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Make Money Online With Clickbank

written by John Chow on February 14, 2010

How one lazy bum made $176,697.50

January 2010 Clickbank Results

Clickbank is slowly becoming one of my biggest online money makers. Last month, I made a record $7,646.08 from the affiliate network and I expect to top that this month. If you haven’t tried them out yet, you should definitely give them a shot. Clickbank is a goldmine just waiting to be tapped.

Founded in 1998, ClickBank provides digital content – eBooks, software, memberships and subscriptions – to consumers around the world through an expanding network of product vendors and affiliate Internet marketers. The ClickBank network includes more than 100,000 active affiliates and over 12,000 vendors of tens of thousands of unique digital products.

There are two ways to make money with Clickbank. As an affiliate, you can promote any Clickbank products and earn up to 80% commission on the sale. The average commission is 50%. Since its founding, Clickbank has paid out nearly $1.5 BILLION in affiliate commissions.

The other way to make money off Clickbank is to be a publisher and list your product in the Clickbank marketplace and have the affiliates promote it. You decide how much commission you want to give. Generally, the higher your revenue share, the greater chance you have of having affiliates like me promote your product. Shoemoney used Clickbank to launch his Shoemoney System and made $100K in a single day.

Over the next few weeks, I’m going to be writing a series on how Clickbank works and how to make money from it. I hope you’ll enjoy it. For now, sign up for Clickbank if you haven’t done so. You can’t make money from it if you’re not part of it!

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Looking forward useful posts on clickbank from you soon

John, Clickbank cold be better if they pay by PayPal. I live in Brazi, and I have tried to work with Clickbank, but the payment system by check is terrible for me.

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Hey John,

Couldn't agree with you more! I have just started promoting products, and had earlier decided to promote physical products.

However, I changed my mind at the last moment, when I found out that selling digital products is more lucrative! Most of the ClickBank products pay 75% of the product cost price as commission.

I'll be looking forward to your series on how to make money from ClickBank.

Best Regards!

I am interested to see how this series develops as I have struggled with Clickbank over the last year or so.
Good to see that you can actually make some money with Clickbank.

Clickbank! You a few year late John!

Ya? I guess I should quit and forget about the $8K per month then.

I have registered ClickBank for more than a year, and I haven't made any money from it yet. But I have confidence that one day it will generate a satisfying income because I am getting more and more people click on my products.

You need a lot of hops to make a single sale from clickbank. I average around 140 hops per sale. To make significant income from CB you definitely need a lot of traffic to your site. When it comes to the number of hops to make a sale, I don't think there's really a rule of thumb. I suppose it depends on a lot of things, like where the links are coming from, your site audience, how well you pre-sell your affiliate product, and so on.

Interesting, so a 140:1 ratio of hops to sales. I wonder if this is different depending on the market.. do you strictly market internet marketing products or do you market other items?

Just started promoting clickbank products a week before. Lets see if it could bring a charm to me as till now me is zero in affiliate marketing. Till before, i only knew of AVG. But Clickbank as I visited is better tahn AVG if it could give me some money :-)

And you made $7,646.08 , great earnings. congrats. But wait, i am chasing you from now onwards :-)

I use Clickbank as an affiliate to promote products, but not on my websites. The trick is: I figured out that adwooz.com pay per click advertising network is one of the vehicle that perfectly works in conjunction with Clickbank or Commission Junction. I buy advertising for as low as $5-10 on adwooz.com for each product to advertise and put links with my Cllickbank or CJ ID to text or banner. Due to PPC I am not spending on impressions, but setting right keywords for products for my niche makes good returns.

Almost $8000, impressive. Do you find a lot of that is list sales or more blog?

I've heard email is best, then twitter, then your blog for sales in the short-term.

great post ....man thanks for the useful tips..

$100K in one day!!!! One day! That is crazy! I knew he made that in a month but one day is unbelievable.

I actually did not make a single cent from Clickbank affiliate links on the 125ads on my right side bar despite having more than 600 click throughs since I put them up to make the blog look nicer 4 months ago, before there are private advertisers.

I think it will requires some strategies and definitely need very high traffic.

I figured you made a LOT more from other Affiliate Campaigns and just a small % from CB. That's pretty cool to know that some of the Top Bloggers are making that much from it.

I've always liked CB, but many say it's low quality. I still push their products because the sales can be quite easy if you know what you're doing.

Looking forward to your Posts about Clickbank and getting some of your tips that bring in mucho dinero. :)

Please help me!! Im lost and dont know what im doing lol. im just starting to get into affiliate marketing, but I cannot figure out how to make it very profitable unless you have a blog that receives a ton of traffic. Ive been experimenting with some PPC, but it doesn't seem profitable.

Anyone wanna help a brother out?

How about some CB tips? :)

Up to 80% commission!!!! That's insane. Thanks for the tip, John.

I agree. I do ok with Clickbank but its nice to learn from the masters!

As they say, an oldie, but a goody! the commission is great and with the correct targeted traffic it is an absolute gem!

Yeah they've been around for a long while! But that's usually a sign of something good in the internet world!

Clickbank is definitely a timeless way to make money online.

Thanks for sharing! I look forward to your posts about how to use it. I've heard about it, but never really thought much of it. Perhaps I should though. Thanks again!

This is surely a great idea. But I heard they have quite stern rules?

No, actually their rules are pretty lax.

I thought you don't like Clickbank and anything thats info product related?

I never recall him saying that!

Are you sure that you read it here?

He said he doesn't like ebooks, but you can promote a lot more than ebooks through Clickbank.

I can't wait to see your future articles on how to make money on clickbank. I'm gonna use it to augment my knowledge on how to earn more from clickbank. Thanks for this great post.God bless!

Well I do not think that they accept application from all around the world.

That sucks! I'm from South Africa and constantly encounter this barrier too. The internet is supposed to turn the world into a global marketplace :-(

The commission amounts on sales can be great. Looking forward to some tips to achieve regular conversions.

Great post John! My record with Clickbank was $268 two month ago, but I expect to grow this month.

Congrats! How about a blog post with some CB tips?

I am romoting Clickbank on my site and I have one sale on my list. I guess that I would need to tripple my effort to bcome succesful with Clickbank.

I'd more than tripple your effort. Do a massive attack!

Hey it's good you have a sale - keep doing what you're doing!

I am a little confused; clear it for me. Clickbank is old and i believe a lot of the affiliates have tried it and are still on it. Well its good to refresh the mind and i think they have potential. I am working on a guide where i will provide tips on several clickbank tricks ;).. cant talk about it much now but its worth waiting for :) cheers

Are you going to share these tricks before or after John shares his?

I only have CJ in my affiliate table now but i think i will check this click bank since i hear it is heaven for many affiliate marketers.

Also look into LinkShare as well.

A lot of people can make money online with clickbank...and as i know if we have a lot of mailing list, it`s really help.

But John Chow can you teach us how can we fight our competitors to sell clickbank products?

I think John promise to reveal his strategies in clickbank -- including to beat the competitors i assume. :D

Somehow I don't think we will get the super secret strategies though.

Yeah, I think John will leave a secret or 12 for himself!

i will keep tab on your new strategy for clickbank affliate.. hope to see your new post soon...

I too am very interested to see your Clickbank strategies John. Thanks for sharing.

John this is going to be a very hit series in coming days.

So just add this as soon as possible.