How To Make Money With ClickBank in 2022: No Nonsense Guide A typical process for a newbie to affiliate marketing is that they sign up, find some crappy product with a high commission and start to fantasize about how it’s going to make sales. Then, they throw some random traffic at it and watch how nobody spends a dime on it. Finally, they come to the conclusion that the platform sucks. Sounds familiar? Well, here’s how it worked for us. 2014 was the first year we tried to make some money off the platform. We ended up making $37,075 off it without trying very hard (ClickBank has always been a secondary monetization method, so far, for our businesses). As we saw the affiliate marketing revenue from Clickbank grow we paid more attention to it and decided to optimize the process so we can make more money online with Clickbank. After a few months of hard work, we managed to transform this small income stream into something a lot more sizable as you can see by
screenshot I’ll show you exactly how to make money with Clickbank using the process we devised during this time period. Let’s get started!
What you will learn
What ClickBank is and how to use it to make thousands of dollars monthly How to pick ClickBank products to promote The most common ways to promote ClickBank products The unique funnel we use to scale up our sales How to build these funnels How to scale them up and take over the offer
What Is Clickbank? Clickbank is an affiliate network. But unlike traditional affiliate platforms, Clickbank serves as a marketplace for both people who create products and affiliates, so they can make money together without complex paperwork or agreements.
How Does Clickbank Work? In other words, Clickbank is the middleman between creators of digital products, such as ebooks, video, music and so on, and people who can sell those products, i.e. affiliate marketers. Obviously, depending on which party of the marketplace are you, Clickbank fulfills one of the two functions:
1. A Product Marketplace For Affiliates As an affiliate marketer, you can jump right in, create your unique affiliate links for thousands of products (more on that later) and start to drive traffic right away to start making money. You will also see your earnings in real time. It’s free to join and there’s no screening process. No cap or complicated metrics. It’s basically a simplified affiliate network, open to anyone that wants to give it a shot. In case you want to try it out, simply go register on their homepage.
2. An E-Commerce Platform For Information Product Owners As a product owner, you can add your product to the database and ClickBank will take care of all the checkout and e-commerce part, as well as offering an affiliate program for it. You will be charged $49.95 one time activation fee, for becoming a seller on Clickbank. I believe this fee does a good job of keeping some low-quality vendors out of the platform. This is great if you don’t want to handle the technical part of things but you have to know that the platform will take quite a bit of money off your sales ($1 + 7.5% of the sales).
That’s why if you start making some serious sales volume, you may want to move out of the platform to platforms like Thinkific or Teachable because these don’t take a % of your sales. In addition to % of sales, you’re charged $2.5 dollars payment processing fee, every time you take out the money. Clickbank can also approve customer refunds and charge you $0.50 or $1 for that. The rise of the LMS platforms like the two above is probably why Clickbank has been losing some steam in the last few years …
Why Clickbank? As an affiliate marketer you might ask yourself, why sell ebooks and online courses from unknown producers, if you can just sign up with say CJ or Amazon Associates and sell reputable products. Firstly, online education is a huge market and Clickbank itself generates close to a quarter billion dollars in sales revenue each year. Secondly, there’s a beauty to digital products. That beauty is the highest margins possible. Because, to make a copy of a video and sell it, costs nothing. 100% of the revenue can be considered the profit (outside of marketing costs).
High profits = high affiliate commissions. And Clickbank pays up to 75%.
Pros & Cons Of ClickBank I really like ClickBank and I think it’s a fantastic place for new affiliate marketers to get started and earn money online without the hassle of more advanced affiliate networks. There’s no cap, you don’t need to be approved for 90% of the offers and you can start selling straight away. Trust me, that’s a huge plus when you get started and have no track record to show to those big affiliate networks. Here is a short list of the pros & cons of the platform: Pros
Highly paid offers (75% commission is common) You can sell in most countries Several recurring offers to sell, for ongoing income Takes the tech out of the way
Cons
Lots of shitty products & sales pages Lots of competition on popular products Hard to tell what does well without investing traffic High costs associated to the e-commerce platform
Step-By-Step: How To Make Money With Clickbank