Have You Reached The Spanish Speaking World Yet?
Posted on July 5, 2009
Filed Under Earn money online
I read a blog post in December 2008 on Clickbank’s blog about their expanded services for customers who speak Spanish, French and German.
The key section was this one:
We recommend selling your foreign language product as a completely separate product from the English version. ClickBank allows publishers to specify the language of their product when they submit their product for approval. When you do this, customers will automatically be sent to a ClickBank order form in the appropriate language. We also send out Spanish, German, and French receipts, as well as other notifications.
I also checked the Interned World Stats and came across this graph:
While SBI doesn’t currently support Chinese characters (but I hear that it will!), I decided to translate my tennis videos into Spanish – as there is obviously a huge number of people searching the net in Spanish language.
It’s a one time investment and the reward – earnings – keep coming in. I found a Spanish translator on getafreelancer.com, and he translated the sales letter and the videos for $450. He was also kind enough to add the subtitles to my videos too.
Setting up a new sales letter was a little bit complicated because SBI doesn’t have special characters like ñ, but as you can see you can use special HTML code to display such characters. Here’s the code for this letter in HTML: ñ
All in all it took me about 10 hours to set up the new sales letter, set up a new product in Clickbank and upload the new videos to my hosting.
The videos de tenis page soon started to rank well in Google since I gave it a few good links from both of my tennis sites and also exchanged a few links where I asked other webmasters to link to my Spanish sales letter.
You can see the traffic and the keywords for which is being found below.
There are also many affiliates on Clickbank that are promoting this page and sending lots of traffic to it. It’s now my third most visited page:
The earnings are not that great though; based on a few emails from Spanish speaking visitors, they worry more about online credit card abuse than English speaking visitors – therefore fewer buy.
But still, they visit my site, maybe subscribe to my newsletter and maybe recommend the site to their friends.
Here are the earnings this year:
I earned around $1500 in the first 6 months so it looks like I’ll get to around $3000 per year. That’s a pretty good extra income considering that it cost me $450 and 10 hours of work. 
I am quite sure that once SBI allows Chinese characters, I will translate my videos in Chinese too. Reaching an extra billion people is definitely worth it…
So… Have you translated your products yet?
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Being from Canada, I was seriously considering learning some french and starting a site. But since I’m relatively new to the online world I have decided to stick with English for now.
Great to hear that you made so much money with such a simple concept.
Hi Tomaz,
I am glad to hear that you went into the spanish speaking world with your videos and started being successful. I am currently building my SBI travel website in English, although my mother tongue is Spanish. Taking advantage of it I had considered translate the site into Spanish as well, but it will take some time. By experience I can tell you that, as you mentioned, latinamericans are in general concerned about safety when buying online, but times are changing and for sure young people see the advantages of it.
ps. I love the way you share your knowledge, coupled of times I seeked for your advise and h got great help. Thank you.
OlgaLucia
Hi OlgaLucia,
Thanks for sharing and the kind words!