Mother Of All Clickbank Alternatives

Filed under Affiliate Program, Clickbank, Internet Business, Internet Marketing

The “MOACA” that I mentioned in my last post isn’t any single entity that provides everything under one roof, but a combination of entities and services that will help you solve all the issues you have with using Clickbank.

In fact, you’ll be so far ahead of Clickbank that you wouldn’t miss it!

Here are the different components for MOACA:

1. Use PayPal to accept online payments from your customers
With PayPal, you’re acting as the Merchant, selling directly to your customers, since PayPal isn’t a Retailer and will not be selling your product for you.

PayPal charges only 2.4% – 3.4% plus $0.30 per transaction (depending on your volume).

For your customers to use PayPal to pay you, they must fund PayPal with their bank account or credit card (depending on which country they’re in), or receive payment from another PayPal user and then use that money to pay you. PayPal also accepts credit card payments from those without a PayPal account, so you’ve pretty much covered everybody.

However, PayPal does not come with an Affiliate Program software for you to use, so this brings us to the following….

2. Set up your own Affiliate Program to run off a 3rd party Affiliate Program software
The Affiliate Program software is the core component of MOACA. A great piece of Affiliate Program software will enable you to create opportunities for both you and your Affiliates where none existed before.

Now you don’t want to install the software on your own server because of the issues I raised in this post, but use one hosted on the 3rd party’s Affiliate Program software vendor’s server. This 3rd party will be maintaining this software for you to ensure you have the latest version running, and fix any bugs it may have when they surface – thus saving you the headache of having to do this part on your own.

Setting up with your existing web pages will only take a day or two, and then it’s up to you to upload all your marketing materials to it for your Affiliates to access them for their marketing efforts.

3. Ensure that 3rd party Affiliate Program software allows you to use your domain in your Affiliates’ Affiliate Links
Even though the Affiliate Program software is running on a 3rd party’s server and hence a different domain, it may have a feature where you can use your domain name in your Affiliates’ Affiliate Links.

You will only use this software if it has this feature.

This feature will help you with your web pages’ ranking higher in the Search Engines since now all your Affiliates are linking directly to your domain, instead of to a 3rd party’s before being re-directed to yours (like Clickbank).

4. Ensure that this Affiliate Program software allows you to link to any sales page for any other products you may have
If you have more than 1 product to sell, your Affiliates must be able to link directly to all or any of their sales pages, instead of just to your 1 Home Page.

This helps them focus on the product being sold, and reduces distractions. It also gives your Affiliates great flexibility to link to any web page of yours, if they think that would be a better option.

5. Pay your Affiliates’ commissions yourself, using PayPal’s “Mass Pay” feature
One thing you’ll have to do on your own is to tabulate all your Affiliates’ commissions and send them over. The tabulation is done automatically by the 3rd party Affiliate Program software, so there’s nothing extra for you to do here.

You can then use PayPal’s “Mass Pay” feature to send your Affiliates’ commissions directly to them from your own PayPal account to your Affiliates’ PayPal accounts. All you need to do is to upload a spreadsheet with 3 columns to your PayPal account Mass Pay section stating the e-mail address of the recipient, the amount he’s receiving from you, and the currency you’re paying out in.

The 3rd party Affiliate Program software may be able to help you generate such a spreadsheet automatically – so again, there’s nothing much for you to do except log into your PayPal account, upload the spreadsheet and click on “Pay”.

With PayPal being available in most countries in the world, you’re able to pay your Affiliates easily without ever having to write out a check and posting them. On the rare occasion when your Affiliates prefer to be paid by check, you can simply write out those few and send them over.

By using PayPal to pay your Affiliates, you’ve lessened the impact Clickbank has in doing all the grunt work in paying out commissions to its Affiliates for selling your product. All you need to do is to set aside a few minutes one particular day of the month to do the Mass Payment in PayPal, and you’re done!

Note: You must have a checking account linked to your PayPal account before you can use the Mass Pay feature.

And that’s the “MOACA” in a nutshell…

Neat, yes?

In my next post, we’ll take a look at the best Affiliate Program software ever created for both the Merchant and Affiliate, with some unique and outstanding features for the Merchant to make even more sales with less time and effort, simply by keeping his Affiliates very happy…

Stay tuned…