Clickbank Review

When I first decided to sell my own products online, I did some searching for an inexpensive way to process credit cards and to do an affiliate program. I reviewed lots of programs but I finally decided on Clickbank. I did not know much about Clickbank back then but boy am I glad I decided to use them!

Clickbank makes it very easy to sell online, create your own affiliate program, or join others' affiliate programs. It only costs $49 to start (a one time fee). They send out checks 2 times per month; you can set the minimum check amount and sell as many products as you want.

Clickbank has its own "Market Place" which is a listing to all affiliates programs it help run, sorted by category and ranked by popularity.

The purpose of this review is to inform those looking for easy credit card processing on their site and to show current Clickbank users two great products to help.

For those just starting, check out Harvey Segal's Clickbank Super Tips. This is a great guide to show you Clickbank works and how to get started. You can download it for free here.

Also check out his site: Clickbankguide.com

For current users (or future users also), one must product is CB Extract.

This products provides you with invaluable data and reports on all of your Clickbank sales. If there is one negative to Clickbank is its lack of online reports. With CB Extract you can quickly and easily keep track of all sales, customers, affiliate sales, etc. with a few simply clicks.

The minute I heard about this program, I got a copy and it has been great. With CB Extract, you do not have to worry about losing sales data or cut/pasting customer email addresses. It really is a must for Clickbank users.

So specifically, what can you do?:

Create a customer/sales database
Create customer email mailing lists and extract them to a .txt file
Create an affiliate report
Generate a custom report based on any criteria
Report sales to your accountant for any period CB Extract allows you to generate a report for any period, showing gross or net sales.
Update any report with new sales data There's no need to download all your sales data for the past 18 months every time you wish to update.
Generate a geographic distribution report of sales
Create a ClickBank check report

UPDATE 1/04: NOW YOU CAN DOWNLOAD A FREE TRIAL COPY!

The other product that I highly recommend is Clickbank Manager

ClickBank does not keep any information on your affiliates. It simply lets them sign up with Clickbank and then gives them your hoplink. Well Clickbank Manager will allow your affiliates to sign-up for your affiliate program on YOUR site and YOU get to keep records of their name, email address, clickbank nickname and the date they joined.

Some of Clickbank Manager's great features are:

Can set up links to individual products and have multiple sales pages.Build your own customers only subscriber base by having them fill in a form after their payment has been accepted and before directing them to the product download pageCustomer mass mail feature to send personalized messages, offering customers back-end products. Provides you will click-through data, so you can see who is bring you the most traffic.
Create customized ads for all products that affiliates can use and have their special affiliate code automatically added.

Both of these products I use and would be lost without them. So if you are looking to start allowing your customers to purchase using credit card or e-checks, sign up for Clickbank today. And if you are already using Clickbank but want to have more control over your sales stats and affiliates, check out CB Extract and Clickbank Manager's. You will be glad you did and after you do, you will wonder how you got along without them.

-Larry Sullivan
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