If you have ever looked out for “money making opportunity” or on any topic like “how to loose weight” or “how to et rid of acne” on the internet then you must have came across several e-books offering you information related to your need. Most of these e-books are sell through a World Wide Web largest marketplace known as ClickBank, where publisher lists these e-book and affiliates sell it to make commission from it. The percentage of amount to be paid to affiliate and all the hassle involved in selling and buying is tackled by ClickBank.
In other words ClickBank is an affiliate program network. They are the middleman between actual product seller and the affiliates. As you know there are much work involved in selling and buying online, so clickbank do all this by showing statistics of how many sale has been made and also handle off all the payments procedure involved. They do charge some amount of money both from Product seller as well as from affiliates, whenever a sale is made.
It only allows digital products to be listed on their website. At presently they contain more than 10000’s digital products (E-bbok and Software related product is known as digital product).
Clickbank program is free to join for affiliates but if you are seller and want to list your product on clickbank marketplace then you have to pay $49 activation fee to be included in ClickBank’s Marketplace.
If you join clickbank as an affiliate then you can select a product from variety of category based on your expertise and interest. The lists of different categories are Business to Business, Health & Fitness, Home & Family, Computing & Internet, Money & Employment, Marketing & Ads, Fun & Entertainment, Sports & Recreation and Society & Culture. Each category is categorized into sub-category.
You can also search the product by keywords, their popularity, Gravity, $ Earned/Sale, Future$, Total$/Sale, % Referred. Each of these terms is explained below.
Commissions will range from 10% to 75% but on average most of the product will pay you 50% commissions when sale occurred through your affiliate link.
Gravity: Gravity determines how popular a product is by how many affiliates have sold the product. Gravity doesn’t tell you how many affiliates have sold a product (i.e. a gravity of 30 doesn’t mean 30 affiliates have sold it) but the higher the gravity, the more popular the product among affiliates and the more copies are being sold by those affiliates. Products with gravity of 70 or over are well established, and popular. I will suggest you to go for product gravity between 70-100.
Earned Per Sale: You might think this is the obvious data to sort on. After all, earn more per sale and you you’ll get a bigger bi-weekly check, won’t you? Well, not necessarily. Just because a product offers a big commission payout doesn’t mean it’s popular. Bigger fees for a product also means less people are likely to buy it (the bigger the fee the more the customer will think about whether or not to part with his cash).
%Referred: This tells you how many of the sales of a product were made by affiliates.
So a 60% value means that 60% of that product’s sales were made by affiliates. More affiliates means more competition. But more affiliates also means the product is selling well, so it might be one where you can take a slice of the action.
Popularity: This is Clickbank’s rating of a product’s popularity in the categories and subcatergories where it’s listed. The higher the popularity the better. But the more popular, the stiffer the competition.
