Internet Business Experimenting

I had been trying to do some small business since I was in university time. However after I graduated and start my full-time career, I found it difficult to start a business as most traditional business:

1. Need a lot of time to run
2. Need some big amount of start up capital

So instead of starting my own business, I try to go into investment. I have try to invest in stock markets and properties. But both are just a starting point. As I continue in investing, I need more fund for my investment capital. Although my current job salary is ok, but I wanted to get some other streams of income so that I won’t be solely depends on my main income.

After long long time of searching, I discovered internet-base business. The good things of internet-base business is that it can be start on part-time basis and there is no need big amount of startup capital to start with. Futher more internet-base business has a lot of revenue potential with passive income. However there are so many ways to make money online, just far too many expert claim that they can tell you how to make money online. The more I read, the more I become confuse. I know that I will need to pick only 1 and 2 to focus on it. So I figure out a few that are suitable for my situation:

1. Affiliate Marketing
2. Create and sell e-book

The strategy are the same, I need to find a niche market with something that I expert with and write about it. If people find my knowledge useful to them, then they will come.

For affiliate marketing mainly the strategy is to provide good content to pre-sell my affiliate product. There are so many affiliate programmes out there like amazon.com, richdad.com, ebook products, health products and many other products. So I need to find a niche market and create a good content site to presell those affiliate product. However a good content site needs a lot of writing and good knowledge on the niche market. Consideration like what domain name to choose, what keyword that people are searching are also important. One of the hosting that specialize in creating content site that I know of is site build it:

http://www.sitesell.com/

Below are some of the good content sites created on site build it:

anguilla-beaches.com
cheap-computers-guide.com
jugglenow.com
rent-a-villa-in-tuscany.com
4-small-businesses.com
about-personal-growth.com
writinghelp-central.com
eazigoal.com
subconscious-secrets.com

Another focus is to create and sell an e-book using a killer sales letter. For this one I really need to be real expert in the subject that I write. Below are some of the killer sales letter that sells e-book:

http://www.senze.com/16/
http://www.taichibreathing.com/
http://www.7dayebook.com/
http://www.goals-2-go.com/goals2006/goals2006.htm

Currently these are the directions that I will focus on. Since I am a beginner in this I will keep on experimenting until I find a way that works for me.

How To Create Automatic Delivery For Your Ebay Items

So you want to sell ebooks and/or digital products on eBay and you want your customers to have instant access and for this to be done automatically?
Up until recently automatic delivery has never been so easy!

Now you can sell hundreds of digital products every day and never have to send an email.


Where is my eBay digital delivery?

Some customers may ask you where is my product,
or that they have checked their email and there is no delivery.
If you are selling digital products and a customer asks you where their product is, please feel free to provide a link to this article.

As per eBay's new policy on digital products the download page is displayed after your purchase by eBay.
To find this page

1. Log in to the eBay account under which the item was purchased.
2. Go to "My eBay".
3. View the "Items I've Won".
4. You will find the view digital delivery hyperlink next to the item you purchased.
Please note, you may have to click the arrow to see the drop down menu to access the hyperlink.

Also, you can find the digital download hyperlink by going back to the ad of the item you purchased.


Digital delivery seller requirements

Here are some of the requirements to sell digital items.

1. Use fixed price or store inventory (you can't sell digital items by auction).
2. Offer only immediate PayPal payment.
3. You must use a PayPal Verified Premier or Verified Business account. (From experience I find the most trusted sellers are verified)
4. No pornographic material.
5. Seller must be the intellectual property owner, or an authorised reseller.
6. Sellers item must not include any software/scripts that harm the buyers computer or privacy.

For more information try reading eBays FAQ on digital items


Step one

Please note you can only sell digital items as fixed price, or store item (no auctions allowed).
After selecting your category you will then arrive at the "Title & Description" page.

If you don't see the "List as a digital file or information" then you may have used the wrong category. For example, you can't sell digital products in the motor vehicle category. Also, you could try lisiting the item from ebay.com to see if that makes a difference (sometimes does).

Please note, you may have to start a new listing to enable the digital delivery option.


Step two

After clicking the "List as a digital file or information" link, type some information about the product for sale. For example, is it mac compatible? Windows XP SP2 compatible? pdf, .exe, or zip files? Will the file be downloaded or emailed?

Make sure you click the legal agreement box and that you are an authorised seller.


Step three

After you have setup the "Title & Description", the "Pictures & Details" you now will have to setup the "Payment & Delivery".

This is the page where you specify how the buyer will receive the item. The buyer will only be shown this after payment has been made.

Here you can give the buyer details, for example:

"You can download your purchase from here...."

"Please message me (my email address) and let me know which email address you would like me to send your purchase to ..."

"If you have any questions or problems, please email me here..."

I recommend you supply people with a download page, or a link to download the file. That makes the whole process more automatic, and your customer receives the product immediately after purchase.


Final word

I hope this article answers all of your questions about ebay digital delivery, and thank you for your time.