Do you too aspire to become a Click Bank achiever and hope to fly high through your Hoplink ?

Then read the Click Bank site thread bear. There are much to see and learn in the Click Bank site if you want to plan for starting your affiliate marketing career with a quick success.

You shall identify yourself everywhere inside Click Bank. Because, it is too lucrative as an affiliate marketing website for affiliates and Publishers , too easy to act upon, too clear in terms and instructions for new affiliates & publishers, and too prompt in making payments to ignore the appeal and appetite! But without a read into the matters, it always remains a unmet dream.

Sustaining for long 10 years with rapid growth despite growing competition from other affiliates is not a small achievement. There must be some secret.

This article intend to focus on the important features of Click Bank that are generally overlooked by most of the affiliates and publishers.

Part A:

Afilliates’ function is to promote the e-Books, software products,subscription products etc. available in the C/Bank Market Place. Affiliates don’t require to pay any fees or price for the products. After FREE registration with C/Bank they get their ready promotion links called Hoplinks from C/bank site itself which feature each individual product the affiliate intends to promote. The moment the product is sold the affiliate’s account inflates with commission amount which goes upto 75% of the product price.

What not to ignore

1.FAQ Library :
One of the salient features of Click bank is the huge FAQ library comprising 4 categories and 13 subcategories there under totaling 214 questions along with elaborate answers to all of them (with appropriate links to appropriate contents within the site for easy navigation ) leaves very little unclear to any aspirant affiliate or publisher or shopper. FAQ for affiliates, Publishers, Customers are categorized separately. Before starting affiliate business one must go through the Affiliate FAQ & General Account help which contains all the issues and questions related to Account FAQ , Accounting FAQ, Market Place FAQ, Recurring Billing FAQ and Stats FAQ. Additionally, I suggest that an affiliate should also know the issues pertaining to Publishers too. So, an affiliate aspirant also should go through publishers FAQ too.

2.Hoplink :

Hoplink is a link that a customer follows to reach at the publishers’ site and make the purchase. You get one hoplink for each product you promote. It contains the ID of the publisher of the product and your (affiliate’s) ID called ‘nickname’. This ensures the affiliate of getting the commission against that purchase credited to his or her account .Also the automatic mechanism tells the product publisher which affiliate sold the product, however he don’t get access to any personal information of the affiliate. The commission transfer is an automatic mechanism powered by a state of the art technological tool. A hoplink looks like: http://AFFILIATE.PUBLISHER.hop.clickbank.net
Setting up the hoplink is very easy and you can test its functionality readily from you own computer without any additional software. For exact information read Hoplink FAQ No.23 .Note that the hoplink ends in “.net” and not .By default a hoplink is targeted to the top level of current browser page. But you can make the hoplink open in a new window or as pop-under or pop-up too.

You can add a tracking code to your hoplink which tracks your affiliate campaign and manifests the results of each successful campaign in all relevant documents.( Affiliate FAQ No.6)

3.60 days tracking :
After you make a referral, you will earn a commission if the customer purchases any product from that within 60 days. This means , if a customer does not make an a purchase from your hoplink immediately but waits you shall be credited with the commission if he make the purchase within 60 days.

4.Direct Deposit:

US bank accounts and certain International Bank Accounts are directly deposited without any extra charge from Click Bank. However for US bank accounts to become eligible for direct deposit , the a/c must have received minimum 3 paper paychecks from Click bank within previous 12 weeks period. For international a/c this period is 90 days ( almost equal).

5. Payment Threshhold :

Default payment threshold is $100 . But from your account page you can change the threshold any amount from $10 to $ 10000. $2.5 processing charge is deducted from each payment.

6.Recurring Billing:

Recurring billing is a uniqueness of Click bank. (Read the Recurring Billing FAQ under General Account help in FAQ library.)It’s a fully automated mechanism through you can promote (sale) subscription products and single products billing in installments. All accounts are automatically enabled for recurring billing products requiring no special set up efforts.

Subscriptions allow you to sell and promote products and services, for example software licenses and membership sites, where customers receive ongoing value. ClickBank recurring billing subscriptions allow you to customize your regularly scheduled customer payments with following features :
· The ability to have a lower initial price
· The ability to offer a trial period
· The ability to select from new rebilling frequency options
The minimum initial price is $4.95 and minimum rebill price $7.95. For recurring billing subscriptions ClickBank offers bi-weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annual recurring billing.

