Your dream to work from home and make a living with your online business can become true. There are so many options available, but you must chose very careful, just opt for the best! If you are a beginner and have not too much spare money to spend for a big start up, then Clickbank is THE RIGHT PLACE to look closer at. The first step is to visit their official website and get your Clickbank ID. Go and open your free account right away here! 

The Clickbank homepage explains all the essentials. To sign up, you must enable cookies (extras/internet options/privacy – or similar, depending on your personal computer settings). After logging in, start selecting and browsing products for your promotional purpose. There are 9 categories to choose from. In case, you are already managing a business or a special niche, the best would be to select a category that is closest to these products you are dealing with. BUT DO NOT BUY at this stage, you probably would only waste money into wrong ideas and products or you will get distracted. Just stick to your plan to build up a strong business as an affiliate with Clickbank products. 

Browsing through the 9 categories, you will find the most popular products in the 1,2 rankings. Click the pitch page to see the copy of sales page and ask yourself, if you would be interested in buying from this page or not. If the answer is yes, you can start with it. Have a close look at the emphasis of the page, bonuses offered (not old trash products...), testimonials and a clear call to action, i.e. to push the buy button. Besides the products for promotion, the next and probably most important factor is the commission the merchant is offering to his affiliates. Clickbank has more than 10,000 digital and downloadable products in its marketplace, which are usually paying to the affiliate commissions between 50-75% of the product price. Excellent promotional tools and assistance provided is another very important point. The merchant must offer a good variety of tools to the affiliates so they are able to get started fast, promote the product best possible and deliver good sales. The tools to select should at least be: prewritten emails, safelist mails and ezine articles, signature ads, forum and website ads,  banners in different shapes and sizes, HTML code to cloak your Clickbank link ID, any other tools to attract buyers.

Then use the given promotional material to get started. Send a mail to your list; modify the affiliate website to your name and links (if given by the merchant). Otherwise set up a simple Squeeze Page with a short product description using dot points and link it to the Clickbank product. You can use a simple free tool from TEtoolbox. It is easy and fast. Then just drive traffic to your Squeeze Page and you will soon see the first commission on your Clickbank account. Good luck! If you like this article, please consider to sign up for my Educational Newsletter here.