Well, you’re going to hop over to Google and start searching for the next best thing. Unfortunately, these days both Google and YouTube are littered with dodgy strategies that simply don’t work.

And believe me, spamming your links all over the internet ain’t gonna make you a single cent.

The truth is that…

Without pre-selling the offer you don’t stand a chance to make the sale

By pre-selling your offer you build up some trust first by providing value before you promote the product.

Most affiliates will provide value by writing a detailed review or an extensive advertorial that is closely related to the product that they’re promoting.

Of course, writing reviews or advertorials is usually out of the question if you don’t have a website.

Luckily, your ol’ pal Dave has some tricks up his sleeve to overcome this problem.

In this post, I’ll share a strategy to create mind blowing advertorials with freely available online tools

Best part is, you don’t have to write a single word yourself. If you can copy and paste then you’re good to go.

I’m also going to give you a complete traffic system. This traffic system is insanely scalable and 100% free to implement.

To top things off, I’ll provide two extra strategies to get even better results.

These are completely optional but trust me when I say – these two minor tweaks will blow your competition out of the water!

Sounds good, huh? Well then, let’s cut the chit chat and let’s get started…

Here’s How To Make Money On Clickbank
Without A Website

But first, let me give you an overview of what we’re going to do:

A lot of Clickbank’s best selling products provide affiliate tools for affiliates to use in their campaigns. These can include articles, blog posts, banners, videos,etc.

Instead of using these tools “as supplied” like everyone else we’re only going to use a small portion and combine it with another article.This will make us stand out from the crowd and give our conversions a serious boost.

We’ll deliver the advertorial on a Google document. People will assume that Google documents are legitimate free resources and therefore it doesn’t look like just another “spammy promotion”.

Step 1 Find A Clickbank Offer To Promote

Go to Clickbank.com and click on the marketplace button. If you don’t have a Clickbank account, then you can create one completely for free over here.

Choose a category and subcategory and than sort the products by gravity. ClickBank gravity is supposed to tell you how popular the given product is on the market. The bigger the gravity score, the more popular a product is.

Go for a product that offers a lot of affiliate tools, preferably articles, social media posts or blog posts.

For the purpose of this tutorial I picked a product called The Smoothie Diet. It’s an offer in the Health/ Fitness niche and currently has a gravity score of 230.

Click on the promote button in order to generate your hoplink (affiliate link)

A pop-up window will appear. Click on the generate hoplink button in order to create your affiliate link.

Once you’ve got your link copy and paste it into a notepad and save it because we will need it later when we create the call to action in our advertorial.

Step 2 Find A Suitable Call To Action For The Advertorial

Go to the JV page of the product and locate the affiliate tools section. Take your time to do some research and try to find a convincing call to action. Check the articles, social media posts and email swipes.

If you’ve found your call to action then copy and paste it into your notepad.

Step 3 Find A Highly Relevant Article On Ezine Articles

Go to Ezinearticles.com and type your niche/subject into the search bar and hit the search button.You’ll get a lot of articles related to your niche. Pick one that is relevant to the product that you want to promote.

For Example:

• My Product: The Smoothie Diet
• My Article: What is juicing and how does it help you to lose weight
  
  

Copy and paste the article into your notepad. Don’t copy the authors call to action BUT do copy the source of the article.

We’re not going “black-hat”, when you make use of somebody else’s content then you link back to the original source, period. You can always make the link less showy by adjusting the colors.

If you absolutely don’t want a source link at the end of your advertorial then you can always use a high quality PLR article.

Step 4 Create Your Advertorial In Google Docs

Open Google Docs and pick a template of your choice. If you don’t have a Google Docs account you can create one completely for free over here.

Open your notepad and copy and paste your article into the Google Document. Under your article you want to paste in the call to action that you took from the JV Page.

Don’t forget to ad your affiliate link to your call to action!

You can adjust font size and colors to your own liking. To make your advertorial stand out you must ad some relevant images.

