For much of this year, there have been huge numbers of spam emails relating to a Flight Simulator game and to Wood Working plans.
These message seem crazy as they are so frequent and sent to the same people and surely if someone wants to buy a Flight Simulator package they will have done so and why would anyone in their right mind buy thousands of wood working plans, supposedly to instantly start a carpentry business.
But these two products are very very popular on Clickbank.
Clickbank is a marketplace for people selling products online (mostly digital products) and people wanting to make money by helping to sell those products as affiliates of the seller. These people earn commission for each product sold.
Typically an affiliate will use a website (their own or other people’s) and send out emails to attract people to a website that sells the product (sometimes called a sales landing page).
This marketplace works well for a lot of people but sometimes very high commission is offered on stupid products and the world fills up with spam.
e.g. Ted’s Wood Working Product offers 75% commission to affiliates getting people to visit Teds sales page and buy the product.
The original sales pitch is for thousands of wood working plans for $69 but then there’s an upsell and more sells and the average purchaser ends up paying over $125 in total.
Ted’s Wood working claims to be number one 1 in Clickbank’s home and garden category for 5 years running, so people flock to try to sell the stuff and the world is full of stupid emails claiming you can make huge money making wooden objects within days of reading the plans.
e.g. 2. Virtual Pilot 3D Flight Simulator offers 70% commission on sales and claims sellers make an average of $88 per sale including upsells and more sells. They claim to convert page views to sales at the rate of 8% so eight in every hundred people visiting the sales page go on to buy the product.
Again, people flock to sell this product and the world is full of stupid emails claiming this software can make you a real pilot or is good as actually visiting the places depicted etc. Idiots use any line to try to get people to the sales page.
Oh to rid the world of spam!
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