Product Reviews

I have chosen easyClickMate to run my affiliate operations at ClickBank .

Here is how I use it:

Take a look at the Join the SuperTips Affiliates page for items which I sell via ClickBank.

Follow the instructions to become an affiliate and you will arrive at the sign-up page provided by easyClickMate. This controls who joins the affiliate program and provides the affiliate links.

Affiliates can sign up safe in the knowledge that when they promote it their visitors will not be able to deprive them of their commission.

I can track the number of hits and sales of my affiliates and they can check their stats. On each sale they receive an automatic email with full details of the item sold.

NOTE. If you wish to sign up and purchase these books under your own affiliate link please do: in this case I know that you have not arrived at this site via another affiliate.

As I find more products to sell I simply add the details to the easyClickMate control panel and all the links are automatically generated.

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To see an example of the last feature in action:

There is an ebook that I promote called 'How To Make Conversation' at this site.

As you can see it is surrounded by other publisher products which distract from a visitor seeking that specific ebook. In addition the affiliate id is shown in the browser.

The solution ?

Affiliate Cloner provides me with this Url.

See the difference ?

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There are two very profitable ways that I use a storefront.

1. For any specific product that I promote I can also offer the storefront as an alternative.

Example: look at the section Learning CGI. Besides offering individual books on CGI there is a link to the section of the Marketplace dealing with programming books.

2. As it is such a powerful tool for ClickBank affiliates I receive commission from the sale of the storefront itself.

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There is no easy facility at ClickBank to extract meaningful stats from past sales - you would need to log in to each separate sales period.

With ClickSalez you can get reports on any combination of data by time period, product, affiliate or account.

• You can see, for example, details of every sale made of your best selling product (whether as a publisher or affiliate), with grand totals of sales value and quantity.
• You can list your best performing affiliates in order.
• You can hone in on any past transaction by order number or customer name or Email address. You can even create a refund Email should you wish.
• You can accumulate stats over all your accounts.
• You can see on which date you made most sales - either in value or quantity.

Installation takes seconds and the first time you run the program it downloads all your past data from your ClickBank accounts. On subsequent runs it just downloads the new data. The program is extremely simple to use and I cannot think of a feature which is missing. Selection, sorting, totalling is done at the click of a button.

I used to keep all past sales notifications in Email folders in order to retrieve, ultimately inadequate, stats. I've now thrown them all away.

And when I receive notification of a sale it is actually quicker to use ClickSalez to download all new data and check the details than log in to my ClickBank account.

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I needed to find ideas, tips, resources - ideally from someone who had successfully developed mini sites.

I did not have to look far. Along came "Mini Site Profits" by the mini site expert himself Phil Wiley.

I don't think I can give any better recommendation for this book than to say that immediately after reading it I set up 6 mini sites

For the record, here they are:

(You can read the full review here)

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It's an epic, two years in the making - a bit like Ben Hur.

I've only reviewed a few books before in my newsletter and when I saw the title 'Web Design Mastery' I expected to see the usual chapters about HTML code.

Well they were certainly there . . . along with Javascript, Cascading style sheets, advanced forms, graphics, web hosting, search engine optimization, credit card processing, autoresponders, web site promotion, writing sales copy, ezine publishing, ebook creation, lots more - plus minisites of course -

... and that was just Volume 1 !

In Volume 2 we have advanced web design with chapters on templates, email forms and topics I am completely unfamiliar with such as image rollover and image dicing.

If you have read my ebook Guru Magic you will recognize the authoress: Shelley Lowery who is one of the featured experts.

It was Shelley who produced the cover for the book. We exchanged countless Emails to get it right not because I wanted changes but until Shelley herself was finally happy. In other words a real professional who insists on producing a first class job.

And that's how you will find this book - it's an immaculate presentation.

One reader advised Shelley: "put it into print and sell it for $79.95 a copy. I am positive Sam's Publishing Company could sell several million copies"

I would second that but I have 3 critical points to make

• 1. It was a waste of time mentioning a 12 month money back guarantee. No one will return this book. In a year's time you will still be diving into the huge reference section (that's Volume 3) looking up some rare code.
• 2. The title Web Design Mastery only conveys a fraction of what the book is about: it's really the complete guide to designing and marketing an ecommerce website.
• 3. Why is Shelley selling it for such a low price ?

Hurry to her site before she changes her mind.

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It took just a 10 minute glance through the chapters of this EBook to discover, as a CGI novice, that

• CGI is not as daunting as it sounds
• you don't need to be a programmer to use it

This ebook is easy to follow - and pitched at exactly the right level for a beginner.

It starts with a good illustration of how CGI works and explains the cgi-bin.

Key sections cover the installation of scripts, with a working example, and file permissions.

There is advice on choosing scripts and where to obtain them.

Other topics include server side includes, errors and debugging, and security issues

Conclusion: CGI offers countless possibilities for the website owner and this ebook is an excellent introduction.

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The Absolute Beginners Guide to CGI

Every time I think of a feature I would like in the book I find it's already there !

The idea of explaining exactly how to sell a book using ClickBank is a master stroke.

But on top of all this every time I send a question by Email a helpful reply comes back in no time at all - I'm still waiting for answers from other suppliers.

Amidst all this sheer professionalism just one criticism - I think you left out a zero in the price of the book.

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From their extensive collection of information products I chose an ebook "Making Money With Affiliate Programs " which fits in with the theme of this site.

You can visit the sales page here.

That page was provided for me - all I had to do was add my contact details and follow simple instructions to customise the book with my affiliate links.

It is now effectively my own product earning profits for me.

And in addition I have affiliates promoting it for me - using ClickBank of course.

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Having never used any kind of graphic package I was seeking a tool which would be quick and easy to use and yet produce a first rate cover.

I chose eCover Generator which was highly recommended.

Here is the cover I created the same day I purchased it.

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It will sweep away any doubts about your ability to write (or even to type).

Plus it will give you the motivation to take the most important step - getting started. The story of a 7-page best seller should work wonders.

Written by authors with proven track records of producing successful books the highlights for me included

• how to choose a profitable niche topic
• a detailed section on how to create books in the popular PDF format, together with a set of rules for good formatting
• great advice on ongoing profits from the use of resale rights and backend sales
• actual case studies of successful authors

Click here for How to Write and Publish an eBook in 7 Days

If I update my book it would make a perfect example of a theme site

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The Complete Guide to Ad Tracking Programs

There are many ways to use easyClick404.

Some examples:

• 1) You would be surprised at the number of attempts made every day to gain access to the products I sell with ClickBank here

  How do I know this ?

  Well easyClick404 shows me all the different combinations of Urls being visited which end with guessed file names such as thankyou.htm, thank-you.htm, download.htm etc

  It reports back to me immediately before cleverly redirecting the visitor to an alternative page.

• 2) I continually find broken links at my site where disused products used to appear. I can now intercept and divert the visitor to an alternative product.

• 3) My favourite: I use it to track responses to postings in forums where tracking is frowned upon while providing an apparently legitimate Url ( Details at the site)

There's more ! Click here (opens a new window).

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