Building a responsive mailing list using ebay.

With the sheer volume of shoppers that browse the multitude of categories and listings, ebay has proven itself to entrepreneurs to be the place to get their business endeavors noticed. Ebay is one of the most visited websites in the world and the massive amount of traffic doesn't appear to be showing any signs of slowing down. Quite the contrary. Statistics show the cost effectiveness of a single ebay ad to be hard to beat anywhere else on the internet.

You might be wondering; "How can I turn all this potential traffic into loyal customers and subscribers to my newsletter?" The answer can involve several different aspects of ebay. To complement it's large amount of members, ebay has various methods of gaining newsletter subscribers. Let's examine a few of them.

One of the most versatile components of ebay is The About Me Page that ebay provides to all it's members. The About Me Page is a special page that you can use to describe yourself, hobbies, interests, and best of all, promote your other businesses. One effective tool to include on your About Me Page is a newsletter op-tin box that will allow visitors to enter their name and email address to get something from you. This can be a free ebook, a report, or file download. In fact, may different things can be offered to visitors to get them to opt-in to your mailing list. An opt-in box can be obtained from any free or paid auto responder service. Additionally, you can also provide external links to your other websites in an attempt to entice them to buy or participate in the site. This activity is prohibited in your auction listings.

Another effective lead capturing method is to open an ebay store and provide newsletter sign up boxes on your store pages. Ebay provides an easy to use newsletter subscription widget called a promotion box that will make adding sign up forms to your store easy. You can also add your subscription box code by choosing a text promotion box and pasting in the code from your auto responder. An ebay store also lets you create custom pages that work similar to an About Me Page. They are more versatile and are great ways to promote your websites, newsletter or items you are selling.

One of the most effective methods of getting newsletter subscribers via ebay is through your regular listings. Many sellers list lower priced items like ebooks, reports or information products at .99 cents or less in hopes of making a lot of sales. More sales means more opportunities to get subscribers. Here's how. Ebay allows you to make your products available via digital download. What this involves is uploading your product to some web space in zip format, and when you list the auction, you specify the item as digital download and provide the file location. When the buyer makes the purchase, they are automatically redirected to your file location and their download begins. The way to get subscribers is when you prepare the zip file, add a "read me" file or "instructions". In this file you can direct them to your website to get a free bonus for subscribing to your newsletter. You can also make html or pdf files with your links built right in.

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Hopefully this article has shed some light on some of the methods of gaining newsletter subscriptions via ebay.  James Lee is the Owner/Webmaster of 7DollarBlog.com, a membership site that provides a constant flow of fresh, hot selling information products to sell on ebay or your own websites.  Please visit the 7Dollarblog.com to start your internet empire for less than .25 cents per day.

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