Using ClickBank as a merchant

Any advice?

[hdpt00]

I am thinking about using clickbank for an ebook I helped write and was wondering what those who have used it or currently use it think. They claim to have over 100,000 affiliates (of course it doesn't matter unless some produce). So basically, are there affilites that produce, do you have to stalk them down, etc. etc.?

Any other tips?

Thanks!

[Joeseph]

Dejavu.

I too have an e-book, and someone suggested using them. I called them, and found out that they only take care of the payments between both parties. They don't have a list of affiliates you can contact nor do they have a page where affiliates can go to see what you have.

Hell, they don't even advertise their site.

[hdpt00]

As a publisher you can see the merchants by popularity and browse by category, I know that. You can actually do it right from their home page.

[Joeseph]

Yeah, I see it now.

I guess part of the site was down.

I about forgot all about them.

They don't advertise, but they do get over 5 million monthly hits.

I wish they would make the e-books more visible to potential affiliates, though. Hell, you have to click on "fun and entertainment" to get to them.

I think I'll sign up anyway. Screw it. It's only 50 bucks.

[Nefig]

There's a piece of software which called Affiliates Alert which helps you to search ClickBanks products and gives you statistics how they perform, you can see products by category and so on. It won't give you the SuperAffiliates list but it'll help you see top performing products.
Although, I have a site with 6 books on it and i got 6 sales for one book, 1 sale for another and 0 sales for other 4, although Aff.Alert shows them as top perfoming products, but still - zero conversion rate so far :( Didn't mean to sound negative, though :)

P.S. If I had an ebook, I think I'd go with them, but since affiliates are paid when payments are done through ClickBank, you either have to create a separate website for it or drop other payment methods.

[ryanjensen]

Just an FYI, ClickBank will work with Paypal starting in July.