What is ClickBank Summit? [Inside ClickBank Summit 2025!]

At ClickBank, we’re SO excited to announce our upcoming ClickBank Summit 2025!

What is ClickBank Summit, you may be asking? It’s a live event designed to help people like YOU make money online and find financial freedom! We brought in some of the best of the best in the online marketing and entrepreneur space to help teach YOU how to create the life of your dreams! 

This year’s CB Summit theme is: Own Your Income. Own Your Future, Own Your Finances, Own Your Life. Our goal with this year’s summit is to help YOU achieve financial freedom through online marketing and affiliate marketing. 

Getting to Know ClickBank Summit

CB Summit is rated E for everyone, but more importantly, it’s for anyone who wants to earn money online, accelerate their entrepreneurial journey, and find financial freedom through affiliate marketing.

It’s a TOTALLY FREE one-day virtual mastermind with some of the best in the e-business and e-marketing space. We flew in people from around the globe to share their success stories and hot tips and tricks with you in this amazing webinar!

We’ll have tons of amazing speakers on the summit, showcasing how to make money online, dive deeper into your entrepreneurial journey, and so much more! With actionable, info-packed presentations given by expert marketers in a slew of different disciplines, you can learn how affiliate marketing works, how ClickBank fits in, and how you can conquer the most common challenges that affiliates are facing today.

With 6 expert speakers from Peter Kell (the VSL King) to Marcus Campbell (The Affiliate Dude), plus a showcase of the world’s number one affiliate marketing education platform (Spark by ClickBank), you’ll walk away with so much more than just some extra knowledge. In fact, more than 150 people got their first paycheck from ClickBank after they watched last year’s summit!

Not to mention, 4.9k affiliates received their first ClickBank paycheck in 2024, and over $1.5m in ClickBank sales was generated from the 2023 attendees this year! 

You can register for ClickBank Summit NOW so you don’t miss even a second of this value-packed webinar! 

What is Affiliate Marketing?

Now that you know about the event, I want to talk about what you’ll be learning there, which is a business model you can use to earn an income. But first, let me introduce myself!

I’m Keely, social media manager here at ClickBank and a minor social media influencer that makes money online through content creation! I’ve dedicated my time at ClickBank to creating content that helps others learn how to make money online and monetize their audience! It’s a huge passion of mine to be able to help others find financial freedom, which is why I’m here. 

So now, to the WHAT of affiliate marketing! 

At the base of it all, affiliate marketing is simply about making money online. As an affiliate, your job is to find products you can promote online and well… promote them, and help bring in a cash flow for yourself. 

With affiliate marketing, there are three KEY PLAYERS in the game:

1. The product owner or brand: a business looking for more people to promote their products online. 
2. The consumer: the person on the internet who will buy those products. 
3. The affiliate, or YOU if you so choose… 

Affiliates promote brands’ products, and the consumer buys those products. As an affiliate, you then receive a percentage of each sale on the product, which is how you earn money; and the business gets more people to keep purchasing their products.

The money you earn as an affiliate all comes from the commissions earned when you get a sale through your own special tracking link. Brands choose their commission rates based on a bunch of calculations and factors that we won’t worry about right now.

While it seems simple enough, there’s a lot of nuances that come with affiliate marketing. With all the different niches, audiences, product types, sub-niches, and everything in between, it can feel pretty convoluted trying to get started. However, I’m here to break it down for you, term-by-term and step-by-step! Let’s go! 

Affiliate Marketing Basics

So we know now WHAT affiliate marketing is, at its core: promoting products from a seller or brand and pocketing commissions for every sale you generate!

Let’s go back to the basics and break it down. Affiliate marketing has 3 key players, right? We have a business owner, so let’s start with them. Let’s say the business owner’s name is Jerry in this case, and Jerry wants to promote their products and gain more customers and sales for their microfiber towel company. 

This microfiber towel company has been doing pretty well on its own, but isn’t seeing the continued growth they were hoping for. Jerry’s microfiber towel company decides they want to budget for an affiliate program to get affiliates to help with their marketing efforts.

So, the company reaches out to a few affiliate networks, and they finally find the right one for them (hopefully ClickBank!). Next, Jerry’s chosen affiliate network helps onboard Jerry’s microfiber towels onto their marketplace. They work with Jerry to decide what kind of commission rate they’d like to offer to affiliates who promote their product, and they iron out a few more details.

From there, the affiliate marketer – possibly YOU – comes along. You start learning how to make money online, and then you decide it’s time for you to jump into the rabbit hole of affiliate marketing as well. You take the first step, which is deciding on your niche.

Deciding on your niche essentially means you’re choosing what kind of products and promotional space you want to be in. When I first started with affiliate marketing, I took a look at myself, my hobbies, and what I enjoyed, and decided on a health and wellness niche, since that aligns a lot with what I do and my day-to-day lifestyle. 

Once you’ve decided on your niche, you’ll take the time to research different affiliate products within that niche to find a product that you think will sell well to your audience. 

NOTE: Friendly tip from a fellow affiliate… When it comes to searching for affiliate programs, I like to take a look at a few different factors to help me decide on the best affiliate program for me. I first will look at commission rates that are generally offered with the affiliate program. Then, I’ll check out the marketplace and get a feel for how intuitive and easy-to-use the platform is. I also like to look at the different products on the marketplace to make sure they align with my niche, my goals, and my potential audience. 

As an affiliate, once you’ve chosen your niche, your affiliate program or programs, and the products you’re going to promote, you’re nearly there. The biggest decision now is whether you’re going to focus on a paid traffic source or an organic one. What does this mean? 

Paid vs Free Traffic

Think of the two options as cars. Paid promotions are sort of like driving a really nice, fast car… A Porsche or Ferrari maybe. It’s going to cost you more upfront, but it’ll get you where you want to go REALLY fast!

