Affiliate Networks

Clickbank.com - The ClickBank Affiliate Network is one of the leading networks with over 10,000 electronic products to choose from including eBooks, software, reports, courses etc. Commisions upto 70%. But is it any good?

As a merchant you get to take advantage of the ClickBank system which means almost the entire sales process is automated - credit card processing, automatic customer receipts and most importantly - the pay out of your sales checks!

It totally removes the need for you to have an expensive merchant account and you can promote your product for free on their extensive ClickBank Shopping Mall to attract customers and recruit new affiliates.

The more times your product is sold by affiliates, the higher you start to climb in the ClickBank rankings. The higher you get - the more affiliates you recruit and so the cycle repeats itself.

You can browse the ClickBank market place to find products that you can promote on your website by becoming an affiliate. Each entry gives you a brief description along with the percentage that you will get paid for any sale / lead etc.

ClickBank appears to be very simple whilst moving through the website but behind the few pages of help and FAQ that are available a very complex system is at work that automatically calculates and pays out your affiliate commissions as well as simultaneously managing everything on the customer ordering and payment side.

Their statistics tools leave a little to be desired but you are able to track everything in real-time on the screen though it does take some fiddling around to get to the specific information you need in some cases. If you plan to use ClickBank to promote your own products I highly recommend you start developing a relationship with one of the support staff via email as they can be worth their weight in gold when you need a question