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More On Clickbank| Article #324 : THE COMPLETE CLICKBANK GUIDE – PART 10

In this installment of our Clickbank guide, we’re going to show you how to turn your affiliate account into a vendor account. They’re basically the same, except as a vendor, you have a few more options that you don’t have as a regular affiliate. We’ll cover these in this article.

If you haven’t already logged into your Clickbank account, do that now. On the top of the page you will see a box that says Account Settings. Click on that now!

You’ll come to a page that will show you your account information including when you opened the account, which should be pretty recent unless you’ve been a Clickbank member for a while now.

You will see several options. One of them says Submit a product approval request. Click on that option now!

Okay, when you get to the next page, you will see some instructions that you better read very carefully. Clickbank is very strict with their product approval requests because of all the complaints they’ve been getting about fraudulent claims of earnings and things of that nature.

You will notice that the two main things they say are that your sales page and thank you page has to conform to their guidelines. Please read these guidelines very carefully. I will try to summarize briefly here.

Basically, what you want to do is provide your potential buyer with as much information as you can about the product such as description, how the product is delivered, how long delivery will take and compatibility. If the product only runs on Windows and not Mac computers, then you have to state this. If it’s a PDF file, then state this. You don’t want to give customers any excuse to say “I didn’t know.” The most important thing is that you MUST make people aware of the Clickbank return policy and you cannot issue a return policy that conflicts with theirs, such as “lifetime guarantee” as that will surely get your sales page rejected.

One of Clickbank’s hotbed items is false income claims. If you put up a page saying that somebody will make $x with your product, most likely it will be rejected. Old sales pages were able to get away with this and still manage to stay in the marketplace, but new pages are being cracked down on severely. Plus, you can’t make any references to your product building lists. This is something else that is frowned upon by Clickbank these days.

After you have read through the guidelines, fill in the form on the page to submit your product approval request. The questions are self explanatory and easy to follow. Make sure you put the dollar amount you want to charge for this item. The default limit is $50 but if you put in a special request, they will raise it to as much as $200.

After you have filled everything in, submit your product approval request and wait to hear back from Clickbank. They will notify you either way, whether it has been granted or not. If it hasn’t, they will tell you what is wrong and what needs to be changed.

In our next installment, we’re going to go over some additional features that product vendors have over regular affiliates.

See you then.

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