If you are just starting out in Affiliate Marketing or a Seasoned Professional you cannot fail to have noticed Clickbank’s #1 Product is Commission Blueprint.
What everyone wants to know is what is all hype about?, who is behind this product? and is it worth the money. Let me try and answer these questions.
1) Don’t be fooled by the hype and the inflated Gravity. When Commission Blueprint was launched it instantly had over 500 gravity and that climbed to 800+ at it’s peak. It is widely considered that over 50% of that gravity was down to affiliates purchasing with their own links 
and that causes most of the “Make Money Online” products to have a higher than normal gravity score. The amount of people writing reviews is testament to this.
2) The creators of Commission Blueprint are the “dynamic duo” Steve Clayton and Tim Godfrey. Who? Both are very successful and experienced marketing people, Steve has personally made over $500,000 from Clickbank sales and this is outside of the Internet Marketing Niche. He has been working in Information Systems for over 20 years, including CIO of a major company. Tim Godfrey was the creator of Profit Praxis, a very successful product in it’s own right (check out the 27 August 2008 sales of $74,500 – in a day!). The combination of these two “gurus” was sure to be a hit and it has taken the AM world by storm.
3) Commission Blueprint’s format is predominantly video based tutorials, pdf reports and special “secret affiliate” tools. Some of the videos are quite long at 20+ minutes, and annoyingly refer to other videos in the series (not easy to view two videos at once, like you can with books or pdfs) but it’s useful stuff and you can either download and watch again or just login and view on the site. There are some great templates on offer, 2 opt-in templates, one review, and one pre-sell. And I believe these are being added to all the time.
The Video Tutorial Course is great and has some interesting bid management and bidding strategy’s, that I have never seen or heard of before. As with most products in this niche they cover the basics and add their “secrets” so some of the more experienced guys will find it a bit boring, whilst newbies will be hard pushed to find a better introduction to this exciting world. Just as a quick note, these guys are spending big on Adwords, so unless you have a $xxx per day budget, don’t expect to make $500K in a year, but it is all scalable. I would be very happy with $50K extra income each year!
Overall, the concept and approach is unique and the product is worth the price.
JZ
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James! – great site, I found it because I’ve been watching Steve’s videos for 3 months now and reading Tim’s pdf’s. I googled “cloaking hop” and found you as “#1″ and now have even more reading to see if I should stick it out or jump ship. Commission Blueprint probably has the best bag for the buck and hopefully now after finding your site I can convert the CTR to some ROI. Thx, RC
RC – Thanks for your comments, interesting to know what I am ranking #1 for!
It has been hard going the last few weeks as the economic downturn has affected many niches. If I was starting out now I would probably think it is too much like hard work, but I have seen the good times, averaging $100/day in August was great so don’t give up.
My top tip would be to focus on one project/niche at a time and not try an juggle all the balls at the same time.
Commission Blueprint or Dominating Clickbank would be my tip for anyone starting out.
James
An update on this post, Commission Blueprint has dropped out of the top 5 on Clickbank which just shows the Gravity was inflated at launch. It is still going to remain high as affiliates will continue to send hops.
The No 1 spot has been taken by MSN Loophole >>>, another big launch another over inflated Gravity!
JZ