There’s a couple of main strategies you can use to create a “Clickbank autopilot” system:
- One is through using paid marketing: set up banner adverts and/or use PPC (pay per click) marketing campaigns
- and the other is through organic marketing.
One of the first strategies I used (and got one of my first online sales from) was from a niche website. Building a niche website is much more time consuming than using paid marketing however. There’s no guarantee it will work and it will take some time! Sounds tempting right! Read about this strategy in my article “Clickbank Trick“.
If you’re successful with this strategy you’ll get free traffic from Google and the other search engines. It takes time to build up your site and for it to rank too. Plus you will need to create a website and put some content up on it. All of this takes time and it’s a slow process.
Clickbank Autopilot
Paid marketing on the other hand is much quicker. You can place an advert and start getting traffic almost immediately. There’s lot of paid marketing platforms you can use such as:
- Google Adwords
- Bing
- YouTube
Some of these can be rather expensive however so it’s a good idea to use the cheaper platforms like Bing and Adwords. Another good tip is to choose recurring commission affiliate products rather than those which only pay you once. With a recurring income product you can make a greater return and therefore there’s more advertising scope available to you.
Another strategy is to use banner adverts on popular websites within your niche. Use a site called buysellads.com and find a suitable category which matches that of your products.
Once you’ve found a website or two which are a good match for your Clickbank product/s, place a banner advert on it. Banners cost between $10-$20 for a month and can be placed on high traffic websites. Test and measure your results and make sure you track each banner individually so you can determine which adverts work the best.
Clickbank Autopilot Paid Advertising
There’s a limitation with using paid advertising with Clickbank too. Many Clickbank products pay out only once and are priced at around $100. This leaves you a very small margin for a return on your investment. If you make $40 on a sale, you’ll need to spend less than that to turn a profit. Hence why I mentioned earlier that using recurring commission products is a good idea.
To find these head over to Clickbank Engine. Scroll down the left hand margin and you’ll see listed those products on Clickbank which pay out recurring commissions.
See below at the bottom left of the image where it says “CB Recurring”.
Placing Multiple Adverts
The job of an affiliate is to find ways to sell products by testing and measuring different strategies. The fastest way to do this, and ultimately automate your Clickbank sales, is to use paid marketing. Banner adverts are a cheap way to start with this. You can also use solo ads too.
Solo ad sellers are email list owners who sell you the ability to promote to their lists of subscribers. With a solo advert you can reach a large database of subscribers quickly and cheaply. However, not all of your campaigns will result in sales. It’s up to you to test different strategies and find out which ones work the best.
This often costs more money in the first instance, as you test out different methods. Over time though if you stick with it, you can find the lucrative strategies and just leave them running while building new ones. This is when you have attained the “Clickbank autopilot” goal and you can simply rinse and repeat the strategy over and over.
Using High Value Products
The main problem with selling Clickbank products is the ROI (return on investment) is usually pretty low. So you’ll need to find a number of low cost marketing strategies which work before you break the bank. This can be tricky and it’s expensive to test and measure paid advertising.
With a product range and a number of high value digital products this can be less of a challenge. You can also use high ticket recurring income products too which give you a much higher return on your investment. This makes it easier and quicker to run paid advertising and return a profit.
Of course these kinds of products are more expensive than Clickbank products. With Clickbank you can sell products which you don’t even buy. This is a double edged sword though and affiliates have given themselves a bad rap due to spammy and “slack” practices with only the sale in mind. It’s always good practice if you’re venturing into affiliate marketing to lead with value and have a good moral compass.
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