I came across an incredible statistic this week when a thought struck me about new affiliate marketers and their Clickbank accounts.

I was thinking about the fact that Clickbank doesn’t release the first payment by cheque (check) until sales have been made using 5 different credit cards and thought that many new Clickbank users wouldn’t be aware of that particular requirement. It is in Clickbank’s terms and conditions of course but to be honest when I started out I wasn’t aware of it.

I soon was, however, when after making a couple of sales I started to check why I hadn’t been paid! 

Now as my mind tends to develop thoughts (it can be extremely irratating at times!) I found myself wondering how much money is sitting with Clickbank that hasn’t yet been released to the people who have earnt it by their marketing of Clickbank products.

I then wondered, of all of that money, how much will NEVER get paid out. I have no idea but thinking it through it could be a great extra “income” for Clickbank. Money that it will never have to pay out because the Clickbank affiliates who have generated the commission don’t know:-

1) That they’ve made any sales (Clickbank doesn’t let you know)
2) That there is a minimum amount set before a payment is made ($100 but this can be reduced)
3) That sales have to be made using 5 DIFFERENT credit cards

Even fror those affiliate marketers who do know, many will give up before they reach the Clickbank payment threshold leaving their initial commissions in Clickbank’s coffers never to be paid out.

Now please don’t get me wrong – I’m not knocking Clickbank in any way. That’s their rules and anyone signing up to get a Clickbank ID should be aware of them. Unfortunately, my initial research has shown that most people don’t know and they give up before ever getting paid. Now that’s a big shame and I hope you’re not one of the casualties.

So back to the statictic. It seems something like 90% of all Clickbank affiliates are inactive. That’s people who have signed up for a Clickbank nickname and have let their accounts become dormant (assuming they ever made even one sale in the first place). At that point a charge is made on a regular basis until they become active again. For many, the regular charge will erode their commission to nothing!

Now unfortunately I’ve been unable to substantiate this figure but reports suggest that they are around 1.25 million Clickbank accounts.

It’s not clear if this includes members selling their own products (that will be a much lower percentage anyway) so let’s assume their are say 1 million affiliates promoting Clickbank products. 90% of those are seemingly inactive – that’s 900,000 people.

How many of those have signed up and made no sales at all? I don’t know and cannot find any reliable information but let’s again assume it to be 90%. In other words only 10% of the 900,000 affiliates who are now inactive have made a sale. Let’s also assume that of those 90,000 people the average sale (commission unpaid at this point) is say $50 (some single sales, some multiple sales but less than 5 different cards)

That’s some $4.5 million that is sitting with Clickbank that hasn’t been paid out and unless those affiliates do something about promoting their hoplinks and generating some more sales it never will!

I’m a great believer in getting paid for what you do so it grieves me that there are clearly thousands of individuals who have made a sale or two but are likely never to get paid. It’s just not right.

I’d really like to get some accurate statistics on this and hope that you will let me know your personal position with Clickbank by answering the relevant question in my survey below AND asking as many people as you know to do the same.

As a thank you I’ve provided a link to a great free Clickbank report – it explains how to easily get hold of any money you are due from Clickbank together with some great sales ideas that can really help if you are promoting any products using those products.

I’d love to hear from you – you can complete the survey annonymously or you can add your contact details if you’d like me to get in touch.

Either way, you are very welcome to download my free e-book that explains these rules in more details and shows a simple way for anyone new to using Clickbank to get hold of their commission payments as fast as possible.

Here’s the survey and the download link is below. There’s no opt-in – just click the link for more details and the download link.

Just click the Clickbank for Newbies image to get access to the report (no opt-in). You’ll learn how to get paid by Clickbank fast. How to meet the minimum sales critera and how to make money from Clickbank even if you have no idea what Clickbank is really all about. All you need is your own Clickbank affiliate ID – your Clickbank nickname and you’re away.

It could be the best Clickbank product ever produced but without traffic to the offer it is doomed to failure.

Have you ever given any real thought to why all of the shops and stalls in tourist attractions seem to sell virtually the same thing?

Or why in places like China Town in London there are so many Chinese Restaurants next door to each other and all looking for the same business?

In a word:

TRAFFIC

What all of the owners know is that without trying they will have hordes of people walking past their shop / restaurant everyday and despite the seemingly high level of competition those passers-by will invariably buy something. There’s just so much traffic that some will buy.

And so it is on the internet but most site owners don’t know where to position their “stall” to get the traffic they need.

But with the internet the challenges run a little deeper.

