How Will You Ride The eBay Digital Storm?
| by Paula Brett |
The furore still hasn’t died down…..
The eBay `digital thang’ is being discussed far and wide, on blogs, forums, newsletters, emails — how to get round it, over it, under it.
At the risk of sounding a sanctimonious prig – I have to say that I strongly suspect all those that are trying to think of ways to cheat the system could be in for a fall.
If you have traded on eBay any length time you will know that eBay’s word is law. I’m amazed at the creativity of many people thinking of weird and wonderful ways to carry on sending download links to customers — sending letters with download links, sending customers to a thank you page with the opportunity to download the item and get a refund on postage and countless other wily ruses.
Of course, there will always be those that try to list their digital products and avoid sending them by snail mail, but these people will get reported and banned eventually, without a doubt.
If you’re serious about using eBay to build your business my advice would be to stick to the eBay rules and plough your creativity and energy into transforming your products into amazing-looking multi-media items – great quality and higher value. If you’re on the Powerseller chase, then there’s no reason why you still can’t pursue this – in fact I suspect you’ll make it a damn site quicker selling physical products at a higher price than you will selling 1.97 products.
As I said in my earlier post, I really am excited – I think this could be a fabulous opportunity. I’m already working on one of my products and turning it into a multi-media extravaganza – it’ll be twice, probably three times, the product that it was originally – a product that any customer would be delighted to have delivered to their door.
Whilst I’ve got pages and pages of notes and ideas about what I’m going to do with my product, I haven’t actually got to the techy burning of CDs, designing covers and compilation part of it all yet. I was planning to do a bit more research in the next couple of days but now I can relax a little about that aspect of it all.
Why?
Well, Dave Nicholson of Planet Divinity has come up with the perfect package. Many of you will know Dave and his amazing graphics work and I’m sure a good number of you will have had your own designs and graphics done by Dave’s talented team. I personally wouldn’t go anywhere else for my graphics and that’s why I’m really excited about his new package.
I really can concentrate on the content of my product now rather than all the `other’ stuff, because I know, when I’m ready for all that, Dave’s Digital Media Solution will walk me through all the rest.
- How to arrange everything on my CD or DVD for optimum effect
- How to make a simple but effective menu system to guide my customers through
- How to integrate my autoresponder, so I can still add my customers to my `digital mailing list
- And templates, template, templates, so I can create product after product quickly and professionally
- And loads more!
This really is a first class package of tools and I would urge you to take a look at what’s on offer.
Dave’s offering a special introductory price at the moment, for all those that want to get in on this on the ground floor. I suspect that once the realisation sets in with all those unprepared eBay sellers dropping by the wayside and searching for just this kind of solution, he’ll quite rightly up the price to it’s true value – so make sure you take your business seriously and move with the times and get shipping your CDs and DVDs.
Here’s the link again so you can check it out and see what you think – it might be just the solution you’re looking for