5 ClickBank Features That Will Rock Your Profits!
January 12th, 2012
Guest Author, Miles Baker
Written by: Miles Baker, ClickScoop
ClickBank has several powerful features that affiliates and vendors can take advantage of in order to increase their profits. Recently, ClickBank has upgraded and added many new features that have a proven capacity to increase your sales. Below you will find 5 of these ClickBank features that are my favorites. Some of these features are new, and some have been around awhile, though all of them have the potential to rock your profits!
Feature #1: TID & VTID Tracking
Who TID & VTID Tracking is for: Affiliates and Vendors
How TID & VTID Tracking Works:
A TID is a ClickBank tracking I.D. It’s a string of letters and/or numbers up to 24 characters in length appended to the end of a ClickBank HopLink. Using a TID allows you to track your hoplinks based on the TID associated with it. There is no limit to the amount of TIDs you can use. ClickBank TID’s are also available for Vendors to use as well, the difference is the variable “VTID” instead of “TID” and that the Vendor TID is appended to the paylink instead of the HopLink.
How TIDs Make You More Money:
Using TID’s provides you with the information you need in order to determine where you should be focusing your efforts.
Tracking your sales with TID’s allows you to pinpoint exactly where sales are coming from. For example, if you want to track links from Twitter you could append the TID of “twitter” to your HopLink. Inside your ClickBank reporting you will see all the statistics associated with that TID for clicks, sales, refunds, etc.
One of my favorite uses is to use TID’s to track what specific pages on a website the sales are coming from. This allows me to focus my efforts on my most profitable pages in order to get higher rankings in the search engines.
Where to get more info:
http://www.clickbank.com/help/affiliate-help/affiliate-basics/all-about-hoplinks/#TID
http://www.clickbank.com/help/vendor-help/vendor-basics/creating-a-payment-link/
Feature #2: PitchPlus (formerly known as One-Click Upsell)
Who PitchPlus is for: Vendors (but affiliates can benefit too!)
How PitchPlus Works:
PitchPlus allows vendors to add additional products to sell to their customers after the initial purchase. Once a customer enters their payment information and confirms their purchase they are presented with an upsell page. With a single click the customer can purchase the additional product without entering their credit card details again.
As a vendor you create the products to sell as your upsells. The PitchPlus Advanced feature offers the ability to present up to three consecutive upsell offers as well as downsells. In a downsell scenario, if a customer decides to decline the upsell offer they could be presented with another product or the same product at a lower price.
How PitchPlus Makes You More Money:
Adding upsells to your products increases your overall earnings per customer for both vendors and affiliates. Since the customer is not required to re-enter their credit card information, the one-click upsell can convert extremely well assuming you have related and appealing offers.
Personally I’ve found PitchPlus to be one of the easiest and most effective ways at increasing income as a vendor.
Where to get more info:
http://www.clickbank.com/help/vendor-help/vendor-tools/one-click-upsell/
http://www.clickbank.com/help/vendor-help/vendor-tools/pitchplus/
Feature #3: Joint Venture
Who Joint Venture is for: Vendors & Affiliates
How Joint Venture Works:
ClickBank Joint Venture is a newer and extremely versatile feature. This allows vendors to split their earnings with partners, promote other vendor products as upsells, and even allow vendors to offer 2nd tier affiliate commissions.
The Joint Venture feature also works for affiliates. Affiliates can partner together and split profits from their affiliate sales.
The Joint Venture feature allows you to set up contracts within your ClickBank account. In the contract you can specify a range of details such as how commissions are divided, start and end dates for the contract, and much more.
How Joint Venture Makes You More Money:
Partnerships are extremely profitable because you leverage one anothers’ strengths. The Joint Venture feature makes collaborating and partnering with people much easier. With the Joint Venture feature the trust factor is increased because one partner is not relying on the other partner to pay them; ClickBank is dividing up and making the payments. Additionally Joint Venture is accurate, easy, and hassle free to split up payments between partners.
There’s really an unlimited variety of ways you could use this feature. Here are just a few short examples to give you some ideas…
- You could have someone write product reviews for your blog and in exchange you could give them a portion of the sales that those reviews generate.
- You could partner with someone to create a new product and split the profits.
- If you’re a vendor you could find another vendor and cross promote one another’s products as one-click upsells.
Where to get more info:
http://www.clickbank.com/help/account-help/account-tools/joint-venture/
Feature #4: Recurring Billing
Who Recurring Billing is for: Vendors (but affiliates can benefit too!)
How Recurring Billing Works:
ClickBank Recurring Billing gives vendors the ability to sell their product at an initial price, and then setup a rebill price for each subsequent payment for the duration of a rebill product. In addition, this gives vendors the ability to offer a trial period for the product as well.
How Recurring Billing Makes You More Money:
Creating Recurring Billing Products gives vendors a continuous revenue stream over time. With regular payment schedules, such as bi-weekly, monthly, quarterly, or annual, vendors can earn more per sale on average than with a standard product.
The recurring billing feature can also be used in combination with PitchPlus Advanced. This combination can be extremely powerful in generating additional income that is also residual.
