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Google announced that it would be releasing Google Friend Connect this month. The idea behind Friend Connect is to give Webmasters and Blog Owners the tools needed to easily add social features to their sites. This is what Google announced:
“With Google Friend Connect (see http://www.google.com/friendconnect following this evening’s Campfire One), any website owner can add a snippet of code to his or her site and get social features up and running immediately without programming — picking and choosing from built-in functionality like user registration, invitations, members gallery, message posting, and reviews, as well as third-party applications built by the OpenSocial developer community.”
Google is really taking thing to the next level! I’ve searched the net for other providers of free social applications, and couldn’t find anything besides MyBlogLog.com
To all my blog readers, how interested are you in adding social features to your site? And if you are interested in doing this, what features specifically would you like to add first?
Personally, I want to add a community on this blog where people express their opinions with an identity attached to it. That way, any comments you guys make, your comment could link directly to your profile where other readers could learn more about you, what you are doing on the internet, and easily access links to your sites.
Comments should be a personal thing, and with the addition of pictures and profiles, we could really see a whole new level of blogging evolve.
After eBay gave out that low-blow last week, I have been sitting in my room for the last few hours drilling my brain, trying to figure out how I can sell my eBook automatically on CD.
It’s pretty much the PERFECT solution for all digital item sellers on eBay. Whether you convert your info product to CD or DVD, its the same price - $1.75 per disc, your cost.
We’re talking full-on Retail Ready "On-Demand" CD and DVD manufacturing. As soon as your customer buys your product, their order is submitted to the manufacturing system for processing and production. The order is guaranteed to ship out within 24 hours!
You don’t have to bulk order up front, (although you can if you want, with free shipping on orders over 500).
You don’t have to manually submit each order to the system. It does it automatically after the customer pays directly to your PayPal account.
EVERYTHING is automatic with this amazing software. It takes about 5-10 minutes to set up, and you are ready for "On Demand" CD selling on eBay!
It was my impression that the new classified ads wont be such a bad thing. Earlier, eBay reps stated that it WAS ok to list direct checkout/paypal buttons on classified ads.
However, as of yesterday, Brian Duke from eBay stated that it is NOT ok to list any links inside classified ads that either:
Offer a direct checkout button
Link to a website where buyers can purchase more items off eBay
Here is the question an answer that clarified this rule for us.
So what does that mean. That means NO affiliate marketing or clickbank links, NO buy now paypal links, and NO instant sales from Classified Ads.
TRAGEDY!
But, what’s the good news?
Glad you asked. The good news is, you CAN place email capture forms on Classified Ads. In fact, thats the ONLY thing you can do.
You can either place your phone number (not good for digital item sellers), or place an email capture form with an autoresponder set up (very good for digital item sellers)
How can you make money off an autoresponder?
Let’s think for a second. If you normally got a sale conversion ratio of 3%, you were doing pretty good.
BUT, that was for a direct sale.
Now, we will be focusing on getting the EMAIL signup. You can look at signup ratios of 10+% on a great squeeze page (just means sales copy designed to squeeze out emails only)
So, you take this new 10+% signup rate, and watch what happens to your autoresponder. You can set your autoresponder to do MANY things:
Promote your product and website via email
Promote CLICKBANK or any other affiliate products via email
Save their email in your list to promote MORE products for infinite years to come (until they unsubscribe)
So, normally when you would have just made $10 profit off one sale, now you can make $100’s profit from each person if you look at the long run marketing.
Why is this possible? Simple, Because email signups are HIGHLY TARGETED ads, and most of the time these people would have simply clicked X and not purchased your item (using the original eBay Buy It Now format).
But NOW, there is no cost involved for them to sign up for your email list, its FREE for them, so you can see a LOT more signups. Once your got their HIGHLY TARGETED email, you can sell to them like crazy.
How do you highly target people? Thats all up to your Classified ad Title, and item description.
I want to let you know that its not neccessary to have an insanely long squeeze page just to get their email. In fact, short squeeze pages (1 -2 pages at max) work best for getting emails..
I just got the news. I felt I had to let everyone on my list know this important update on eBays Listing policy.
Apparently good old eBay is up to it again.
On March 31, 2008 all digital items are no longer allowed to be sold on eBay. They must be listed in “Classified Ads” format ONLY or you are in violation of eBays Policy.
This means that there will be no ’sale’ on ebay, no feedback involved, and no FVF fees for the transaction. The minimum price for classified ad format is $9.95 and it lasts for a duration of 30 days.
Its been confirmed that digital items CAN be converted to CD format and sold as physical items. These items will be allowed to be sold under normal Fixed price and Auction format.
If you want to sell purely digitally then, you can list in classifieds format and have it automatically digitally delivered via E-Junkie
Looks like they are trying to cut back on Feedback Manipulation. I know this is going to hurt a lot of us initially but there is a way to get through this.
Post your thought and comments here. We need to figure something out together.
