Clickbank, as a retailer of digital products that cost nothing to create or deliver, is one of the best places to create streaming passive income that you can use to create a successful and profitable home business. When you sell a digital product, you are generating pure profit, as there are no employees to pay off or overhead costs.

This makes Clickbank one of the best tools that you can utilize to, at the very least, create streams of income that you can use to grow your business in other ways.

You can make money in Clickbank in two very distinct ways – you can become a registered affiliate and sell digital products created by other people, or you can become a seller yourself and create your own digital product that others will sell for you.

Becoming an affiliate is the most common form of making money with Clickbank. To make money as an affiliate, there are several things to consider. First, Clickbank accepts almost any product, regardless of how terrible the product may be or how poorly its sales page is designed. You need to check out the gravity of the product to make sure it sells as well as the sales page that will get conversions.

You also need to choose a product that is in a niche that you enjoy so that you can market it well, and you need to make sure that the market is not too competitive. Trying to sell eBooks about how to make money online or dog training are very difficult niches to break into because thousands of individuals that have spent years working on their affiliate sites have a leg up on you. But newer niches or more specific niches are less competitive and still available for the taking.

Create a website or blog for the product(s) or niche and use article marketing, PPC, and video marketing to catapult your online business to success, all without ever creating an actual, unique product.

You can also make money on Clickbank as a seller. As a seller, you can create your own product (for example, a step by step guide on how to train kittens), and put it in the Clickbank marketplace. You need to create a website for your product with a captivating sales page – and that’s it. You can then allow affiliates to take the lead with your product and, although they will receive over 50% of your income, do absolutely no work and continue to receive steady checks in the mail.

In many ways creating your own product is more profitable, but it is also infinitely more time consuming to start and runs the risk of not being picked up by affiliates in favor of a better product. Still, if you pick a good niche you can also market your own product as though you were an affiliate and receive 100% of the profits for your hard work.

Those are the two ways to make money with Clickbank. Becoming an affiliate is significantly more versatile, as you can sell products on topics you are not an expert in and immediately switch products if you find that the niche you chose is not as profitable as you originally thought. Becoming a seller takes a lot of work up front, but can be very profitable provided you create a truly useful product.

Both methods can be extremely profitable. And luckily for you, you can always do both.