ClickBank has released the latest issue of 'ClickBank Communications'.
ClickBank Communications
News of Note
Recurring Billing Contest
Since we implemented Recurring Billing products a while back, we've seen some innovative and wildly successful offerings in the Marketplace. Now we're giving you the chance to be featured in the ClickBank Newsletter! You'll have the chance to share your successes with thousands of ClickBank clients and customers.
All you have to do is tell us in 400 words or less how you've implemented ClickBank Recurring Billing and how successful it has been for you. How has it benefited your business? What's working and what isn't? We want to hear all about it.
We'll choose the best entry and feature the publisher's story in the October newsletter. To sweeten the deal, we're also giving the winner a month of advertising in the Marketplace subcategory of their choice, a prize worth up to $350.
To enter, email your name, account nickname and essay to: commfeedback [AT] clickbank [DOT] com with the essay in the body of the email. Please do not send attachments.
If you haven't created your own Recurring Billing product yet, click here to find out how recurring billing can add up to serious profits for you each month.
Affiliate Summit Wrap-Up
By Terra Goeres, Manager - Client Account Management
Our trip to the Affiliate Summit in Boston was a big success. It was great to meet some of our affiliates in person and speak with them about how ClickBank fits into their affiliate marketing plans.
Our table at the Meet Market was well attended and at times we were all busy answering questions from the many affiliates who stopped by.
We also enjoyed speaking with many people who had not worked with ClickBank before, and who are now considering promoting the myriad of excellent products listed in the ClickBank Marketplace.
Affiliates who had not previously worked with ClickBank were pleasantly surprised at the earning potential from promoting ClickBank products, with commission typically many times higher than that offered by other networks. ClickBank publishers reading this, take note: It pays to be generous with your commissions!
The sessions were interesting and instructive on what affiliates consider to be important, and gave us a lot of good ideas on how we can improve our affiliate program. We're getting back to work now to start to implement many of the things we learned at the Summit.
For those we didn't get a chance to talk to, or who didn't attend, we look forward to meeting you in Las Vegas in January for the 2009 Affiliate Summit West!
Expert Article
Operate in Real Time with the ClickBank API
by Dush Ramachandran, VP of Business Development
If you sell or promote digital products through ClickBank, wouldn't you like to know where your customers are, and what days of the week and times of day they buy your products? With ClickBank's introduction of the Instant Notification API, whether you're a publisher or an affiliate you can do all that and more.
The Instant Notification API, or application program interface, provides a way by which information captured at the time of purchase can be provided by the ClickBank system to another computer. If you are signed up to receive instant notifications, you can set up a program on your computer to receive the information that ClickBank sends as soon as a transaction takes place.
Ordinarily, this transaction information is sent to publishers by means of a notification email, which needs to be parsed in order to collect this data. With the API, all of this same information can be collected instantaneously, as each transaction occurs. Additionally, now affiliates can also gather this transaction data as the sale occurs, which was previously only possible for publishers.
With the API and a corresponding data collection program in place on your computer, you can easily determine from which country or zip code most of your sales originate and direct your advertising efforts to media in those markets. You can analyze the times of day that are most popular with your customers and use day part bidding, or Ad Scheduling as Google refers to it (covered in an earlier post by Beau Blackwell), to show your ads at the times when your customers are most likely to see them and make a purchase.
Publishers with multiple accounts can take instant notifications from all their accounts and have the day's sales aggregated and displayed, showing sales for all of their products across various geographical locations and time zones. Since the API will output information on all transactions, including sales, refunds and chargebacks, this capability can give you a minute-to-minute update on the status of your business through ClickBank.
Please be aware that this service is intended for use by experienced programmers. If you don't have extensive programming skills, you should consider enlisting the services of a programmer to help you take advantage of the Instant Notification API.
Be sure to check out details on the Instant Notification API and explore how it can give you a better handle on your business.
Tech Corner
Get Paid Faster!
ClickBank plans to launch payment options that allow you to get paid faster. Coming soon, clients can choose between:
* Direct deposit paid weekly!
* Direct deposit paid every other week
* Paper checks issued every other week
Getting paid more frequently means that you don't have to wait as long to reinvest hard earned profits in your business.
Monitor your Account Home page and check the ClickBank Blog for more information.
Did You Know?
A Huge, Untapped Market
Did you know that over 102 million Internet users worldwide speak Spanish?
With ClickBank's Platform Globalization you can take advantage of this huge, untapped market. Simply convert your product to Spanish or choose a Spanish product to promote!
Later this year we plan to release French and German language product support and begin to accept foreign currencies.
Be sure to read the ClickBank Newsletter and monitor your Account Home page for more information about these and other upcoming enhancements.
Feedback Loop
What do you think about the ClickBank Newsletter? What would you like to see covered in future issues?
Email general feedback or story ideas to: commfeedback [AT] clickbank [DOT] com.
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