Thursday, January 29, 2009

Opening a Clickbank Account

By Graham McKenzie

After you have made up your mind to use Clickbank for your emarketing business, what follows up next if opening up an account. Even though there is no difference, it is however recommended that you know if you are eventually going to be a marketer of a partner. If you want to be a partner then you dont have to open up an account then, you can however open it later on when you have found a product that you want to sell. All in all when you are opening an account an a marketer it is only good that you wait until a time when you have a got a product for motives that will be talked about shortly.

The first step you have click on the signup button on the top right of the screen as you go to www.Clickbank.com. The Clickbank will immediately puts you in the signup page for the "Promote Products" section as what you will notice - do not be alarmed even if you are signing up as a seller, as all of tghe signup screens redirect you to this page for simplicity.

After that, you will fill the boxes with your information. Make sure that you put in the correct information specially your address to make sure that Clickbank sends your checks to correct address. You will be required to enter Tax ID after registration.

After you have finished everything, you can choose an account name. This is where being a seller or an affiliate really matters. Hoplinks redirect through a Clickbank when you sell a product so that it can keep track of affiliates. These links aren't pretty. In fact someone looking at it may think that the link will redirect them to an attack site.

As an affiliate, the account ID can be broader, though it would still be helpful if the link matched things you are selling. It simply becomes less important.As such, you need to make sure you have an account name that matches the product you are selling (because your account name is inside the Hoplink) or at least hints at it so that the link appears more legitimate.

You will be sent a password that is equally as ugly as a Hoplink and completely unchangeable. Because of this, it is very important that you write down your nickname and password, as the consequences of losing either of those can be dire. It is very hard to retrieve lost information.Once you have entered all of that data you can click submit and register.

An additional reason to record your nickname is that it's possible to create a website using an affiliate nickname, allow the website to run without interference for several years and then completely forget that nickname. This is the beauty of passive income: even if you never visit the Clickbank site, you will continue to receive checks. Unfortunately, this means it's possible to forget the ID as well, which can be a problem if you have a need to make changes in the future.

Once you have entered in the password you have officially registered. If you would like to sell a product, go to the account settings, click on my products and click add new product to get started. If you would like to become an affiliate, click on marketplace and search for items to affiliate with. Click on create hoplink, enter your nickname and you will be provided an affiliate link to sell the products. - 15485

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