"Set up Clickbank - easy step-by-step directions to set up
Clickbank."
"Maximizing your efforts by the way you setup the Clickbank
payment option."
This Clickbank setup really is an easy task once you know how.
Hopefully what I am about to show you will save you some time,
especially if you are selling a digital product...
Your primary sales page of your site should send the reader to
your order page when the reader clicks the "order" button...on
your order page, the customer orders by clicking the "Order"
button. Do yourself a favor, re-iterate what the customer will
get on your order page and drive home your guarantee again also.
On your order page, there should be an order button that, when
clicked, will open up a Clickbank page where the user will put
in his or her personal information (country, state, zip) to
Clickbank.
At this point the user is sent to another Clickbank page where
the user will put in his or her personal and payment/credit card
information.
After the user puts in the credit card information and the sale
is approved, Clickbank sends the user to another Clickbank page
that has the heading "Click Here to Complete the Sale" and it
gives the Clickbank order number on that page.
After the user clicks that "Click Here to Complete the Sale"
link, Clickbank will send the user to your "Thank You" page.
NOTE: You will have to let Clickbank know where your "Thank You"
page is located when you sign up with Clickbank...they make it
very easy. When I say "where its located", I mean the URL of the
"Thank You Page".
Make your "Thank You" URL page something odd, something that
cannot be guessed by someone...this will cut down on theft.
Make your "Thank You" URL page something like:
"www.yourwebsite.com/ebk2av184-ntx.html" where
"ebk2av184-ntx.html" is the name of the html file of the "Thank
You" page.
Your"Thank You" page will be built in your HTML Editor...it will
be a html file that you'll have to upload to your site, just
like you would any other web page on your site. In the example
above you would have named the page "ebk2av184-ntx.html".
On your "Thank You" page, have your contact information, a
"thanks for purchasing" message, etc...and keep it consistent
with the way your web site looks and feels, use the same title
bar, color scheme.
Most importantly, have a web form on your "Thank You" page that
has 2 fields; 1 for the person's name, and 1 for the person's
email. On your "Thank You" page, put "Enter the Information Here
to Complete the Sale" referring to the web form with the 2
fields in it. This way you get the person's name and email so
you can follow up later with marketing messages or feedback
questions.
After the person enters their name and email into that web form
on the "Thank You" page and clicks the "Submit" button, their
name will be stored in your auto responder's database. In the
code of that web form, there is what Get Response calls a
"confirmation URL"...this "confirmation URL" is the URL where
the user will be taken to after the "Submit" button is clicked
from your"Thank You" page...this "confirmation URL" will
actually be your download page.
On your download page, you'll have step by step instructions to
download your product. Believe me, having the step by step
instructions on how to download your product on your download
page will save you lots of time in answering emails from people
asking you how to download your product. On your download page,
you'll have a link that the user will click to download your
product.
If you setup your payment option via Clickbank in this fashion
you will:
Save yourself time by not having to answer emails about how to
download Keep a consistent message throughout the sales process,
professionalism Gather the name and email of the person who
bought so you can follow up for feedback or send other marketing
messages to... If you sign up for an auto responder, setting
this up is a breeze...most give you the code you need to put
inside your web page to make the web form...its very simple. Of
course, you'll have to build your order page, "Thank You" and
"confirmation URL/Download Page" yourself in your HTML Editor."
Karl Augustine