On Tuesday 8th May I’ll be running my first ever webinars.

One of the things that has put me off webinars in the past is the expense. The main webinar platform is GoToMeeting.com. It costs $499 per month to use their 1,000 subscriber option. It must be worthwhile or people wouldn’t use the service. But for a first time, it’s too expensive for me.

The webinar service I’m using is AnyMeeting.com. For 200 subscribers it’s completely free. The only downside is that there is an ad at the side of the screen when the webinar’s running. I’ve had a couple of trials to get used to their setup and the ads don’t get in the way. The interface is easy to use and well designed. Tutorial videos for the site are good too.

So if you’re planning to run a webinar yourself this is a service I would recommend.

If you’re on my list and received an invitation, there’s something I want to make clear. Both webinars will contain the same content. I noticed some people were signing up for both dates, and I should’ve made things clearer.

There’s no need for anyone to be there for both – except for me! Because of the time difference, the fact that I’ve scheduled both webinars eleven hours apart should make it easy for most of you to attend at a convenient time regardless of where you live.

If you’re signed up already you can look forward to some quality information on eBay, Amazon, own physical product design and creation and more. I also cover dropshipping in depth. And I’m offering you my eBay Essentials 18 video course for free when you attend.

Some paid products and services will be available at the end of the webinar. But I’m sure you’ll benefit from the free content if that’s all you want.

And remember that there are only 400 positions available on the webinars so I suggest you get there early. If you’ve not joined up yet, just visit this link.

And changing the subject, congratulations to Andrew Mackow, the winner of my One Month Mentor competition. He won a $15 rebate on the product. Andrew has achieved great success with my eBay eClass. But more about that on Tuesday.

I hope you can make it. Wish me luck…

Spam filters are great for stopping the floods of unwanted email that we all get to our inbox. But how do you ensure that emails that you want to look at don’t get marked as spam?

I’ve recently noticed emails sent to me from friends and business contacts getting marked as spam. It’s only by wading through my spam folder that I’ve found important messages that I needed to read.

If you’ve signed up to my list recently, you should have received a sequence of five emails giving away my free products. In the last month I’ve had over a dozen complaints from subscribers who’ve not received all five of these emails.

So what’s the solution?

The best way to ensure that you get emails from me is to whitelist my email address.

Not clear on whitelisting? Here’s Wikipedia’s definition:

“An e-mail whitelist is a list of contacts that the user deems are acceptable to receive email from and should not be sent to the trash folder.

Spam filters that come with e-mail clients have both whitelists and blacklists of senders and keywords to look for in e-mails. If a spam filter keeps a whitelist, mail from the listed e-mail addresses, domains, and/or IP address will always be allowed.

Some internet service providers have whitelists that they use to filter e-mail to be delivered to their customers.

If a whitelist is exclusive, only e-mail from those on the whitelist will get through. If it is not exclusive, it prevents e-mail from being deleted or sent to the junk mail folder by the spam filter. Usually, only end-users would set a spam filter to delete all e-mails from sources not on the whitelist, not internet service providers or e-mail services.”

I’ve now whitelisted all my important email contacts – something I should’ve done before but never got around to. I recommend you do the same if you’ve not done so already.

Full instructions on how to whitelist are here.

Years of refusal.

But finally I’ve started to use Facebook and Twitter for my marketing. Why the wait? Partly because I wanted to get things right. Plus I knew there’d be a bit of a learning curve ahead…

First I wanted to launch a page on Facebook. So I bought some software to help me create the page.

Long story short: After three hours of apps, timelines, Facebook mark up text and more I was ready to give up.

Fortunately Frank Salinas’s guide EZ Free Fan Pages helped me out. No apps needed with this one. With EZ Free Fan Pages I had what I wanted done in under an hour.

If you’ve more experience with Facebook than me, you might not need help with page creation. But if you do, EZ Free Fan Pages is the product to go for.

Have a look at the results here.

You can see that after you click Like (thanks for that!) you’re lead to a splash page. Then you’re taken to the squeeze page. It’s only after filling in the form that you finally get your free gifts.

Why turn a simple ‘click the Like button to get your freebies’ request into a three step process?

With 800 million Facebook users there’s no shortage of traffic.

