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Clickbank Sales Down – Summer Blues!

Clickbank sales have been really slow in the past weeks. This is why I took a closer look at the Clickbank sales numbers graph on cb-analytics.com and I was pretty surprised when I had a closer look at the analytics graph. The graph is a little hard to read and the numbers I figured out are just "about numbers". In addition the graph only shows sales data starting 2008. Nevertheless, we are in the middle of the summer sales slow down, with a turnaround to happen in some weeks.

2008: After Clickbank sales climbing rapidly until about March 2008, there is kind of a slow down, with another strong increase in sales from July to August 2008, with an dramatic drop in September. There is another strong increase end of September 2008, after that stagnation.

In January 2009 sales increase drastically with the high in May. After that a drastic drop. The turnaround seems to be middle of July. Another strong drop in December.

January seems to be the strongest month for the past years. Same in 2010. Clickbank sales climb until May and then there is a drastic drop. With June / July being the lowest months.

I wonder when the turnaround should take place. From history it should be end of July / August.

What makes me wonder is that there has been a strong increase in Clickbank sales summer 2008. Whereas in the other years these have been the slowest months of the year (except of the YEARLY december slow down in Clickbank sales). The only news I found for Clickbank during this time is the introduction of direct depost and the fact that affiliates from more countries were accepted. So may be there was a drastic increase of affiliates in this time resulting in increased sales.

So what can be said looking at the past years?

In general January is the strongest month for Clickbank sales. After that sales go down a little and make a drastic drop middle of May.

It seems a turnaround can be expected middle / end of July.

Sales stay stable until december. In december another big drop in clickbank sales can be expected.

So let's see if I am right. We all should see an increase of sales middle / end of July 2010.