New Email List-Building Course from the King of eBook Sales

Looking to build a large email list? Who isn't these days?

How about learning from the guy who has over 120,000 people on his own list? (That's right; over 120,000 people). The man is named Jim Cockrum. nd he's sold over 80,000 ebooks -- prompting some, including myself, to call him the "ebook King."

Now he's sharing his list-building secrets with you:

Click here to find out more. 

Get in on the ground floor of this product before the price goes up. I've been following Jim for years -- he calls it like he sees it and won't recommend anything he doesn't believe in. Neither will I. 

Check it out here to get in on it!  

"ShoeMoney" Offers Free 12-Week Internet Marketing Course

ShoeMoney (c'mon, who can resist that nickname?) is giving a FREE 12-week marketing course. The url is http://bit.ly/cq4ohB -- more info below from the man himself. 

But first I will tell you what I know about ShoeMoney. The iconic image of ShoeMoney is him holding this monster check from Google for his AdSense earnings of some $132K (this is taken from a screen shot of his web site:)

 

I first  met ShoeMoney at an eBay Developers' Conference where I interviewed him and his colleague Dave Dellanave for AuctionBytes about their AuctionAds product which won an eBay award. (They sold the co. for what I believe was a tidy sum - the price was not disclosed; http://techcrunch.com/2007/07/27/mediawhiz-buys-another-ad-startup-auctionads/). The interview is here: http://www.auctionbytes.com/cab/abu/y207/m07/abu0194/s02

He and Dave talked about their product which seemed like a win-win for eBay and eBay affiliates alike, and I was impressed. Since then I have followed Shoe's blog when I have time...it's a fun blog to follow, with lots of readers and comments: http://www.shoemoney.com/.

So when this guy gives away free info, it's worth grabbing it. Details are below. Or go right to http://bit.ly/cq4ohB.

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Hello,

I'm Jeremy "ShoeMoney" Schoemaker and for 13 years I've been building successful online businesses. For the past five years I've been working hard writing a book to help others get started online. I recently decided that there is just too much great information in my book to exclude people from reading it. I have now backed out of my major book deal and turned it into a completely FREE 12 week guide to Internet marketing. No strings attached. Enter your email and start receiving the weekly guides directly in your inbox!

Week 1 - The Beginner's Guide To Internet Marketing

Week 2 - Affiliate Marketing 101: Everything You Need To Know To Start Promoting Products

Week 3 - Market Research: How To Crush Your Competitors And Discover Hot Niches

Week 4 - Introduction to Pay Per Click

Week 5 - Advanced Pay Per Click

Week 6 - SEO Tips, Tricks, and Tactics

Week 7 - Content Creation: How To Create Articles That Attract Users And Increase Sales

Week 8 - Marketing: How To Use Social Media To Spread Your Brand

Week 9 - Make That Cash: 10 Ways To Monetize Your Site And Increase Profitability

Week 10 - Testing & Tracking: How To Optimize Your Site & Make Sense Of The Figures

Week 11 - Building Your Team: How To Network With Others And Find Long Term Partners

Week 12 - Launch Day: How To Kick Start Your Business And Manage Your Projects

http://bit.ly/cq4ohB

Amazon Launches Rare & Collectible Books Store

A friend of mine who also sells on amazon got the following email

from them about their new Rare & Collectible Books store:

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Dear Amazon.com Bookseller,



We're pleased to inform you that the Amazon.com Rare & Collectible 

Books store was launched today. This beta launch is an important 

milestone in our efforts to improve the customer experience for 

book collectors on Amazon.com.



During this beta phase, we will be testing new features and 

gathering feedback from buyers and sellers. Please visit 

the store and let us know what you think. 

The new store can be accessed through the Amazon.com Books 

store, or you can see it now by clicking on the following 

link:


http://www.amazon.com/gp/browse.html?node=2056775011


The store features launched today include advanced search and 

dedicated browse functionality, product merchandising, and 

customer-facing content about rare and collectible books. 

We would also like you to know that only collectible 

listings that have the collectible attributes (Collectible 

Edition, Signed By, and Dust Jacket Condition) filled out 

will be indexed and discoverable from our store. It is 

therefore very important for you to populate as many of the 

attributes you can on each of your collectible listings. 



For more details about the new store, please see our Seller

Success announcement:



http://www.amazonsellercommunity.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=183991



We also want to invite you to participate in the new Rare and 

Collectible Books Community forum. The forum is accessible from the 

main store page, or you can go there directly using the following URL: 



http://www.amazon.com/tag/rare%20books/forum/



We appreciate your continued involvement in improving the customer 

experience for book collectors on Amazon.com. If you have further 

feedback or suggestions, 

please write to us at collectible-books-feedback@amazon.com.

