Mention Clickbank and every internet marketers and money makers
would normally smile since it is to most people their most treasured
gold mine! Yes, they made a lot of money through Clickbank. After
all, Clickbank is the largest digital marketplace for digital
products in the online world. Most of the digital products are
actually eBooks but I do notice that the current trends led by
successful Clickbank publishers are more towards producing video
products. It doesn’t really matter as long as both Clickbank
publishers and their affiliates can make some decent money. Tonnes
of it would be better, eh?
To be an affiliate on Clickbank is chicken feed. Registration is
fast and you can quickly join the rest of the 100,000 registered
affiliates in no time. Unfortunately, many could not do so due to
certain Clickbank’s strict (Loose actually! Read further and you
would know why!) policies. Due to past histories of mega spamming
and credit frauds by super smart idiots, residents of certain
countries are banned from joining Clickbank as both publishers and
affiliates. One country that I can provide as an example is
Malaysia. How embarrassing, isn’t it? My very own country!
Even though Malaysians have been banned from joining Clickbank,
some resourceful and sneaky Malaysians have found a few solutions
that could go around this apparent problem. Their workarounds by far
have mixed results but let me share with you what Malaysians have
been using to fool Clickbank:
Using paid package and mail forwarding services
- This is the most popular solution used by most Malaysians.
- Malaysians would normally chose paid package and mail
forwarding services that are run by companies established in
Clickbank-friendly (not in their ban list) countries such as US,
UK and Singapore. Almost all of this package and mail forwarding
service providers would give customers physical addresses in
their operating countries. So if you are subscribing a package
and mail forwarding service in Singapore, the company would give
you a physical Singapore address. Simple as that!
- Once registered as customers, Malaysians would then join up
Clickbank and register their physical addresses provided by
their package and mail forwarding service providers. Ingenious!
- The most popular package and mail forwarding service
provider for many Malaysians at the moment is the one provided
by US2Me Dot Com, operated and established in US. US2Me Dot Com
would normally provide customers street addresses somewhere in
Texas! They have a number of membership plans but it is their
Bronze membership plan that most Malaysians are gunning for. The
Bronze membership plan starts with a one time setup fee of
US$23.00. There are no monthly fees to worry about but everyone
must take note that the setup fee as mentioned earlier does not
include shipping costs for your packages and mails.
- Fat checks from Clickbank would arrive at the office of your
paid package and mail forwarding service provider and they would
later forward them to your local address. Simple but a darn
brilliant way to go around Clickbank!
Using paid virtual office services
- This option is gaining popularity among Malaysians
especially among Malaysian Chinese.
- Frankly speaking, it is no different than the one mentioned
earlier since they are more or less the same. The difference is
only in the name. While paid package and mail forwarding service
sound like a personal service, paid virtual office service have
that big businesslike ring to it.
- You basically get all the stuffs as mentioned in the paid
package and mail forwarding services. Physical address in
Clickbank-friendly countries and package plus mail forwarding as
well. The best thing is that most virtual office service
providers would also gives you free web hosting, virtual fax and
phone numbers manned by virtual receptionists! Great!
- Many Malaysians that opted for this workaround or solution
to take care of their Clickbank money making dreams chose
Singapore as their favorite virtual office haunting ground. It
figures since Singapore is the closest Clickbank-friendly
country for Malaysia.
- Singapore virtual office service providers normally charge
service fees ranging somewhere between US$200-300 per annum.
Some requires some sort of deposits for their free courier or
mail forwarding services while others do not but would charge
each shipment separately.
- Like I have said earlier, this option is gaining popularity
among Malaysians because some Singaporean virtual office
providers are giving guarantees that their services can solve
not only problems with regards to Clickbank but also PayPal!
Malaysians all this while cannot make money on their money
making dream machine Clickbank because of direct banning.
Malaysians with PayPal accounts also could not directly withdraw
funds straight into their local Malaysian bank accounts due to
PayPal’s strict requirement that Malaysians could only withdraw
funds to actual US bank accounts. These two magical baits hooked
Malaysians for good! No folks, this is not a scam. Singaporean
virtual office service providers can indeed help you in you
PayPal dilemma. Upon signing up as their customers, they would
later provide you with a recommendation letter that you can
furnish to DBS, Singapore’s largest bank and that would help you
in opening up your very own genuine new Singaporean bank
account. Take note that PayPal grant Singaporeans the privilege
to withdraw funds straight into their local Singaporean bank
accounts. Malaysians who opted for Singaporean’s virtual office
services actually kill two birds with one stone. They solved
both their Clickbank and
PayPal problems just by providing Clickbank and PayPal their
paid Singaporean physical addresses! Smart, aren’t they?
Please bear in mind that both of this solutions or workarounds
have mixed results. Some Malaysians using either one of this
solutions or workarounds have in fact got into some sort of
trouble with either Clickbank or PayPal. Their accounts were
either terminated or frozen. The weird thing is that it did not
happen to everybody. So far Malaysians have more or less draw
the conclusion that those running into tight problems with
either Clickbank or PayPal could have been flagged because of
their dirty trade tactics such as resorting to spamming and so
forth.
I would be monitoring this issue very closely and those
interested in following up with any new developments can do so
by taking a peek or two on my
Home Biss
Blog.
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About the author |
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Saidul A Shaari
is the principal and founder of
Sahabatul
Ventures, specializing in helping aspiring home based entrepreneurs
establish and setup their online businesses cost effectively.
An enterprising business individual who turn half ideas into real
money making opportunities. |
