While chatting with Click2Sell’s general manager and part owner Egidijus Andreika, I learned that Click2Sell is an all-in-one system for merchants to sell products online, run affiliate programs and recruit affiliates.

It’s also an affiliate programs network for affiliates to select and promote products from Click2Sell Marketplace and earn affiliate commissions.

And I list 6 good reasons why both merchants and affiliate marketers should also consider joining the Click2Sell network.

1) Click2Sell Allows Both Digital And Physical Products.

While ClickBank lists only digital products, Click2Sell allows vendors to sell digital products, physical products and subscription-based products such as membership sites.

You can view the details of each product in the marketplace, such as conversion rate, refund rate, affiliate sales percent, popularity and ranking history and many other info.

2) Advanced Affiliate Referral Tracking Protect System

Your affiliate commissions won’t be stolen, because the unique visitor tracking system protects you from unsavory merchants and other unfair affiliates.

For example, if you refer a first-time visitor to the merchant’s site, you will always be credited to the sale, no matter how others are also promoting the same merchant to the same prospect.

3) Advanced Tracking System For Sales Achievement

In my opinion, this is the one of the best parts of Click2Sell. The real-time reporting area of the control panel is very detailed. In fact, it is so powerful and specific-to-detail that it is split into 7 sub-pages:

General, Daily Report, Conversion Report, Referral Report, Refunds, Transactions, and Keywords.By analyzing the statistics you will be able to find out:

a) How many visitors and views (not to mention sales) your sales pages get.

b) What exact keywords are used in search engines by your sales pages visitors.

c) What websites are bringing the most targeted visitors. For example, 1000 visitors that were referred from website A bought your product 5 times while 1000 visitors from website B bought the same product 30 times. So you will know that advertising on website B is much more beneficial.

d) Absolutely the same is with advertising and PPC campaigns. By conversion statistics you will know which advertising method or PPC keyword is more profitable than others.

e) The number of affiliates that promote your products

f) How your referred users are doing and how much commission you get from them. You can create different tracking channels to test various advertising options somewhere else. You will not need to install complicated tracking scripts any more in order to track sales conversions.

4) 5 Payments Options Available For Vendors To Accept Direct Payments To Their Merchant Accounts Instantly.

Since Click2Sell deals with 3rd-party payment processors, payment is sent to merchants’ or business account immediately. There is no more waiting for weeks or months as you would with other sites.
Click2Sell coordinates sales via five 3rd-party payment processors including PayPal, Moneybookers, WorldPay, Authorize.net, and Google Checkout for merchants to run their affiliate program.

The “Mass Payment” feature for merchants with a few clicks to pay all affiliates at once. This feature is developed in much more convenient way than in some other systems where you need to generate txt files of affiliate payments, then upload it to PayPal and only then you could pay them. In Click2Sell system, everything is done in the member area.

5) No Setup Cost to Sell Unlimited Products

It’s free to setup your account and sell unlimited products at Click2Sell.

And ClickBank charges an initial fee of $49.95 to the vendor to sell products. They only allows you to sell 500 products per account and additional accounts cost $29.95 each.

6) Custom Commission Rates And Flat Fees

The commission rates are very flexible that merchants can pay up to 95% commission to affiliates on Click2Sell. However, Clickbank affiliates can only earn up to 75% commission.

And the flat fee is one of the major perks to sell your products with Click2Sell: there is no commissions’ percentage taken.

Click2Sell has simple fee rate, charging $1, $2, or $3 depending on the scale of transaction.Only merchants are charged this fee; affiliates never have to pay a cent since they are paid by the merchant.

As for ClickBank, they charge 1 USD + 7.5% for each transaction. So if you are selling a $200 product you will be charged $16 for each sale.

And here comes the offer from Click2Sell:

You can earn commissions by referring affiliates and vendors to Click2Sell. You can earn 30% of every transaction fee paid to Click2Sell once a sale is made by the merchant or affiliate you referred - as long as they stay active!

And for merchants, the first month is without absolutely any fees.

While the Click2Sell marketplace still is very small at the time of writing this, it may have a good chance to compete with Clickbank in the future. So I guess you still need to keep on eye on it.

Sign up your free Click2Sell account today

I’m not referring to any kind of auto/manual traffic exchange programs. You don’t visit sites, you don’t manually click sites, you don’t get worthless un-targeted traffic.

