Thursday, November 6, 2008

Ultimate Search Engine Loophole Review, Rank 1 on MSN.


Ranking Loophole

When I review a Digital Product for you is coming from my brain and sole because:


  • First, I purchased the product for myself, and I decided it would be or not worth reviewing it for you

  • Second, I promised zero tolerance for hype, and

  • Third, I am striving to keep my promises
Today review is The Ultimate Search Engine Loophole by Dave Kelly and Chris Rempal, and is coming with the following promise:

Using their secret method you can rank #1 for any keyword on the MSN search engine.

… And all I had to do was to find out if the promise stands up.

You already know me:


  • I don’t like using PPC anymore

  • I also don’t expect miracles from SEO gazillion techniques, because the rules are changing frequently and in one day you think you are a SEO expert and in the next day you are not

  • Then what is left and very attractive is the opportunity to get organic traffic by exploiting a search engine “loophole”.
I am convinced that their price of $67 is right for the magnitude of this information. You can pay your investment within just one day of free good traffic when the system is in place and works.

So remaining question is if the product meets my expectations. Does it work?

My research show me that:


  1. This is no hype; it really is a legitimate technique

  2. The method is to some degree technical but easy to follow, and implement

  3. The method takes between two week and two months to grab your rankings

  4. To making the method work to full potential, this time is good to buy the OTO as well and they offer a big discount for OTO if you buy it now, not separately, later

  5. The OTO is a software program, called Linkubaiter, is optional as usual, and the eBook does include instructions for using the method without the Linkubaiter, but you still have to buy an additional plug-in, which it’s not too expensive.
In general, I used to buy only 25% OTOs, but this time I bought the version with OTO (software program, Linkubaiter). It is nothing wrong with having to buy something else, as long as the expectation is meeting; and I think the Linkubaiter is an excellent up sell.

OK, my conclusion is that the product is worth it, yes, it is just a traffic tactic which is working and in the field of free traffic you must use any chance you get. So let me know how it worked for you.

Some point in time the method may get wiped out as a traffic tactic. I know, and you know that traffic tactics are volatile, but when they work, and how long they work, we have to use them. Without traffic we cannot accomplish visibility, sales and ranking.

Personal note: this product is not for beginners that never set up a simple one page website. The method is for medium and advanced marketers that are able to create one page website, able to monetize it with their own projects, affiliate programs and/or contextual ads.

If you meet the above criteria, and you want MSN search engine rankings, I recommend this product for you.

Click here for The Ranking Loophole I just reviewed for you.

As always, I like to hear from my readers, you are welcome to leave your comments here on the blog.
Regards
Michaela
http://www.ebookscamp.com/

Monday, November 3, 2008

What I Like About "Blogging To The Bank 3.0"




Blogging To The Bank 3.0

It is definitely one of the best books I've ever read when it comes to building a successful blogging niche empire on the Internet.

Rob Benwell teaches a very solid blue print plan that gives you the exact details on how to profit tremendously through online blogging.

What I like:

• Rob is efficient; he keeps things very simple and strait to the pointno hype at all. I cannot tell you how much I like this, when the hype is the name of the game on Internet Marketing

• I found the most powerful blogging techniques, valuable tips or untold secrets to higher cash-flows from my blogs

• Rob recommends email list building from our blogs as an attainable outcome and that alone has the potential to spread your income sources across many assets

Affiliate marketing is his top recommended monetization method, I truly believe him because this has been my strong point as well in the last year

• Rob surprises me by talking about selling blogs, I think he is right, I never did but I shall try to implement this idea now

• My favorite, in extra bonuses Rob included some amazing new techniques on crushing your competition in the search engines and getting indexed by tomorrow, this is amazing info!

Blogging To The Bank 3.0 is the best yet in terms of helping us followers stay ahead of the pack too.

Try it:
http://www.mc-ebay-resources.com/recommends/BlogBank

Regards Michaela

Saturday, November 1, 2008

Fight Back Against The Economy - Improve the One Thing You CAN Control!

While the economy is gaining all the attention, don't neglect the most important thing in life:
YOU!
Yes, you can grow from the inside out and make a difference in our own live by tackling the challenges we face!

Stephanie Mulac has assembled the greatest Self Improvement and Marketing experts online to help you achieve all that you desire!

Just look at this list of what you can grab absolutely free just by stopping by her massive giveaway event:
Download all the gifts immediately and check back often because more are being added all the time and this event will only last for 10 days!
Regards
Michaela

Friday, October 31, 2008

Give Away, Improving your Life, Health, and Wealth - it's only 24 hours away


Give Away Self Improvment Gifts 3
event open from
Nov 1, 9:00 AM East - Nov 10, 23:00 PM USA
Hi!
In less than 24 hours, I advice you to click on a life changing link ( the picture you have in the right top corner).
Why life changing?

Because Stephanie Mulac has just assembled hundreds of partners for her 3rd Annual Self Improvement Giveaway! I am a contributer as well.

And the gifts that you will be able to download - Absolutely FREE - are some of the most powerful Self Improvement products on the market today!

The event is about Self Improvement and Marketing and you'll be able to grab the top products on this topic: services, ebooks, audio, video, memberships, courses and more - all geared toward improving your life and business endeavors!

I've already had a peek at the gifts, I am a contributer as well, you will be impresed with what you'll be able to grab on November 1st:
  • One On One Personal Mentoring
  • Goal Setting Workshop
  • Improve Self Confidence Course
  • Mind Power Subliminal Software
  • Affiliate Marketing the Right Way
  • A year of 12 Self Improvement Audio ebooks
  • 132 Quotes for Inspiration and Motivation
  • 7 Day Success Workshop
  • Healthy Food For Healthy Life
  • And TONS MORE!

So keep a close eye out for this awesome collection of Self Improvement gifts available to download as give away!

You won't want to miss this since this giveaway only lasts only 10 days!

And if you miss it these gifts will be gone forever!

To your success!
Regards Michaela
P.S. These products are the real deal many of them are being sold for top dollar! But for a limited time starting November 1st, they're yours as give away.

Saturday, October 25, 2008

Yes, your eBay business will go on top shortly



Ebay was for years our favorite auction selling platform.
After eBay banned Digital Products listed with digital delivered, fact which caught us by surprise, after implementing endless changes in 2008, which contribute to general confusion, I am confident to tell you that eBay will revitalize by his base of sellers.

It is not because they as a company come up with some genius ideas, it is because the work of dedicated sellers is showing now the determination to succeed and they work tireless to improved eBay business that some time really means there business as well.

By the way, the really genius ideas was the ideas of eBay founders. I remain you just one of them: eBay founders treated equally sellers and buyers therefore a negative feedback can be write for both of them, now is prohibited to live negatives for buyers.
This is fundamental, and the new eBay team has worked hard to destroy it. They create good rules for “buyers” and complete ignore sellers.
In consequence:
  • a lot of sellers left eBay
  • the buyers abuse the new rules
  • the eBay tried to soften the rules they just created, but they don’t admitted that the new rules are the problem and of course they don’t come back to the golden rules the founders created from the beginning.
As a seller, I was a victim, if you are curious just drop a line in a comment and I’ll explain what happen.

