I’m in a mastermind group with Andrew and he’s shared a lot more of the ‘behind-the-scenes’ info with our group.

Yanik Silver and Dan Kennedy are using Andrew’s system which in itself is an incredible endorsement of how useful it is.

Andrew’s a straightforward guy who doesn’t blow his own trumpet loud enough in my opinion. Every time our group meets he produces incredibly ingenious marketing ideas that blow us away.

I’m using Andrew’s H3 system in a small way for my mortgage loan officer business and it’s phenomenal. I’m getting a steady stream of leads for about a buck a day.

There are some guidelines set forth by eBay regarding post-transactioanl marketing, and as an active power seller, I am careful to abide by these guidelines. eBay has an anti-spam policy (located here http://pages.ebay.com/help/policies/rfe-spam-ov.html) so to protect my seller account and reputation, I don’t spam.

But yes, after selling 13,000 items you better believe I am keeping a list for down the road. The power is in the list.

Regarding your comment “most sellers are too lazy to optimize an auction” – I couldn’t agree with you more. That is the roadblock of my coaching – you can talk a blue streak and tell sellers every secret in the book. The question is, will they get off their duff and to what you suggest? In my experience, and overwhelming NO is the answer. Most are even too lazy to start a blog directed towards their target market.

ITA, information marketing is the key. Visit my blog link above and just look at how much information I give away for free, just to entice sellers to learn more!

Regards-
Suzanne Wells

I’m a member of both of their monthly programs, I’ve never heard anything from them that they are.

John A – what is you typical opt-in rate on your auctions? How many auction views lead to opt-ins? I would like to know if it is working better than my own “homegrown” system.

As for the rest, his basic method is a well-known spammer’s scam which is prohibited by the eBay’s user agreement and is on dangerous legal grounds. The short version is: do not sell e-books on eBay to get emails for a marketing list.

The main thing that concerns me is being buried underneath all the other info products on ebay. Do you have any ideas for overcoming that challenge?

There are a couple ways to use this. If you are selling a laptop, you can put an affiliate link the page on Dell that provides more info about your laptop.

Or if you are selling a product related to your website, put a page on your site providing more information about the product and then link to it from your auction page.

Capturing emails and using video are great tips too!

Like the last poster, I reasoned if it’s good enough for Dan Kennedy and Yanik Silver then it’s good enough for me. I bought Andrew’s lead gen workshop on DVD and the system rocks! It covers everything, even if you’ve never used eBay before.

I use Andrew’s lead gen system and it’s phenomenal. The reason he doesn’t give his or his students user id’s is because he wants to protect everyone’s income! People will obviously copy what we’re doing if it’s handed to them on a plate!

What swung it for me was when I found out Andrew’s system is being used by Dan Kennedy and Yanik Silver, two of the most astute marketers around.

As with any form of traffic model, we (marketers) are facing an ever increasing amount of competitions. Some things that work before easily may now take a real expert to produce the same effect.

Reference your post on blogging – which need one to be exceptionally good at it nowadays to compete well, compare to a few years ago.

Echoing Alvin Huang’s comment, harnessing eBay’s traffic now require more than just these ideas (which are great) and may require a significant amount of time/effort to learn the ropes (and strings) so as to stand out from the rest of the eBay opportunitists.

These are just my opinions. I’ll be very interested to read about your Blog Profits Blueprint eBay venture too.

Cheers,
Hans

But you’re right about the target of searches – it’s commercial.

Thanks. It’s interesting.

Other than that, some good points.

I have long been waiting for Ebay to be usurped by a completely free auction service which runs ads instead of charging sellers. Facebook are trying to muscle in there too, with their classified systems, and sites like Gumtree are growing in popularity.

I’d be surprised if Ebay can continue to operate in the same way it has thus far for many more years.

I did ebay for 3 years before beginning Internet marketing. I was in the car niche, and can tell you that capturing emails would have doubled my business.

I’ve done a few affiliate promotions by setting up a page on ebay, copying in my sales letter and affiliate link, and setting a high reserve. Using tracking, I was able to see that quite a few sales came as a results of this page.

I’m still trying to figure out how to do classifieds on ebay. Their search doesn’t help much. Anyone know?

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- Andrew