Category Archives: Online Marketing

If you really want to become a successful eBay seller, meaning that you want eBay to be a real business for you instead of just a hobby or a way for you to clean the clutter out of your house, you’re going to need to make a shift in the way you sell on eBay.

Most people will sell anything on eBay that they can find as long it can make them money (and sometimes even if it won’t).

If you try to run a business on eBay using this model of selling anything and everything, you’re going to find yourself playing the low price game where you’re always dealing with razor thin margins just so that you can get your products sold.

A lot of beginners who want to start making money on the Internet have limited resources.

Since I’ve been there too, I want to give you a quick guide to making money with affiliate marketing with almost no money. You could do this with nothing, but if you can come up with $20 (check couch cushions  or ask friends), then you can make money faster and set yourself up to succeed long term.

First thing you need to do is find yourself a product you want to promote. The key is to find a popular product that people are already searching for by name. One easy way is to go to a site like Clickbank and check out the gravity (grav) of a product. If it’s over 80, then you’ve got yourself a very popular product and a good candidate for this system.

New and intermediate affiliate marketers! Here is something for you! You are free to sell popular software ebooks and video ebooks on the net!

There are many individuals online looking for products, information, software or ebooks to sell. Many are starting home businesses in order to bring in extra income. Often folks join affiliate programs expecting to make extra money, but they begin to realize that they do not control the product or income.

Todd Wasserman over at Brandweek has an interesting piece today on a January survey by iProspect and Jupiter Research who polled 2223 respondents as a measure of social networking sites which they defined as sites where users post their own content.

Also found in the study:

• adults are more likely to visit search engines daily than to visit social networking site. 40% of adults visited Yahoo daily while only 12% visited MySpace.

Have you been bitten by an ideavirus?
Have you started one for yourself?
Do you know what an ideavirus is?
Do you know how to spread one once you start it?

In today’s market, especially on the internet, success isn’t as much about having bigger, better, smarter, cooler ‘stuff’. It is about being able to market that ‘stuff’ in a way that the consumer will market it to others. When they do that, you win with better marketing because marketing is about spreading ideas and ideas are what we have left to compete with.