Frequently Asked Questions
Who Can Become An Affiliate?
How Do I Get Started?
What If Someone Refunds The Product?
What Are The Best Methods For Promoting The Product?
Do I Still Earn Commission If They Opt Into Your Newsletter Course?
Why Does Clickbank Award The Last Affiliate Link With The Commission And Not The First?
How Much Extra Can I Earn With Backend Commissions?
Is it okay if use pieces of your sales copy for my landing page?
Is it okay to use your images on my landing page?
How Much Do Your Top Affiliates Make?
How much should I anticipate on spending on PPC if I choose that type of promotion?
How do you track my commissions for Adwords?
Can I give you my Google Conversion Script?
Can I use videos to promote your products?
How do I use your youtube channel?
Why am I not making Sales?!
Do you offer Video Embedding/branding per affiliate?
How do I promote a landing page WITH NO popups?
What's the Best Traffic Resource (how do I get more traffic to my site)?
Where are your Spanish and German Sites and Affiliate Resources?
How do I promote with your articles? (article marketing)
When do I get commission if they take a trail offer?
What if I have have a question not listed here or in Affiliate Profit Center?
Anyone can become an affiliate! Whether you have a website or not, anyone can sign up for a free account at Clickbank.com and start driving people to my website using your special link you will create. As soon as someone purchases my e-book through your link, you will get paid and the funds will show in real time within your Clickbank account.
How Do
I Get Started?
Click here for your FREE Clickbank account
If you are not yet signed up with Clickbank then setting up your Clickbank account is your very first step. Simply click on this link right here to be transferred to the Clickbank sign up form.
On the Clickbank sign up page, you'll fill in your personal details and pick your own personal Clickbank account name (also know as your 'nickname').
Once you have created an account with Clickbank, all you have to do is insert your Clickbank nickname into the following URL and then use that link to direct people to my site:
http://XXXX.nononsense.hop.clickbank.net
Simply replace the XXXX with your Clickbank affiliate nickname. So if your nickname is GetBuff, this is what your link would look like:
http://getbuff.nononsense.hop.clickbank.net
You may also visit my link generator to have your link generated for you or to generate a hop link that will direct traffic to other landing pages found on our site.
Click here To Visit My Link Generator
Make sure you create this link correctly or else you will not receive credit for your sales!
What If Someone Refunds The Product?
If someone requests a refund after their purchase then you will not get commission on that sale. Don't worry; the refund rate is extremely low so this rarely happens.
What Are
The Best Methods For Promoting The Product?
Create a Website That SELLS + LOTS of Qualified Traffic + Build a List to Form a Relationship With Your Visitors
Unless you are an expert Facebook marketer or Google Adwords marketer or a publisher of your own product with a large list then you need to build yourself a website that converts before anything else and focus on building a list. Don’t worry about traffic until you do this.
- Create your own targeted muscle building site or blog. Be very specific to your audience. You might want to target females only, males over 40, male teenagers or advanced trainees. This will make your marketing efforts easier.
- Make sure you have your own Domain name redirected through your hop link.
- Include an honest program review on your blog or website and include some other products you compare mine to.
- Include transformation pictures of your own journey and tell your story.
- Post your workouts and training progress.
- Have a link to my articles and comment on them regularly.
- Have a link to my video coaching lessons and comment on it.
- Give away from Insane Muscle Gain E-Report.
- Include a About Us and Contact Us link.
- Focus on creating your own ORIGINAL CONTENT.
- Include an opt in form to build a list of followers.
- Engage and ENTERTAIN your visitors. Give them a reason to remember you when they land on your site.
- Use my e-book covers, banners, graphics and images where appropriate.
- Post Success Stories and Expert Reviews for social proof within your copy.
- All of your content should be BENEFIT oriented and geared towards your VISITOR. Delete anything that is not written or geared towards the visitor.
