Donna Knight's Internet Marketing Tools and Reviews

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  • How to Find Out What Is Selling On Ebay

    Find Out What’s Selling on eBay – Fast

    I’ve mentioned this before, and it’s worth repeating:

    “If you want to make money (online or offline) you have to know what people want to buy…”

    Most people do NOT succeed on the Internet because they are selling things no one wants. If you want to be successful sell ONLY things that people really, really want to BUY.

    Sounds easy doesn’t it?

    “Sell ONLY things that people WANT to buy!”

    This is THE SECRET of ALL BUSINESS SUCCESS!!

    Is it easy?

    It is… you only have to find out what they want and GIVE IT TO THEM!

    Nothing beats hard research.

    In direct marketing, you can always find out what’s selling by referring to the SRDS Direct Marketing lists. They will provide you with the number of buyers, the ave. ticket (sale) price and more.

    It’s an amazing resource for finding out what people are actually buying…!

    If you want to sell something on ebay you have to know what the supply and demand is for thousands of items… finally you can!

    Check out this, under-used, but extremely valuable resource for discovering what’s selling on ebay right now and what the hot selling items are:

    http://pulse.ebay.com/

    The report I’m about to tell you about is from 2007 but it is still useful since it gives you an ide aof what types of items were hot back then. You can use this as a starting point for your research and determine if these same items are still hot sellers. According to Ebay this report will help you discover … ” which categories and products are on fire—where bid to item ratios are high and demand is outpacing supply!”…

    http://pages.ebay.com/sellercentral/hotitems.pdf

  • Ebay Slaps Digital Product Sellers In the Face

    By Donna Knight

    In March 2008, popular online auction site, Ebay.com announced that sellers selling digital products with automatic download will no longer be allowed to list their products in auction-style listings. They will only be able to list them in classified ads. Ouch!

    The only way you can sell digital products using auction style listings is if you are going to ship the product to the customer.

    The disadvantages of selling digital products by classified ad listings are:

    • Classified ads are a lot more expensive at $9.95 per ad.
    • There is no feedback for ad listings.
    • More time-consuming to ship products than to have an automated pay and download system.
    • Classified ad sellers cannot qualify for power seller status.

    The reasoning given for this upsetting change was that too many digital product sellers were using auctions to manipulate the feedback system. For example, sellers could list products for a penny. While they would lose money, they could gain lots of feedback doing this.

    My prediction is that many digital product sellers will go out of business or leave eBay in search of someplace else, probably more expensive, to sell their digital wares.

    My guess is that eBay didn’t make much money from sellers selling very cheap digital products anyways, so it probably won’t hurt this billion-dollar company that much if all these cheapo product sellers leave.

    As an ebook reseller, I have mixed feelings about this. I never liked the fact that people buy expensive ebooks then turn around and sell them for $1; however, I do not think that this move by eBay is justified. They could have set a minimum price for feedback or something similar. This change on eBay will definitely hurt a lot of the little guys and render a lot of books about selling on eBay outdated.