What You Need To
Know About Your Clickbank Account
There is no question that Clickbank is the
most popular affiliate network on the Internet. This
might explain why so many people become Clickbank affiliates. However, if
you're new to the game and are thinking of signing up with Clickbank, there are
a few things you should know about this giant before doing anything. There
are a number of pitfalls that you need to be aware of so that you're not
scratching your head wondering why things have gone so terribly wrong.
Hopefully, this article will provide you with some answers.
The first thing you need to know about
signing up with Clickbank is that there is no fee. Affiliates can join free and
promote any product in the Clickbank marketplace. That's
the good news. Here's the bad news. The
default settings for a new Clickbank account are set to pay you only once
you've reached $100 in sales. So if you're selling $20 products and making $10
per sale, you're going to have to make quite a few sales in order to get paid.
So, my suggestion is, as soon as you've completed your sign up process, to
change the minimum payout to $25. That's as
low as they will allow you to go, but it's much better than $100.
Another thing you need to know is that if you are going to be doing any
email advertising of Clickbank products, you cannot use their hoplinks directly
in your email ads. You must cloak them inside of another link, such as a Tiny
URL or something similar. The reason for this
is because many years ago, during the spam wars, Clickbank got a number of
complaints. Since this time, email ads can no longer have Clickbank hoplinks in
them.
That very same problem
is the reason why you will not get notified if you make a sale unless you are a
vendor. Affiliates do not get sales confirmations. So if you want to see if you
have made any sales from your Clickbank products promotions, you must log into
your account and check manually. Just another annoyance that affiliates just
have to deal with.
When you first create your Clickbank account, they will send you an email
with your password. I suggest you write this down somewhere. The
reason for that is because they do not have a feature where you can have your
password sent to you if you forget it. If you do, you have to go through a process
to generate a new password, which they will send to you just as they did your
original one.
If you are an affiliate, in order to qualify for payments, you have to have
at least sales from 5 different credit card numbers and must have at least one
each from Visa and Mastercard. Nobody is quite sure why they do this, but the
theory is that this is to keep people from simply making purchases through
their own account in order to get paid.
Yes, Clickbank makes you jump through a lot of hoops to get paid and do
business with them, but they are still the best game in town and dealing with
them can literally turn you into a success overnight.
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