Top 5 Beginner Vendor QuestionsHere are the five most common questions we receive from new ClickBank vendors: 1. I opened a vendor account, now what do I do? How does the customer buy my product from ClickBank?
2. What is a Pitch Page? A Thank You Page? Does ClickBank provide me a website or hosting? 3. How do I get my product approved? I submitted my approval weeks ago, but have gotten no response. 4. What are affiliates and why are they important? As a vendor, how do I attract affiliates? 5. If I have more than one product to sell, do I need to open another vendor account with ClickBank? #1: I opened a vendor account, now what do I do? How does the customer buy my product?
Thank you for creating an account with ClickBank! Keep in mind that you can use the same account to be an affiliate, a vendor, or both. For now, here is more information on how to get started as a vendor with your new account. ClickBank vendors have a digital product or service to sell. Before ClickBank can begin selling your product, there are certain steps you have to take to get your account ready and your product approved. A full list of the steps you will need to take can be found here:
http://www.clickbank.com/help/vendor-help/vendor-basics/get-started-as-a-vendor/ Once you have completed all of the steps listed, and your vendor account has been approved and activated, customers will be able to purchase your product. You can begin driving traffic to your website as soon as your ClickBank account has been activated and your site is ready to accept paying customers. Customers will view your offer on the Pitch Page (sales page) of your website. If they are interested in buying the product, they will click on the payment link you have placed on your Pitch Page. The payment link will take the customer from your Pitch Page to the ClickBank order form. On the ClickBank order form, the customer will fill out their payment information. When the purchase is successfully completed, ClickBank will charge the customer and credit your ClickBank account with a sale. Once the customer completes his or her purchase successfully, we automatically direct the customer to your “Thank You Page.” The Thank You Page is a page on your website where you provide access to the product the customer has purchased. The customer then downloads the product from the Thank You Page of your website and the order is fulfilled. #2: What is a Pitch Page? A Thank You Page? Does ClickBank provide me with a website or hosting?
As you know, in order to sell your product or service with ClickBank, you must have a website of your own on which you offer your product. Specifically, you will need two web pages, a Pitch Page and a Thank You Page. A Pitch Page is a web page where you describe your product to the customer, convince them to purchase, and provide them with a link to purchase the product from ClickBank (called a Payment Link). A Thank You Page is the web page customers see after they purchase a product and their purchase has been approved. The Thank You Page is used to fulfill orders. You are responsible for creating and hosting both the Pitch Page and the Thank You Page. ClickBank does not provide websites or website hosting to our vendors. Also, ClickBank does not accept Pitch Pages or Thank You Pages hosted on free sites. If you are unfamiliar with building and hosting web pages, please read Section 2 of Get Started as a Vendor for more assistance. After you have created your Pitch Page and Thank You Page you will enter the URL addresses of the two pages into the appropriate sections of your ClickBank account. Entering the locations of your pages in your account lets ClickBank know where you offer your product and where your customers should be sent after they have paid ClickBank for the product. Once you have entered the URL addresses of your Pitch Page and Thank You Page into your account, you can request approval for the product to make sure it is acceptable for sale by ClickBank. #3: How do I get my product approved? I submitted my approval weeks ago, but have gotten no response.
Occasionally our clients do not take the last step necessary to submit their product for approval. After you set up your Thank You Page URL(s) you must click on the Request Approval link to officially request product approval. To submit your product for approval, take the following steps: 1. Log in to your ClickBank account 2. Click on the “Account Settings” tab and then on the “My Products” link 3. To the left of each of the products you have listed, in the column titled “Actions,” there is a small button in the shape of a piece of paper with a green check mark in it – the hovertext reads “Submit product approval request for this product.” You must click this button for every product you wish to have approved. This icon opens up the Product Approval Request Form, where you will fill out all the appropriate information about your product. When you are finished, click the “Submit Product Approval Request” button at the bottom of the form. Once you have sent your submission to ClickBank, you will receive a response from our Product Approval Team within 3 business days. To have your approval go as quickly and smoothly as possible, thoroughly read the following two articles as they will help you avoid the most common vendor pitfalls when trying to get set up with ClickBank: http://www.clickbank.com/help/vendor-help/vendor-basics/selling-basics/what-products-are-allowed/ http://www.clickbank.com/help/vendor-help/vendor-guides/vendor-dos-and-donts/ #4: What are affiliates and why are they important? As a vendor, how do I attract affiliates?
ClickBank has over 100,000 active affiliates that are skilled at driving traffic to your digital products and services. If you learn how to leverage these affiliates, you can watch your sales multiply. Affiliates are essentially product advertisers or marketers. They earn commissions by promoting ClickBank products. Affiliates set up a free ClickBank account and then advertise a special link we call a HopLink. The HopLink takes potential customers from the affiliate’s advertisement of the product to the vendor’s Pitch Page. If the customer then decides to purchase the vendor’s product, the vendor will earn a sale and the affiliate will earn a commission percentage of the sale. ClickBank automatically credits both the vendor and the affiliate who referred the customer at the time the customer completes their order on the ClickBank order form. Vendors can set the affiliate payout percentage in their account to any percentage between 1% and 75% (keep in mind that this percentage is based on the net sale amount after ClickBank’s payment processing fees, not your suggested retail price). Vendors can also change their payout percentage at any time. This affiliate payout percentage is for one-time purchase, digital products and the initial sale of a recurring billing product. You can set different commission rates for physical products, one-click upsell offers, and subsequent rebills of a recurring billing product.
Of course, if a customer is not referred to your site by any affiliate and simply comes to your site directly, there will be no affiliate credited for referring the sale and you will receive the entire net profit from the sale. As you can see, taking advantage of ClickBank’s extensive affiliate network can be the driving force that takes your sales from mediocre to hugely successful! This is because ClickBank only pays an affiliate a commission if the affiliate sends a customer to your Pitch Page and actually buys your product. The affiliate program is much more cost-effective than other types of advertising. For example, if you place an ad in an online magazine or newsletter, you have to pay for the ad no matter how many people actually buy your product. With our affiliate program, you only pay the affiliate a commission when the affiliate referral leads to an actual sale of your product. For more information on how the ClickBank affiliate program can help your sales grow, and ways to attract affiliates to promote your product, please see the following articles: http://www.clickbank.com/help/vendor-help/vendor-basics/the-affiliate-network-and-you/ http://www.clickbank.com/help/vendor-help/vendor-guides/attract-more-affiliates/ #5: If I have more than one product to sell, do I need to open another vendor account with ClickBank? It depends. You have the ability sell up to 500 different items through your ClickBank account. However, if you want affiliates to be able to promote all of your items, there are a few things you should consider. Because of the way ClickBank’s affiliate HopLinks work, affiliates can only send traffic to the Pitch Page you have chosen to list as the HopLink Target URL in your account. Also, we are unable to show more than one listing (1 main category and 1 subcategory) per account in the ClickBank Marketplace. So, if your products are very similar (like a weight loss ebook and a workout ebook), or are different versions of the same product (like a basic weight loss package containing only an ebook and an advanced weight loss package containing the same ebook, plus additional bonuses and support) it will be very easy to sell these items with just one ClickBank account. However, if the items you want to sell through ClickBank are very different from one another, and would not make sense to sell on the same website, or if you would like each of your items to each have their own listing in the Marketplace, it may be best for you to open an additional ClickBank vendor account for selling other, unrelated products. For more information about selling several products, please see the following article: http://www.clickbank.com/help/vendor-help/vendor-basics/selling-multiple-products/ |
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