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Further to my previous post on software hosted on a 3rd party’s server (not yours) – let’s check out Clickbank for an example.

Note: “Clickbank” is NOT a bank, but a Merchant selling digital products on the Internet with a fancy name.

If you’re a Merchant selling digital products but have difficulties getting a credit card merchant account and setting up an online payment gateway on your server so that your customers can use their credit cards to buy your digital product through the Internet, on your web site – Clickbank wants to be your partner.

It wants you to supply your digital product to it (at a price lower than your selling price) for it to sell directly to its customers (at the selling price) using its online payment gateway that processes credit card payments and deposits the money in its credit card merchant account.

The difference between the prices is Clickbank’s profit, which is usually 7.5% + $1 of the selling price.

Thus if you’re planning to sell your product for $100, you’ll be supplying (selling) it to Clickbank for $91.50. Clickbank sells it to its customers at $100, pocketing $8.50 for that sale.

Clickbank then pays you what it owes you every 2 weeks.

This is a great arrangement for small business owners who either find it a hassle applying for a credit card merchant account and then setting up an online payment gateway linked to that account, or are unable to be approved by their banks for a credit card merchant account that can be connected to an online payment gateway.

And there are MILLIONS of small business owners all over the world in that situation.

Note that the selling of the product is done at YOUR web site, with the order link hyperlinked directly to Clickbank’s Order Form. When somebody reading your Killer Sales Letter at your web site selling your product decides to buy it, and clicks on that order link, he is taken immediately to Clickbank’s Order Form for the payment to be made TO Clickbank (not you).

At this exact point in time, you will be “supplying” Clickbank with your digital product, and Clickbank immediately “sells” it to its Customers.

However there is no real “movement” of goods from you to Clickbank since the “delivery” to Clickbank’s customers is via a Download Web Page at YOUR web site (Clickbank immediately routes its Customer back to this page to take “delivery”) – but you can be deemed to be acting as Clickbank’s “Agent” for the delivery (in addition to being its Supplier), so everything is still in order even if Clickbank doesn’t itself doesn’t have a Download Web Page for your product at its web site.

The above arrangement of being a “Supplier” to Clickbank and tapping into its payment facility is necessary without Clickbank being accused of “farming out” its credit card merchant account facility to you to use, which is prohibited by Clickbank’s bank that gave Clickbank the facility since the facility is given by Clickbank’s bank to Clickbank only, not anybody in the world.

For its money, not only does Clickbank help sell your product to the entire world, it also has an Affiliate Program software running its Affiliate Program.

Thus anybody in the world can become a Clickbank Affiliate and sell the thousands of digital products within Clickbank’s catalog, with the suppliers (like you) for those products coming from all over the world.

Thus Clickbank leverages on an Affiliate Program with thousands of Affiliates it has recruited all promoting the products that it carries at YOUR web site (since the sales letter must reside on your own server) – and you leverage on Clickbank for its setup to move your products for you.

Clickbank’s Affiliates also get paid every 2 weeks for any sales made that earn them commissions, via checks sent through snail mail. You don’t have to bother with this at all, since they’re not your Affiliates.

See what a wonderful arrangement this can be for you as a Merchant if you have a digital product to sell but don’t have the setup to sell it online?

You can go directly to Clickbank and apply for an account as its Supplier. Then you simply go to work creating your Killer Sales Letter and Download Page, and entering some details in the Clickbank Merchant Area (which you will access via a login name and password) and doing some test purchases.

When you’re ready, let them know, pay them a one-time Activation Fee of $49.95, and you can be live and ready for business after that with everything in place!

For most businesses with digital products to sell, this is a GREAT arrangement.

However, as good as this arrangement can be for you, Clickbank comes with its own important set of “issues” that you need to know about, that may affect you and whether you would want to use them for your business.

More on those issues in my next post. Watch out for it.

Sen Ze

P.S. You can link to this post with the following URL:

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What do most of the following people have in common?

