Is affiliate marketing with clickbank real?
Thursday, July 15th, 2010 at
10:45 am
I am willing to do whatever it takes to make an income, I am imprisoned at home with a baby and an abusive husband, there is absolutely no way I can go out to work right now, the only thing I have access on is a computer. Is affiliate marketing real? Should I spend time on it?
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Filed under: Clickbank Affiliates
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If you have to spend up front money to get started ,it could be a scam!
I woulden’t.. anythig that sounds too good to be true probably is..
Go to a job recruiter… and tell them you can work from home remotly… you can be ppart of a call center or a help desk…
Or, sell stuff on Ebay… sell all his stuff.. lol.. u can make money and sock it away.
Hi, It is very real, but not easy. And there are lots of Scams.
For a complete guide, you could read more here http://www.onlineworkcore.com For FREE.
This video gives a good introduction into clickbank http://onlineworkcore.com/index.php/video-guides/affiliate
Rest of the Videos could help you with Affiliate marketing.
I am just starting out in affliate marketing as a sideline. I have made a few hundred dollars through my main blog, but yes there are people out there who are making a lot of money with clickbank. There are a lot of Affiliate Marketing courses out there the majority cost money – some are scams but there are also a lot with some very good information. As with anything you have to put in time and work to learn how to do it properly. Good luck
You can get a free course on internet marketing here – you just have to give an email address
http://www.thirtydaychallenge.com/
Also Affilorama has loads of free videos to help you http://www.affilorama.com/ again you just have to give an email address
Other than internet marketing you could take a look at freelance sites like Elance, Odesk, Getafreelancer which have online work you can do on the computer
Affiliate marketing is very real and you can make money with it but you have to have a plan. It’s all about researching the right topic, picking the right keyword that has enough searches and weak competition. Getting a site ranked on the first page of the search engines is key if you want to go the free organic traffic method. There is alot of hype out there but there are some good programs that give you a blueprint for making money on the Web with clickbank.
Hey Tiger,
Sorry to hear about your abusive husband and current situation. I myself am imprisoned (in a different way) – can’t find “normal” 9 to 5 work, and was turned onto internet marketing years ago.
Like you, I first thought it was a scam and too good to be true. That’s because of all the hype that these marketers do…$1,000 in 24/hrs! How I made $1,267,313 in one year from affiliate marketing on Clickbank!
Certainly, those things DO happen, but they are not typical and cannot be expected. So you need to first sort reality from fantasy.
Here’s the fantasy: Work just a couple hours a day, clicking a few buttons, and within one week, you’ll have reach job-quitting status income.
Here’s reality: affiliate marketing and Clickbank ARE REAL, but it’s not a get rich quick scheme. You have to pour in hours of work each day, especially as a beginner when you’re first learning it. It took me almost 3 months to make my first few sales. I probably worked 200+ hours to make those first few sales ($150 total). But I was new, and didn’t know what I was doing.
Is 200 hrs worth $150? Of course not, but that wasn’t what I gained out of it. I gained the experience and knowledge, so my next sites would be 100x easier and faster, and even more profitable.
So let me explain how affiliate marketing and Clickbank work for real.
Clickbank is an affiliate network, where people who have created their own products to sell submit their product (called an offer) to the network. Then affiliates search through all the available offers on Clickbank, choose one they like and seems promising. They go out and promote the chosen product via websites, ads, etc. and if someone buys the product through the affiliate’s link/site, the affiliate will earn a commission, a cut of the total sale price.
Different products/vendors offer different commission rates, up to 75%. So if you sell a product for $100, you can make anywhere from $50-75. Well, Clickbank also takes a small percentage fee too, so maybe a little less than that.
The hard work comes from learning how to promote these products well. If you’re not careful, you can lose a lot of money. Many beginners are scared to invest money upfront, so they go the free route of SEO (search engine optimization), the art of getting your website to show up in the first page of Google when someone searches for a term (called a keyword).
There are many other methods of promotion, each with their pros and cons.
This blog post explains what those various methods are, including the pros and cons of each:
http://theinternetmarketingtools.com/internetmarketing101/
If you are still worried about affiliate marketing being a scam, check this out. This is for the skeptics, for the doubters:
http://theinternetmarketingtools.com/dreamsfordoubters/
Again, I’ll repeat, affiliate marketing IS NOT easy get rich quick. But it IS convenient and anyone can do it from home with an internet connection. It takes dedication, but the rewards are tremendous: freedom of finances, freedom of time (after you’ve learned to automate the workflow), freedom from stress.