Is eBay Going to Obliterate Your Digital Business Dreams?

2008-03-29T14:35:00.010+01:00

On March 24th, eBay banned all downloadable digital products from their system. Read here what they are saying.
So, as of 31st March 2008 if you sell digital items on ebay you will violate their policy. Now this will affects anyone selling digital items such as Websites, eBooks, digital audio and videos, graphics and any other product or service delivered electronically.

What Does This Mean?

If you are a Buyer, you will no longer be able to find cheap resale rights or private label rights for any digital product.

If you are using eBay to build your list, this indicates that you will no longer get thousands of new buyers on your lists each month the same way.

If you are selling digital goods you may lose your business!

Sure, you might be able to use the Classified Ads as eBay themselves recommends. But eBay reveals that you can’t use their system for profits. That means you can't promote affiliate programs, you can't use buy now paypal links, and you can't use Classied Ads to make direct sales.

But, you can use it for lead generation and this is a great way to build your customer base using your autoresponder and still making big money if you set an email marketing system. I’ll be back on this in just few seconds.

This may affect buyers and sellers alike!

If your clients are all over the globe your business will be affected seriously. As the delivery fees may cost you more than the cost of the product itself.

People may never buy from you if you are in another country for two reasons:

For one they can’t wait 10 days or more to receive your product.
For the second reason they may not pay the extra costs.

If your product is the only one (or one of very few) of its type you may not going to lose a lot of business. But then eventually your expenses will increase and profits will decrease.

Now, what is perhaps needed as an urgent solution is to make your items physical. And the best way to do this is to burn your item to CD Rom and send it via regular mail. This is not hard if you set up a system to burn and ship CD’s. This task can even be outsourced if you want. You just need to work out the cost of bulk buying CD’s, envelopes and add these to the delivery cost of your items.

You can also use ClickBnak.com to sell your digital products. So, go to Clickbank's site and create your own personal account and list your product there.

How to Use eBay Cassified Ads to Create Even More Profits

Using their Classified Ads system you can place email capture form with an autoresponder set up. In fact, thats the only thing you can do.

How can you make money with an autoresponder?

As you know with a good sales letter you can’t convert more than 3%, but if you use email marketing strategy you can get more subscribers promoting a FREE quality product and follow up with your subscribers until they buy or unsubscribe.

How it works?

Everything is at your fingertips. Just learn and apply...

Create an ad with a catchy Title and good product description using our Business Letter Toolbox products.
Create a landing capture page.
Crete an email course or a free abook related to the product you are selling.
Set up your autoresponder. If you want to learn how to improve your profits using autoresponders click here.
Use E-junkie.com to deliver your product.

By setting up this system you won’t only make few sales from time to time but you will create an intalled base base profit that results in significant monthly income.

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Work At Home Start Up Guide In Top 100 Business Blog List

2007-11-12T22:55:00.000+01:00

John Crickett of Business Opportunities And Ideas is entrepreneur and consultant in UK. Lastly has compiled a list of what he considers the top 100 Best business Blogs. It’s a great resource that provides content, business ideas and techniques relevant for the novice and the veteran alike

It was a pleasing surprise to see Work At Home Start Up Guide included in that list (at #80), Keep in mind that our blog is only 4 months old. It’s only beginning to take shape and that it is constantly growing.

In John Crickett list you will find great sites to satisfy all your business needs. If you are looking to supplement your learning this is where “The Top 100” list can and do help. It provides a unique opportunity to find some excellent new business sites without having to waste hours searching through all search engines and directories.

This is a great supply that be much utilized and appreciated! It will save all of us loads of time and money. thanks for sharing it

Here's you go...Enjoy...

While there are many great business blogs about, they are
not always easy to find amongst the legions of make money online blogs. So I’ve gathered together a list of what I believe are the Top 100 Business Blogs on the Internet. If you feel I’ve missed a blog out then contact me and tell me why.

The blogs are listed in order of their Technorati rankings (T), their Alexa rankings (A) are show as well. The rankings are correct at the time of posting.

