Online Internet Business Tips

10 Sure-fire Ways to Kill Your eBay Business

2008-02-29T16:03:00.000-08:00

It's surprisingly easy to kill your eBay business, if you're not careful - sure, you can start over from scratch without it costing you anything, but do you really want to? Still, if you want your business to end up dead in the water, here are some simple ways to do it.

Lie about an item: Say it works fine when it sometimes doesn't work. Say it's in perfect condition when it has a scratch. Your customers will hate you!

Post whenever you feel like it: Make sure to leave your customers hanging around, wondering when their item is going to turn up. This makes sure they buy from someone else next time.

Let items end anytime: Few people will be around to care about your auction if it ends in the middle of the night. Why go to the trouble of working out whether auctions will end at a good time?

Don't bother with email: Customers are just timewasters anyway. eBay businesses are supposed to run themselves! Never give informed responses to questions about your item.

Sell rubbish: Really, it's just eBay. You can just sell any old tat from the market for a 200% profit. Let quality be someone else's concern - I mean, really, what do they expect for that price?

Refuse to give discounts: You know what your items cost, you know what your profit margin is going to be, and you're not going to negotiate. Remember that giving customers special deals might make them feel good and come back to you again.

Make your listings ugly: As many colours, flashing lights and animations as possible will really give those customers a headache. Write as much in CAPITALS!!!! as you can. Preferably big, red capitals. Be sure to use the fonts Impact and Comic Sans. For an extra special touch, see if you can figure out a way to add some music.

Don't take photos: It's such trouble, after all. If buyers are picky enough to actually want to see items before they bid on them, then screw 'em, that's what I say.

Write short descriptions: Be as brief as possible, and use lots of mysterious abbreviations. This obviously makes you look very cool. You can even just write the title again in the description box. Think of the effort you'll save!

Use reserve auctions: Now, this is a fairly controversial final choice, but it really is one of the best ways to scare away your customers. They'll see 'reserve not yet met', and click that 'back' button before you know it. Luckily, they can always bid in a normal auction for the item somewhere else.

Now that you know the ten ways to kill your eBay business, how about we explore what to do if you want to do the opposite, and make a success of it? The next email will give you ten steps to successful selling on eBay.

Why Publish an eZine?

2008-02-27T12:19:00.000-08:00

On the Internet, it is very possible to make money without selling any product. One way of doing so is through starting your own eZine, also known as an electronic newsletter.

In a nutshell, you send out your eZine issues on a periodical basis to your subscribers. The good part is that you have a flexible choice in automating the process of sending out your eZine issues for you or manually sending them on a periodical basis.

As an eZine publisher, not only can you easily achieve the benefits a conventional newsletter publisher enjoys without having to chop down several trees in the process, you can easily and conveniently spread your marketing influence and expertise to your base of subscribers from the shoes of an ordinary individual.

In other words, you do not have to invest in expensive printing equipment, brick and mortar business, and hiring staff just to run your own newsletter publication, resulting in a lot of time, money and effort saved.

Basically, all you need to start your own eZine are an auto responder and broadcast feature to go with, enabling you to reach out to your massive subscribers whom you can regard as your prospects, too.

All in all, if you do not have the commitments of creating your own product for sale, then publishing your own online newsletter can be one of the wisest decisions you will ever make, given the benefits of impressive marketing power and influence it can offer to you.

Faisal M Ghuman
http://www.worldresourcesonline.com

Viral Marketing Value Of Tell-A-Friend

2008-02-26T09:41:00.000-08:00

The Viral Marketing Value of Tell-A-Friend

This involves a simple programming script that you can attach to a high traffic webpage on your site. Usually tell a friend scripts are installed in pages where a media is placed so that a person can easily send the media to any of his friends or family members and do it quickly.

Basically the tell a friend script is a script where a person can input his name, e-mail address, the recipient’s e-mail address and send the media to his friend or family member much like an e-mail with an attachment.

When the recipient gets the e-mail he won’t think of it as spam mail because he sees the senders name as someone he knows and trusts. Tell a friend script practically eliminates the chances of being blocked because it uses the information supplied by the sender. It is a little sneaky….but it is very effective.