Recurring billing products are easy to locate in the Click Bank Market Place .Just look for products that contain a value in the “future$” statistic.The affiliate earns for each and every rebilling whenver the customer make the payment . ( This is a broad lay out of Click bank Recurring Billing. Detail focus will be presented in future article)

7. Stats FAQ :

This is a section in the Click bank website which gives you detail of your transaction as an Affiliate. You can view your actions and their results from any angle you desire to see. This section is very important to track growth of your business as a whole as well as in all desired break up which in turn let you plan your future strategy.

However, at the end of this part of this article I will suggest that you should read the Account FAQ, Accounting FAQ, Recurring Billing FAQ and Stats FAQ more deeply than all other.

Search Terms :

Basically, this is a transplant of European Hospitality, adapted and refined to the American way of doing things. To foreign visitors, it’s the comfort and hospitality of home—staying overnight “with people of the land” and enjoying a hearty breakfast—without the traditional gaudiness and plastic feelings visitors get from most big cities in the United States. To U.S. citizens, it is a welcome alternative to the same old hotel/motel circuit.

Now, all it takes is a spare bedroom, a good cook ad an outgoing personality. Prices per night range from a low $25 to $100 or more.

If you have an extra bedroom, a large home, or extra space in your farm house, you have the necessary beginnings to start making extra income as a Bed and Breakfast Inn. One of the beautiful aspects of this idea is that so long as you’re hosting “overnight visitors” on a small scale no licenses will be required. It’s always best, however to check with your local authorities just to be sure.

Naturally, your “visitors” will expect a clean, neat and comfortable home. So assuming that your home meets these prerequisites, and you have a spare bedroom, simply ‘doll it up” a bit. Make sure it’s painted brightly, there’s an outside window, lots of room, closet space and bureau, and perhaps a small writing desk, and a large comfortable bed, or twin beds.

Most foreign visitors will expect and appreciate a “quick tour” of the interesting sights in your area. However, as your particular popularity as a B&B Host grows, you’ll find that a lot of American tourists and business people on the road will begin availing themselves of your hospitality. Certainly with these people, it won’t always be necessary to give the “Red Carpet” visitors treatment.

Which brings us to the basic appeal of a Bed and Breakfast Inn. Travelers seem to be looking for, and appreciate a quiet “home-style” place to stay. Generally, they enjoy visiting with the people off the superhighway and want to get away from the sterilized atmosphere and sameness of hotels and motels.

Most people will either write to you ahead of time, inquiring about the possibilities of staying at your home while in your town or city. This means a bit of advertising on your part, or listing your availability with a B&B broker. Some people will check the local telephone listings, and the newspaper advertisements when they arrive in a strange town. And some people will just be driving across the country, come to a town or city they think is interesting, and start driving through the residential areas looking for Bed and Breakfast Inns.

Thus, you should have a small sign posed either in your front yard or on the front of your house. This sign needn’t be much more than about two feet wide and about ten inches deep.

For newspaper advertising, a similar listing in the personal column of your local paper, particularly on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays, will be all you’ll need. But when it comes to the yellow pages of your telephone and business directories, go with a small display ad that describes in greater detail the comforts and pleasures of your service.

Be sure to list your services with all the travel agencies in your area. A brochure or a short synopsis of what you offer will most assuredly give the travel agents an idea for steering visitors your way. At the same time, listing your services in a number of national travel magazines –particularly those that cater to women— will bring customers in for you.

Listing your services with a broker usually won’t cost you anything up front, but they will expect a certain percentage–usually about 25% of the total bill. This same arrangement applies with travel agents.

Now, suppose you’re organized and ready to receive your first customers. You greet them as host or hostess and offer to assist them in getting situated in the room or rooms you have for them. If they’d like to take a drive around your area and see the points of interest, you do that. And then in the morning, serve them a big, delicious breakfast.

You’ll probably find that foreign visitors will want to stay several days. With most people of this country who are just traveling through your area, it’ll be a one-night stopover. Whatever, if they want to sleep comfortably through the night, eat breakfast and be on their way, so be it. If they want to stay around after breakfast and plan an itinerary for a compete visit in your area, your assistance and help will be greatly appreciated.

That’s it! The complete how and why of this tremendously profitable business that’s becoming more and more popular. It’s called Bed & Breakfast, and it’s very definitely a low investment idea. And you can parlay it into a very interesting and comfortable income producing business–all from the comfort of your own home.

Just look around your own home–in the garage or the basement. What do you do with the old newspapers after you’ve read them? Most likely they are piled up in a corner of the garage or basement until one of your kids asks if he can haul them off for the school or cub scout paper drive. Or maybe your wife and kids get ambitious some weekend, clean out the garage and haul all those newspapers off to the collection truck at the local shopping center.

