A Simple Way of Making Money online - Make Money with Clickbank and Youtube

Anyone who reads this blog should have a basic idea on some of the methods I use to make money online. Most of my online marketing strategies basically consist of generating laser-target traffic using specific video content uploaded to different video sharing sites. Anyone who has done some online marketing shouldn’t be unfamiliar with this approach, considering the fact that video sharing sites can be useful tools for expanding an affiliate’s marketing range. Video marketing is without a doubt one of the most effective ways to reach people, present your content, and market various products to a large audience (and of course those are only few benefits of websites such as Youtube).

Today I will share with you one of the simplest ways of using Youtube in conjunction with ClickBank to make money online. I’ve already covered tips on how to choose ClickBank products. So if I you haven’t read them, you can find them here.

Advantages of this Method

·         It’s a free method. All the traffic is generated from videos uploaded to Youtube.

·         You don’t need to invest much, and you probably won’t spend a dime promoting Clickbank products.

Disadvantages

• Although, it might not always be the case for everybody, you will probably fail the first few times. Patience is the key.
• Success with this method depends enitrely on how motivated you are. And as for many other methods, your persistent effort will determine the value of your reward.

Requirements for starting off

For this method, you will eventually need a Youtube account (obviously), a ClickBank account, an easy-to-use video editing software, a camcorder (optional), and a blogger account (optional). I use Sony Vegas for my video editing, but I’m sure there are some other software that you can download for free if you can’t afford to buy one.

Before going any deeper, I would like point out that this method is not something new since it has been around for a while. As a matter of fact, many marketers have used and are still using it to make money online.

Steps

1.  You will start by creating a Clickbank account. You will then choose a product following the tips that I have covered in my older posts.
2. Create a short URL blogspot blog at blogger.com using your product keyword (this will be used as a landing page).
3. Write a short review article that promotes the Clickbank product you selected.
4.   Create a Youtube account.
5. Create or find some relevant video content to upload.
6. Edit the videos and watermark them with your blogpost blog URL
7. Do a keyword research using Youtube free keyword tool.
8.  Upload your videos using your keywords as titles, descriptions, and tags (do not spam).
9. Create an hoplink for the product you want to promote.
10. Paste the hoplink in the review article on the blog you created for promoting the product.
11. Using TinyUrl, mask the hoplink by creating a shorter version of it.
12. Copy and paste the short hoplink provided by TinyUrl in the description box of each video (on the first line)
13. Create an annotation for each video indicating the viewer where to click
14. Upload more videos on a regular basis
15. Rinse and repeat.

Basically, the idea is to generate a growing amount of hops by targeting a certain niche and uploading videos related to that specific niche. For those of you who don’t know what an hoplink or an hop is, it’s simply the affiliate link provided by ClickBank for a product, and an hop is a hoplink click.

Why  blogspot blogs?

Although it is something neglected by many marketers, watermarking videos is a good way of promoting websites and generating what’s known as “type-in traffic” (direct traffic, direct navigation, etc). Therefore, using a free blog as a landing page and watermarked videos to promote a product is a great idea. Displaying the blog URL within your videos can trigger the interest of the viewer to type it into the address bar of his/her browser, and thus will eventually increase your chances of making a sale, even though the annotation and the TinyUrl in the description are efficient enough.

Finding video content

You can record and edit your own videos using a cheap camcorder and a video editing software. However, you can always download videos from Youtube (Youtube Downloader can do the trick) or other sources and edit them so that they are unique and relevant enough to be used for promoting a product within a specific niche.

TinyUrl

The affiliate links provided by ClickBank (hoplink) are really long. So you might want to use TinyUrl to hide and shorten them.

What kind of products should I promote with this method?

I can say this only from my personal experience with this method. I’ve had a lot of success with fitness products so far.

When I launched my video marketing campaign, I uploaded videos every day. I wanted to reach an average of one hundred hops per day, but I was surprised to notice that I made my first sale when I reached only 11 hops. My highest daily earning now is $198.37. This was reached with only one product.

I hope this is helpful to anyone who wants to make money with ClickBank…Good Luck