But overall, Facebook traffic is lower than average quality. It costs me money to keep freebie seekers on my list. The three step system encourages the higher quality targeted prospects to opt in.

Next I wanted to start using my Twitter account. I’ve even less interest in publishing ‘what I had for breakfast’ messages on Twitter than I have in reading them. I want an automated system that fires out eBay/Amazon/IM related tweets.

If you’re interested in an automated Twitter account, I recommend Auto Tweet Cash. This course is (thankfully!) straightforward and easily implemented.

Within 72 hours after putting Auto Tweet Cash into place I had my first affiliate product sale from Twitter.

How many followers you add to your account after that is up to you. But just making a couple of return visits per week to the Auto Tweet Cash system will ensure your account keeps growing.

Check out my Twitter account here.

Part One

“What do I sell on Amazon Pete?”

This is one of the most frequent questions I get asked. Competition for ecommerce products of all kinds is fierce on Amazon. So from the outset, you need to think outside the box. Here are a few ideas for you…

Sell multiples of your item in one listing

Can your customer use more than one of the products you’re selling? Then sell more than one product in each listing. For example, if you’re selling bottles of wine, why not take a red and a white and call it a Selection Pack? It’s easier to undercut your competition on pricing whilst still making a good profit. AND you’ve created a unique product.

Create bundled items of different accessories

This works particularly well for Playstation, iPhone, iPad, etc. related accessories. Amazon has allowed bundled products since November 2011 and a lot of sellers have been making good money with accessory bundles since then. My Auction Profit Formula contains more on this method.

Sell your own one of a kind items

Do you have a particular talent for creating anything? I’ve sold over 2,000 of my own pop art canvas prints on Amazon, for instance.  Or can you outsource creation of a product you’ve got in mind? Research what’s selling now on Amazon, and how you can put your own unique spin on it.

Set up an Amazon affiliate website

Like any other affiliate program, this involves promoting products already listed on Amazon. You get a percentage from the sale price of each product sold. Affiliate commission percentages are low on Amazon products, so it’s important to target high demand, expensive niches to make good profits.

Azon Profit Store is a particularly good site theme. Amongst features that make it stand out:

When you Google to find a product that’s on Amazon, a short review and a star rating often appear in your search results. These are called rich snippets. Google loves rich snippets – Azon Profit Store utilizes them.

A prospective customer clicking to buy a product in your store is sent directly to the Amazon checkout page, unlike other site themes that send visitors to the product page.  It cuts a step out in the buying process, and closely aligns your site with Amazon in your prospect’s mind. This is a big deal!

Azon Profit Store is newbie and advanced friendly. Find out more here.

Look out for Part Two tomorrow with more about affilate sites and selling on Amazon.

Part Two

You can also buy pre designed Amazon affiliate websites that focus on one topic. High demand, high profit niches are the ones to go for. Have a look at this offer targeted at Amazon Affiliate Baby Essentials.

Similar eBay targeted sites were popular in the past. However as Amazon has eclipsed eBay as the premier ecommerce store, these have become rarer.

It can be difficult for the average seller to gain a foothold with Amazon selling. An Amazon affiliate site gives you a chance to join rather than beat the competition. Amazon stops other sellers from undercutting them on price on any of the products they sell, so it’s important to find other ways to profit on Amazon, instead of fighting an impossible battle of pricing competition with Amazon themselves.

Another major cash making opportunity on Amazon is with ebooks designed for the Amazon Kindle. This is a blog post in itself, so more on that later…

Here are some no cost eBay reports to help with your eBay trading. Just right click on the ‘Download here’ link and save to your desktop to get your PDF copies of these products.

Public Domain Profits by Steven Poke
Products in the public domain are out of copyright: they can be resold, repurposed or included with other products by anyone who wants to use them – including you! People are making great money on eBay every day with public domain content. In Public Domain Profits Steven shows you how it’s done.

Download here

Prints Make Profits In Action by Stuart Turnbull and Deb Henry
To trade vintage prints on eBay you don’t need special tools or a large cash investment. It’s not time consuming and works from anywhere in the world. Stuart and Deb show you how to trade prints and follow in their footsteps. They earn as much as 900% on each transaction!

