In the Internet Marketing field we ALL take the mick out of marketers that sell information products on Ebay. I know I used to regularly be the victim of those jokes. We have always believed the same that Ebay makes your product look cheap and tacky and completely looses its value. After all how many cheap e-books are sold on Ebay for less than £2.00.
There are far too many to go into great detail about – you could probably do a search on Ebay and find way over 1,000 different ones.
Before I carry on I used to be one of them until the autumn of 2005 when I realised that the Ebay fees were simply too much of an annoying outgoing.
I used to find niches on Ebay that everyone else was oblivious to and I was one of the first to sell products for a penny on Ebay but it was all about Internet Marketing.
When I sold an E-Book for a penny I could VERY easily sell over 1,000 a week and it was my starting point for building up my mailing list. When I sent out the customers order via email download I would offer them some extra products for free in exchange for opting in. In general one in five would join up (20%) and many are still on my list today.
The penny auction was also rather popular with sellers too! When you join Ebay as a seller it doesn’t look good that you have zero feedback so sellers would buy about 10 different products from the low auctions and use the feedback from those sales to get them a good reputation.
One of my other gems was selling the Cabbage Soup Diet and at £6.99 a go I was laughing even though now it is over done at the usual £1.99. I’m just using this as an example there are many, many more niches to be had on Ebay its just a case of secretly looking for them just like I have.
Let’s get on to the best bit!
Ebay trying to cut down on the large quantity of information products sold on Ebay recently banned automatic download for their sellers. The way the sellers have got around this is by selling the downloadable media on CD or DVD instead. But we all know the amount of content that we can place on a CD these days is it really worth it!
After all why sell a copy of a Police Auction guide on a CD on its own?
What would the environmental Secretary have to say about it?
Well there are an awful amount of Ebayers selling just that right now on Ebay. What if you could go to them and offer them a solution.
I have personally been contacting sellers for weeks now offering them the opportunity to cash in on it. Say you have your own viral e-book or report that you can offer for free in exchange to fantastic exposure back to you. You see every time a new person buys off Ebay they will also receive your new product on the same CD and when they read they then go on to either visit your website or join your mailing list.
Now that is a result!
I don’t have a sellers account anymore as I don’t need one all I do is buy things from Ebay for personal use. I also have a fantastic about me page with links to my websites and affiliate links. I regularly contact ten different Ebayers a week and offer my products for free in exchange to feature on their CD.
The best bit is they always say YES!
They are always thankful and can’t believe they are getting up to date content to their customers for free after all many are selling E-Books that are four years old!
In affect this is completely free advertising or selling of your products without having to list anything or pay any sellers fees – what more could you want?
This loophole though isn’t going to be available forever sellers are soon going to get wise and start selling space on their discs and who could blame them – if I was selling on Ebay I would.
So any sellers reading this that sell on Ebay – why don’t you sell space on your discs via Internet Marketing Forums or your About Me Page after all it is FREE advertising and you have nothing to loose.
What if you sold 10 spaces a week on the grounds that it would be included in 50 CDs at £30 a go that would earn you an extra £300 per week for doing nothing!
Also think about the wonderful feedback you will receive for their “bonus e-books” it would be amazing!
Think about the difference it could make either as the seller or the E-Book owner!
I have a fantastic pack of two E-books where I write about my ideas surrounding Ebay and ways to discover your own niche. It also comes with help on Ebay issues. The best bit is that it comes with Master Resale Rights. Click Here For Details
To your success!
Samantha
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Hi Samantha,
What a wonderful post – you never fail to disappoint. Ive been selling ebooks on ebay for years after buying my 1st one from you in 2004. I’d often given free space out on my discs since the new ebay rules went into force but id never thought of charging for it after all i sell over 1,000 a month – i could rake in a fortune.
Spot on!
Hi Samantha,
I cant belive youve blown this secret out of the water ive been selling space quietly for a month now and not told anyone. However on the + side i can now advertise my space on the forums before everyone else does.
I hope u let me keep a few secrets!
kelly Denton
Thanks for the post Samantha
Ive used a different idea – ive improved the read me first page to include my favourite blog, my favourite ezine and links to my products and affiliates and im getting a great return from it.
This week i put a review to an affiliate program and ill let u know how that one goes.
Just wondering you guys how far to you actually go with ebay rules – do you break them when it comes to selling ebooks on there?
replies would be appreciated
martin
Hi Samantha,
Just got round to reading your Blog another great entry. In reference to Martin ive often broken the rules but not to a breaking the law scale or anything. Lots of people dont list ebooks under information products and you find that you get away with it as long as nobody reports you.
I put info products under dvd as i now sell them on dvd even though they are real info prods!
whenever i just put it under info my sales go down by half so its better for me me me!
HI martin
I used to sell police auction lists and i would put them under everything tvs and put buy 28inch plasma by sony at police auctions and it would sell like crazy.
i often do it now with the word wifi or mp3 player. Just do it in a way that you could get away with it on a term that is searched every day.
you’ll get one new ebayer a week that’ll buy it for 1.99 and ask when there wifi will be delivered.
like you would sell it for that!
Hi Samantha,
Thanks for another great idea i always forget that you started out ebay too!
Unfortunetly im still on ebay and intend to break the cycle soon.
KJ
Good stuff Sam!
Always great to see solid content on the blogs. It can be a dilemma, I think, as to how much value to actually share for free. But, that can never be a question for those on the receiving end of the free content.
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Graeme
Hi Samantha,
I’ve just found your site via a comment on another blog. You mentioned in the comment about never looking back after you read an ebook on Aweber. Have you a link to the ebook you refer to. I’m really determined since I signed up with Alex Jeffreys coaching course last week that I am going to make a success of things and willing to learn from others.
I think determination and mindset are essential factors in making a success of anything and I’ve just written a detailed post on my blog responding to why feedback I have received from people on my blog is what it holds them back.
Garry,
http://garryparkes.com/
Like i said on Graemes Blog i havent actually got the ebook anymore as its nearly three years since i actually read it – but ill certainly put one together over the next two weeks. once you grasp how to use aweber it can be pretty straight forward.