Click Bank

[parkid]

Has anyone used click bank and what do you think of it.

Adina Soclof
www.adinateam.com

[Lynn Terry]

I think we all use ClickBank.

I think... I wish they would switch to first cookie instead of last cookie for their affiliates. Otherwise they provide a very nice service for merchants & affiliates alike.

That said, I prefer to promote physical products than info products, in most niches.

[Rick Olsen]

Lynn - Why do you prefer physical products? If promoting physical products does the product company deal with customer support, complaints, shipping problems, etc. I would worry about stuff like that.

[Lynn Terry]

Of course - all affiliate programs work that way. You just drive the traffic through your affiliate link, the same as a hoplink.

[jkgourmet]

I think we all use ClickBank.

I think... I wish they would switch to first cookie instead of last cookie for their affiliates. Otherwise they provide a very nice service for merchants & affiliates alike.

That said, I prefer to promote physical products than info products, in most niches.

Okay - you got me interested here. Ignorant newbie that I am, I thought that the last cookie ALWAYS got the sale. Are there some networks that keep it for the first affiliate click? Care to educate me, please?

[Lynn Terry]

They all work differently - some first cookie, some last - different lengths that they last, etc. It's an age old debate among affiliate marketers on which is better, but for ClickBank it would cut down on a lot of commission theft if they would swap it.

[jkgourmet]

I do remember reading that you had to have sales from 5 DIFFERENT credit cards before they would send you any commissions. I forget how paypal fit into that - but it was clearly stated in the TOS. This can cause a delay in getting paid, I'm sure. . .

[YvonneJ]

That's true, Jeanette. You must have sales from 5 different credit cards and that stipulation passed me by or I passed over it totally. When I had my first sales but no disbursement THEN I read rules again and noted that. Once you get beyond that hurdle things get better.

Now that I've got my feet wet in Affiliate Marketing, I'm leaning toward physical products and services myself but I think it's a little harder to get approval from some companies. Would you agree with this, Lynn?

Yvonne

[Lynn Terry]

Not always - you can find a lot of physical products in networks like CJ.com. Some of them do manual approval, others instant. But quality control is a good thing

[jkgourmet]

I've found quite a few auto approvals on SAS too.