IMPORTANT: Do not think of the referred “friend” as an opt-in subscriber. That can get you in a lot of spam trouble. Instead, invite them to join your list voluntarily from the first message they receive. If they don’t take that action, then do not email them again.

When the e-mail is opened it will be read, viewed or played. Included in the e-mail would be a brief description of the company or site that sponsors the media sent and another tell a friend script. Then the process begins again.

Tell a friend script is very simple and doesn’t require a complicated method of programming. You can just copy and paste a script and simply put it on an intended page.

Finding a script is as easy as falling off the proverbial log. Use your favorite search engine and type in “tell a friend script”.

By using tell a friend script, you can potentially drive traffic into your site and that could spell profits.

www.worldresourcesonline.com

Faisal M Ghuman

Is Google in Trouble & Facing Bankruptcy?

2008-02-23T10:35:00.000-08:00

[NEW YORK - Wednesday] - by Devon Melk. Rumors are now running amok
that the 2nd most powerful website on the entire Worldwide-Web may
file BANKRUPTCY, with the deadline set for this December; being the
date of both discharge and dissolution in a Federal Court of Law.

This would come as a SHOCK to investors and "Googlers" alike who
both profit and benefit from the use of the World's largest and
most powerful search engine which receives far in excess of
100 MILLION unique daily visitors and well over 300 million
individual searches daily - making it perhaps the single most
valuable public data resource as an "information bank" online the
world over.

But is the rumor true or false?

The origin of the rumor occurred when some savvy Internet marketers
began making statements that they had heard "insiders' talk" that
the company (now publicly traded since April 30, 2004, just over 3
years ago) may face financial disaster with the release of a "new
system" that would allow advertisers to get their otherwise
pay-per-click (PPC) advertising completely free.

This, of course, would naturally lead directly (like a domino-
effect) to the collapse of Google's sibling program AdSense; as its
only revenue comes from the direct sales of AdWords "clicks."

The "new system" in question and responsible for the controversy
over getting AdWords pay-per-clicks free is that developed by
Dr Jon Cohen of New York City, New York (now retired) who discovered
a simple, yet effective means, for getting Google PPC ads without
having to suffer the costs involved.

The retired New York doctor and native has a publicly disclosed net
worth now in excess of $70 million [US], having generated well over
$377 million in product sales from sixteen (16) separate online
businesses within just nine (9) years since first venturing online
in 1998 (about the same time as Google was founded).

It is estimated by company insiders and leading financial analysts
that the "good doctor" (as he's called by "all who know him") has
purportedly saved well over $93 million (some estimates suggest
closer to $136 million) in otherwise paid advertising at Google and
the other major players in the PPC targeted-search arena online -
including Yahoo, MSN, AskJeeves, AllTheWeb.com, HotBot, AltaVista,
Lycos and Netscape, just to name a few.

The "secret" became available to the general masses last April, and
its very release caused such a major sweeping stir among the
community of Internet-marketers, affiliate-marketers, webmasters,
ecommerce company owners and surfers alike that the site quickly
rose to break the top most visited 1,000 websites on the entire
planet briefly; and as can be seen here:

http://tinyurl.com/39lnjn (Alexa
data on this!)
When asked if the "secret" would somehow ruin Google, Dr Cohen
revealed almost cryptically that it actually would bring about just
the opposite effect, and "stimulate" even more business volume for
the virtual giant.

Many people were dismayed to find that Google itself is deliberately
allowing the purchase of 100,000's of PPC ads offering the secret
system to the general public -- which indicates to most observers
that either they [Google] haven't caught it, or they simply feel
that it somehow is not a threat to their continued operation.

For anyone's inspection factual and hard evidence supporting this
can be seen by simply looking to the right-hand column when doing a
search for "get google ads free" (specifically in quotation marks)
at Google.com under the "Sponsored Links" section.

Or take this direct and instant SHORTCUT:

http://tinyurl.com/2ctu6j

You can also see nearly 100,000 specific results in the "organic"
fields index located in the center and which occupies the bulk of
the results pages.

One would think that if Google felt threatened by such a release as
this earth-shaking "secret" is, they would hardly allow for either
paid-ads or organic content to make the top searches regarding it.

However, evidence supports to the contrary - and this being the
case now for a full six (6) months.

