If you are doing affiliate marketing, chances are you are familiar with Clickbank. In the past ten years, Clickbank has paid out over one billion (with a B) dollars to their clients. Affiliate marketers can select from tens of thousands of digital products to market, in just about any niche you can imagine.

Sounds great, right?

For me, the only real downside is the Clickbank marketplace. If you are looking for a quick and easy way to get your hands on the hottest new product in your niche, you may or may not be able to find it easily.

Now, don’t get me wrong — that hasn’t stopped me from using Clickbank. And, these comments are my own personal opinions (it’s my blog, after all), so your mileage may vary.

Often the most common-sense keyword searches don’t yield the results you’d expect, and you can quickly burn up precious time attempting to wade through the pages and pages worth of products available. I don’t know about you, but I am simply not willing to invest that kind of time when I have a to-do list that stretches for miles. I knew there had to be a better way.

There is. It’s called CB-Analytics.

It isn’t the most attractive site in the world, but it works like a charm. You can quickly view products released this month, or even today — with only a few clicks. You can view all the standard metrics that you would normally use to weigh an affiliate opportunity at Clickbank, so you aren’t giving up any of the functionality. You can even set up your CB Analytics page to render your personalized affiliate links for you.

Now, as much as I’d like to take credit for passing along today’s tip to you, I want to tip my hat to the gal who shared this marketing gem with me. She’s none other than Jen Ledbetter, aka Potpie Girl. Jen is the Georgia mom who created the One Week Marketing Plan.

As a mom, Jen knows a thing about stretching a dollar. Who better to conceptualize a system that literally allows you to start from NOTHING, and build a thriving web business — one that can help you acquire those little “extras” that so many families are struggling to enjoy in these tough times.

Jen isn’t some out-of-touch “guru” that hires out a ghostwriter to create her materials for her — one who’s only involvement is to slap her name on a product and pitch it to her list. Jen is out there, in the trenches — just like us. She knows the struggles you face, the frustrations, and the incredible sense of feeling overwhelmed by the noise in the marketplace. She’s been there.

If you are looking for a way to ramp up your affiliate marketing activities on the cheap, giving Jen’s One Week Marketing Plan a look is well worth it.

She offers no-nonsense tips you can take to the bank.