ClickBank Marketplace – Info For Affiliates

If you are starting an Internet business, one of the sources for products to promote is the ClickBank Marketplace. This is where it is recommended by many work at home training programs, that affiliates find products to begin learning how to promote and sell.

Each work at home training program will have a slightly different selling angle that they teach. It may have to do with the level of popularity of the product (gravity), or how well a product fits into a niche that you are planning to work with. However, the purpose of this post is not to discuss the various methods of training used by different work at home training programs. Instead, I would like to pass on some ClickBank info that is often not touched upon in many of these programs, or if it is, may not be upper most in the mind of many of the newer Clickbank affiliates.

First let me say that I am not a spokesperson for ClickBank. The ClickBank info I am sharing with you is based strictly on my own experience with the ClickBank Marketplace, where I find products to promote, the same as many other affiliates.

It is not uncommon for a new affiliate to begin promoting products and not have instant success. This is not the generally the fault of the training program, but rather part of the learning curve that all affiliates go through. There is much to learn in the area of affiliate marketing and your success will depend a lot on you, the effort you put into your learning and your ability to follow and understand the training you are working with. Picking one work at home training program and sticking with it until you have completed the entire course will get you farther ahead faster than if you start a program and then jump to the next and then to the next without ever completing the original training.

Over time, as you learn what works best for promoting the products you have chosen from the ClickBank marketplace, sales will begin to happen. For some of you it may take a few weeks, for others it may take months. It is what happens once those sales begin to occur that I would like to address.

ClickBank has a number of rules that are followed in regards to how affiliates are paid. Many ClickBank affiliates believe that as soon as they make their first sale, they will receive a check in the mail or a deposit to their bank account. When this does not happen, it can put an affiliate off of his or her stride and dampen their enthusiasm. This is why it is important that those promoting ClickBank products are aware of the rules that ClickBank has in place that determine when you will be paid.

It is important that once you sign up as an affiliate, you are aware of and thoroughly read ClickBank’s Accounting Policy. There are two primary sections that help determine when an affiliate will be paid. Those sections are the Payment Threshold and the Customer Distribution Requirement sections.

The Payment Threshold section determines the dollar amount of the commissions you must earn before a payment will be made to you. If you continue to make sales, this amount will be met quite quickly.

The most important section for you as a new affiliate promoting products from ClickBank is the “Customer Distribution Requirement” section. In order to safe guard itself and it’s merchants, each ClickBank affiliate must meet this required criteria before he or she will be issued any payment for the sales that they generate. Once this criteria has been met, payments for any future sales will be issued on a regular basis.

This criteria can cause affiliates a bit of apprehension. It is not uncommon to have a single sale and then have a period of time when no sales are made. For the affiliate, who made the sale, seeing that they have earned a commission and then not receiving it can be frustrating. But, as I said before, that payment will not be made until ClickBank’s Customer Distribution Requirement is met. Notice the CDR links in the status column. These point to the explanation of the requirements that must be met before a payment will be made to you.

If there is a time in between sales, your account may be set to dormant status. At this time, you will be charged for the maintenance of that account every pay period and you will see your commission amount being decreased by the amount of that charge. This will continue until you make another sale. That sale may or may not give you what you need to meet ClickBank’s requirements. And so it goes on.

While these rules help ClickBank to protect itself and it’s merchants, they can be very frustrating for new affiliates. The key is to hang in there and keep trying. Eventually the day will come when all of the criteria have been met and you will begin receiving your commission checks as sales are made.

When the day comes that you receive your first check from ClickBank, take the time to congratulate and reward yourself for passing this initiation into the world of affiliate marketing. You will have worked hard to achieve it, so enjoy. I hope this ClickBank info will help you to better understand what is involved when working as a ClickBank affiliate and that your patience will be quickly rewarded.

To Your Success,

SherryD
http://www.wbobr.com