Although I've sold and bought products on Clickbank, I've never been a fan of it. I find a lot of the items to be overpriced. It's clear people choose prices to attract affiliates -- people who will try to sell anything with almost any tactic -- fake reviews, promoting an item they've never even seen or used -- if they can get a $27 commission. And I know that Clickbank's fees for people listing products are also fairly high, which further leads to inflated prices.
Enter RAPBank! RAP stands for Rapid Action Profits -- because initially RAPBank was designed to handle any product that was sold using the Rapid Action Profits system. So the original RAPBank required a purchase of Rapid Action Profits system before you could list any product on their for others to promote.
Well that just changed. Now anyone can sign up for RAPBank and sell products as an affiliate or list products that they own for others to resell. The ability to list products for others to sell (and split the profits with them) is called List-N-Earn. There is a $10 per product listing fee, but that seems like a pretty modest charge to me.
So what's so great about RAPBank? I haven't explained why I like it. Let me take an example. Let's say I've got an ebook about making money using Craigslist and I charge $10 for it and make only a dozen sales a year. If I list the product on RAPBank, then someone with a popular Make-Money-Online blog, can promote the product. When the first sale is made the money goes into my Paypal account. When the second sale is made, the money goes into the seller's/affiliate's Paypal account -- instantly, at the time of sale. No waiting for that Clickbank check to arrive in the mail or bank.
Prior to RAPBank the only way I had to get affiliates to sell my product, was to sign them up as MY affiliates. But now they can just sign up as being RAPBank affiliates -- and they can choose between over 700 products (and growing VERY rapidly) to promote.
I heard of RAPBank from Bill Ortell, creator of Quick Web Creations. I was one of the very early users of Quick Web Creations and after an email exchange for help, Bill got on the phone and walked me through a task that was giving me trouble. Even more impressive was that when he got done helping me, he was genuinely interested in finding out if I found the product useful. If there was something that I hoped it would do that it didn't.
So I'm rambling... let me be more succinct -- here is what is great about RAPBank.
- If you are an affiliate and make a sale, you get your commission immediately (at time of sale) into your Paypal account
- If you are a product owner and only have one or two products, you can get affiliates to promote them by listing them in RAPBank. You don't have to try and talk someone into becoming an affiliate of yours.
- Low fees to list a product means more reasonably priced products to promote
- Fantastic customer service
If that's enough for you, then check out RAPBank now!!
Thanks for your post, and gracious words!
We're pretty jazzed about RAP Bank's List-N-Earn module as well! And, so far... innumerable members, like yourself, have also told us so... thru emails, skypes, and posts!
Great post and explanation!
Posted by: Bill Ortell | June 16, 2010 at 09:20 AM
I agree, clickbank is overpricing, it's best stil to go for RAPbank.
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Thanks for the information. I haven't really had time to check it out. I signed up for Rapbank, but I have been too busy to check it out. Seems easy enough, so I think I better give it some of my time. Thanks for the explanation. I'm looking forward to see your results from Internet Marketing Gone Wild. I will be checking out how it goes for you.
Posted by: Susan | May 02, 2011 at 03:21 PM
Thanks for your article. Now I have reason to sign up to RAPbank.
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