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1. What a rookie Realtor can teach us about massive Internet success.
2. 14 year old earns $1.4K in FIRST TWO WEEKS ON EBAY!?
3. Quick tips:
- Five years of LOVING the Internet Lifestyle pays off for you
- Wondering “What should I sell on eBay”?
- eBay discount for sellers
Imagine you are a new real estate agent (I know you probably aren’t, but play along for a moment). This story will apply to you no matter what business you are in.
Even your eBay business can benefit from this lesson.
As a new agent you get TONS of advice from everyone about how to succeed selling homes. How to advertise, how to “close leads”, how to “network”, how to get listings, how to hold open houses, what park benches to advertise on etc.
Seasoned agents are telling you it can take years to succeed and it will cost you all your weekends and evenings.
It’s disheartening for a newbie.
Meet my client Andy…
As a new agent trying to sell houses all that “bad news” wasn’t good enough for him. Andy didn’t want to work weekends, network, send out flyers, make cold calls or wait years to make it big.
Andy was BRAND new to selling houses and he decided to do something VERY simple and VERY different from all his peers. Andy set up an automated Internet based sales funnel. Here’s how he did it:
Step 1: He stopped ALL forms of advertising, all open houses, all cold calling, all postal mailings etc.
Step 2: He bought some Pay Per click ads from Google (takes a few hours one day to set up)
Step 3: He sent those leads to a simple one page website I call a squeeze page (takes a day to set up)
Here’s where it gets good…
Step 4: Over the next 8 months Andy sold more houses and made more commissions than 99.9% of all agents in his state without ever spending a dime on advertising. Yes - even the ads on Google are paid for by someone else that he shares the leads with.
To be exact he sold 83 homes in 8 months without spending a dime on advertising.
Read that sentence again…it’s pretty astounding. Those results are simply UNHEARD OF in real estate.
That’s the 100% TRUE story of a client of mine. Andrew Higgins is now one of the top agents in the state of Indiana.
Why should you care? Because it is a great illustration of the simple, untapped power of the Internet and the “sales funnel” strategy that I’m always talking about.
As a result of the success Andy is having agents all over the world are BEGGING us to show them how we do it. So after much consideration we wrote a free book spilling the ENTIRE system for the world to see.
We honestly may have to pull some info OUT OF THIS BOOK because we really do give it all away.
Get the book now at N0 C0ST at the below link (even if you don’t sell houses for a living you’ll learn how easily this can be done with ANY business):
The title is: “How I sold 83 Homes in 8 Months with Zero Marketing Expense”
The “sales funnel” approach has been EXTREMELY successful for us and is being illustrated in TWO DISTINCT WAYS as part of this story.
First, a funnel is being used by Andy to sell homes.
Second, a funnel is being used as we pass out our GREAT book and share our success with other agents.
Read the book and observe both funnels at work. It can be applied to ANY business!
Want to watch a quick video refresher about how to use a simple “sales funnel”? Here’s a link to a very popular video I made about one month ago - go watch it again:
http://www.silentsalesmachine.com/FunnelVideo.html
ONE LAST THING…
Can I PLEASE pay you to give this “83 Homes in 8 Months…” book away to any agents you know?
If you do know a real estate agent (who doesn’t!?) that would like to completely change the way they do business give them a BRANDED copy of this book. You’ll get a very generous commission if they decide to let us help them change their business.
Even if they don’t wind up working with us I guarantee you will open their eyes to a whole new world of possibility. Be prepared though - they aren’t likely to believe the results or the simplicity of it, but I stake my reputation that’s it’s 100% true and legit.
In order to get a branded copy of the book you’ll have to join the affiliate program at 838system.com. You can also call Andy’s office if you want. The phone number is right on the 838system.com website.
P.S. If this book sounds familiar it’s because I told some of my subscribers about this project several months ago, but the book has been greatly expanded and improved since then with a lot more detail. Go get a free copy at http://www.838system.com.
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1. Getting paid in dollars and spending Quetzales
2. Sick of listening to me about BANS?
3. Quick tips:
- We’ve made it easier to join
- Easy targeted traffic from eBay
For a few weeks now I’ve been talking a lot (too much perhaps) about BANS.
I’ll bet you want to SEE some REAL RESULTS from BANS users.
You want to see some “push button simple” BANS websites built by BANS users.
You want to HEAR what REAL users have to say.
See some samples here:
http://www.silentsalesmachine.com/bans.html
And then…
Here are some UNSOLICITED comments left on various public and private chat forums around the web (including the many MySilentTeam.com members who only recently bought BANS).
