Month: May 2018

eBay classified ads make up less than 1 percent of all listings on eBay. These classified ads show up alongside regular auctions and get just as much exposure as a regular auction except classified ads have a one-time fee, no final value fee, and runs for a minimum of 30 days.

In fact, if you still want to continue selling eBooks on eBay, it’s the only format in which you can still sell eBooks. But eBay classified ads are still very much under the radar and not utilized to their fullest potential.

The 2 best uses of eBay classified ads for internet marketers are list building and/or affiliate marketing. However, the rules of what can be placed in a classified ad are very vague, but you can still have things in a classified ad that you can’t have in listings that use other formats.

For instance, you can place links from websites outside of eBay with the item you have for sale, you can have an opt-in box in your ad to build your list, and often you can get away with having your email address in a classified ad.

As with everything on eBay, this too will be a numbers game. Obviously the more views your ad gets, the more opt-ins and/or sales you will make.

So the most important part of your classified ad will be your title. If people aren’t searching for the keywords that are in your title, chances are people aren’t going to find your ad or not many people anyway.

Another thing to consider with your title is how popular the keywords are in your title are; meaning are there a large number of people searching for that keyword or a small number. A way to find out what the popular keywords are on eBay is to check out eBay pulse.

eBay pulse tells you what the most popular searches are on eBay. But something I like even better than eBay pulse is the site at auctioncloud.com. Although it’s not as up-to-date as eBay pulse this site goes into more detail about the most popular search terms on eBay.

With eBay classified ads the number of people viewing your ads is very important so using information from eBay pulse and ‘Auction Cloud’ can give you ideas of what you need to have in your title.

But to be certain about how many people could be potentially viewing your ad you should check out a few completed listings with the keyword(s) in the title. A lot of the completed listings will be 7-day auctions but by checking out how many views a few of those completed auctions get and multiplying that view count by 4 (4 weeks in a month; ads are 30 days) you get a rough idea of how many views your ad will get.

Ideally you want your eBay ad to get a few hundred views in a month’s time but a eBay ad can still be successful even if it doesn’t get a whole lot of views in the course of a month.

Real life example:

A guy named Warren decided to promote the ClickBank product ‘Fat Loss 4 Idiots’ using an eBay classified ad with 5 tips on “maximizing your weight loss goals” and an opt-in box that offered a FREE 2-week diet diary with tips if you signed up. The following are his results with the ad:

– 114 views
– 29 people opted in
– 6 sales

Total commissions earned: $207.18

A 30-day ad costs $9.95 not including extras like subtitle, bold, border, etc. There are 60-day, 90-day, and 180-day eBay ads but its recommended you test your results with 30-day ads first.

Also, something that gives you a competitive edge with your eBay ad is when you can find keywords to put in the title of your eBay ad that gets a lot of searches, thus possibly getting you a lot of views, but keywords in which there are not many results for, anything with less than 100 results is great.

In conclusion, eBay classified ads are a great way for internet marketers to build their list(s) and promote affiliate products but before doing that do a little bit of research and then try using an eBay classified ad.

After you have been able to determine your area of valuable or specialized knowledge, the next step to take in order to execute niche marketing is to look for an affiliate network where merchants offering your selected product are listed. For instance, if your area of interest is on dog training, then find a merchant that provides dog training affiliate program to sign up with. After this, you can start promoting your product using marketing techniques like content blogs and article marketing. If you decide to use this highly effective marketing strategies, then you need to write informative articles about your chosen niche and include link to your affiliate website in your articles resource box. In writing informative article, dont try to expose valuable knowledge but just provide useful tips that will rouse the curiosity of your readers and lure them to follow the link to your affiliate site included in your article.

Promoting affiliate products is not without its hassles, but if youre dedicated and have a strong plan you can make money month in and month out.

Selecting the right affiliate products is key in getting results from affiliate marketing. With the wrong product, you wont be able to make money no matter how much traffic you send through your affiliate link.

One of the hallmarks of a good affiliate program is the marketing materials that the publisher includes with their promotion package. If youre searching for an affiliate product to promote, look for the following marketing materials on their affiliates page. The more they offer, the better.

1.Product graphics

One of the best ways to show your market what youre promoting is to include a picture of the product on your website or on a pre-selling landing page. Product graphics help increase the perceived value of the affiliate product and will increase your conversion rates.

Look for an affiliate product that offers several different sizes of product graphics.

2.Banner ads

Although banner ads are less effective than they used to be in the first days of online marketing, they can still be an effective promotional tool.

Why create your own banners when you can use premade ones provided by the product creator? Banner ads from product creators are generally professional produced and are of high quality.

3.Block ads

Just like banner ads, block ads can be very helpful in your promotional efforts. This size is useful to display in the sidebars of your blog and in areas where you need a smaller size of ad than a banner ad.

4.Articles

Pre-written articles can be hit or miss. Make sure you read through the articles completely before using them. Give preference to products that offer articles that you can adjust to suit your needs.

This way you can get a base version of the article and make it unique so you can submit it to directories for backlinks. Even better are affiliate marketing programs that give you monthly articles that you can use in your promotions.

5.Email marketing messages

Although youll generally want to edit your email marketing messages so that they are unique and fit your style/voice, having a base email marketing message can help you save time and get a quality message out to your list in a shorter period of time.

6.Twitter messages

Twitter messages can help you save time and figure out exactly what to Tweet about when you are promoting the affiliate product. Its not a necessity, but this can be an affiliate program perk.

7.Rebrandable reports

This is one of the most helpful pieces of affiliate marketing materials available.

If an affiliate program has a high quality promotional report that you can rebrand with your own affiliate link, you can get on the track to making affiliate income really quickly.

Rebrandable report should be helpful and interesting. If they meet this criteria, then put it to use right away.

It can be said that affiliate marketing can be traced to a cocktail party. Yes, the one which includes Jeff Bezos, CEO and founder of Amazon. He was chatting with one of his guests who wanted to sell books on her own webpage.

The creative genius that is Jeff began thinking. Why not have his guest link her site to Amazon and receive some sort of compensation for every book that she sold? Soon after the Amazon Associates Program was born. Indeed, it was a very simple idea. Affiliate marketers, or Amazon associates would place banners and text links for individual books or link directly to Amazon’s main web page and some of them would earn a commission. When visitors are lead to Amazon from an associate’s site, and purchased a book the website owner gets cash.

But according to some net documentation, CDNow’s affiliate program actually was the first one to come up with the marketing plan to boost sales. With its buyweb program, CDNow was the first to introduce the concept of affiliate marketing.

It works in the same way that Amazon’s affiliate program works:

The team at CDNow thought that music lovers who had websites could give out and write reviews on their site that visitors may be interested in purchasing. These sites could link the visitor directly to the item to be purchased on the CDNow website.

The rest they say is history. Countless companies and advertisers have now included affiliate marketing as part of their promotions strategy. Almost all ebook publishers take advantage of affiliate marketing to spread their work out to more people.

This has resulted to more sales for the publisher as well as extra income for the affiliate marketer. With the rapid success of affiliates, advertisers are seeing growth opportunities everywhere. There are some companies such as Clickbank that offer affiliate programs to Advertisers and easy access and promotion of these products for free to future and current affiliate marketers.

The history behind things, obviously, make them into what they become. With the knowledge of history we can prevent many mistakes that we may make by learning from others mistakes. Affiliate marketing and affiliate programs are no different. I encourage you to research the past and history of people who have succeeded in this field, as well as people who have failed.

The past holds all the knowledge you need to make yourself successful. Use it.