Before going into the main content let us know what exactly Click bank is. Founded in 1998, ClickBank is the online retail outlet for publishers of Downloadable digital product and for their active affiliates and millions of online shoppers.

Do you too aspire to become a Click Bank achiever and hope to fly high through your Hoplink ?

Then read the Click Bank site thread bear. There are much to see and learn in the Click Bank site if you want to plan for starting your affiliate marketing career with a quick success.

You shall identify yourself everywhere inside Click Bank. Because, it is too lucrative as an affiliate marketing website for affiliates and Publishers , too easy to act upon, too clear in terms and instructions for new affiliates & publishers, and too prompt in making payments to ignore the appeal and appetite! But without a read into the matters, it always remains a unmet dream.

Sustaining for long 10 years with rapid growth despite growing competition from other affiliates is not a small achievement. There must be some secret.

This article intend to focus on the important features of Click Bank that are generally overlooked by most of the affiliates and publishers.

Part A:

Afilliates’ function is to promote the e-Books, software products,subscription products etc. available in the C/Bank Market Place. Affiliates don’t require to pay any fees or price for the products. After FREE registration with C/Bank they get their ready promotion links called Hoplinks from C/bank site itself which feature each individual product the affiliate intends to promote. The moment the product is sold the affiliate’s account inflates with commission amount which goes upto 75% of the product price.

What not to ignore

1.FAQ Library :
One of the salient features of Click bank is the huge FAQ library comprising 4 categories and 13 subcategories there under totaling 214 questions along with elaborate answers to all of them (with appropriate links to appropriate contents within the site for easy navigation ) leaves very little unclear to any aspirant affiliate or publisher or shopper. FAQ for affiliates, Publishers, Customers are categorized separately. Before starting affiliate business one must go through the Affiliate FAQ & General Account help which contains all the issues and questions related to Account FAQ , Accounting FAQ, Market Place FAQ, Recurring Billing FAQ and Stats FAQ. Additionally, I suggest that an affiliate should also know the issues pertaining to Publishers too. So, an affiliate aspirant also should go through publishers FAQ too.

2.Hoplink :

Hoplink is a link that a customer follows to reach at the publishers’ site and make the purchase. You get one hoplink for each product you promote. It contains the ID of the publisher of the product and your (affiliate’s) ID called ‘nickname’. This ensures the affiliate of getting the commission against that purchase credited to his or her account .Also the automatic mechanism tells the product publisher which affiliate sold the product, however he don’t get access to any personal information of the affiliate. The commission transfer is an automatic mechanism powered by a state of the art technological tool. A hoplink looks like: http://AFFILIATE.PUBLISHER.hop.clickbank.net
Setting up the hoplink is very easy and you can test its functionality readily from you own computer without any additional software. For exact information read Hoplink FAQ No.23 .Note that the hoplink ends in “.net” and not .By default a hoplink is targeted to the top level of current browser page. But you can make the hoplink open in a new window or as pop-under or pop-up too.

You can add a tracking code to your hoplink which tracks your affiliate campaign and manifests the results of each successful campaign in all relevant documents.( Affiliate FAQ No.6)

3.60 days tracking :
After you make a referral, you will earn a commission if the customer purchases any product from that within 60 days. This means , if a customer does not make an a purchase from your hoplink immediately but waits you shall be credited with the commission if he make the purchase within 60 days.

4.Direct Deposit:

US bank accounts and certain International Bank Accounts are directly deposited without any extra charge from Click Bank. However for US bank accounts to become eligible for direct deposit , the a/c must have received minimum 3 paper paychecks from Click bank within previous 12 weeks period. For international a/c this period is 90 days ( almost equal).

5. Payment Threshhold :

Default payment threshold is $100 . But from your account page you can change the threshold any amount from $10 to $ 10000. $2.5 processing charge is deducted from each payment.

6.Recurring Billing:

Recurring billing is a uniqueness of Click bank. (Read the Recurring Billing FAQ under General Account help in FAQ library.)It’s a fully automated mechanism through you can promote (sale) subscription products and single products billing in installments. All accounts are automatically enabled for recurring billing products requiring no special set up efforts.