Make sure to only use copyright free images. You can find thousands of images on websites such as Pixabay and Pexels.

Here are 2 advertorials that I created to promote
The Smoothie Diet

And here is how they look inside

Here’s A Video On Creating Advertorials/Lead Magnets Using Google Docs And PLR Articles

Once you’ve finished the Google Document you can start sharing it but DO NOT shorten the link if you’re going to use the Facebook Groups traffic strategy.

Step 5 Getting Traffic

Traffic From Facebook Groups

Start to join Facebook groups that are closely related to your niche. You should try to join at least 5 to 10 groups per day.

These groups are followed by people who are interested in the topic and they’re all searching for the best advice and solutions to their problems.

Just use the search function on Facebook to find these groups. If you need to answer some questions to join the group, answer them.

Once you’re accepted in the group you need to engage with people and bring value to the group.

Start off by writing some simple value posts. For example, if you found an interesting article then share it with the group.

Write at least 5 of these posts to gain trust. Once you’ve done that, you can start to share your Google Document in the group.

Whatever you do, DO NOT spam your link all over the place as this will definitely get you banned from the group.

When you share your Google document Facebook will create a preview.

Start by pasting in the Google share link and once the preview is generated you can remove the link from your post and ad a valuable comment.

Rather than just sharing the link ask people to comment on your post as this can help a post go viral.

Traffic From Blogs

You’re going to target authority sites in your niche and take advantage of their ranking without doing any SEO.

When searching for niche related sites that may allow comments add the words blog, forum or news to your search phrase.

When you’ve found niche related sites/blogs you’re going to leave a comment on their most recent blog posts.

If you want to get your comments approved then always add value and do not blatantly spam your link.

Niche down in your searches as this will help to find sub niche or micro sites that get a lot of traffic.

For Example:

• Vegetarian recipes for people with gluten allergy
• Weight loss tips for Asian women over 40

Some niches also have active forums which is another great place to add value and post your links.

If your posting links on blogs and forums it is a good idea to shorten your links. Unlike Facebook, blogs and forums won’t create a preview of your Google document and just post the long ugly link.

You can use a URL shortener service such as Bitly.com or TinyURL.com to shorten the link.

Quick tip: Use Google Alerts to make the most from this method

Google Alerts is a powerful tool that will notify you whenever someone posts an article, a blog post or any content that is related to your niche.

They will send an email with the hyperlink to the page in REAL time the moment someone posts content on a blog or forum.

You will be among the first to be notified when these new blog posts first hit the internet and you will be the first to comment on them!

Here’s how to set up Google Alerts:

Go to Google Alerts and then type in your niche related keyword. Next you’ll want to click on the “Show Options” button.

Set the following options:

• How Often: As it happens
• Sources: Blogs, discussions
• Language: English
• Region: All regions
• How Many: All results

Then provide your email address (use a Gmail account) and click on the “create alert” button.

To get the best results you should create more alerts based on other relevant keywords. Put on your thinking to come up with more niche related keywords.

Your traffic will grow slowly and steadily with this method. As you put more links out there consistently, your traffic will start to snowball.

Explode Your Conversions With These
Two Minor Tweaks

Option 1: The Squeeze Page Strategy

You’ve probably heard it a hundred times before because it’s true – the money is in the list.

The size of your list doesn’t really matter, what matters is the relationship that you have with your subscribers.

Trust is crucial if you want to make money on Clickbank or any other affiliate network. The goal is to always deliver value FIRST.

Then when you’ve won them over, you’ll be able to promote ANY offer and they’ll trust your recommendation and buy from you.

Now that you know why you need an email list, let’s build one!

If you already have an autoresponder service and a page builder, cool just use that one.

If not, just go to Aweber.com or Getresponse.com and sign up for a free account.

Aweber has a free forever plan up until 500 subscribers. Getresponse comes with a 30 day free trial.

Both of them have build-in page builders which is perfect for what we’re going to do.