When you actually use these traffic programs by installing their toolbar, copy and paste their code on your web pages, you are getting passive streams of free targeted traffic.

Most of the traffic programs have referral programs that you can also earn traffic from your personal referrals. So you need to refer more and more people if you want to get considerable traffic.

That’s how you leverage your traffic and explode your profits with traffic programs.

1) Free Traffic Bar

Free Traffic Bar (FTB) is simply an ad network.

You install the ads bar in your browsers to display other people’s ads. You simply surf online as you normal do and get traffic credits to advertise your own links.

I don’t want to disappoint you because you can’t get “significant traffic” with it.

So why I recommend you join it?

Because getting traffic with FTB is NO time required.

It really does NOT cost you an ounce of effort, time, or energy. You just have it installed with your browsers and brings you free passive streams of targeted traffic.

It’s true free , targeted traffic.

Let’s do a match here.

Suppose you promote an affiliate program that pays 50% commission on a $67 product and the sales page converts at 2%.

That means every 100 visitors you send is worth 2 sales, so you make $67 for that 100 visitors.

Depending on your usage, maybe it takes you a month to get 100 clicks for your ad. But those 100 visitors are worth $67 to you.

So, through the year of usage… of just having a simple hands-off no-cost toolbar installed … It brings in you an extra $800 approx based on that math.

I recommend you to upgrade your account to master pro or the lifetime platinum membership because you can color and bold your ads and get at least 10 times click-throughs than other membership plans.

In my opinion, master pro and platinum membership are so far the only plans that worth your investment.

Click here to download your FreeTrafficBar

2) RealTrafficExchange

This one is my secret weapon!

RealTrafficExchange (RTE) is a high quality network that works like AdWords and AdSense (only it’s a lot more profitable).

You drop some code onto your sites, and when your visitors click on the targeted, AdSense-like ads shown on your pages, you earn credits.

You spend those credits by creating your own ads which get shown on targeted pages relating to your keywords.

Now let me tell you why this one is much different to other text ads programs.

It’s the only 1:1 ratio click exchange program I know. And because visits are by choice and not forced, you receive more targeted traffic.

I have replaced some of Adsense ads with RTE because the clicks from RTE networks convert very well on my sales pages. From my experience, earning $15 with 100 Adsense clicks is quite good.

But with 100 RTE clicks to a sales page, you can earn $67 based on the same example of FTB.(50% payout of $67 product, 2% conversion)

And their exit-pop and screen shaking techniques make RTE ads have a much higher click-throughs than other text ads programs.

Bonus tip: don’t put the RTE ads on your sales pages because it will distract your visitors and lose you sales. Only place them on your download pages, optin thank-you pages, your blogs or your other content websites to leverage your existing traffic.

Click here to sign up your free RTE account

3) LeadsLeap

LeadsLeap is just another viral contextual advertising networ that you expose your contextual ads at 10-levels deep.

Unlike other safelist advertising networks, it is 100% CLEAN so that you don’t get emails from your uplines.

And LeadsLeap’s beauty of multiple levels makes it possible to reach 1000s of fresh leads.

Click here to sign up your free LeadsLeap account

4) Internet One System

IOS is not a typical traffic program, but an all-in-one marketing tool includes split testing, Ad tracking, lead capture and follow up system.

The problem of advertising online is you never knew which signup or sale came from which traffic source. Now with IOS you can see the conversion rates on all your marketing so you can save money by dumping the non-performing advertising and make more money by focusing on what works.

The system includes a free viral list builder so your leads will be growing rapidly. So do not sign up with your primary email address because you will get some solo emails from your uplines.

You can find out more about IOS by clicking here

Thanks for reading and I hope you enjoy this post. Always let me know what you think by leaving your feedback below

To your amazing success!

Henry

Thanks for all your great feedback on the make money giving away freebies post I made.

However, some people have trouble when they try to join the CPA networks but without a high traffic website.

A blog reader told me that most of my listed CPA companies require the website should have at least 1000 visitors per month, in one of them they even need 10,000!

And this is not supposed to be a problem. Most CPA networks have comments section in the application. You just explain in the comments block that you are going to use Pay-per-click and purchase some banners or text links to send traffic with direct linking.

