Making Money Online as a Clickbank Affiliate

I am a big fan of flowcharts. I find them very helpful to understand how things work. With this flowchart we want to show you the basics of how you can make money online promoting Clickbank products. I am not going into detail here on how to drive traffic, or create a sales page or anything like that. This is just to show you how you make money as an affiliate if a customer goes through the entire sales process purchasing a Clickbank product through your affiliate link.

Looking at the image above, you will see that we start with the Customer (the most important person to you making money online). To get the customer into this process you need to do some type of marketing to get them there. You can create a sales page, review site, squeeze page, you can send out an email, create a blog post, etc… We will explain how each one of those work in future posts.

From there, the customer clicks on your affiliate link (Clickbank calls it a “HopLink”), which is basically a link to the merchant’s website with a special tracking code built in so you get credit for referring the customer to their site.

Hopefully the merchant has created a great sales page and the customer decides they must have their product. The customer then clicks on the purchase link that takes them to Clickbank’s secure ordering form where they can pay with most credit cards, as well as Paypal.

Once the payment has been approved and processed, the customer is taken to the merchant’s thank-you page where they can download the product.

Clickbank at the same time (within 2 minutes) credits both accounts; the merchant with their earnings and you (the affiliate) with your commissions. You are able to login to your account and see your sales in real time, which is nice. They also have several different methods to pay you, depending on your needs. All that information can be found on their site.

That’s basically it! For more answers, checkout Clickbank’s FAQ section for affiliates here: http://www.clickbank.com/affiliate_faq.html