Archive for September, 2008

The resource box

When you have written your article we come to the most important part of article marketing.

The infamous resource box. This is where you get to promote your website, blog or eBay shop. The mistake most make is to write something like this.

Gary Gowan is an eBay consultant who teaches companies and individuals how to become powersellers in 90 days.  Who cares what I can do, the reader of the article certainly doesn’t.

They want to know what’s in it for them. A better resource box would say something like this.

If you want to become a powerseller and earn thousands of dollars a month on ebay learn how at www.auctionrichesblueprint.com

Now that resource box speaks to the reader and will get you lots of visitors to your website.

That’s all for today

Talk soon

Gary

There’s one aim in article marketing, getting as much targeted traffic to your website as possible.

If your article is well written, solves problems and provides valuable information there is the chance that you could drive swarms of eager buying traffic to your website or eBay shop.

Article tips.

Try to get your main keyword in your sub headline.

Put your main keyword in the first 20 words at least twice. Then try to fit the keyword in the middle of the article once and again at least once at the end of the article.

Just doing this alone will get you more targeted traffic. So think about the keywords people in your niche use and write individual articles for all the keywords.

Talk soon

Gary

Today let’s talk about article marketing.

Article marketing is one of the oldest, yet best ways to market any product.

Driving traffic to an affiliate site or your own website couldn’t be easier. All you have to do is write an original article or buy a bunch of plr articles and submit them to the top article directories.

Article writing tips.

Pick a great headline and try to get your main keyword in the article.

Something along the lines of  “the one secret that could make you rich”       

Someone who wants to earn money and sees that headline would be drawn to it. Who wouldn’t want to know the one secret that could make you rich?

Or how about “the seven secrets to affiliate marketing riches” again a headline that makes you sit up and take notice if you want to make money as an affiliate marketer.

After the headline you need a good sub headline, about 400 words of compelling body text and a great resource box that speaks to your target market.

When you have all of the above completed it’s time to submit your article.

Next time we will have a look at the sub headline and body copy.

Gary

 

In a few days eBay’s new changes are coming in. lets quickly take a look at what’s going on.

The changes are happening mainly in the buy it now and shop categories on eBay.

The changes to the shop format are huge. The pricing changes are as follows.

No shop listing fee price.                                  Buy it now fee £0.40 pence

Basic shop price £14.99p     British pounds.    Buy it now fee £0.20 pence.

Featured shop price £49.99  British pounds.    Buy it now fee £0.05 pence.

Anchor shop price    £349.99 British pounds.  Buy it now fee £0.01 pence

All shop listings will appear in the regular search listings. Not at the bottom of the page as before.

If you have a shop you also get marketing and promotional flyers, a newsletter to promote your shop with and more.

If you have a lot of the same items you can list them all at the same time for one listing fee.

Shop listings will also run for a month, so if you have a shop and spend £0.20pence listing an item it will run for a month.

If you don’t have a shop and list one item at £0.40p this will last for one month.

So if you list a lot of items then get a shop. If you only list a few items a month don’t open a shop.

Keep your customer service good to ensure high place listings.

Ok that’s enough for today. It’s Saturday and I’m of out for something to eat with the misses, have a great weekend.

Talk soon.

Gary

Here’s a link for more information about all these changes.

www.ebay.co.uk/buyitnow08

 

 

 

 

 

There are many ways to market the affiliate product you’ve decided to promote.  article marketing works great as does promoting the product to your mailing list if you have one.

if you have’nt start building one now. get started building one now.

The quickest way though to get traffic quickly to test a market is pay per click advertising. google, yahoo and msn have very good pay per click programs.

here’s a few tips if your thinking of using pay per click marketing.  test the product by only bidding on the product and creators name.

For instance if i was promoting john thornhill’s powerseller program, i would bid on the following keywords.

john thornhill, ninety day powerseller.com, john thornhill review, ninety day powerseller.com review. buy ninety day powerseller.com

These are very targeted keywords, anyone putting these keywords into google is ready to buy.  always start a new campaign like this to test the market.

Never start a pay per click campaign with general keywords like make money, unless you want to throw away your hard earned cash.

Next time we will cover article marketing, one of my favourites.

regards

Gary

In the second part of our beginners affiliate marketing course we are going to look at how to pick a great product to promote.

There are certain criteria that you must follow when picking product.

The product must have a great sales letter, a great headline followed by a compelling sales letter that makes you want to buy the product.

In fact when you finally decide on a product I would actually buy the thing and read it. This will give you a good feeling for the product and help you focus on the benefits it offers to your market.

When you head over to clickbank.com and find your niche, sort everything by gravity. The products with high gravity offer you the best chance of sales.

