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Lea
Joined: 18 Oct 2003
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Posted: Sat Dec 13, 2003 7:01 am
Post subject: Selling Two Products Through Clickbank Using ONE account
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Hi,
Is it possible to sell two products through clickbank, using only ONE account, but still have a way to send customers to a different sales page?
See, I have one account, selling one product very well. I have plenty of affiliates sending customers to that same sales page.
My problem is: I want to sell a second product. I need to be able to send customers to a different sales page.
I DO NOT want to open a second clickbank account to do this. It will cost me another $50 US for every product if I keep doing that (and I'm in Australia, so that's almost $85 AU for us - for each product! No thanks.)
I'm so confused.
Any suggestions, please?????
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Charlie
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Posted: Sat Dec 13, 2003 12:12 pm
Post subject: Re: Selling Two Products Through Clickbank Using ONE account
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Hello Lea.
| Lea wrote: | | Is it possible to sell two products through clickbank, using only ONE account, but still have a way to send customers to a different sales page? |
Yes, or at least it was using the old-style links...
Will Bontrager has a free script at http://willmaster.com that uses CGI and cookies to do this simply and efficiently. Ask him how to do this with the new system.
| Quote: | | I DO NOT want to open a second clickbank account to do this. It will cost me another $50 US for every product if I keep doing that |
But as someone mentioned in another thread, it might be worth setting up seperate accounts just to get individual product listings at ClickBank.
Cheers,
Charlie.
P.S. | Quote: | | (and I'm in Australia, so that's almost $85 AU for us - for each product! No thanks.) |
Isn't everything more "expensive" in Australia? I thought that's why they gave you more $ to play with.  _________________ "Before I speak, I have something important to say."
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Debs
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Posted: Sat Dec 13, 2003 12:54 pm
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If you are selling the products already through Clickbank, then that indicates you are making money. If that is the case, then wouldn't the added benefit of extra listings at Clickbank be worth setting up 2 accounts? Maybe think of it as the cost of launching a new product, very cheap in terms of business today.
Debs _________________ Learn how to turn keyphrases into quality, well-targeted articles your visitors and SE's will love with Gary Antosh's new ebook "Web Content Made Easy!" |
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DatabaseDesigner
Joined: 17 Nov 2003
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Posted: Sat Dec 13, 2003 3:24 pm
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Lea,
you may sell up to 50 different products through one Clickbank account. You don't need any SW to do it: Each link looks like this:
http://www.clickbank.net/sell.cgi?yourClickBankname/1/Your_product_name
The /1/ indicates your product number.
You must make a sales page at your site with this link on it, and you must make a 'thank you' page for the product as well. The 'thank you' page is where your customer will download the product from.
The 'Thank you' page will be associated with the product number. You do that at your account with ClickBank.
VERY easy: you don't need any additional SW, and with 50 ebooks out on the market, you should be able to buy shares in ClickBank, not to mention open another account with them...  _________________ DatabaseDesigner
The complete guide to eBooks!
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Charlie
Joined: 22 Aug 2003
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Posted: Sat Dec 13, 2003 8:58 pm
Post subject: Re: Selling Two Products Through Clickbank Using ONE account
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Hello Alf.
| Lea wrote: | | Is it possible to sell two products through clickbank, using only ONE account, but still have a way to send customers to a different sales page? |
Lea was asking about different landing pages for each product, but using only one account.
Unless things have changed very recently, this is not possible by default. Different thankyou pages, yes, but not landing pages. You have to rely on the customer finding the product they want from a page that isn't dedicated to it.
Will Bontrager's method got round this shortcoming.
Cheers,
Charlie. _________________ "Before I speak, I have something important to say."
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DatabaseDesigner
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Posted: Sat Dec 13, 2003 9:44 pm
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Hi, Charlie:
Well, now I am a bit confused: What's the difference between a landing page and a sales page? Of course Lea may sell 5o products from one account, and have 50 different sales pages (what's the difference against landing pages???) _________________ DatabaseDesigner
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Lea
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Posted: Sun Dec 14, 2003 6:48 am
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Thanks to all for your help and advice.
Charlie's right - I was asking about separate landing pages. I registered product number 2 without problem and created a 2nd thank you page easily. Product number 3 will be registered today sometime.
But I don't want my customers to land on the sales page for the FIRST product when trying to buy the second or third. They're individual titles and have individual sales pages.
Someone also said that with enough ebooks selling well, I should easily be able to afford separate account-activation fees. Yep, you're right there, too. I can afford it and my books sell very well. I'm a professional author. It's what I do for a living.
Ebooks are just a new income source for me - but, being a business person as well as a writer, cash flow is important to my business, and keeping the income from sales is priority number one.
My actual dilemma is this: Imagine if I create 10 ebooks. I open 10 clickbank accounts. I'm charged $50 US on each one. Not so bad, right? Eats into the cash flow only once. Call it "operational expenses". No biggie. Deductible expenses for a full-time author, right?
Then, I receive 10 different checks at the end of each fortnight that must be cashed at my local Australian bank. I'm then charged 10 exchange rate fees from my bank every fortnight. At $5.50 per check, that's $55.00 worth of cash flow from sales I've worked hard to get every fortnight that I've lost simply by not being able to have all my products in the one account, but pointing to their own sales pages.
That was the dilemma really. I was just trying to find a way to keep my hard-earned profits in my own account, instead of my local bank's account.
Thanks again for your suggestions. I appreciate you taking the time
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Charlie
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Posted: Sun Dec 14, 2003 11:25 am
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Hello again.
| DatabaseDesigner wrote: | Hi, Charlie:
Well, now I am a bit confused: What's the difference between a landing page and a sales page? |
There isn't any difference.
| Lea wrote: | Someone also said that with enough ebooks selling well, I should easily be able to afford separate account-activation fees. Yep, you're right there, too. I can afford it and my books sell very well. I'm a professional author. It's what I do for a living.
