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As part of our continued efforts to create new ways for ClickBank clients to make their products available to new markets and to continue to grow their businesses, we are pleased to announce that ClickBank is now supporting 2 new languages and 18 new currencies.

New Languages

These two new languages, Portuguese and Italian, are the latest additions to a growing number of languages supported by ClickBank including English, German, Spanish and French. At this time, Portuguese and Italian are supported for end customer experience only (i.e., Order Form and Customer Support) and the website and website behind the login are not yet supported for clients in these languages. We do, however, offer full customer and client support in English, German, Spanish and French. These new languages open up opportunities for you to sell your products globally to an international audience!

New Currencies

We are also excited to announce the addition of 18 new acceptable currencies to our previous total of 13 acceptable currencies, creating flexibility for both you and your customers. New currencies include Mexican Peso,
 Brazilian Real, Argentinean Peso, 
Chilean Peso, Colombian Peso,
 Russian Ruble, Korean Won,
 Singapore Dollar,
 Indian Rupee, Thai Bhat, Turkish Lira, Polish Zloty, 
Czech Koruna, 
Indonesian Rupiah, 
Malaysian Ringgit, Chinese Yuan, 
Hungarian Forint and
 Philippines Peso. For a full list of the currencies ClickBank supports, click here. With 31 currencies to choose from, you have more opportunities to sell to new paying customers and more reasons for your products and promotions to convert.

What This Means for Vendors

You can now translate your products, Pitch Pages and Thank You pages to earn more in these markets. Additionally, we now offer Customer Support in Portuguese and Italian to support your sales. If you have a top selling English language product and you’d like to take advantage of these new languages, we can help. To learn about how you can work with a licensee to have your products translated and promoted in these new markets, check out our ClickBank Bestseller Program. For more information on going global with your product, click here.

Additionally, accepting new currencies means that there’s a greater chance that customers who typically pay in these new currencies will purchase your products once you get them to the Order Form.

What This Means for Affiliates

If you’re an affiliate and are familiar with one of our supported languages, you can now promote translated products in these high-opportunity, low-competition markets! To find products in the Marketplace to promote that have been translated into other languages, go to the ClickBank Marketplace, click on Advanced Search, scroll down and select the product language you would like to appear in your search.

Additionally, ALL affiliates can benefit from the addition of the 18 new acceptable currencies. Even if you’re promoting an English language product, you may see higher conversion rates in the local regions of the new currencies.

For more information on languages and currencies, click here. To learn more about the ClickBank Global Bestseller Program, click here.

Written by: Beau Blackwell, Community Manager

We have a new episode of Affiliate Marketing Today for your listening pleasure! In this episode, Dush Ramachandran and I discuss the benefits and challenges of going international with your affiliate marketing efforts, and give lots of advice on how to get started in the process.

We discuss things like how to find partners to work with, licensing English products for translation into foreign versions, the differences between translation and localization, and much more!

Listen now

Posted by: Shelly Spafford, Senior Customer Service Representative

As an e-commerce company, ClickBank knows the value of international customers. That’s why we recently added French and German language support to our existing lineup of English and Spanish. Smart e-tailers are constantly looking for ways to limit the effect borders have on retail business. If you have a product that offers valuable information to the general public and can be adapted to apply to different cultures, you may want to consider the following pieces of information, provided by internetworldstats.com:

• The Internet is now available on all 7 continents
• In Europe, where Spanish, German, and French are heavily used, almost half of the population uses the Internet (48.1%)
• In the Latin America/Caribbean region alone, there are over 139 million Internet users
• Spanish, French, and German are among the top 10 languages spoken by Internet users
• Worldwide, there are over 1.46 billion Internet users

You can see from the information above that if your product is currently only offered in English, you are missing out on a great opportunity to reach a very large consumer base.

You do not have to speak Spanish, German, or French in order to sell products in those languages. Here are a few companies we’ve run across that may be able to help you translate your product(s), but there are many translation services available:

http://www.translations.com

http://www.asta-usa.com/languages.php

http://www.trustedtranslations.com/language-translation.asp

http://www.tranflex.com/en/

Why limit your product, and your business, to just English? With the vast number of translating services out there, virtually any Web site, product, or service can be translated and sold to speakers of these different languages. What an opportunity!

We recommend selling your foreign language product as a completely separate product from the English version. ClickBank allows publishers to specify the language of their product when they submit their product for approval. When you do this, customers will automatically be sent to a ClickBank order form in the appropriate language. We also send out Spanish, German, and French receipts, as well as other notifications.

As Platform Globalization progresses, ClickBank plans to translate more of our Web site into these languages. Now is the perfect time to join ClickBank in its effort to reach beyond English-only products. If you have questions about this, you can always contact ClickBank’s Customer Service team.