I’ve often been asked “why hasn’t Clickbank paid me yet even though I’ve made several sales”

Doing some research online today it appears that something like 90% of all Clickbank affiliates are officially dormant!

That in itself is not good for them because any commissions earned but not yet paid by Clickbank are getting eroded by Clickbank fees. You can read more about that at Why You May Never Make Anything From Clickbank

Now let me briefly explain the main problem most new affiliates encounter…

Clickbank rules (read small print) state that before they will issue their first cheque for commissions generated payment has to be made by 5 different credit cards. That means that you have to have generated 5 sales as an absolute minimum before you are paid.

By default, there is a threshold of $100, which means that until that amount has been generated a cheque will not be released, even if 5 different cards have been used. That one is easy to overcome – the threshold can be over-ridden but you need to be careful not to go too low since Clickbank deduct $2.50 from each payment they make.

Now there is a tidy way to get the first 5 sales. For a free report – no opt-in required – and there is no catch just take a look at Clickbank for Newbies. There’s some really useful information in their too and a way to make a few of your own affiliate sales.

If you have some funds with Clickbank right now that haven’t been released this could be the answer.

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More hype in the internet marketing arena or a warning of what is lurking just around the corner?

Cash poor authorities will of course be looking to increase revenues as much as possible and it seems that affiliate marketers – both those running affiliate programs and the affiliates themselves are being targeted by several US States.

I ran across this artcle “Beware the affiliate nexus tax” at Quansite and think you should read it and take note if you are involved in affiliate marketing in any way.

Seemingly the idea behind the tax is to remove the need to be physically present in a particular state before you are taxed. So, wherever you run your business from you could be taxed if you sell to people in the state affect by the tax. That’s regardless of whether you just put up a link and have no idea of who has bought through the link.

Can you see the difficulties here?

Potentially there will be businesses running affiliate programs who simply decide they don’t want to take the risk and simply close down their affiliate programs. Where would that leave you if you whole business is built around promoting affiliate products?

I strongly recommend you do your own research into this if you think you’ll be affected. I’m not in the US so whether I will be impacted I don’t know. But I’m sure not just going to sit back and wait and see!

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Ever heard of Stephen Covey, Michael Gerber, Jay Abraham, Brian Tracy and so many more? I grew up listening to cassettes (yes I know most of you don’t even know what they are!) of these guys whilst driving to sales meetings years ago. And here they all are together in one mega program.

This promises to be the biggest product and biggest launches ever. None other than Rich Schefrenis involved in the initial promotion.

There’s an outstanding opportunity to make a significant profit from this – 50% affiliate commissions on a whole range of products – all “sold” by the program itself.

Well worth taking a look at the affiliate opportunity here.

Drop everything and take a look right now – of course there’s plenty of free stuff too!

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