| Clickbank has done more in 2009 to make things | | | | Spotlight Profile. Merchants and Affiliates can come by |
| easier for product sellers and affiliates like than in any | | | | and read this anytime and this can get you great extra |
| year before this. We've personally made almost | | | | business if you decide to take advantage of this |
| $300,000 in clickbank, and they have paid quite a few | | | | feature. |
| people a lot more than they are paying us. We | | | | Two other upgrades worth mentioning are that you |
| continue to make great sales with clickbank each | | | | can promote products now in 3 other countries |
| month and they continue to rise. | | | | besides the United States. These countries now |
| There are some important changes to the Clickbank | | | | include Spanish, French and German. You can search |
| Landscape that you need to be aware of that will | | | | for these programs within the Clickbank Marketplace. |
| affect you as a product merchant or an affiliate. Of | | | | Also back in April 2009 they added the Encrypted |
| course all of these changes are positive and will only | | | | Hoplink feature. |
| make your life easier. It's obvious they are keeping up | | | | In a nutshell how this works is you visit the Clickbank |
| with the times and are serious about link security as | | | | Marketplace and search for a product you are |
| well as helping people make sales. | | | | interested in promoting. You enter your ID, which you |
| Once you log into your clickbank account, you will see | | | | can get for free if you don't have one by clicking the |
| your Weekly Sales Snapshot. Click any of these links. | | | | Sign Up link at the top of their page. Once you find the |
| You'll notice on the right you'll see a Icon that says | | | | product you are interested in promoting, you enter your |
| Analytics New. Then click on that. Before I go on let | | | | ID and an Encryped Hoplink is automatically generated |
| me say that a hop is someone who clicks on your | | | | for you. |
| Clickbank Hoplink. You will now be able to get graphical | | | | The old Clickbank Hoplinks still work but you can only |
| views of your Hops, Order Form Impressions, Order | | | | generate encrypted links from their marketplace of |
| Form Submits, Gross Sales, Net Sales, Refunds and | | | | products from April 2009 forward. The back office for |
| Chargebacks. | | | | Product Sellers and Affiliates look exactly the same in |
| You will also be able to check on the Number of Hops, | | | | case you weren't aware of this. Plus if you go look in |
| Hops Per Order and Hops Per Order Form | | | | your Affiliate Back Office you'll notice the entire user |
| Impressions. Also Clickbank is adding a Vendor | | | | interface has been changed for the better. |
| Spotlight Profile section soon. This means that | | | | I personally like the look and feel of it more than the old |
| merchants selling products on Clickbank will be able to | | | | one and it gives you more options than I mentioned in |
| setup their own profile for other merchants and | | | | this article but I just wanted to highlight the major |
| affiliates to see. This can bring you lots of free | | | | changes. I don't know about you but I'm really pumped |
| business if you are a product seller. | | | | up about all these new changes. They will make are |
| Now if this wasn't good enough, you can even post | | | | life a whole lot easier as a Clickbank Product Seller or |
| one announcement every week on your Vendor | | | | Affiliate. |