This should get you into the most CPA networks with no problem.

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2. The eBay affiliate program truth
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A subscriber asked for my opinion of the Build A Niche Store script(not an affiliate link), which create content sites through the eBay affiliate programs.

I haven’t personally tried BANS but I don’t suggest anybody to buy it, because the eBay affiliate program is not as profitable as some other ones like Clickbank, even Adsense. Since eBay is only sharing a small part of their bid revenue, about 4% of the closing value of a winning bid, which is not generous compare to 75% of Clickbank sale and 78% of Adsense revenue share.

In fact, personally I’ve never had a good experience with the eBay’s affiliate program. If you really want to use BANS, you need to get approved by eBay Partner Network firstly. But the weird thing is I never get approved!

When they was handling their affiliate program with CJ (which turned out to be a big fail) and my affiliate application got declined automatically.

And on April 2008 they finally dropped CJ and built their affiliate program in house. I tried to join their eBay Partner Network but no response from them since I submitted my application.

And even worse, they banned hundreds of affiliates this month for reason that the traffic they were sending to eBay was “significantly less engaged”.

And here’s even a Squidoo len by a sacked eBay affiliate:

http://www.squidoo.com/the-truth-about-epn

So for most for you, what you need is to follow a proven working system, not something that could make you money right now. (Remember the biggest money-making obstacle?)

Here are some proven working marketing systems by Marlon Sanders if you’re lack of one:

Promo Dashboard (Promo in 3 simple steps with list building)

Marketing Dashboard (Setting up your own online business like the experts)

Design Dashboard (Create amazing web pages that sell products like crazy)

Affiliate Dashboard (Launch your own affiliate program & getting streams of active affiliates)

Each of Marlon’s “Dashboard” products is a easy to follow system. I do love the 6 row of lovely icons, each icon is a single step for you to take. Easy and fun. I’m sure you’ll love them too.

Always remember you don’t need to chase the latest money-making opportunities all the time. What you need is just a system, a proven working system.

And always let me know what you think by leaving your comment below.

To your amazing success!

Henry

I’d say this post is just important to your online business career. If you don’t overcome this dangerous obstacle, you won’t make any real money online.

I really learnt it the hard way.

Sadly, 90 percent of online marketers are doing things that will prevent them from ever achieving their goals:

They have no plan. They love (and fall victim to) products that promise them huge rewards with little or no efforts. They always hop from one “big opportunity” that can make “a lot of cash” to another. They only care, “can I make money with this?” So today is eBay, tomorrow is Adsense, and yesterday it was another hot concept (but already forgotten by them).

Do you get what I mean?

These people are what I call “opportunity seekers”.

Opportunity seekers buy lots of products, but seldom use any of them. When the next so-called “easy money method” comes by, they just stop their current practice (which probably works) and end up buying the new one. They always ask you:” What’s the easiest way for me to make money right now?”

It’s NOT easy to make money online, buddy.

So DON’T chase everything comes out that looks like it’ll make you money.

If you have ever read Stephen Covey’s The 7 habits of Highly Effective People, one of the most important habits is begin with the end in mind.

For your online business, it means to have a detailed plan and a clear vision in your mind.

Just think about what you would like to have for your online business in the near next 2 years.

30 mini sites that earns you a monthly $200 each? That’s good. 10 membership sites with a solid recurring monthly income of $9000? That’s even great. What about building credibility and having a high response list of 20,000 subscribers that earns you $18,000 every month? That’s fabulous!

But not to have a bunch of digital trash in your hard disk. Not ever!

You should just have your vision like this. Having a vision or not distinct opportunity seekers from real Internet entrepreneurs. When you have a clear vision of what you want your business to become, you will be more focused to your business that makes success possible.

And feel free to share your comments here as usual!

Henry

As promised, I’m revealing the exact secret phrase on my Flip Site Buddy OTO page that doubled my conversion.

The simple powerful phrase on the top of the OTO page is…

“Access Free Download Details At the Bottom of This Page”! That’s it!

Probably to many people’s surprise

So to have you fully understand the sales process, let me illustrate. You see, the process involves 3 basic steps: (I know I know, it’s actually far more than this 3 steps, but I’m not talking about things like list monetization and back ends here)

Until recently, I found something odd that I got so many support emails from people asking for the free downloads. But they were supposed to get their downloads right after they turned down the one-time-offer!

