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A lot of new and experienced internet marketers make money with ClickBank. What is it and how does it work? The idea is that you direct people to ClickBank hoplinks where your user ID is listed and you’ll make a commission if the person buys the product. You can sell through e-mail marketing, websites, blogs and article marketing or bum marketing.  ClickBank sells digital products like e-books and membership sites.

You can also publish your own products on ClickBank for a fee so can do more to earn money above and beyond selling other people’s digital items. If you have an idea for an e-book or membership site, you can sell memberships through the ClickBank marketplace and make money when people buy copies of the digital product. Selling your own product on ClickBank can be great because you can have affiliates sell the product for you and increase your chances of making money.

How Does ClickBank Pay?

ClickBank pays by cheque or direct deposit and there are some requirements such as minimum order quantities and a specific mixture of credit card types that should purchase before you are cleared to receive payment. They also have policies regarding chargebacks. You’ll find a number of products to sell through ClickBank and many marketers make the lion’s share of their income through this program.

In internet marketing, there are two schools of thought with respect to link cloaking. Link cloaking involves making your links to affiliate websites look like regular links instead of affiliate links which many people recognise by strange letter combinations or URL names.

With school of thought number one, you might think it’s better to be up front about being an affiliate selling a product either by saying so or simply by presenting your link with your code in it without worrying about cloaking. On the other side, some  suggest people are more likely to buy your product if they don’t think they’re being sales pitched or sold to. For some reason, a lot of people don’t feel good about someone getting a commission off their purchase. Some will even try to avoid your affiliate link if they really want to buy it and you led them there. This is why many affiliate programs will credit you with the sale due to a ninety-day http cookie.

You might consider conducting experiments and seeing what bodes better for you. If you choose to cloak your links, there are free tools like Tinyurl.com that can take a long URL and turn it short as well as make it difficult to see where someone is about to click through to.  This type of tool can be useful for more than just affiliate marketing. It can be great in micro blogging environments like Twitter and Plurk or anywhere else that has a 140 character maximum.

Link Cloaking Tools

If you’ve decided that cloaking is something you want to do, there are link cloaking tools that are free and available for a fee. Do be careful you’re not cloaking beyond recognition or you could impact your ability to get paid through companies such as ClickBank.

Want to learn how tabbed browsing can make you more productive? For one, it can help you multitask and for two, it can help you remember to do things. When you get into internet marketing, you can suddenly find yourself spreading out so thin that you can lose track of what you need to do every day and what you need to keep tabs on. Here is a nice way that utilising tabs in Firefox or Internet Explorer can make your browser actually help you remember to do things.

Tracking Affiliate Marketing Progress

If you participate in several affiliate marketing programs, open them all one by one into a set of tabs. In Firefox, for instance, choose short cuts:

“Shift” + “Ctrl” + “D”.

Then when the pop-up window asks you to choose a name and a folder, you could set up a set of folders with an appropriate naming convention that help you. For example, you could set up something with your links for:

• Commission Junction
• Clickbank
• Linkshare
• PepperJam
• And whatever other affiliate program you work in.

Now, tomorrow when you decide you want to manually check your stats or get new links, instead of having to remember to manually check them all one at a time you can simply click on the appropriate folder in your bookmarks and tell your browser to open them all. In a nanosecond (or two) you’ll find a set of opened windows that take you exactly where you need to go. When you’re done you can simply close all tabs.

Blog Management

If you have several blogs and want to make sure you post every day, you can do the same thing. Open all your blog admin panels in a set of tabs and save them all. Then, when you’re ready to post in all your blogs or do maintenance such as add affiliate links or alter blogroll information, you can easily open every one of them all together.

Tips and tricks to help you maximise productivity are all around the net. Take advantage of them!