Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Promoting A Product On Clickbank Dont Have To Be A Nightmare!

Clickbank is a vast online marketplace for digital products (over 10,000 products). With this large product catalog,choosing an ideal product to promote can be a nightmarish experience for a newbie. If you try to sort, catalog and understand every product, yuor mind  can get so overwhelmed, you will not be able to figure out which products are the winners for you to promote and get the big bucks from. To be successful with the clickbank system, you need to be a  smart marketer by learning first, how to  pick the right product for your market and how to promote same to land big sales from the system.
First things first.Set up an  account with clickbank.It is easy to do and its free but there are some few countries that cant have account on clickbank.Its advisable to check out their FAQS and terms of service.
Now how do you go about looking for the right product to promote in clickbank?
The first thing  you will notice when you start looking for a  product to promote is that there is a small elite group  of products that are clearly the most popular  sellers in the catalog.Any newbie may be drawn to these products based on the thought that if they are popular now, why not cash in on the wave and get some of the revenue from all these sales. But one very important point to remember is that a popular  product is also one that hundreds if not thousands  of affiliates are promoting.So the web will be full of different sales pitches for that particular product.Its not wise to join the flood-in other words- dont promote such products.
With that said ,you should not go for for a product  that is not selling well just because it isnt on  a lot of other affiliate websites.The skill is to pick a product for which there is a good market that has not been "heavily tapped" yet. Its tricky business but you should give yourself permission to experiment. You may not strike gold with the  first product you select, but  you will make some money and you can experiment and learn how to choose the right product over time.Every market has an "intuition" to it and you can develop this gut feeling as you continue to experiment .
The positioning of a product and how it  is already performing in the market are some other factors to consider in choosing the right product to promote. Take a look at the sales copy accompanying the product.Put yourself in your prospects` shoes.Is the sales copy good enough to make you buy? If it cant convince you to buy, it probably wont convince your prospect.Its best to steer clear of products with poor sales copy.
Another variable to consider when looking for the right product to promote is commissions. As mentioned in earlier posts, you should always go for products with outstanding commissions.A commission on the sale of a product at clickbank can range from 1% to 75%.A very important point to remember is never to promote a product that pays less than 50% commission. That way,even if your sales are not forthcoming in large quantities, you still make a decent return on investment for promoting the product and the product owner makes money as well.
So make  your clickbank marketing experience sweeter by applying these strategies.Post your results here for all to see.
God bless you in your endeavours.

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