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Clickbank Publisher Hacks, Part 3: Connect with your affiliates
So far in this series we’ve created a way to redirect prospects sent by affiliates to oodles of different product sales pages from one clickbank account, and created custom affiliate URLs to ensure that affiliates are linking to your site, not Clickbank’s, for their affiliate links.
Today I want to solve on other problem I have with Clickbank.
When you run an affiliate program through Clickbank, you do not know who your affiliates are. All you know is their Clickbank ID.
I don’t really need to know their mailing address or the name of their pet canary, but it would be nice to have their name, email address and Clickbank ID.
It would be nice to be able to email affiliates about any special offers they could promote to their list.
It would be awesome to be able to send out an email to all my affiliates when I’ve got a new product.
Having a ready made list of people who might promote a new product is much more advantageous than starting from 0 affiliates with each product and hoping that a few folks will find it in the Clickbank marketplace.
And should I ever want to abandon Clickbank and move to a different affiliate management service, I would definitely want to tell all my affiliates about the new setup.
So, I need, at least in some minor way, to have my own affiliate list.
I decided that the most effective way to do this is with a combination of a bit of custom PHP and Aweber.
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