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This week on Tech Tuesday we’re bringing you a product called Affiliate Redirect Funnel that helps ClickBank vendors increase affiliate conversions by providing a way for vendors to funnel targeted affiliate traffic to unique landing pages outside of their default landing page.

As we all know, by default ClickBank only allows you one landing page where affiliates can send traffic (known as your HopLink Target URL).  Affiliate Redirect Funnel provides a simple administrator interface through which you can set up any number of redirects to special landing pages where your affiliates can send traffic, bypassing your default landing page. Please note: all unique landing pages should be approved by ClickBank’s Business Services team.

Here are just some of the ways you can use Affiliate Redirect Funnel to redirect your affiliate traffic for increased conversions:

• Send targeted affiliate traffic directly to a specific landing page on your website, with a special offer, at a special price.

• Send segmented affiliate traffic to a special landing page with no pop-ups. This is great for affiliates running PPC campaigns.

• Send traffic from one particular affiliate to their own unique landing page, targeted directly to their customers and leveraging their unique pre-selling techniques.

• Send affiliate traffic directly to the vendor’s ClickBank checkout page, bypassing your sales page completely (great for pre-qualified traffic ready to purchase!)

• Send pre-launch affiliate traffic to a special pre-launch squeeze page, while still cookie-ing the traffic for the product launch.

• Send affiliate traffic to squeeze pages for special reports and free product giveaways.

• Send female-targeted affiliate traffic direct to a female-oriented sales page. (Your affiliates will LOVE THIS!)

• We’re sure you can think of hundreds more…

Affiliate Redirect Funnel works on any web site hosting account running PHP, does NOT Require a MySQL database and includes a simple single page interface for creating and managing your redirects.

Here’s a video from the creators of Affiliate Redirect Funnel explaining the software and showing how it works:

To check out Affiliate Redirect Funnel, visit DynamicWebMarketingSecrets.com!

Video has changed since the dawn of YouTube. Before YouTube, if you wanted to do video it had to be professionally produced and edited and in general look like a masterpiece if you wanted to be taken seriously. Then YouTube came along and changed everything.

Today, customers are rejecting overproduced video content. Why? Because they realize that it’s usually an advertisement. Nowadays customers prefer authenticity above ads. That’s why video has become such a strong tool in our marketing tool belt.

Whether you’re an affiliate or a vendor, you need to be using video to help you accomplish your goals. Here’s a video put together by online video expert Jim Kukral that will give you some insight and inspiration for making your own videos.

You can check out Jim’s Online Video Toolkit 2.0 product here, and you can become an affiliate for it here. Yes, powered by ClickBank.

Written by: Beau Blackwell, Client Knowledge Guru

In this week’s Tech Tuesday, we’re featuring a new piece of software called Affiliate Rewarder, which lets ClickBank vendors easily run affiliate contests to reward affiliates for promoting their products or launches. If you’ve been watching the Internet marketing space for a while, you know how important affiliate contests have become, especially in competitive niches like Make Money Online and Health and Fitness, among others.

The problem has been that up until now it was a real hassle to manage the contests and keep them updated regularly. Based on the video below, it looks like the team behind Affiliate Rewarder has solved those problems for vendors! Check out the video below to find out more about the Affiliate Rewarder software.

ClickBank’s Tech Tuesday feature brings you some of the best tools and technology, both free and paid, available to ClickBank clients and Internet marketers.

This week on Tech Tuesday we’re happy to bring you a product called easyClickmate, which has been helping ClickBank vendors sell their products more effectively since it was originally created all the way back in 2002 by ClickBank client and Internet marketing veteran Adrian Ling. It was the first script of its kind that enables ClickBank vendors to provide multiple landing pages (for multiple products) to their affiliates.

Since then, it has evolved from a simple text-based script to a complete Affiliate Management Tool that enables ClickBank vendors to easily communicate with their affiliates and provide various marketing tools to them via the web-based affiliate center.

EasyClickmate has many features, but here are 4 main features that we think will benefit ClickBank vendors looking to increase their sales and attract more affiliates:

1. Sell multiple products from different websites with a single ClickBank account

Let’s say you have 2 products that you want to sell through ClickBank: Widget A (Pitch Page at www.widgetA.com) and Widget B (Pitch Page at www.widgetB.com ). The default HopLink Target URL you set in your account limits which product your affiliates can promote.

Your affiliates can only promote the product you have set up in the HopLink Target URL field. In other words, if you set the HopLink Target URL to www.widgetA.com, your affiliates can ONLY send traffic to www.widgetA.com.

However, if you use easyClickmate, your affiliates will be able to promote (i.e., send traffic to) both WidgetA and WidgetB via their custom affiliate links.

Since each ClickBank vendor account allows you to sell up to 500 different products, a single install of easyClickmate will empower your affiliates to promote up to 500 different products (which can reside on the same website or different websites).

2. Communicate with your affiliates via automated autoresponder integration

One of the biggest advantages of ClickBank over other digital publishing platforms is its huge network of affiliates (over 100,000 and growing). As a vendor, your success is assured if you can tap into this vast network of affiliates and get them to promote your products. Therefore, the ability to track and communicate with the affiliates that promote your product(s) is crucial.

EasyClickmate provides a framework that enables you to do this easily by integrating the Affiliate-Center with the 4 major autoresponders (Aweber, Getresponse, MailChimp & AutoresponsePlus).

