Tips on Making Your 1st Sale On Clickbank

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Before 1998, when the internet was still establishing itself as the dominant method of doing business for the majority of vendors, it was very hard to establish any sort of business online using credit. With the introduction of Clickbank, it suddenly became a lot easier, as people could now list their products on the site (Clickbank) instead of going through credit agencies for assistance.

The best part is that vendors will receive a check from Clickbank twice a month, rather than every thirty days, which is what a credit agency offers.

The best part about Clickbank is that you, the regular person can also benefit from the sales that the big businesses make! By making an account on the site, and promoting the products of others, you can easily make a commission if you know what you?re doing, and many people are doing this as we speak.  So where do you start?

Getting Started

The place to start is by signing up for Clickbank, of course, and searching through their wide array of products to promote. There are many on there, but there are a few that you should pay attention to.

You should look very carefully, and choose to promote those products that have a high gravity. On Clickbank, gravity refers to the popularity of the product, whether it is an e-book, or a physical product.

The higher the gravity, the greater the chance that it will sell, and as such, you should choose a product that has a gravity of 100 or higher, though there are those who like to choose products with a low gravity, in the hopes that they will become popular later, and that is perfectly fine, as generally Clickbank doesn?t really cost you any money, so there?s no risk.

Getting Your Links Right

The next thing you need to know about, are hoplinks. They are what they sound like, links. These links are what a potential customer would follow so that they can purchase the product, and if they’ve clicked on your hoplink and ended up on your page to purchase the product, then you’ll have just made a profit, because it was your advertisement and hoplink that led to the sale, congratulations!

You can either make your hoplink through Clickbank, or just make it yourself using the following format:

<a href=”http://AFFILIATE.VENDOR.hop.clickbank.net” target=_top>Click here to Purchase</a>

Affiliate and vendor should naturally be replaced with the actual affiliate and vendor name, and if you?re not familiar with HTML, there are many websites out there that can help you learn quickly, actually, you could learn in as fast as five minutes if you apply yourself.

One final thing that you should be aware of, is link redirecting. There are some people that may not purchase an item you promoted if they know that it?s an affiliate site, which becomes very apparent by taking a look at the address bar of the site.

The best way to combat this is to use tinyurl or No-IP.com. Both of these are websites that allow you to assign a redirect to a specified number of addresses easily, meaning that you can pick a sub domain, or for a fee, you can get your own domain, or assign one that you already know. What this basically entails is that instead of having:

http://AFFILIATE.VENDOR.hop.clickbank.net

You would have:

www.buythisnow.com

Or any other address you wanted, which looks a lot more professional. Of course it’s not totally impossible to see through, and those who are computer savvy know what to look for, but the vast majority of people will not.

However Please Do Not Do This

You may redirect the hoplink, but please do not cloak the link as it is said to allow your commission to be lost when you cloak a link.

Here’s What You Do To Get More Profits

Like I said earlier advertising on Clickbank doesn’t cost anything, however there is the option of advertising your link on other sites, which may cost money, but in the long run it may get you more sales, which is exactly what the goal here is.

So go ahead and give it a try, there’s no risk, and with a bit of work, it may lead you into a disposable income that you never could have imagined!