Some comments are edited for length and clarity but you’ll get the message loud and clear.
***BEGIN FORUM COMMENTS***
o Oneofem posted:
I built my very first BANS site on September 27. So far it has earned $913.22 (11 days of sales). I’ve spent zero on advertising.
It takes me about 30 minutes to build a new site.
o Bearded posted:
I’m actively promoting 4 BANS sites currently, and I’m making $100-200daily, and only spending about $60/day on advertising/adwords (pay per click).
I’ve had the sites set up about 2 months now, and it took about a month to break even, but now I’ve really got a good system going.
o Willspencer posted:
BANS has become one of the easiest, best ways to make m.oney I’ve found so far…I’ve jumped up to $150 in sales, and my natural search traffic is growing every day.
o Rbussey posted:
Great software. The guys at BANS (Build a Niche Store)… Kelvin and Adam are super and the product works like a charm.
o BigTony posted:
Well what can I say about Build a Niche Store. Crap real crap ..do not buy !!!. You will lose a lot of money.A very bad investment…spend your money else where. You stand no chance of making any money at all with BANS… (note: Big Tony has built over 100 BANS stores and is pulling in KILLER income - read between the lines!)
o Kokope posted:
I literally “threw up” a BANS site on a new domain and forgot about it. Never submitted it, never optimized it. Google found it because of the adsense on it. Seeing this thread made me go look at the stats. Traffic is steadily growing and I would guess it has been online for nine months. Like I said, I forgot about it but every month, I see these ACH deposits in my bank account now averaging over $100 a month.
Gee, maybe I sould revisit this opportunity and do it 100 times over 
o Grwolz posted:
I put up 4 BANS stores this week. Started a new Yahoo PPC account to get $100 free credit. Ran ads on the 4 stores until the PPC funding ran out. Average ppc was 0.10.
Total earnings for this week were $400! eBay sign ups give $25 a pop and I managed to get 1-2 for every 1000 impressions. Add on the normal sales and I was in love. I actually had 10 leads! but all of them did not complete for commission.
But really BANS is a must for everyone in the affiliate business. My results are REAL and even after my initial PPC campaign I am still getting bookmarked traffic of about 400 impressions a day.
o Wulfster posted:
The last week has been very good to me! I’ve made more than $1000 over the last seven days, and the commissions for today’s sales won’t post until sometime tomorrow evening. How does $600+ sound for the month of October (and today’s only the 3rd)?
o Moondog posted:
I got $50 since I’ve started it 2 weeks ago. And it is only from 3 sites!!! It is a huge victory for me!
I have full time job, and sometimes it is hard to manage time to do everything including IM.
But I can tell you one thing, that I am seriously thinking about buying new car soon, if everything will continue just fine!!!
***END OF UNSOLICITED COMMENTS***
This is about as easy and predictable as Internet success gets folks. See some sample BANS sites and get started here:
http://www.silentsalesmachine.com/bans.html
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1. Turn the tables on eBay…make them pay YOU!
Put BANS to work for you!
2. Free Conference call 10/16/07 with Andrew and Dan
3. Quick tips:
- Three MySilentTeam.com experts all together in one place…
- Personal Update
In today’s newsletter I told you about BANS. It’s the BEST way I’ve found to easily tap into eBay’s affiliate program even if you can’t program a website.
BANS stands for “Build a Niche eBay Store”. It’s not a store where you sell YOUR stuff though. It’s a store where you sell all the niche products on eBay as listed by other sellers! It’s true hands free income.
BANS allows you to build niche stores around any eBay product category and then customize it to your audience easily. It’s all push button easy to learn and better yet…you can start cashing in on the eBay affiliate program that pays VERY well.
Several MySilentTeam.com members are reporting fast success with BANS.
Here are some top traffic strategies and tips from the most successful BANS users:
1. Remember that the ever changing “eBay Product Content” Provides The Foundation For Your Search Engine Rankings
All of the product listings in your store include the keywords which potential buyers will be entering into the search engines to find those very products. All of this product content is search engine friendly and updates regularly as old listings expire and new listings are added to the eBay marketplace. With BANS you automatically have content rich pages with relevant keywords to start your free search engine traffic rolling.
2. Keyword Targeting And SEO
Taking this content foundation, the first way to improve your search engine rankings is to perform keyword research to find the exact keywords that your target market is searching for. By finding the exact keyword phrases you can get an edge over your search engine competition by refining the title tags and page urls of your store pages (from inside your BANS admin panel) and also by creating new store pages beyond the default ones which BANS will create when you select the niche you are going to target (again from inside your BANS admin panel). New store pages means your store targets more keywords.
