For ClickBank Affiliate Newbies - How to Solve the Biggest Problem You'll Have With ClickBank

By Adrienne Collier

ClickBank is the world's largest and most popular digital affiliate marketing program, and for a very good reason: the products it offers are tens of thousands in number and digital in nature.

Since digital products are downloaded rather than shipped, there are no overhead costs. Vendors pay only a one-time setup fee, and as an affiliate, you can collect commissions on helping sell the products even if you don't have your own Web space.

That makes ClickBank tailor-made for "newbies"--those of you who want to start in online marketing but are on a tight budget. It might surprise you to know, then, that close to ninety per cent of all affiliates give up, and even worse, lose money on the sales they do make.


Digital affiliate programs are required by law to withhold paying affiliates until you've made five sales from five different addresses and two different credit/debit card companies. And if too many months go by between sales, a small fee from your sales balance can be deducted with the passing of each pay period.

Obviously, this can be especially dangerous for newbie affiliates. Learning affiliate marketing is emotionally adventurous enough without your exhilaration at making your first sales turning into the frustration of not receiving the money you've earned, and then sinking into despair as you watch your commissions shrink over the ensuing months. But there's a way to avoid that trap before you even sign up for a ClickBank account.

Fortunately, a veteran vendor has come up with a solution. After years of giving away free e-books as inducements to buying his digital products, Harvey Sagal has formulated a program to get you past those first five sales easily and inexpensively while teaching you the basics of online affiliate marketing.

It allows you to sell very low-cost products to other newbies as well as Mr. Sagal's higher-priced (and higher-commissioned) products. So it's the perfect way to help build sales for Clickbank newbies --and your self-confidence, too!