First, you’ll need to create a list inside your autoresponder. Give it a name closely related to the product that you’re going to promote.

Next, you’ll need to create a SIMPLE squeeze page. A headline, a call to action and a sign up form is more than enough.

IMPORTANT: Your re-direct page will be the sales page, so make sure to use your affiliate link when you set this up.

Connect your squeeze page with your list and publish it – your squeeze page is now live on the internet!

Now go back to your Google Document and instead of your affiliate link you want to use the link to your squeeze page.

Your Lead Capture System Should Look Like This

As powerful as this strategy is it also has a downside. Email marketing only works if you’re able to write enticing emails and this takes time and effort to learn.

If you like to multiply your commissions immediately then there is another way that is equally, if not more powerful – which brings us to…

Option 2: The Review Page Strategy

A product review is one of the best ways to make the sale because your review will sell the product without you having to make a direct pitch.

You don’t need to sell the product in your review – that’s the job of the sales page. The goal of a review is to give your opinion and persuade the reader to click on your link.

Reviews need to be written so that they demonstrate to potential customers that you have personally evaluated the product or have experience using it.

Your review needs to be genuine so write in a conversational-style as if you’re talking to a friend and focus on creating informative content that addresses their concerns.

Talk about the pros and cons and provide an in-depth insight into what the product can do for them

Highlight the benefits rather than a list of features. Benefits will emphasize how the product will help them in some way, and that’s all buyers really care about.

Always tell the reader why they should buy the product. Finish your review with an overall conclusion and include a strong call to action to click on your affiliate link.

If you have your own website then by all means use it to write your review. If not, you can use one of the free website builders and create a 1-page website for your review.

You could use:

• Google Sites
• Wix.com
• Weebly.com
• Blogger.com

Once you’ve written and published your review you’ll need to go back to your Google Document and instead of your affiliate link you want to use the link to your review page.

Your Review Page Funnel Should Look Like This

Here’s an example of a 1-page review that I created with Wix.com for a product called The Back Pain Breakthrough.

>> Click Here To See My Back Pain Breakthrough Review <<

I’ll level with you here…

I didn’t write a single word for this review but took a MASSIVE shortcut…and so can you!

To write a detailed review you’ll need to do research on the products, collate the points and then compile your notes into a persuasive review.

This is time-consuming and tiring. Furthermore, some ClickBank products really do not provide much information on the sales page.

That’s why I always take advantage of Arun Chandran’s Top ClickBank Product Reviews

Arun is without doubt the best in the PLR business when it comes to creating detailed ClickBank reviews. Every year he brings out a brand new bundle with the HOTTEST products on ClickBank.

He’s done al the research and the reviews are written to convert visitors into buyers. Just add some eye-catching images and insert your affiliate link and your good to go.

Here’s A Video On How I Used A Top Clickbank Product Review From Arun

>> Go Here To Check Out Top ClickBank Product Reviews <<

And of course, I’ve also made a detailed review about Top ClickBank Product Reviews, so if you want more information you’ll find the review over here.

Right then, we’ve covered a lot today. But remember, this post will only be useful if you implement what I’ve just given you.

This really is a free method to make money on Clickbank that requires no website, no list and no technical skills that anyone can do to finally get some stellar results online.

I can’t guarantee that you’ll become the number #1 affiliate on Clickbank with this method. In fact, the chance of that happening is pretty small.

But what I can guarantee is that when you do nothing you will not earn a single cent. Money doesn’t just fall out of the sky when you click a button on the internet. It never has and it never will.

Anyway, I wish you all the success and if you have any questions whatsoever then just leave a comment below and I’ll get back you asap.

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It doesn’t matter whether you’re new to affiliate marketing or a seasoned veteran, sooner or later you’ll make mistakes. In today’s post I’m going to share 10 ClickBank affiliate marketing mistakes, mostly made by new marketers. Avoid these slip-ups and you’ll save time and energy in the process, plus it will speed up your learning curve.

