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eBay Is An Online Marketing Site
eBay was created in September 1995 by a man called Pierre Omidyar. This online marketplace was one of the first websites of its kind in the world. The site was originally named AuctionWeb. The name ‘eBay’ came from the domain Omidyar used for his site. His company’s name was Echo Bay. The first thing ever sold on eBay was Omidyar’s broken laser pointer for $14.
Rather quickly eBay became incredibly popular. Sellers began listing all sorts of odd things and buyers actually bought them. The site almost ran itself. eBay had been designed from the start to collect a small fee on each sale. The fees quickly added up to more than Omidyar’s current salary. He decided to quit his job and work on the site full-time. It was at this point, in 1996, that he added the feedback facilities, to let buyers and sellers rate each other and make buying and selling safer.
In 1997, Omidyar changed AuctionWeb’s name to eBay. He spent a lot of money on advertising and had the eBay logo designed. It was in this year that the one-millionth item was sold.
eBay became a massive site with people selling more than just collectibles. You could sell anything, large or small. In 1998 eBay became big business.
In 1999 eBay went worldwide. Sites were launched in the UK, Australia and Germany. eBay bought half.com, an Amazon-like online retailer, in the year 2000. The same year it introduced Buy it Now. It bought PayPal in 2002.
Pierre Omidyar, who still serves as Chairman of the Board, has now earned an estimated $3 billion from eBay. All over the world, millions of items are bought and sold every day on eBay. It is estimated that $14 is spent on eBay for every $100 spent online worldwide.
Now that you know the history of eBay, perhaps you’d like to know how it could work for you? People are making great money from eBay. It isn’t unusual to hear of people making thousands of dollars per month. Even if you don’t want to quit your job and really go for it, you can still use eBay to make a significant second income.
It doesn’t matter who you are, your age, where you live, or what you look like. eBay tears down the barriers to earning that the real world constantly puts up. You don’t need a job interview and you can forget the commute. If you can post things, you can do it. There is always someone who wants what you’re selling. Since they have come looking for you, you don’t even need to do anything to get them to buy it.
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Internet Marketing Training – Prevent Costly Mistakes
by Teddy Chaney
One of the quickest ways to get thousands of visitors to your website is from a Joint Venture – This is the method of partnering with other people and “doing a deal”.
In many ways, Joint Ventures (JV’s) are much like Affiliate Sales where someone else is promoting your website and enticing people to visit.
One very common Joint Venture is working with someone else operating in a related or the same niche. You “do a deal” with the other party whereby they will push your website to their customers, in exchange for monetary compensation, or some other form of payment.
Perhaps the deal is you do the same (push their product to your customers).
Perhaps the deal is they do some form of advertising of your product or services to their mailing list in exchange for you buying some advertising space.
Or it could really just be a simple affiliate setup (you pay them a percentage of sales made to visitors they have directed to your website). In other words you have an affiliate set-up and “offer” it to the other person, who then gets paid for each client who purchases something.
But this is only a small part of the picture. Once you have a decent mailing list and contacts, there are lots more you can do with JV’s.
For example you could join up with another person and build a new site selling new products and share in the profit (and costs). Perhaps you can JV with a “big name” Internet Marketer and get their endorsement of your product to use in promotional material.
How about doing a deal with a software developer where they do all the software development and you do all the marketing of the product and you both share in the profits.
There are a heap of ways that JV’s work, and literally no limit to the possibilities. Get creative!
What you do want to do is join some of the JV networks out there especially the ones that are well known to other Internet Marketers because your then going to get more “deals” that are likely to be relevant to your market.
Many people claim to be experts in the area of internet marketing system. We suggest you do some careful research yourself first to get a a beginning understanding of this some important fundamentals.
The best JV networks I have found is unsurprisingly called the Joint Venture Network.
I like this site heaps because it costs nothing to read through all JV’s. Only the person who submits a JV has to pay and that is a cost of $100 and targets literally 1000′s of people! The cost is quite reasonable and is a great way to announce a new product and get instant affiliates.
As I mentioned though, you can browse all current JV’s for free if you wish. I’m a member and can vouch for it.
There is a special “one-time-offer” when you join to get some extra special deals as well and to change your membership type right up to Platinum where you get the ability to post “free” announcements every 30 days instead of paying $100 (this would be of use to the bigger marketer who is releasing new products on a regular basis). But you don’t need to do that, you can join for free and use it with paying anything if you wish.
Of course you don’t need to join a JV site to find people looking for a Joint Venture. You can also just go direct to the source and ask your existing contacts, or pick up the phone and start calling. I just find it much easier to put out an announcement, and get people who are interested to contact me Nice!
Or what about attending a major Internet Marketing event. I did this myself; in fact I attended the Singapore World Internet Summit in May 2007 for this very purpose!
Can you find someone to exchange skills with? If done properly the process of doing this can build long-term relationships. Obviously anytime you are working with another person you need to make sure you build up a level of report and trust, and where possible and practical get an agreement in writing so both parties know exactly where they stand and what their obligations are.
This is of particular importance in the case of a joint ventures setting up a new site. In these types of situation you need to have a clear understanding of expenses (who is paying for them, who has the authority to “charge expenses” i.e. either or both parties), how the profits are to be used and shared (e.g. even split, profits left in system, or taken out monthly, etc).
JV’s can potentially be a massive way to increase visitors to your website!
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Creating a Blog for Profit
Creating a blog is fairly easy, as you saw on the how to make money blogging page. What’s harder is picking the topic you want to write on.
Choosing a topic doesn’t seem hard at first; for example, write about your business. But if ten thousand people are also writing about the same business…you’re one of many. How can you stand out from the crowd, and get your audience to notice you?
How to Start a Blog: Choose Your Theme Wisely
There are an unlimited number of subjects for you to pick to blog about. Sometimes it is best to start with something you are familiar with. This way it would be easier to come up with fresh new information to post.
Let’s take dieting as an example. It’s something that many people want to know about, so there is a large potential audience. Unfortunately, there is also a very large supply of dieting blogs! So how can you stand out in this crowd?
Niche Down Your Topic
Continuing with the dieting example, maybe you want to target a specific audience — baby boomers for example. There are a whole lot fewer blogs dedicated to weight loss for baby boomers than for dieting in general.
Hmmm, but there are still a lot of dieting blogs that cover the over 40 crowd. So maybe you want to target people who are over 40 pounds overweight? What are their special needs and problems?
You see where I’m going with this? The more specific your audience, the better chance you have of being found by them.
(And if you want to see a blog that uses this example, check out the blog for Losing Weight Over 40.)
Creating a Blog to be Profitable
Creating a blog is easier once you have your target audience in mind. And it’s also more profitable! And just why is that?
When you have targeted traffic to your blog, several things happen. First, if you use AdSense or YPN on your blog, the advertisements become more targeted as well. The better the ads match your audience, the more likely they will click on them.
Creating a blog that is targeted also means that if you’re selling affiliate (or your own) goods, there is a better chance that the right people will want to buy what you have to sell. Using the dieting example again, the diet products aimed at the 20-something crowd won’t likely be a winner with the over 40 crowd.
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