April 17, 2007

A Few Statistics and How To Improve your Income with eBay

Here's how you can improve your eBay income really easily, this is *so* simple to do.

eBay allow you to place links to third party services or tools that you use to assist you within your listings.  Just take a look at a random set of listings on eBay - you may even have some some of these links on your listings already:-

Auctiva.com, Vendio.com, Turbo Lister (yeah I know that's eBay's own), Spoonfeeder.com and so on.

Some of them automatically embed links back to their sites, you don't have any choice in the matter.

And NONE OF THEM are running affiliate schemes - you make NOTHING by having those links there.

That's not very fair is it?  You're advertising for them, and receiving nothing in return.

The eBay policy on third party acknowledgements can be found here:-

http://pages.ebay.com/help/policies/listing-links-credits.html

Here's a snippet.

"eBay allows discrete identification or credit for third parties that provide services or products directly connected with the particular listing as long as they meet specific requirements…"

So why not put YOUR affiliate link back to SmartDD.com in EVERY LISTING, and make 50% of the sale price in commission payments? 

It's okay, eBay allow it.

To you (as the listing submitter), SmartDD is a third party tool just like the ones I mentioned above, and you're using it in your listing to provide delivery.

So take advantage of it right now.

This is how to get your personal pre-made affiliate link to SmartDD - it will take you 60 seconds of your time to get it.

1. Login to the www.SmartDD.com site using your email address and password you registered with.
2. Click on the Promo Tools link.
3. Scroll down to "Step#5 - Banners And Images".
4. Copy the code in the box for "eBay Image Number 1" - your affiliate link is *automatically* embedded in the code for you, you don't need to change anything.
5. Paste the code into all your eBay listings.

Now when any buyer sees your listing, they'll also see your affiliate link to the SmartDD.com site.

You'll get 50% of the current sale price of SmartDD for every person that buys through your link.

The reason I gave you the stats at the top is because SmartDD is something that ebook sellers genuinely want.  All you have to do is let people know about it with your affiliate link.

And here's what I've noticed.

When I've checked my web server logs, many of the new members to the site are coming as a direct result of people clicking affiliate links *within emails*.

Relatively few are coming as a result of people clicking links on *web pages*.

You already know that when SmartDD sends out an email for you with a download link inside it, it will automatically embed your affiliate link within the email. 

But by spending a few minutes with your listings, you dramatically improve your chances of income from even a 99c listing.

Think about it.  People are going to leave your listing one way or another, why not put a link they can leave on that can bring you in some extra cash?   

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February 19, 2007

What Would You Like Us To Do Next?

I don't know if you knew this, but my developer is also my business partner.  We've found that it's a good partnership as he can concentrate on the code while I do everything else.

 

Paul is one of the best coders I've ever met, and we often chat about what we're going to do with SmartDD (and other software he's working on), and of course we have some of our own plans for additional features in SmartDD, but what we quickly realised is, that what you really want are features that you come up with yourself.

So, please tell us.

We've already had a couple of suggestions, and there's one particular idea we want to do for ourselves, so here's a few of the features we intend to put in the next version.

  • Multiple Inventory Products Linked To One Item - The ability to link multiple products to a single saleable item. e.g., you have several different ebooks in your SmartDD database on a related topic.  You can currently only sell them individually by linking them to one item.  The new version allows you to link them all to one item, which when sold, shows them all individually on the customer download page.

  • Secondary etc. (multiple) admin email addresses to send notification to - mobile phone, etc…

  • "Free signup" - Send out a delivery email to a prospect in return for their name and email address.

  • Simple HTML editor for HTML emails.

Is there anything in particular you'd like added to the list that isn't mentioned above?

We often see good software with just those few little details missing that stop it from being truly great.  Maybe we're missing something from SmartDD that you think should be added?

Also on a similar vein, is there another item of software that you really want?  You know, that one program that you need above all else?  It might be software that already exists, or a completely new idea.

Or it may even be some knowledge you're missing about earning money online…

If you leave us a suggestion below as a comment, and we use it, we'll give you a free copy when it's done.

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