The goal of this blog post is that you learn from mistakes made by others, because you don’t have time to make them all yourself. If you want to see any results in the near future you better start off on the right foot.

Let’s dive in…here are 10 ClickBank affiliate marketing mistakes to avoid at all cost

1.Linking directly to a sales page

This is the most common mistake of the lot. Beginner marketers are usually hesitant to start a blog and build a list. It just seems like too much work.

They just want to create a few videos or make a couple of posts in Facebook groups with their affiliate links which point directly to the sales page.

While they may garner a couple of sales from these half-hearted attempts, they’ll be leaving a lot of money on the table.

It’s always best to direct visitors to a landing page to collect their email addresses first so that you can re-market to them later.

2.Promoting unethical products

The ClickBank marketplace has thousands of products and occasionally, unethical products do slip through and even become top sellers.

Products claiming to increase your height even when you’re an adult or info-products that promise you overnight riches are just capitalizing on people’s desperation.

Sooner or later, people will realize that these products are scams and report them to ClickBank and the product will be removed from the marketplace.

If you’re promoting such products, your income will dry up overnight. It’s best to stick to proven and ethical products which will stand the test of time.

3.Fail to see the bigger picture

As strange as it sounds, promoting a product with a $10 commission requires the same amount of work as promoting a product with a $500 commission.

Many beginners feel like it’ll be easier to make the lower priced sale, and that’s true, but all you need is one sale from the higher ticket product and it’ll be similar to getting 50 sales of the lower priced product.

So, think big and promote products that pay you hefty commissions. After all, if your goal is to make an attractive income with ClickBank, it helps to promote products that pay attractive commissions.

Another wise move would be to promote products that come with monthly recurring billing. That way you’ll have the best of both worlds, a lower priced front end sale and commissions flowing into your bank account like clockwork.

4.Not seeing the importance of an email list

Pretty straightforward. Always have links pointing to a landing page on your site where you’ll give away a freebie in exchange for the visitor’s email. This will allow you to build a list where you can re-market the ClickBank product you’re promoting.

Make sure that your free giveaway is closely related to the paid offer, this will increase your chances of getting a fast sale. You should always insert your affilliate link in the freebie. Don’t go overboard, just sprinkle it randomly across your lead magnet.

5.Not pre-selling your affiliate offer

The vendor’s job is to sell the product. Most of the top ClickBank vendors spend most of their time split testing their sales pages and copy to constantly improve their conversions. That’s what they do.

What you need to do is deliver value to your audience and casually mention how using the product helped you. You should avoid being salesy or hype the product ridiculously. So many affiliates make this mistake and turn-off their readers.

Your mention of the product should always seem like an afterthought. Let your reader’s curiosity get them to the sales page, where the vendor sells to them.

Pre-sell the products by giving information that’s of value and gently slanting your content to favor the product without being obvious about it.

5.Neglect traffic generation

To succeed as a ClickBank affiliate, you must learn how to drive traffic to your web properties. Thousands of newbies get stuck here because they just don’t know how to go about it.

The key is to just pick one method and focus on it. It could be paid ads or you could go the organic route and use Pinterest or Facebook groups or other methods. What matters here is that you keep at it until you see results.

There’s always a learning curve and it will take time to build up an audience. However, you’ll slowly and surely build a following and that’s when your efforts will snowball and sales will start rolling in. Focus and time are your best friends here.

6.Not doing sufficient research

You must have a thorough understanding of the product you’re promoting. Either you get a review copy from the vendor or you purchase the product.

Then you need to study the pros and cons of the product so that you can pre-sell it better than most other affiliates who won’t go this extra mile.

A shallow understanding of the product will translate to shallow promotional efforts which result in abysmal or no sales.

7.Fail to track your links

ClickBank provides you the option of tracking your links so that you know which of your marketing efforts are yielding fruit. Use their tracking feature to narrow down what’s working in your marketing.

