Clickbank was the ‘go-to’ marketplace for beginner affiliate marketers. Affiliates can find products they like on Clickbank and promote them online to earn commissions based on the sales. Not everyone is a fan of Clickbank though. Many marketing platforms will ban you as soon as they see a Clickbank affiliate link. This, in part, is because Clickbank is the first place affiliates will go to find products to promote.

Why Clickbank?

As an affiliate marketer, I also started my affiliate journey with Clickbank. Affiliates can promote almost any product they can find on the internet. So long as the product has an affiliate program of some kind, affiliates can link to those products and earn commissions from the sale.

Physical products like you’d find on Amazon, for example, offer much lower commission rates to affiliates – see chart below.

As you can see, Amazon offers between 1 and 10% commission on physical products, depending what they are. Digital products, on the other hand offer much larger commissions. Digital products can be accessed immediately over the internet and this makes them very cheap to deliver. Physical products, on the other hand, need to be manufactured each time and stored and delivered physically. This adds to the cost and so affiliates can’t take such a huge chunk of the profits.

So why Clickbank? Well because of the commissions of course! Clickbank products typically offer 30-60% commissions on many of its products. Affiliate marketers only need to send customers directly to the ready made sales pages. If they make a sale, they earn a commission. The process can be automated and scaled up to a global audience.

Clickbank Autopilot Money Making Software

But there’s many digital products available which aren’t Clickbank products too. One of the biggest keys to affiliate marketing success is learning which strategy is right for the products you promote, whatever they are. Another key strategy is to use products which pay you again and again for each sale. (More on this later.)

So, what software do you need to successfully promote and sell digital products online? And which are the best strategies to use? There’s plenty of videos on the internet showing a marketer’s results with Clickbank and they always ‘promise’ to teach you how to achieve the same. What many of them don’t say, is how long they’ve been doing it and how much it’s cost them! Showing results like this is the easiest way to draw people in and get them to buy something!

Which Strategy To Use?

Most affiliate marketers start out with a new website and put some affiliate products on it. Bad move! That’s because to get any traffic to a website, you’ll need Google on your side. When your site is sparse on information and loaded with affiliate links, it’s a big red flag to Google to penalise your website and not rank it. Newbie affiliate marketers will tend to do this.

To get traffic for free, you’ll need to build a website (see create free website and earn money) and create some content. You can then share that content and build backlinks. As your site starts to generate some traction, you can introduce the odd affiliate link, or better still, build an email list by giving something away on your site in exchange for a visitor’s email address.

Clickbank Autopilot Money Making Software – An Autoresponder

One of the best pieces of software an affiliate marketer can invest in is an autoresponder. (See autopilot marketing) An auto-responder is a piece of email marketing software which allows an affiliate marketer to place some code on their website and create an email capture form. (Sign up on my form and start an online business). This form, allows you to capture the email address of a subscriber, and send them some free information via email. As you build your email list, you can offer your subscribers value while promoting your products and services.

Marketers with large email lists can send tens of thousands of emails at once and sell hundreds of digital products to their subscribers instantaneously.

What Software – Hosting & Domain Name

To build a website, you can get your own hosting and domain name. Namecheap is a good resource for purchasing a domain and Hostgator offers a cheap hosting provider to host your site. See my article to learn more on this – Create Free Website And Earn Money.

Best Products To Use

I tried all sorts of products as an affiliate marketer. The best products I’ve used are the ones I’ve also had the most value from. Ideally, choose to promote products you’re aligned with yourself personally. If you’ve ever tried to sell something you’re not prepared to buy yourself, there’s a hug disconnect. How can you in good conscious promote something you don’t even want to buy yourself? To make money right!? But the trouble is, people know if you’re doing that and they don’t buy you – so they don’t buy your products either!

Use a Product Range, Not A Standalone Product

A standalone product, whether is be from Clickbank or Amazon, will only pay you once. You need to keep selling that product over and over to keep getting paid. That’s good if you’ve cracked a system which does this on autopilot – like a search algorithm or paid marketing, for example. But what if that sale was incredibly difficult?!

Use Subscription Affiliate Products

Subscription affiliate products give you a huge edge as an affiliate marketer. Ideally choose the more expensive ones! Cheaper products offer less value and are less likely to be around in 10 years time. If you’re using content to market your products you’ll want products to still be selling in 5-10 years time; otherwise all that work you have done previously, creating content and back linking, will be wasted.

