I need to know if I'm being smart or a sneaky bastard.
Some time ago, I bought the resale rights to a website script that I've been successfully selling and making some good dough. The market for this product has quite a bit of competition, but I've been fairly successful driving sales with PPC.
My main competition for this product is the original developer. They sell two different versions of this product through Clickbank, one with usage rights and the other with resale rights. They recommended using a Clickbank tracking pixel on my "thank you" page so I'll get a commission if someone buys the resale rights, which are only available through them. ($50 commission)
I decided to put the tracking pixel on ALL of my content pages and the pages of a new site I created that sells a related product. I did this because I figured that if the visitor didn't buy from me and ended-up buying this product from the original developer, I'd still get an affiliate commission on both the usage and resale rights packages.
So far, this one line of code has made me several hundred dollars more than I would have made otherwise.
I look at this as an opportunity to maximize my revenue and PPC spend, but I wonder if this is this a low-down dirty trick?
...or is all fair in love and war?
Some time ago, I bought the resale rights to a website script that I've been successfully selling and making some good dough. The market for this product has quite a bit of competition, but I've been fairly successful driving sales with PPC.
My main competition for this product is the original developer. They sell two different versions of this product through Clickbank, one with usage rights and the other with resale rights. They recommended using a Clickbank tracking pixel on my "thank you" page so I'll get a commission if someone buys the resale rights, which are only available through them. ($50 commission)
I decided to put the tracking pixel on ALL of my content pages and the pages of a new site I created that sells a related product. I did this because I figured that if the visitor didn't buy from me and ended-up buying this product from the original developer, I'd still get an affiliate commission on both the usage and resale rights packages.
So far, this one line of code has made me several hundred dollars more than I would have made otherwise.
I look at this as an opportunity to maximize my revenue and PPC spend, but I wonder if this is this a low-down dirty trick?
...or is all fair in love and war?