For ClickBank Vendors Only

I did this recently and it gave a windfall of new sales.

Here’s a trick when selling through ClickBank. I think you can also do this with other payment processors and affiliate script. You just need to find a way to make them work. Maybe you can contact your affiliate script company and ask them about it.

Anyway here it is … First let me tell you how this works.

You know everybody are always looking for something new to sell. And they always want to promote something great to their readers, right? How about doing a discount specifically to their readers. But this discount has to be a limited-time offer. You cannot do this for the whole year. I will tell you more about the time-planning of this later.

For example, you have a friend, Ted. You email / call up Ted and say, “Ted, I have a new product that I’d like to do a special discount for your readers.”

First of all, that would really get your potential JV partner’s attention. With this method, I am sure that you’ll close more JV deals.

When Ted agrees, you create a new page, specifically for Ted’s readers. It can say something like …

“This page is for Ted’s friends only. Instead of paying a full amount of $97, you can get [YOUR PRODUCT] for just $47. But this offer is only available until [DATE]. So if you want to get this, get it NOW” (and then continue with your salesletter)

So how do you get Ted’s readers to this page? I know, you can only define URL for your website in ClickBank. Don’t worry about that. We can use a simple PHP script and put that at the top of your “index.php”. I am assuming that you use PHP in your website. If you are not, then maybe you’d like to rename your index.html or index.htm into index.php, and delete the previous file.

If you are using something else, ASP or CGI or anything like that, find a way to translate my PHP code to your chosen language. Here’s the code. Oh yeah, you need Ted’s ClickBank ID for this. In this example, Ted’s ClickBank ID is ted.

if ($_REQUEST['hop'] == 'ted')
{
header('Location: http://www.productwebsite.com/tedpage.php');
exit();
}
?>

How about some explanation.

OK … we’ll do your realize that then when you send visitors using your ClickBank hoplink, ClickBank will always send an extra tagging to the URL. Something like “?hop=ted”

Well, you can use that. If you see that your website receives that “?hop=ted”, you know that Tim is the one sending them. And instead of letting them land on your front page, you redirect them to a different page, the one that you created earlier for Tim’s readers.

Now, about the pricing. In ClickBank, you can always define a number of products prices, and their thank you page. So you use this. Your main product is product number 1. In this example, you priced product 1 at $97. Create another product priced at $47 and use the same thank you page, because customers will get the same thing anyway.

With these products, you use the following ClickBank pay links.

Product 1 ($97): http://1.YOURCBID.pay.clickbank.net
Product 2 ($47): http://2.YOURCBID.pay.clickbank.net

Obviously, pay link for product 1 is used on index.php. And pay link for product 2 is used at Ted’s special discount page.

You must think that we’re done here, right? Well, a few cool tricks for you … it’s about timing your email.

When doing the email announcement, you want Ted to email his readers saying that this is a 48-hour discount. And ask Ted to tell you when he did his first mailing so you can start your clock. After the 48-hour discount is over, you tell Ted to write one last mailing with a subject line “Last Chance — Closing in 24 hours.”

Do you want to know the result of this? With the last-chance email, you can actually pull in as much orders as the first day.

So the offer actually runs for 72 hours. You may plan this beforehand with Ted if you want. I normally do. First I write an email about the discount for their readers. When they reply, I write all the details of how I want it to be done. I told them to tell their readers it’s a 48-hour discount. And then I tell them to write the last chance email after the 48-hour is over.

When everything is done, I pull down the offer page.

What you need to do now is find your JV partners. Start with people you’ve had interaction with in the past. Maybe in forums or what not. It’s easier that way.

Oh yeah … what if you have more than one JV partners at a time. Well, you can alter the code a bit like this.

if ($_REQUEST['hop'] == 'ted')
{
header('Location: http://www.productwebsite.com/tedpage.php');
exit();
}
elseif ($_REQUEST['hop'] == 'jva')
{
header('Location: http://www.productwebsite.com/jva.php');
exit();
}elseif ($_REQUEST['hop'] == 'jvb')
{
header('Location: http://www.productwebsite.com/jvb.php');
exit();
}
?>

Alright … have fun. Go make money ….