What Brands Can You Promote With Clickbank?

ClickBank sells both digital products and some physical ones too.

But the thing is these are all brand names you probably won’t recognize.

You might have seen some of them in your social media feed or in pop-ups via retargeting campaigns, but that’s it.

Here’s a random sampling of the top-converting products on ClickBank to show you:

Finding Affiliate Programs On Clickbank

The ClickBank Marketplace is where all the action happens:

Gravity – this is an approximate measurement of how well a product converts – a higher number is better.

Initial $/sale – How much an affiliate makes for the initial sale, minus any monthly recurring payments

Avg %/Sale – The amount of commission an affiliate marketer earns per sale

Avg Rebill Total – The average recurring amount the vendor charges customers each month

Avg %/Rebill – The percentage of recurring commissions you get

The different categories in the ‘Marketplace’:

Some of these categories are obviously going to be more popular and profitable than others.

Like ‘E-business & E-Marketing’ for example, or ‘Health & Fitness’.

So if we drill down into the ‘Health & Fitness’ category on ClickBank it automatically populates with a list of available programs.

You can add a variety of filters to your search query to narrow things down a bit.

And you can set it to only show products with a (1)‘Gravity’ score of 20 or above and a minimum (2) ‘Initial sale’ value of $20.

Why choose a ‘Gravity’ score of 20? That’s explained below ....

There’s an additional set of attributes you can use to refine your results even further:

Required Product Type(s), Required Language(s), Required Billing Type(s), Required Attribute(s)

You can also filter by ‘Rebill’ if you’re only looking for ClickBank programs that offer recurring commission, for example. But you can also tweak your results to only feature products available in specific languages. Or that actually ship physical products to customers i.e. ‘Shippable Media’. From a product-finding point of view, ClickBank has most of its competition licked.

The flipside of this is that most affiliates only search for products with a high ‘Gravity’ score and/or initial sale value. Most of the other features are really only window dressing.

Creating Affiliate Links

ClickBank has made the process of creating affiliate links stupendously simple.

Basically, you find a product you want to sell and click on ‘Promote’:

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Getting Paid

Yes, promoting ClickBank products is fun.

But it’s also fun to make money.

That’s what affiliate marketing is about, after all.

So let’s review how that works with this particular affiliate network.

Payment Timeframe

The vast majority of affiliate networks operate on a net 30 payment schedule.

ClickBank, on the other hand, offers weekly or bi-weekly payments.

But you won’t actually receive your payment for an additional two weeks after your payout date.

Basically, it will take 4 – 6 weeks for your ClickBank payments to start overlapping with each other until you feel like they’re weekly or fortnightly.

But I never once had a problem getting paid by ClickBank – they always paid on time.

Payment Methods

You can choose to receive your ClickBank payment either by check or direct deposit.

But that’s it.

An additional note here for international affiliates is that ClickBank checks don’t arrive overnight.

So you can tack an additional seven days onto your payment timeframe.

This isn’t as complete a set of payment options as some of you might like.

There’s no option to get paid via Payoneer, PayPal, or wire transfer, for example.

While this might be annoying for some, ClickBank obviously has a reason for doing this.

But it’s probably down to a lack of demand i.e. most affiliates are happy with payments by check or direct deposit.

Payment Threshold

You need to earn the tiny amount of $10 in commissions to trigger a ClickBank payment.

But I’d suggest keeping your threshold set a lot higher if you can only receive payments by check.

Bank charges will decimate checks under $100 in value.

So, keeping your ClickBank payment threshold set to at least several hundred dollars is a better move.

Note: You do also need to generate at least 5 sales before you can receive a payment.

This was to help prevent something we discuss in the next section.

Refunds

ClickBank’s real Achilles Heel is that they offer a 90-day money-back guarantee.

This is great news for customers because they can return anything they’re not happy with.

But there are unscrupulous people who will use this same money-back guarantee to get stuff for free.

They basically order the product, download it, and then ask for a refund.

And the sick thing is that it’s mostly affiliate marketers who do this.

Well, it’s really just scammers pretending to be affiliates.

But it is an ongoing issue with the platform that can eat into your ClickBank affiliate commissions.

Publisher Help

ClickBank keeps their publisher support system to a bare minimum.

You can choose between using their ticketing system or the knowledgebase.

But that’s as far as things go.

There is a ‘ClickBank University’ but this costs money, and is only suitable for vendors/advertisers.

It looks like they’re attempting to put together a ‘Community’ section, but it’s blank so far.

They’d probably be far better off setting up a Slack channel instead.

Their knowledgebase is pretty comprehensive.

The blocks of text are fine, but again pretty dated looking.

So, there’s nothing actually wrong with their support options except that it feels a bit dated.

Pros

• The oldest network solely for digital products

• Very high commission rates (up to 90%)

• One of the few networks to offer recurring commission

• ClickBank provides a 60-day cookie across the board

• No approval needed to promote products – just click and go

• Creating affiliate links is very easy

• ClickBank offers weekly and fortnightly payouts

• There are products to suit most niches

Cons

• The dashboard is a clusterfuck of old and new interfaces mashed together

• You have to trawl through hype to find decent products

• ClickBank is no longer the only player in the digital product marketplace e.g. JVZOO

To Your Online Success!

Benny Lo & team