Don’t get me wrong – I absolutely love ClickBank Pirate! It’s a fantastic service for affiliate marketing pros and newbies alike – they’re complete ‘done-for-you’ affiliate marketing squeeze page systems and autoresponder followup e-courses mean that all you have to do is send targeted traffic to each month’s new page to earn potentially huge affiliate commissions from ClickBank, and through both promoting their service and promoting some of the monthly packages I’ve had affiliate commissions from ClickBank every month since the ClickBank Pirate launch early last year.

But from my super-affiliate viewpoint there was always one flaw in their system – obviously not a big enough problem to stop me from being a member, but one that meant I haven’t promoted it quite as heavily as I could have…

The list you’re building through those squeeze pages isn’t your own. The good news is it’s used to push the product through followup e-mails all coded with YOUR affiliate link. You don’t need to set up the autoresponder, write the followup e-mails, etc – that’s all done for you. But when you want to move on and promote a different product or service, you’re starting from scratch again – you don’t have access to that previously-built list of prospects to send your next promotion to.

As I said, not a major problem – if you know how to drive traffic to the first site, you simply repeat that action to send them to the second site. And not having to set it all up and write all the e-mails compensates for it – but only to a point. To really grow your affiliate marketing commissions, you need to be building your prospect list, adding the new opt-ins this month to those you secured last month, etc. This gives you the long-term growth that leads to building a secure online income. But you do need income NOW while you’re building for that future, so ClickBank Pirate remains an important component in your affiliate strategies.

But yes, you DO need to be building your opt-in lists continually, building an ever-increasing number of prospects who’ve asked you to keep them aware of developments and new releases in your chosen niche(s). And that’s where Cindy & Soren have evolved their system they designed for ClickBank Pirate and fixed the situation with their new release, Affiliate Silver Bullets.

This time you have your choice – you can leave it all hosted with them and handle it the way ClickBank Pirate runs, or you can download some or all of your sites and host them yourself, building your list in your own autoresponder system instead. Since they’ve already done all the research, writing and creation for you, you simply upload it all to your Hosting4Marketers.com account, hook it into one or more of your autoresponders there and start driving that same traffic…

Unlike CB Pirate though, this system comes with a set number of sites as opposed to an ongoing service, and you can choose to take the OTO and download them all today or take the 7-month plan and pay for them as you download them over the next 7 months. So don’t be tempted to switch from CBP, use this one as a supplement to it instead – even use your ASB sites to build a list specifically to promote your ongoing CBP sites if you like.

But either way, be sure to add Affiliate Silver Bullets to your affiliate marketing arsenal today and adjust your strategies and plan of action to include them as both an additional source of affiliate commissions AND another tool to help you build opt-in lists – thus covering off the two main areas of affiliate marketing yet again.

Remember, the success of your online work-at-home business comes not from any one site or tool, but from building a number of new traffic resources, list-building resources and profit streams, all automated and integrated into a professional affiliate marketing business system. A system that should now include these powerful new Affiliate Silver Bullets!

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Affiliate marketing can be a great way to make money online quickly, but in most cases it’s tough to make money on a residual or recurring basis. Most sales are one-off products, and you make your money sending new people to buy it. ClickBank introduced recurring billing into their system this year, allowing merchants to now offer membership sites and the like, because ClickBank would now track and process the monthly payments on an ongoing basis. Great news for affiliates too, since you could now refer people once and make money over and over.

As a professional super-affiliate though, I knew what to expect since I both own membership sites and have promoted many more over the years. A reasonable expectation is that people stay with most paid membership sites for 3 months or so, or at least that’s been my experience as an affiliate.

Now you can tell from my postings here I haven’t really actively promoted ClickBank Pirate since August, when the service first launched almost 5 months ago. Based on my previous experience, I would have assumed almost all of my referrals would have left the site by now – but that certainly isn’t the case! I’m still seeing renewals (which ClickBank lists as Rebills in your stats) on a constant basis, and have made mone pretty much every two-week period since the site launched! (ClickBank Pirate is billed monthly, so not every 2-week ClickBank pay period includes rebills for me.)

So while I wasn’t that pleased with my results during the original launch, my attitude towards ClickBank Pirate has certainly improved since then as it’s turned into a much better money-maker for me than it had appeared it would – so much so that I heartily give it two thumbs up if you’re looking for a great service to promote as an affiliate marketer!

I guess I should have known it would do well, since both Cindy and Soren are excellent marketers themselves and no strangers to affiliate marketing before they launched the service. Recognizing that most affiliate sales these days are made on the back-end after offering a free gift of true value, that’s how they’ve structured the site – every month members get a new squeeze page to promote, pre-built and already online, and just send traffic to pick up the gift.

This month, for example, the squeeze page is giving away a report entitled Affiliate Resources – and as they’ve done each month the squeeze page is professionally done and even includes short sales videos – take a look at the squeeze page so you know what I’m referring to. Best of all, the new squeeze page doesn’t replace the previous ones, it’s in addition to them… That way blog posts, articles, podcasts banners and any other affiliate promotions you have online can continue driving traffic to the links they sport without reaching a dead-end or being redirected to something other than the prospect expects.

I’ve promoted a couple of these free reports now through various channels, but not given any the push they deserve – to be honest I’ve just been too busy promoting our own products, other affiliate and joint venture opportunities and doing e-zine swaps to continue building our list. Yet we’ve made some affiliate commissions from these free reports as well – first, the autoresponder sends them a pre-written series of e-mails guiding them to the ClickBank product being promoted, and secondly the links to that product within the report itself are branded with my affiliate links.

