It is with great excitement and anticipation for a world of success to you that I created this newsletter for!
Since coaching others on how to begin or improve their online marketing using websites or just listing auctions on eBay, I have wanted to be able to share my knowledge and have it available in one place that is easily accessable.
This month's issue is dedicated to the beginning online marketer wanting to try out selling their item on ebay armed with some basic information to help make their first sale as profitable as possible.
I'm including some of my tried and true basics for figuring out the best time to list and end an auction as well as few other those "tricks the Powersellers use."
There no real tricks - just doing a little research can pay off BIG!
Have a safe Halloween,
Coach Danny
LETTER FROM THE PUBLISHER
IN THE OCTOBER ISSUE
- Create An eBook With PDF995
- When Is the Best Day to List an Auction?
- Find Auctions With NO Bidders
- Why Start A blog?
- Where To Aquire Wholesale Products
There are many paths to the top of the mountain, but the view is always the same.
-Chinese Proverb
TOOL OF THE MONTH
Create An eBook With PDF995
Pdf995 makes it easy and affordable to create professional-quality documents in the popular PDF file format.
Its easy-to-use interface helps you to create PDF files by simply selecting the "print" command from any application (MS Word, etc...), creating documents which can be viewed on any computer with a PDF viewer.
How To Sell eBooks on eBay:
1. Download the ebooks you wish to sell onto your hard drive.
2. Open the ebook and see what parameters it uses for viewing (i.e. pdf file that requires Adobe Acrobat Reader or if it's a self-extracting .exe file that has the viewer with it.) This should be stated in the ad to avoid unnecessary emails with questions.
3. If the eBook has specific system requirements, make a note of that. This will normally be a little pop-up screen just after you click on the eBook. It is not on all eBooks. It is against eBay rules for you to put any of the ebooks onto a CD and mail it to your customer.
4. If your computer has a program that will capture/copy the opening page or book cover contained in the eBook, get that picture into a jpg so you have something to put in the picture area of your auction. Or just create one with a Word Processing program.
5. Skim through at least the first few pages of the eBook to get a feel for what it contains and use some of the phrases or keywords in your ad.
6. Do a general search on eBay for ebooks to see what others within that general topic are selling for and set your opening bid price. This pricing is totally up to you!
7. Be sure to list in the auction your method of delivery for the eBook (i.e. as a file attachment -- be sure to specify the file size! Some providers have a limit to file attachment size). It is best if you put EBOOK either in your auction title or in a prominent position in the Auction Description. This will help forstall any confusion.
8. State clearly what methods of payment you will accept and any time factors involved with delivery of the product (i.e. PayPal same-day email w/attachment or Money Order next day email w/attachment and so forth).
9. Please be CERTAIN that you include the following text with eBay ebook auctions:
"I own resale rights to this ebook. You are NOT purchasing resale rights, but the actual eBook. This auction is listed in accordance with eBay's Media rules."
10. List your auction(s) as you normally would.
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Why Start A Blog?
This writer has some useful information about Blogs. Blogs may not be for everyone, but for many they are becoming a powerful marketing tool.
If you need a website, you can start with creating a blog and then register your custom domain web name and point it to your blogging site.
More on this subject in coming newsletters!
What the Heck is a Blog?
By Andy Wibbels
Everybody is talking about blogs. They are everywhere: on the TV, in the newspapers, and all over the internet. With the number of blogs doubling every five months, there is no stopping the power of blogs.
But what the heck is a blog? For the elegant simplicity and beauty that blogs create, they certainly have an ugly, ungainly name. Blawg sounds like some kind of gurgling sound your cat makes before coughing up a hairball.
A blog, short for weblog, is often described as an online diary. The most recent entries (called posts) - appear on the homepage of the blog with links to archives of older posts. Archives are organized by date and often categorized by topic. Often, each post will have a form for readers to add their own comments and to give their opinion or reaction to the post's content.
But that's just what a blog looks like - it doesn't really tell you why a blog is different from a conventional website. The real genius in blogs appears in the process of how they are written.
You can update your blog instantly from any internet connection on any computer anywhere in the world - even from your summer home in Tahiti (as you sip an ice-cold island cocktail). Blogs are designed for people who don't want to learn (or don't have the time to learn) HTML or web design. You use a special type of blogging software (called a blog tool) to create and update your weblog. You type your latest post into a simple online form. You click "Publish" and it is instantly available online for the whole world to see. It's super-easy. If you can send an email, you can publish a weblog. So my updated description of a weblog is:
A blog is an easy, instantly and frequently updated website, focused around a topic, industry or personality.
One big reason businesses (especially small businesses and entrepeneurs) flock to blogs is because they reduce dependencyon a web design team to get ideas and announcements online. Developing a website for your business can take weeks, sometimes months, from shopping for a designer and doing project negotiation phase to getting the final site launched. Developing a website can be not only costly, but time consuming.
Many of my clients have found blogs a great way to start out online while they are building their business with the eventual goal to move towards a more robust web design solution. Others have moved all of their web sites into a blog format and have vowed to never look back.
You can create a blog and have a website in less than fifteen minutes, for less than $10, with hosting and software included- and, all without having to know anything about web design. With a blog there's ten thousand less decisions to make.
Blogging is the fastest, cheapest, easiest way to build a website in the time it takes to watch a sitcom.
Andy Wibbels is a blogging evangelist and creator of the Easy Bake Weblogs seminar that has helped hundreds of small businesses all over the world leverage blogs and RSS news feeds to increase profits and save time. You can download his free special report on business and blogs at easybakeweblogs.com
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Where To Aquire Wholesale Products
OK! Let's get started with some helpful tips.
Here are some websites where you acquire products at deep discounts so you can make big profits. Many times your supplier will ship directly to your customers and you don't pay for the product until you have collected the money.
The following will provide you with a few great resources.
For product acquisitions you can go to:
Alibaba.com
Liquidation.com
ThomasNet.com
I recommend that you use the above avenues to acquire products. I always want my students to develop their own Product Niche. That is what I want you to do - folks do this whether you work with me as new student or you do this on your own - Just Do It!
I always like to utilize the repetitive selling process. Where we sell the same item over and over because we have a quantity of that product. When this automated machine is humming it is almost like a license to print money, could you imagine having a license to print money?
OK, now one of the things that I always look for when acquiring product is a direct source for the product where we get the product at or below 25% of retail and resell 50% or retail or more. You have to remember that most of the people that shop on eBay, Overstock.com, Yahoo Auctions and the hundreds of other auction sites out there, including your own website are looking for bargains.
That is why I always recommend that you stay away from the wholesale buying clubs and drop ship clubs. Typically they have thousands of members all selling the same product and then nobody makes any money. If you learn to bypass the middleman and get direct to the source to buy overstocks, closeouts and discontinued type items you will not only outsell your competition you will make much more profit.
I also only sell product that will sell above $25 to $50 or more. It is just as easy to make $50 on a sale as it is to make $2.00 This would take 25 sales to earn $50 So let's keep it simple. By having multiples of the same product that meet this criteria we can take one set of photographs, one product description, one auction ad and use the same ad over and over again and use multiple distribution channels. Because, when I work with a student to develop a specific product line I like to look for a Niche that either has good up sell potential for other related products or services.
