ClickBank Research Tool - What Newbie Affiliate Marketers Need To Have

Let me rephrase the question, if most of the buyers are abusing the liberal "Refund Policy" of ClickBank and most of the users are trying to use their own Affiliate Hop link then who is making the money? That Link Cloaking software you purchased for quite some cash didn't tell you about Refunds or this fact.

Well, you guessed it, THE MERCHANT. It is a WIN-WIN-WIN situation for him/her. Let me elaborate, even if he/she does not get a sale, he/she will get a future prospect or Lead which will either

a) Opt-in to his/her list

b) Get his/her name known to the world in case he/she does not have a prior portfolio

c) CASH CASH CASH. Either it is from your affiliate ID or someone else's affiliate ID, it doesn't matter, they rake in the cash no matter what and the more the merrier.

D) He/she now gets to use those earnings from ClickBank he received because of people like YOU to hype up his next sales letter and his next "Proof of Earnings" Section.

Now you being a disgruntled affiliate will end up bidding on Keywords for AdWords and after all the effort would still not see the results you are promised or made to "dream" on the plentiful E-books which are collecting dust on your hard drive by now.

Why? Because the people who will buy from the AdWords Ads will be the people who are NOT a part of ClickBank affiliates at all, these are most probably total Newbie's who just happened to search and you know what? There aren't many of those any more, in fact, it doesn't even matter, the odds of them converting are pretty rare.



So getting back to the original point. There is a trick where you make your Domain URL similar to the Official URL which works but again, only to the "Non-ClickBank viewers."

So why are the people showing all those huge checks and $$$ out of no where? Well, because these are part of the Merchant's "inner circle" that get hold of the buzz of the product's launch and are 1 week ahead of everyone. What these people do is, literally squash all the little affiliates who are not part of the "inner circle" by aggressively marketing on

AdWords and sending a killer sales pitch to all their Lists and giving away bonuses and what not. These amount for more than 30% of the sales that the merchants get, often times these people are less that 10! The next kind as I said earlier are the people who buy using their own affiliate ID to get their discount to see "what this buzz is all about" and they amount to over 55-60% of the people. The remaining 10-15% is for average affiliates.

Now, is it worth the effort to be part of this very little percentage and add to the fact the refund policy, merchant's bad service rapport leading to even bigger problems of the people who bought from your "review website" to ever find it credible again. Now not all of the people struggle but indefinitely, the people who do are the new guys on the game, these are the guys who have been "catching up on the gold rush"

so to speak what did they end up getting? Yet, these are the guys the "Gurus" aggressively market, when I mean aggressively, these are the "target market" for them because they will spend anything to fill the gaps, to "crack the code" to "get the secret" to "beat their competition." But for how long?

These are some of the quotes that some affiliate friends I know say "This is the last e-book I will pretty much ever buy. I've had enough of this; seriously, I bought pretty much 30 e-books by now."

" how to make money with clickbank was nothing new, not saying that it wasn't good but again, I honestly believe that gone are the days where you could use CB for affiliate products because everyone will use their affiliate ID and buy the e-book to get the discount."

Gurus claim as if being an affiliate will bring HUGE sales of their product and therefore hype up their e-book. All they would do is get sales off of newbie affiliates who haven't made a killing using ClickBank. Let me give you an example, would be able to sell a

"Get rich quick" E-book to Bill Gates? Why Not? Because he is rich, he is NOT the target market. But, if you pitched the same thing to a guy who is working as a store clerk who thinks his life sucks and what are the chances of him buying? You know the answer.

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