Let’s come back to my idea - the good work of our piers.

First, Steve Lindhorst, an eBay Instructor, wrote a book called “Selling on the River”.

It wasn’t a "bash eBay" book. He objectively showed how to get the best of both worlds. Selling on multiple channels you can double your online income and it is not a bad idea. The eBay sellers aren’t familiar enough with Amazon, he explains the similarities and differences in such detail you can start selling on Amazon on the moment you finish to read the book.
http://www.mc-ebay-resources.com/recommends/SOTR2

It is true, we use to think of Amazon as just a place to buy books. We really need to take another look. Some sellers are making a killing selling the same products they sell on eBay, to an entirely different customer base.

Selling on 'the River' - The eBay Seller's Guide to Selling on Amazon.com” is packed with easy to follow, step-by-step instructions to get you started. You'll also get tips and advice, screenshots, explanations of terms, and a couple of video tutorials created to show you how to list your products on Amazon.

Personally I think it is an excellent idea, and you will be better off to try it:
http://www.mc-ebay-resources.com/recommends/SOTR2

Second, after month of searching, Tracy Edwards comes up with a new eBook called: “Auction Classified Cash” it is about using Auction Classified Ads for Digital Products.

It looks like the new rules stabilize and now Tracy explains how we can work with the new rules on Classified ads and use them to continue to sell Digital Products on eBay.

It is about how to take advantage of eBay classified ads for maximum profits, very good timing and an excellent idea, I highly recommend Tracy eBook:
http://www.mc-ebay-resources.com/recommends/ClassAd

You will learn:

  1. Why you should take advantage of eBay's Classified Ad format: you build your mailing list or make some quick cash promoting affiliate products
  2. How to step by step create your Classified Ads using either eBay's 'Sell Your Item' page or eBay's own Turbo Lister tool
  3. Find out the secret strategies for getting more clicks on your ad that will boost your traffic
  4. How to out perform your competition - even if they are promoting the same products as you
  5. Examples of REAL Classified Ads that are ranking well and which ad layouts get the best response and make you the most profit
http://www.mc-ebay-resources.com/recommends/ClassAd

Third, "Auction Traffic Formula" by Edson Buchanan just get out. His idea is don’t relay only on eBay's natural traffic. Discover how an eBay PowerSeller created a formula so powerful, it drives him over 10,000 unique visitors per month to his eBay auctions completely FREE!
http://www.mc-ebay-resources.com/recommends/AuctTraff

This eBook will show you exactly how easy it is to drive a ton of extra unique visitors to every one of your eBay auctions.The eBook will take you through every step eBay has to drive extra traffic then goes outside of eBay and shows you how to use the Internet for extra traffic. It is presented in an easy to follow format and has lots of videos that will show you exactly what the chapters are talking about.
http://www.mc-ebay-resources.com/recommends/AuctTraff

Summary:

My opinion is that the 3 products I just reviled have the power to get your eBay business to the next level, doesn’t matter what eBay as a company is doing.

I think it is clear that you are the one what must sophisticate, train, be in charged with the well being of your business, and master the eBay. Don't expect eBay to master your busines, they muster only there pockets.

Now you have the right tools to do just that!

All the best
Michaela
http://www.ebookscamp.com/
http://www.mc-ebay-resources.com/

Sunday, October 19, 2008

How to eBay Classified Ads New Rules



Classified Ads and eBay Digital Products.

Since eBay banned Digital Products with instant delivery, Classified Ads was one solution but eBay never paid attention to Classified Ads and all of a sudden so many changes occurred, all of us got confused with both: Digital Products and Classified Ads rules as well.

I waited for a while to see if the eBay’s frenzy of changing rules will settle down.
Well, it is not a 100% grantee that the rules will stay as there are today, but at list they start to look stable and reasonable and I decided to start commenting them again.

I am glad that eBay solution for Digital Products is Classified ads because Classified Ads are:
  • One of the quickest ways to build a list
  • They are working for affiliate marketers and bum marketers for promoting other people's products and earning great commission

I am really grateful that new set of rules for Classified Ads are so easy to implement. If you are able to create a regular eBay listing then you can create a Classified Ad listing as well.

I stumble Upon a new guide created by Tracey Edwards that will take you by the hand and show you how to create easy profitable Classified Ads on eBay, and it fully complies with the current eBay’s policies.

http://www.mc-ebay-resources.com/recommends/ClassAd

As a bonus you will get 3 templates of classified ads and you can start creating an income for yourself today.

What you will learn from this ebook is:

  • Why you should take advantage of eBay's Classified Ad format as a way to build your mailing list or make some monet promoting affiliate products
  • How to create your Classified Ads using either eBay's Sell Your Item page or Turbo Lister tool
  • Find out secret strategies for getting more clicks on your ad that will boost your traffic
  • How to out perform your competition
  • How you start creating profitable Classified Ads

Try, and let me know, if Tracey’s techniques are working for you, they have worked for me:

http://www.mc-ebay-resources.com/recommends/ClassAd

Regards
Michaela
http://www.mc-ebay-resources.com/

http://www.ebookscamp.com/

http://www.squidoo.com/BeginnersAffiliateProfit

PS1. Remember you'll learn everything you need, in an easy step by step format to creating great Classified Ads. Don't hesitate in taking your first steps towards your new profitable future!

PS2. Keep informed of the latest changes to eBay's Classified Ad rules and always keep ahead of the competition

Friday, October 3, 2008

Ranking tips for Squidoo lens



For me the most intriguing successful, fun as well, Web 2.0 Applications are Squidoo and Twitter. I want to share results coming out of my research on generating FREE traffic for Squidoo lenses.

It is easy to fall in love with Squidoo:

  • It is free, and very easy to create lenses
  • You get fast Google indexing, and improve your Google Ranking
  • Very little regulations, this is a debatable topic in politics those days, my position is on internet no-regulations is better, example: you can freely use affiliate links, this is huge benefit now when blogs, forums, ezine articles prohibit them
  • You have the maximum possible control over your lens: appearance, content, networking
  • It has also a larger community what translates in back links and traffic for you and the marketing potential is huge

I did some survey about Squidoo and I find out that there is a black spot in knowledge. The 5 advantages I just listed above almost everybody are agreed upon.

What is still foggy is how you manage to get traffic to your squidoo lenses to get in the top 100 lenses, because if you have a lens with the rank of 1,234,567 nobody will find you.

The result of my research teaches me that the main techniques are:
1. Wisely create tags (keywords).
1.1. You have to have a lot of tags, as many as you can (there is a limit of 40 per lens though), and use single words and phrases
1.2. Let’s say you have a tag of at home moms, you also add: at home mom, at-home-moms, at-home-mom, athomemomes, athomemom, profit for at home mom(s)
1.3. Add possible misspellings and typos: afiliate marketing
1.4. Can add question as well: Do you get profit from affiliate marketing? Do you earn income as at home mom,
1.5. reverse words of the same phrases: mom at home etc
You really do not know how the people create search request, but you can guide yourself with a powerful tolls: labs.google.com/suggest,
adwords.google.com/select/KeyWordToolExternal
1.6. You put important tags in the title, the first paragraph of the lens, and in the lens URL:
Squidoo.com/your-lens-name
The your-lens-name must include tag(s)

When I tested a lens that has just 3 tags vs. the same lens with 35 tags, I jumped from a #4000 lens rank to #45 lens rank. I consider this a significant jump.

