In order to be successful in internet marketing, somewhere along the line, a sale is made and a payment must be collected. Getting paid once you make a sale is critical to your business.  Obviously if you don’t get paid, you will never make any money.  There are some things you have to consider when trying to implement a pay system. Here they are…

First any pay system you set up to collect money from your customers has to be easy for your customer to use.  You spent all this time and money to get your customer to your site and convince him to buy your product, but all that effort will be for naught if the customer thinks the pay system is too complicated. They will click away and say “the heck with that, I just won’t buy it.” 

The second thing that your pay system has to be is secure and trustworthy.  I use the word trustworthy because your customer has to trust the system you use.  Again, if your money collection system doesn’t make the customer feel secure, if the customer doesn’t trust the pay system, they will click away and your sale is lost.

So there are two things any system you consider needs to have, simplicity and a secure trustworthy environment.  There is a simple solution that can meet your payment demands.

If you are selling an electronically delivered product, an ebook, a video or an audio that is downloaded or sent via email, then you can use Clickbank.  Clickbank is the choice for a very large number of internet marketers.  Some of the biggest and most famous internet marketers to this day still use Clickbank.

Clickbank is extremely easy to use.  You go to the Clickbank site to create a publishers account.  You put in information about your product including what price you will sell your product at, the URL of your sales page and the thank you page URL your customer will return to after they pay Clickbank.

Clickbank then explains how to put in one line of code into your website to direct your customer to their secure site to make a payment.  It is extremely easy to understand the procedure and cut and paste the link.

A bonus feature of using Clickbank is that they run your affiliate program for you.  As part of your product information page you create when you set up your account, you specify how much commission you will pay affiliates.  Anyone who is registered at Clickbank can become an affiliate of yours and sell your product for you.

Clickbank gives your affiliate a special affiliate link that will cause their software to track the sale back to the affiliate.  Once a sale is made and payment collected by Clickbank, the affiliates account is updated with the commission you designated.  Clickbank then pays the affiliate just like they will pay you, twice a month.

Clickbank takes all of the hassle out of having an affiliate program.  You don’t have to do anything, they track and pay.  It is absolutely the easiest way to run an affiliate program.

To provide your customers with an easy to use, secure and trustworthy method of payment, Clickbank is a great solution.  To provide you, the internet marketer with a complete affiliate system, again Clickbank is a great solution.  If you are hesitant to venture into selling a product online because you are overwhelmed with the thought of trying to collect money online, Clickbank is a good way to go.