ClickBank Profit Club

My Experience with the progam so far

I’ll be straight with you from the start: I’m $138 down on this.

I paid $495 for the VIP level. I’ve made $357 back. That’s the honest position as I write this, and I’d rather lead with it than bury it somewhere near the bottom.

Here’s what the Club actually is, because the name doesn’t tell you much. Instead of sending traffic straight to a ClickBank vendor and losing the lead forever, you get a prebuilt funnel that captures the subscriber onto your own email list first, then promotes offers to them. The funnel is built for you. The follow-up emails are written for you. That part is genuinely done.

What surprised me is that there’s a free level, and it’s not a trial. You can sit on it indefinitely. It includes the done-for-you membership site, the automated follow-up emails, live coaching, and intermediate training — and it pays 50% on the first upsell. I’ve paid real money for products that gave me less than this gives away.

I went VIP almost immediately, at $495. Not because I ran the numbers and they said to. I did it because of John Thornhill. He’s been selling on ClickBank since 2004 — twenty-two years, in a business where most people are gone inside one. I’ve watched how he operates, and I think I can learn more from being close to how he runs this than I can from a commission table. That’s a judgment call and I’ll own it as one.

Then the part that matters most, and it’s the thing that would be easiest to leave out.

That $357 came from a lead they sent me. I hadn’t promoted anything yet.

Sending you traffic is a VIP benefit — it’s part of what the $495 buys. So the money came in while I did nothing at all. Which cuts both ways. The good half: the traffic benefit does something real. The half that matters more to you: at the free level, nobody sends you traffic. If you join free and do what I did — nothing — you don’t make half of $357. You make nothing.

I could have written “I made $357 in my first month” and stopped there. It’s true. It’s also the most misleading true sentence I could put on this page.

And there’s one more thing I’ll admit to. Their sales page says the Club has 14,449 members and has paid out $80,235.21 since April 2026. Do that division: about $5.55 a member. Not per month — in total. Those are their published numbers and they’re probably out of date, but they’re the only ones anybody has.

I’m that average. I joined, I paid, and I didn’t do the work. The only thing separating me from most of those 14,449 people is that I’d bought a traffic benefit that earned in spite of me.

So when I say the average is low because people join and do nothing, I’m not looking down at anyone. I’m describing myself.

What I Like

The free level is genuinely usable, not a demo. Done-for-you membership site, written follow-up sequences, live coaching, intermediate training, and 50% on the first upsell — for nothing. You can find out whether you’ll actually use this before you spend a penny, and very few programs let you do that.
You can run the whole thing free, end to end. You need an autoresponder to send the follow-ups, and that’s AWeber. AWeber’s free plan covers 500 subscribers and 3,000 emails a month, with the automation included. So the entire system costs nothing until it starts working.
The list-first model is the right one. Most affiliate programs have you send traffic straight to a vendor’s page. If the visitor doesn’t buy, they’re gone — and if they do buy, the vendor keeps the relationship. Building your own list first is what people who last in this business actually do.
The traffic benefit produced money without me. $357 in a month, from a lead they sent, before I’d promoted anything. I want to be careful how I say that — it’s not a faucet and there’s no guaranteed number. But it isn’t nothing either, and it’s the clearest thing the $495 bought.
The program is built on doing, not just learning. So many progams I have tried are hours and hours of learning and you never get to doing and that’s why so many people give up on those.

What I Don't Like

The average member has made $5.55. I’ve explained why – a free tier collects enormous numbers of people who look once and never come back – but it’s still the number, and anyone promoting this without mentioning it is hoping you don’t check.
The traffic is still your job. The funnel is done for you. Getting people to look at it isn’t, and that’s the part that takes real time. Nothing here solves it.
“Free” has a ceiling. 500 subscribers times 6 emails is exactly 3,000. So once your list fills up, you get about six sends a month before AWeber wants paying. It’s free until it works, then it costs money. That’s the good version of the problem, but it shouldn’t arrive as a surprise.
The middle tier isn’t really available. There’s a Partner level at $295 that, as far as I can tell, you can’t join yet — it may open during or after the October Challenge. So the real choice right now is free or $495, with nothing in between.
And the recruitment help is rotational. You’re placed in a rotation. No promised number of members, no guaranteed sales. It worked for me. I wouldn’t plan around it.

Final Verdict

Join at the free level. It costs nothing, it’s genuinely usable, and it lets you answer the only question that matters: will you actually do this?

Set the funnel up. Connect a free AWeber account. Look around properly. Then ask yourself whether three days of live hand-holding would get you to finish it faster – because that’s what the ClickBank Profit Challenge is, and every Challenge ticket makes you a free Club member anyway.

Upgrade to VIP when you’re using it, earning from it, and the better rates start to matter. Not before. That’s the order I’d do it in if I were starting again — and it isn’t quite the order I did it in myself.

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