After you have become comfortable with finding and partnering with companies on ClickBank to promote various products, you should expand your horizons...
Hopefully you have completed every step of the program before reading this page. That means you should have successfully partnered with several companies on ClickBank and written ads to promote their products.
Are you comfortable with finding products on ClickBank to promote? Are you comfortable creating campaigns in Google AdWords to promote those products?
If not, then please go back and repeat the process some more before continuing with this step. If you're comfortable with the process and you're ready to move on, then you're about to learn how to increase your pool of potential partners, which will allow you to find many more new and exciting products to promote.
Sign up with these four companies for free right now...
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*NOTE: You will need to put your own website address on the application for each of these companies. That is why it is important that you built a website in Part 7. If you do not have a website, please go back to Part 7 and get yourself a website ;-)
Also, you will need PayPal and StormPay accounts to receive your commissions for PayDotCom. If you don't have at least one or both of these accounts, please sign up for them with the links below before signing up with PayDotCom...
Free PayPal Account
Free StormPay Account
Also, we use PayPal and StormPay for our "instant split" commission program. So, after you've got your PayPal and StormPay accounts, be sure to visit our Affiliate page and start promoting The Writing Cash Program.
1) PayDotCom - This is a relatively new program, so you should be able to find some amazing products to promote with less competition. It's a great program and you get paid directly to your PayPal or StormPay account.
Click here to get a free PayDotCom account... (use the "Affiliate" application)
2) Commission Junction - CJ is one of the most well-known programs, with over 1000 companies to choose from. Some people are making over $100k per month just from this provider.
Click here to get a free CJ account... (use the "Publisher" application)
3) Hydra Media - They have hundreds of great products and services to promote, including many exclusive offers, pay-per-lead programs, and some high-dollar commissions. They are fairly selective, so make sure your website has a good looking home page, and on the application be sure to mention that you are a successful search engine marketer!
Click here to get a free Hydra Media account...
4) Max Bounty - A great affiliate program provider, offering many unique pay-per-lead offers, and a good variety of products and services to promote. Fewer people know about this provider, so it's a good opportunity for less competition.
Click here to get a free Max Bounty account... (use the "affiliates" sign up page)
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Why should you sign up with all of these companies?
You might be wondering, if ClickBank is working, why do I need to sign up with anyone else? In a nutshell: more money.
Yes it's true that you could use ClickBank exclusively and never venture beyond the boundaries of their marketplace. You could do so, and be quite successful. Some people make tens of thousands of dollars each week from ClickBank.
However, most people are able to find a better variety of offers that they are interested in promoting, by expanding into other affiliate programs. By giving yourself a bigger pool of companies to partner with, you'll be increasing your odds of finding hot campaigns.
Another big reason to expand outside ClickBank is to find products with less competition. As you can imagine, there are thousands of affiliates (like you) promoting ClickBank products. The internet will always be big enough for everyone to have a piece of the pie, but just imagine how much bigger your piece could be if you had less competition.
ClickBank is probably the most popular program for PPC marketers (what we're doing), so you'll find fewer PPC competitors on some of these other sites.
Lastly, it's about diversification. You don't want to put all your eggs in one basket. What if (heaven forbid) something happened to ClickBank? You need some other programs to fall back on if that day ever comes.
Don't take this the wrong way though. You don't want to abandon ClickBank. Not yet anyway! Maybe when you're making $50k a month from another program. But for now, by all means keep repeating the ClickBank process that we learned in Part 3, and keep adding more campaigns to boost your income.
After you sign up with the four programs above...
Typically there will be a short wait for your account to be approved. We're not going to get into the details of exactly how to find and partner with companies for each of the programs.
Do you remember those company logos that we displayed on our website? We showed them as an example of well-known companies who use affiliate programs. These companies were (and probably still are) available to partner with, via Commission Junction.
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Each of the affiliate program provider's sites have instructions of how to find merchants and how to get your affiliate link for their products. If you need help finding products and getting your link, please contact the support department of the site you are using (for example if there's an issue with Commission Junction, contact them directly). They have affiliate managers who will direct you to the right place.
You will notice that each program's "affiliate links" look a little different. They will not look like the ClickBank hoplink, but it does the same thing. You will use your affiliate links just like you used your ClickBank hoplinks.
Are you ready to move on to the next step?
Did you sign up with the four websites listed above?
Have you checked out their offers, and built at least one AdWords campaign?
If you said YES, then proceed to PART 10: Improve
