Can I Make Extra Money Online with ClickBank

If you have heard of Affiliate marketing, you are probably familiar with ClickBank. And you are probably wondering to yourself, "Can I make extra money online with ClickBank"?

Well, like most things- there are both upsides and downsides of ClickBank. First, lets talk about the positives:

1) ClickBank offers an incredible amount of products. You are sure to find something that you are interested in marketing through ClickBank. If you are hard up for ideas, just browse the site and odds are, you will walk away with a few.

2) ClickBank offers a lot of quality products. Not only are a lot of the products actually pretty cool, they usually have a lot of material for affiliate marketers to work with. Most of the products offer pre-written articles, banners, etc. to help you market the product. If you have looked into affiliate marketing, one of the first things you have probably noticed is that a lot of products suck. How are you supposed to market something that you would never buy yourself? If you use ClickBank, you generally will not have that problem.

3) Awesome commissions. Really, awesome commissions. Most of the companies are willing to pay you a pretty penny to sell their products. Win, win- for everyone.

But, of course, there are negative:

1) It takes forever and a day to get paid. Before ClickBank will agree to pay you, you must sell 5 products and I believe, one transaction must have been made with a MasterCard. Why, you may ask? Most likely because a lot of people will give up before they ever reach those terms and ClickBank won't ever have to pay them. Because of this, I absolutely do not recommend that you start out affiliate marketing with products from ClickBank. They are just not beginner-friendly.

2) Most of the products available for marketing are expensive. Some are just outrageously priced. They have e-books about candle making for like 40 bucks. Who in their right mind would buy that? Seriously, if I ever found out that someone I knew bought an e-book-not even a real, freaking book- about candle making for $40.00, I would slap them. No doubt about it. And unfortunately, those kind of stupid prices are the norm for the products on that site. Of course, you can find fairly priced-products, too. Or if you are just an incredible salesman, you won't have to really worry about the prices.

So, yes. In all probability, you can make some extra money online with Clickbank. But make sure to really check out the products that you are hawking, and if you are a beginning- you may want to explore other options entirely.