When affiliates sign up with you to promote your products, you can automatically subscribe them to your autoresponders without any extra work/coding. Then you can communicate with them and provide them with marketing pieces, latest news, promotional tips, new product launch announcements, etc.

Imagine having a (modest) list of 100 or so affiliates that you can contact for your next product launch – that will definitely help you get started with a bang!

3. Auto-subscribe your customers via automated autoresponder integration

In the same way, you can easily build your customer list when someone purchases your product. You can assign an autoresponder list to each of your products, and easyClickmate will automatically subscribe your customers to those lists after they have completed the purchase.

This is a powerful feature because it allows you to stay in touch with your customers; for example, providing product updates, upgrades, news, upsells, cross-sells, etc.

4. Advanced affiliate links

This is perhaps the most powerful feature in easyClickmate to date.

If you decide to enable this feature, your affiliates will be able to send traffic to any page you define – even if that page is on a 3rd party site. For example, if your product is featured in CNN or one of the top authority sites, your affiliates can link to that article and still get credit for the sale if the visitor ends up buying your product after reading the article.

How cool is that? Instead of sending traffic to a ‘hypey’ sales letter, your affiliates can send traffic to case studies, neutral reviews, Facebook, etc, and still get credit for the sale!

You could also create a free report or an ebook and have your affiliates send traffic to this page instead of the main sales page, or you could create unique personalized landing pages for specific (super) affiliates.

FAQs

Q: Does easyClickmate work with 3rd party scripts such as Amember, WishList, DLG, DAP, ECG?
A: Yes

Q: What are the server requirements?
A: php4 or php5, mysql and unix/linux host

Q: Will it work on a Mac?
A: EasyClickmate is a server-side script, so it is installed on your webhost, not on your PC or Mac. This means you can run it no matter what kind of computer you prefer.

Q: Is the script outdated since it was created in 2002?
A: Definitely not. EasyClickmate is updated regularly, usually 3-4 times a year. Current version is 11.7, version 12 (2012 edition) is in the works.

Q: I’m a complete “script newbie” – is this script difficult to install on my webhost?
A: Adrian and team provide detailed step-by-step PDF guides with plenty of screenshots. However, there are a few that find installation a challenge. For those that find it a challenge, Adrian’s team is more than happy to help with the installation, setup or any other issues you may run into.

ClickBank Tech Tuesday Special!

Adrian was generous to include a special deal for readers of ClickBank’s Tech Tuesday feature. You can use the promo code CBTECHTUES to save $30 off retail pricing and get free installation and setup service! This promo code is only valid for a few weeks.

If you’re a vendor looking to improve your ability to support your affiliates and grow your sales, you can check out easyClickmate here.

Written by: Beau Blackwell, Client Knowledge Guru

This week, we’re excited to use Tech Tuesday to announce a new feature that is now available to all ClickBank vendors- Custom Order Form! Until now, this feature has been in closed beta testing with a few select vendors so we could measure its effectiveness in improving conversion rates for vendors. We’re happy to report that based on our testing, most vendors saw a marked improvement after implementing Custom Order Form in their accounts. Now all ClickBank vendors, even people just starting out, can take advantage of this conversion boost.

What is Custom Order Form?

The idea behind Custom Order Form is that by providing a more seamless shopping and buying experience for your customers, they’ll be more likely to complete their purchase when presented with a version of the ClickBank Order Form that looks more like your Pitch Page or website.

Custom Order Form gives vendors the ability to customize the ClickBank Order Form to match their site, by adding matching header graphics, color schemes, and more. It also gives vendors the ability to pass this customization to the ClickBank Success Page where customers access their purchase, increasing their level of trust and confidence in their purchase.

How to Get Started

To create your own Custom Order Form now, we recommend checking out our Custom Order Form Help Center article. It has all the instructions you need to start taking advantage of the increase in conversions today!

Written by: Beau Blackwell, Client Knowledge Guru

In this week’s Tech Tuesday, we’ve got an amazing new WordPress plugin to share with you. It comes from Matt Broich, the affiliate marketing expert who runs CBEngine, one of the top ClickBank analytics and market research sites. With CBpress, Matt and his team have created a plugin that lets you build “ClickBank mall”-type WordPress sites quickly and easily, and then customize them to target customers and convert like crazy. Since this plugin has so many features and options, I’ll let Matt tell you more about them:

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Written by: Beau Blackwell, Client Knowledge Guru

We’re excited to announce a new series here on the ClickBank Blog: Tech Tuesday. These posts will feature the best in tools and technology designed to help ClickBank clients and Internet marketers build their businesses and make more money. Some of those tools will be free and others will be paid, but we’ve got a great new free tool to kick things off!

WordPress is one of the most popular web publishing platforms out there, and is used by many Internet marketers because it’s so simple, powerful, and best of all free. We’ve recommended in the past that ClickBank vendors use it to host their Pitch Page and Thank You page, but Internet marketing and programming genius Jack Born has created a free plugin for WordPress that does something else really cool: it creates dynamic, powerful Affiliate Tools pages that vendors can use to provide valuable resources to their affiliates.

Jack and I recorded the following video to show off the plugin and talk about how you can get the most out of it:

To download Jack’s amazing (and free) plugin, visit http://affiliatesaleschannel.com/freeplugin

BONUS: Jack has created a second video where he goes into more detail about all of the available features and uses for the plugin. Be sure to check out this companion video too!

Thanks for joining us for our inaugural Tech Tuesday- we’ll be back with more great technology and tools for you very soon!