Thursday, January 29, 2009

Opening a Clickbank Account

By Graham McKenzie

After you have made up your mind to use Clickbank for your emarketing business, what follows up next if opening up an account. Even though there is no difference, it is however recommended that you know if you are eventually going to be a marketer of a partner. If you want to be a partner then you dont have to open up an account then, you can however open it later on when you have found a product that you want to sell. All in all when you are opening an account an a marketer it is only good that you wait until a time when you have a got a product for motives that will be talked about shortly.

The initial stage is to log on town.Clickbank.com and register to by hitting a registering button on the right corner of the window. Clickbank straight away puts you to the Promote Products" registering page.For ease every registering window forwards you to this page so you should not worry even though you are registering as a vendor.

After this fill out the fields. Clickbank mails checks and needs a Tax ID after registration, so it is essential that the contact information you provide is accurate to avoid your payment being posted to the wrong address.

Once you have completed all of the necessary information it is time to choose an account nickname. Here is where being a seller or an affiliate can make a tremendous difference. When you sell a product, Clickbank uses links known as Hoplinks that redirect through Clickbank so that they can keep track of affiliates. These links are ugly. So ugly, in fact, that anyone looking at the link may think it is going to redirect them to an attack site.

As such, you need to make sure you have an account name that matches the product you are selling (because your account name is inside the Hoplink) or at least hints at it so that the link appears more legitimate. As an affiliate, the account ID can be broader, though it would still be helpful if the link matched things you are selling. It simply becomes less important.

Once you have entered all of that data you can click submit and register. You will be sent a password that is equally as ugly as a Hoplink and completely unchangeable. Because of this, it is very important that you write down your nickname and password, as the consequences of losing either of those can be dire. It is very hard to retrieve lost information.

One of the reasons for writing down your nickname is that it is possible to create a website using an affiliate nickname. You have the make the website run on its own for a few years and eventually completely forget what the nickname was. That is the joy of passive income as you can continue to receive checks even without any contact with the Clickbank site, but it also means that you can potentially forget the ID, which can make it difficult if you need to change something in the future.

As soon as you enter the password, your registration will be official. To sell a product of you own, in account settings click "my products" and then click "add new product." In order to become an affiliate, click "marketplace" and search for affiliate items. Then click "create hoplink," type in a nickname, and the affiliate link you can use to promote the products will be listed. - 16069

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