One good thing about using Clickbank as payment processor, is the ease to get affiliates promoting your products. Clickbank has over 100,000 affiliates searching products everyday and pick a new products to promote. Some of them are top affiliate marketers who could be looking for your products to sell to their large mailing list.
If you think that you can just put any product in Clickbank and wait for money to roll in, you are dead wrong. Whether you believe it or not, it is possible that your products in Clickbank won’t go anywhere. One factor is competition. Your product will be competing with over thousands of products. Products which already have high gravity and lots of joint venture partners would probably beat the rest. If your product is less popular, it is hard to improve its popularity. Then, affiliates won’t notice it. Plus, not all affiliates inside Clickbank marketplace are good marketers. If you product is promoted by newbie affiliates, your product won’t sell well.
So, you need to get lots of affiliates, get many joint venture partners and make them work in order to make lots of money from Clickbank. Recruiting lots of affiliates could be difficult, but actually, there already lots of resources that you can use. You effort should be focusing on building list and contact information. All these won’t exist if you left Clickbank as it is. Clickbank assumes that it is best that both affiliates and merchants do not have to communicate with each other. This way, merchants can focus more on product creation while affiliates can focus on marketing and not have to deal with lots of merchants if they are promoting lots of products.
Of course, this formula might work in most situation, especially if your product becomes one of hundreds of products under Clickbank network. However, that doesn’t mean merchants and affiliate cannot form a good relationship between them. You can build a good relationship outside of Clickbank with affiliates via your own website. You can also seek for joint venture partners in free forums like Warrior Forum and JV Notify Pro.
