Product and Software Reviews

Clickbank Review

It is entirely possible that someone reading this article may never have heard of Clickbank. For those of us that "eek out" a living online, Clickbank is one of the core resources used to generate cash flow.

Clickbank is a great way to get hundreds or thousands of affiliates to sell your downloadable products. It is also a great way to earn money as an affiliate by promoting the products that others are selling through Clickbank.

Affiliate Sales
There are thousands of downloadable digital products for sale at Clickbank in a variety of categories covering a wide range of topics. When products are added to Clickbank by the sellers they are given the opportunity to allow for affiliate sales. The product owner determines the percentage to be paid to the affiliate, if any.

Anyone can view all the products with affiliate sales potential at this link:
http://clickbank.com/marketplace/

Once a category is clicked on in the Clickbank Marketplace, sub-categories and product listings appear. For example, today in the 'Business to Business' category the top selling product listed is: Data Entry Ads Online - Join The Best! [Earn 50%].

As an affiliate marketer, you would click on the [Earn 50%] link and fill in your Clickbank ID to capture the correct Clickbank Hoplink for the product. This Hoplink would be used in conjunction with all ads directing traffic to a particular product.

Each product Hoplink contains the ID of the affiliate and the ID of the seller thus making successful affiliate sales attributable to the correct parties.

Clickbank has an automated tracking system that determines which affiliate, if any, is to be associated with the sale. Although Clickbank feels their tracking system is "more fair and accurate than any alternative" it is still not perfect.

There are apparently ways for unscrupulous people to take advantage of the system for their benefit at the expense of those of us who do not delve into such matters. Link cloaking can be useful in these situations.

The benefits of affiliate marketing through Clickbank far outweigh any potential negative experiences that may arise due to an unscrupulous few.

Direct Product Sales (Your Own Products)
A popular way for internet marketers to get their products to the public is by using Clickbank payment processing. Clickbank makes it very easy for anyone to sell a downloadable product through their service and their fees are not likely to be out of the reach of anyone with computer access.

Although not shy about being one of the most expensive payment processors on the Internet, Clickbank makes up for their several imperfections by general ease of use and reliable service.

It is simple to sign-up for a Clickbank ID; just go to Clickbank.com and create an account. You can begin to promote affiliate products immediately after your membership is confirmed.
http://clickbank.com/signup/

To sell your own products on Clickbank there is a seven step process:

(1) Signup with Clickbank

(2) Make a "Pitch Page"
http://clickbank.com/setup.html#ppp

(3) Make a "Thank You Page"
http://clickbank.com/setup.html#thankyou

(4) Make a Test Purchase
http://clickbank.com/setup.html#test

(5) Submit Product Approval Request
http://clickbank.com/setup.html#limit

(6) Pay $49.95 Product Review Fee
http://clickbank.com/setup.html#activate

(7) Set Your Product Price and Start Making Sales!
http://clickbank.com/setup.html#setprices

It is not mandatory to offer affiliate sales of your products but there is at least one good reason to do so. Often sellers get to a point where affiliate sales produce enough income that they can stop using pay per click advertising to drive traffic to their site. What is lost in direct sales at the full item price is made up by the savings in pay per click marketing.

Overall, Clickbank is an excellent place to get a start in product sales on the Internet. Whether you are selling your own product or putting up affiliate links, the potential to create a viable income is available to everyone.

InfoGoRound - An Honest Review

I've been a member of InfoGoRound since the Winter of 2006 and so believe that I can give an honest review of what I like and don't like about it.

InfoGoRound is a membership site with thousands of articles, similar to an article directory. But it's much better than an article directory because you can put your own name on the articles you use from there.

That's not to say you can take an article, put your name on it, and submit it to an article directory as your own. The article directories do not want duplicate articles and will catch you. But you can take the article, make it unique, and then submit it to the article directories.

You can also take the articles and put them on your own web sites without having to attach a resource box with someone else's name and web site. Or, you can make a few changes to the article so the search engines think you are putting unique content on your site.

InfoGoRound also has a program (included with membership) that will create a newsletter sequence for you. All you have to do is select a topic, run the program, and copy the results into your autoresponder series (Aweber or whatever company you are signed up with).

You can also use the articles to create an e-book. You can give the e-book away on your site as an enticement to sign up for your newsletter, sell the e-book, or use it any way you want.

InfoGoRound also has a program that will create web sites in minutes where you can place Adsense ads. The program takes articles directly from InfoGoRound and creates a niche web site.

How much do you pay for all of this? Well, nothing. That's right, not a penny. You can choose to get reimbursed for the monthly fee by writing and submitting one article each month.

Each month I spend about 1/2 hour writing and submitting one article to InfoGoRound, and each month I get paid $24.95 for writing that one article. That covers the membership fee so that in actuality I am getting access to all these tools and articles for free.