Subscriptions allow you to sell and promote products and services, for example software licenses and membership sites, where customers receive ongoing value. ClickBank recurring billing subscriptions allow you to customize your regularly scheduled customer payments with following features :
· The ability to have a lower initial price
· The ability to offer a trial period
· The ability to select from new rebilling frequency options
The minimum initial price is $4.95 and minimum rebill price $7.95. For recurring billing subscriptions ClickBank offers bi-weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annual recurring billing.

Recurring billing products are easy to locate in the Click Bank Market Place .Just look for products that contain a value in the “future$” statistic.The affiliate earns for each and every rebilling whenver the customer make the payment . ( This is a broad lay out of Click bank Recurring Billing. Detail focus will be presented in future article)

7. Stats FAQ :

This is a section in the Click bank website which gives you detail of your transaction as an Affiliate. You can view your actions and their results from any angle you desire to see. This section is very important to track growth of your business as a whole as well as in all desired break up which in turn let you plan your future strategy.

However, at the end of this part of this article I will suggest that you should read the Account FAQ, Accounting FAQ, Recurring Billing FAQ and Stats FAQ more deeply than all other.

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As you remember, in the previous part of this article I dwelled on the affiliates’ aspect with respect to Click Bank .Now I would touch on certain points of interest for Click Bank Publishers.

Click Bank is one of the most widely acclaimed online retailers. Its uniqueness is that it sells digital downloadable products such and e-books on any subjects and  topics, software products etc. Click Bank has built up a state of the art proprietary technological infrastructure for quality , security ,accurate tracking and reporting of sales and activities incidental to sales of its publishers.

A huge base of more than 110,000 active affiliates are a ready army to promote any product from publishers and digital product creators. So, as a publisher you may rest assured. But , there are certain things that you have to know to succeed as an Click Bank Publisher.I am enlisting some of those points below . 

a)  Be clear about the calculation/arithmetic relating to accounting and accounts setting. For this go into the Accounting FAQ and Accounts FAQ section.

b)  Be clear how to set the Retail Price and wholesale price for your product. You have to keep the RP for standard (non-rebilling products) in between $3 and $50 (until you acquire a highly reputed position). And for rebilling products this limits are $7.95 and $50.

c)  On submitting your product to Click Bank for selling, you would propose a retail price (within the limit defined by Click bank) which Click bank would review on the basis of quality of the product and accordingly may suggest some change on it. If you agree the RP will be set and your product get approval.

d)  On approval your turn is to get your account activated. For this you have to make a ONE TIME payment of $49.95 towards activation charge. No monthly charge or fee is payable. With this $49.95 you can submit up to 500 products for sale.

On crossing your sales 500-product figure you shall have to open a new account for selling more products. But this time you get a discounted account activation charge of $29.95 instead of $49.95.

e)  $1 will be deducted by Click Bank from the RP set as stocking charge

f)  Now Click Bank pays you ( publisher) 92.5% of the remainder (i.e,after deduction of $1 stocking charge)as wholesale price.

g)  Every time you get paid, $2.5 will be charged by Click Bank towards Pay Period Processing. By default , the payment threshold is $100, i.e,you get paid when your account accumulates $100.However, you can set the Payment threshold to anything from $10 to $10000.Whatever be the amount of your payment threshold every payout attracts $2.5 as pay period processing charge.

h)  You should be aware of three other types of charges which you should try to avoid .They are charges for returned sales, revoked sales and dormant account.

i)  Invite affiliates to promote your products. Affiliate program is much more cost efficient than other types of advertising. Your pay commission to an affiliate only against actual sale through his hoplink while in other type of advertising you have to pay for clicks on your links. Affiliates take the pain of promoting your products . You can concentrate more on product creation than marketing.

j)  However, affiliate is not the only vehicle for marketing your product in Click Bank. You can also promote your product. However, Click bank does not provide any advice or training on creation of a website to promote your products.

k)  Remember, every sale, payment , identification of successful promoter affiliates and any other type of action and reaction etc. are intimated to your email address and also reflected in your account stats and analytics . You must check all these three sources to minimize disputes and loss .

l)  For the same reason set your email account so that any mail from invoice@clickbank.com are accepted and make it a point to store them in a single folder.

m)  Also be aware that you can act as an affiliate for other Click Bank publishers using the same account through which you sell your own product.

Having enlisted the above points I would like to remind you that this is not a exhaustive list of things to know and do as a Click Bank publisher. You cannot skip going into the Click Bank thread bear to start selling your product .

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