One thing I never understood about clickbank is this:
Why can't you CONTACT the affiliates selling your product?!
That's a huge flaw in there design, and they're behind other big networks on this one.
Luckily, I havefigured out a super simple way to contact at least some of your affiliates.
This is common sense "stare you in the face" technique, but I didn't think of it until recently.
Simply type in their affiliate id into a clickbank hoplink like this:
http://YOURID.THEIRID.hop.clickbank.net
By doing this little bit of reverse engineering, you'll be routed to their clickbank sales page if they are listed in the marketplace.
The cool thing is, if they DO have a product on clickbank - AND they are promoting your stuff - then you can probably work out some type of JV deal like trading an email in each others autoresponder, adding a link to each other's thank you page or doing special email promotions on holidays.
About 30% of the affiliates I tested had sales pages linked to thier clickbank ID's. Not to shabby, that's actually more than I thought.
And you might find offers that work with your niche you didn't think about.
Like if one of your affiliates is selling your guitar course and his website is about learning violin.
Talk soon,
Trey
Yet another great post. I too do reverse engineering. I search on Google for their ID's to see what other products they are promoting for my own personal reasons. Muahahahaha! (that was supposed to be evilish I guess)
Posted by: James Delong | November 21, 2008 at 03:32 PM