Check out all the sales letters of the top products and sign up to receive the newsletters of the top 5 on your list. This will give you a good idea of who has a good autoresponder series in place.

Do all the above and your on you’re on your way to picking a product that will sell.

Here’s a few links to good sales letters in different niches. This will give you an idea of what you’re looking for.

Become a powerseller in ninety days

truth about abs

Affiliate commission 

fatloss for idiots

Affiliate marketing for beginners.

When starting out on your affiliate marketing career the first thing to do is pick a niche to promote.

What you need to do is write down a list of your top 10 favorite hobbies.

For me this would be

Selling on eBay                                    affiliate marketing

Writing                                                 football

Biking                                                  Reading

Sales and marketing                             martial arts

Nutrition                                              spending time with my two kids

Stage 1: After you have your list what you need to do is head over to www.clickbank.com and find out if people are selling related products there.  Check the gravity to see if it’s a popular niche, gravity over 15 is ok. If there’s products with good gravity keep them on your list and go to stage two of identifying a profitable niche.

Stage two:  plug your list into Google’s search engine and see if there are lots of pay per click ads. If there is your ok, if not cross it of your list.

Stage 3: head over to eBay.com and look for good info products on your subject, check out completed listings to see if the niche sells well on eBay.

On eBay you’ll find quality info products for a few bucks so buy a couple of books and have a good read so you can get an idea of what type of info products people are buying.

Once you’ve done this your on your way to guaranteeing you will be promoting a profitable niche.

In a few days well look at how to pick the best product to promote and then marketing the products for big bucks. Follow this course, take action and soon you’ll be making your first dollars online.

Next time

Gary

 

 

 

Today let’s look at a very popular product that sells by the boat full on eBay.

It’s the games market, games for psp or wii or Xbox sell by the thousand on eBay and you profit from this in many ways.

Today were going to look at how we can make money without having to compete with the sellers on eBay of these games, there’s a list of the most popular games selling on eBay right now below.

Gears of War (Xbox 360)

Lumines (PlayStation Portable)

Forza Motorsport 2 (Xbox 360)

NCAA Football 08 (Xbox 360)

Guitar Hero Encore: Rocks the 80s (Playsta…

The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess (Wi…

NCAA Football 08 (Playstation 3)

Super Paper Mario (Wii)

Final Fantasy VII (Playstation)

New Super Mario Bros. (Nintendo DS)

Madden NFL 07 (Xbox 360)

Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six: Vegas (Xbox 360)…

Crackdown (Xbox 360)

Mario Party 8 (Wii)

Resistance: Fall of Man (Playstation 3)

Final Fantasy VIII (Playstation)

Guitar Hero II (Xbox 360)

NASCAR 08 (Xbox 360)

Wii Play (with Wii Remote) (Wii)

God of War (Playstation 2)

The Darkness (Xbox 360)

Wario Ware: Smooth Moves (Wii)

God of War II (Playstation 2)

Halo 2 (Xbox)

Call of Duty 3 (Xbox 360)

Super Mario 64 (Nintendo 64)

Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories (Pl…

Resident Evil 4: Wii Edition (Wii)

Mario Kart 64 (Nintendo 64)

Pokemon Diamond Version (Nintendo DS)

Halo: Combat Evolved (Xbox)

Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (Playstation…

Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Advanced Warfight…

Guitar Hero II (Playstation 2)

Madden NFL 07 (Playstation 2)

Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six: Vegas (Playstati…

So how do we make big bucks out of this very popular category on eBay? Well I would make money by selling an info product that either teaches the buyers of these products how to play the games better or shows them how buy the games cheaper.

For instance “How to be a gears of war champion” seven simple steps to becoming a champ quickly and easily.

I know a guy for instance that makes over $100,000 thousand dollars a year selling an eBook that teaches people how to play a very popular American football game better.

These games are very addictive to a lot of people and more than willing to pay big bucks to learn how to play them better.

Or how about showing people where they can buy console games at wholesale prices, CD books with lists of game wholesalers sell in large numbers on eBay. Due to the high demand and cost of games these days.

If you want a list of wholesalers take a look here. This is the resource I use daily myself and for my clients.

Best

Gary

The next item that we will look at is tickets. Tickets are one of the biggest sellers on ebay and there’s serious money to be made selling tickets.

Every type is available on eBay, everything from concert tickets to sports tickets can be found selling for huge sums on eBay.

The problem for anyone wanting to make money from this of course is finding enough quality tickets to sell.

Below I have listed the most popular tickets selling for big bucks on eBay right now.

