Using Clickbank as an Affiliate Marketing Career Launch Pad

Affiliate marketing is a viable way to make good income from commissions earned after selling
products and services on behalf of a business. Many people have gone on to make impressive
incomes from this activity having started from pretty humble beginnings. For the novice who
wishes to get into affiliate marketing knowing where to start can be very challenging. Clickbank
may just be your launch pad into this career if you are interested in dealing with information
products.

As one of the biggest information product marketplaces online Clickbank has proved to be a
great affiliate marketing platform even for the novices in the trade. Clickbank deals in the
purchase and sale of more than 30,000 information products. You can work on Clickbank as
either a vendor or an affiliate. As an affiliate you will be required to sell the informational
products that the vendors have created.

For the topic of discussion at hand we will consider what it takes to be an affiliate marketer on
Clickbank. To start off you will have to register or sign up. Much like what happens in other
websites you will be required to choose an ID that you will use every time you log in. with this ID
in place you can now access the Clickbank marketplace and sample the products which you
can sell. Clickbank have arranged the marketplace in categories of products which makes it
easy for you to select that which you feel most likely to sell. You can choose a single item or
several.

Having selected the product(s) the next step will be to acquire a ‘Hoplink’ that will be used to
direct prospective customers to the relevant vendor sales page. The ‘Hoplink’ takes the form of
a HTML code which is only produced after your user ID is entered into a requisite form. Since
each product that you want to sell has its own ‘Hoplink’ you may end up with quite a number.
Clickbank affiliates usually file these hoplinks, sales page links, and product information for easy
reference. To sell the Clickbank products that you have selected you just need to have the
hoplinks input to the sales material.

All the hoplinks and products can be found in the Clickbank Marketplace.