Best of all, I didn’t have to do either – both the autoresponder series and the branding are done for me as part of the monthly service! The downside to this is that I’m not getting the leads the pages generate since they’re going into the pre-built ClickBank Pirate autoreponder system, but that’s more than compensated for by the days of effort I skip by not having to write the e-mails, brand the e-book, design the squeeze pages, etc.

Now don’t misunderstand – I’m a super-affiliate so my results aren’t typical of the average affiliate – but since most affiliates have a lot less to promote, they may be putting in a lot more time and effort promoting ClickBank Pirate and could see similar results. In fact, I don’t want you joining ClickBank Pirate because of how much I make from it or even because you could make any given amount. While I DO want to see you join it, there are more important reasons why I think you should – reasons that have nothing to do with how much or how little you make. In fact, even if you were to lose money on the site, the education you can glean from ClickBank Pirate would still be well worth it!

For those new to affiliate marketing, there are two such reasons to join. The first is that everything is done for you on the technical end of things – the product is chosen, the free report is created, the squeeze page uploaded, the followup e-mails written and loaded into the autoresponder… All of which you’d need to learn how to do if you were trying to do this alone! All you’re really trying to do is drive targeted traffic to a new offer each month – and being free to learn traffic generation is an awesome opportunity – it’s one of the most necessary skills online, whether you’re gong into affiliate marketing, mainstream Internet marketing or niche marketing – even just blogging for that matter… Every single site needs targeted traffic!

The other advantage a ClickBank Pirate membership has for newbies is the chance to see how it’s all put together – the whole system described above. Sign up for your free reports, watch the system of pages involved in getting your gift, how it’s laid out and what offers appear where. Then download and read the reports, read each e-mail you get from the system – and learn from it all. That’s why I say even if you invest and never make a sale it can still be well worthwhile – for the education available if you take the time to absorb it!

If you’re an old seasoned pro like myself, you’ll already know the system – although it’s a good refresher if you haven’t built a funnel recently. But the real advantage is having all these reports just sitting in our arsenal, waiting for those rare days when we have nothing good to promote – just pick up your link for the report of your choice and fire it out to your lists. The system will take care of the rest. Over-promoted paid products to your list during a big launch? Reward them with a free report – one you just might make money on… And one you don’t have to think about after you send it, since the system is fully automated.

If you’re ready to take action, follow my affiliate link to ClickBank Pirate now and get your account. If you’re still not sure, download this month’s free report and see what you think of it all – don’t worry, there’s a link to the site in the report too – use that once the report convinces you, ok?

Happy New Decade – may it be filled with ever-increasing affiliate commissions for you as your affiliate marketing prowess continues to grow!

About The Author…

Doug Champigny is a world-famous Internet Marketing mentor & speaker and a recognized super-affiliate who has been online full-time since 1996. Be sure to visit his DougChampigny.com Internet Marketing Blog, his Captain-Affiliate.com Affiliate Training Blog and to follow Doug on Twitter!

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Note: This post was supplied by ClickBank Pirate and contains affiliate links to your free report.

ClickBank Pirate, a new service to make affiliate marketing using ClickBank products much easier, has been announced by it’s creators, Cindy Battye of Australia and Soren Jordansen of Denmark.

Until now, affiliate marketers who wanted to properly market ClickBank products had two choices – either fight for affiliate scraps with the majority of other ClickBank affiliates, e-mailing, tweeting and blogging about the products and hoping to send enough targeted traffic to the merchant’s site to earn decent commissions.

Super-affiliates, in the top level of affiliate marketing, knew better. Top product creators are almost never great marketers, meaning the merchant’s salespages almost always leave a lot to be desired – and conversion rates of traffic-to-sales is usually fairly low as a result. So super affiliates create, or outsource the creation of powerful pre-sale materials to ‘warm customers up’ to the product before they hit the salespage.

Taking it a step further, they’ll usually commission a small report to use as an ‘ethical bribe’ – the term given to resources given away free to entice targeted prospects to opt-in to the affiliate’s e-mail list. This then gives the affiliate a number of opportunities to give the prospect more information about the product and the area of interest, positioning themselves as an expert on the subject. Of course, it also gives them that many more times to show the potential buyers the product in question, then move them along to the next related product after that.

Realising that newer, less experienced affiliate marketers wouldn’t be able to do all that themselves, ClickBank pirate is designed to take care of that – they’re creating that entire promotional back end for various ClickBank poducts their members can promote. Even better than just handling the technical end of it all, ClickBank Pirate also frees up a lot of time for the affiliates, letting them focus just on the actual marketing end of the business – which hopefully will produce higher sales and a faster start to the affiliate ommissions rolling in through ClickBank.

The CB Pirate service is set to start taking members on Tuesday (August 4th, 2009), launching at 10am EST. If you’re reading this before they open the doors to affiliates, you can get ClickBank Pirate info here. If, on the other hand, they’ve already launched by the time you see this, just go straight to the ClickBank Pirate website.

If you’re already into affiliate marketing, or want to make money online full or part-time, you owe it to yourself to check out ClickBank Pirate right now – as a super-affiliate I’ve already had access to the members area of the site, and I can honestly say it’s a great resource. Visit ClickBank Pirate now!

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