Quick Income Methods By Using eBay And Joint VentureBrought to you by Patric Chan
www.automateinternetmarketing.com
One of the hardest things to get to grips with when
you start out on your Internet marketing career is
that money is quite easy to come by if you put your
mind to it.
When we are working in a job, we're told from an early
age that we must work for our money and that hard work
equates to financial reward. This is right, but not in
this new millennium anymore.
How long would it take you to raise a thousand dollar
now?
Some people have to struggle to raise a little extra
cash and couldn't conceive how they would get it. To
them an extra thousand dollar might as well be
something unreachable.
So would you have to work overtime for a month of two?
Would you have to max out your credit card or go cap
in hand to the bank?
Listen – a thousand dollars is small compared to the
money you could make from Internet Marketing and Joint
Ventures. I'm going to show you a simple plan how you
can bring in over a thousand dollar time after time in
even if you're starting from absolute scratch.
But that's going to change.
I'm going to show you how you can make a lot of money
by undertaking JV's (Joint Ventures) with Ebay sellers.
If you're completely a dummy to www.eBay.com, just go
the website and read. :-) Everything's there.
You won't need to have a product – just a list of
people to email to offer the product to. Or if you do
have a product, you can find a good seller to sell it
for you. Why should they buy it?
Because it'll be a quality product (you'll have
sourced it from Ebay) and you'll be offering it at a
vastly discounted price that they cannot get anywhere
else.
For instance, my Chan Do Internet Success System Home
Course sells for $297 at www.youchandoit.com/home.html.
Now imagine if you really wanted the home course and
you received an email from a trustworthy Ebayer you'd
bought from before who offered you Patric Chan's Chan
Do Internet Success System for $150 only, you'd jump
at the chance and that's how this system works.
This ebook is going to tell you how to set up your own
JV (Joint Venture) with another person. Don't worry
there’s no need for telephone calls (unless you want
to) it's all done by email. It's just a matter of
identifying someone with a list of people to sell to,
if you're a product holder, or someone with a great
product to sell, if you're a list holder.
Then you just send them a simple email.
You can be extremely nervous when you first approached
a well-known marketer to ask if he'd like to undertake
a JV with you.
But ask yourself if you got approached. How would you
react? If someone told you could make a lot of money
from your own product and all you had to do was agree
to sell it below market price. You could then watch TV
until your payment arrived.
How would you feel?
You might end up feeling flattered and grateful.
To have a successful JV relationship with the Big Boys
in the "internet marketing" niche is very, very, very
competitive. For the obvious reason, everyone is
trying to push their own product down the customer's
throat. Secondly, there are just overwhelming of
products to be promoted. Basically, the supply of
products to be promoted surpluses the demand of
product required many times over.
If you want to buy a SEO course, do you know how many
of those out there? Go figure. With this short
explanation and understanding, I'll suggest you not to
start practicing this JV method to the Big Boys
instantly. :-)
That's why, this tactic focuses on getting JV deals
from eBay Sellers. This is slightly a different breed
of "animal" we're talking about. And if you’re into
"niche marketing", getting Jv's ain't that tough.
Doing JV's is like doing a bungee jump. The first one
is the hardest. Unlike a bungee jump you end up not
with wet pants but with a few hundred quid at least in
your pocket.
How To Undertake A Successful JV With Little Or No
ExperienceFirst of all you need to decide which side of the JV
you are on. Are you the person who will provide the
product or the list?
Providing The ProductQuickly recapping – if you have your own product (that
you created or own sole rights to) or you have resell
rights to a product that isn't readily available
elsewhere (if it is it won't sell) then you can look
at a JV from the point of view of the product
provider.
Browse Ebay and look for a seller. A Powerseller will
probably have a very good mailing list and be open to
undertaking JV's. Anyone who sells quite a few items
per day or week is also a good bet. If you're not
sure, ask.