I realized some weird problems. These people opted in on the squeeze page and then closed the OTO page immediately. They just went directly to their email inbox looking for a download email. But however, I just don’t put the normal download link on the welcome email. Instead, I only sent them an email that only contains unadvertised bonus download link.

So I just added that powerful phrase on the top to remind my visitors the download details is at the bottom of the page.

You see, in this way, people HAVE TO scroll down the whole sales page to get their freebies. You just FORCE people to read your copy with this trick.

Now my result is, on average 1 out of 11 people see the offer make a purchase. Awesome, isn’t it? And if you want to promote this monster offer and make some bucks you can grab your affiliate tools here.

So what you need is to make your copy really good. When you have a high response sales copy with attractive appeal, clear bullets and strong call-to-action, you can win sales in the process with this tactic, from people who even don’t want to read your sales page at the beginning!

Thanks for reading this post, feel free as always to leave a comment

Henry

And if you missed it, here’s the article again:

http://HenryZeng.com/archives/affiliate-marketing-survival/

As I mentioned, a majority of your efforts in Internet Marketing should be targeted at generating a recurring or residual income.

And here are my 5 surefire tips to help you squeeze the most of your recurring affiliate programs.

1) Promote high value, qualified products

The first rule does not only affect recurring commission products, but also applies to any affiliate products you’re promoting.

Remember, it is the benefits your referred customers receive to warrant them to continue investing in their recurring products.

2) Squeeze more money with closed-door affiliate programs.

Closed-door affiliate programs are those that require you to buy their products to be their affiliates. You are not going to be charged an arm and a leg to join; but you do need to find the good ones to join.

Here’s something you may not know about closed-door affiliate programs. They are generally to convert better!

Because you get lower chances of “getting crashed”- Ouch, another dude’s promoting exact the same product to your prospects!

There’s also less chance for Internet pickpockets to steal your affiliate commissions by simply replacing your affiliate links with theirs, because only customers get permissions to promote the products.

“But you’re kidding me! It cost me money to join an affiliate program?!”

Well, many public affiliate programs pay you less money (for example, they may not pay you on backend sales) or not convert as well as the closed-door ones, so this all balances out.

In life it’s hard to break the “sowing / reaping” principle, the “you get what you pay for” rule.

3) Pick out services that existing customers unlikely to stop recurring subscriptions

Impossible? Okay, I’ll show you some. Most products of this kind are technical related services.

As you know, I promoted a site called 3waylinks in my previous newsletter. It is a service that can help your sites rank well in Google. Each of the sites gets 250 “one-way” backlinks, which will have a great impact on search engine rankings, especially for Google.

So what if the member stops his recurring payment? The “one-way” backlinks will get disappeared immediately the day his account expires.

Another good example is Viral Link Tracker, a nice tool that can cloak affiliate links, track signups & sales conversions.

Think about it. When people got all their cloaked affiliate links spread on the Internet, do you consider they will ever think of canceling the service and make all their links invalid?

4) Bonus bribery strategy

This strategy is so simple but works. Offer your prospects some bonuses if they sign up under you rather than others!

How many resale rights products do you have in your hard disk? I guess a dozen of, right? Pick out the ones that related to the recurring products you’re promoting.

Ask your referrals to provide you their payment receipts and give them your resale products bonuses to download.

5) Help your referrals to benefit more!

After some time of hard promotion, you probably get quite a few referred recurring customers. And as you may noticed, many of these recurring affiliate programs allow you to contact with your referrals. Make use of this powerful feature! Introduce yourself to them, share your tips, make friends with them and get them stay longer for their subscriptions.

It’s not as hard as you think - show your personal experience with that recurring product, how you take advantage of it, how you benefit from it. Your referral will be truly thankful to you for helping them and more loyal.

Here I list the exact recurring commission products that I make money with:

3WayLinks

Private label club (this one converts like crazy!)

IMBuzz Software

Viral Link Tracker

Free Traffic Bar (get very high qualified traffic from this program)

LeadsLeap (my pro ad gets more than 400 clicks every month)

I’m always pleased to hear what you think of residual income affiliate marketing here. Just comment and share your thoughts below.