Note: This is an unpaid review; however, I was given a free copy of EasyClickMate software to try out.
Clickbank is one of the largest marketplaces for selling digital goods online and it’s the marketplace I used to sell my first product – Niche Profit Course as well as two other products I’ve created with Clickbank. It’s relatively easy to set up a product for sale, but one of the biggest drawbacks Clickbank has is the inability to easily track and communicate with the affiliates that promote your product.
Why Is It Important To Communicate With Affiliates?
The answer to this question should be obvious, but in the time I spent looking at various products on Clickbank I found very few merchants actually use additional software to help track affiliate sales. This is somewhat of a shock to me because this is a huge opportunity to do more business with an affiliate in the future. For example, if I saw someone sold a product of mine to 20 people I would want to see where they were promoting my product and how I could help them sell more by doing an interview, webinar or anything else to help drive more sales and with EasyClickMate I can do that. On the flip side, if I were listing my product through Clickbank alone this would be impossible for me to contact them because it’s not possible to easily communicate with affiliates.
I first heard about EasyClickMate from Gideon Shalwick when I saw he was using the software to help communicate with his affiliates and since I knew he’s already done a few different products he’d probably know a thing or two about what the best software to use.
What Does EasyClickMate Do?
EasyClickMate is used in conjunction with Clickbank to better track sales by affiliates and provide you an easy way to communicate with them, but that’s just the primary function that I’m using it for. Here’s a list of my favorite features:
Easily Integrate with ANY autoresponder- easyClickMate will automatically capture your customers’ data and forward them to your optin/squeeze page. Works with Aweber, Getresponse, 1stShoppingCart or any other auto responder that accepts subscription via email.
I use Aweber to communicate with my affiliates via this affiliate sign up form and having an email list of affiliates is just as important as having an email list of potential customers.
Advance Affiliate Linking allows affiliates to drive traffic to any page and still receive credit
I have a sales page for my product, but I also have a page where people can download a free eBook which gives potential customers a better idea of what I teach in the product. So if an affiliate wanted to drive traffic to the free eBook download they could do that instead. You could also create unique personalized landing pages for specific affiliates if you wanted to as well.
Great Support
Now this isn’t on the official list of it’s feature set, but I sent several emails to the creator of the software Adrian Ling for help on a couple things and he was very quick to respond. Even after I realized the questions were answered in his support document he didn’t reply back and point out I was an idiot and that I should read the directions, he just helped answer my questions.
If You Want To Sell Anything On ClickBank Buy This Software
Overall I love this software and highly recommend you buy it if you plan to sell anything on ClickBank. As I’ve said before, communicating with affiliates is crucial and when you combine that functionality with the ability to sell multiple products from just one ClickBank account you can save a lot of money if you plan to create more ClickBank products in the future.
Great..I will look at this..most of my product are on clickbank and tracking affiliate are impossible..
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Yah this aspect is great because I have an email list of about 70 affiliates that I can promote similar products to now.
Someday I hope to come up with a product idea. I’ll try to remember and come back here when i do.
It could be anything and it really doesn’t have to do with money making strategies (like most people seem to do). The last two products I did have nothing to do with that and I expect they will both be a great success.
one problem though..
a lot of affiliates don’t like it if you send their leads to any kind of optin like an ebook
because you have gained their lead onto your list, now if you contact the list you build via email and ever insert your own clickbank link (as some may try) then the affiliate cookie is overwritten with yours so in effect they added someone to your list who bought but they got no commission.
They prefer if you send people straight to a sales page to buy there and then.
it’s different if you are a big trusted guru with a tight network to the rest of us.
I’ve used Easy ClickMate and it’s great!
Regarding Paul’s comment, I’ve heard that affiliates get unhappy if you have an optin. I see that as remarkably short-sighted – I always use my followup autoresponders to secure the sale (and as it has a direct link back TO the product in question, the affiliate should get the credit).
If they’re soooo miserly with their networking that they don’t like even the notion of other folks benefiting from their promotion, that’s sad. So they’re welcome to find another affiliate program, not mine.
I wrote an dating e-book and sold it on ClickBank… Got 0 sales in 4 months and decided to cut my losses and starting promoting it myself thru my blog. I think ClickBank is saturated with too many products, and there’s a chicken and egg issue.. you need an already successful product to recruit affiliates, but I can’t have a successful product unless I am getting affiliates.
Hi Henway. Yer, the best way is to promote your own product first, make some sales and then affiliates will come. When you start off with your product in ClickBank, you will have a grav of 0. That means you haven’t sold anything, and affiliates won’t know your product is worth promoting. If you make your own sales and go out your way to find your own affiliates however, your sales (And grav) will go up and more people will jump on board promoting you (They’ll also find you easier as Clickbank will push you up their list).
So don’t rely just on Clickbank affiliates, get your own and sell through other means. Good luck.
Very good advice thanks for the input Shaun!
I haven’t used easyclickmate, thanks for the link.
But then i haven’t had any lucks with selling products from Clickbanks.
I have a little bit more lucks with shareasales and CJ.
I’ve also gotten the bug to create my own product to sell. I’ve done the affiliate thing for a while with some success but I’m beginning to see that selling your own product to your own readers might be a better route for me. While taking inventory of items that might be useful in that venture I stumbled on your post, Thanks.
Chris.. BIG thanks for this. I am working on a product to sell thru CB. and was wondering how I could reach out to my affiliates, with promos and support.
Is it easy to use?
It took a little while to get used to it, but it sure beats the alternative to have very little communication with affiliates etc. (sorry for delayed response your comment was caught in spam).
I’ve just recently bought this and used it on my first ebook “How To Make Money From Free Music”. I also bought it with Easy Click Guard as is only something like $10 more to add that on (And that adds a layer of protection to your download link).
If any of you want to see how it works, you can go to the bottom of my product page ( http://www.independentmusicadvice.com/how-to-make-money-from-free-music/ ) and click the “affiliates” link to see inside the system.
Any one selling products on Clickbank should get this!
another option is : http://www.idevdirect.com/ for a complete affiliate tracking solution.
Yah, I like the way ECM integrates entirely with Clickbank though and I like Clickbank because you have access to a ton of affiliates.
I have great product ideas. It’s just a matter of getting them put together in a program. Takes a lot of time and hard work. Unless it’s all outsourced = expensive
Joey @ Ways 2 Make Money