Essentially, paid affiliate marketing is promoting products of your choice with paid ads. Whether that’s paid advertising on Meta (Facebook), Google, or native, it costs money upfront to get that going – but once you do, you can quickly see a big return on your investment, since paid advertising reaches a large targeted audience quickly.

On the other hand, there’s organic affiliate marketing. If we stick with our car example, organic is sort of like the Honda Accord of affiliate marketing. Nothing fancy, but dang if it isn’t reliable and consistent. It’s not going to cost a lot out of the gate, but with a little love and some consistent driving, you’ll reach your journey as well. Organic affiliate marketing is simply promoting products without paying to reach your audience. That can look like growing an organic audience on social media as a content creator, creating YouTube videos, having a podcast, publishing blog posts, or anything else that reaches an audience organically. 

Organic affiliate marketing definitely takes a longer time to see return on investment, but it’s totally worth it if you’re willing to dedicate the time and effort into it – and it’s definitely a stable way to grow your own business for the long term!

I have a video that goes into the HOW of organic affiliate marketing. You can check out our video going more in depth on how to monetize your social content below: 

With that in mind, once you’ve decided between paid and organic, you’re off to the races, metaphorically speaking! It’s time to start promoting your products. As an affiliate, there’s a lot that goes into the preparation of becoming an online marketer. Understanding what affiliate marketing is and how to get started is the best base for the beginning of your journey. 

Okay, there’s one more key player here in the affiliate marketing world: the consumer (aka the customer or buyer). This is the third party who is purchasing the products that you, the affiliate, are promoting! The buyer is a person within your niche that you’re trying to reach, either through paid media on platforms like YouTube Ads or Facebook Ads, or through organic channels like social media or a blog. 

So you’ve got the brand, like Jerry’s microfiber towel company, who is looking to get their products promoted to new audiences; you have the affiliate, or YOU, who is going to promote those products; and you have the consumer, or the person in your niche who is going to make a purchase on the product you’re promoting. Once they’ve taken that action, you and Jerry both receive a commission on the sale, and BAM – you’ve earned your first dollars from affiliate marketing!

Affiliate Marketing and ClickBank

Affiliate marketing is most certainly not for the faint of heart! It takes a lot of hard work, dedication, research, and drive. It’s definitely not a get-rich-quick scheme – it’s an actual, legitimate business model you can use to make money online, if you’re willing to put in the work! 

So how does ClickBank tie into affiliate marketing? ClickBank is an affiliate marketing network that bridges the gap between affiliates and sellers.

With a host of amazing products and vendors on our platform, we make it easy for affiliates to find products to promote and earn money with! You can sign up for a ClickBank account TODAY and start earning money online here! 

Aside from ClickBank Summit, there’s a ton of other affiliate marketing events like Affiliate Summit East, Affiliate Summit West, and Affiliate World. These are events across the United States and around the world that bring affiliates, sellers, and affiliate marketing companies together to amplify their affiliate marketing game.

Not to mention, there’s a ton of other events that are pretty common in the entrepreneurial and online marketing space, from trade shows, high-end conferences, masterminds, keynotes, seminars, and more. There’s SO MUCH going on in the world of online marketing that people attend to help step up their affiliate marketing game and build valuable connections.

We go into detail about all of the affiliate marketing events for the year – be sure to check them all out!

Affiliate Marketing Conferences

With all that in mind, it can easily get a bit overwhelming and convoluted with all sorts of conferences and affiliate marketing events. Their purpose is always intended for growth, networking, and new connections, however, if you’re just starting out, that may feel like a lot up front. 

In fact, while all of those big conferences are amazing opportunities, and great for growth, you don’t have to start attending expensive, in-person events to begin your affiliate marketing and make money online journey.

That’s why we created CB Summit, where we can bring people together who are in the beginning stages of their journey, and help them with amazing tips, great presentations, and helpful advice on getting started making money online. It’s basically the beginner guide to making money from home, and you can watch it all for free from the comfort of your home! 

Make Money From Home

CB Summit was designed with the idea in mind of getting people into the online marketing space. With so many “gurus” and “coaches” out there, it can feel like people are just telling you pretty stories with empty words and not giving REAL advice.

That’s where ClickBank comes in. Our whole goal is to help people find financial freedom through affiliate marketing. We WANT to see you succeed, without having to spend a dime.

ClickBank and ClickBank Summit brings education and information to you to help you get started making money online TODAY!

You can start your affiliate marketing journey NOW and earn money online as soon as possible. Simply head to the “get started” button at the top of this page and get ready to start earning money online. 

No matter what your earning avenue is, ClickBank wants to see you succeed, which is why we’ve created the ClickBank Summit! You’ll get a wealth of tips, tricks, and advice on affiliate marketing success PACKED into this one-day FREE webinar! 

FAQs

What Happens At ClickBank Summit?

ClickBank Summit is a FREE one-day webinar bam-packed with educational information from experts in the online marketing and entrepreneurship field. They all presented (think TedTalk style), and we uploaded all of those videos in full on the webinar so you can watch them and learn more about how to make money online! 

What Is the Purpose of ClickBank Summit?

Clickbank Summit was created to help people learn how to make money online and get started with affiliate marketing. The more you know, the more you grow; and we want to see you FLOURISH! 

How Do I Get Started Making Money Online?

There’s a ton of different ways to make money online! I wrote more about how to monetize your audience, which you can find here:

What is ClickBank Summit 2025 Wrap-Up

At the end of the day, no matter which online marketing avenue or make money online space you end up in, we want to see you succeed!

ClickBank Summit 2025 is a great place to learn more about online marketing, and find financial freedom!

Want to join us? CB Summit drops January 29th. Sign up TODAY so you don’t miss a thing!