I’m finally getting back to adding information to my last post about selling on eBay.

I had some research to do and as usual I spent a lot of time reading a whole bunch of information… it seems like anytime you get on the subject of doing business on eBay there are a few new things to learn, also rumours and discussions about eBay rules.

There are good reasons for that tension between eBay and their sellers,
since their income is derived by fees collected on our sales, eBay profits when those customers come back to buy on eBay. The sellers on the other hand have an interest in developing an outside relationship with their customers so it’s a constant ying-yang between eBay rules and sellers’ efforts to get around them.

Until March 31 2008 ebooks,reports etc. where being sold on eBay
for anywhere between 1 and 99 cents! anyone might suspect that these marketers were profiting from those sales in some ways that
didn’t bring much profits to eBay… so that eBay had good reasons
to change their rules about selling digital products.

Clever marketers immediately went into damage control mode to come up with ways to get around this latest eBay rule change:

1. Your digital products can be put on CDs or DVDs so that they can be sold as physical products in eBay auctions. You can handle it all or
partly yourself or have some or most of it done automatically at a very reasonable cost.

2. Another way to continue reaping the side benefits of eBay traffic
is to use eBay’s Classified ads to advertise your digital products and build an email list of customers.

Because these are rather lengthy subjects I will be writing a couple of detailed reports.

If you wonder why eBay matters so much… just think of the amount of traffic eBay generates! Whether you have well established websites or you just launched your first website you know that you are constantly concerned about getting or maintaining more traffic…and here you have eBay with so many people providing or buying products and services making it one of the top trafficked site in the world…

Wouldn’t it be great to piggy-back on that to build your very own niche targeted e-mail list and drive massive amounts of traffic to your website? Just as sure as the shovel sellers during the goldrush built fortunes without going through the trials and tribulations of the aspiring goldminers, there are many innovative ways to reap benefits from doing business with eBay.

I’ll be sharing some more ideas and methods on that subject in next post.

Fran

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