ClickBank Referral Program
You can earn extra commission by referring additional product vendors to ClickBank. At this time, we do not have a referral program for referring new affiliates.
When you refer a vendor who activates their account you earn 20% of the $49.95 activation charge. Additionally, you earn 5% of ClickBank’s typical markup of each sale that your recruited vendor makes for one year.
ClickBank’s typical markup on every sale is $1 + 7.5% of the sale price, so you earn about $0.09 to $0.99 on every sale. See the referral commissions chart below:
$10 sale = $0.09 commission
$20 sale = $0.13 commission
$30 sale = $0.16 commission
$40 sale = $0.20 commission
$50 sale = $0.24 commission
$100 sale = $0.42 commission
$150 sale = $0.61 commission
$200 sale = $0.80 commission
$250 sale = $0.99 commission
Here are the steps to get started using the ClickBank Referral Program:
- Start promoting ClickBank on your site
- Use the special Referral HopLink (i.e., reseller link shown below) to drive new vendors to ClickBank sign up
- When new vendors register via your Referral HopLink, you earn a 22% commission on the activation charge paid when the vendor activates their account
- In addition, you automatically earn 5% of ClickBank’s markup on every sale made by that vendor for a full year after their initial signup date
Referred vendors are tracked when they create an account after clicking on your Referral HopLink. Referral HopLinks should be in the following format:
http://AFFILIATE.reseller.hop.clickbank.net
Here it is in HTML:
<a href=”http://AFFILIATE.reseller.hop.clickbank.net” target=”_blank”>CLICK HERE</a>
To make it work:
- Replace AFFILIATE with your ClickBank nickname.
- Replace CLICK HERE with any promotional text or image you prefer.
The 20% of our activation charge ($9.99) that you earn when a referred vendor signs up will appear under transaction type “bons-0001″ in the transaction detail. Your 5% of our markup for all sales made by that vendor for a full year appear as transaction type “bons-0001″ in the transaction detail.
FAQ
Q: Does the vendor get paid less because I am earning a commission on his sales?
A: No. ClickBank pays all referral commissions. For that reason, you cannot refer yourself or anyone who already has an account with us.
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