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Ever heard of Clickbank? Ring the bell?  I bet you have…

Clickbank by now is the largest affiliate network for information products such as ebooks, software, or any e-packages on the net…

Anyone who get their hands on affiliate marketing must be already have a Clickbank account. For some of you who eventually heard of Clickbank or affiliate marketing for the first time, Affiliate marketing is a great concept which allow you to sell other people’s product (OPP) and get some percentage of the the sales as commissions. In IM world where most of the products are infoproducts which means can be delivered online, Clickbank is dominating as an affiliate network and marketplace….

This phenomena was still true for me….until PayDotCom showing it’s teeth….

Some of you might not ever heard of PayDotCom yet, even if you’ve been a while with Clickbank. I think that’s because there’re still not so many publishers know about PayDotCom compared to Clickbank, and therefore, the products listed there and the affiliates that promoting them are not so many either compared to Clickbank…

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So what is PayDotCom, and how is it different from clickbank by far?

PayDotCom is a relatively new in affiliate network world. It is part of Mike Filsaime’s (Butterfly Marketing) business empire which offered the members the same opportunity to be an affiliate or a publisher of the listed infoproducts. As an publisher, you may create your own products and submit them to the marketplace which will then be promoted by other members throughout the net. From the same account, you may act as an affiliate at the same time as well, and can promote other member’s product at the marketplace.

But in my opinion there are some differences and advantages at PayDotCom compared to Clickbank as well as stated at the website:

01. The membership fee is FREE either as an affiliate or publisher (the backend control panel are the same)

02. Differ from Clickbank, your sales page need not be first approved in order for you to start promoting your products

03. Your products will not become the merchant’s property if you listed them in the marketplace.

04. You can Create your product on the fly

05. You can Create an instant order buttons

06. You can even ship physical products

07. Pays through PayPal instantly

08. You must not offer refund guarantee

09. Allow you as a publisher to manage your own affiliates and tracking them

10. Fees per transaction is lower

11. Has a great affiliate tools to promote the products instead of plain Affiliate URL

12. Has a ‘widget’ which contain affiliate links that can be embedded into your website as shown at the right panel of this blog

13. etc

So, By overall, there’re a lot different features at PayDotCom which in my opinion are some great benefits offered to the affiliates for free, such as paying through PayPal, integrated cart and backend account that allow us to be an affiliate and publisher at the same time, doesn’t have so many restrictions, great promotion tools, and many more compared to Clickbank…

Well, what do you think? Some of you must be a veteran affiliates that had already get along with Clickbank so far… do you know about PayDotCom already? or maybe have some other arguments between two? If so, please post your comments (will be moderated to avoid spams)….