Sell Products to Spanish Markets through Clickbank
On March 18th, ClickBank announced its Phase One launch of their Platform Globalization project which allows Clickbank merchants to capture sales from new markets.
The first phase of Platform Globalization includes a currency calculator and the ability to offer products to Spanish-speaking markets. Clickbank has also made it easy for affiliates to identify which merchants in the ClickBank Marketplace are offering Spanish products. See the graphic below.
My search for Spanish language products produced no results, but considering this initiative was launched slightly more than a week ago, I guess we have to give the merchants time to get up to speed.
The new currency converter provides customers with the ability to see the product price in currencies other than USD.
Clickbank also advises that enhancements to their Platform Globalization project will include French and German language capabilities, and the ability to accept orders in currencies other than USD.
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Planning to Sell Through Clickbank? Think Again!
I’ve used Clickbank to promote the “Super Affiliate Handbook” since it was first published in May 2003. The built-in affiliate program and easy affiliate signup process was primary reason I chose Clickbank over other third-party payment processors. That ‘ease’ of affiliation is also the best reason NOT to use Clickbank as a merchant.
Learn more in “Merchants: One Good Reason NOT to Use Clickbank to Promote Your Products“.
Cheers ~ Ros
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He’s One SMART Affiliate Manager!
I found the following included in the MPwH (an HPV dating site) affiliate newsletter.
“By the way, if you want to really get into the affiliate marketing business, we highly recommend the book by Rosalind Gardner, well known as one of the Internet’s most successful marketers.
I read this book and it was how come I ended up setting up our affiliate program the way it is. It shows how to run your website to make the most from affiliate programs.
Rosalind was our first affiliate - after we came up to the standards laid out in her book!”
AJ, the affiliate manager at MPwH, told it like it happened… I didn’t agree to promote MPwH right away, but helped him get his affiliate program together until it worked like a charm for affiliates.
I also noticed that AJ linked to the Super Affiliate Handbook with his own affiliate link.
Now, that’s one smart affiliate manager! Not only does he build a better program, he wants to have trained affiliates.
Do your affiliates need training?
Send them to the Super Affiliate Handbook and earn some more affiliate coin in the process!
Even Clickbank merchants can benefit.
Simply add a brief description of the SAH to your own affiliate signup page (you DO have one don’t you?) that pops a window to the Handbook.
You’ll earn a commission from the sale… and better yet, your affiliates will sell more of YOUR product.
Talk about a win-win-win proposition that makes everybody happy.
Visit http://superaffiliatehandbook.com/affiliates.php and join our affiliate program today.
Cheers,
Ros
P.S. If YOU would like to receive training as an affiliate manager or online merchant with an affiliate program, I can’t recommend anything better than Affiliate Classroom’s recently released, “The Affiliate Manager - 1st Edition“.
That’s ’cause there isn’t anything better. 
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CB Merchants: Is Your Product Listed? REALLY?
While writing the follow-up to ‘Humor Writer Cries in Beer as Pitch to Affiliates “Strikes Out”‘ which detailed Dan Reinhold’s improvements to “WAHumor Way, I stumbled across a situation which could be posing a problem for other Clickbank merchants.
In the follow-up post, I planned to include PAYOUT information gathered from the Clickbank Marketplace about Dan’s ebook. Payout information includes commission amount, % referred, and the category in which a product is listed.
Using Clickbank’s BETA search feature, I typed ‘WAHumor’ into the box and searched through ‘All Categories’.
No luck.
Then I tried ‘WAHumorWay’, ‘WAHumor Way’ and ‘Reinhold’.
No luck. No luck and… you guessed it - No luck.
I then tried my new favorite Clickbank search tool, CBNichebuilder, hoping it would find Dan’s book.
Again - NO luck!
It occured to me that Dan may have listed the book under a different title soI would have to resort to a page-by-page search through the Marketplace.
Because his book is about home business, I started searching through the ‘Home Business’ subcategory under the main category of ‘Money & Employment’.
I found 347 products listed under that category (click-by-click through 35 pages) and not one of them was Dan’s book.
I was through wasting my time, so I sent Dan an email and asked him where it was listed.
He responded a little later to say that he couldn’t find it either!
Aaargh.
The next morning I received the following email from Dan:
Ros,
This is from my account page:
Product category: -> uncategorized
Title / brand: “WAHumor Way To Work At Home Book Series”
Description: “Guides and resources for those considering or starting a work at home business”Does that work?
Dan
Um… nope!
“Uncategorized” apparently doesn’t work if you want affiliates to find your product in the Marketplace and promote it!
If YOUR product is currently uncategorized, contact Clickbank today to have it categorized. It will be then be listed in the Clickbank Marketplace within 5 - 7 days.
Happy listings!
Cheers,
Ros
P.S. Sure enough Dan’s book was listed in the Marketplace a week later as follows:
1) Wahumor Way To Work At Home Book Series. [ earn 50.0 % ]
Guides and resources for those considering or starting a work at home business.
PAYOUT STATS: $earned/sale: $ 11.04 , %earned/sale: 50.0 %, %referred: 100.0 %, gravity: 2.66
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How NOT to Do a JV
If you’re not familiar with the term ‘JV’, it stands for ‘joint venture’, and basically it’s affiliate marketing on steroids.
Joint ventures always have a personal component, ie. the merchant contacts a potential affiliate with a ‘beefed up’ commission offer, or the affiliate contacts the merchant with a proposal to market their product in a ’special way’ … also for an improved commission rate.
I receive JV proposals each and every day.
Somebody somewhere told someone else that I know ’something’ about affiliate marketing.
Fair enough.
But how those JV offers are presented is almost as important as the JV itself, and in many cases the presentation will make or break the deal.
For example, I recently received a snail mail letter that went something like this:
Dear Rosalind,
My friend, So-and-So, doesn’t believe that affiliate marketing works.
I told him that I know a Super Affiliate (you) and that you would prove to him that it works.
Anyway, my friend wrote the ‘Blah-Blah’ book (which had nothing to do with any category in which I presently work) and I told him that you could sell it on the Internet for him.
If you’re interested in seeing a copy of the ‘Blah-Blah’ book, please contact me at the following (snail mail) address.
Signed,
Not-a-Clue about Joint Venture Marketing
(OK, so I made her name up.)
Egads.
If you have a product and want to do a joint venture with top-level marketers, please don’t send a letter that looks anything like the one above.
Here are 6 basic points to learn about joint ventureing from Not-a-Clue’s letter above:
- Don’t insult their business model, not even by proxy.
- Don’t assume anything - ‘you would prove to him that it works’.
- Make sure that the product is relevant to your potential joint venture partner’s business.
- Send them a copy of the material you want them to review.
- Include affiliate signup details.
- Provide e-contact details, not snail mail addresses.
If you want to learn more about joint venturing, Sterling Valentine is giving away a 54-page report called ‘The World’s Most Shocking Joint Venture Mistakes’ .
Better yet, he and Dr. Joe Vitale are doing a teleconference on the subject tomorrow night, May 2nd… time yet to be announced.
BTW, try to ignore the music on the site… the faster you sign up for the report, the faster the obnoxious sound goes away.
Cheers,
Ros
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