Download here

I Sold It On eBay by Deb Henry
Deb’s information is a great companion piece to my Auction Arbitrage Secret, for which finding your own lucrative niche to sell in is vital. Niche finding and domination is one of the best routes to selling success for eBayers. Let Deb’s information give you an edge on your competition.

Download here

A couple of years ago there was only one major Amazon course: Steve Lindhorst’s Selling On The River. Now there are plenty to choose from. Here are some of the best – star rated out of five.

Selling On Amazon’s FBA Program ***

By Nathan Holmquist

This used to be paid – now it’s free. Selling On FBA has solid advice from Nathan on how to get the best from FBA. Does what it says on the tin – so don’t hesitate to download it. For a broader look at how to get the best from Amazon try these…

Selling On The River ***½

By Steve Lindhorst

Steve’s ebook was the first widely available Amazon selling guide. Amazon was building up a reputation as the place for selling physical goods online – and eBay sellers wanted to talk about it.

But they couldn’t directly recommend Amazon on eBay forums. Instead eBay sellers referred to Amazon as ‘the river’ to avoid getting banned.

And Selling On The River was perfect for seasoned eBay sellers who were becoming jaded with eBay and wanted to try another selling platform.

eBay has steadily become less of the ‘mom and pop’ seller platform it started out as, and moves ever closer to the sales methods used by Amazon. But Selling On The River still contains plenty of valuable information to start up or improve on your Amazon sales.

This was last updated in 2009. Amazon doesn’t go through changes like eBay does, but it would be good to get an updated version of Selling On The River for 2012.

Amazing Amazon Domination ****

By Dana Forsythe

Amazing Amazon Domination contains basic beginners information on how to sell on Amazon. If you suffer from information overload, this concise and easy to follow guide could be your best choice, instead of some of the more involved products that follow.

Selling Toys And Games On Amazon *****

By Jordan Malik

For price and quality Jordan’s guide was hard to beat in 2011. Now he’s fully updated Selling Toys And Games On Amazon for 2012.  There are 128 full colour pages with photographs that identify the exact items that are fetching top dollar on Amazon in the high demand toys and games niches.

Jordan’s update also includes information to help you sell on eBay.

Selling Toys And Games On Amazon is a great low cost guide for selling on Amazon the right way.

With one important proviso. This is only suitable for buyers in the USA who use amazon.com. Jordan’s advice is so pinpoint specific that it doesn’t apply to other countries and Amazon sites.

So that just leaves…

Proven Amazon Course *****

By Jim Cockrum

Jim’s just updated his Proven Amazon Course for 2012. It’s not cheap, but it’s the best Amazon online selling course that you’ll find.

This is far from being just Jim’s product. He’s tapped into the pool of Amazon experts on his MySilentTeam.com website including Suzanne Wells, Skip McGrath, Nathan Holmquist and Steve Lindhorst.

Subjects covered include selling used books, where to find FBA inventory and a new bonus product sourcing video that Jim originally sold for $1,400.

I’m a successful Amazon seller and I still got new information from this. I’ll keep coming back to the Proven Amazon Course to continue improving my Amazon selling skills.

I’ve just released Fast Auction Lister, my free new eBay design software. If you’ve not got it yet, download it here and use this code to activate the software: HBBNT-KKIOU-POIUY-89IUT

This is an extremely powerful system for getting subscribers. That’s because I normally require the prospect to give me their email address to get the code before they can use the software. You can use it to get sales too.

I’m now selling Master Resale Rights to Fast Auction Lister. That means you can use the same method to build your subscriber list.

If you don’t use an autoresponder service and have no plans to invest in one then this MRR version is not for you.

But if you’d like to try my favorite ever list building method, visit this link.

There are so many varied opinions on how to build an internet marketing business that it’s easy to get sidetracked – or give up altogether.

The best people to give advice are those that are making a full time living online right now.

I talked to eleven successful marketers and email copywriters for my Dynamite List Building product. This is what they agreed on:

If you have a mailing list and want to grow your business fast, email them AT LEAST once a day.

Everyone I talked to was in agreement on this one. Personally I make a point of only emailing buyers of my products about four times a week. Non buyers can expect to receive quality content twice a day on average from me.

Use YouTube.com to build your subscriber list.

