ClickBank Has Competition – Meet Click2Sell
Posted by kristinewirth on July 8
Click2Sell is a new online marketplace very similar to ClickBank with a few subtle yet potentially important differences depending on what you prefer.
ClickBank has been a favorite amongst both affiliates and sellers of digital products for many years. ClickBank currently has over 100,000 affiliates and over 10,000 digital products. Click2Sell however, is slightly different and is obviously competing for the business that ClickBank currently has.
First off, Click2Sell not only offers digital products but physical products as well as subscriptions, something that ClickBank just recently implemented. However, ClickBank doesn’t offer you the opportunity to sell physical products like Click2Sell does.
Click2Sell also offers someone selling a product the ability to manage their Articles, Banners and E-mail messages used to help affiliates promote the product. ClickBank currently does not offer these tools for the merchant but rather leaves it up to the merchant themselves to create these items for their affiliates.
A big plus is that you also have access to who your affiliates are; their name as well as how many visitors they’ve had, their number of sales, the ability to ban the affiliate if necessary, and even email the affiliate directly. Something again that ClickBank doesn’t allow you to do.
Merchant Fees
In order to list a product, ClickBank charges you $49.95 however, Click2Sell only charges a fee per transaction and no more than $3 per transaction for products over $40.00; $1 for items $19.99 and less.
There are no fees whatsoever for affiliates.
Affiliate Information
As an affiliate of any product within the Click2Sell marketplace, you can sort the available products by category; very much like ClickBank but if you’ve visited ClickBank in order to promote one of their products, you’ll notice that the statistics for the products are a little proprietary and take a bit of reading to understand what they mean.
Click2Sell on the other hand, allows you to sort the products by more well known terms such as:
- Commission %
- Dollars earned per sale
- Rank
- Popularity
- % of sales made by affiliates
- As well as the conversion rate of the product which is a HUGE factor in helping determing how well you may do per 100 visitors.
Additionally, Click2Sell allows PayPal as a payment processor, something that ClickBank does not except for recurring subscriptions – See this post. This will be a huge plus for many people.
However, unlike ClickBank who acts as a third party when it comes time to pay affiliates, Click2Sell leaves the payments up to the vendor supplying the product. This could be a downside for those who are concerned that they may not get paid their commissions. It is a plus with ClickBank that they handle all of the payments and send you a check every two weeks.
The second downside is that Click2Sell doesn’t have as many products as ClickBank does but I expect that to be changing as the company grows.
I really believe that Click2Sell has a large future with many merchants as well as affiliates checking out what they have to offer and giving them a try.
While ClickBank has an almost cult-like following, the company has made some decisions in the past that have not made merchants nor affiliates happy.
As an affiliate you now have a second option open to you, so take advantage of both streams of revenue.
