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New ClickBank competitor
Associate Programs Newsletter #349
Just a quick newsletter to let you know there's a new ClickBank competitor that has no set-up fee.
It has features you won't see at ClickBank or PayDotCom.
CONTENTS:
1. New ClickBank competitor has no set-up fee
2. What do you think of Click2Sell?
3. Tips for new affiliates
4. Thought for today: Competition
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1. New ClickBank competitor has no set-up fee
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ClickBank has a new competitor, an affiliate network and marketplace called Click2Sell. Advanced tracking is one of its attractions. Can it compete with ClickBank? It's early days yet, but it already has 60 products listed, compared with 30 about a week ago.
At this stage, the products are mainly in the Internet marketing field.
For vendors, there's no set-up fee, and they can sell digital and physical products and membership sites with recurring billing.
I've signed up to keep an eye on it. Like its competitors, it's free to join.
You can join here...
http://www.AssociatePrograms.com/click2sell
Read my early impressions here...
Click2Sell new ClickBank Competitor
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2. What do you think of Click2Sell?
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I'd be very interested in receiving feedback on this new affiliate network, Click2Sell - http://www.AssociatePrograms.com/click2sell . Do you think it has a chance of providing ClickBank with serious competition?
One obvious thing is that it has a fairly small number of products, but that could easily change.
Have your say at the end of this newsletter.
(All comments are moderated. They won't appear immediately.)
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3. Tips for new affiliates
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4. Thought for today: Competition
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All the best
Allan Gardyne
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I'm disappointed that click2sell (don't like the name much) isnt taking care of affilliate payments. I can't imagine either vendors or affiliates being over the moon about that! Can't put my finger on it, but there is something about click2sell that is niggling at me. Because of that I won't be affiliating with any of their products for the present, preferring to sit on the boundary and watch for a while.
Cheers to all
Veronica
All the Best,
Jay Douglas
www.cbsqueezevideos.com
1. Who wants their Affiliates to wait a month for commissions? And...
2. Many Affiliates don't trust the Vendor to pay them (sometimes with good cause).
For those two reasons, I can't envision Affiliates flocking there, uber-tracking or not. Terrific reporting and review, though, Allan! Thanks!
This just might be great news! CB, although it got immensely better with its "new" tracking abilities, could still use some improving. PDC, IMNSHO, sucks. A new competitor might be just what the doctor ordered. One question; I have a product I'm getting ready to do a big launch with (mid-Feb) and I'm not married to CB (was going to do CB with easyClickMate). I'm wondering would I lose affiliates because of going with this new system? I don't mean the 10,000 affiliates in CB I mean people that I invite to be members of my JV. Will they be "put off" by a new system?
Curiously yours,
John
[I wouldn't be put off if a vendor was trying a new affiliate network. I doubt if that scare away many affiliates - unless they'd heard something bad about the new outfit. Allan.]
Answer for Veronica about vendors handling payments to affiliates. I really understand your worries. We are aware of such possible issues (that a vendor doesn't pay his affiliates) and we have made some measures to discipline such cheating merchants. We 100% know which merchants don't pay their affiliates. If a merchant fails to pay all his commissions and fees within given timeframe, the system automatically reduces his/her rating (which is visible). If a cheater continues to ignore paying commissions, he/she is eventually banned from our system. So if you choose one or another product to promote, you can check out vendor's rating or just try to communicate with the vendor at first (there is a message system implemented).
Answer for Terry.
1) About waiting for commissions for a month. 3 weeks after the end of a month is just the longest allowed period (without reducing merchant rating) for paying commissions. Actually a vendor in our system is able to pay a commission for his/her affiliate almost instantly once a sale is made. But in my opinion, it wouldn't be wise to pay commissions instantly as there might be a refund. Well, if a vendor wants to pay instantly his commissions, he/she is able to do that. We are planning to introduce a feature which would show how much time it takes for a vendor to pay all the commissions (eg, "10 days" would mean that a vendor usually pays a commission after 10 days once a sale is made).
2) About vendors handling payments to affiliates. The same concern was expressed by Veronica and I have answered this in the upper part of this message.
Answer for JC. Could you clarify your statement? Actually we haven't banned anything except the goods that are not allowed to be sold in most shops (like firearms, pornography, piracy and so on).
Thanks for your thoughts!
"One thing that really stinks about ClickBank (and I've written about it at my blog) is you will not get paid until you rack up at least 5 different mastercard or visa purchases. So if 100 people buy clickbank products you promote using PayPal, you won't get paid until the magic number of 5 visa/MC purchases are made. I've only got about $100 sitting in my account waiting for the 5th visa/MC purchase... but darn it... I could use that hundred bucks!"
Thats why I stopped as an affiliate with clickbank as they will juts absorbed that affiliate money until you reach there requirements,or they have taken all your money (which is the case for me).
No more for me with clickbank I have learned my lesson
I didn't even know that rule existed. If it does, it's never affected me. I suppose it's an anti-fraud measure.
Don't waste energy worrying about petty little stuff. Concentrate your thinking on what you CAN achieve if you learn how.