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eBay has fingers in more pies
publication date: Jul 11, 2007
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- Editorial
- Turbo Lister helps with Multiple eBay Listings
- Make Money on eBay with Auction Promotion
Strategies
- Rare Books at Auction
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Hi,
eBay changes daily, you already know that, but only rarely
does eBay copy an already existing business concept. It's
more likely you'll find eBay taking over a successful
business or creating an entirely new selling concept.
But maybe this time eBay has its eyes on something so
good and growing so fast the owners don't want to sell out,
albeit they are already 25 per cent owned by eBay.
The new feature on eBay, called 'Kijiji', Swahili
for 'village', has been launched in the USA to compete with
Craigslist, a hugely successful online advertising service.
Craigslist offers free advertising and swears not to be
interested in making money from its site. Thousands of
people, even big time Internet marketers, claim to promote
all manner of goods and services on Craigslist and usually
make decent profits. By far the majority claim placing free
ads on Craigslist is an excellent way to attract visitors to
their mainstream Internet selling sites, including eBay, and
it's especially good for promoting affiliate programs,
including eBay.
Currently Kijiji also operates without profit, which is strange
as eBay is definitely not a charity!
As for Craigslist, you can advertise almost anything on
Kijiji and generate lots of enquiries and potentially make
money too. It's a great place to promote ads to tempt
visitors to sign up as members on eBay and hopefully bid
and buy something at the site, thereby generating
commissions from eBay's generous affiliate scheme.
Popular opinion views eBay as attempting to grow the
world's biggest and best free advertising site to force their
rivals out of business ... at which point eBay may decide to
charge to advertise on their site. No surprise there! And
no problem either, I'm sure, because I've never really
considered eBay expensive compared to other online
advertising, in ezines, for example, and pay per click.
But I was surprised to learn that something similar to Kijiji
has been operating in the UK for quite some time, (called
'Gumtree' over here, also owned by eBay) and earning
decent commissions for UK based eBay affiliates.
Sounds good to me, I love affiliate marketing, and I've
made quite a bit introducing other people to eBay, long
before I knew about Kijiji. I'm heading on over now to see
how I can make more money from eBay's affiliate scheme,
using Kijiji, of course, or rather Gumtree. You'll find all
non-USA eBay free advertising sites at the bottom of the
page at: http://www.kijiji.com.
Happy eBaying!
Until next time,
Avril
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Turbo Lister helps with Multiple eBay Listings
by Kerry S. Beck
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When you have more than one item, how will Turbo Lister
help you? The nice thing about Turbo Lister is it keeps
track of all your listings. I can spend as much time as I
want typing all the different items for eBay, and then
highlight. In the bottom right-hand corner, there's a little
button that says, 'Upload to eBay'. Click that link to upload
your items to eBay. Save all the ones that you want to
upload.
I have some items that I want to upload to eBay shortly. All
I have to do is open up my Turbo Lister, find the ones that
I'm going to upload and highlight those listings. They will
pop on over to eBay. If you are still unsure about taking
action because of eBay fees, Turbo Lister will tell you how
much your listing fees are. So you even know ahead of
time how you are charged ... BEFORE you are charged for
those fees. If you don't want to pay that much, you just
push 'Cancel', and revise your listings.
Once an item is listed in Turbo Lister, you have a template
for yourself. If you have ten copies of a certain book, or ten
pairs of brand new shoes from a fire sale, you could write
one description, add a picture and do everything one time.
All you have to do the next time you want to post an
auction is hit a button.
This is the beauty of using Turbo Lister. I can highlight only
the things I want to sell even though I wrote those
descriptions weeks ago. As far as those items I put up
shortly, I didn't write those descriptions today or even this
last week. They are listings that I wrote several weeks ago.
Since then, I sell those items over and over by uploading
them up and selling them on eBay.
One of the keys to eBay is replication. Write a description
and title one time. Every week hit the 'Upload to eBay'
button. Then, you sell it over and over and over.
Kerry Beck, stay-at-home mom and Power Seller, teaches
families how to make money on eBay so they can gain
financial freedom. She wants to give you her mini-course,
so go right now to http://www.familyebizmom.com
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Make Money On eBay With Auction Promotion
Strategies
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Have you ever used eBay to make money online? If you
answered no, then you are missing a huge opportunity no
matter if you are running an established web business or
you are just a newbie at making money online.
You should think about eBay as a promotion strategy that
puts literally thousands of buyers right in your hands
providing you leads and sales at the same time. And if you
have a good sales funnel once you gain one lead from
eBay you can use that lead to up sell higher priced items
in the future.
Here is how it works.
First plan out your sales funnel.
Your sales funnel normally starts with a lower priced item
which is used to get a lead. Then the sales funnel will use
this lead to upsell higher priced items down the road.
For instance, if you sell barbecue grills, perhaps one of
your promotion strategies would be to start selling
barbecue accessories on eBay for a cost that you can
break even at. Then by capturing the email, and physical
address information of the customer, you use this
customer database to sell higher priced items later, such
as grills.
In addition, with millions of people using eBay, it is one of
the best website free traffic methods you can use to drive
traffic to your website. And best of all one you capture this
traffic and gain a customer database out of it you can
market to that database of customers for years to come.
eBy is an opportunity sitting right in front of you and you
can take advantage of it for fairly little effort. But in order to
take advantage of it you must act.
Don't just sit back and rely on the same promotion
strategies you have used in the past. Selling customers as
they walk though you door, really limits you. In today's
world to remain competitive you really need to focus on
building a lead database and using those leads to market
to over and over again.
And if you are already in the internet business, don't just
rely on your website to deliver traffic to your site. Focus on
a much more broad promotion strategy that can get traffic
from a variety of websites. eBay is one of those great
traffic strategies that is often overlooked by many internet
businesses.
If you want to learn how to drive online traffic and leads to
your website or eBay auction visit:
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Rare Books At Auction by bid4abook
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Rare and antique book collecting is a hobby that any
person can easily learn, it is fascinating and can turn your
hard earned pounds or dollars into hundreds (sometimes
thousands) literally overnight. The skeptics out there will
be thinking surely this is not the case. In a Pygmalion
fashion let me tell you a true story:
I was with a work colleague who started talking about
hobbies, my friend informed me of his passion for rare and
antique books. During the discussion he told me how easy
it was to spot first editions and that if you were fairly savvy
you could actually make decent money from buying old
books at charity shops, car boot sales, garage sales and
jumble sales.
Admittedly being an avid reader and wishing to earn extra
money, putting the two together seemed like an ideal
pastime. I was fascinated and wanted to know more, so
my friend took me to a local second hand bookstore, then
on a web tour of the major book sites just to show the
money being asked for some of the rarer first editions.
I was taken aback by the difference in price from the
second hand bookstores to the cheapest available on the
web; I realized (as all collectors know) that a profit can be
made relatively easily and quickly, given the right selling
medium. So it would seem a prot=E9g=E9 was in the making.
Over the next few weeks I spent my time scouring the web
and visiting charity shops in the local area. To my surprise
and his, one of the first finds was a true first edition first
impression by Mario Puzo for which I paid the princely sum
of one pound (Yes £31.00) for. I listed the book on a niche
auction site for rare and antique books and ten days later
the book sold making a whopping seven hundred and fifty
three pounds (Yes £3753.00) profit.
Needless to say I am now a convert to being a rare book
auctioneer in my spare time.
Try it yourself, read the various articles out there on how to
identify first edition books, go to your local charity shops
and car boot sales and see what you can find. You never
know what you will come across, or, how much you could
sell it for.
If you would like to know more about rare and antique
book collecting and how to identify them then visit
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