Dear all,
As an author of several Kindle bestsellers that have ranked in the top ten for over a year, I thought it was time to give Clickbank a try. So I got set up and ...
Two days ago I sent the link to my lists (over 4000 people) and got a 6% conversion rate on the new book. This is a $37 dollar book compared to my $2.99 Kindle books which generated most of my list. Naturally, this response felt pretty good and it keeps coming in. Part of this happened because I keep my subscribers warm with lots of exclusive content andoverdeliver with everything I do. The feedback has been awesome and I've definitely got something like a tribe brewing.
What I'm not sure of how to do is get affiliates to try sending traffic to Clickbank product page. I've tried contacting people in my niche, but none seem interested in making passive income from my product and can't be bothered to get a Clickbank account. I've also had this experience with my Udemy course (which will also become a Clickbank product once I've learned to attract affiliates). Even though I can show people very compelling conversion numbers, they still don't want to even post a link on their sites. Well, in all fairness, one guy is testing one of my video courses now, but I don't think he gets that much traffic ... at least not yet.
(Incidentally, a huge part of the problem is that the people in my niche don't understand the value of promoting one another, and most disagree with my trainings in one form or another, which is part of why I've seen the success I've had).
Anyhow, I have over a dozen Kindle books that are really information products that have proven themselves to be winners in that field. For CB I have bonuses and for the book that I've just sold to 6% of my list (and counting), I'm now developing a back-end continuity subscription that will generate monthly revenue for myself and any affiliates.
So my question, after long hours of searching for a book or training or something, how can I learn to attract affiliates?
Here's a little bit about what I'm willing to do once I've found them:
* For the current product I've got 300x250, 729x60, 160x600 and 160x160 banner ads.
* I've got the promo campaign that generated all these sales and am currently testing a six day launch campaign. All of these material are available to affiliates and I will modify them to suit your wishes.
* I've also got more than 1000 (yes, 1000) pages of material from a newsletter I've written for over a year. Basically, I was teaching myself to write sales copy while continuing to educate my book fans. Any interested affiliate may have access to all of these and I will build campaigns for them. I'm willing to take guidance from anyone who is willing to give it and work together to make great revenue happen (and help tonnes of people the way my trainings already do as evidenced by tonnes of reviews).
If you're still reading this, you can see that I'm pretty dedicated and ready to work and work and work. My goal is to keep putting up products, improving everything that I have on Amazon, adding bonuses and upsells and continually seeking affiliates. To put it in a smilies way, I want to :bowdown: affiliates so that they never :repuke: but always :thumbsup: and :rainfro: so we can :smilie_weihn_winki:and :smilie_weihnfenster every time we look in our accounts and see great numbers rolling in.
Here's one caveat as I see it:
I've used Clickbank Powered to build the product site. From what I understand in my research about affiliates, they might feel that the site has too many leaks. I can't figure out how to do anything about the cookie-cutter nature of the sales page it produces and I think I'm stuck with the layout if I'm going to use their format. Basically these leaks are at the top and the bottom of the page, all leading to other parts of the same website.
The other problem that might not please affiliates is that Clickbank has an advertisement on the bottom of the site. I was pretty surprised to see that I have to have that on my cookie-cutter site even though I'm paying them.
I'm not sure if I will stay with Clickbank Powered or not. The alternative would be to buy Optimize Press and rebuild my sales page and all future sales pages with it. But in the meantime, I've decided I'll give CB Powered at least a one year try because it could take at least that long to find enough affiliates and tweak everything so that the conversation rate is really humming.
Any advice, guidance or ideas you can give would be greatly appreciated. And if you're interested in looking at the product I'm speaking of, I guess you'll have to PM me about it because if I understand the forum rules correctly, posting the link here would amount to trying to sell.
Thank you for your kind attention.
ard555
As an author of several Kindle bestsellers that have ranked in the top ten for over a year, I thought it was time to give Clickbank a try. So I got set up and ...
Two days ago I sent the link to my lists (over 4000 people) and got a 6% conversion rate on the new book. This is a $37 dollar book compared to my $2.99 Kindle books which generated most of my list. Naturally, this response felt pretty good and it keeps coming in. Part of this happened because I keep my subscribers warm with lots of exclusive content andoverdeliver with everything I do. The feedback has been awesome and I've definitely got something like a tribe brewing.
What I'm not sure of how to do is get affiliates to try sending traffic to Clickbank product page. I've tried contacting people in my niche, but none seem interested in making passive income from my product and can't be bothered to get a Clickbank account. I've also had this experience with my Udemy course (which will also become a Clickbank product once I've learned to attract affiliates). Even though I can show people very compelling conversion numbers, they still don't want to even post a link on their sites. Well, in all fairness, one guy is testing one of my video courses now, but I don't think he gets that much traffic ... at least not yet.
(Incidentally, a huge part of the problem is that the people in my niche don't understand the value of promoting one another, and most disagree with my trainings in one form or another, which is part of why I've seen the success I've had).
Anyhow, I have over a dozen Kindle books that are really information products that have proven themselves to be winners in that field. For CB I have bonuses and for the book that I've just sold to 6% of my list (and counting), I'm now developing a back-end continuity subscription that will generate monthly revenue for myself and any affiliates.
So my question, after long hours of searching for a book or training or something, how can I learn to attract affiliates?
Here's a little bit about what I'm willing to do once I've found them:
* For the current product I've got 300x250, 729x60, 160x600 and 160x160 banner ads.
* I've got the promo campaign that generated all these sales and am currently testing a six day launch campaign. All of these material are available to affiliates and I will modify them to suit your wishes.
* I've also got more than 1000 (yes, 1000) pages of material from a newsletter I've written for over a year. Basically, I was teaching myself to write sales copy while continuing to educate my book fans. Any interested affiliate may have access to all of these and I will build campaigns for them. I'm willing to take guidance from anyone who is willing to give it and work together to make great revenue happen (and help tonnes of people the way my trainings already do as evidenced by tonnes of reviews).
If you're still reading this, you can see that I'm pretty dedicated and ready to work and work and work. My goal is to keep putting up products, improving everything that I have on Amazon, adding bonuses and upsells and continually seeking affiliates. To put it in a smilies way, I want to :bowdown: affiliates so that they never :repuke: but always :thumbsup: and :rainfro: so we can :smilie_weihn_winki:and :smilie_weihnfenster every time we look in our accounts and see great numbers rolling in.
Here's one caveat as I see it:
I've used Clickbank Powered to build the product site. From what I understand in my research about affiliates, they might feel that the site has too many leaks. I can't figure out how to do anything about the cookie-cutter nature of the sales page it produces and I think I'm stuck with the layout if I'm going to use their format. Basically these leaks are at the top and the bottom of the page, all leading to other parts of the same website.
The other problem that might not please affiliates is that Clickbank has an advertisement on the bottom of the site. I was pretty surprised to see that I have to have that on my cookie-cutter site even though I'm paying them.
I'm not sure if I will stay with Clickbank Powered or not. The alternative would be to buy Optimize Press and rebuild my sales page and all future sales pages with it. But in the meantime, I've decided I'll give CB Powered at least a one year try because it could take at least that long to find enough affiliates and tweak everything so that the conversation rate is really humming.
Any advice, guidance or ideas you can give would be greatly appreciated. And if you're interested in looking at the product I'm speaking of, I guess you'll have to PM me about it because if I understand the forum rules correctly, posting the link here would amount to trying to sell.
Thank you for your kind attention.
ard555
