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3 Ways To Squeeze More Cash From eBay

Every internet marketer knows the potential of the eBay market place to either be used to generate potential clients to their other online businesses, for quick cash generation to fund their other business ventures or even as a method of launching a brand new internet business. EBay is an excellent resource that no marketer should avoid and this article outlines the three major methods to generate an excellent revenue stream using the power of eBay.

Method #1 to squeeze more cash from eBay

EBay is renowned for its viral power. It is a market place designed with sellers in mind and fully utilizing this fact can lead to excellent profits for your internet business. By distributing viral eBooks with your website and affiliate links inside you can profit immensely. All it takes is one or two 99c listings by you of your eBook, 10 buyers may snap up the offer and distribute more copies and their buyers distribute more copies. Eventually, thousands of people will have read your eBook and tens of people generated you affiliate commissions.

Method #2 to squeeze more cash from eBay

One tool that eBay provides all sellers with is an About Me page. On this page you can add details about yourself, your hobbies, passions and your business. But we’re going to use it its fullest potential by including links to our websites and affiliate links.

EBay states that you are not permitted to link to sales pages in your About Me page, however I’ve never had any trouble and I’ve never heard of anyone else have any problems.

You can’t expect your auction visitors to go to your About Me page without a little prompting. In each of your auctions you should include a link to your page and give them an incentive for visiting, perhaps you could give away a free eBook.

Method #3 to squeeze more cash from eBay

This method involves raising some quick cash in order to fund some of your business ventures. It’s the simplest method of money making on the internet and simply involves selling any unwanted or unused items from around your house. I’m sure you have hundreds of dollars of objects just lying around your home and garden and selling them could raise extra capital to fund a writer to write you an eBook, tens of articles or anything else you need to expand your business.

You’re sitting on a potential goldmine and eBay is the perfect place to maximize its potential.

5 Things You Didn't Know About Me

There's this crazy version of a chain letter going around the blogsphere where bloggers are posting "5 Things You Didn't Know About Me" and then challenging five other bloggers to do the same. Bob Baker, author of Guerrilla Music Marketing, tagged me, so I'm it!

1. Around 1997, I was in a prank calling group known as the Phone Militia.  I got a job at a psychic network, which later became know for its spokesperson, Miss Cleo, and pulled pranks on people who called in.

2. I do yoga daily and have done so for almost ten years.  In 2002, I attended Southern Institute for Yoga Instructors where I completed a 1000 hour course on teaching yoga, but I never bothered to do the paperwork and get the certificate.

3. I had the first paid-membership site on the Internet which wasn't related to pornography.

4. I'm vegetarian.

5. When I was in high school, I joined the school orchestra as a bass player, even though I didn't know how to play, because I wanted to meet a girl who played viola and that was the only way to make sure we had a class together.

How To Create Your Own Original Info Product In Less Than 1 Hour

Many marketers will tell you that the real money on the internet is to be found through the creation and marketing of your own info products. That may well be true, but who has the time to create a 40-60 page eBook and then market it? What if there was an easier option? An option that enabled you to compile a high quality 40-60 page info product in just a few hours, and normally in less than one.

The easiest method of info product creation in under an hour is by compiling free reprint and private label articles together into an ordered manual. This is my favorite method because it enables you to create an info product at lightning speed, of excellent quality and you get to learn and have fun at the same time.

The first thing you need to do is choose a niche topic to base your info product about. Once that’s chosen, create an outline of information you want to contain in the eBook. The outline need not be detailed as you can always add to it later on.

Now that your outline is created, you should have a general idea of what information, hence what articles you would like to include in your info product.

The next step is to open your favorite article directory and pluck articles that fit your outline and paste them into your eBook. The most important thing you must do here is to add the author’s resource box at the end of the article. Avoiding this will lead to you getting into a lot of trouble and it’s really not worth it.

You should now have a 40-60 page eBook of other author’s articles compiled into a tidy info product, with the author’s resource box, a list of chapters and all legal disclaimers in place. You should have also added a few sentences of your own at the end of each article which leads the reader into the next article.

An alternative to this method is to use private label articles instead of free reprint articles. This means you will no longer have to include other authors’ resource boxes and you can edit the content in any way that you like.

These eBooks are excellent for selling because they are a compilation of some of the most experienced and respected experts in their fields and your eBook will contain more information than the majority of your competition.

The first time you utilize this method, you should be able to create an info product in about three hours, but as you master the skill and continue to produce more and more hot selling eBooks, you should be able to create an eBook in just under an hour.

Is Your Marketing in the Crapper?

Got this from my friend Bob Baker, author of Guerrilla Music Marketing.  I think you'll appreciate it...

Drugs, Sex, Violence, and the Remedy for Pain

Anybody who has studied marketing has heard the phrase, "Go for the low-hanging fruit."  And while I agree that this is smart business for the most part, I believe there are some "fruits" which shouldn't be touched.

I'm not Buddhist, but I believe in the concept of "right livelihood."  In other words, I want to make a contribution to society with the things that I market.

It's easy to sell a remedy for pain.  This technique has been used successfully from people selling weight-loss pills, to acne medication, to breast enlargement.  Our President used it to justify the invasion of Iraq after the 9/11 terrorist attacks.  When people are hurting, they'll buy anything.