Mysteriously, within just two (2) hours of its initial release last
April, Google itself actually did in fact 'pause' the parent firm's
attempts at advertising the new system using PPCs on their search
engine - only, however, to release the hold after a Review Team
consisting of some of Google's top executives completed performing
an in-depth investigation and made the determination to ALLOW the
ads to run.

The secret system was recently revised however to include "major
new content" and "more exhaustive instructions," and is now
available at its Home Site:

Secret System Home
Site

The most important addition is that of a so-called "string of code"
(tech-talk for some HTML) that can be added to any webpage(s) that
instantly causes the elimination of the page owner's AdWords costs
right away.

Even a "live" woman spokes-representative ("Rachel") has been added
to the site, and who appears to literally walk out onto the webpage
and talk to visitors and explain a bit more how the mysterious new
breakthrough system works.

Since the addition of this new "live" spokes-woman has now appeared
at the site, company Vice President of Sales & Marketing, Mr Todd
Coutrin states that "sales for the system have skyrocketed above
2,430% suddenly and with no limit in sight."

Coutrin continues: "With the newest revision now in place, plus all
the additions added, affiliates for the new system can expect to
earn even more than ever before!" (Note: Affiliates make up the
bulk of the firm's sales generation.)

The refund rate for the new revised version of the secret (named
V5.1) has dropped to less than half of what it was before the newer
version's release; meaning it's now even more readily-received and
put to use than ever before (perhaps in large part to the newer
simplicity of application) - now making it the safest and one of
the best resellers for the networks of affiliate marketers who earn
their revenues from the reselling of other electronic publishers'
stock and digital product lines.

When asked, Google company representatives stated matter-of-factly
that the rumors of bankruptcy for the ecommerce giant are simply
not true, and that the rumor millings are in fact simply the result
of "panics" brought on by the usual hysteria associated with
anything large, new or revolutionary - or in this case, all three.

Attempts to contact both Sergey Brin and Larry Page, the former
Stanford University students who founded Google in 1998, to request
comment were unsuccessful.

Again, Google itself seems to be the biggest supporter of the "new
system" as it's allowing more and more advertisers to promote the
new system on its search engine before over 100 million daily
searches and surfers.

Affiliate Marketing a Gain or Loss

2008-02-17T13:21:00.000-08:00

Affiliate marketing is on high rise and its a great money making opportunity .General perception about affiliate marketing is that “It’s a Free Cake”, People are earning thousands of dollars per month promoting the products of other merchants on their websites and blogs. Some of them are earning just by sending traffic to other’s website by pay per click advertisements as yahoo search marketing has allowed this. Some people are more interested in promoting digital delivery items and some prefer promoting physical equipment. But is it a free cake?

Most affiliate marketers think that they prefer affiliate marketing because they don’t want to hold any inventory; they just want to sell with out any hassle. They think that they are earning fair amount of money by promoting the products of various merchants. But is it a free cake?

” No it’s not a free cake at all “

Ø Affiliates work hard on website traffic

Ø Affiliates spend on pay per click ads

Ø Affiliates build customer loyalty with newsletters and auto responders

Affiliates are doing all this just to send traffic to other’s websites, but actually they are improving ranking and traffic of a website that they don’t own. They are doing all this because they don’t have any product to sell.

If ten affiliates send ten visitors to a single merchant then hundred visitors will visit the website of this particular merchant. So who got the ultimate benefit? Definitely merchants.

So What We Can Sell?

We can sell nothing but our own e-books with click bank. Writing e-books is not a tough job at all because a lot of authors are available who can write on any topic for you. So sell e-book on any hot topic offer 75 to 80 % commission because you are not going to lose any thing on digital delivery items .Let other people to send traffic to your website, enjoy your time or earn more money by promoting products via affiliate marketing.

There are a lot of affiliate networks available and most of them simply exploit marketers.

It is not a good idea to promote the products of a merchant which is already well known, visitor will not visit them from your websites because they already visit these sites regularly. It is also not a good idea to promote affiliate merchant who is completely unknown.
Faisal M Ghuman
www.worldresourcesonline.com

2008-02-12T16:34:00.000-08:00

How to automate your drop ship Sales

In the past, Business world was shocked by Japanese concept of JIT (Just in Time Inventory); this concept revolutionized the world of business and played a vital role in the reduction of inventory cost of raw material.

