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**  Avril Harper Newsletter  **

Article #1 - An Easy Way to Lose Big Money on eBay!

Here’s something that happened to me last week which you definitely don’t want to copy!

It concerned a postcard of Easington Colliery, just a few miles up the road from where I live, and it was dated 1904.  In years of buying, selling and collecting postcards I’d never seen this view before.  The starting price was £4.99 so I placed a bid and waited.

Seconds later it arrived, the message saying I’d been outbid.  So I bid £9.99, soon afterwards another message arrived saying someone had outbid me, almost in seconds.

That sort of thing usually means someone else has placed a maximum bid on the item concerned and subsequent bidders will have their bids rejected until they exceed that other person’s maximum.  Not a chance of that happening, I thought, I really wanted this card, so I bid £40 and I was in the lead.  Given I often forget to check later on items I really want to buy, I set my maximum bid at £100 and forgot about it.

A few days later the unimaginable happened, the postcard had sold, TO SOMEONE ELSE!

I was shocked, upset, wondering when, if ever, I’d see that postcard again.  It actually appeared again just two days later, in an envelope addressed to me!!!!  Why and How?  Well it turns out the other bidder was my husband, bidding from another of my eBay accounts which I never ever use!!! 

Another fine example of poor communication and failure to keep a close eye on all my eBay accounts!

Which brings me to today’s money making, money saving tip: check those other accounts every few days or so, not just to avoid problems such as I encountered, but also to check for warnings from eBay which you must respond to quickly, requests for outstanding fees which if you ignore could get you expelled from eBay, and people bidding against you who are actually sitting just inches away!

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Article #2 - Two Easy Ways to Make Money from Internet Real Estate – Namely Buying and Selling Domain Names!

I’m a great believer in dreaming up new product ideas daily, some for my own business, some to write about for my readers.

These ideas focus on domain names and the immense prices often paid for them on eBay and other domain name auction selling sites, like Sedo, for instance.

I’m new to Sedo, I knew nothing about this domain name auction company until a week ago when one of my readers told me she buys domain names and resells them at Sedo. She sometimes make twenty or thirty pounds profit, she has made hundreds on one or two domain names, and she’s no stranger to making thousands of pounds just weeks after registering an inexpensive domain name.

I won’t go into the whys and wherefores about selling on Sedo, it’s all there for you to read about at www.sedo.com

All you need from me is a shock account of the prices fetched for domain names at Sedo, even names we can all dream up with a little practice. 

Having looked at recent prices fetched at Sedo, I began looking for unregistered domain names sell on eBay or Sedo and I’m surprised how easy it actually is.

I’ve registered some of those early ideas, showfolk.co.uk, for example, and upselling.co.uk, both one word domain names that cost me £6.99 each and could fetch double or triple figure sums, like these .co.uk suffixes that sold recently at Sedo:

Cruises.co.uk - £500,000

FreeStuff.co.uk - £25,000

Online-Gambling.co.uk  £23,000

TheCube.co.uk  £22,000

BusinessNetwork.co.uk  £21,150

It won’t surprise you to know I’ve decided, every day, to spend at least fifteen minutes dreaming up new domain names with potential to fetch such high prices.  It isn’t difficult, and there are ways to ease the search and also to add another possible income stream to the exercise:

1)  Do your search at ukreg.com or godaddy.com where you’ll discover all available suffixes for your chosen words as well as a list of unregistered domains for words closely resembling whatever you keyed into those company’s search engine.  So if, for example, you search alternative suffixes for a domain that’s just fetched thousands of pounds on Sedo, it isn’t unusual to find many still unregistered and with similar profit potential.  I know that because I’ve just registered the .co.uk version of several high ticket sales for .com versions. 

2)  When you find a suffix available for which the .com or other version suffix has already been registered, check out the web site for the registered domain.  You’ll often find a profitable new business idea to start right away and a great domain name to accompany it!

