Affiliates

In order to promote Up Your Bench, you must first become a Clickbank affiliate.

If you’re not yet signed up at clickbank, then setting up your clickbank account is the very first step.

Simply click on the link at the bottom of this page that says, “Clickbank Sign up”; and a new window will open up that takes you to the clickbank.com signup form.

On the clickbank sign up page, you can fill in your personal details and pick your own special clickbank account name (also called a clickbank “nickname”).

After you’ve set up your clickbank account, then you’re ready to start promoting the e-book through your special affiliate hoplinks. When someone purchases after coming through your link, you receive 75% commission on each sale.

clickbank sign up page

Marketing Up Your Bench is simple. All you do is put special links on your webpages or in your newsletters to send traffic to the upyourbench.com website.

These links are called “CLICKBANK HOPLINKS” and they are important because this is how Clickbank keeps track of the traffic you send to upyourbench.com and gives you credit for the e-book sales you generate.

So the very first step after you have signed up for your clickbank account is to understand how to make a hoplink. Keep in mind, if you make your link incorrectly, that is kind of like putting an ad in the yellow pages and using the wrong phone number! (YOU are responsible to make sure your hoplinks are coded correctly!!!! )

Here is how to correctly make your hoplink:

The current standard clickbank hoplink format is:http://xxxxxxx.vendor.hop.clickbank.net

is the vendor (product) name, so that looks like this:

http://xxxxxxx.upbench.hop.clickbank.net

So now, all you have to do is insert YOUR clickbank affiliate nickname in the place where the x’s are located.

For example, if your affiliate nickname is jondoe (note: use YOUR nickname, this is just an example!), then the hoplink would look like this:

http://jondoe.upbench.hop.clickbank.net

That’s all there is to it.

When someone clicks through YOUR hoplink, they are redirected to www.upyourbench.com and a “cookie” (a small tracking file) is dropped onto the computer of the visitor. This “marks” that visitor as coming from your referral.

Clickbank uses 60 day cookies, so that means if the people you send to www.upyourbench.com purchase that day or if they return any time within the next 60 days, you will get the commission for the sale (currently 75% commission rate of net sale)