How to Legally Sell an
Affiliate Product on Ebay
by: John
Farina
If you're involved as an affiliate for any product, you've probably wrestled
with how you can sell the product on eBay.
After all, eBay offers you a massive potential audience of 168 million members.
And people who read about your product will likely have found it by searching,
thus saying they are interested in the product area in which your product
resides.
The bad news, however, is that there is no easy way to market affiliate
products on eBay!
First of all, if you haven't heard of affiliate selling, here's a very quick
description of how it works.
Fundamentally, selling an affiliate product requires that you get interested
buyers to click on a special link. This link takes the person to the product
owner's sales page. More importantly, the link also contains your unique
affiliate code. It is this code which ensures that sales made from your
introductions are recorded in your affiliate account. Finally, if your prospect
purchases the product, it is the owner who handles product delivery and who
also pays you your sales commission payment.
On eBay, you could easily set up an auction saying how marvelous your affiliate
product is. You will certainly attract a number of people who would be
interested in buying. The problem is, you have no
legitimate way of selling it to eBay members!
This is because it's against eBay's rules to have a link in your auction page
which takes your readers away to another website to make a sale. So, you can't
just create a sales page with your affiliate link.
Also, if you think about it, you don't even have the affiliate product to
deliver. There's no mechanism for you to make the sale on eBay, and deliver the
product. If you recall, this is handled automatically by the product owner.
So here are two ways in which you can tap into the eBay market with your
affiliate products.
1. The Simple System
You create an auction which explains the benefits of
the affiliate product you're promoting. This would be the normal sales page for
the product you're promoting.
But what do you offer on your eBay auction?
What you sell is the information on where to get hold of this superb product.
And you "sell" this knowledge for just one penny.
Whenever someone "buys" your information, you send them an email
saying thank you for your purchase. You then explain they don't really need to
send you a penny, and you give them the link to the fantastic product in which
they've expressed an interest.
Of course, the link is YOUR affiliate link.
By the way, in your auction description page please think of a new angle for
the product. You'll find almost everybody who is an affiliate for any popular
product will be using the suggested sales material supplied by the product
owner.
If you use the standard sales pitch, you will just appear to be one of many.
Your interested purchaser has probably seen some of these already. Why should
they take notice of you?
Lace your auction description with personal and credible information about the
product, and you will get some of those prospective buyers to go with you.
Incidentally, you could find that your one penny auctions are removed by eBay.
After all, a one penny auction doesn't bring eBay very much by way of listing
or final value fee.
If this happens to you, you could try system 2 below, and you can also place
your one penny auction on other auction sites such as Yahoo, Amazon, QXL etc
2. The Not as Simple System
With this system, you need to do a little research before you launch your eBay
auction for your affiliate product.
The objective here is to create a package of items which are related to your
affiliate products, and which you auction at 99 cents or 99 pence.
First off, you need to create a 2 or 3 page report about your affiliate
product. Ideally this should be based on your personal experience with the
product. Failing that, it should be written in your own personal style. The key
points are that these are your own words, and the report includes your
affiliate link to the product.
The next step is to find other items for your "package". You do this
by using Google search to locate related free products.
Let's suppose you're an affiliate for an ebook which teaches how to paint and
draw figures. On Google you would search for something like - figure drawing
free.
It took me under 10 minutes to locate the following freebies:
Photographing Your Artwork (free ebook) 3D Figure Drawing Studio software (free
trial) How to Sell Your Art (free newsletter)
And there are many more you could unearth given a
little more research time. Be a little careful in your selection - you don't
want to give away something which will compete with your affiliate ebook.
Having found your items, what you now do is bundle them up and add them to your
2/3 page report. You then create an auction which offers the whole package for
99 cents or pence.
There's no way eBay can possibly object to this auction.
As you can see, all it really takes to get your affiliate product in front of
eBay's massive market place is a little creativity.
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About The Author John J Farina is a successful affiliate marketer. He provides
expert reviews on which affiliate programs to join and which ones to avoid
like the plague. He shows people how to actually generate substantial income
on-line using very simple, easily modeled systems. An example of such a
system that you can study and duplicate is at: http://www.johnnysreviewsite.com
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