DATAFEED-DRIVEN SERVICES: Storefront

CBmall
Silver Package, $47, Gold Package, $97. Beginner.
Packages…Gold package includes full CBmall package, personal marketing assistance, 60 days bonus traffic. Silver package includes full CBmall package only. 60-day money-back guarantee. The CBmall package includes: QuickStart Guide to CBmall Profits eBook, Super Affiliate Strategies, Gary Shawkey's Secrets, How to Write Great Headlines, Armand Morin's PopUp Generator, Super Affiliate Marketing Exposed, Personalized Autoresponder Newsletter, Terry Dean's CBmall Marketing Tips.

Here's how CBmall works. The CBmall storefront features ranked lists of the top-ranked 2000 or so ClickBank products. When you buy in, you get a storefront on the CBmall site, which you can direct traffic to via any promotional method you choose, including linking to from other websites you may own. This will likely require spending a little money, time or both.

Once you've signed up for a ClickBank account, your ClickBank affiliate hoplink is auto-inserted into your CBmall storefront, which means you earn commissions from mall merchants on every sale resulting from a click-through on your storefront, including reselling CBmalls themselves. No need to sign up as an affiliate with each merchant individually.

Then there's the CBmall ClickBank Search Engine. This device — which has your hoplink embedded — can easily be plugged into any website so that users can search the full ClickBank 17,000+ product catalog. It actually does a better job of searching the ClickBank Marketplace than the ClickBank search engine does. Each search query leads users to results on your CBmall storefront. Here's a demonstration…

Search the ClickBank Marketplace:

Search the ClickBank Marketplace:

Popular Search Terms:
Health & Fitness   Entrepreneur   Advertising

Your ClickBank hoplink is also automatically embedded in the CBmall e-newsletters which are distributed weekly to subscribers who sign up through your storefront. Unless you build a list through a separate sign-up form on your own website, these subscribers are actually subscribing with CBmall, not you. You're building CBmall's list. This part we're not crazy about. While CBmall is handling the newsletter distribution and list maintenance for you, and you receive commissions on any sales resulting from those distributions, you don't have direct access to subscribers who signed up through your storefront.

CBmall claims that the CBmall branding on your storefront is a big plus. Maybe. If thousands and thousands of CBmalls should spring up across the internet, would the impact be positive or negative? If the CBmall brand is a plus, then does your degree of success hinge on the strength of the CBmall brand, which — it should be pointed out — you're actually helping to build through your promotional own efforts? Perhaps brand is not particularly crucial one way or the other for a storefront that's not really a storefront, but rather more of a searchable directory that doesn't directly ask people to hand over money.

You could argue that CBmall is the big winner: Every new CBmall bolsters their brand, which helps them sell more CBMall franchises. But that doesn't mean that you can't make money with CBmall. You can. And it is easy. Plug in and promote. CBmall is an opportunity to get your affiliate feet wet in one splash…voila: instant storefront.

The beauty of CBmall is that you can theoretically earn commissions coming and going through merchant commissions in your CBmall storefront, and/or through the CBmall search engine. The ugly of CBmall is, well…the storefront itself. She's not a particularly pretty girl, and it's possible that she could turn off a few suitors. Personally, we'd like to see her get a little facelift. She seems to be trying to look like her sister, ClickBank, and that old girl could use a little facelift herself. That reflex blue link look is as old as the Web itself and wore out its welcome years ago. Does any of this matter to most people? Perhaps not.

We do recommend CBmall because of its autopilot nature and theoretically limitless earning capacity. The bonus eBooks in the package shouldn't carry much weight in your decision to buy a CBmall storefront. They're freely available all over the internet, so we won't cover them here.

Consider the $47 Silver package if you already have some affiliate marketing and Web promotion experience; you should be able to turn silver into gold. If you're a newbie, look into the $97 Gold package. E-mail owner Jeff Mulligan with questions about the 60 days bonus traffic. He has a reputation for being responsive. Learn more about the CBmall program...