3. Content Creation
With a good understanding of the keywords your target market is using from number 2 you can then begin to add content pages to your store so that it targets even more of your markets keywords in the search engines. Product reviews are a great way to attract and convert more visitors into eBay buyers.
4. Directory Submissions
While “general” directories do not offer much value, directories related to your specific niche can be a great traffic source and will also give you a valuable inbound link which will assist your natural search engine rankings.
5. Forum Marketing
Forums and community boards related to your niche hold many potential purchasers and by including a link to your niche store or a particular product in your niche store and making insightful posts you can funnel a large amount of targeted visitors out of the forums and into your eBay affiliate store.
6. Article Marketing
Writing and submitting articles to directories like ezinearticles.com gets you targeted traffic in two ways. Firstly, the top article directories have a good standing with the search engines and you will often find your article ranking highly for its target keywords. Internet browsers go from the search engines to your article and onto your niche store which you will have linked to in the author bio box at the bottom of your article. Secondly, other webmaster, bloggers and ezine publishers use the articles in these directories as content for their visitors. This means that more people find your store through your author bio box and the additional inbound links your articles generate will indirectly increase your search engine rankings.
7. Craigslist
Posting an advertisement on Craigslist for a particular product or type of product found in your niche store can be a very effective way to bring people who are actively looking to buy through to your store and onto eBay. Craigslist listings are also starting to appear on Google.com in natural search results!
8. PPC
A Pay-Per-Click advertising campaign done correctly will bring targeted traffic through to your store at a rate and for a profit which can be easily calculated and monitored. If you can master PPC there are big opportunities for funnelling people through to eBay via your stores.
Finding the right PPC keywords and sending traffic to your niche site could bring you INSTANT results.
There are also numerous ways to drive traffic FROM EBAY to your niche site. Be careful not to violate eBay policy when doing this, but the book found at SilentSalesMachine.com has many great ideas in it!
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1. Currently my favorite source of eBay inventory is…
2. Still looking for your niche on eBay?
3. Quick tips:
- Hey eBay - show us some love!
- Posting video online?
- Are you a member of the eBay affiliate program?
This article originally ran in Jan ‘07, but I’ve added some updates to put a new twist on this great idea.One of the most creative ways to profit using eBay that I’ve ever encountered actually involves SELLING NOTHING from your own eBay account.
Let me explain.
You can partner with powersellers on eBay to “back end” sell eBooks and other easily delivered products (products you write/create or products created by others).
Take advantage of the huge customer base and massive traffic exposure of the powerseller and split the profits you help them uncover. My estimate is that 95% of all powersellers on eBay have NO IDEA how to do this.
These partnerships can be tricky to establish and must be built on trust. You have to be sure not to violate eBay policy in the establishment of these partnerships (be careful how you approach other sellers to avoid being accused of spam).
…but when done right this is a VERY simple and powerful concept.
EXAMPLE: Many eBay sellers running a large number of auctions could be adding 50 or more new leads to their email list every day…but they have no idea how to do it or why they even should.
Let’s step through one example:
o Powersellers get a lot of traffic to their auctions
o Most powersellers do NO “back-end” marketing
o A simple aweber.com name and email capture form on their about me page would yield great results
o There are many ebooks to be found that would make GREAT up-sells and back-end sales for the eBay customers that join the mailing list
o You could easily sell a product found on clickbank.com and share the profits with your eBay powerseller partner
Another possibility:
Most eBay sellers are very intimidated at the thought of adding video to their auction, but we know the power of video right? (There are several recent videos about the power of adding video to your eBay auctions on this blog
Do you see where I am going with this? High volume sellers on eBay are great potential partners!
You need to know the rules though when using these strategies.
For example, you MAY NOT invite eBay customers to join your mailing list from within your auction listings.
You MAY NOT send an email to your eBay customers with the sole intent of inviting them to join your mailing list.
You CAN invite your customers to join your mailing list using your “About Me” page.
You CAN invite customers to join your mailing list as part of any email follow up message you send them (don’t make the invitation the main point of the email).
The vast majority of eBay powersellers would be delighted to be able to take back some of the control of their business from eBay. As a reader of this newsletter you hold the keys to helping them do that.
As a reminder these kinds of ideas are what we are all about at MySilentTeam.com and it’s the kind of thing that my book (Silent Sales Machine) is full of.
Stay creative!
Be sure to leave a comment with your thoughts on this article! I love to hear from you.