2. After each update of my lens, I make the habit to
2.1. Ping my lens to: squidutils.com/ping-lens.php
2.2. Bookmark with: Twitter, Delicious, StumbleUpon, Digg, FaceBook, MySpace
(all are system created buttons ready to press in your lens)

Experiment with those 2 ideas and let me know if make a difference for you. It did for me!

Until next time, regards

Michaela

http://www.mc-ebay-resources.com

http://www.ebookscamp.com

Thursday, July 24, 2008

Internet Marketing Training For Beginners Eric Holmlund

If you are thinking about starting an Internet Marketing (IM) business you have a lot of resources available in a range from poor to excellent and, I know, it is hard to choose a leader to follow.
I suggest learning from someone who is a real expert, someone who has failed at times, and someone who’s not afraid to tell you what you don’t want to hear.

My personal recommendation is Eric’s online course, it is a FREE training, and it will take you from level zero as a beginner until you succeed in your on-line business.

Being free, you can go in and get out when you want, but I’ll bet you will fall in love with Eric’s knowledge, his considering attitude, his dedication to give and share with others, and for sure he is a person not afraid to tell you the true about Internet Marketing.

He planed a cycle of around 120 lessons starting with the necessary info to build an on-line business from A – Z.

If you are not a beginner you must bear with Eric through the basics and take advantage only of the advanced techniques which will follow later. Each lesson has a video and a text with main points and action steps to follow.

To help you to jump accordingly with your level, I’ll tell you what was done up till now (July 24, 2008).
Eric starts with:
  • What is an on-line business?
  • Outline a lot of ways to make money on-line
  • What is the difference between self employed and business owner?
  • The basic computer skills you need to have
  • What mean to think as a marketer – lesson #12 - this is the point I recommend to start if you are not a novice
  • Create your own vision of your business
  • Setting goals for your business
  • Create a business plan – lesson #15 - this is a mandatory point to start, but at least listen the videos starting with “think as a marketer”.

This is where he is now and if you don’t investigate this source quickly, 10 lessons forward can be too late and hard to catch up.

To your success
Michaela

http://www.ericstips.com


Tuesday, July 15, 2008

Now Is Information Overload Clean Up Day For Me

Monday morning I fill tired, probably because I work 6 hays and a half per week. The body does his math and decides that the time off is not enough! But I don’t want to lose Mondays as working days and usually I create a list to do easy to accomplish for them. This Monday will be Information Overload clean up day.

Internet Marketing is full of contradictions, isn’t it?
Like:
  • Everybody on our Planet tries to sell something to you but some people will tell you “Info Overload will hurt you”
  • All gurus and not only they will tell you how wonderful is to start as an Affiliate Marketer. Ok, when you start to do it you find out that affiliate links are prohibited in: Forums, Ezines, Blogs and so on. Except Squidoo almost everybody turns a cold shoulder on affiliate links.
  • If you ask, how I should drive traffic, the response is Forum, Ezines, Blogs, PPC and Web 2.0 (From 5 choices: 3 are prohibited, PPC is risky for beginners, Web 2.0 is Ok but not everybody knows how to do it.) What a nice and clear cut response you got!
  • A couple of years ago, I attended a seminar in which I found out that Affiliate Marketing was the best think invented by humans since the sliced bread. At the lunch table I asked how many newbie succeed in Affiliate Marketing, the response was 5%. WOW! What an encouraging response for a newbie.

Now I am not a newbie but I am still learning and I still don’t have all the answers. To some degree, I can separate the weeds. I’ll try to share with you what I learn.

Why I need an Overload clean up day(s):

  • First I created a plan which had too many thinks to do in a short period of time – unrealistic dead lines
  • I didn’t kick the habit of working in more then one project at a time – I did 60% but definitely I have to discipline myself to work on just one project from top to bottom 100% – other wise I lose the focus and slow down entire process
  • I have to learn to say NO from time to time. This is easy to say not as easy to implement.

As a result of all the above I cumulate “staff” which is not 100% well documented, or at list labeled, some never opened. Now I want to list some Digital Products on a website and eBay, and it is hard to find what I want. I need to delete, relabeled and documented all I have or I am going to work in jungle the rest of the year.

In short I need some time to clean the mess I created. I also decided to be more selective with what I want to buy from now on. Sound strange to hear something like this from a person who is doing Affiliate Marketing. Isn’t it!

Well, this is my point. Overflow Info is not going to directly hurt you, but indirectly it will because:

  • It will interrupt your focus
  • Slow you down, at list 2-3 new DP will appear every day
  • Confuse some issues reading 2-3 ebooks at the same time

My take on this is:

  • You have to have a very well done work plan
  • Take just one task at a time, solve the task, and don’t jump to the next one until you completely finish the first one
  • Don’t let anybody interrupt you
  • Don’t work to more then one project at a time
  • Follow just one leader at a time
  • Learn from my own mistake

In 3 words: focus, hard work, and consistency

By the way, this week Terry Dean will publish “Traffic secrets 2.0”, I am sure it is a great product but everybody under the sun will promote the product.

I am not going to promote but for people who don’t know Terry Dean, I’ll help you to find out more about Terry and this way I’ll help you decide if this is a product for you or not.
I consider this is a good friendly help, because “Traffic Secrets 2.0” is expensive and what I offer you cost 2 Starbuck coffees ($10.00).

If you don’t know Terry, I think you better spend 10 bucks to find out who he is vs. spending hundreds of dollars for a product of an unknown author.
If you know Terry you already made your mind.

I think his product is excellent but different people have different needs, and you have to decide for yourself, first discover Terry Dean

All the best
Michaela
http://www.MC-eBay-Resources.com
http://www.ebookscamp.com
http://www.squidoo.com/BeginnersAffiliateProfit

Monday, July 7, 2008

14 Traffic Conversion Tips You NEED To Know.

The traffic is our big obsession now; and the most questions I get are related with the traffic tips