High ‘Ticket’ Affiliate Products

High Commission Affiliate Programs offer products valued into the tens of thousands of dollars. In addition to this, you can earn large commissions on these products – up to 50% commissions. On a $20,000 sale you can earn $8000 in a single sale! Think about this for a moment. Clickbank products typically sell for $100 and pay you, the affiliate $40 (40%). You’ll need to sell a lot of these products to make a good living online. If you’re going to use paid advertising, which is hard for low value items, you’ll need to factor in your advertising budget too. With high ticket programs you can offset advertising costs more easily and scale up to larger incomes with less risk.

The Art Of The ‘Up-sell’

Up-Selling is the strategy of selling more valuable products to existing customers. Most physical stores use the model of having customer loyalty. Why not an online business too? If you choose products which offer a lifetime value, use memberships, high ticket and up-selling, you can make a lot more money, for the same amount of effort as selling low value ‘stand-alone’ items. Most products available for affiliate marketers only pay you once. The retailer then gets a customer, potentially for life. The affiliate doesn’t. Choose a product range which offers up-selling products, a built in sales team and a range of high ticket products. Sign up to my email list for more details.

Marketing Strategies – Clickbank Autopilot Money Making Software

So, what’s this got to do with Clickbank autopilot money making software? Any ‘autopilot’ business uses automation to sell products and services of some kind. There’s always a lot of work to do behind the scenes, even with an ‘autopilot’ business system.

Don’t be fooled by these autopilot ‘push and click’ systems which claim to do all the work for you. They won’t! They’ll take your money and you’ll have a few stressful months of trying to do “the system”, and it will fail. You’ll give up! Let me save you the time you would have wasted and let you into a little secret. It’s hard work! Anything worthwhile is going to be hard work.

If it’s not hard work, it’s expensive! The two main strategies of building traffic to your products are:

• Paid marketing
• Content marketing

Let’s look at these one at a time. Then, you can decide for yourself which one is most suitable for you to follow.

Paid Marketing

Paid marketing is the fastest and most scalable strategy to use with an online business. If you want results fast, I hope you have a good income, because you’ll need it! You can get lucky early on and hit a winning advertising campaign, but the chances are good that it’ll take a little work at the least, and some cash.

Most affiliates (or businesses) who start out doing PPC (pay per click) direct response marketing give up and walk away. That’s because it costs money to test advertising strategies.

This should be done with caution. Testing and measuring is the precursor to a successful marketing campaign. Unless you’re prepared to put yourself through this, you shouldn’t start. Test a number of adverts and send targeted traffic to your website, landing page or sales page. Ideally use a landing page and collect the subscribers information. This gives you time to follow up with an email marketing campaign. Measure your results by tracking everything that happens. Learn from this rinse and repeat.

Free Advertising – Content Marketing

Ah free advertising! It’s the best – right? ! Well, no! Content marketing is great if you don’t have the funds to run paid marketing campaigns, or you don’t want to do it because you’re risk averse, or your products don’t allow it. Ideally use a high ticket sales funnel and run paid marketing for the fastest and most scalable results. If you can’t do this, content marketing is the way to go. You can still fail, and you risk losing your advertising budget. But the safest way to learn this is with a high ticket funnel.

Content marketing offers the opportunity to use your time, rather than your money. So, depending on your circumstances, this might be a better option. If you can’t afford a high ticket funnel, content marketing is a good option.

Blogging

Blogging is a staple of content marketing. It’s the ‘go-to’ industry standard. Blogging is a strategy which does work but requires a lot of work and consistency. It’s easy to be all fired up and enthusiastic at first with blogging. When you’ve been doing it for some time, and your results aren’t showing, it can be tough. Make it a stable daily activity to write a blog for several months at a time. Content is king so remember to provide quality content and share that content as much as possible. See also top ways to generate website traffic for free.

YouTube – Video Marketing

Video marketing on YouTube is the ‘new’ blogging. Google now owns YouTube but YouTube is still far less competitive that the standard Google search engine. So many affiliate marketers have turned to v’logging – video blogging instead of, or as well as writing a regular blog. You can use YouTube in the same way as writing a blog. Aim to upload regular videos and offer as much value driven content as possible.

Your videos should in some way relate to the products and services which you are promoting. Aim to target your perfect ‘audience’ in terms of their beliefs and values. You don’t need to talk specifically about your products though to create an effective YouTube marketing campaign.

Clickbank Autopilot Money Making Software

So here’s a quick rundown of the software you’ll need to start generating an income from the internet. This article is titled Clickbank autopilot money making software, but as I have mentioned, you don’t need to use Clickbank to make money from the internet. In fact, using subscription products which offer up-sells, built in sales team, high ticket sales and multi-tier sales is a better idea long term.

• An email autoresponder – see autopilot marketing
• A hosting package – To host your website
• Marketing training and education software – use my sign up form for access
• Web-building software – see below
• Marketing platforms – Facebook, YouTube, Adwords, Bing – and the ability to use them

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