Comments on: Resale Rights Revival Is Ready

By: Latin American Artists

Latin American Artists — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 23:18:34 +0000

Yep, thanks for the encouragement Nick.
I might try the classifieds – who knows!
But I´ll probably wait till the digital dust settles
and see what researching the ads shows me first.

Thanks!

By: Free Wordpress Videos + MRR + Website

Free Wordpress Videos + MRR + Website — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 16:29:45 +0000

Look at it this way, Latin American Artists, you can place a classified ad on ebay.com, one of the busiest sites on the Net, for about 33 cents a day ($9.95 for 30 days). Do you think that is good value for money? I think it’s excellent! Of course, whether it will work for you or not depends on the product(s) you are selling, or what you are using the ad for. There’s only one way of finding out — try it.

I am running a classified ad at the moment. It has been running for less than 5 days and my hit counter has just gone over 100. I am using the ad for lead generation and my list is growing daily. It’s not even a featured ad, although I am seriously contemplating an upgrade. The only enhancements at present are bold and highlighting.

You mentioned your About Me page. Well, the one certain thing you can do with a classified ad is link to your About Me page, as you can do that for any listing. And another certain thing that you can do is place links to your website on your About Me page. Both of those are within the ToS (linking policies).

So instead of thinking about selling one item with one ad, think of classified ads as the means by which you will siphon off traffic from eBay to your own website. Of course, you will not be able to receive or leave feedback for off-eBay transactions, so unless you have a good feedback rating already, it might be hard to convince buyers to buy from you. There are pros and cons for every strategy.

Hope that gives you some encouragement.

Nick

By: Phill Hopkins

Phill Hopkins — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 16:13:07 +0000

Why not write “eBay guides” and put links to them in your Classified ad ? That surely can’t be against the TOS.

I know John has made a pretty penny over the years with his “guides”, might be worth a thought.

Cheers
Phill

By: Latin American Artists

Latin American Artists — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 13:52:51 +0000

Thanks Tracey / Nick . . . . now I know there´s no way for me to continue with ebay – classifieds are way too expensive . . . .the only think I can think of is to advertise a low cost offline product while trying to get people to my About Me or webpage . . . whether the offline product sells or not is neither here nor there – but ebay might still be a good advertising place – people will usually keep searching for more information and that can be found by guiding them to articles . . . anyone know of a problem in doing that in the ad wrt the ebay TOS?

By: Keith

Keith — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 13:44:12 +0000

Great report – absolutely spot on. For the work you have done in providing this information I believe you deserve our full support.
Keith
P.S. Speaking as a postman could I please ask everybody to ensure they put the correct postage on their CD/DVD packets and a return address! Thank you!

By: Dan Ferry

Dan Ferry — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 11:46:42 +0000

John,

Most of your backend sales are from your own websites, which can still provide digital downloads.

So only those items sold through eBay need to be sold on CD.

Dan

By: Femi

Femi — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 10:23:53 +0000

Great report John. Read it this afternoon with pizza and coke, in order that I may digest the content in there well. Well written and will be very handy for those of use that recognize that this is actually a blessing in disguise. I thank God for people like you that continue to make sure there is always another door that opens when others are shut. Thank you sir, very much.

By: Phill Hopkins

Phill Hopkins — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 09:37:25 +0000

John,

Good stuff as always, thank you. I guess your weekend went up in smoke and we all know how precious that time is to everyone.

For Ian, CD / DVD burners available at http://www.stordigital.com/cd_dvd_tower_duplicators.php#proburner

I have no association with them, that’s a straight link. They ain’t cheap my friend. 240 – ??? GBP. I guess if you have the demand it may be worth it.

Will be interesting to see what the eBay world looks like in a week or two.

I have my strategy worked out and one thing in particular I wish to test, but I’ll be doing that on a different account to my “normal” one.

Onwards & Upwards
Phill

By: Free Wordpress Videos + MRR + Website

Free Wordpress Videos + MRR + Website — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 07:52:50 +0000

Hi All,

To further clarify the cost of classified ads, the basic cost is $9.95 per ad. Of course, as with any listing you can choose enhancements like bold, highlighting, etc at extra cost. You can list multiple items in one ad *only* if they are similar, for example if you are selling website templates, you can list multiple templates. Even if it were permitted, you wouldn’t want to list multiple unrelated items — what keywords would you use to construct your title?

Some important questions about classified ads are answered here:

http://www.ebaychatter.com/the_chatter/2008/03/digital-downloa.html

Hope that helps.

Nick

By: Tracey Edwards

Tracey Edwards — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 06:49:20 +0000

In response to the question on classified ad cost, the $9.95 is per ad.

And also that ad will only run in the country that it is listed in, so you can’t list one classified worldwide.

However there is nothing to stop you offering more than one item, in the one ad.

Cheers
Tracey