Next…… Focus on TRAFFIC using Google Adwords, Article Marketing, You Tube, Blogging and Joint Ventures
Do I Still Earn Commission If They Opt Into Your Newsletter Course?
As long as your affiliate link was the LAST affiliate link they clicked on before ordering. I use NAKED links which means all of the links in my newsletter are NOT with an affiliate link.
Sounds like common sense but there are sneaky and evil publishers who use affiliate links in their marketing to cancel out their affiliates ID and steal the commission. This is HORRIBLE and if you subscribe to my newsletter or follow any of my article, video or blog marketing you'll discover I hold to my word 100% of the time.
So if a prospect goes to my site via your affiliate link and opt into my newsletter course and orders after reading one of my newsletters, which always happens, you WILL get that commission.
Why Does Clickbank Award The Last Affiliate Link With The Commission And Not The First?
I spoke to the CEO of Clickbank on this issue at a live event and the first words he said were, “We had to pick one of the two options and this is the one we went with.”
It does not make complete sense to me but that's the way it is so accept you'll win some and lose some. You're probably “stealing” others commissions just as much as they are “stealing” yours but don't look at it as “stealing”.
If you were to go shopping for a shirt and didn't buy the shirt you like until the fifth store you went into, does that first store deserve to get a piece of the commission? Did that fifth store steal the sale? I personally don't think so. The last site was the one that finally convinced them to buy so they get the full reward.
I understand this is not a black and white issue but don't let this hold you back from making your first sale because you could be missing out on a boatload of commissions while you twinkle your thumbs.
Don't let this hold you back, it's fair game for everyone and is really not something you need to worry about.
How Much Extra Can I Earn With Backend Commissions?
As of Saturday August 29th, 2009 No-Nonsense Muscle Building has included 1-Click Upsell technology which allows additional products to be sold to a customer during the purchase flow. 1-Click Upsell gives us the power to further monetize a single Hop as affiliates earn commissions on the upsell purchases.
Note: This 1-Click Upsell feature is only provided to qualified vendors, (Yes, that's me :) ) who have met extensive Clickbank standards and requirements. Less than 1% of Clickbank products even have access to this software which is boosting conversions like crazy and allows you to spend more on your marketing.
However, the additional revenue will NOT show up in the average payouts on the Clickbank Marketplace because not everyone has access to this software so my ranking would get an advantage over other publishers which is not fair. It IS live and it IS working so muscle up your campaigns starting today.
You will now earn an additional $5.40 OR $11.76 and $16.77 OR $21.23! There are 2 different offers and each one has a downsell. Everyone sees both offers through the flow.
So you can earn up to an additional $11.76 + $21.23 = $32.99 PER HOP!
Let's look at the net opportunity for you: $87.35 ($127 upgrade) + $32.99 (both one-time-offers) = $120.34 total !
I pay out the fattest commission on the Health & Fitness Marketplace by a long shot!
Let me reassure you that the additional products offered are excellent compliments to their current purchase so have no fear in upsetting your prospects like a pesky sales man who is overly aggressive.
Since this is brand new I don't have conversion numbers but they will be released soon via this newsletter.
If you see multiple commissions from the same customer then they took one of the brand new back end offers so congratulations and enjoy the additional commissions for the same amount of work!
Is it okay if use pieces of your sales copy for my landing page?
Is there a marketer teaching this because I got about two dozen emails on this question in one week, out of nowhere!
I personally don't recommend it but you do have my permission if you wish. Here's why I do NOT recommend it. How would you like going into a car dealership to buy a car and after the sales man gives you a great pitch you were fully convinced you wanted to buy the car. You were completely sold and ready to take out your credit card….
…but wait. Right before you were about to hand over your credit card the sales man starts rambling again about how great the car is, how the engine runs, the beautiful rims, brand new stereo system blah blah blah! Chances are you would be so annoyed with the car sales man re-selling you AFTER you are already sold! I wouldn't be surprised if you changed your mind on the spot and walked out. You were going to give the salesman your business but he pissed you off at the last second and lost your business.