Where to get more info:
http://www.clickbank.com/help/vendor-help/vendor-guides/creating-a-recurring-billing-product/
http://www.clickbank.com/help/affiliate-help/affiliate-basics/promoting-recurring-billing-products/
http://www.clickbank.com/help/vendor-help/vendor-guides/recurring-billing-subscription-and-membership-products/
Feature #5: Marketplace Search
Who Marketplace Search is for: Affiliates
How Marketplace Search Works:
The Marketplace search capabilities were recently enhanced and now allow users to search by a variety of product and vendor criteria. You’ll find Marketplace filters and attributes to search by on the left hand side of the ClickBank Marketplace. Additionally you can use the ‘advanced search’ link next to the search box for additional search features.
How Marketplace Search Makes You More Money:
Finding the right ClickBank products to promote will help you make more sales and increase profits. Using the Marketplace Search you will be able to find which vendors are offering higher payouts, use PitchPlus, offer rebills, offer affiliate tools, and much more. You can even find out which vendors offer $1 trials. Using this information allows you to find and promote the products that are the best match for your marketing efforts as well as find vendors who will make you the most money overall.
Where to get more info:
http://www.clickbank.com/marketplace.htm
http://www.clickbank.com/advancedMarketplaceSearch.htm
http://www.clickbank.com/blog/2011/12/08/new-and-improved-marketplace-search-capabilities/
About the Author
Miles Baker has been marketing online since 1997 and has been a ClickBank client for over 12 years. He currently resides in Fort Collins, CO where he runs ClickScoop.com, a community for ClickBank Vendors and Affiliates.
About Molly LaneMolly is the Marketing Specialist for ClickBank and shares insider tips, industry best practices and the latest updates on ClickBank features designed to help you earn more with Internet marketing.
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Hi Miles, the VID er thing sounds interesting Ill be checking that out pronto!
This sounds cool Miles!
I am new at affiliate procedures so I always enjoy reading about something new. Sometimes old things can be brought up again as when learning new things, sometimes the old ideas get left behind and are forgotten. Thanks for the reminders.
That’s Very cool way to make some money.
I love Clickbank!
Pitch plus is the best.
Thanks.
Hola,Saben cuándo estará Perú habilitado para depósito directo? , sería excelente esa realidad. Espero sea pronto. Saludos.
thanks for sharing this important information, i was already using some of these features, from your advice i will try the others.
I really found this beneficial. Thanks!
I completely agree with this. If people are involved with you on an emotional level, they will be much more likely to refer friends and family to your business, as well as talk positively about your brand.
I didn’t realize affiliates could joint venture with one another for promoting affiliate offers…this one feature is revolutionary and can greatly increase earnings for any group of affiliates who work together.
That second feature just shed some insight as to why there are so many products in CB containing second and third chances to get the product at a lower price. This is a bit disingenuous though because if a vendor is willing to sell at a lower price then that lower price should be the original price.
Hi
With the unemployment situation as it is, these tips are cool!!!!!. Just one question. How do I know when the visitors click on my website? That is, is there any software that does this?
Thanking in anticipation!!!!!!!!
Hi Adrian,
You can use Google Analytics, which is totally free, to track visitors to your website. If you’re posting an affiliate link on your website, you can see how many clicks (Hops) you got in our ClickBank Analytics reporting within your account.
Beau
Hi, I’m new to the affiliate program and Internet Marketing and I don’t understand a lot of this stuff.Can you explain how and where to attach an affiliate link? Also can you explain what is TID and VTID tracking?
Hi..I like this TID. Knowing how to set it will make me easier how to track and determine which marketing technique that work and enhance it.
Just a beginner, a Newbie. How do you use these features? I’m floundering and lost. I need step-by-step direction.
I am new, building website and need step by step ways to begin.
Great features, specially about tracking, marketplace and joint ventures. Thanks for sharing this tips with us.
Ralph,
you get an affiliate link when you click the “promote” button for a product. A new window opens up and the really long string of numbers and letters is your affiliate link. Just before that opens, a window will open with your CB nickname and another box to put a TID, if you are an affiliate, VTID if you are a vendor. I put a word or two in that box that tells me where on my site this product is displayed, like “teslahome” for the tesla product on my home page. I also use something like “teslabanner” if I have placed a banner ad on my sidebar for that product. You then have to place that affiliate link on your site through the dashboard.
Maybe someone else can explain that part. It’s after midnight here where I live and I am off to bed.
Good Luck!
Janet
I’m like Danelyn, I’ve been floundering with this for at least a years and find everyone I ask has got something different to say. I’m so ready to just call it good but I’ve put ytoo much money into it.
Thanks,
Jo
Thanks a lot Janet. Yes I would be very grateful if someone can explain how to put my affiliate link on my website through the dashboard because I have no idea what you are talking about.
Hi Miles
Very cool article – I did not know about the VTIDs which is something I will have to integrate into my own Clickbank TID product, (which is by the way another excellent way of making use of clickbank TIDs if your site is running on wordpress – it automatically creates TIDs for the search keywords your users used to come to your site – extremely powerful if you do SEO for those keywords that really lead to sales)
Also the cover up on the joint venture functions was great and really helpful!
Thanks for this article – it has been a great help for me.
all the best
Michael Busch
(wptidgenerator.com)