Marketing on the Internet is straight forward rule. You must capture the attention of visitors to your site and convert them to customers. Does that sound fairly simple? Well, it is if you pay attention to the details - and the devil is always in the details! Here are the top traffic conversion secrets revealed.
  1. Try to capture the attention of visitors from the title, subtitle, and from the first paragraph as well. This means you need good keys and long tail keys in all three. But balance them, don’t abuse them, don’t spam them.
  2. Make the offer more than once in your sales page. The more the offer is made, the greater the chances are that an uncertain "window shopper" will pull out their wallet and take you up on it. Don’t be cheap with the lures. Sprinkle the bait in as many places as appropriate. You do this talking about the benefits not about the features. Try to make a clear cut between them.
  3. A common term used in marketing is the "Unique Selling Proposition" or USP. What is different about your offer that the customer should choose your product over your competition? Why is your product better? Refine the answer to these questions in a brief explanation. You need just one or two sentences.
  4. Do not overwhelm your potential customers with too many offers on the same page. If you have more than one product, then use a different sale or squeeze page for each one. Customers are attracted to the simple offers that have enough information available for them to make a decision.
  5. Construct your sales or squeeze page so that it is easy on the eyes. Leave some open space and wide margins. "White space" brings the reader's attention to the offer and creates a small time to think. It isn't necessary to fill up every last bit of space on a page.
  6. Ask your visitors to share their views on your product. Putting a product evaluation or survey or a poll on your site gives your visitors a reason to interact with you. Don't be afraid to ask for support. Getting such input will prove invaluable and will keep the potential customer on your site longer. Longer visits mean longer exposure to the benefits of the product.
  7. Consider the benefits, the problems your product can solve. When your squeeze page is finished, don't stop thinking about the problems your product can solve. Here is another opportunity to ask for input from your buyers. Ask them how they use the product. You could discover new promotion tactics.
  8. When you have testimonials and recommendations from past customers, and then allow them boast about the product for you. Post these on your page in prominent positions. If you have earned the bragging rights, don't be shy about it, but be sure you earned the attention, respect, and notoriety as well.
  9. Videos and audios are the best testimonials.
  10. If you use highlighting on your sales page, keep it toned down. This can be an excellent tool when you want to draw a visitor's attention to something in particular. However, too much of a good thing will send your visitors away. Lots of colors and over highlighting tend to annoy the casual visitor.
  11. When someone is convinced enough to buy your product, don't forget to thank them! Courtesy costs nothing and has the potential to turn first time customers into loyal customers. All customers will enjoy knowing that they are truly appreciated. Make your "Thank You" page personal and sincere show your human face.
  12. It never hurts to ask. It also doesn't hurt to ask again. If you want people to order your product then simply ask them to order. Put this request several times throughout your sale page. There is no such thing as asking too many times.
  13. Create a sense of urgency. Offer a limited time bonus package if the visitor acts immediately or a time sensitive reason you offer something free. Offering bonuses with a purchase is very popular.
  14. Cut the hype, bragging, and don’t fake it until you make it, the people use them so long, now you potential customer will notice these tactics. Writing sales copy does not need to include fantastic claims and slick sales tactics. Try not to sound like a television commercial. Your tone should be as one friend talking to another. Think about the individual person who is visiting your site and talk to that person alone. Speak as a friend sharing some great news.
These methods for creating a highly converting sales page will work whether you're a new or experienced marketer. Consider this short list as a blue print of creating sales copy for your products.

To your success
Michaela
http://www.ebookscamp.com
http://www.MC-eBay-Resources.com

Friday, June 27, 2008

The Last Big eBay Convention Is History.

Chicago was the last because eBay decided to move closer to the eBay community in small cities, with less participants but face to face with real sellers and creating an environment in which each one can have a voice.
Moving in the community across America eBay hopes that connecting with the grass roots will be more profitable for sellers, buyers and eBay.

The first event will be in Oct. 3rd, 4th, 2008 at Fort Hays State University, 2 days event, $49.00 participating fee, max 250 people.
Each event will have a theme; in Oct. the theme is “Making Change Work”. For more info email Joyce at: yabie (at) ruraltel.net. The Education Specialists Trained by eBay are invited to participate, as volunteers and with no profit.

Now some details coming out of Chicago convention:
We are not allowed to use eBay as a marketing tool:

  • No more email addresses in your action description starting 1st July; it is a short notice, search all your listings and delete emails. It looks as eBay with communicate with our PayPal via email but we will never see the email address of buyers
  • No more links or references to websites outside of eBay, not even on “About me” pages. I don’t know when this one will start to be enforced. All you can have is a link from one of your listing to other of your listing or to your eBay Store
  • eBay will limit the “active content” in auctions listings. If you have flash code, animation, java script you must delete them except if they are coming from third parties that are certified as eBay providers. This is very tricky and slippery proposition; it will not be enforced until September.
As you can see, the new eBay management started a big offensive which is a cultural shift that will require all of us to rethink our business.

The old days in which a newbie jumps on eBay and starts selling whatever he can put his hands on are gone. Some categories are dominated by large sellers with deep pockets, as a newbie you must be an educated eBayer from the start. You must know to find good selling niche and avoid electronics etc. I think this will be hard to accomplish and eBay will lose a lot of new sellers who will be discouraged in the first 2-3 month of their eBay experience.

The change in feedback rules, the eBay being in favor of buyers and the creation of Detail Seller Rating (DSR), heart the most the community of sellers.

Keep in mind, to strive improving your DSR make sense:
  • Good score will produce more bids for you
  • Sellers with a high average score (greater than 4.6) will have an advantage in the search results (now eBay sounds like Google!)
  • Your high score can earn you free discounts as well, the highest 4.9 will get 20%, and the lowest 4.6 will get 5%.
  • The Education Specialists trained by eBay need to get 98% positive feedback to stay eligible.

Note: the score calculation produces a huge confusion:

  1. The score for bidders visible on your feedback profile is based on the past 12 month
  2. The fee discounts and search placements are based on your scores for the prior 30 days. In the case, if you don’t have a lot of activities and one single bad thing happened you are drastically affected, but because of the 30 days grace period, you can correct your score quickly.

To improve the DSR, we must:

  • Create accurate descriptions
  • Have good communication with buyers
  • Have a perfect shipping timing
  • Don’t inflate shipping and handling, just give up on handling and use an accurate shipping figure.

I notice that the community of sellers is not happy with the new changes, but personally I’ll be patient to see what happen in the next 6-12 month. I am not jumping to conclusion now.

To your success
Michaela
http://www.mc-ebay-resources.com/
http://www.ebookscamp.com/
http://www.squidoo.com/AffiliateMarketingNew/
http://www.affiliate-ebook-marketing.net/AM-eCourse.html

Wednesday, June 18, 2008

Project New Web by Lee McIntyre

Hello! This is a review of a publication that is very close to my heart because it is related with Web 2.0, and producing FREE traffic using Web 2.0 or New Web.

Do you remember this headline?
“Discover a powerful System Any Beginner Can Steal To Earn $16,496.42 In 31 Days By Giving Away Their Best Secrets For Free”
It is celebration time for Lee McIntyre, this month will be one year since Lee started his online business. He had remarkable accomplishments to be proud of.

Let me tell you what he did. Well, he was sure that times have changed so techniques that gurus are still teaching that worked 5-8 years ago, they are not working NOW!

He stopped following gurus advice and instead he started doing things his way using Web 2.0 and the sales started flooding in .

When he started he had:
- No List
- No Product
- No Contacts
- No JV Partners

In the process he discovered and published the 3 major reasons why the old guru solutions no longer apply:

1) Reverse Sweep Viral Marketing is growing - the net is getting more connected by the day and people are starting to talk. A few years ago was easy to convince people to opt-in, buy, because each new product launch was an independent event. Treat your lists poorly now and your bad reputation will spread through the marketplace, vecause now evribody is related with evribody else. in Web 2.0 we are a big family.

2) Increasingly Tired and Jaded prospects are saying NO to hard selling and hype - people are fed up, and the old techniques like OTOs and over aggressive selling are getting less effective by the day.