I see this happen all the time with affiliate marketers. They create landing pages that try to sell my product and that is NOT your job. That's my websites job. It's already a highly converting, professionally direct-response marketing letter.
By using my sales copy on your landing page you are DOUBLE SELLING and probably hurting your conversions. Your landing page should be like a greased slide that includes a compelling headline, high quality article or video content and call to action. Here are the key elements within the landing page:
1. Provides tips and tricks but not the complete solution.
2. Peaks more curiosity.
3. Builds trust and rapport
4. Establishes credibility.
5. Provides a call to action for more information i.e my website via your affiliate link
Is it okay to use your images on my landing page?
Yeah, that's completely cool and I totally recommend bringing your landing pages to life with powerful images that represent the topic you're speaking on. However, if you're promoting drug free bodybuilding don't put images of juiced up bodybuilders because it will distort your message.
Pictures of food, me, product covers, exercise demos, celebrities, attractive men (i.e. me :) ), women (especially) and pictures that represent what the customer wants are best. For example, a picture of a dude with two hot women hanging onto his arms would be a powerful image.
How Much Do Your Top Affiliates Make?
It really DEPENDS…
It depends on the source of traffic primarily.
For example, one of my top affiliate does a few sales a day but has his own You Tube channel with a few hundred thousand of subscribers and a great relationship so between those three factors, his conversions are higher. PPC affiliates do anywhere from 1 to 5 sales a day depending on the landing pages they have made and how optimized their ads are.
My biggest affiliates are site owners who promote my stuff with emails, the warmest source of traffic, which converts higher since they have a relationship and their readers trust them. Email traffic can convert anywhere from 5-13% on hop links!
It all depends on the VOLUME and QUALITY of traffic and as long as you focus on optimizing one source of traffic at a time.
For example, you may want to focus JUST on "body part" keywords and create landing pages around the arms, legs, chest, abs etc until you hit your goal. It's best to focus on one source, make it work, then move onto another source of traffic.
Most affiliates fail because of broken focus and not finishing what they started.
How much should I anticipate on spending on PPC if I choose that type of promotion?
Start off with what you're comfortable with and scale up your budget as long as you're profiting. Even if you're breaking even I would continue sending traffic because you're acquiring intelligence on what does and does not work which is priceless.
The more you can spend at the start the faster you're get results and be able to optimize your campaigns. I personally like to spend $500-$1000 on the first day to a new campaign so I can get quick info and optimize it without delay.
This is your decision but if you're profiting then I recommend you keep spending more. Even if you were spending $10,000 a day but making $1000, why would you stop? The more you spend, the more you make as long as you're profiting.
This requires some courage but all the big-time marketers play like this. You'll never hit the big times spending $5 a day but if this is where you need to start, don't worry. Just focus on growing.
How do you track my commissions for Adwords?
Email two things to this address techsupport [at] vincedelmontefitness.com:
- Your affiliate ID
- Your Google conversion script you can find in your Adwords account
Can I give you my Google Conversion Script?
Yes, email it to techsupport[at]vincedelmontefitness.com along with your affiliate ID.
Can I use videos to promote your products?
If you are seeking videos for your blog and or affiliate transactions, please feel free to check out the Vince DelMonte Video Channel on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/user/vincedelmonte?blend=1
You will find many videos with embed scripts on that page where you may embed or link/call any of these free videos on your own site.
We do not offer codes to videos that are for retail sale on the sites as those are for purchase.
You may also see some custom 3D graphics that were created to promote some Youtube videos here: http://www.vincedelmontefitness.com/affiliates/video_coaching.php
Why am I not making Sales?!
Thanks for choosing my program to promote. There are a few things I can think of…
1. You have not sent enough traffic yet. Every source of traffic converts differently. For example, an authority site with lots of free content and then a review of my program will get 1 sale ever 100-200 sales. Cold traffic i.e. ppc with direct linking might convert 1 sale every 500-1000 clicks.
