Part 2 will give you the step by step process to sell your own product or to become an Affiliate.

ClickBank is the e-commerce solution for thousands of web businesses that deliver unique products and services over the Internet itself.

ClickBank's payment technology lets any web business (a seller) automatically pay sales commissions to any other web business (an affiliate) that links a paying customer to the seller. Clickbank bills the customer, pays the seller, and pays the affiliate.

By acting as the trusted intermediary, ClickBank maintains complete security and quality control in every transaction.

Affiliates can freely link to any seller and be assured that they will be paid for every sale they generate. Sellers can freely accept new affiliates without fear of fraud or misrepresentation.

Since sellers only pay commissions to affiliates when the customer makes a purchase, the seller's advertising expenditure is 100% effective.ClickBank's services are underpinned by exclusive licenses to four patents and patents pending that protect various aspects of the system including the linking of the payment transaction with the distribution of commissions.

To open your account as an affiliate at ClickBank is free.

If you would like to sell your own products, then they charge a small one time fee to activate your seller's account and charge a small commission for each sale. The best thing about ClickBank is that they offer the best plug-in affiliate facility in the industry. You will be able to set up your own affiliate program in no time. We highly recommend ClickBank to everyone who sells information products on line.

Once the sign up process is completed, you will see a confirmation page.

Important: Print this page, or at least write down your Nickname and the password ClickBank's system has randomly selected for you if you don't have a printer connected to your computer.

This will ensure that you are able to get back to your account at ClickBank even in case anything goes wrong and you don't receive your confirmation email from ClickBank. You can now click on the link on this page to log in to your account. Or you can wait until the confirmation email arrives from ClickBank then follow the instructions in the email with your nickname and a randomly selected password to log in to your account.

Now the first thing you should do is to change the password to something easy for you to remember and hard for others to guess.

Please note: Your password must contain 8 or more letters & digits.Input your password in the Account Password: field

Don't forget to check the box in front of 'Change password (confirm). Then click the 'SAVE CHANGES' Button. Your free account is now in good order. Next you will need to create a Sales page and a Thank You page.

Your sales page is the web page where you convince the customer to make the purchase. On this page you will need to put a sales link. When the customer is ready to pay, this is the link they need to click on.

On this page you need to:

1. Explain what you are selling.

2. Explain how the service will be delivered.

3. You need to set up a sales link, something like order now. on your sales page. This is where your customers should click on when they are ready to order. You need to use a Hyper-Link to direct your purchasers to a URL as below

http://www.clickbank.net/sell.cgi?YourNickName/1/The_Product_Name

This is the most important part:

YourNickName: You need to replace this part of the URL with Your Own Nickname you have with Clickbank.

This is the number of your selling product. You can leave it as '1' for now since you are setting up the order link for your 1st product.

Clickbank allows you to sell up to 50 different products. You will use '2' when you set up the URL to sell the 2nd product, and '3' for 3rd product. ... The_Product_Name: This is what your customer will see when they arrive at the Credit Card Submission page at Clickbank as the name of your product. Please note to put a '_' between each word.

Setting up your Thank You Page

Your Thank you page is the page that ClickBank sends the customer to after they pay. The customer will only reach this page if their credit card is valid. On this page you need to:

1. Thank the customer for making a purchase.

2. Display your email address so that you can assist the customer if they have any questions about what they bought.

3. Remind the customer that their credit card bill will show a charge by: "CLICKBANK".

4. Collect additional information from the customer, if you need it to complete the sale.

5. Make an "exit link". Once the customer sees your thank-you page make sure they have at least one link to follow.

You don't want people to easily type in 'http://yourdomain.com/thankyou.html' and download your products for free -- So best to bury it under a different file name, even under a sub directory for your 'thank you' page!

If you are selling e-books, you need to set up a Download Link (something like Download Now) on your 'thank you' page. This is where your customers should click on to download your product. You need to use a Hyper Link to the URL where you store your product.

The Hyperlink should look something like http://YourDomain.com/eBook/Title.exe.

This needs to be pointed to where your product is on your web server including the name of the file.

Setting up links at ClickBank

log in to your Clickbank account with your nickname and password.

After you log in Click on the tab for your account settings Click on the link in the Second Line to go to Modify ACCOUNT page.

This is where you put the URL of your 'thank you' page and the price you are selling. As you can see Clickbank offers ready-to-use affiliate facility. You can nominate a percentage you offer to your affiliates here as well.

When you are ready click on the 'SAVE CHANGES' button. You will now come back to your Account Settings Page, At the bottom of the page you will see Click on the link to do a Test.

You should see your 'Thank you' Page if the URL is set correctly with Clickbank.

Testing your Links

Go to your order page and click on the order link. If everything is set up correctly you should see a page generated by Clickbank very similar to the one below. 17

Check the left bottom corner to see if your Nickname is displayed correctly.

The Link price is set to $0.00 now by Clickbank for your testing purposes.

Click on the 'Continue' button, and use your own credit card for testing. You should see a page similar to the one below when your card is approved. Click on the - CLICK HERE TO COMPLETE YOUR PURCHASE - link, you should be directed to your 'Thank you' page where you should continue to test your Download link. Shortly you will also receive an email notification sent by ClickBank informing you that you have just made a sale.

Requesting Price Limit Increase

Make sure that you have completed all the previous steps and also click here to double check everything with Clickbank's Guidelines.

Do not request a price limit increase until you have completed all the previous steps. When you request a limit increase you must provide Clickbank with 10 things:

1. What is your ClickBank nickname?

2. What do you wish to sell?

3. How much do you wish to sell it for?

4. Are you legally entitled to sell it?

5. Do your pages match our guidelines?

6. Did you make a $0.00 test purchase yet? (see previous steps)

7. How do you fulfill orders? (web page, email, etc)

8. How fast do you fulfill orders? (5 seconds, 5 minutes, etc)

9. What is the address (URL) of your sales page?

10. What is the address (URL) of your thank-you page?

When you have everything in place send an email to limits@clickbank.com with all the information they asked for.

And, wait. They will soon send you a letter (USUALLY two or three days), that accepts your request.When you get it, log in to your Clickbank account. Follow the instructions to make the payment to activate your seller's account, and then wait for a few minutes.

Then go to Modify your account and put the dollar amounts in. AND double check that everything is working perfectly.

AND you are now in business!!!