You will probably come across quite a few Ebay sellers
who don't know what you're talking about when you
mention 'Joint Ventures'. Ebay has more than it's fair
share of people who sell from home and got lucky, but
never look any further than Ebay.
The notion of a JV to these people may seem odd. My
advice would be to point them towards this ebook to
read (Yes, you have the rights to pass it on for your
own use) or spend time explaining in more details what
they'll get out of it. Don't focus too much on the
actual JV, just on the fact that they could be $1000
richer by Monday morning.
When you're looking for a seller, also bear in mind
that a similar product to the one you're selling would
probably be a good idea as long as it's not directly
competing. Check his feedback rating too – it's a
reflection of how he runs his business.
When you've found a seller you like the look of (as
far as you can tell from his Auction and About Me
pages) you need to make the initial approach.
All it takes is a simple email.
Hi (Ebay Seller name if you know),
As a reputable Ebay seller I wondered if you'd like to
join me in a venture that should bring you a lump sum
in about 2 days. I'm about to launch a product and
wondered if you'd like to offer it to your list on a
50-50 basis?
If you're interested drop me an email and we'll go
through the detail.
Thanks
YOUR NAME
It's best not to try to sell the whole project in a
first email. If they're interested – and they usually
are – they'll get back to you and you can send a
follow up email about price and the logistics of the
venture.
You will obviously need a Paypal account but these are
easily set up. If you use Ebay you'll probably have
one already.
Your JV partner then sends the email that you composed
out to his list (as though it came from him), and you
wait for payments. You must agree before the venture
starts who sets up the website and delivers the
product, and who sends the emails.
It's not until you've actually undertaken a JV that
you'll realise how incredibly powerful and lucrative
these deals are. I can think of no better way to bring
in a nice cash boost in a very short amount of time.
Now there has to be an amount of trust in these
ventures. There’s no getting around the fact that one
of you has to take the payments. There might be a way
of splitting each Payment 50-50 as it comes in –
probably using Clickbank (www.clickbank.com) or some
other payment service. In any case this will probably
cost and the whole point about JV’s in my view is that
they’re easy to set up and can be over and done with
in a couple of days, cash in your bank and a smile on
your face!
I will say that I’ve never had a problem with a JV
either when I’ve been the one taking the money or my
JV partner has been the one taking the money. Just
split everything 50-50 at the end of the venture and
there’ll be no problem. Success is based on honesty
and integrity.
If you’re not using Clickbank.com, you can use
www.paypal.com for free.
Earnings from each individual JV you undertake can be
easily separated from each other by firstly adding an
email address to your Paypal account (Paypal main
screen – Profile – Account information – Email – Add)
then accepting payments to this email address only
from the Paypal button you use in your JV. Once the JV
is over you can see all the payments that have been
received to that email address by going to (Paypal
main screen – History – Payments received to – your
new email address)
It’s not necessary but it’s a nice touch. I also set
up a counter on my website to show how many people
have accessed the download page. This isn’t totally
accurate as many people download more than once if the
download is interrupted or occasionally pass on the
download link to a friend to get the product without
paying. This is rare though and a counter does give a
reasonable idea of how much money has been taken.
You can set up a free counter by going to
www.statcounter.com
It’s invisible to your customers and you can share
login details to the statcounter website with your JV
partner so he can see for himself how many download
page accesses there have been. That way he’ll have a
rough idea of how much money to expect.
Once the payments have come in, total it up, deduct
any fees then send your JV partner half. If you’re
declaring your income to the tax people then get a
receipt from your JV partner for the money you send.
Normally, I don’t mind getting less than my JV partner
to show an extra appreciation to work together.
Look after your JV partner! Make sure they receive
their 50% promptly and in full. In that way they’ll be
more than happy to work with you again. Remember they
can receive over a thousand dollar for what amounts to
sending an email! Providing The List In A JV
This is probably the most applicable scenario for
those of you reading this report. You have no list and
no product but you want to earn money from a JV.