The article marketing sites took a pounding from Google last year. Google thought that sites like ezinearticles.com were displaying too many ads and poor quality content. The resulting Google slap saw search engine rankings plummet for article sites.

Article marketing can’t be totally discounted, but where’s best for getting your quality free content seen online in 2012?

Repurpose written content that you already have: articles, adverts, interviews, etc. Turn it into screenshot videos. Then upload it to You Tube. They allow you to place a clickable link in the text below your video.

Because they own You Tube, Google loves this traffic! You can find your videos high in the search results within a couple of days.

Make sure you offer relevant, high value products to potential subscribers.

If you haven’t got your own product, private label rights products are one option. You can rebrand these as though you’ve written them. However, the best ones are often expensive.

So what option do you have other than PLR?

Master Resale Rights is a good alternative option. You can’t brand them as your own. But there’s plenty to choose from so you should have no problem finding some good content to give away to new or current subscribers.

I recently bought an MRR offer that’s difficult to beat for quality and value. It gives you the chance to not only pick and choose from 250 products but resell the entire package at the price of your choice. You can see it here.

Ebooks aren’t enough anymore.

Whenever possible add value to your paid products with video and audio.  Give your customer a choice of formats. PDF is still most popular. But many people prefer audio or video – or a combination of formats.

Try to deliver content over weeks rather than all at once. This increases real and perceived value for the customer – and makes it easier for them to put the content into action.

If you’re serious about internet marketing you really need to get onto the Warrior Forum. You’ll find tips and tricks available for free as well as some low cost special offers.

It’s also just about the best place for a newbie to go from zero to hero in a very short space of time. So how can you make money from the Warrior Forum?

First go to the Warrior Special Offers forum. You’ll see some exclusive WSOs, others are vastly discounted offers on original marketers’ products.

Think that an eBay ad does well with a thousand plus views? Today I checked the WSO index page. There are ads on there that have 43,332 views, 111,292 views and more. That can mean thousands of copies sold in a very short space of time.

Create a compelling headline. Statistics like copies sold and amounts of money made work well. Power words such as easy and fast will also help.

Make the product something that internet marketers need. They need website traffic so SEO is always in demand. A product needs a sales page – marketers benefit from copywriting tips and services. And you’re not marketing on the internet without adding more subscribers to your emails, so list building is always popular.

My first WSO only product will be on how to build a list with adswaps – an interview based product called Safe Swaps Undercover.

If you’re having trouble coming up with a product here’s my recommendation:

Why not interview a successful internet marketer? Come up with 15 – 20 questions, arrange a Skype interview, record and sell it on the Warrior Forum.

And if you’re short of people to interview, have a look at that Warrior Special Offers page. Find a successful WSO, arrange for an interview and you can leverage the author’s success for your own product! The author gets publicity too. Done right, it’s win:win.

Interested? Learn more about the Warrior Forum here.

Here’s a heads up on some changes on eBay and Amazon…

One of the best features to get traffic off eBay and onto your own site was eBay allowing you to link to your own off eBay webpage. You could also link to your own email address as a point of contact rather than using the eBay My Messages system.

eBay have tightened up on this. You’re no longer able to link to an off eBay site or an email address on your webpage.

However, you can still link to your About Me page from your auction listings. From your About Me page you can include links to your website and own email address.

So on every listing, include at least one prominent link of your own to your About Me page. The link should read

Find out more about us here

or similar. Then on your About Me page include your off eBay links and email address.

Amazon’s new policy change is better news.

For a long time Amazon product listings have lacked the flexibility of eBay. That’s changed because Amazon now allows bundled products. Say for example that you want to create a bundle of iPod covers, screen protectors and a set of speakers. You can now do that as one product rather than listing them separately.

This is exactly the kind of strategy that I describe in Auction Profit Formula. It wasn’t really possible on Amazon – until now.

Selling a product bundle on Amazon is like having your own new product. So you’ll need an ISDN bar code for each bundle to sell on Amazon. Get ISDNs cheaply from Bar Codes Talk.

The product bundle policy currently applies to amazon.com only.

Amazon have announced this at just the right time. If you plan to start a business that includes product bundles, or you want to expand from selling purely on eBay, now’s the time to do it. Move fast and you can be up and running for the Christmas rush.