Like the 80/20 rule states, most of your results will come from 20 percent of your actions. Tracking your affiliate links will help you to identify which of your methods is working best and you can focus and scale them to get more profit.

8.Choosing the wrong product

All your efforts will be in vain if you pick the wrong product to promote. The product should have a great sales page with high conversions.

The copy should be good, the sales page should look professional and there should be no leaks where the vendor has pop ups and is trying to build a list at the affiliates’ expense.

Look for products which have an affiliates’ tools page. This is a sign that the vendor cares enough about his/her affiliates to want to make their promotions easier. It’s also a sign that you’re looking at a better product.

10.Not branding yourself

You should brand yourself and your blog so that your readers and audience look at you as an authority in your niche. While you may be an affiliate for a product, that should not stop you from building your own brand.

Once you build trust and people like you, you’ll be able to promote several other products and even sell your own products if you choose to in future.

These 10 ClickBank affiliate marketing mistakes can take a severe toll on your marketing efforts, if you let them.

So, avoid them like the plague and you’ll be ahead of most of the competition who are inadvertently committing them and struggling to make headway.

Now go out there and make yourselves some juicy commissions, I wish you nothing but success.

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If you’ve been trying to make money online for a while than most likely you’ve heard about ClickBank. Clickbank is without a doubt one of the biggest affiliate marketing networks that you can join. There’s tons of ‘make money online’ courses out there that claim that getting started with Clickbank is the fastest way to make a stable income online. And yet… most new marketers struggle to make a single cent on ClickBank. So, if you’re one of those struggling newbies, read on, as I’m about to share some very effective “Clickbank for beginners” tips.

Here’s The Clickbank For Beginners Video

We’ve all seen the huge Clickbank income claims splattered around on over-the-top sales pages. It seems that the super affiliates are pulling in humongous profits without any effort. The potential earnings one could make is enough to whet the appetites of most online marketers.

The harsh reality is that most marketers are making Zero, Zilch, Nada! It looks like these super affiliates all have a “secret super formula” that is not accessible for new affiliates. The truth of the matter is that all successful ClickBank affiliates abide by a few simple rules.

Below you’ll find a list with some of the best strategies to promote your Clickbank offer. If you implement them and work on them consistently, you’ll definitely see success as a Clickbank affiliate in times to come.

Anyway, here are my 9 tips to make money with Clickbank

1.Start a blog

You may mistakenly believe that you’re delaying your progress by creating a blog instead of sending people straight to the product’s sales page. Do remember that a tiger crouches before it leaps. You building the blog is like crouching… before you leap to affiliate marketing success.

In the beginning you want to niche down as much as you can. This will increase your chances of reaching your target audience. For example, if you’re going in to the health niche, niche down to something like this, diabetes remedies for women aged over 50. This is a targeted audience while diabetes alone would be to broad.

This brings us to the next point…

2.Build a list

Once you’ve created the basic foundations for your blog, it’s time to create a landing page where you’ll give away an ethical bribe in exchange for the visitors email address. You either have the choice of going for a paid page builder, or use one of the many free plug-ins that WordPress offers.

Keep in mind that this is one area where an investment in a premium plugin is a big advantage in terms of functionality and ease of use. But for marketers on a shoe-string budget, you can find a reliable and completely free plug-in over here.

Start with sharing your landing page link on all your social media accounts or anywhere else where you post content. As time goes by, you’ll build a list of subscribers that are interested in your content.

You MUST have an audience to market your ClickBank product to… repeatedly. It’s a proven fact that most people need to see an offer several times before they decide to whip out their credit card.

But before you can sell them…

3.Deliver value first

Forget about making sales if you don’t deliver value first, people tend to buy stuff from other people whom they know, trust and like. Most new marketers fail at ClickBank affiliate marketing simply because this is not a method for beginners who jump in head over heels.

Most people just want useful information that will help them. Your blog will provide them with answers… but NOT ALL the answers. You don’t want to give them all the information. Remember you’re a marketer who wants to make money.

