While writing the follow-up to ‘Humor Writer Cries in Beer as Pitch to Affiliates “Strikes Out”‘ which detailed Dan Reinhold’s improvements to “WAHumor Way, I stumbled across a situation which could be posing a problem for other Clickbank merchants.
In the follow-up post, I planned to include PAYOUT information gathered from the Clickbank Marketplace about Dan’s ebook. Payout information includes commission amount, % referred, and the category in which a product is listed.
Using Clickbank’s BETA search feature, I typed ‘WAHumor’ into the box and searched through ‘All Categories’.
No luck.
Then I tried ‘WAHumorWay’, ‘WAHumor Way’ and ‘Reinhold’.
No luck. No luck and… you guessed it – No luck.
I then tried my new favorite Clickbank search tool, CBNichebuilder, hoping it would find Dan’s book.
Again – NO luck!
It occured to me that Dan may have listed the book under a different title soI would have to resort to a page-by-page search through the Marketplace.
Because his book is about home business, I started searching through the ‘Home Business’ subcategory under the main category of ‘Money & Employment’.
I found 347 products listed under that category (click-by-click through 35 pages) and not one of them was Dan’s book.
I was through wasting my time, so I sent Dan an email and asked him where it was listed.
He responded a little later to say that he couldn’t find it either!
Aaargh.
The next morning I received the following email from Dan:
Ros,
This is from my account page:
Product category: -> uncategorized
Title / brand: “WAHumor Way To Work At Home Book Series”
Description: “Guides and resources for those considering or starting a work at home business”Does that work?
Dan
Um… nope!
“Uncategorized” apparently doesn’t work if you want affiliates to find your product in the Marketplace and promote it!
If YOUR product is currently uncategorized, contact Clickbank today to have it categorized. It will be then be listed in the Clickbank Marketplace within 5 – 7 days.
Happy listings!
Cheers,
Ros
P.S. Sure enough Dan’s book was listed in the Marketplace a week later as follows:
1) Wahumor Way To Work At Home Book Series. [ earn 50.0 % ]
Guides and resources for those considering or starting a work at home business.
PAYOUT STATS: $earned/sale: $ 11.04 , %earned/sale: 50.0 %, %referred: 100.0 %, gravity: 2.66
About Rosalind Gardner
I agree. I looked for YOUR book, Rosalind, the Super Affiliate Handbook Guide and couldn’t find it ANYWHERE. Used the title(s), your name, etc. It’s almost impossible to find the digital products specifically, I don’t know WHY. The only way I found yours was by doing a Google search.
AV