Thank you for selling on Amazon.com.


Amazon Books Category Management Team

How to Clean up Selling Dishes on eBay

What are you all but guaranteed to find at not just every estate sale, but every thrift store, and most yard sales too?

Dinnerware. 

You can make good money selling dishes, pottery, and other dinnerware and servingware on eBay. But you need to know what brands and patterns are best to buy, and at what price point to buy.

Now there's a new resource from eBay expert Lynn Dralle, who specializes in this area. I've read the first few chapters of her new ebook, "Dinnerware Success," and was amazed by the amount of information and detail in this work.

Lynn tells you not only which types of china and pottery dinnerware are most lucrative, but which you are most likely to find when out scouting about.

How about coming across an old dish at a yard sale, grabbing it for 50 cents, and flipping it for $143.10 on eBay? What was this particular plate made of that made it so valuable, and how did Lynn tell (and how can you)? That's just one of the many examples you'll get in this information-packed ebook.

 

There are many helpful pictures of different types of dishes, pots, cups and other china Lynn has sold, as well as photos of maker's marks and explanations of what they mean. She explains the nitty-gritty such as the difference between "bone china" and "china," all in a fun and entertaining way.

The book is not cheap, but considering you're getting a lifetime of Lynn's knowledge and experiences, it's a great investment.

To buy it using my affiliate link, click below for more information:

Dinnerware success

or to buy right away, at $129:

Dinnerware Success: Buy It!

Day Four of eBay's Changes: Even Better

I think I'm going to like this. It's Day Four of the eBay changes, with what were traditional "Stores" items now showing up in regular search, and another item that had been festering unsold in my store got an offer.

It wasn't as hefty an offer, relatively, as the item that sold two days ago -- a black Chanel suit -- but I accepted it anyway because I was in a wheeling and dealing mood, and in a "Spring cleaning" mode, I want to clear out all my unsold merchandise.

And I probably will, too, because if the items that have been sitting in my store a year or more don't sell soon, I'm going to take them down. eBay also seems to be encouraging this with their slightly higher fees for sellers who are lower-volume -- from 3 cents for the old Stores-style listing to 20 cents under the new Fixed-Price format.

But, I have noticed that some of my other items have more people "watching" them now, such as my beloved yearbooks. Yearbooks are an example of the specialized kind of items that can take months and years to sell, which I don't plan to keep listed as long if they don't. It will cost me too much more to have them sit there.

I may ship these books to amazon using the "fulfillment by amazon" program -- where you ship a bunch of books to amazon to sell and they then keep them on their shelves and shop them out for you when they sell.

It's too early to tell the overall impact on my business. But, hopefully, with everything getting more exposure, and trimming out the underperformers, it will be positive.

Does this mean a lot of sellers will take down a lot of quirky, specialized, lower price items? Maybe. Tn that case it may make eBay less of a great yard sale in the sky than it is. But if it helps people's businesses, in this economy, maybe we can accept it.

Above: The vintage Chanel earrings in my store which just got an offer. 

EasyAuctionsTracker for Tax Time

I've been using a great program called EasyAuctionsTracker to keep track of my eBay sales. The main thing I use it for is to keep track of sales for items I sell on consignment. I can print out wonderful, detailed statements with all the pertinent info such as the item that sold, auction number, who bought it, shipping tracking number, all the various eBay fees, PayPal fees, and how much is due me and the consignor.

If you've been using it and haven't used it in a while, they made one change recently that may affect your spreadsheet. They sent an email about it but I think it went into my spam folder so it may have gone into yours too.

As Jen at EasyAuctionsTracker put it, "Our web hosting company changed some policies that affected the functionality of some spreadsheets. We have migrated our site and database over to a new server. We have developed a fix and posted the update to the US version to our site. You can get all of the info on how to migrate to the new version at the top of this page:http://www.easyauctionstracker.com/faqs.html."

Just fyi. If you haven't gotten a good eBay accounting program yet, now's a great time to start, as one tax season draws to an end. What better time to get your ducks in a row for the coming year?

 

Day Two of eBay's Changes: Cautiously Optimistic

It's a couple days into eBay's new system, where items that were formerly in "Stores" alone are now intermingled in eBay's regular search. 

It's too early for me to tell how all the new fee changes and the movement of traditional "Stores" into fixed-price style listings and eBay's main search will affect me and all my listings. But early indications are good: an item that's been festering in my eBay Store for months: a black Chanel suit, just got an offer.

So I'm cautiously optimistic. 

Lynn Dralle, the "Queen of Auctions," advises sellers to give it at least a month before they end underperforming listings. See how the new increased exposure in search affects your items. You may be pleasantly surprised.