And Dr. Phil uses it...  In his world, you're never the most unintelligent, the most overweight, or in the worst relationship.

Sure, it's an easy sell.  The guy from Bumfights is making a killing I'm sure.  And Dr. Phil definitely is.  But at what cost?

Building a Business Using Only Private Label Rights

Over the last year or so, we've seen the emergence of private label rights articles and products which have revolutionized the way marketers create eBooks, gather content for websites and market online.

There are a few ways to really profit from private label rights, but this article will focus on what I believe to be most profitable.

This method involves maximizing the potential of all types of private label rights: private label articles, private label reports and full blown private label products. I will outline the simple method that will enable you to utilize all of these types of products and profit immensely from this internet business in this article.

Firstly, you need to find a private label product that you believe is of excellent quality and one that you could sell for perhaps $27-$47. This is an important step because you will be basing your entire business around this product, and if you get it wrong, your business will more than likely fail. When looking for products, consider the competition in the niche, whether it solves a problem that many may have and whether it has sales material such as sales pages and graphics.

Secondly, you need to find as many private label articles related to the subject of the eBook as possible. Everyone knows articles are essential for traffic generation and the more articles you have to submit, the more traffic you will attract to your website. Articles are not only important for traffic generation however. They can also be used to create a free mini eCourse which provides your website visitors with an incentive to sign up for your opt-in list.

Thirdly, you’ll want some private label reports about similar topics to your main product. Reports are another excellent method of traffic generation due to their viral nature and can also be used as an incentive to sign up to your opt-in list, much like a free mini eCourse. Another use of reports is as a bonus to your main product. This increases perceived value and, if you keep the price the same, will increase conversions.

This is an excellent “lazy man’s” internet business because it involves very little writing, all the resources have been created for you already and it’s a simple case of utilizing them to their full potential. Many marketers would spend the majority of their time – or money – writing or having written the main product, the articles and the reports and perhaps this will be more profitable in the long run, but if you are looking for an internet business that you can build quickly and easily, then this is the perfect model for you. Once you’ve succeeded with one product and one business venture, find a new product and pursue a new business in a completely different niche. Some niches may produce a few thousand dollars for you, but some might produce tens or even hundreds of thousands in revenue and the majority of this will be profit.

How To Brainstorm an Endless Stream of Niche Ideas

I hope that you know by now that niche marketing is where the real money is. I hope that you also know that choosing a profitable niche market is incredibly difficult yet so very important. This article plans to help you in your quest to brainstorm an endless stream of niche ideas and select a profitable niche market.

The first method of brainstorming potential niche ideas is to consider the objects around you. I bet right now you are sitting on or next to an object which could be turned into a highly profitable niche market.

As I look around now, I see a glass which just contained a strawberry milkshake; I could quite easily write a milkshake recipes eBook and sell it. I also see a digital camera; I could write an information product about taking the perfect photos using a digital camera, or set up a website with a few articles about digital cameras and link to a few digital camera affiliate programmes and Google adsense ads. 

Another method of brainstorming niche ideas is by analysing the categories of major websites such as eBay. This may sound simple, but it can uncover some hidden gems that you would never of though of on your own. If you go to ebay.com and find a list of all the major categories, such as Sporting Goods and then you delve a little deeper and look at all of the sub-categories for that, you will find further categories, such as Cycling, Football, Soccer etc. All of these categories can be developed into a niche market. For example, for soccer, you could create an eBook about how to develop skills, how to be a coach, mental preparation for soccer matches. The list is endless and there are thousands of sub-categories on the eBay market place. Take a while to browse through them and make a note of any potential categories that can be developed into profitable niche markets.

The final method that will be covered in this article of brainstorming niche ideas is by considering your hobbies and passions and how you can help others by teaching them what you know. If you enjoy and are good at martial arts, you may like to create an info product which deals with all aspects of martial arts. If your friend has a passion for travelling to certain destinations, you may like them to team up with you to help you create an info product about their favourite destination.

Niche selection really is that important. Get it wrong and you’ve wasted a huge amount of time and money on a business that is not going anywhere fast and is unlikely to be developed much further than it already is. Get it right, and it could be a huge goldmine churning out cash day after day, hour after hour and minute after minute.

Buy My Stupid Ebook - Does Hype Really Sell?

You may have seen a site called Buy My Stupid Ebook, which spoofs sites like the Rich Jerk and others which brag of wealth and post screen shots of bank statements.  If you're not aware of these sites, both are worth taking a look at.

Which brings me to my question...  Does Hype Sell?

Like a newspaper that features only "good" news, we'd all like to think that a "no hype" salesletter is something that would work, but the reality is that hype gets results.  Sure, we know the claims in such pieces are probably total BS, but deep inside, we hope that just once, a product will deliver on its promises.

My experience is that hype does sell.  Look at the biggest online marketing launches of the last year.  A few were really good, quality products, but there were some which were obviously thrown together quickly, hyped like crazy, and didn't live up to expectations in a big way.  And products from both categories sold equally well.

But will the people behind these products be able to do well on future launches?

You can get by without crazy hype, but you've got to have a quality product...and buzz.  And if you can, you're in a good position to launch future products. 

And you can get by with hype and a half-ass product...  But what happens when you want to replicate that success?

Thoughts?