The big question “How to make money with Clickbank” can be answered very easily but putting it into practice and actually seeing profits from Clickbank may well be far from simple.

The “gurus” quick answer

  • Go to Clickbank
  • Find a product that’s in demand
  • Check the price and the % you’ll earn
  • If happy get the hoplink (that’s you’re personalised affiliate link if you’re not already familiar with Clickbank)
  • Promote the affiliate link
  • Count your money

Sounds easy enough!

The drawbacks to that method

You will never know who has seen your affiliate link, who has clicked through that link or ever be able to contact them again to tell them why they should purchase the product.

A few may possibly buy (assuming you’ve found a way to get your message in front of anybody that is)

Some may well mean to buy but didn’t for whatever reason. They will almost certainly have lost the page your link was on and will not return later so you will not get the sale unless you find a way to capture their details so you can follow up with them later.

Most good Clickbank products will provide you with more than just an affiliate link. Perhaps some email or blog articles, Perhaps some graphic images but you will still have no way of capturing the email addresses of your prosapective customers unless you devise a way to do so.

Many unsrcupulous characters know how Clickbank hoplinks are structured and in a blink of an eye they’ve replaced your affiliate link with their own and you are none the wiser.

The plus point with this method is you don’t have to spend much time counting your profits :cry:

The real answer

Properly research and locate a top quality, in demand and profitable Clickbank product.

Work out how you will promote the product – by a review, by telling your existing customer list, by talking about it in a blog post, Squidoo lens, Hub Page, writing articles etc etc

Add links from whatever you’ve decided above to a “Squeeze” page (a page where you can capture your visitors email address).

To see this in action take a look at this page of mine – Clickbank Silver Bullets

Work out how to drive traffic to wherever you have posted your link

Set up an autoresponder and create a series of 5 – 7 emails talking about your product and containing a “cloaked” link to the Clickbank product. (By cloaked link I mean either a redirect page or using a url shortner like bud.url or a software program to “hide” your affiliate link. See other posts relating to this issue)

Add the “opt-in” box code from the autoresponder provider to your squeeze page.

When visitors arrive at your email address capture page, if you have set up a compelling reason why they should sign-up – perhaps with a video and/or free gift – you should have people joining your autoresponder series.

In each of the follow up emails there will be a link to the Clickbank product sales page and you therefore have maybe 7 additional opportunities for your visitor to purchase the product. An additional benefit is that these customers can be followed up regarding other products also.

As you can see this approach to making money with Clickbank products is much more likely to success particularly if you strike the right note with your “offer” on the squeeze page and with the tone of your follow up email series.

Obviously, for a comnplete beginner this may seem like a lot of difficult technical work. It isd, however, relatively simple once you understand each of the steps.

You could, of course, go for a complete, “done for you” program such as Affiliate Silver Bullets where you need nothing more than to promote an affiliate link – you don’t even need to host the site of use your own autoresponder unless you want to. For me that is without a doubt the easiest and fastest way to make money with Clickbank.