Doctors
Architects
Mechanics
Instructors
Trainers
Tutors
Teachers
Consultants
Real Estate Agents
Insurance Agents
Stockbrokers
Feng Shui Masters
Accountants
Lawyers
Engineers
Authors
Musicians
Artists
Mechanics
Judges

Yes, they’re all experts at what they do.

But even better, and even more stunning, is the fact that the vast majority of them don’t have a web site at their own Personal Domain Name that bears their actual name!

Just do a quick check, right now.

How many experts around you do?

Right – few, to NONE.

But a Personal Domain Name for experts is a no-brainer.

Why?

Here are just seven reasons:

Reason #1: We remember other people by their NAMES first

Then we’ll associate that name with the company they work with – if we bother to do this additional linking exercise in the first place.

The company they’re associated with is USUALLY the next thing we’ll think of, AFTER we’ve got a name on the person, or if we can’t remember his name.

We associate other people by their names first and foremost because we need a LABEL to link that person with.

But a company can be home to more than one employee.

And its employess can move to another company over time.

Or it can die within 5 years (as most businesses do).

Whereas people have an average lifespan of 70-80 years.

And so a company is a distinct entity that is totally separate from the person.

Even if Microsoft is Bill Gates and Steve Jobs is Apple.

(They aren’t, actually.)

Because you’ll call them “Bill” or “Steve”, not “Microsoft” or “Apple” respectively.

It’s “Bill” first, then “Microsoft”. Or “Steve” first, then “Apple”.

It’s just the way the brain works.

THIS IS A FACT.

You know it is.

AND IF YOU’RE AN EXPERT YOURSELF, YOU CAN EITHER TAKE ADVANTAGE OF IT, OR WATCH YOUR COMPETITORS DO IT AT YOUR EXPENSE.

Reason #2: The Internet Is All Around Us

And with the Internet being such a big part of our lives now and in time to come – a Personal Domain Name will soon become a necessity.

Practically everybody has heard of it and the World Wide Web.

And hundreds of millions of people use it every single day to do their research, find information or best of all, buy products or services.

And you can bet that shirt on your back that some of your Prospects/Customers will use it at some point to look for you.

Over 40% of my Prospects/Customers find me by typing my name directly into their Internet Browsers followed by a “.com” at the back.

That’s a HUGE percentage by any means.

And that’s potential Prospects/Customers lost if you don’t have a Personal Domain Name in the name you’re known for, especially when you’re an expert at what you do and people look out for you for help!

Reason #3: It Costs Less Than $10/Year

A Personal Domain Name costs only $8.10/year at this Domain Name Registrar.

For less than $10/year, your status has now been elevated to one that is higher than everybody else WITHOUT a Personal Domain Name.

You suddenly stand out. You’re different. You have something that is related to the Internet in some way.

You’re now cooler than everybody else carrying a cell or mobile phone but don’t have a Personal Domain Name!

Reason #4: Your Web Site At Your Personal Domain Name Sells Your Services For You

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You simply focus on your content by writing about you and what you do, and selling any related items you may have there as well by putting up information about them and linking it to an order form for orders to be made via credit card.

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Discover some other mind-bogglingly easy ways that anybody can do to profit from their Personal Domain Name – by simply using it!

Reason #6: You Get Express Listing In OMNICITI

OMNICITI.com is the world’s first Personal Domain Name Directory that only lists web sites with Personal Domain Names. It currently has over 620 links and is growing every single day.

Once you’ve posted a good profile about yourself on your Blog, you can then submit your Personal Domain Name to it for listing (just make sure you follow its guidelines).

You will be seen by others who are checking out other people for certain expertise or help, all over the world.

Reason #7: One Day, Everybody Will Have His Own Personal Domain Name

This is my brain-dead prediction – and I’m having lots of fun seeing it becoming a reality day by day. I’m sure you can see it too by now.

It’s been happening since the World Wide Web started – but it’s about to take on a speed it’s never seen before.

So get your preferred Personal Domain Name now before they’re all gone forever.

By being here, you’ve been alerted to the next great trend, worldwide.

What’s more, you can actually see it happening in real time.

How lucky you are.

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Sen Ze

P.S. Tell an Expert you care for about this development. You can link to this post with the following URL:

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