3) Web 2.0 Momentum means the days of just talking at your prospects are over - we're in Web 2.0 world now and that means trying to 'sell' all the time just doesn't happend any more. While the old experts still teach you to sell hard, the net landscape has changed forever and that means giving away value is more appealing route to success.

In "Project New Web", Lee McIntyre can teach you how to do what he did. You can follow him in his foot steps and you can duplicate his success.

These are his five rules to help you make more money in the Web 2.0 world:

1. Stop Selling and Start Giving -
He has discovered the more value he give away, the more profits he get back... and he is going to teach you how to do exactly the same.

2. Build Deep Prospect Relationships And Not Shallow Ones - If you listen to any of the supposed big name marketers they'll tell you that email marketing is slowly dying. He is going to teach you how to build powerful relationships with your members that will make them want to buy from you again and again.

3. Look after your Prospects and Your Customers Will Look After You - He is going to show you the massive impact that treating your subscribers like gold can have upon your business, and how you can easily transform customers into your fans that help you.

4. Creating Value is More Important Than Manufacturing Profits – He is going to teach you why manufacturing profits is often counter productive, and how creating value instead will lead to a vastly increased earning potential.

5. Think Long Term and Participate - One of the reasons why so many people fail is because they spend their time chasing quick and easy opportunities they hope are just around the corner. He is going to show you why thinking long term is crucial for long term profits if you want to work once and get paid forever.

Find out more from the author of Project New Web.

Lee was convinced that it is still possible to earn a great living online and he proved it with his new product and he humiliated the experts by stomping on their rulebook.
I highly recommend Project New Web

Regards
Michaela
http://www.MC-eBay-Resources.com
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Friday, June 13, 2008

How To Do Internet Marketing

Hello! I am very embarrassed to tell you the story of my last 4-5 days, but I think we must share the good days and the bad days and the totally out of our hands days as well.

Last week I have had a long conversation with myself about how my business evolves. I made long term and short term plans and I was ready to start publishing a FREE eCourse:


I wanted to transmit the eCourse by emails in 8 odd Days.
This is the content:
Day 1: What is Affiliate Marketing?
Day 2: What is Viral Marketing?
Day 3: How to do e-mail marketing right
Day 4: How to create a Product
Day 5: What Blogging will do for your Affiliate Marketing?
Day 6: Why resell Rights are important
Day 7: How to generate Traffic
Day 8: Help yourself with Web 2.0

Sunday evening the content for all 8 days was ready, I converted the OpenOffice documents on PDFs and I moved them on my host server. Just the aWeber work was left to do. It was late, I was tired but determined to finish the work on Sunday night and tell the world about it on Monday.

I just started to create the follow ups on aWeber. It was raining, but I enjoyed the cool breeze coming through my window. All of a sudden, winds got out of control, began to rain with cats and dogs, and the light went off.
I wasn’t worry about my computer because I have a very reliable Internet Office UPS, but I had no idea when the light will be back. Well, I said like Scarlet “tomorrow it is another day” and I gave up, it was already 11:30 PM.

Monday evening was still raining and I started to work from where I was left on Sunday. The storm was determined to make my life miserable. Three times the light was off and on and off again, I had a river on my street and I had to close all the windows because the rain was falling horizontal not vertical.
The thunders and lightning was so powerful, my Mom who is 94 years old was scared as a child, and I had to stay to comfort her. I gave up working again.

Tuesday I found out that the electricity hub of Essex County was damaged and ½ of Essex is without electricity until next day. I was in ½ where electricity was on and I hoped to finish my aWeber work. Not a chance, we had another miserable evening still with rain and gusty winds, and first time when the light was off I gave up again.

Wednesday I finished, I tested and a lot of details didn’t work as I planed - no wander with so many interruptions. Thursday I did corrections and tested again.

Finally today Friday I can tell you about it, but this supposed to happen Monday. Well, now you know why I am embarrassed.

To get my FREE eCourse, please sign in:

http://www.affiliate-ebook-marketing.net/AM-eCourse.html


The eCourse will start immediately after you confirm your email and will be published each odd day until the 8th day.

Regards
Michaela
http://www.MC-eBay-Resources.com
http://www.emrauction.com
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Sunday, June 1, 2008

Can IM produce success stories in 2008?

Hello!

I had a lot of eBay students who ask me if Internet Marketing is still live and well and make sense to try it. YES make sens! I’ll comment on this topic now.

First it is a confusion going on in Internet Marketing Beginners Camp.

If somebody is not successful it is not necessary because Internet Marketing is a waist of time. In majority of cases happened because some Internet Marketing Methods are changing as we speak. I am talking about the Web 2.0 revolution, about PPC vs. FREE traffic and so on. And not everybody is willing to jump on learning the new Methods, to work hard to keep abreast with what is new.

The Internet is changing so rapidly and the comfortable routine of what you know to do, can be a stopper in your career. Not everybody has the temperament to be a pioneer, but on Internet if you embrace your comfortable pillow to long… you will not be successful.

I have been in States since 1980. I was coming from Europe, and I was looking for a job as a Programmer Analyst. At that point all I knew was COBOL on Main Frame. I got a job and in first month I was impressed with how many other packages, languages, Databases, utilities, plus PC skills my co-workers had and use daily bases. In top of that; courses for new software packages, languages was offered monthly bases.

The reality struck me: I am a good Cobol programmer, but if I don’t start to learn new technology in 2-3 years maybe I am not going to find a Cobol Job.

I jumped in the first opportunity, I learned a new data base called DATACOM/DB and IDEAL language and that decision was the start of my prosperity in USA. After 2 years I was good enough with ADR packages and I start to do consulting and 10 years of prosperity come out of that simple decision to go to the ADR’s package training.

Now those are old packages, but I learn a lesson, never stop to learn new things!

I am still learning, I was curious about Internet, about eBay, about being an eBay teacher, about on-line marketing, Web 2.0, and here I am doing Internet Marketing and keep going learning.

Let’s come back to our topic Internet Marketing. The blue print of your success will be to stick with the following plan and learn as much as you can.

Step 1: Start building a list of potential customers who some day will become your customers and repeated customers.
You may be sick of hearing “the money is in the list” but the number one reason behind almost all successful marketers is the fact they have a mailing list and they have a good relationship with the list. Start now, not tomorrow.

Step 2: Sell others products as an affiliate.
It is nothing wrong to be an affiliate, can be productive and is part of your learning curve of learning what other successful marketers are doing.

Step 3: Create your own products or services.
Almost every successful marketer has their own product or service which can be any of the following:

  • An eBook,
  • An audio recording.
  • Video tutorials.
  • A membership site.
  • Create a Software Package
  • Create reports you can giveaway for FREE
  • Do coaching on something you are good at
  • Create mini eCourses via email, and offer as a backend a real good course or coaching membership program
  • Create Copywriting services: Sales pages, squeeze pages,
  • Create Graphics
  • Website design
  • And so on… I can continue but I'm sure you get the picture.

Step 4: Create a blog.
Having your own blog gives you an instant way to communicate with your list and is also an excellent way to generate an affiliate income by reviewing other marketers’ products.

Step 5: Learn to drive FREE traffic using Web 2.0
Web 2.0 is considered the new generation of Web Sites. The communication, interaction is the name of the new game. To be honest with you, I was a little skeptical for the beginning. But as soon as I realize the power of interaction with others, I completely change my mind, and the shift to new mentality got me.

