with us in this day and age. It’s true, however, and that is demeaning to all of us. We’re all just people, trying to make IM work for us.
I’m starting a weight loss site. I hope I don’t have to change my name to become credible. The stats seem to confirm that women are a large majority of weight loss subscribers and buyers.
This will be an interesting social experiment for me. I may try a few articles under a female pen name, just to assess the response.
In the meantime…keep the faith, and stay positive.
Steve Benedict
clickaroo – Glad I was able to inspire you
Hope that by now you have got going on your venture. I started with Squidoo but soon moved onto getting my own sites and then linked to Squidoo pages to them. Good luck and let us know how you are doing.