Promoting with Auctions

Question: What is the number one reason why people go to eBay?

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Answer: TO BUY SOMETHING

eBay now has a classified ad feature that many marketers have been having using with great success. Its real purpose is not to actually sell anything but to educate people about a service or product(s) you have and then to have the customer contact you for more information.

Used properly, this is a very inexpensive advertising method. A classified ad will cost around $20.00 for 30 days.
Just think about this for a second. eBay boasts having 233 million users worldwide. At any given time there are 104 million listing worldwide. Where else are you going to find a huge gathering of buyers like that.

I’m going to warn you - working with eBay is like working with Google adwords - its a process that needs to be learned. Their sole purpose is to collect your money - just like a hotel casino, they want your cash.

Having said that, there are a set of rules and some of the rules are a little vague, but its not difficult to work the system to your advantage. You need to think of eBay as an advertising avenue - a means to an end.

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If eBay doesn’t thrill you, there are a couple other auction sites to use as advertising.

• Bidville - this is a warm friendly community - almost like a giant neighborhood garage sale.
• UBid - this is a new concept in auctions - the products are from a multitude of merchants but they are all under the collective of Ubid. This means as a buyer, your purchase is “guaranteed” to be BS (you read it correctly) free.
• Overstock.com - Another auction site -I don’t recommend using Overstock. They have a high non sale rate and they really can’t seem to get their auction organized. For the expense you are better off using the smaller auctions.