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Welcome to ClickBank
This email confirms you have signed up for an account with ClickBank. Thank you! ClickBank provides digital content — e-books, software, memberships and subscriptions — to consumers around the world through a network of product publishers and affiliate Internet marketers. ClickBank publishers have a digital product or service to sell. ClickBank affiliates are Internet marketers who earn commissions by promoting ClickBank products. A single ClickBank account is designed to be used by both publishers and affiliates.

To illustrate, here is an example of how ClickBank works:


An author writes an e-book on dieting and chooses to become a publisher on the ClickBank network. He features the book on his web site and offers a 60 percent commission to ClickBank affiliates who successfully promote the book (resulting in a sale) to end consumers.
An affiliate sees the publisher's e-book in the ClickBank Marketplace and decides to feature the dieting e-book on his web site or in other online promotions.
Each time a visitor to the affiliate's web site or advertisement clicks on the product link, the visitor is referred to the publisher's site where the product can be purchased though ClickBank and downloaded. ClickBank handles the tracking and transaction (screens for fraud and processes the payment, etc.), and if the transaction is successful, pays both the publisher and the referring affiliate.
ClickBank also processes any sales from the publisher's web site that are not referred through a ClickBank affiliate. In those cases, ClickBank pays the publisher only, as no referring commission has been earned.