Just a quick note to say that I found your audio session with Dan so insightful. It made me think of so many opportunities that I never gave a second thought. It also made more sense of the resale rights and digital products market.

I burned the audio to CD and I listen to it a couple of times a week when in the car on my sales rep job.

Many thanks again,
David
http://www.multimediainformationproductsonline.com/recommends/InstantCD/

I dont think I will waste my time printing propucts ect I have many successful online business and ebay does not mean the end of eBooks.

Danny

They find the classified ad from the search only. It is shown in the search results…

I had an AD for 3 days now… 564 views!! but not a single contact.. although my item sells very well when in the auction format!!

Pam,

Amazon has stopped digital items too as per some people selling there!

True, there is a classified link tab at the top but it’s always dark and doesn’t work.

If ebook sellers now have to use classfied ads – how does anyone actually find it?

Even on the ebay site map, classified ads does not appear.

I’m excited from listening to your call. This eBay change is rich with opportunity

Cheers

Ian
http://ian-mcconnell.com/

I have been looking at multi-media presentations presented on CD/DVD using autorun menu creators. There are many types of autorun programs out there that will do a lot more than simply automatically run your disk on the user’s computer.

There are splash screens, menu buttons that take the viewer to websites, open pdf’s, show slides, movies (on your own customized movie player), play audio, and have security features such as the ability to lock or unlock the disk – create expiration dates for trial versions, install software, and you can even create .exe versions for instant delivery, as well, with some of these programs.

I know that is dicey for some users but it is available in many of these programs. Go have a look for them. I won’t recommend any because it has been years since I used them and today all these extra features I mentioned weren’t available when I created my disks.

I just had a basic menu with a silent splash screen. Today, you can play music when the splash screen opens if you like, decide if the disk menu opens full screen or not, or uses a specific shape that appears on the desktop, whether a desktop icon appears to recall the files copied to the user’s computer from the disk so the disk doesn’t have to be running each time you want to use the information on it – there are all kinds of new bells and whistles on these programs and many cost about $40 or less!

As to shipping costs, look at Netflix. They deliver their DVD’s in the most flimsy paper envelope I have ever used but it is very effective. I also received a great autorun CD once from an eBay seller who sent his CD in a cardboard storage sleeve that was barely larger than the disk but it had his logo and website printed on it and looked rather classy, I thought. So it is all in the presentation of your product, its perceived value, while maintaining low costs for you!

Once you have your system set up you can burn CD’s in a few minutes and remember each time you do it is like PRINTING MONEY! If you give the viewer a great experience, can send them to your website or include a catalog of your other products in an interactive environment on the CD/DVD you are engaging them a lot longer than when they are simply reading an ebook.

I used to resell OPEN OFFICE on a CD (yes, you could download it for eight hours with a chance of errors or your could get in a few days on my CD! Not many had DSL then!) and I used an autorun menu that was just a menu but it looked impressive and installed whatever the user wanted from the disk with a single click.

I used a paper thank you card that explained what to do if the automenu didn’t run and I personally signed the card! Dropped the mailer in the post and cashed my checks at the same time! This was before Paypal automated payment.

Today you can have a fulfilment company burn and ship the disk for less than two dollars and pass the shipping costs on to the customer which are not much domestically. Internationally, yes, it is more but again you can let the fulfilment company handle that after the sale. All you have to do it make sure the customer knows what the shipping will be to their door. So if you are selling in volume, you are not doing any repetitive tasks with this method if you have set up a script that works with your fulfilment company.

Worth looking into, I’d say. Otherwise, just do it yourself.

It may be that most of us will be creating more than a simple ebook on CD/DVD in the future. There are many opportunities here for creating upsells and affiliate links sales pages on the menu. It could be very creative.

Some of this material could appear on every CD/DVD you create if you are worried about how to fill each new product disk with material in addition to the new item you are selling.

Suppose you sell/archive 150 ebooks on your website? Make a catalog of them that could be included on every disk which creates an instant download situation for the user and cuts out competition from other sellers while the user is viewing your disk!

Or send the user to your Classified Ads. Send them to your other Auctions (on eBay, or other auction sites!) give them a document to read about why Feedback is important to you, and customer satisfaction. Take them to your help desk, your blog, your newsletter signup page or whatever. Hell, guys, this could be rich with opportunity!

Well that was a nice long rant!

Regards, David~

I had trouble opening the m3p file. I tried what you suggested to the other blogger and it didn’t work. Do you have a script of the video? Maybe I can catch up to it later as I know you are busy trying to get some other information out today.

Sunshine to the Future!!!!! Lets us not forget; we are in the
DIGITAL AGE. If it was not for digital delivery, ebay would not
exist. Everything is digital dilivery. How you list on ebay; how
you pay fees to paypal, how you e-mail. WHAT HELL GOING ON ON ON ON!!!!
lOVE YOU ALL!!!!!
thelma
stores.ebay.com/homedecorsandenterprises

I feel that if we all have a little patience, eBay will come to their senses, and reconsider their rash decision. As others have mentioned, all they have to do to solve the feedback problem is set a price point to qualify for using their digital delivery system.

Jerry Nokes