That is why I have been a member of InfoGoRound for so long, and why I will continue to be a member.

I get access to thousands of articles that I can leave alone or alter to be unique, access to tools that creates web sites, autoresponder sequences, and more, and all for free as long as I write one article each month for InfoGoRound. Sounds like an excellent deal to me.

What do I not like about InfoGoRound? Well, it would be nice if I didn't have to write than one article each month, but then they couldn't really stay in business.

Check it out and see if you don't think it's a great deal: InfoGoRound

Niche Content Packages

As a member of Niche Content Packages I know the quality of the articles, headers, and ebook covers firsthand, and I rate them a 9.5 out of 10.

I find that these articles do not need any editing. They do not have spelling or grammar errors, unlike many other PLR articles.

The niches that they make content for are good, too.

I have purchased almost every package that Niche Content Packages has produced and like them all. Why? Whenever I make a new site, I find that the headers can often be used for other niches. All I have to do is add my own text (using Fireworks, PhotoShop, or Gimp).

I also like that I don't have to do any editing to the articles. If I want, I quickly make a few changes to make them unique. But the articles are high quality and do not require any corrections.

How I Use Niche Content Packages

A great way to use Niche Content Packages is to purchase a domain, put up the site using one of the header graphics included in the package, and add an article each day.

To get traffic to the site, I write 5-20 unique articles and submit them to article directories and to social bookmarking sites such as Digg, Reddit, Propellor, and so on.

Pros and Cons

What I like about Niche Content Packages:

• the header and ebook graphics
• the high quality articles
• the niche ideas
• all I have to do is research the keywords for unique articles
• you aren't overloaded as NCP produces about 4 packages a month

What I don't like about Niche Content Packages:

• There is really nothing that I don't like. If you need some PLR, it's hard to find anything with better quality

What I recommend is that you put up some niche sites using Niche Content Packages, write the unique articles or have them written for you, submit the articles to article directories and to social bookmarking sites (Onlywire.com submits to about 15 bookmarking sites at once), and then purchase a Niche Content Store to put on the same site as another way to make money.

You can read the review of Niche Content Stores right here: Review of NCS

Making Money Online - Review of Training Alternatives

Do you need some extra money each month? Many people are making money online. The number one criteria: Taking action.

Why Many Fail Online

The problem for many people is, what action to take? I found that trying to learn on my own wasted money. Once I paid for some training, that's when I started to make money online.

There are many Internet marketing training membership sites and coaching programs available. But which one is best for you? It depends on two criteria: Your finances and your goals.

What is Your Success Worth?

First, how much money do you have to invest in your education? There is training you can get for a few hundred a month, and coaching programs that cost a few thousand dollars or as much as $25,000 or more. It all depends on how much individual attention you want, and the focus of the training.

Second, how do you want to make money online? Do you have a physical store? Do you want to sell those items online as well as in your store? Then I recommend Perry Marshall's AdWords coaching program. He will help you get steadily growing numbers of visitors to your site through AdWords.

Or do you want to sell affiliate products, make money with Adsense, or create your own products?

My #1 Pick

If you can afford to spend a few hundred a month for a top-of-the-line Internet marketing education that also includes all the tools you need to make money online, I highly recommend Portal Feeder.

They are going to be opening their doors for new members the beginning of December, 2008. You can sign up and take one month to decide if Portal Feeder will help you. If you decide to leave, you get your money back.

Check it Out for One Month - For Free

I think you will like what you see and stay with it. I have been a member for almost a year, and even though I knew quite a bit when I joined, I have learned a lot of new traffic techniques and more.

How Does Portal Feeder Help You Succeed?

What I like about Portal Feeder is they provide training, they provide the tools for building sites, and they provide the tools for getting visitors to the site. For instance, they have a super-powerful site building program called Portal Feeder 2.0.

They provide members with hundreds of PLR articles each month that are written just for Portal Feeder members. They also give us templates designed just for members. One of the things I especially like are the 600+ blogs that I can put posts onto with text links to my sites.

If you sign up to check it out, be sure to visit the forum posts under Blog Promotion Domination. That takes you through a bunch of steps (Day 1 through Day 15) to get a new blog on the first page of Google in record time.

My landscaping site was showing up on Google's 1st page for "landscaping tips" in less than one month after starting the site. It was amazing!

Don't go into debt to join, but if you have set aside some money to invest each month in your business, then Portal Feeder is the place to get a great education and to set up some money making sites. And if you take action you should be making enough money to cover the membership fee in a short time.

No matter what you decide, whether you join Portal Feeder or some other membership site, or if you opt for paying for personal coaching, the only way to succeed at making money online is to take action. That is what separates the 5% who succeed online from the 95% who don't.