| There are two ways to make money by selling other | | | | they will provide you with your unique link to |
| people's products on eBay: as a Joint Venture or as | | | | promote to your customers. |
| an Affiliate. | | | | Now, you can't directly sell someone else's product |
| 1. Joint Venture | | | | on eBay through regular auction listings if you don't |
| A joint venture is where two separate businesses | | | | have a re-sell license. But you can sell someone else's |
| work together to the mutual benefit of each other | | | | product through eBay's Classified Ad format, or as a |
| and their customers. If I have a great product that | | | | back-end product DIRECTLY to your EXISTING |
| meets the needs of people in a certain niche and you | | | | customers AFTER they have already bought |
| have built up a list of people who are interested in | | | | something from you on eBay. |
| that niche, you can recommend my product to your | | | | You could locate a product to promote as an affiliate |
| list of customers and we split the profits, usually | | | | on ClickBank.com, and paydotcom.com, and then buy |
| 50:50. | | | | a related ebook with resell rights on eBay or through |
| Your customers benefit by getting access to a | | | | a Google search. You then have a ready-made |
| product that they might not otherwise be aware of. | | | | information product line with the ebook as your |
| Although I give you half the profit on the sales to | | | | front-end product and the affiliate product as your |
| your customers, I benefit by making sales that I | | | | back-end. You sell the ebook on eBay with a minimal |
| otherwise wouldn't have made. You benefit by | | | | starting bid and No Reserve and then promote the |
| getting profit on sales that you otherwise couldn't | | | | back-end affiliate product to everyone who buys the |
| make because it's not your product. | | | | ebook. |
| And this arrangement can work both ways. You | | | | Or, better still, locate several different products in |
| might have a product that I can offer to my list of | | | | your niche that you can promote as an affiliate and |
| customers. | | | | several different ebooks in your niche with resell |
| You might find lots of information products for your | | | | rights that you can buy. You can then sell an ebook |
| niche when you are researching your market. Rather | | | | as a front-end product and use the other ebooks as |
| than being your competition, the suppliers of these | | | | FREE bonuses to add value. You can then offer your |
| products are your potential joint venture partners. | | | | customers each affiliate product in turn. People who |
| You must only joint venture with good quality | | | | don't buy your first back-end product may buy the |
| products that you can honestly endorse. | | | | second, and so on. You might also be able to locate |
| Recommending poor quality products, or providers | | | | other people's products that you can offer your |
| with poor service, to your list will ruin your | | | | customers on a joint venture basis. |
| relationship with your customers. Before approaching | | | | You can set up several different information product |
| someone to do a joint venture with them you should | | | | lines for several different niches in this way, |
| test the product and the provider by first ordering it | | | | WITHOUT having to create ANY products of your |
| yourself as a customer. Then return it to check that | | | | own! |
| they honour their returns policy. If the product and | | | | Now, I did say that you can't sell other people's |
| service is good, you can ask if they would be | | | | products as an affiliate through regular auction listings |
| interested in a joint venture. | | | | on eBay. But actually you can IF YOU KNOW HOW ... |
| 2. Affiliate | | | | Did you know that you can put one link in your |
| Affiliate programs are like Joint Ventures that can be | | | | auction listing to another webpage that further |
| arranged automatically at the click of a button. The | | | | describes your item? So, you can put a brief |
| vendor who's affiliate program that you have joined | | | | description of your item in your listing with a link that |
| provides you with a unique link to their website for | | | | says: "For more information on this item, click here". |
| your customers to use. | | | | On the webpage that appears when the link is |
| When your customer clicks on the unique link | | | | clicked, you MUST have further information about |
| provided to you by the vendor, they are taken to | | | | the item that you have listed on eBay. But this page |
| the vendor's website and the software that manages | | | | can also display links to items that you have for sale |
| the affiliate program knows that they are your | | | | outside of eBay. If you don't have your own |
| customer (because they have used your link to get | | | | products to sell through your own website, you can |
| to the website). If your customer buys the vendor's | | | | sell other people's products by putting your affiliate |
| product, you will get paid commission. | | | | links on this page! |
| Many websites that sell products have an affiliate | | | | Alternatively, you can sell other people's products as |
| program that you can join. If you have come across | | | | an affiliate or as a joint venture by using eBay's |
| websites that are selling products in your niche, look | | | | Classified Ad format. If someone buys your product |
| for an "Affiliate" tab or link on their website. It won't | | | | through your eBay Classified Ad, they are buying |
| cost you anything to sign up as an affiliate and it's | | | | DIRECT from you, NOT through eBay. So you can |
| very easy to do. Just click on the Affiliate tab/link, fill | | | | put your affiliate link, or the web address of your |
| in your details and they will provide you with your | | | | joint venture partner, in your actual Classified Ad |
| unique link to promote to your customers. | | | | listing. |
| Or you can find THOUSANDS of products that you | | | | Always make sure you only ever deliver good quality |
| can promote as an affiliate at clickbank.com, and You | | | | information products. If you offer rubbish products |
| can set up a FREE account with each of them and | | | | you won't get any repeat business from your |
| then browse their categories to find products | | | | existing customers. |
| relevant to your niche. When you select a product, | | | | |