Business Opportunities Weblog T: 12 A: 16,213
Copy Blogger T: 36 A: 7,825
Seth Godin T: 47 A: 10,314
MicroPersuasion T: 169 A: 33,643
How To Change The World T: 180 A: 14,709
Duct Tape Marketing T: 215 A: 31,714
Freelance Switch T: 312 A: 10,638
A VC T: 1,226 A: 27,737
Rough Type T: 1,253 A: 69,429
Successful Blog T: 1,432 A: 44,935
Small Business Canada T: 1,517 A: N/A
David Allen, Getting Things Done T: 1,549 A: 53,592
Springwise T: 1,913 A: 23,858
Small Biz Trends T: 2,155 A: 63,364
Fast Company T: 2,310 A: 12,141
Instigator Blog T: 2,477 A: 58,816
Occam’s Razor T: 2,548 A: 45,541
Smart Wealthy Rich T: 2,879 A: 79,415
eMoms At Home T: 3,443 A: 27,125
Escape from Cubicle Nation T: 3,467 A: 202,751
The Marketing Technology Blog T: 3,496 A: 47,038
Business Pundit T: 3,724 A: 114,669
The Engaging Brand T: 4,404 A: 433,644
Influential Marketing Blog T: 4,779 A: 98,886
Drew McLellan - The Marketing Minute T: 4,820 A: 129,669
The Digerati Life T: 4,873 A: 53,353
Success From The Nest T: 4,908 A: 95,008
Business Blog Consulting T: 5,186 A:237,901
Church Of The Customer T: 5,576 A: 250,201
Todd And T: 5,643 A: 161, 019
Net Business Blog T: 5,936 A: 36,107
Don Dodge on The Next Big Thing T: 6,583 A: 92,784
Bootstrapper T: 7,497 A: 50,304
About.com Entrepreneurs T: 7,797 A: N/A
Blogtrepreneur T: 7,897 A: 53,011
Branding & Marketing T: 8,200 A: 710,326
Simplenomics T: 10,252 A:288,753
Freelance Folder T: 10,543 A: 63,590
HELLO, My Name Is Blog T: 11,395 A: 422,218
Self Made Minds T: 11,704 A: 39,719
Sox First T: 12,894 A: 994,161
Young Go Getter T: 14,239 A: 45,373
Trust Matters T: 15,462 A: 58,403
Small Biz Survival T: A: 18,074 A: 875,069
The Personal MBA T: 19,207 A: 142,649
The Entrepreneurial Mind T: 21,958, A: 155,166
Blog Business World T: 23,025 A: 252,405
Working At Home On The Internet T: 23,247 A: 423,900
Biz Informer T: 24,631 A: 904,745
EmpowerWomenNow T: 25,837 A: 117,085
Biz Plan Hacks T: 27,048 A: 1,335,732
CreateBusinessGrowth T: 32,949 A:197,290
Business Opportunities and Ideas T: 33,205 A: 282,805
The KISS Business T: 35,496 A: 621,082
Startup Spark T: 35,747 A: 386,949
Buzzoodle Buzz Marketing Blog T: 41,092 A: 467,418
MindPetals T: 41,714 A: 128,487
Marketing Deviant T: 43,764 A: 281,072
Go Big Network T: 44,842 A: 25,303
Cool Business Ideas T: 49,679 A: 187,126
Neville’s Financial Blog T: 52,048 A: 140,296
Atlantic Canada’s Small Business Blog :T 52,589 A: 795,253
College Startup T: 53,143 A: 184,398
Reflections Of A Biz Driven Life T: 79,365 A: 361,398
Branding Blog T: 93,462 A: 1,110,518
Carnival Of The Capitalists T: 93,462 A: 1,897,375
Young Entrepreneur T: 104,933 A: 26,491
Marketing Genius T: 132,066 A: 2,222,119
Better For Business T: 137,774 A: 590,797
The Small Business Blog T: 140,824 A: 577,490
Focused Mind T: 162,356 A: 520,971
Small Business Tips T: 166,367 A: 74,005
Lifes Perspective T: 194,358 A: 179,801
Business Opportunities Blog T: 199,700 A: 832,678
The Savvy Entrepreneur T: 224,227 A: 391,147
Egg Marketing Blog T: 231,062 A: 740,867
The Franchise King Blog T: 273,240 A: 520,732
Small Business Entrepreneur T: 317,977 A: 883,094
The Great Startup Game T: 331,293 A: 421,492
Work At Home Start Up Guide T: 345,597 A: 1,190,178
Dorm Room Biz T: 360,865 A: 957,072
Startup Blog T: 377,609 A: 2,552,189
Open Innovators T: 395,824 A: 1,230,257
Get Entrepreneurial T: 437,475 A: 446,085
Bplans Blog T: 437,475 A: 1,373,525
Stuff4Restaurants T: 461,534 A: 298,982
Canadian Entrepreneur T: 484,461 A: 237,901
Strategize T: 487,964 A: 2,856,731
The Marketing Spot T: 587,893 A: 2,550,840
The Ravings Of A Mad Entrepreneurial Scientist T: 587,893 A: 566,836
More Than We Know T: 871,446 A: 2,964,420
Solo Entrepreneur T: 1,212,405 A: 471,491
Stuff4Business T: 1,391,575 A: 298,982
Consultant Journal T: 4,262,598 A: 667,342
Startup Addict Musings T: 4,446,976 A: 1,03390,690
Edith Yeung T: 8,911,336 A: 125,290
Boostrap Me T: 8,911,336 A: 550,348
The Selling Sherpa T: Not Listed A: 772,292
BizzBangBuzz T: Not Listed A: 1,484,797
The Freestyle Entrepreneur T: Not Listed A: 1,519,518

I define a Business blog as one that provides business ideas, advice,commentary or feedback on business in general. I’ve excluded any site that I feel is primarily a news based site or that is merely posting content from other sources. I’ve also excluded sites that are too new or have not been updated for over a month.

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