Archive for the ‘News’ Category

Please be aware that ClickBank introduced a new Client Contract yesterday, updating some of our policies and terms. By creating a new account or logging in to your existing account, you agree to the new contract, so please take a few minutes to read over it and familiarize yourself with it.

ClickBank Client Contract

Over the past few months, ClickBank has been developing an innovative advertising platform that will help ClickBank affiliates make more money from their Web site or blog traffic, while at the same time generating more exposure and sales for ClickBank publishers.

Here’s why you should participate:

• Because of generous commissions, placing ClickBank ads on your site means you can receive much larger payouts than from traditional pay-per-click or display ads
• Quick and easy ad creation and insertion process
• Ad filtering lets you only display ads that are relevant and appropriate to your Web site’s audience
• Highly customizable ad layouts and formats can be easily integrated into all kinds of sites, including blogs, forums and more

Update: The ClickBank HopAd Builder is now available to everyone! To learn how to use it, see our Help Center article: http://www.clickbank.com/help/affiliate-help/affiliate-tools/hopad-builder/

For those of you who are hooked on Twitter, you can now follow ClickBank! We’ll be tweeting on a regular basis with updates, interesting sites and articles we’ve run across, and more. See you there!

Follow ClickBank on Twitter!

Posted by: Brad Wiskirchen, CEO

As the new CEO of ClickBank, I’d like to introduce myself to the ClickBank community and tell you how excited I am about the incredible opportunities that lie ahead for ClickBank and its clients. Despite the difficult economic conditions, ClickBank has experienced double-digit growth in 2008. Additionally, our efforts this past year have put us in a great position to grow even more in 2009.

I’ve been actively involved with ClickBank since 2005, and worked closely with my predecessor Bob King, so I know firsthand what makes ClickBank so unique and successful. Under Bob’s guidance, ClickBank introduced a wide array of valuable new features for our clients, achieved huge sales growth for the company-as well as for our publishers and affiliates-and strengthened our position as a market leader in the online digital marketplace.

I will continue to champion the constant innovation and improvement that have led to ClickBank’s explosive growth the past few years, and look forward to finding new and better ways to help our clients prosper. We have exciting projects in the works for the coming year and I look forward to the continued growth and success of ClickBank and our clients.

Have you ever tried to quickly explain to friends or family what ClickBank is and why it’s a great idea to join?

To make it easy, ClickBank now has an official Squidoo lens introducing ClickBank and discussing how it can help people make money online. Please share this link and article with anyone you think would benefit from joining ClickBank: http://www.squidoo.com/join-clickbank

Internet’s largest digital products retail network now transacts business in 4 languages, 13 currencies

BROOMFIELD, Colo. – Oct. 28, 2008 – In an effort to significantly expand the moneymaking capability of affiliates and product publishers using its powerful online sales platform, ClickBank, a world leader in online retail of digitally downloadable products, now enables commerce in French and German and accepts payments in 13 global currencies.

ClickBank’s upgraded transaction platform enables all interactions between the customer and ClickBank to be conducted in English, Spanish, German or French-including the order form, confirmation page, customer service emails, phone support and customer service pages on ClickBank’s Web site.

ClickBank’s international e-commerce capability has been further broadened to accept payments in the Australian dollar (AUD), Canadian dollar (CAD), Swiss franc (CHF), Danish krone (DKK), Euro (EUR), British pound (GBP), Hong Kong dollar (HKD), Japanese yen (JPY), Norwegian kroner (NOK), New Zealand dollar (NZD), Swedish krona (SEK), United States dollar (USD) and South African rand (ZAR).

“As a global enterprise with clients and customers worldwide, providing the ability to transact sales in multiple languages and currencies is critical for continued international growth,” said ClickBank CEO Bob King.

ClickBank began its platform globalization effort in March with the implementation of Spanish language transaction capability. Industry statistics estimate that 102 million Internet users worldwide speak Spanish and 118 million users worldwide speak French or German.

Since it began offering Spanish language capabilities, ClickBank’s Spanish language sales have grown 20 percent month-over-month on average. More than 400 products have been created and approved for the Spanish sales platform.

In 2007, ClickBank’s revenue grew 26 percent to more than $300 million, and the company is on track to achieve another year of double-digit revenue growth in 2008.

Posted by: Beau Blackwell, Marketing Coordinator

In the spirit of our earlier blog post about using video to promote your business, we’ve taken our own advice and plan to regularly release new videos on topics such as how to get started with ClickBank, how to take advantage of advanced ClickBank features and techniques, and much more!

Our first video walks beginners through signing up for a ClickBank account. We plan to translate this video into other languages soon, to help recruit more ClickBank publishers and affiliates in other countries. Feel free to share and embed this video wherever you’d like, since helping people join ClickBank is good for all of us!

Posted by: Beau Blackwell, Marketing Coordinator

We’re excited to announce that ClickBank now has an official Facebook page. We’ll be sharing ClickBank news, posting exclusive content like helpful tips, posting videos, and more. If you’d like to get involved in the ClickBank community, please visit our Facebook page and become a fan:

http://www.facebook.com/pages/ClickBank/33610049417

We hope to see you there!

Service provides greater flexibility for ClickBank users

BROOMFIELD, Colo.- Sept. 9, 2008 – ClickBank, a privately held online retailer for buyers and sellers of digitally delivered products and services, today announced the ability for ClickBank clients to receive payments for affiliate commission and sales via weekly direct deposit (ACH & XACH).

“During the past two years in our efforts to maintain high levels of customer satisfaction, we have made a number of critical improvements to our services and offerings,” said Bob King, ClickBank CEO. “The latest improvement is weekly payments. With this offering our clients will have greater flexibility to manage their cash flow and reinvest into their businesses.”

In July, ClickBank introduced direct deposit into both domestic and international bank accounts. Now, direct deposit users can choose to be paid weekly, cutting the wait time to receive electronic payments and providing ClickBank clients faster access to capital.

“Direct deposit and shorter payment cycles will help many Internet marketers manage their cash flow and reinvest their ClickBank profits,” said ClickBank client Michael Rasmussen. “It’s not only a good business move for existing clients, it will bring in a lot of new ClickBank affiliates as well.”

To be eligible for weekly payments and direct deposit, a ClickBank user must have first received three paper checks within any 90-day period. Also, only accounts in the following countries qualify at this time: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Ireland, Mexico, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom and the United States. The company is expecting to expand direct deposit to other countries in the future.

Posted by: Michael Poston, Product Manager

During our recent Advisory Board meeting, we announced our intention to introduce Direct Deposit payments for our clients, and each of the participants provided similar feedback: that Direct Deposit and shorter payment cycles would really help them manage their cash flow.

For this reason, in the coming weeks, ClickBank will offer the choice of weekly or biweekly payments via Direct Deposit (ACH & XACH) into both domestic and international bank accounts for eligible clients. For more information on Direct Deposit eligibility, please refer to the following Direct Deposit documentation.

With weekly payments, and our already low payment threshold, ClickBank makes it possible to reinvest your profits quickly, with double the number of paydays. Ultimately, this will allow your business to be more agile and profitable than ever!

Remember, your input shapes our roadmap. It is our goal to deliver products and features that are in demand, and to help our clients run their businesses more effectively. Please comment below and let me know what features you think are important!

Happy selling, friends!