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Article #3 - How to Turn 100 eBay Buyers into a Regular Source of Income for Life

Despite what many new Internet marketers think, you really can't leave a web site to market itself, not if you want to make more than a modicum of money for your efforts.  Marketing - online and off - must be an ongoing process. 

A bit like traditional mail order and direct mail - the more advertisements (successful ones) you place, the more letters (responsive ones) you post, - the more money you will eventually make!  It's no different on the Internet.  The more ads you place in e-zines, the more e-mail letters you post, the more free e-zines you send to customers, the more discussion forums and newsgroups you post to, the more money you will make!

And no, I’m not really talking eBay here, but stay with me a while and I will show you how to put in just a little more effort to make really great profits on eBay.

The reality is that just a little effort can bring enormous dividends.  For example, imagine you have 100 email addresses of people who’ve bought, say, your product about making money on eBay.  You could sell those 100 products in one month on eBay, then the following month market a much more expensive product about making money on eBay.  Let’s say you make a tiny $2 a time from those 100 initial products at a cost of $1 each, that’s $100 you’ll make over the month.  Not much!  But that’s just the beginning of this easy money making exercise. 

Let’s say the second product costs £100 and one in five of those one hundred people buy it.  That’s 20 people paying $100 each, a total of $2,000.  Now that really is worth spending a whole day creating another $2 product to sell to another 100 buyers!

Please don’t suggest the figures are way out of kilter, I’ve been marketing on and off the Internet for more than twenty years, and I’ve tested back end marketing til I’m blue in the face, and I’ve found almost to the decimal point that one in every five buyers will become a regular buyer.  For more proof of how and why a handful of buyers can generate a reliable and regular income for life, go to Google’s search engine and key in ‘Pareto + theory’ and read lots of tales about how the one in five rule affects so many areas of our lives, including making money!

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Article #4 - Four Ways to Market Affiliate Products Through eBay

There have been big changes at eBay lately, such as to feedback, and also to digital products being banned at the site.  Those digital downloads, in most cases, were designed to grow a mailing list for outside eBay sales, notably of affiliate products.  There were other ways, also, that allowed sellers to grow a mailing list with intent to sell other products, notably affiliate products, outside of eBay.

The biggest shock, for many people, has been the recent change to how ‘About Me’ pages work.  In another of their very confusing statements eBay says it is no longer possible to link to outside sites via ‘About Me’ pages.  Additionally, sign up pages, for newsletters and mailing lists, for example, are also banned from ‘About Me’ pages.

That just about means all avenues for growing an outside mailing list ‘on’ eBay have been effectively closed.  But notice I said ‘on’ eBay, not the same as ‘through’ eBay, because there are still ways to grow a mailing list via the eBay system.

These ideas will help:

*  You can create a signature file, detailing affiliate products such as available at ClickBank, and append it to all outgoing answers to questions asked by eBay members.  WARNING: You must not do this via the eBay message system; that is totally against the rules.  Instead, bear in mind that all questions sent through the eBay system are duplicated in sellers’ outside eBay email boxes.  This is the place to answer those questions and add the signature file containing affiliate offers or invitations to sign up for your newsletter or mailing list.

*  Create compliments slips featuring Internet sites selling products that earn you a commission on all sales.  The secret to success here is to have several compliments slips created, and several web sites featuring lots of different products, following which you personalise compliments slips to feature products bearing close relation to whatever someone has just purchased from you on eBay.

*  You can’t highlight an outside web site in your listings, ‘About Me’ page, or elsewhere, overtly that is, directly through the eBay system.  But you can create a company logo featuring your web site url and use this as the graphic for your eBay shop. 

*  You can also add a copyright notice with url to illustrations, somewhere unobtrusive and unlikely to obliterate essential parts of your graphic.  So if you sell pet medicines, for example, and your outside site is www.avrilpetmeds.com, you could add ‘Copyright: www.avrilpetmeds.com’ to scanned images and photographs used in your listings.

Go on give it a go, all it takes is a little creative thinking, and it could increase your profits considerably.

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