How would you like to be alerted by ClickBank every time you get another affiliate sale?

Despite the fact that ClickBank makes this service available to its affiliates, very few ClickBank affiliates know that instant notification is available for them. For this reason, few make use of the service. In what follows I will try to help change the current state of affairs by teaching you more about ClickBank's instant notification interface, and showing you how you can use it within just minutes of finishing this article.

ClickBank introduced its instant notification platform at the start of 2008. However, the company did not make it easy for their non technical affiliates to use the service, and the news of the instant notification protocol went largely unnoticed.

Here is how it works. Supposing that you switch on instant notifications from inside your ClickBank affiliate account, ClickBank will try to transmit to any web program (which you specify) that can receive it, a record of each transaction that is logged to your account over the course of the day.

Therein, as they say, lies the rub. You are required to have a web application sitting on a site of yours, which can receive the transaction data from ClickBank (in the form of a POST request). Your program is then expected to turn around and email you the same information.

To its credit, ClickBank has provided some code which explains how to accept the data that it sends you. It also instructs you on how to verify that the data you received has not been tampered with on route.

Regardless, most affiliates would have simply preferred to have been provided with a web application that will do the job for them without them having to invest time trying to create something of their own.

Luckily, these days affiliates can bypass all of this technical nonsense and get ClickBank affiliate sales notifications simply by downloading a FREE web program that records your ClickBank sales transactions and sends you alerts. All you have to do is configure the application and go to ClickBank to activate your instant notifications.

There are advantages to doing this, both for you, and for ClickBank. Many affiliates are prone to logging into their ClickBank account several times a day to find out whether they have managed any new sales. But this is no longer needed if you are being told, in real time, about new sales that are coming in. It is also advantageous for ClickBank, because by offloading your logins to their servers - which are not exactly speedy - the login experience for other affiliates gets better.

So, the moral of the story is that you do not have to be a ClickBank vendor to get special treatment in the form of sales notifications. Affiliates are entitled to the service too. It is simply a matter of learning how to set it up, which can be done by visiting this ClickBank instant sales alerts page to download CB Alert.

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