Fine. Here’s how to do it.
Go through your email address book and see how many
contacts you already have that you can send offers to.
This will basically be anyone you’ve already sold to
on Ebay. This means there is an existing business
relationship there.
It might take a couple of weeks to build up a list if
you’ve not already got one but as the Internet ‘gurus’
say ‘The gold is in the list’ and once you’ve got it
treat it like a valuable asset (because it is) and
it’ll provide you with an income if you play it well.
Basically the best and quickest way to build a list is
to offer a value for money product for free.
All you ask in return is that they join your mailing
list by giving you their email address. They can
unsubscribe at any item from the list but your hope is
that once they see the offers you mail to them,
they’ll stay with it.
Now the better quality the product the more people
will subscribe to your list. It’s worth buying a good
quality ebook or software package (that you are
allowed to give away and not just sell) to maximise
your list. Obviously there are a lot of freebies out
there. A good idea is to bundle a large, good value
collection together and give it away to anyone who
opts in to your list.
Check the license page first to see if you’re allowed
to give it away as well as sell it. If not you’ll get
into trouble.
Using Ebay To Build A List
Ebay rules and regulations are a little hazy on this
subject but most people never had any trouble with it.
It all comes down to their ‘links’ policy.
Basically the Ebay ‘links’ policy has recently
changed. You cannot now link to any other website
other than your home page and then ONLY if it ONLY
contains a further description of the item you’re
selling on Ebay.
So it seems you can’t link to your webpage if it has
an option to download the ebook you’re selling on Ebay
for FREE in return for joining a mailing list. Shame
because this is the ideal scenario.
BUT a lot of people do this on Ebay with no problem.
Obviously this is a personal choice that I can’t
comment on. I will just say that most did this for
quite a while before they realized it was against the
rules. You take this risk and you might end up
collecting an awful lot of happy subscribers.
But You CAN link to your About Me page, and from there
you can link to your home page. This is what the
regulations say about it: What links may I have on my
About Me page? The About Me policy will allow users to
link to your own web store. However, you may not
directly offer any non-eBay merchandise on the About
Me page itself.
I’ve highlighted the parts that interest us.
So the way I read it, from your ‘About Me’ page you
can link to your own web page. And on your own webpage
you can offer a FREE ebook in return for signing up to
your mailing list.
You can also link to your About Me page from your Ebay
Auction. This in effect means you can link your opt-in
page on your website.
Read that again slowly until you’ve understood it. It
took me a while!
There’s another way to do it.
Recently, I’ve found this at the bottom of an ebay
auction…
Terms of Sale I feel everyone should have this
information for FREE but because eBay does not allow
to list items for free I have no choice but to list it
for 0.99p however if you “ask me question about this
item” then I am sure I can sort some thing out for
you.
Now I can’t find anything in Ebay rules and
regulations that say the above isn’t allowed.
Obviously this seller is offering this info for free
to build his list.
Here’s how he does it.
So when someone views his site and likes the look of
his info (the ebook package he’s selling) they click
on the ‘ask seller a question’ button and he sends
them either the ebook as an attachment or details of
which website they can download it from.
Of course they must agree to join his opt-in list to
get the info but very few people have a problem with
this. Unless you’re emailing them every day (and not
even then even then if it’s a good offer) they’re
unlikely to complain.
If you really want to stay on the right side of Ebay
you’ll have to pay some fees, but they’ll be very
small.
There are people who put together a large package of
top-quality info that they have bought cheaply or
scoured the net for (for free) and then sold a small
e-report for $1 on Ebay giving information as to where
the customer could download the large package from
their website.
The customers buy the e-report and of course it gives
them details of where to access the web page to
download the large package.
As a buyer their email address then goes onto the
list.
The other way is just to offer the package from Ebay.
