How To Choose Profitable Products From ClickBank

How To Choose Profitable Products from ClickBank

by Dexter Damien Chan on April 27, 2008

in Affiliate/Internet Marketing Tips, ClickBank, Info-Product, Make Money With

Today I will like to share on some handy tips that most Internet Marketers will teach you on how to choose Profitable Products from ClickBank to sell and make lots of money!

These tips can be found on ebooks from Dylan Loh – ClickBank Profit Machine, Ewen Chia – AutoPilot Profit, Newbie Cash Machine and Alvin Phang – Atomic Blogging.

You should get your hands on these ebooks and put the tips to good use. Alternatively, subscribe to our email updates whenever this blog is updated with good stuff!

Not to keep you waiting, enjoy our Handy Tips in Choosing Your ClickBank Product!

The ClickBank Product Selection Criteria

Head over to ClickBank MarketPlace and Start Searching:

Search ClickBank MarketPlace

As you can see from above, this is the typical scene you will be doing as you start searching for your products. Few points to note:

  • Best Keywords to put in your search should be targeted to your passion and your area of focus. This will help you to assess the Sales Page, should it appeal to you.
  • As recommended by the expert marketers, it would be best to sort your search according to “High Gravity”

Once you are done with your searches, you will see a whole chunk of information, but just to narrow down to a single search result to showcase some important factors:

ClickBank Search Results

As you can see, oops… this is Alvin Phang’s Atomic Blogging System. So should you become an affiliate to his product. Let’s analyze these figures:

  • $ earned/sale: $29.58
  • %/sale (commission): 70%
  • %refd: 64%
  • Grav: 54.04

What does this figures mean to you? The first two stats are rather self-explanatory.

  1. $ earn/sale would mean for every sale you make, $29.58 is credited into your account.
  2. Out of the sales price, $29.58 or 70% of the selling price is reserved as your commission.
  3. %refd will basically mean what percentage of the vendor’s recent sales came through the promotion of Affiliates.
  4. Grav reflects the percentage number of active affiliates who have made recent sales.

Points to note from the experts:

  • Aim for $/sale greater than $20 as it will be tough to profit with any paid marketing techniques like Pay-Per-Click if lesser than that.
  • Aim for products paying at least 50% and most importantly, avoid those paying 80%-90%. The latter figures could just mean that the vendor depend solely on the efforts of Affiliates to bring in the sales for them.
  • Aim for low referral percentage (below 65%). This will mean only a few other affiliates are competing.
  • Go for Gravity roughly between 60 and 100. Anything below 60 would mean that the product is not popular to sell well and anything higher than 100 could mean that the product is already market saturated.

ClickBank Search Results

With these numbers in mind, you are ready to play to the logical side of sales. Next will be the emotional side of sales. Remember that initially I have asked you to choose products that are of your passion and area of focus?

Once you have narrowed down to either one or just a few products (best is 2) to promote, it’s time to click on “View Pitch Page” to look at the sales letter. Based on the knowledge of your passion, how convinced are you with the sales pitch? You may ask your friends to view through the sales letter as well to confirm your choice.

Once You Are Confirmed With Your Few Choices, It’s Time To Do Some Tests:

The Simplified Method:

The first is to do a  Search Engine Test by doing a search on the actual product itself using the Product Name. Reasons for this are that some affiliate marketers will actually use their own version of domain names (indirectly related to the Product) to promote their affiliate links and their offered bonuses.

This method will help you:

  • Get a feel of how many other affiliate sites are there promoting this product when someone does a direct search for the product – probably searching for a review before making a purchase.
  • See if other affiliate marketers are eagerly promoting this product and you may jolly well jump into the bandwagon to “steal some ideas” on how to promote this and other products next time.

The Extra-Effort Method:

If you feel that you would like to provide a solution with this affiliate product. You will do another Search Engine test, by first using the free Google Keyword Tool to find the keywords of the product you intend to use in various promotional methods to link to the affiliate product.

Among the keywords, find a few that you, yourself, may use in Search Engines and do a search. See what results and Google Ads appear in the first few pages. This will let you know whether there are other affiliate products linked to these keywords in the Ads and Search Results.

If any of the results for the above two methods are satisfactory, you are more or less to promote the products.

Then You Are Ready!

Once you are ready with your choice of products, “Create Hoplink” and start promoting with these suggested methods:

  • Article Marketing e.g. posting articles related to the product in ezinearticles
  • Forum Marketing – Go to forums that are related to the nature of the product, then using part of the content of the product to answer some of the queries the members may have.
  • SEO – common method is to create a simple affiliate website, e.g. new domain name and with Landing Pages
  • Writing eBooks - A simple guide to make you an authority and also serve as a small incentive.
  • Social Networking – Twitter & Facebook. A little personal suggestions will help.
  • Web 2.0 Sites - Like Squidoo and HubPages, these are good sites that will help you to get backlinks.

There you go, a few handy tips to choose Profitable Product to promote from ClickBank.

If you are a beginner to ClickBank and will like to start to sell your products and have affiliates promoting your products:

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{ 3 comments… read them below or add one }

Atif July 7, 2010 at 4:02 pm

Very nice and beautiful article on ClickBank Products. Thanks

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Wonkxags August 7, 2011 at 1:52 pm

Well, thanks a lot for this information. Its perfect guidelines to start with.

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Dexter Damien Chan August 10, 2011 at 10:18 pm

Thanks for your comment! Hope this has been useful for you!

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