This is an important question to ask when choosing your affiliate program to work with. What’s better – Clickbank or PayDotCom? Sure, everyone (virtually) uses Clickbank but is it really a good busines choice for affiliates? Let me qualify this a little further – When it comes to Internet Marketing products; what’s the better network to use?

I’ve been marketing for a while now and here’s my analysis of this topic. If you’re promoting some ebook that is not related to internet marketing – say, a book on “How to make the most beautiful girl in the room blush”, then either network is a solid platform and I guess it depends on the quality of the book itself as well as the sales letter (home page) of course which is the really important element and dictates the conversion rate more than any other aspect of the business/product. The other nice thing about PayDotCom from a cashflow perspective is that you get your money within days of the sale being made. Technically, you can receive cash right into your PayPal account within 24 hours of the sale. You see, affiliates get paid the month following the month of the sale. It does vary as you get paid directly from the website owner which they do through the PayDotCom system but if you’re promoting a website owner that’s quick with their payments, you can literally be paid on the 1st of the following month that the sale was made… and this just happened to me today. I woke up and there was almost $1,500 in my account for all my sales for the previous month from this particular partner.

The other nice thing about PayDotCom is they don’t offer 56 days (8 weeks) money back guarantee like Clickbank does which is really annoying since you don’t end up getting your money for about 10 weeks after the sale is made. The next time you get some Guru telling you that you get paid like clockwork every 2 weeks, what they are not telling you is that the “every 2 weeks like clockwork” reference is after the 8 weeks of limbo. The other thing that pisses me off about Clickbank is that they send me a check in US dollars. 2 problems here; (1) I live in Australia and mail takes a while to get here downunder (about 1-2 weeks), and (2) Because I live in Australia, guess what currency we Aussies use down here?? Yep, you got it, Australian currency… which means I’ve got to get it converted. Now that may seem simple enough but because it’s an American Bank cheque, the cheque (get this) has to be mailed back to the USA by my bank to verify it and resent back to Australia a 2nd time. Sounds pathetically ridiculous but true. This farce ads another 4-8 weeks to the 10 weeks it took me to get paid which means that ultimately, a sale on Clickbank takes about 18 weeks (that’s almost 5 months folks) to get the cash into my pocket. So, in summary, cash materialises from 10-20 weeks. Way, way, way toooo long.

Now here’s the big clincher about Clickbank which can mean the Kiss of Death for affiliates. Now don’t tell anyone this cause it’s a big secret….. If you’re promoting an Internet Marketing product which is not for newbie newbies, read this twice (or trice) Do NOT use Clickbank. You see, if it’s a book on chasing chicks or whatever – fine… as long as you can handle the cashflow deficit by not getting cash from your sales for 10-20 weeks. BUT, if it’s for an internet marketing product, all you will be doing as a poor, newbie marketer is wasting your money and time telling other internet marketers about this cool product you’re promoting and…. they’ll use their own hop link if they like it (after finding it through your Google ad and costing you your money) and cheat you from your commission. Come on – seriously – do you really think that the visitor is not going to use their own Clickbank link and get an immediate 50% (give or take) discount off their purchase. Of course not. Hey, I’ve done it myself.

So in conclusion, only use Clickbank for non-internet marketing products (unless the product is targeting green newbies that know extremely little) AND you don’t mind that the money comes in up to 20 weeks later after the sale… if it comes in at all – you see I forgot to mention – You WILL get people (including professional refunders) purchasing the product and claiming a refund after they’ve received the download. This is a fairly regular occurance and can sometimes happen just minutes or hours after the purchase. In fact, for 8 weeks during Clickbanks refund policy timeframe, you’re sales may get refunded anytime.

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