Give them enough information to help them out, and then gently guide them to your affiliate offer which will give them the complete solution. Don’t be to salesy because this usually has the opposite effect of what you’re trying to achieve, resulting in losing a potential customer.

The best way to sell any affiliate product is to simply pre-sell the product. The best way to do this is to wrap the pre-selling with valuable content.

4.Make sure that your landing page is congruent

The colors and fonts on your landing page should match with the sales page of your paid product. To increase your conversions even your lead magnet should bear similar branding. Keep this in mind when you design the e-cover for your lead magnet.

Congruence is the most important element of your funnel, you want to keep all your promotional materials closely related to the end-product that you’re trying to sell.

If you need some more information on creating high converting landing pages, then it can be found in this blog post.

5.Split test your pages

Although split testing is a never ending process it’s absolutely necessary. You need to know which one of your pages has the highest conversions possible.

Once you’ve gathered all the information and you’ve found that winning page, you can start running paid ads. While running ads, you should split test too.

Only scale up when you’re 100% sure that your page converts well. This approach will save you tons of money

6.Have an email follow up series

Make sure that you have at least a 5-day email follow up series loaded into your auto-responder. After the first 5 days you might want to send out an email every two days.

In your first few emails, your goal is to deliver value and gain trust and credibility with your subscriber. One of the best ways to do this is to create a customer avatar. This will help you understand what your subscriber actually wants, and you can sculpture your emails around this information. It’s important to write in a way that agrees with what the reader is thinking.

You must speak their language and address their pressing needs without them saying a word. By displaying empathy and ‘insider knowledge’, you’ll gain trust with your subscribers, which will eventually turn into making more sales.

7.Learn how to drive traffic

Whether you like it or not, driving traffic is a must-have skill. You absolutely need to know how to drive targeted traffic to your web properties. No traffic equals no sales, simple as that.

Pick one method of traffic generation that’s proven to work, and focus on it. And with one method I do mean one, there’s only 24hrs in a day and you don’t have time to drive traffic from five sources efficiently. Believe me, pick one method and master it, or pick five and become a master of none. The choice is yours!

Pinterest, Facebook groups, Twitter and Instagram… etc., are all valid and effective traffic methods. You just need to pick the one where your targeted audience hangs out.

If you choose to drive traffic via a Facebook group, then you might want to check out this blog post.

As you progress, you’ll need to learn about paid advertising as well. Nothing allows you to scale up your profits and get faster feedback than paid ads. These days, social media platforms are making moves that limit organic reach just so that people ‘pay to play’. Learning paid traffic is becoming more important than ever before.

8.Choose the right product

You want to choose an affiliate offer that converts well and has relatively attractive commissions. If you’re able to find an offer with recurring billing, then go for it. Check if the vendor provides affiliate tools such as banner ads, social media images or email swipes. These tools could be useful for your campaigns.

Don’t forget to check the refund rates, you don’t want to promote a pile of crap. Ask yourself if the product is ethical. You may wish to ask for a review copy of the product or just buy it yourself so that you can have a deeper understanding of what the product is about.

Check if the vendor provides a discount link or a coupon. This can make your promotions much more effective. If the vendor does not have one, you could try asking for one. It doesn’t hurt to try… and if you don’t ask, the answer is always no.

9.Track your links

This is may sound obvious, but yet many newbies promote their products blindly. They have no clue where their clicks are coming from. Tracking your links will allow you to know which one of your marketing efforts are effective and which ones are an absolute disaster.

By focusing only on what works, you’ll be able to fine-tune your campaigns and scale up more efficiently.

These nine ‘Clickbank for beginners’ tips are only worth something if you put them into action. Applying them will take a lot of time and hard work. However, this is exactly what you need to do to reach your goals, there are no short-cuts. Don’t decrease your goals but increase your efforts.

If you want to win first prize, well then you must pay the price first and do what’s required. …

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