Part of Web 2.0 are:

  • Social Bookmarking
  • Social Networking
  • Video Sites
  • Pod Casting
  • Blogs

Step 6: Build a network of affiliates and JV Partners.
They can promote your products and you can promote there’s. Compete with your competition, work with them and grow together.

Step 7: Help as many people as you can.
Your effort will be repaid the big way if you offer your services to others who need it most.

Step 8: Stop wasting your time online with information overload.
You really don’t need everything which is publishing on the net. Only buy products that are relevant to your business and your niche.

Step 9: Work with a plan.
You really need a short term and a long term plan to make your business grow. Try to get done something every day. If you have a niche; stick with it.

Step 10: The Sky is the limit but not without:

  • taking action
  • keep going learning
  • staying in the positive site
  • never give up
Regards, if you have a comment drop a line or two.
Michaela
http://www.MC-eBay-Resources.com
http://internetmarketingreviews-michisor2.blogspot.com/
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Monday, May 19, 2008

Build An Information Products Long Term Business Online

Review of "eBay Powerseller In 90 Days" by John Thornhill

You expect this to be a product about - Becoming an eBay Powerseller In 90 Days, don’t you?

Well, that is covered in John Thornhill’s product - but it's actually much more than that.

Anyone who has ever tried to get to powerseller status on eBay will understand the reluctance of most people these days even trying for it.

I can tell you that only extremely stubborn and determined ever make it through!

What about the profit, these stubborn people actually make a profit out of eBay experience?

What John Thornhill does, from where is coming his enthusiasm about selling Information Products on eBay?

John has been steadily tapping into the Information Product market on eBay, he sells digital downloadable products and thereby avoids any trips to post office or costs involved, and in fact all he has are his eBay fees and PayPal fees. His enthusiasm is definitely coming from the fact that this market is huge if you use it properly.

John has a system in place that makes him money - as he has been trading on eBay for 5 years and he happily displays his eBay ID - planetsms, and his positive feedback of over 14,000. How many people you know with such a huge number of feedbacks? Personally I can count them with fingers from just one hand. He must do something right!

Did you hear comments about eBay being dead; there is no way we can continue to sell eBooks or other Information Products on eBay and so on?

Well I am curious by nature, and I studied what John did, how he did it, and I can tell you that I learned a lot from his experience. I had a lot of surprises and I ended trusting his knowledge, methods and I decided that he really was an example to follow. No regrets so far. I am happy with my results.

What he is offering now it is not an eBook about “Becoming an eBay Powerseller In 90 Days”.

He is offering a package, a membership, a specific fully build WebSite for selling Information Products without hype or hiding spots.
He is offering not just an action plan, but everything that anyone would need to know and follow.
He includes a host of tools and products, listing templates and literally thousands of ebooks ready to be listed on eBay or outside of eBay.
You are prepared for more - John adds new ebooks monthly.

If you are determined to be successful in this industry with a huge market you must start with his step by step tutorials and get everything set up to sell the quantity's required to achieve powerseller status.

What frankly impressed me more than tutorials, templates and eBooks; it was his FORUM, where he goes on to give more advice about maximizing profits through his "Many Streams Make A River" concept....

So to conclude:
Q: Can the 90 day powerseller package do what it claims?
A: In my opinion a definite Yes, if:
  • you are prepared to follow step by step and
  • put in the work initially required to get there.
But as I mentioned at the start having looked at the entire package, it is far more than just about eBay and PowerSeller status.

It's about:
  • building a sustainable long term business online,
  • incorporating many income streams, and
  • giving all the advice, help and support needed for anyone to achieve success
It is a fresh breeze, it really is!

The package can be viewed, I advise at list read the landing page and if you are impressed as I was, order here now:

And by the way it comes with a 100% money back guarantee!

To have a better idea about the content of this package, keep reading:

Introduction:
  • Getting Started
  • Why Sell eBooks
  • What you will need
eBay World:
  • Life Without eBay - You will be shown why you shouldn't rely on eBay as a sole form of income and what you can do to ensure if eBay closed tomorrow you could still survive
  • Rules You Must Follow - This section discusses the rules you must follow and why only a fool would break these rules
  • Importance Of Feedback - You will learn how crucial a good feedback score is and how to keep your feedback rating high
  • Choosing The Title - This is where so many sellers fail. You will learn how to create an eye catching title
  • Listing Tips - How to list effectively
  • Automate Delivery - Earn while you sleep. Put everything on 100% auto pilot. Get on with your life and still make huge income
  • Physical Delivery - Shows you how to make the most from your physical items including how to make sure you impress your customers
  • Open An eBay Store - You will learn why you must have an eBay store and how to promote it
  • Generate Visitors - You will see how to generate visitors for FREE and bring back customers again and again
  • Classified Ads - Find out how to run an effective classified ad.
  • Becoming a PowerSeller - Follow these simple rules and you will become a PowerSeller fast
  • CD Rom Templates - You will find all the templates needed to create an eye catching multimedia CD ROM
  • Listing Templates - Here you can download ready made listing templates that you can use to create professional looking auctions.
eBook Marketing:
  • Your own eBook - You will learn why you need to create your own product and how to do it
  • Going Viral - Learn how to make your eBooks go viral and earn you money on autopilot
  • Private Label Tips - Learn how to earn from private label material
  • Affiliate Marketing - Learn how so many authors are earning a massive affiliate income from their eBooks.
eBook Downloads:
  • All My eBooks - Here you can download every eBook John has ever sold on eBay past and present. You will also get every single eBook John will sell in the future free
  • Members eBooks - Here you can download eBooks created by members, you can also add any eBooks you create yourself here
  • Brandable eBooks - Here you can download a collection of brandable eBooks, these can earn you an instant affiliate income
  • Private Label eBooks - Here you can download a collection of private label eBooks. Edit the content any way you wish and even put your name as the author, it does not get any easier than this.
eBook Website Section:
  • eBook Website - Download your 100% auto-pilot eBook website here
  • Set up Website - You will see how to set up your website in under 10 minutes. You will also be shown how to edit the website and add your own products. This is about as turn-key as it gets.
Al the best
Michaela
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Tuesday, May 13, 2008

eBay or Amazon or both

I finished reading an interesting e-Book and I cannot wait to share with you:

Selling on “The River”
The eBook Seller’s guide to Amazon.com
by former eBay University Instructor Steve Lindhorst,
foreword by Skip McGrath.

I was surprised, intrigue, and delighted in the same time because usually people are bias but Steve and Skip are really open minded and talented business men.

The general ideas are:
  • Don’t put all your eggs in just one basket! There are good benefits coming out from Multi-Channel Selling
  • eBay and Amazon are different, the rules are different, the audience is different
  • Both Steve and Skip want to use eBay and Amazon because they can compensate each other and they totally ignore “eBay Alternative Sites”
I cannot agree more. I looked at what we call “eBay Alternative Sites”, and I am not impressed. The software is poor, rules are simple and loopholes will be easy to create and abuse. If one of them will get as sophisticated as eBay application is now, maybe, but this is going to happen many years from now. Nobody can compete with eBay over the night.

