How to make £200 a day selling stuff that other people chuck
Today's Adventure in the Biz opp Jungle:
'In which Charlie can't be bothered to say something profound about snow, reveals some news about eBay and Amazon, and how to turn unprofitable books into a cash generator... PLUS how his dog grew balls!'
Hi,
Today I was going to say something about snow.
I was either going to comment on the outbreak of
childlike joy in snow-covered London...
...Or I was going to remark that the UK's instant
shut-down at the first sign of bad weather only
adds to the impression that we live in a place
where nothing works... and that we teeter
constantly on the brink of collapse...
...Or I was going to say that walking my dog across
the icy fields... the City's skyscrapers cold and
silent in the distance... I felt like the apocalypse
had come early and I was the last man on earth.
But then I thought, "Hold your horses, Charlie."
Every other newsletter writer, blogger, columnist,
whatever, will try and say something clever or
profound about snow.
So why bother?
"Talk about how your readers can make some
money instead!"
And fair enough too.
Amidst the flakes of God's dandruff and The
Devil's psoriasis came interesting news from Avril
Harper of eBay Confidential.
In her email bulletin she reported:
"During November AND December last year
Amazon.com beat eBay in terms of unique visitors
to its site. Research by Nielsen Online says
Amazon's page views were up slightly on the same
period the previous year while eBay's views had
dropped."
So is the meteoric rise of Amazon a triumph at the
expense of poor old eBay?
Well no. In the third quarter of 2008, eBay
recorded 85.7 million active users worldwide.
That's still a very spicy meatball.
And as Avril points out:
"Amazon is not an auction company so eBay will
always be top of the tree for reaping vast rewards
for items that cost very little but interest countless
people worldwide. "
Her example?
"Like a bundle of fifty or so cards I paid £20 for on
Tynemouth Railway Station flea market which
recently sold at prices from £2 to £50 each! That's
EACH CARD, not each set!"
If you haven't seen her programme that teaches
you to do this kind of thing, check it out. It's called:
"How to Make £100 to £200 a Day Selling
Vintage Topographical Postcards on eBay"
And it does exactly what it says on the tin.
(It doesn't actually come in a tin, it's a manual with
words printed on paper, but you know what I
mean.)
CLICK HERE
How to use Amazon and eBay to create your
own cash generator
As I told you at the beginning of the year, one of
my many business projects at the moment has
been to flog health books in the newspapers. I use
classified ads to get buyers... and then try to turn
those book buyers into regular customers of more
expensive health products.
The books by themselves make a little money, but
after advertising costs they're not hugely profitable.
But that's not the point. The reason for selling them
is to gather new customers.
This process is called 'name generation'. And it's
the holy grail of internet marketers.
If you can find a way to consistently capture NEW
and qualified customers for a niche area...
especially if it's in the realms of business
opportunity, trading, investment, personal finance,
diet, health or betting.... then you can't fail to
make money.
A product means nothing without a good buyer to
pay you for it. This goes for MLM downlines, resell
rights products, affiliate websites, online shops -
anything where you need to get lots of pairs of
eyes to look at your wares.
Many internet gurus will try and flog you automated
robots to help you find customers. These miracle
machines are supposed to suck thousands of
names out of Google like a giant sucking thing.
They'll charge you a lot of money to buy one of
them too.
But really, I've never felt the need to use them. And
none of the publishers or internet marketers I know
use them either. So they're not what they're
cracked up to be.
They tend to bring lots of unwanted, unqualified
customers who aren't in your specialised niche and
won't buy your products.
No point in having 10,000 people who won't buy.
Better to find TEN people yourself who WILL!
You can find new people by putting new content on
your website every day (gets you up the google
rankings) and by selling your product into other
people's lists. You can make your website more
search friendly by using all kinds of clever little
techniques. And you can cream names from
forums, other people's websites, by marketing
articles and other cheeky methods.
You can also find new names by selling very cheap
- even UNPROFITABLE - ebooks on eBay and
Amazon.
Here's how...
A big fat free tip for you
Yes, eBay have stopped people selling electronic
books. But this shouldn't stop you. Simply put your
ebook onto CD and sell it as a physical object in a
jiffy bag.
Make sure you say they'll be getting a CD upfront.
And include a few extra reports and ebooks on the
CD, plus a friendly cover letter. This way you won't
any problems with your customer, who will be
bowled over by all the extras.
So if you've got some resell rights products on your
PC right now this is EASY PEASY. Get 'em onto
eBay. You could start making a bit of extra cash
immediately.
Okay it won't be life changing sums of money (as
Noel Edmonds would say on 'Deal or No Deal') but
here's the thing... you'll start generating customers.
These are people to whom you can sell lots of
OTHER more expensive products.
The same goes for those 'unprofitable' books that
you're annoyed about because you can only sell
'em for about 20p plus P&P on Amazon.
They may be small beer in terms of profit, but they
can be turned into bigger streams of cash if you're
smart about it.
See, I'm more and more convinced that to make
money from eBay and Amazon, you need to have
a 'backend'.
What do I mean?
Well, here's an example. If you sell a second hand
book on Amazon or eBay for a few quid, you won't
make much money, right?
But think of it this way...
You've made contact with someone who likes to
buy the kind of things you sell.
That my friend, is BIZ OPP GOLD!
Now you can push that customer to an affiliate
website that sells other books, programmes,
courses and newsletters. You can push them to
your eBay shop. Or you can get them signed up to
your email affiliate cash generator...
NOW you're in business.
If this interests you, there are three different
manuals that cover these elements...
My own Inbox Tycoon, which shows you how to
use niche email marketing to sell high margin
products to online buyers.
INBOX TYCOON
Sold Dispatch Now Gold is Sharon Fussell's
fantastic and highly recommended "business in a
box" programme that will get you set up on
Amazon very quickly indeed:
SOLD DISPATCH NOW GOLD
And there's Avril Harper's eBay Confidential of
course. In my humble view is still the best resource
for eBay experts AND novices alike.
EBAY CONFIDENTIAL
As for me, I've been putting some books on
Amazon to try and generate names. I've also been
taking some resell rights products and putting them
on eBay for the same reason.
All this will hopefully be in my new forthcoming
home consultancy programme, which will bring
together everything I know about making money
online in an affordable and (hopefully) useable
way.
But I won't get ahead of myself. I still have to keep
testing the system - making sure ANYONE can do
it - and I still have to write the darned thing!
So that's what I'm off to do right now.
On that note, I'll leave you with a quick story about
the snow... (Yes, what the heck, I'll pass comment
on snow-day after all!)
How my dog grew balls!
The heavy snow hit London on Monday morning.
In the afternoon I took my cocker spaniel Hendrix
to the park to experience this weird "ice from the
sky."
The snow was so fresh and sticky, within ten
minutes, dozens of small snowballs grew on the
ends of his long fur. Off his backside, under his
belly, and all over his legs.
The more he ran, the more the balls grew.
I tried to break them off but my hands only
compounded the balls and made them harder.
Eventually Hendrix couldn't move, the snowballs
were so heavy. They interlocked so that he
couldn't move his legs independently. I had to
carry him off the park.
People laughed and pointed.
"Look at that poodle" said a little kid.
He was wrong about the breed, but seeing Hendrix
like a black Christmas tree adorned with white
balls, I could see what he meant.
Later alligator
Charlie Wright
The Biz Opp Jungle
www.bizoppjungle.com