“Dominating Clickbank” by Andrew Fox is a product I didn’t ‘get’ from the ‘get go’. It came out a few months ago amid a lot of fanfare, even recommended by Chris McNeeney of “Affiliate Project X” fame. It has been marketed nicely, but so what? Does it deliver, helping you understand ways to make money online?
Fox has it all glossily presented, and I enjoyed the Camtasia video format: nine separate tutorials to educate you as how to “dominate clickbank”.
A major theme of Dominating Clickbank is resell rights, the right to claim a product someone else has authored as your own, through a mutual (usually a monetary) agreement, all perfectly fine and legal.
Now, Fox makes it sounds as if all you have to do is become a member of one of the sites he recommends for resell rights, get some JV partners, and head to the bank. But, is it really that easy?
Fox uses an example of an adsense e-book he purchased from Ryan Deiss for $197 and turned to profitable Clickbank product. Ryan Deiss? Okay, if you can lure Ryan Deiss into ghostwriting for you, I’d say you have a great shot at success. But the trick is getting someone with the reputation and talent of Ryan Deiss to sell you resell rights on a product he authored for $197.
One of the member resell sites that Fox recommends is run by Deiss, charging $29 a month. A natural question I had: if Deiss is charging $29 a month to be a member of site he runs for resell rights, then why was Fox paying him the $197? Was the adsense e-book specifically designed for Fox? He mentions in one video they are friends, but unfortunately, I don’t know Ryan Deiss personally. Ryan, if you’re reading this, I’ll gladly pay you $197 for any fifty page e-book you’ll produce related to Internet marketing. Deal?
I will openly admit I’ve never attempted what Fox is teaching here. But from what I’ve been told by people I trust (and who aren’t selling me anything), if you’re going to attempt something like this, in order to be successful you better have two things going for you:
1) JV partners better be lined up to assist you, or you are going to be dead in the water. Here again, I don’t feel like Fox is giving enough warning, or teaching with enough depth for his customer.
2) A quality product. Are you going to get that from any of these member sites? I don’t know, but it would seem to me you’d be better off going to eLance or ScriptLance to hire someone to ghostwrite your product idea. This is not covered in “Dominating Clickbank”.
He moves on to his “Affiliate Hunter” method of making money on Clickbank. Catchy title, but again I feel there is no depth to the teaching. Making money through Clickbank is not as simple as going over to the CB Marketplace, finding a hot selling item, slapping up an Adwords campaign and driving to the bank. In fact, it is a good way to lose your shirt, if you aren’t careful.
What bothers me a lot of times with all this Internet marketing stuff is the fluff without substance. There sometimes feels like there is a great rush, and the foremost intent is to sell something. Slow down. Cover everything carefully. Give warning of potential pitfalls. Never take advantage of the trust someone has given to you by purchasing from you. I think that is great advice for anyone thinking of selling something online.
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