List the auction as a ‘BUY NOW’ type with 100 or more
‘available’. If I’m offering a good package for $1
it’s not unusual for 80 or 90 to sell over a ten-day
period. If you list four or five auctions you’re
taking a lot of names.
The main thing is to get those email addresses added
to your list. You could easily take 500 names in 2
weeks. Sounds a lot? Look in your address book now.
How many of those could you legitimately add to your
list (without spamming)?
When you buy a new PC from PC World or a new pram or
Digital Radio don’t you get emails following up the
sale and offering their latest deals? Amazon and EBAY
do this a lot. Why can’t we?
In case you’re worried it seems (and again the law IS
hazy) that if you have a pre-existing business
relationship (i.e. they’ve bought off you in the past
or have opted in to your list) then it seems you’re
NOT spamming. Of course the ultimate responsibility
lies with you.
Here’s where you can see what Microsoft says about the
matter:
It seems that if you keep your customers happy and
they know who you are when you email them, then you’re
less likely to fall foul of any spamming laws.
The rewards speak for themselves.
Selling a package you’ve bought at $10 for $1 will get
you a lot of names and emails. It’s well worth the
outlay to offer the kind of quality that will have
people happy to opt onto your list
So will giving away a free ebook package that directs
them to opt in to get MORE on your website.
But How Do I Set Up An Opt-in Webpage?
I’m not going to explain this here because that’s not
money-making information. In any of the autoresponder
software/service you use, the descriptions are all
provided there.
I use AR Plus Autoresponder at
http://www.internetmarketing-tactics.com/recommends/responder
Another recommended autoresponder service can be
located at
So how do I know that they’ll enter the correct email
address and not someone else’s just to get the book?
It’s easy – set up an auto responder that sends an
email with download instructions automatically to the
email address they entered. If they enter a false
email address they don’t get the book.
It tells the email address owner that his/her email
has been used to try to obtain a free ebook. It gives
them an address to report this to if it’s a false one.
If it’s a genuine email it tells the new subscriber
(now I can add their address to my list) where to
download the free book.
Using free giveaways is the best way of building your
list in my opinion, but use every chance you get to
boost your mailing list.
So Where’s The Money?
You didn’t see it?
It’s by providing the product for the eBay Sellers to
sell to their mailing list. Each time you get a
promotion for your discounted product, you can get to
build extra customer list. Some of the prospect might
even end up subscribing your list for free.
If you concentrate solely on mailing list JV’s with
either good Ebay sellers with a good list or good Ebay
sellers with a good product you could make a lot of
money. One JV per month (taking just 2 days) could
easily bring you $1000 a month from a small list. If
you built your list steadily day by day and at the
same time worked with more and more sellers you could
easily bring in $5000, which would increase every
month as your list grows. Then there are the foreign
Ebay sites. UK/USA JV’s are extremely lucrative. A
product that sells well in the USA might be unheard of
in the UK. Offer it to your list and watch what
happens!
This is THE business I wish I’d tried years ago when I
first started.
I can’t urge you enough to not just put this book
down. TRY IT – you’ll be amazed at the results.
Just think again about your job. How long would it
take you to earn a thousand dollar on top of your
current salary?
A big bonus?
A lot of overtime?
Or some well-invested time, working from home, in 24 –
72 hours?
Start building your list now.
It’s another weapon in your arsenal against the JOB
trap. It’s easier to work for yourself from home than
it is to work at a JOB. There are two hard parts to
making the leap:
1. One of my favourite quotes ‘Never let yourself get
into the position where you’re too busy earning a
living to make any real money’ – That’s exactly what a
JOB does to you.
2. Proving to yourself that you actually can make
money from home. The first $100 is the hardest, but it
proves it can be done. Hopefully this book will sort
out this second problem for you.
A better way of working is to become a freelance
worker from home. If this sounds good to you, read
this report at www.youchandoit.com/getpaid
I hope you have gain valuable information from this
report. You’re most welcome to post a Comment at my
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-Patric Chan
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