Clickbank
Founded in 1998, ClickBank is a network of affiliate Internet marketers and product/service advertisers that offers very comprehensive informative and practical content from e-books and software tools to membership packages and subscription offers. Market studies indicate that there are around 100,000 affiliates actively working on ClickBank at the moment with more than 12,000 of publishers promoting digital products. When we say ClickBank we say sales, since this business is definitely the most visited converting business on the Internet, servicing the international market at an incredibly high rate. The 20,000 of daily processed orders in fact convert into a $1 million profit per twenty-four hours.
The success formula at the basis of this business model is the link-relationship between consumers, Internet affiliates and publishers in the system. The system is advantageous for product publishers that sell intellectual property through the network, for advertisers who get to promote their products worldwide for very affordable commissions and for consumers who can benefit of the chance to shop for products that are not available with regular shopping channels. ClickBank acts as the link or the intermediary between these three groups ensuring transactions transparency, secure operation platforms and top quality anti-fraud protection.
Each of the above mentioned groups receive specific assistance and support from ClickBank. A great plus for the network here is its rather closed nature, meaning that permanent development is not carried out at the expense of the customer, and most of all, it does not become the responsibility of the client. Other systems require affiliates to refer to other vendors and thus increase the business, yet, ClickBank does not come with such constraints. The network makes profit on the basis of the commissions paid from sales, which once again points out to the extensive transaction rate conducted in this model.
For consumers, ClickBank represents the chance to purchase all sorts of specialized products and services available with niches only and usually absent from regular retail stores and shops. The number of products available is huge, the transactions are very safe and the entire system is designed so as to be user and consumer friendly in all respects. Last but not least, affiliates earn a lot by simply adding some ClickBank products or services to their websites. The most advantageous of commissions here are up to 75% of the sales but more money can come out of referring publishers and affiliates to ClickBank.