Founded in 1998, ClickBank is a network of affiliate Internet marketers and product/service advertisers that offers very comprehensive informative and practical content from e-books and software tools to membership packages and subscription offers. According to market studies, there are more than 12,000 publishers promoting digital products and over 100,000 affiliates that work on ClickBank. So far, on the entire electronic market, ClickBank has so far been the most visited business in the world. There are around 20,000 orders processed daily with a profit of $1 million.
The success formula at the basis of this business model is the link-relationship between consumers, Internet affiliates and publishers in the system. The system is advantageous for product publishers that sell intellectual property through the network, for advertisers who get to promote their products worldwide for very affordable commissions and for consumers who can benefit of the chance to shop for products that are not available with regular shopping channels. ClickBank acts as the link or the intermediary between these three groups ensuring transactions transparency, secure operation platforms and top quality anti-fraud protection.
Each of the above mentioned groups receive specific assistance and support from ClickBank. ClickBank follows a closed-system pattern, meaning that permanent development is not carried out at the expense of the customer, and most of all, it is not forced into the responsibility of the client. While with other programs, an affiliate would have to bring other vendors in order to augment the system, ClickBank does not impose any such obligations. The network makes profit on the basis of the commissions paid from sales, which once again stresses out the extent of the transactions conducted in this model.
What do consumers have to gain from ClickBank? The benefits for the individual clients comes in the form of specialized products that retail stores cannot include in their offer. The variety of products is incredible, the transactions have all the safety expected level and the entire system incorporates only user and consumer-friendly features in all respects. Last but not least, extra money making opportunities are provided by ClickBank to affiliates that add products and services from the network on their home page. 75% profit out of every sale is a very rewarding and stimulating offer that ClickBank launches for affiliates, all they need to do is take advantage of it.