Auctions
Using auctions is an excellent way to promote your website or sell
affiliate products. Buy using eBay alone, you can expose your products
to millions of people in over 100 countries. Since 1995, eBay has
hosted billions of auctions, and the rate grows more than 30% annually.
The site receives over 2 billion page views per week, has products
selling in over 7,800 categories and currently has over 192 million
registered users. Over 10 million eBay users visit eBay at least
once per week. That is a phenomenal market, and one that a growing
number of affiliates
are using to promote their products.
Before you start listing your affiliate products on eBay however,
be sure you understand the auction site’s rules and regulations
completely before you start to place listings.
The following is taken directly from eBay’s Links Policy.
Links from your
About Me Page
You may link to your own Web store or Web site. However, you may
not directly offer any non-eBay merchandise on the About Me page
itself. eBay does not permit its users to place the following types
of links on your About Me pages:
Links that directly
offer any non-eBay listing or merchandise on the About Me page itself.
Links to other online trading sites or pages, including auctions
and fixed-price formats.
Links to sites offering the same merchandise for the same or lower
price (including the Buy It Now prices).
Links to sites offering merchandise or information not permitted
on eBay.
On your About
Me page, you may link to your own Web site or individual Internet
store where you are offering to trade, sell or purchase your goods
or services. However, you may not link to any page within online
trading sites that offer goods from multiple sellers either in a
fixed price or auction format.
About Me pages
that do not meet this policy may be removed.
Despite the caution above, there ARE ways to use eBay’s incredible
market reach to promote your business.
The following example of how to use auctions to promote your affiliate
business is taken from Rosalind Gardner's eBook TheSuperAffiliateHandbook
which, by the way, is the only book we have found on the market
that teaches you step by step EVERYTHING you need to know to become
a successfull affiliate
marketer.
Let’s say that you sell health and fitness products as an
affiliate.
Obviously, you know a great deal about this subject, because you
are a high-caliber, ‘expert’ affiliate who knows how
to add significant value to all of your merchants’ products.
So, you use some of your expert knowledge about fitness to write
a report called ‘3 Steps to the Perfect Tush’. Within
that report you've included your affiliate links and links to your
main site.
Let's say that your digitally downloadable report sells hundreds
of times at a dollar or two per copy. After paying the insertion,
final sale and/or eBay store subscription fees, you still enjoy
a profit.
With each sale you capture the buyer’s email address and add
them to your opt-in
list or newsletter.
Within your well written report, your endorsements and affiliate
product links
continue to generate even more revenue for a long time to come.
Do just a little bit of work to write that report and you too can
use auctions to
increase your affiliate income.
Register to become a seller at any or all of the online auction
sites listed below:
• http://eBay.com.au (Australia)
• http://eBay.ca (Canada)
• http://ebay.co.uk (U.K.)
• http://eBay.com (U.S.)
• http://uBid.com
• http://auctions.shopping.yahoo.com
Learn more about Internet auctions from Ken Evoy, MD and Sydney
Johnston through their Make
Your Net Auction Sell! and their Net
Auction Masters Course.
The latter is a free ebook course that previously sold for $30.00.
It shows you how to start your own profitable auction business...
and how to grow it super-big AFTER you empty your attic and basement.
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