How To Make Money With ClickBank
How To Make Money With ClickBank
If you are starting your online journey, one of the best places you can get started at is ClickBank. If you aren’t familiar with ClickBank, this is an online digital marketplace where you can find products or services to promote and earn a commission for every sale. Most of the offers on ClickBank are either a service or digital product (software, videos, eBooks, etc.).
ClickBank is the largest online marketplace and is perhaps the easiest to get started with. You can make money with ClickBank in two ways:
- Selling your own products
- Promoting other people’s products as an affiliate
I am assuming that you want to easily get started and hence promoting other people’s products will be the method I will be discussing in this article.
Secrets Of Banking On ClickBank
Before you pick a product to market, you need to know some secrets. Most people who miss the information I am going to share rarely make money on ClickBank. If you are serious with about learning more about making money with ClickBank, here are the four most important things you should know:
- It’s all about the market. The market you choose can make or break your bank.
- The product you are promoting matters. Pick a winner and your sales will explode. Pick a loser and you will see unenviable results from your efforts.
- Funnels work. Use a funnel for your marketing.
- Consistent traffic is crucial to long term revenues
If you get the four points above, you will have won half the battle of making money on ClickBank.
Getting Started With ClickBank
Anyone can sign up as an affiliate for products available on the ClickBank marketplace. Signing up is free; do it on their homepage.
After signing up, log into your ClickBank account and navigate to the Marketplace to see the products available. This is where the real task begins. We’ll use the four points we outlined on banking on the platform.
- Choose your market
Most people search for a product and then look for a market to sell to. This is a wrong approach. You should first find a market and then look for a product or solution to offer.
However, with ClickBank, you can get away with finding a market first because the products at the marketplace can give you an idea of what is hot and what’s not.
If you have a niche in mind you would like to market to, choose the category the niche belongs to on the marketplace and check the products available. Make sure the product results are set to be displayed based on Gravity Score.
What is Gravity Score? It’s simply ClickBank’s measurement of the number of affiliates that are having success selling a product. A product with a high Gravity Score simply means it is getting sold more than one with a lower score.
Choose a high Gravity Score product to promote.
- Choose your product
Now that you know the market you want to sell to and the potential products to offer, it’s time to find a winning offer. There are several products that can be sold to the market you have chosen. You should look at the Gravity Score to know whether or not a product will sell well.
But what if the Gravity Score is low?
Gravity Score for a certain product can be low simply because not many affiliates are promoting the product. This is especially true for most products meant for passion niche audiences, for example gardening, bee farming, etc.
If you are certain there is a market or demand for the product you want to promote, check the sales page. Does it make you want to purchase the product? The sales page should speak to the customer and provide the benefits of buying the product.
- Use Funnels
The truth is most online visitors will not buy whatever you are offering the first time they come across it. You need a way to stay in touch with the prospects and educate them on the benefits of the product for them to buy. Unless you have an existing relationship with your audience, you need to set up sales funnels.
The easiest way to set up a sales funnel is to set up a blog. Use a simple CMS like WordPress to set up a blog. On the blog, offer your audience a free gift to subscribe to your newsletter. You can then nurture the prospects in your email list to warm them up to buying the product you want to promote and also help them understand more about the product and feel more confident that they can succeed with it! Also, keep in mind that you only want to promote products that you truly believe in.
- Drive traffic
Driving traffic to the web properties where you are promoting ClickBank products is crucial to long term success. You can drive traffic to products in different ways. Some of the best ways of driving traffic include:
- Writing articles on your blog or other people’s blogs
- Using social media sites like Facebook and Twitter
- Promoting the products at niche relevant forums
- Building an email list and marketing to the subscribers
- Using pay per click (PPC) advertising
One important thing to remember about traffic is that you need relevant traffic for your offers to convert. Relevant traffic beats generic traffic.
Some of the traffic strategies outlined above are free but will cost you time. Others can generate instant traffic but you will have to pay for them. Depending on the resources you have, you can experiment with a mix of traffic strategies and scale up the ones that lead to the best results.
When you set up your online properties well, you can be sure of generating recurring revenue from ClickBank sales. You can scale up your operations by outsourcing your traffic generation tasks to a virtual assistance on sites like Upwork.
What Next?
Now that you know how to make money with ClickBank, what is the next step you should take? If you want to build a lifestyle business and live your passion, the right time to start is now. Go over to ClickBank, sign up and check the products you can promote.
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-Matt & Karen Hale