It’s true that selling stacks of newspapers you’ve accumulated during the past couple of months or so won’t make you rich, or really mount to much of an extra income. But think about the stacks of old newspapers you would have if you were to collect and haul away for the people in your neighborhood–say a ten-pound stack of newspapers from each house on your street every Saturday. The picture changes, doesn’t it?

If you’re serious, and get yourself properly organized, you can easily make $300 or more every weekend.

Right now, the going rate for old newspapers is about $50 a ton, depending upon your area. Most recycling depots prefer the paper lose rather than bundled or sacked. Check with the recycling plant you plan to sell to before delivery to them. Cardboard–ordinary cardboard boxes that have been flattened–is bring approximately $75 a ton. If you’re going to collect old newspapers, you may just as well take cardboard too. Most people have old boxes around that are just taking up space, ad some will even pay you to get rid of them.

You start clearing a space in your garage for storage. One side of a two-car garage, or just an 8 by 12 foot space would be sufficient. If you have a garden shed that is dry, that would work well also. Some collectors even rent space in a neighborhood mini-warehouse.

Next, you should place and ad in your community newspaper or the weekly shopping news, something like this: Junk, old newspapers and cardboard boxes hauled away. Visit your neighbors. Tell them you are collecting and hauling away all the old newspapers and boxes in the neighborhood each week. You might offer them $5 a month if they’ have everything ready for you when you make your weekend collection round.

On Saturdays, starting at about 9:00 a.m., rent an open trailer and hitch it to your car. if you have a pick-up truck, so much the better. With your wife and kids, a coupe of neighbor boys, or perhaps a couple of teenage “huskies” you’ve hired through your local high school, start making your rounds.

You drive the car with the trailer. Your helpers, one on each side of the street, knock on each door and ask the residents if they have any old newspapers or cardboard boxes you can haul away for them.

It would be advantageous for you to have a large sign on each side of your trailer, and on each side of the car as well. It might read: Paper Collection Service.

Visit the people you’ve talked to on your block first. That will give you some paper in the trailer and from there, you just expand. Go to the next block and the next, driving up and down the streets, visiting, stopping at all the homes, in an ever expanding ripple from your own street.

When your trailer is full of old newspapers, you can either take them directly to your recycling plant and sell the load, or take them to your storage area, unload them, and get everything organized. It’s very important, though, that you get right back to the job of knocking on doors and collecting more newspapers and cardboard.

Some people will (foolishly) collect a load, take it in for sale, and then waste the time gloating over the easy money they’ve just made. One load won’t make you rich or even pay for your time. Get right back on the job and collect as many loads as the daylight hours will allow.

Make the same rounds; follow the same collection route, at least once every two weeks. Once you’ve got the routine working well, you’ll be ready to hire a couple of high school or college students to help, perhaps with another car and trailer.

The best way to pay your help is with a percentage of the tonnage you sell. And then too, once you have it all together, you’ll want to go with a truck or trailer that allows you to haul a couple of tons of paper per load.

It’s important that you make regular rounds, calling on the same houses regularly. After about six months of this, you’ll be ready to open a local recycling depot.

This simply means taking the accumulation of paper out of your home or garden shed ad moving it to a business location. Because of your advertising in the newspapers, and the sign on your truck or trailer, people will be calling you during the week to come and pick up paper they have ready for you. Also, your neighbors will very likely be dropping by with armloads of paper for you from time to time, as well. Specifically, these are the reasons you’ll need storage space to store paper in your garage or other storage area until you have enough to load up and take to the recycling plant.

One of the best locations for your recycling depot is an abandoned or closed down service station perhaps a vacant , or even a corner of a large shopping center parking area. You’ll need a scale (you can rent or lease one of these for a small amount), and a quick set-up tent or large truck.
What you want to do is establish a location where people can come to you They bring their newspapers and two cents a pound for cardboard boxes. You an hire someone to man this center for you during the day, or perhaps only open between 4 and 6 o’clock in the afternoons. Advertise your hours, and be dependable, so that people can count on you.

Even though you have a collection depot, you’ll still want to continue your weekend collection rounds. But with a collection depot,you can hire other people to do the driving, knock on doors,make the collections and transfer their loads into the depot facility. If it’s a big truck or trailer, you’ll be selling ten to fifteen tons of paper whenever you make your trips to the recycling plant.

Another important thing you should think about doing is getting the whole community involved with you. Get them to thinking about recycling paper and selling to you. Run some promotions; work for free publicity;and be conspicuous. Don’t be embarrassed; everyone is aware of the need for recycling everything that can be recycled. And you’ll be admired as someone with the ambition to make it happen, picking up a good second income while you’re doing it.