Now the world has changed and business on internet has its own terms and concepts. The concept of drop ship has enabled the young entrepreneurs to sell products from a kitchen sink to a car, Infect every thing. As we all know working of drop ship is very simple, you sell the products of your suppliers to your customer either on auction sites like EBay or on your on store.

Still drop ship is not so easy because you have to enter the details of each customer on sour supplier’s site when he or she makes purchases. Another biggest problem is finding the true drop shipper because of high volumes of internet scams and fake drop ship directories.

Now let me assume that you have just started your business and found a true drop shipper, your sales are improving day by day on your eBay store or on your own website and you don’t feel any difficulty to enter the detail of each customer manually .But after one year or so this is not going to work any more because of high volume of sales and better search engine positioning and high positive feedbacks on eBay, you will not have any time to enter the personal details of each customer on your drop shipper website.

So you will need an automated drop ship system, I mean when some one will buy any product from you, his or her shipping information will be sent automatically to your drop shipper. There are a lot of drop shippers are available on the internet but very few are trust worthy and very few provide secure a safe automation. If you sell on eBay then your drop ship listing software has to be approved by eBay so that you can sell safe selling.

If you want to sell on your own website then you have to have SSL certificates for safe selling and it would be better of your drop shipper provides all necessary tools to list their items in your website.

The best solutions in my opinion is Shopster.com because its listing software has been approved by eBay and it also provides following services for your own website

Fully secured website with SSL and payment processing system
Point and click tools to build website, No HTML needed
Thousand of products available

You Can Check This System Here

If you are happy with manual work then you can find thousand of products provides by reliable suppliers here.

Hope This Information Is Helpful

www.worldresourcesonline.com

Un-Revealed Traffic Secrets, Never exposed before

2008-02-11T12:41:00.000-08:00

Un-Revealed Traffic Secrets, Never Exposed Before

A lot of people build websites but most of sites remain un-exposed. No matter how good your site is, no matter how well your site is designed, no matter how bigger is your product catalogs, you are not going to earn any thing if your site does not appear on the first page of most popular search engines. Now I will tell you how to get traffic for cheap or free. No. 1 solution is to hire a SEO firm but this method is not recommended for small businesses. Most SEO firms charge you minimum of $500/month despite of this they don’t guaranty to list you on the first page of Google.

I am going to reveal traffic secrets with cheap or no cost. A lot of people talk about writing articles, creating blogs, posting in forums and writing e-books. All these methods are really good but they cannot drive as much traffic as you need, if your target is to get 1000 visitors/day then you have to do some thing different.

Now let me assume that your website traffic is too low then my first advice would be to advertise on Google. You can do this by going to adwords.google.com; at the same time you can display Google adsense ads and other affiliate ads on your website to minimize the cost of advertising. If you want to know how to get Google ads for free then we recommend you to visit this website.
Click Here To Visit Free Google Website (This system will tell you how to minimixe ppc cost?)

Another method to grab traffic is to get full window ads. These ads are very innovative, there working is very simple, whenever some one will open high traffic website for instance I want to open amazon.com then your website ad will appear on the window of amazon.com. Remember amazon.com was just an example. The best place to get this type of ads is

www.adbrite.com

In the meanwhile you can work on search engine optimization, there are number of solutions available

1- link exchanges
2- SEO Expertise

Link exchange is a process by which you exchange reciprocal links with other sites to improve your SEP (Search Engine Positioning)
SEO expertise requires a lot of technical knowledge. But now days you can get one simple SEO solution which automatically manage every thing you for you
Visit this page for more information www.seoelite.com .You can also avail the optimization services of Godaddy for this purpose.I can't say much about Seo Elite because I have'nt used it yet but you can use SEO LAB of (IMC).

At the end build loyalty with your customers so that they can come back again. The best way to do this is by increasing your newsletter subscribers. Adding news letter to your website is an expensive option because of fixed monthly fee.According to recent researches, news letter and E-mail marketing is most profitable marketing tool on the internet.Email marketing can be done automatically by mailloop.

Now continue work on SEO for a month or so when you feel improvement in your SEP, you can minimize your pay per click advertisements.

Hope this information is helpful

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