To use both make a lot of sense to me.
EBay remains an “auction” company, still perfect for collectibles, antiques and vintages items, art and craft as well.
But the market place is changing as we speak. In the last 2-3 years people are more inclined to buy “fix-price” items, they don’t have time, and patience to follow an auction.
Amazon is perfect as a “fix-price” place to buy and sell.

I know the eBay rules but never had time to discover the Amazon rules, mainly because eBay use to educate people about eBay, but Amazon through you in the jungle and let you to discover how to get out of it and use it properly. If you meet a lion they don't care.

Steve Lindhorst is a very good teacher, he explains in details:
  • what eBay and Amazon have in common,
  • what is different and
  • when is better to use one or the other.
Finally I discovered the Amazon rules, and YES, make sense to use both eBay and Amazon not one against other. Use one to compensate the other.

After you read the 50 pages Steve’s e-Book you can jump and sell on Amazon as well.

Good luck!
Regards
Michaela
http://www.mc-ebay-resources.com
http://www.ebookscamp.com

Monday, May 12, 2008

10 Highly Profitable eBay Niche Businesses Anyone Can Do

My review for:
10 Highly Profitable eBay Niche Businesses
Anyone Can Do by Skip McGrath.

Finding a unique niche is one of the fastest and easiest ways to start making money on eBay.

As an Education Specialist trained by eBay I chat with my students, especially with the ones from the beginner class.
I use to ask simple questions as: what you want to sell on eBay, and the majority of answers are: electronics, cars, books, movies.
With other words, there are big dreams in areas with a lot of competition.
I gently ask if any research was done about the competition.
The typical answer is NO, and no wander that only 20% of new eBay sellers succeed and 80% fail. I don’t want to scare the beginners but I don’t want them to start with false promises.

To be successful on eBay you must understand the eBay phenomenon. Especially now, with millions of people on-line selling and buying, the items with a lot of competition are not a good start for a beginner.

EBay itself has changed over the years. There are hundreds of large companies, warehouses included, selling on eBay and this has made it harder for the little guy to compete.

I did 2 years ago some drop shipping with a warehouse I trusted. One year I made decent profit. All over sudden my products from that warehouse stopped to sell. I did some research and I discover that the warehouse itself started to sell directly on eBay, and the prices warehouse offered on eBay was lower then prices warehouse offered me to buy items. As you can see, I wasn’t able to compete with the warehouse, my own drop shipper, on eBay.

In 2 month I gave up doing business with the warehouse, I started to search other avenues to make a profit.

This is other crucial lesson, the market trends are changing rapidly and we must find our quickly enough and adapt at any new changes.

What Skip McGrath accomplishes in his new e-Book is:

  • He explains the advantages of small niche marketing and why they are working on eBay
  • He shows proven niche markets that anyone can work in
  • He finds niches that people can enter with very little investment and no risk

And as usual, everything Skip preaches is coming from experience and quality research. He is an excellent researcher, an open mind seller, and an honest teacher.

Any advice I got from him over the years was pure gold, never hype or bragging.

The e-book is for people who know to sell on eBay but never bother to search narrow niche, specialized niche which can be a real good source of profit.

I bought Skip McGrath e-Book, and after a couple of years being an eBay seller, I still found out good ideas and a lot of surprises coming out from his fabulous bonuses.

Click now

Regards
Michaela
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Saturday, May 3, 2008

How Resale Rights e-Books Can Make You a Fortune

I had ups and downs in my life as the majority of people.

It is true the money makes the world go round. And when you don’t have enough for a decent life, you will find out that you don’t have friends, associates, even relatives.

And the only way to prevent money from controlling your life is to have enough of them to completely eliminate the downs in your life.

I know what you are thinking now: this is a theory, but how you can accomplish this. I will tell you how.

Did you know that more money was made online last year by novices than by established Internet personalities?

A big revolution is taking place online as we speak, and it is in the best interests of people like you and me.

There was a time when the only people making money online were those people who knew exactly what they were doing, they were knowledgeable, and they were called gurus. People bought what they were selling because they had a reputation for providing quality and they already were recognizable of being Internet personalities.

But it is part of the human nature, with to much money coming in, some gurus became arrogant and ordinary people start to avoid them, and stopped buying from them. The market was still there, people wanted to buy information products, but they turned the head in a different direction, they want honest, hard-working, regular people.

This is how resale rights products became successful, and this is why, the last year, resale rights products have been the biggest booming industry. If you have been scared by the reputation of gurus because you don't think there is room left in the market for you, then think again.

To learn more about resale rights products and how you can start making money in just seven days, click on the link below:

Resale Rights Blueprint

This is a step-by-step training course, showing you how to move from where you are now to owning your own successful online business, selling resale rights products, in just seven days.

The course is very well organized, for each day you will get: a PDF, a Checklist, Video Tutorials, and Templates.

I put my reputation on the line to tell you that this method is a key of success which can be duplicated by everybody who wants to learn, works hard, and gets in the top in a short period of time.

Regards
Michaela
http://www.mc-ebay-resources.com/recommends/JTRRB




Thursday, May 1, 2008

Selling Digital Products after eBay banning them

The Shock, After Shock, and Solutions.

First, it was the shock, the earth was trembling, we cannot sell Digital Products with Instant Digital Delivery on eBay, but we have the following options:
  • Put them on CD or DVD
  • Use Classified Ads
  • Use USB Flash Drives
  • Use Memory Cards
It was hard to swallow, not everybody was prepared to switch from Instant Digital Delivery to create a physical item and so on.

Second, it was an after shock, eBay changes the rules on Classified Ads which makes even harder to use them.
The new rules are:
  • We cannot put a "pay now PayPal button" on a Classified Ads
  • We cannot put an opt-in list on a CA
  • We cannot put an external URL to a website on a CA
To be honest with you, I was looking in disappointment at the new rules, and I ask myself what in the world we can put on Classified Ads to have a sell.
Is not the purpose of a list or a Classified Ad on eBay to generate a sell?

I overcame the after shock and I begin to use my search skills to find out what we can do.
This is my take on this:

Solutions:

1) We can create an eBay list for a physical product on CD. To do this we can use MyDD software to transform the PDF of an e-Book in a physical product CD or DVD. Also read the Do not Panic Report.

In just 2 weeks Socrates created a new version of MyDD which is able to do just that. With the version 3.0:

  • We send to MyDD the the URL of the PDF
  • They will work with kunaki to create the physical product
  • They will send the CD or DVD to the address we indicate.

This is a fantastic solution, it will cost a decent amount you will take it from shipping cost of the physical product paid by customer, and all you do is you transmit the URL of a PDF. This really means the process is still automated because you are not the one who physically pack and send the CD/DVD.

2) We can use a Classified Ad very carefully to stay in the eBay new rules. Up till now we have 2 solutions:

  • One is very well explained in a video by Jim Cockrum, the idea is to use just an email which will connect with aWeber email and use the power of follow up messages to send customers where you want. Search MySilentTeam for the video
  • The other one is to use John Thornhill technique of creating Classified Ads with an opt-in list for a discount of a product, request a confirm email address and again use Follow up messages of aWeber for the rest of the process (sale Page to buy it, etc).

