Part 1: How to make money from affiliate ebooks without selling them Part 2: How to use ebooks and ebay to build your mailing list Part 3: How to use ebooks to drive more visitors to your site In this section we'll look at a very easy to use and cost effective method of getting laser targeted prospects on your mailing list. First, let's quickly re-cap part one; we learned there that we don't need to make money from the initial sale of the ebook in order to profit from the ebook. Keep this in mind as we go through the following dialogue. ebay is a site that facilitates bringing buyers and sellers together in a secure and safe environment, in order to buy and sell a variety of goods and services, either through action or in a fixed price format. The preferred payment system used there is Paypal. Paypal is an extremely user friendly and highly secure service for transferring money over the internet. Here's what we do: 1. List the ebook under several different categories, choose categories that have a specific connection to the topic and some that are more loosely connected. For example an ebook about Internet Marketing could be listed under the category of; books/internet information products/marketing; this would be a direct connection. A loosely connected category might be something like; Everything Else/Education & Learning/Adult & Career Education/Personal Development/Personal Finances. An easy way to find suitable categories is to use the search categories option as you are listing; it gives you recommendations that you can choose from. 2. We also need to play around with the Heading, using different headings for all of our listings, we should try to include the words and phrases that people will use when searching most often, and include them in the heading. 3. List the ebook as a 10 day auction and offer a ?buy now? option as well. Be sure to set the ?buy now? price at level that covers our fees if we wish to make this a free advertising campaign. 4. We need to create a html formatted sales letter. Do this by creating a page in html composer such as Mozilla or coffee cup, or any other composer. Outline all the details about the book and what's in it etc. then at the end of the description add an Auto responder! That the customers can use to ask for more information about the product. We must ensure that the redirect page brings the customer back to ebay. This is vital because ebay has very strict policies regarding links that take people away from their site. 5. Now we can play around with the sales letter to make it more enticing for people to enter their details, some of the things we could use are; for a free report, to receive other offers and updates, for more information and the free edition,etc. we just need to become creative here. 6. If our ebook sells without getting any prospects, that's great we have covered our costs and distributed our links. (see part one of this series) We can go ahead and re-list it, then start all over again! That's all there is to it! It doesn't take long to set up and once in place, we can easily tweak the listings and continue this strategy. It's not limited only to ebay it's also possible to use any of the other auction sites available online today.
There are a number of things you need to make money on the Internet, but the most important is targeted traffic. Think about it, having a good product won't make you money if nobody sees it, a good headline, good copywriting, nice website, none of these things will make you a dime if nobody sees them.
Just knowing that targeted visitors are the most important part of making money will do us no good unless we take action. How are we going to take action? We get going, going to where the targeted traffic is, and the traffic is at Ebay. Would you be surprised if I told you over 12 million people visit Ebay a month. I haven't checked all the sites on the Internet, but I doubt there are many sites bringing in that much traffic.
Ok we have solved one of the main problems with making money, we now know where we can get targeted visitors, but don't be fooled thinking it will be a piece of cake just because we overcame the main problem. You see we are not the only ones that know where the traffic is, so we are going to have a lot of competition.
What can we do about the competition? I would just send them an email and ask them to stop selling so I could sell my products and make a lot of money. Now if that doesn't work there are a few more ways we can beat the competition. It might be easier if I just list them below.
1. Since most visitors use the search tool to find a product on Ebay we would want to make sure we were using the best keywords we could come up with that describes the product we are selling.
2. We would also want to take our time and make sure we list our product in the correct categories.
3. If we can find a unique product with little competition that would be great, but we will need to be careful with this,
because if no body is selling it, it could be because there is little demand for it.
4. If we find a product that we can buy at a lower cost than our competition then we could sell it at a lower price than the competition.
I think we have a good idea how to sell on Ebay, but we need a product to sell. If you are new to Ebay you could start by selling products you have around the house. That is how I started, I did a check on Ebay to see what products were selling and what they were selling for. If there was a high demand for it and I had one, I would take a picture of the product and offer it up for auction. You would be surprised at some of the objects people will buy.
After you have sold all you have around the house you will need to get a tax number from your state tax office and sign up with a wholeseller. You can search the Internet to find a wholeseller, but there are lists you can buy that will save you a lot of time and will list the top wholesellers. You can find wholesellers that don't require a tax ID, but I would not use these, because I don't think you will get the best price or best products from them. Since there is so much competition you want to make sure you have the right product at the best price.
There is no way I can cover the whole process of selling on Ebay in one article, but I hope this has been some help to you.
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