Unlike products that get shipped and lose the
reference to your company, infoproducts are an excellent way to
establish a constant self-promotion engine that primes your marketing
sales. That's because it's very easy to link your infoproducts to other
online website sales offers that can help you reap repeat customers. In
Chapter 8, we will go through a sample online sales pipeline and how to
use each step to sell your infoproducts quickly and effectively.
The beauty of self-promotion is that it is
uniquely suited to the Internet where self-made experts can reap very
big profits, even though they've never gone through conventional
business channels. For instance, if you are trying to get published
with a major publishing house, you will probably face the Catch-22
where they will only publish well-known authors or those people who
have already made a name for themselves in their business.
Using the WWW you can make yourself the expert and start to build a
marketing platform AND print your ebook to an audience of interested
parties, without having to get the approval of a major publishing
house. Then, after you've convinced everyone that you really are an
expert on something, if you want to go through the official channels,
it will be much easier to convince them to publish your books.
Great Exposure Worldwide
Another reason that selling infoproducts is so
powerful has to do with the exposure of customers all over the world
through portals like eBay. In a conventional retail store, you might be
able to place your item on commission on their shelves for a period of
time, but the exposure that gets you is not the same as if eBay allows
you to put your product in front of their members.
There are literally hundreds of millions of registered users in eBay
and every single one of them could potentially be your next customer.
Obviously the level of exposure you get with eBay for your infoproducts
will far exceed printing your book at an independent publisher and then
trying to get it put on the shelves of local independent bookstores.
Instead, you bypass that entire process and save money in time and
effort.
With that number of potential customers out there, you can afford to
start pricing your products competitively. Your aim should be to become
an eBay Powerseller with your own eBay store to maximize the exposure
and help you save costs on listing fees. To generate this amount of
product choice and sell effectively on eBay, we will introduce you to
different ways to generate infoproduct content that you might not have
considered.
Modern Ways Of Doing Business
Now that you've made the choice to become a modern business, you
shouldn't have to do everything by hand. Learning how to either buy or
generate new content using slick methods can be one way to increase
your product line without significant investment. Even if you decide
not to go that way, you can also hire third party ghostwriters and use
them to generate infoproducts for your online business.
In addition, you will learn about various electronic tools that can
make your job of listing and selling much easier. We will discuss eBay
templates, CD cover templates, and website templates too. You will want
to learn how to market online versus doing so face-to-face and how
important email harvesting is to starting a pipeline for your business.
From there, you can start to generate revenues not only with your
products, but also through affiliate marketing, partner or sponsored
offers, and even advertising revenues, if you are smart.
Once you have a good idea on how to use the Internet and eBay to your
advantage, all you have to do is locate or create infoproducts that can
help you start marketing online. To make it fun as well as potentially
profitable, you should pick a niche that you love and that excites you.
This will carry through in the subject of the infoproducts yourself,
where your enthusiasm can spread like wild fire.
As of March 31, 2008, the rules for selling infoproducts on eBay have
changed somewhat. You can no longer use auctions to sell infoproducts
that aren't in physical format unless you choose to advertise them
using eBay's classified ads area. You would do this by listing your
virtual infoproducts in the Everything Else > Information
Products category. Even doing this, there are additional rules that
eBay has disclosed that people using infoproducts must follow to be
allowed to work within eBay.
The New Rules
The new rules are:
" No cross categories
The infoproduct cannot contain cross category information.
" Not allowed as a bonus in listings
If you sell other products and want to promote your infoproduct for
free as a bonus, you will be violating the terms of agreement with
eBay.
" No brand names
Infoproducts should be somewhat generic and shouldn't promote other
brand names and keywords other than that particular product being
advertised.
" No excessive keywords
To grab traffic, some promoters resort to flooding their infoproducts
with keywords. This is not allowed when using eBay in a classified
advertising format.
" Not point to outside URLs, vendors
eBay is really trying to knuckle down on people trying to steal their
traffic, so they are not allowing references to outside URLs where they
can buy the infoproduct or to other vendor's products.
For a more comprehensive, up-to-date, listing of the restrictions on
selling infoproducts on eBay, be sure to check out eBay.com. The
penalties for not following the rules can be severe and can include the
following:
" Cancellation of listing,
" Imposing account privilege limits,
" Suspension of your account,
" Forfeiting eBay fees,
" Losing Powerseller status.
This is covered in detail in the eCourse, "Ebay
Info Profits", where I will go over how to list
infoproducts that you will be physically shipping to your clients as
well as how to list virtual infoproducts. There are differences
depending on what you are selling on eBay and you should choose to
follow the rules meticulously if you want to become a power seller on
eBay.
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