CLICKBANK BENEFITS AND DRAWBACKS
As with most sites, there are good points and bad points to selling on ClickBank. Many authors have made a lot of money through having their product(s) listed on the site, but others haven’t succeeded at all.
This is not meant to scare or disappoint you, but you should be aware of the situation so that you can decide whether it’s right for you or not. For example, some of the best selling products on ClickBank are related to making money online. This doesn’t mean that your product will take a nosedive if it isn’t on that same subject; it just means that you know products in that category tend to do rather well.
A lot will obviously depend on how good your eBook and sales page really are. Affiliates will be able to see your sales page before they decide whether or not to promote your product. This means that the better your sales page is, the more chance you have of convincing more people to promote it for you.
Be patient as well. You may not get floods of people promoting your eBook for you from the second it appears on ClickBank. Being realistic will help – it could take time to get that first sale through the site. It may also depend on how active you are in telling people about the opportunity they have to promote your eBook for you.
So the more promoting you do yourself, the more affiliates you are going to have promoting the book for you.
One of the main benefits is that ClickBank will handle the provision of a secure server to take payments over. They will also pay you your earnings each week through direct deposit or twice monthly with a check. In a sense, once everything is set up, all you need to do is sit back and take the money that the affiliates have generated for you.
But of course, we know you won’t do that. You’ll be writing your next eBook, won’t you?
Another possible drawback could be that there are already thousands of eBooks on ClickBank. That could be construed as a good thing, since the site is clearly a popular and successful way to generate more sales of a good eBook.
But it also means there is a lot of competition. This competition means you need to use every facility the site gives you to make sure your eBook will be found and promoted by its users. Part of that is writing a great eBook with a tempting title that really delivers on its promises and the other part of it is also to write a terrific sales page.
But make sure your product will be found when people use the ClickBank search engine in the marketplace as well. Making sure your product will be found is a simple process, and it simply means that you need to choose the most relevant category for your product to go into. Choosing the relevant category for your product will happen once your product has been approved for sale. You’ll find the bit you need under ‘My Site’ on your personal account screen.
Most affiliates will search for products to promote by using the marketplace search facility, so it makes perfect sense to ensure your product can be found here.
But perhaps the biggest benefit of ClickBank is the scope you have to make more sales. While it is obviously true that some books do better than others, having access to thousands of affiliates is very powerful. Even if only a handful of people are going to promote your book, you could make sales you would never have made otherwise.
So in short, the advantages of the site far outweigh any disadvantages. And since you can promote up to five hundred products for that single activation charge, I think you’d better get writing!
In fact, this can be a good way of deciding on your next eBook project. Why not find out what the most popular products are on ClickBank in a particular category and think along those lines for writing your next book? Don’t copy what has already been done, but see if there is a gap there that you could fill. Just remember to do your keyword research and usual bout of homework before you start writing.
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