Many of my clients include Clickbank as part of their online business blueprint. Some choose to sell eBooks exclusively through Clickbank while others choose to sell works that aren’t part of their overall branding and target market. In both cases, they need to create a way to capture the sales that are processed through Clickbank so that they can add the customer’s name to their marketing sales cycle. What we’ve discovered works quite well is to create an intermediate page between the order and the download page that adds these leads to either aWeber or 1ShoppingCart.
The video tutorial below walks you through the steps to integrate your aWeber autoresponder with your Clickbank sales. The same process can be used to capture names in 1ShoppingCart.
How To Integrate aWeber & Clickbank, Part I
How To Integrate aWeber & Clickbank, Part II
I appreciate finding your virtual lessons to integrate aWeber and Clickbank, as I have an eBook that I am ready to publish. Just signed up with both today. But my real fear – if once I list it on clickbank, that I have not secured my self enough to protect all my hard work I have put into this. Any suggestions of what I could use to protect people from stealing this? Are web compilers or ebookgenerators the answer? Or is using pdf files or exe format the answer? I am a point and click kind of guy, but can do some pasting to integrate some simple html if there is no writing involved. Just to let you know where I am as far as techology goes. Thank You for your time, and hipe to hear back from you soon. Or if calling is better , you can call collect at 913-451-8334 from 9 am to 5 pm CDT (located in Kansas). Thank you, Alan Goodheart
Hi Alan!
Thank you for your kind comments I’m glad you found the videos useful. I will contact you about your question but will also post a reply here for the benefit of my readers.
There are two schools of thought on the protection of content. One is to protect content using an ebook generator or other ebook creation software. This would enable the author of the ebook to license their content to be opened and read by only one authorized reader.
The other school of thought is that it’s okay to release ebook content in PDF format with the expectation that a small percentage of readers will share the ebook with others. They usually add a statement at the front of the book to discourage sharing but they also craft their ebook in such a way as to capture these unknown leads.
For example, they might have a limited time offer on one of the pages of the ebook inviting people to opt-in to receive another special report or some irresistible offer. That way, new leads can come into their sales funnel and the hope is that they have received such value out of the information they’ve just read that they will buy another product in the future.
Some of the most respected marketers online release ebooks in PDF format and aren’t really that concerned if people share the information as they’re sure of their ability to capture some of those leads and convert them into sales. In fact, I think many of them secretly hope that their book will be shared virally and reach markets previously unknown to them.
So it’s really just a question of what you feel comfortable with and whether or not you want to go through the learning curve of an ebook compiling technology.
Hope this helps!
~ Deborah 🙂