Ebooks are just a new income source for me - but, being a business person as well as a writer, cash flow is important to my business, and keeping the income from sales is priority number one. |
I think it all comes down to whether you sell much through listings at ClickBank as opposed to from your own promotions.
Why not create a new product with it's own account and listing at ClickBank. Do not promote it elsewhere. Then you can decide whether the profits justify doing the same with the other products.
My suspicion is that you'll do much better promoting them yourself (and selling through ClickBank). If this proves the case, investigate Will B's script.
Don't forget the changes ClickBank are undergoing, by the way. You could always ask for this facility to be featured.
Hope this helps,
Charlie. _________________ "Before I speak, I have something important to say."
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Lea
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Posted: Sun Dec 14, 2003 12:27 pm
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Hi again!
| Charlie wrote: | Isn't everything more "expensive" in Australia? I thought that's why they gave you more $ to play with.  |
LOL!!!
Not quite! But it's a nice thought.
| Charlie wrote: | I think it all comes down to whether you sell much through listings at ClickBank as opposed to from your own promotions.
Why not create a new product with it's own account and listing at ClickBank. Do not promote it elsewhere. Then you can decide whether the profits justify doing the same with the other products.
My suspicion is that you'll do much better promoting them yourself (and selling through ClickBank). If this proves the case, investigate Will B's script. |
To be completely honest, I didn't even know about getting my 1st product listed with Clickbank until I read about it on a post on this forum. Only after reading that did I email and ask to be listed. I do my own promotions, through my ezine or through reprint articles in other ezines.
Visiting Will's site and digging around for the pertinent code right now.
I don't know what I'd do without you helpful folks. Thanks heaps - again! You're all amazingly wonderful and I appreciate it.
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Lea
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Posted: Sun Dec 14, 2003 12:41 pm
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| Charlie wrote: | | Will Bontrager has a free script at http://willmaster.com that uses CGI and cookies to do this simply and efficiently. Ask him how to do this with the new system. |
:::sigh:::
Okay, call me a dumb bimbo from a backwater hick-town in the back of nowhere, but..... I can't find the script you're talking about. I've been trolling around Will's site for a while and nothing remotely similar is popping up at me.
Where should I be looking???
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Charlie
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Posted: Sun Dec 14, 2003 3:14 pm
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Hello again.
| Charlie wrote: | | Will Bontrager has a free script at http://willmaster.com that uses CGI and cookies to do this simply and efficiently. Ask him how to do this with the new system. |
| Lea wrote: | I can't find the script you're talking about. I've been trolling around Will's site for a while and nothing remotely similar is popping up at me.
Where should I be looking??? |
I was afraid you were going to ask that...
I had a quick look for a link before I posted the first time, and I couldn't find it either!
Anyway... after further painstaking research, lurking in a deep, dimly-lit cranny, I found...
http://www.willmaster.com/possibilities/archives/wmp20030325001.shtml
[Actually if you put "clickbank" (without quotes) into the search box on the lefthand side of the page, you get links to several other useful scripts for working with ClickBank.]
What you need to check, though, is how things will work with the new system.
Hope this helps,
Charlie.
P.S. Will's "Possibilities" ezine is excellent if you are at all interested in scripts - whichever side of the server. You don't need to be a techie to learn something from Will. _________________ "Before I speak, I have something important to say."
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Lea
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Posted: Mon Dec 15, 2003 12:09 am
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Charlie,
BIG CYBER HUGS TO YOU!!!
You're just the best.
Thanks heaps - yet AGAIN!
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Charlie
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Posted: Mon Dec 15, 2003 11:40 am
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Blimey, steady on girl. Not in public please...
| Lea wrote: | Charlie,
BIG CYBER HUGS TO YOU!!!
You're just the best.
Thanks heaps - yet AGAIN!
Lea |
[I had to repeat that, as they don't say it very often. I've already stuck it on my wall next to the original (uncashed) affiliate cheque for $25.01]
Thanks for being so honest,
Charlie.
P.S. I am beginning to appreciate how truly happy and valued Debs must feel.  _________________ "Before I speak, I have something important to say."
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Bobby
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Posted: Mon Dec 15, 2003 10:10 pm
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| Lea wrote: | | Then, I receive 10 different checks at the end of each fortnight that must be cashed at my local Australian bank. I'm then charged 10 exchange rate fees from my bank every fortnight. At $5.50 per check, that's $55.00 worth of cash flow from sales I've worked hard to get every fortnight that I've lost simply by not being able to have all my products in the one account, but pointing to their own sales pages. |
Keep in mind that having each ebook listed individually in the Clickbank directory will help you recruit affiliates for each ebook. Those affiliates will in all probability find customers for your ebook that you would never find.
Unless your ebook is priced very low, just one affiliate generated sale per month per ebook will more than offset the $5.50 charge. The second affiliate generated sale is more cash for your pocket.
See my post - about the 5th down - on this thread - http://www.associateprograms.com/discus/viewtopic.php?t=1612
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Lea
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Posted: Tue Dec 16, 2003 10:32 am
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| Bobby wrote: |
Unless your ebook is priced very low, just one affiliate generated sale per month per ebook will more than offset the $5.50 charge. The second affiliate generated sale is more cash for your pocket. |
Um... actually, it IS priced pretty low. The affiliates I have so far have all come from other editors with magazines or ezines similar to my own.
Mostly, the reason for this is - if you don't have a site dedicated to my own little niche, then the book is probably not going to sell for you.
My own fault, I guess, for having such a narrow niche
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