Living the Internet Dream
There’s a lot of doom and gloom out there in the internet marketing world at the moment. Google Panda and Penguin SEO updates, the “death” of article marketing, Adsense accounts being closed, Youtube videos taken down, IM products virtually impossible to get approved at Clickbank etc, etc. However it seems I may have accidentally stumbled upon a niche over at eBay where people are making money faster than they can spend it…
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Well, it finally happened. Never thought I’d be dumb enough to fall for it, but I clicked on a spoof email today. Grrrrr. In mitigation I’ll say the email I got looks identical to a genuine message from an eBay seller, sent via eBay messages. Now, I’m assuming it’s not just me who’s been targeted here so you might be next. If you’re not currently trading on eBay and if you have no intentions of ever doing so you can afford to ignore this post. On the other hand, if you have an eBay account then read through this.
When you are new to internet marketing, the choices of how to make money online are pretty overwhelming. Unless you already have an existing offline business that you are able to adapt to also marketing yourself on the internet, it certainly isn’t easy. The choices of how to go about it are huge. Do a search for “make money online” and you will find a multitude of different “money making systems” from affiliate marketing to blogging to niche marketing to adsense to video to….. well you get the picture. So where is the best place for you as a novice, with no prior technical or marketing skills to begin?
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When eBay still allowed the sales of digital products via digital download it was one of the hottest money making products around. Literally hundreds of sellers were doing this, and selling them for next to nothing. Can you remember seeing them? Just like me, you probably wondered how on earth these people could make money from products selling at such ridiculously low prices. So I decided to investigate this a little bit further……
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By the end of June 2008 I had more digital items listed on eBay UK than anyone else – 390. Three months previous to that I hadn’t even listed one single item; I was still trying to work out the process of how to do that. Through a lot of trial and error I had reached the top of the tree with no previous experience of this business. To make things more difficult for a “novice” like me following eBay’s decision to ban the sales of items via digital download there was almost no information out there. As our American friends like to say, it was a “whole new ball game”.
So, in the middle of April 2008 I took my plunge and created my very first information product on CD-ROM and listed it on eBay for the princely sum of £7.95. This was a product about how to go about getting more dates, which seemed to be a fairly hot topic. I actually created this product myself, using a combination of resale rights products already out there. The product finished up as a series of 3 “mini products” combining together into 1 overall product.
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My first internet product was going to be about “How to make money selling ebooks on eBay via digital download”. Obviously after eBay’s banning of digital products in March 2008, that idea was out of the window. Whilst most ebook sellers left eBay never to return, one or two switched on marketers had different ideas – why not put the ebooks onto a CD-ROM, post that out to the customer, and hey presto, you’ve complied with eBay’s new policy. Overall I am very sceptical of the so-called internet marketing “gurus” but there are 2 guys out there that made sense to me – Ray Johnson and John Thornhill. Out of the very few people online that I trust, Ray and John would be at the top of the list.
At the end of March 2008 eBay made their announcement about banning products sold via digital download. There were an awful lot of sellers of these kind of products – not just eBooks, but also software, web site templates, graphics, the list went on and on.
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