2. Are you direct linking or sending to a landing page? Landing pages always convert higher.
Go here for some examples:
http://www.vincedelmontefitness.com/affiliates/link_generator.php
3. Have you read the complete adwords guide for my product?
http://www.vincedelmontefitness.com/affiliates/adword_guide.php
At this link you can also download 6,000 keywords.
I strongly recommend that you follow this closely. Your best bet in being successful is to create an Authority Site for muscle building and gaining weight specifically for skinny guys. This will create long term SEO advantages. Read the guide and let me know if you get stuck. You'll find out how to optimize your campaigns etc
Hope that all helps. Be patient. PPC takes some time to figure out but it's worth it if you make it work.
Do you offer Video Embedding/branding per affiliate?
I don't have the software to actually brand your affiliate link INTO the video.
If people are finding my videos on YOUR site then they would have traveled to your site via YOUR affiliate link so the cookie will be tracked and credited to you as long as the prospect does not click on someone elses affiliate link before they purchase.
You may also see some custom 3D graphics that were created to promote some Youtube videos here: http://www.vincedelmontefitness.com/affiliates/video_coaching.php
How do I promote with your articles? (article marketing)
I would recommend to take my articles and rewrite them as unique content and to receive SEO advantage.
Google is getting smarter and can tell if you change just a few lines so slightly rewriting articles will not help you much.
Feel free to use my article content and blog content for ideas and rewrite the titles and majority of content. I don't mind. Use my bio but replace my website address with your URL that should be masked with your affiliate ID. Hope that helps and thanks for the support.
How do I promote a landing page WITH NO popups?
If you visit our link generator, there you may find a home page to promote with NO popups.
http://www.vincedelmontefitness.com/affiliates/link_generator.php
How do I use your youtube channel?
It's quite simple but does needs to work in conjunction to a few other elements:
1. Videos are best used on article pages, authority sites, review pages or your blog. On any of these pages you should have links cloaked with your affiliate link redirecting them to my site.
So the key is to create a really quality content site that keeps the visitor interested in what you have on your site so they come back, read more and eventually click on your link to get to my site.
2. Very few people know to double click the play button which takes you to You Tube's site so most people will watch the video on your page and then see a link to click under the video for more info.
3. Just make sure you're creating quality pages with links to my page and that will maximize the chance of getting the click and eventually commission.
You may also see some custom 3D graphics that were created to promote some Youtube videos here: http://www.vincedelmontefitness.com/affiliates/video_coaching.php
What's the Best Traffic Resource (how do I get more traffic to my site)?
One of the best resources on getting more traffic to your site is my friends traffic product: http://tinyurl.com/akrcl8
It's for small business owners and not free but will give you loads of ways to start pushing more traffic and making a business from your site.
It's from Mike Geary… a good friend of mine and top Clickbank author who does 3-4 million a year from 1 ebook and the strategies here.
Where are your Spanish and German Sites and Affiliate Resources?
Here are the locations for Spanish and German Affiliate Resources:
Spanish: http://www.culturismosintonterias.com/afiliados/herramientas_de_marketing.php
German: http://www.vincedelmontefitness.de/ (affiliate resources is bottom of site footer)
When do I get commission if they take a trail offer?
You get initial 75% commission on the $19.95 trial immediately when they take it. Then you get the additional 75% commission on the rest of the package they purchased if they do not cancel before 21 days.
It happens automatically and you'll see commission in your account on the 21st day.
If they cancel before the 21 days then you'll lose the initial commission you got on the $19.95. Eighty percent of people stay on board with the trial though!
What If
I Still Have A Question?
Easy. Just contact our help desk! Remember, I only profit if YOU profit so I am hear to help
you. If you need more help beyond the scope of email,
I will even get on the phone with you to assist your marketing efforts.
So if you have questions or concerns, contact Vince DelMonte's Help Desk and I will respond within 24-48 hours.