Where do you you go to get the traffic?
How do you attract the traffic to your offer?
Where do the people you want to talk to hang out?
Is there “one” place they congregate?

It can take a long time if using search engine optimisation.
It can be very expensive to run adverts
You can spend fruitless hours jabbering on social sites to no avail
What about forums and ad swaps
etc etc

For most Clickbank marketers the challenge is traffic

If you are one of those marketers looking for low cost ways to get traffic to your site – and quickly – this free recording will help

So like any offer – if you have no traffic to even the very best Clickbank product then the till will stay very quiet!

Affiliate Silver Bullet – way to clean up with Clickbank or is it a dog?

If you’ve been looking around online for a way to make an extra income you will no doubt have read about Clickbank and have probably read more hype than you can wave a stick at!

Now I’m going to assume you have some idea about internet marketing (if not take a look at Fast Online Business Success) and that you know what affiliate marketing is all about.

The biggest challenges for many people strarting out online are as follows:

* Deciding what market to sell to

* Finding a good products with a good paying affiliate program

* Working out how to build a list of subscribers

* Working out what to offer to get people on a list

* Designing and coding a squeeze page

* Crafting a follow-up email series

* Joining it all in with an autoresponder

* Getting the message in front of enough people

You get the picture – there’s masses to go through before you can even think about the first sale.

ClickBank Time Saver

Even for someone who has been around online for some time this can be extremely time consuming but even if you outsource (at a cost of course) it can be very frustrating.

Personally I’m not a big fan of “turnkey” solutions. The only key they normally turn is the one that opens up a flow of income for the product provider.

But sometimes something cfomes along that is just perfect for some people.

Rather than going out and doing it all yourself Affiliate Silver Bullet does most (notice I didn’t say all) of the work for you.

Products are already selected for you

A top quality video squeeze page is provided already coded with your Clickbank identity and integrated with an auto-responder follow up sequence.

You have nothing to do other than promote your link (drive traffic to the squeeze page) and the system does everything for you.

To see it in action here’s one of my links – Program Yourself For Success – just follow the system to see how it all works – don’t worry about buying the product being promoted (even though it is good). I want you to see the process. With this link I’m taking the easier option – simply letting Affiliate Silver Bullet do everything – hosting, email follow up etc. I’ve done nothing but put the link in this post)

Affiliate Silver Bullet Drawbacks

The drawback to this approach is that you never get to “own” the list of subscribers so you cannot promote to them at a later date.

Now for some people that may actually be an advantage! There’s no need for any technical knowledge, no need to buy domain names or hosting, no need to pay for an autoresponder or load messages. All of the technicalities are taken care of – no need to learn anything other than how to drive traffic to your links. And there are tutorials inside to help with that too. Furthermore the Affiliate Silver Bullet system will credit you with any sales made in the future because all links are hardcoded with your Clickbank details.

So if you are looking for an easy way to make some extra income from Clickbank affiliate sales then Affiliate Silver Bullet may well be the answer. For what you get it is extremely low cost – hosting and an autoresponder alone would cost about the same as the membership fee – and all you need to do is get the word out about your affiliate links.

Long Term Affiliate Business

But if like me you are more focused on building a long term business and are keen on building a list of subscribers then the system is great for you too.

You get to host your own squeeze pages and load up the messages to your own autoresponder. You have none of the problems associated with building squeeze pages, designing email follow-ups – that’s all taken care of. You just download the package and upload to your own server.

I think the biggest potential drawback is that you have no say in the products that the system promotes but the ones selected are high converting and are worth promoting.

Take a test drive by following the link below. I think you’ll like Affiliate Silver Bullet and way well find this is amongst the best of Clickbank promotion tools.

CB Mall was the program where I made my first few dollars online.

I’d been dabbling around a few years back looking for a way to make some extra income when I came across CB Mall run by a guy named Jeff Mulligan.

To be perfectly honest – I really had no idea what I was doing! I just followed a few links, clicked a few buttons, added some text and accepted Jeff’s offer of directing some free traffic to my page.

Within a couple of days I had my first few sales and I was hooked!

Now, I can’t remember how much I paid but right now Jeff is giving away FREE CB Mall for what he says is a limited time.

Is that a marketing ploy or for real I really don’t know. I can tell you though, that Jeff is not one of those gurus full of BS so in all likelihood this will be a limited offer.

If you’re looking to make some money online from Clickbank then I recommend you head over there now because this really is simple. No website to set up or anything.

You just direct people to your own CBMall and get paid when they take action.

Your Clickbank Profits from CB Mall could start HERE