The majority of us thinks that Clickbank is a service dedicated entirely to just digital products, but they also supply physical products as well, which is supplements. A digital product is an intagible item, that people can buy lots of times as it has no physical form and it is quite easy to sell. Examples of these could be an e-book about earning money online to building a website to a guidebook on how to get free traffic and visitors to your sites. Which means Clickbank is all about the products.
Rule of Clickbank
One of ClickBank's rules for merchants is to deliver their product or services within 24 hours of payment and preferably by download of a file. The method of delivery could vary because you could get it by email or by going to the merchants website, directly, to download their product. Clickbank doesn’t get into the details as long as the customer gets their product within the twenty four hour time frame.
While the variety of products that can be sold through Clickbank marketplace is unlimited, Clickbank doesn't have any guidelines for selling services using their terrific marketplace tools. The 24 hour rule which is entirely reasonable for any digital product, it is problematic if the business is a service you provide, even if the outcome is a product. This means that the service could take longer than 24 hours, as the merchant can't give a direct time frame because of the variables it would take to complete an order. Some services are continuous with periodic payments either based on milestones or on deliverables, meaning if the product is a software package that requires monthly payments to use. For which the 24 hour time frame cannot be incorporated in selling services.
Many merchants have found ways to take advantage of the excellent marketplace infrastructure and their merchant account services in Clickbank to do business with clients that work within the 24 hour product delivery restriction. A customer can contact a merchant using ClickBank's communication resources to make arrangements for the creation of a series of articles, done by ghost writers. But the finalised "product" would not be created within the Clickbank merchandising system until the product is proof read and ready for delivery. Then the client buys the product which is an outcome of the service and then use Clickbank's systems to work with the ghostwriter.
Services
Whether you organise your service to be published through Clickbank in advance or after you complete the service, the outcome is the price to choose before logging the project into Clickbank. This is great for the business relationship between seller and buyer, which also makes you trustworthy with Clickbank as well. It will take some work to convert your hourly billed service into a fixed price product. So working by the hour to produce detailed documents for a project, you can set the fixed price when the project is near the end and you set up the payment plan as a Clickbank digital service.
Keep in mind that Clickbank expects to see the delivery made, with proof. Your service may have consisted of a series of 10 phone calls where you offer expert advice and solutions in your field of expertise. So to create a deliverable, keep your notes per session and prepare a summary at the end to capture the results of your sessions as well as your conclusions and you can "sell" that to your client for the price of the total consulting charges for the 10 sessions.
Conclusion
It really just takes some creativity and skill to not just think outside the box to work within the Clickbank box to offer your services as a digital product.
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