You can go on eBay and look at planetsms to find an example of John's Classified Ad.

If you sell CD/DVD via eBay, I suggest looking it over Digital Media Solution and you will find exactly what you need to do, to take your Product to the next Level.

You will find out what are the advantages of placing your product on disk - because the size of CD you can include more bonuses in CD and increase the value of your product.

You will get a professional looking complete package which looks much better than “download a .zip file”.

  • You will learn how you can structure your CD/DVD to achieve simplicity and quality
  • You will learn how to create a simple menu system that will link to your CD/DVD content
  • You will get 5 CD/DVD pre-made menu designs for your auto-run disk navigation, complete with PSD source file, you can edit if you require and a ready to go HTML menu system
  • You will get 5 CD/DVD pre-made box designs for your need, complete with PSD source file so you can edit if you require, a ready to go default image and blank image
  • You will get 5 CD pre-made case designs for your CD cases, Complete with PSD source file
  • You will learn how to integrate an auto-responder newsletter subscription form
  • You will learn how to make your CD/DVD automatically run once inserted

and much more

You really will get a professional looking package which will make customers to return to do business with you.

Regards
Michaela
http://www.mc-ebay-resources.com/recommends/MyDD
http://www.mc-ebay-resources.com/recommends/MST
http://www.mc-ebay-resources.com/recommends/SMSD
http://www.mc-ebay-resources.com/recommends/DMS

Friday, April 25, 2008

New Rules on eBay Starting in May 2008


Hello! The light in my office is on, the coffee mug is there, let's get busy!

I’ll come back to an old topic now, “the eBay ban on Digital Products” (on Internet after 3 weeks … it is already old staff. It is amazing but it is true).

First it was a shock, I was unhappy too, but I didn’t start throwing stones on eBay.
I’ll explain why! There are actions with short or long achievement and usually the long achievement action can hurt from the beginning.

Do you remember when Google changed the rules on ranking in July 2006?
I lot of website owners was affected, me included. It was a brutal action; it was done over the night, without any explanation or giving us the new rules. I had Google tool bar on my browser and in one morning my rank was gone.
In a nutshell, the Google changes were done with a noble cause in mind, it was a loud cry for high quality pages, content pages!

The web was full of junk, without quality content and they wanted to stop the madness of poor pages on the Net. After almost 3 years, the web is cleaner now, everybody is convinced that the content is the king and the reason you are ranked or not. And everybody is striving to get content.

YES, a have to admit, there decision was a long term decision for improving the Internet content and, YES, they hurt a lot of people at the beginning of this process, but we are better off today.

Let’s come back to eBay. This is a company created for auctions, nothing else, just an application to facilitate e direct conversation between sellers and buyers about an item one wants to sell and the other wants to buy.

All of a sudden they discover that there are items which are selling at a price in the range if $0.01 and $0.99. I bought some e-Books costing me $0.10. Now eBay is a business, they make money taking a percentage, let’s say around $5.00.
1) How much they make if you sell some item with $0.10, please calculate $5.00 from $0.10.
2) It was a danger of transforming eBay in a junk auction company, a flea marketing company
3) They investigate why the sellers of Digital Products sell so low, the sellers really don’t make a profit and they are happy and continue to sell at so low price. They discovered the truth. The sellers of DP don’t make a profit on DP auctions, but they build a list, and they make a fortune outside of eBay with OTOs (One Time Offers), eBay doesn’t have earnings from OTOs and doesn’t care for them.

With other words we the people abuse the eBay system. It was not part of eBay business to create people's lists, in top of that people collected feedback for these low cost auctions and feedback system was manipulated as well.
I don’t make any excuse for eBay but I try to understand the reasons behind there action.

What eBay is doing now is what Google did in 2006. It is a long term decision to maintain eBay as a auction company, and maintain the good reputation of eBay, and don’t do business in the back of eBay with OTOs using the traffic of eBay.

I was hurt too but I really cannot blame them for doing it. Long term it will be OK and maybe the DP will start to sell at there real value. We have to stay in the positive side and obey the rules.

I didn’t like how they did it, it was a very short notice, they didn’t explain all the details, and when they changed the rules on Classified Ads they didn’t publish the new rules officially, to discover them you had to go in community help and read a lot.

What hurt me the most wasn’t the ban of DP, it was some rules they implement for feedback and PowerSeller policies.

My opinion is they have to treat sellers and buyers equally, the eBay founders did and for years the eBay business was prosperous and it was well appreciated by the public. Now the new rules are in the favor of buyers, and they forget about sellers.

Why I cannot let a negative feedback to a buyer, but the buyer can let me, the seller, a negative feedback. The buyers immediately begin to abuse the new rule, it was so many discussions back and force, and finally eBay changes the policy again. Starting from May a new change will be implemented in the favor of abused sellers this time.

The changes include protections for sellers against unfair negative Feedback:

1) Negative or neutral feedback will be removed when it appears a buyer is abusing the system. But, if you think this is happening to you, you must report to eBay by using the “Contact Us” link on any eBay Help page

2) eBay will also remove Feedback when a buyer doesn’t respond to an Unpaid item report

3) Or if buyer responds but doesn’t specifically call out seller performance, item condition or transaction problems


Wouldn’t be nicer just not to delete the equally treatment of sellers and buyers? But at list your voice made a difference.

Keep going the good work, eBay is still the best auction company and we all will benefit if we don’t abuse it. The focus must be how to stay within the rules, not how to find loopholes to do something else, profiting of FREE Bay traffic.

Regards
Michaela

Tuesday, April 22, 2008

Affiliate Marketing Reviews Aim

Welcome to Affiliate Marketing Reviews!

In Information overload era in which we are living now, you need to make decisions daily. Which Affiliate Marketing Products, Tools will put you in control of your destiny, will help you to succeed online?

In one of my Websites I introduce for a good reason the Motto:

Knowledge Is Power!


I was there. I know it is not easy to take decisions; and you need to take informed decision. To do so I read Articles, Newsletters, comments in Forums, it was a tiring, and time consuming process but helped me to find what I was looking for.

Creating honest, unbiased reviews of e-Books, Videos, Guides, e-Courses, other forms of training, I really hope, I’ll help others to get hands on good products and services and make a better living in half of the time I spent to do so.

The first side of the coin: “Content is the king” in your Websites, and you are in charge to create relevant, up-to-date content, nobody can do it better then you. This is the key element SEO and Google is looking for to rank the Websites.
Some people relay on software, “machines” to do it. This is a huge mistake I see repeating over and over again. To gain the attention and trust of your readers you must have a sole, you must be a human creature, you must share, give, understand the needs of people.

You must be an authentic problem solver!

The second face of the coin: you must generate targeted traffic to your sites. You can pay for it (PPC) or you can use Web 2.0 to generate FREE traffic. I am in favor of using Web 2.0. I’ll get in more details later.

For Affiliate Marketing I recommend a Free Marketing Course by Ken Evoy

Ken Evoy created for the first time the cycle:
1) Content
2) Traffic
3) PRE-sell
4) Monetize

You will find excellent resources - cream of the crop strategies to ensure the success of your online Affiliate Business

All the best
Mickey