My name is Matthew Bredel and as of March, 2007, I am a full-time, work-at-home internet marketer.
For close to 10 years, I worked for a defense company which was an OK job, but I was so uninspired in life and frankly, I needed some more money. That is when I first discovered internet marketing! Now I admit that I didn't start making thousands in my first couple of months (in fact, I lost my shirt!), but I finally saw the "internet light"...
When I first started affiliate marketing close to 2 years ago, I used to do a lot of reviews and promotion of Clickbank products. At that time, I did not know much about Clickbank, its reputation or the products that were sold. In fact, at the beginning I rarely even bought the products, I just [...]
When I first started affiliate marketing close to 2 years ago, I used to do a lot of reviews and promotion of Clickbank products. At that time, I did not know much about Clickbank, its reputation or the products that were sold. In fact, at the beginning I rarely even bought the products, I just marketed them. Once my online business started to build, I found myself receiving bi-weekly checks from Clickbank for over $1000.
But as my business started to grow and time moved forward, I started to find out a couple of things:
1) The refund rates were blowing up!
2) I was receiving a lot of letters from some very upset people.
It was long overdue, but I chose to finally go out and buy the products and to my dismay, some of these products were down-right awful. This was about the point when I started to build up TheWebReviewer and as I did start picking and choosing products to review and promote, I found my list of Clickbank products drop substantially. Now, I make a measly $800 per month on Clickbank products.
The problem here is that the Clickbank system is very easy to post products to. Over the past year, Clickbank has been trying very hard to patrol this by banning high return rate products and “scammy” genres (like date entry eBooks). But the volume of products and the ease of inclusion makes this very difficult to manage. For about $50, anyone can post almost any type of e-product they would like. All they need is the product and a landing page. In fact, this is probably the easiest and cheapest way of publishing a product on the web and the exposure to their large affiliate network makes it that much more powerful.
These days when I see a Clickbank product for sale, I usually DON’T give it the benefit of the doubt. I am very selective to which product I promote from this directory and I always buy the product first. I still debate whether or not I should post my NetWebVideo product in the Clickbank directory. The exposure would be awesome, but does being included in the “class” of products cheapen what NetWebVideo is all about? Honestly, I think it does. I feel like there is a black cloud hanging over Clickbank and I have invested way too much time and effort in this product to put it at risk right now.
I do like the Clickbank system. And there are still plenty of really good products that come out of Clickbank. Still, the percentage seems to be shrinking and if the bubble ever does burst, I choose not to be in the way. (And one final side-note: Of all of the products that I have found to be my favorites in the world of online marketing, none of them are Clickbank products.)
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that\’s\” thank goodness\”!
March 24th, 2009 at 4:44 pm