What is ClickBank ?

As ClickBank wrote, "For nearly 25 years operation, ClickBank has been a trusted global partner for product sellers and affiliate marketers looking to build, market, and scale their businesses online."

Empowering Businesses to Grow Online

"Click Bank have paid out more than $5 billion to their customers, without missing a payment, so you can grow with confidence.
More than 300,000 daily purchases, operate almost 200 countries, with 4,000 marketplace products and already paid $5.0 Billion 
to customers"

 

source : clickbank.com

ClickBank mostly sells digital products: eBooks, software, videos. The products range from 'how to stop your dog barking' to 'how to make money on the internet' and everything else in between. Because all products are digital and the delivery cost is zeo, the commission rates are very high : between 50% to 75% and even more.

ClickBank is a database where affiliates can find products to sell or where vendors can find affiliates to sell their products.

ClickBank is the internet marketer's dream come true. The big advantage of ClickBank is that has its own payment processor, so you can sell products and charge peoples 'credit cards -- ClickBank does all this for your automatically. Before ClickBank was online , you would have to get your own merchant account from your bank and as a new business that would be almost impossible. With ClickBank, you can sell stuff online without ever having sold anything before. ClickBank will charge your customer. ClickBank collects the money from the buyer, pays the affiliate the commission and pays the vendor the rest.

Signing Up as an affiliate with ClickBank is free. If you have written an eBook on "piano repair" but you are not very good at selling or building websites, you can become a vendor on ClickBank and put your eBook there for anybody to sell. In return , you give the seller part of the selling price. As an example , you keep 40% and the affiliate gets 60% when an eBook is sold.

On the other hand, if you know nothing about piano repair but you think that there is a gap on the Internet to sell books on piano repairs, you would sign up as an affiliate on ClickBank and find a piano repair book to sell on your website. You would get 60% ( or whatever the commission rate is) of the selling price because you have put in most of the effort in the sale of the eBook.

source : 463 ways to make money from home by Christine Clayfield

How to Become a ClickBank affiliate partner:

1. Sign up at ClickBank.com

2. Search the ClickBank marketplace for products to promote

3. Create your hoplink affiliate code. What is a "hoplink" ? For an affiliate to earn credit for a sale, the customer must first follow a ClickBank hoplink. The Link takes the customer to the vendor's Hoplink Target web address, and automatically credits the affiliate with that referral. ClickBank provides easy-to-follow instructions.

4. Incorporate the hoplink into your marketing campaign.

5. Promote your link and/or product

6. Earn a commission on every sale you generate.

When your market as a ClickBank affiliate from a website, choose ClickBank products that are related to your site's content or to the nature your business.

source: Get Rich Click, Marc Ostrofsky