Dallas Cowboys vs Indianapolis Colts (PRE)…

Nascar Nextel Cup Series: Sharpie 500 Tick…

San Diego Chargers vs Seattle Seahawks (PR…

Pittsburgh Steelers vs Green Bay Packers (…

Los Angeles Dodgers vs San Francisco Giant…

Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim vs Boston Re…

Lollapalooza Tickets 8/3/07 (Chicago)

Chicago Cubs vs New York Mets Tickets 8/5/…

Dallas Cowboys vs Denver Broncos (PRE) Tic…

Los Angeles Dodgers vs San Francisco Giant…

Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim vs Boston Re…

Cleveland Browns vs Kansas City Chiefs (PR…

Chicago Cubs vs New York Mets Tickets 8/4/…

Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim vs Boston Re…

New York Yankees vs Kansas City Royals Tic…

Cleveland Browns vs Pittsburgh Steelers Ti…

Nascar Nextel Cup Series: Allstate 400 at …

Chicago Cubs vs New York Mets Tickets 8/3/…

Toby Keith Tickets 8/4/07 (Detroit Lakes)

Los Angeles Dodgers vs San Francisco Giant…

Dave Matthews Band Tickets 8/7/07 (Camden)…

New York Yankees vs Kansas City Royals Tic…

Cleveland Indians vs New York Yankees Tick…

Baltimore Ravens vs Philadelphia Eagles (P…

Tennessee Titans vs Washington Redskins (P…

Kansas City Chiefs vs Miami Dolphins (PRE)…

Houston Texans vs Chicago Bears (PRE) Tick…

Austin City Limits Music Festival – 3 Day …

Dave Matthews Band Tickets 8/4/07 (Hartfor…

New York Yankees vs Kansas City Royals Tic…

New York Yankees vs Chicago White Sox Tick…

New York Yankees vs Chicago White Sox Tick…

Dallas Cowboys vs New York Giants Tickets …

Chicago Cubs vs St Louis Cardinals Tickets…

Dave Matthews Band Tickets 8/8/07 (Camden)…

San Diego Chargers vs Chicago Bears Ticket…

Minnesota Vikings vs St Louis Rams (PRE) T…

Virgin Festival (2 Day Pass) Tickets 8/4/0…

San Francisco 49ers vs Denver Broncos (PRE…

Dave Matthews Band Tickets 8/10/07 (Burget…

Rage Against The Machine Tickets 8/24/07 (…

Dave Matthews Band Tickets 8/11/07 (Bristo…

Cleveland Indians vs New York Yankees Tick…

New York Yankees vs Chicago White Sox Tick…

If you could get your hands on any of these tickets and listed them on eBay right now you’d be making some serious cash.

Ok I’m going to introduce you to a little known resource created by one of eBay’s top powersellers of tickets on ebay.

If you’re interested in selling tickets for serious money this little book will tell you the secrets to buying the latest tickets for concerts and sport games and teach you how to sell them on ebay.

Good luck

Gary

Over the next few posts I’m going to reveal some of the most profitable items selling on eBay, these items and ideas are ideal if you’re thinking of starting a business on eBay if you have no product yourself.

So for those people who want to start an internet biz on eBay here’s some off the hottest selling items on eBay right now.

First of all I’m sure you’ve heard of eBay motors. This is one of the hottest selling sections of eBay.

Millions of dollars are spent every year on eBay motors with everything from cars to car parts to car tools been sold.

You can buy everything from modern sports cars to vintage cars.

One of the biggest selling items is car parts and accessories and this is where I would start if I were you.

Many people have built very profitable businesses selling used car parts. There is a huge demand for car parts on eBay and you could start to make some serious money in no time at all if you can get your hands on car parts to sell.

So where can you get hold of used car parts in your city. Well the best place to start is a breakers yard. Every city on the planet has a breakers yard, what these guys do is buy or pick up damaged cars and then break them up keeping the good parts for sale and scrapping the damaged goods.

All you have to do is approach them with a deal. You’ll come down to the yard and take pictures of the good used car parts, List them on eBay and split the profits with the breaker.

Now would you pass up an offer like that if you were a scrapyard owner? I don’t think so do you?

The guy has nothing to lose. You’re taking the pictures, listing the item and paying the listing fees etc.

The breakers yard owner can’t lose, if there’s no sale he doesn’t pay a dime and if there’s a sale he gets half the profits after the fees have been paid.

All you have to do is your research on eBay and find out what’s selling and at what price, (I covered how to find what’s selling and what buyers are looking for on eBay in a previous post) then look for those items in the breakers yard, if you find them your in biz.

Mission accomplished an eBay biz in the making and you could potentially make a ton of money.

Next time I will reveal another profitable niche on eBay and how you can make money from it.

Until next time.

Gary