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An interesting question came up at the Warrior Forum today. What do you do, as a product creator, if you want to sell two products…one as the main product and another as an upsell but with a different commission rate than the first product and do this through Clickbank? Sound complicated? Well, it really isn’t. In this article I’m going to show you a simple way to do this.

First of all, the reason that this is even the least bit tricky is because for each Clickbank account that you have, you can only have one commission rate. So even though you can sell up to 500 products through one account, each one has to be sold at the same rate for affiliates. Therefore, an upsell with a different commission rate, as far as affiliates go, becomes a bit of a problem…but not a big one.

First thing you need to do is get your first product approved by Clickbank. There is a $49.95 fee for this product. After you get it approved, the next thing you have to do is open up a second account and submit your upsell product to THAT account and get it approved. Fortunately, the fee for your second account is only $29.95, so at least there is a bit of a discount.

After you get both products approved, you need to setup your upsell process. When an affiliate sends a prospect to your main sales page, his affiliate ID is written as a cookie to the prospect’s PC. This takes care of the first product. However, after the purchase of the first product and the upsell page is displayed, because the second product is under a different product ID, there is no cookie written for that ID. That’s where we run into a bit of a snag.

So what we need to do is run a custom script that will take the affiliate ID and the product ID of the second product and combine them into a brand new Clickbank hop link which will then be written to the prospect’s PC. At that time, when the purchase is made, the sale will be credited correctly to the affiliate.

Okay, I know what you’re going to ask. Where do I get this script? Well, you have three options. Option number 1, in order to have the most control, is to write the script yourself. This will also save you the expense of buying one. If you’re not a programming expert, your next option is to have a programmer custom make one for you. If that’s not an option either, your last option is to do a search through Google, or the search engine of your choice, and see if there are any existing scripts that do this. If so, make sure there are clear instructions for installation.

There you have it…how to get around the one commission rate limitation per Clickbank account if you want to sell two products, one as an upsell, with a different commission rate than the first product. Now, if Clickbank no longer allows separate payments for upsells, then you’re going to have no choice but to keep all your products under one account. For clarification on this, contact your Clickbank representative.

To YOUR Success,

Steven Wagenheim

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In case you haven’t noticed, ClickBank just changed its marketplace. Some love it, some hate it. Either way, I’m going to give you the five cent tour of what I feel are some of the things that could probably be made better. I’m a big ClickBank lover but I think there are a few items that need to be addressed. I’m going to cover them in this article.

At the top of the list of things that I feel need to be changed is the obvious attention being directed to the commission percent of each product. Right now, it’s pretty much the main thing that people see. And normally, I’d say that’s fine. But there is a big problem with drawing attention to commission percent above everything else.

When somebody sees a high commission percentage they’re likely to choose that product over one that has a lower percentage. It’s human nature. However, let’s do the math. Let’s say that you have a $50 product that has a 75% commission attached to it. If you do the math, that comes out to $37.50 per sale. Now, let’s take a $100 product with a 50% commission. That comes out to $50 per sale. If somebody is just looking at high commission rates, they’re going to miss the latter product and miss out on an additional $12.50 per sale. I’m not saying that one stat should be highlighted over another (it never was) but doing this is giving affiliates a distorted picture.

Another thing that I think needs to be looked at is the number of items that you can display per view. In the old system, you could view up to 50 products at a time. This made finding a product go a lot faster. Now, you are limited to just 10 per view. Therefore, you have to spend more time initiating searches than you did with the old system. I am hoping they will put this functionality back in.

Finally, and to me this is a big thing, there is no longer the option to view just new products. As somebody who is constantly on the lookout for new products, this functionality was a must have. Now, there is absolutely no way to tell what products are new. You can’t really go by gravity or affiliate percentage of anything like that because there are plenty of old products that don’t sell. Hopefully, this will be rectified as well.

I won’t comment on the aesthetics of the site because how people think it looks is totally subjective. What’s one person’s beautiful is another person’s ugly. So I just restricted my comments to the actual functionality of the site. And yes, sticking that big old commission percentage up there like a bulls eye IS functionality. It all depends on how you look at it.

Anyway, head on over to the new marketplace and see what you think of it. If you think changes should be made, let ClickBank know. I’m sure they ultimately want a positive user experience for everybody.

To YOUR Success,

Steven Wagenheim

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