Photo Marketeers

Been Thinking About How To Make Money On eBay?

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The Challenge: You’ve got an ebook, ephotos, or series of ‘how to’ digital photography tips videos that you desperately want to sell on eBay…

You know that there’s 280+ MILLION buyers who are looking to buy products from eBay every single day, with roughly over 70,000 new buyers joining eBay every day… which just means eBay is an absolute GOLD MINE for you and me.

However…

Recently there was new changes to eBay… eBay basically said ‘you can’t sell ebooks anymore’ (and enforced a complete ban on selling digital items).

As soon as I heard about that I thought about the incredible opportunities that lay in waiting… And today we’re about to see one of these opportunities realized. It’s called Auction Acrobat and in a nutshell it automates the creation, packaging, and shipping of your CD/DVD’s…

Here are some features of Auction Acrobat:

1) Automate the delivery of your CD/DVD’s on eBay.

2) Build a highly profitable buyer list on auto-pilot using your favorite auto-responder: Aweber or Getresponse.

3) Make Money Without Selling – Awesome ’secret’ email feature inbuilt into the software will enable you to increase traffic to your blogs, websites, or sell your other products to laser-targeted buyers. You can even send these ‘hungry’ buyers to affiliate pages!

See more: http://hurleypix.com/auctionacrobat

Just think about it…

You could be selling DVDs AS EASY as selling eBooks!

How does one sell info products on eBay?

Well, in my case, I’m considering using CDs and maybe even DVDs to package my products… (What other options are there?)

And let’s face it, when digital items are neatly packaged into tangible CD/DVD form, the value of these products goes way UP.

So, if you’re a photographer, artist or designer, then you could be easily putting your designs or photography onto a CD or DVD, and setting up the whole process on autopilot… Customer comes along, orders your photo screensavers CD, pays for it at Paypal, and your software takes care of the WHOLE ordering process…

ALL you need to do is keep running eBay listings… (and checking your Paypal account for sales notifications!)

Impressed yet?

You should be…

So… How To Make Money On eBay?

Create a great product that people want (need), put it on a CD/DVD, put the whole process on autopilot, and tweak until you get it right…

http://hurleypix.com/auctionacrobat

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How to write an article if you don’t have a clue how to go about it? And, are resale rights products the answer?

Let’s go and find out…

Firstly we need to understand what Private Label Right (PLR) products are. (PLR is also known as Resale Rights Products).

In a nutshell, Private Label Rights products are YOURS to own, edit, sell, resell, grant resale rights to and more. Basically you BECOME the author of the product without writing or creating a thing.

So it does not take a genius to realise the value of these products… You can use PLR as your own and sign your OWN name as the creator. In other words, you can have a business in a box (think affiliate income) within minutes, with all your own back links and up sells without writing a single word.

When you have your own PLR products you can:

1. Sell them on their own mini site - Use the PLR material to create your own mini website and sell your products from there.
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2. Add them to bigger packages - Take 3 or 4 related PLR products and add them to a larger package. This is turn will allow you to sell your package for a much higher price.
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3. Convert them to CD or DVD and sell them on auction websites - Place your PLR on a CD with your website links and affiliate links inside and not only create an income from selling your created items on auction websites, also make a massive residual income from the other sources of income.
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4. Create a home study course with a variety of PLR products and sell them for a huge profit - You can create and sell home study courses with the help of PLR. Package your PLR onto a CD, box it up with check lists and help manuals and you can create a home study course which you can sell for 100’s of dollars.
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5. Split your private label into articles - Place them on article websites with your website links, mini site links, auction links and generate traffic you never knew existed. (PLR articles).
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6. Create a mini course and distribute them to your mailing lists - Convert your PLR to a mini course and send it to your subscribers. This really makes PLR work for you.
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7. Convert your products to physical books, print and sell them as your own - By converting your PLR to physical books you can them place them on auction websites such as eBay and Amazon and create huge revenue potential.
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8. Add your affiliate links to your PLR - Create affiliate income sales which will earn you a residual income for years to come. By adding your affiliate links and website links to your PLR eBooks and articles and granting resale rights the viral effect is in place, your eBooks and articles will be around for years…

Can you see how you actually don’t need to write those articles yourself? All you need to do is make full use of resale rights products (PLR). And then, with some basic tweaks, you have your own instant articles!

What else can we learn about PLR?

Well, let’s see…

For starters, PLR can be very very expensive. There’s also a LOT of cheap and copy PLR websites out there to choose from. YOU have to be careful and make sure you are getting fresh content or content quality.

Fortunately there’s a nice little solution available, called PLR Monthly. And I know these guys pretty well - in fact, I’ve been ‘annoying’ one of these guys (Daniel Sumner) for the last two years or so with my ever-varied eBay related questions!

But actually what you can get here for a pretty good monthly payment is substantial. They really do over deliver with great content.

In fact, here is an idea just what you will get from them (sourced from their sales page):

• Niche Market PLR eBooks - PLR eBooks are very expensive to develop and hard to find. Such top quality private label fresh content has been sourced for you as we strive to provide the best service possible. With the Niche Market PLR package you can use the 3 PLR eBooks as a niche collection and provide your potential buyers with more than a single eBook, you can give them a whole multimedia experience.
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• Bonus PLR eBook per month - You can use the bonus PLR eBooks the same way as the package PLR. We supply all you need to get your products ready to sell.
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• Audio eBook with resale rights - You can place the audio book as an auction or include it as a bonus in your eBook packages. All audio sales letters are graphics will be provided for you.
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• Mini website graphics to use with all PLR products - Use the mini websites and sell your converted PLR to the public directly from the internet. You can use Paypal or any online banking system to do this and completely automate the process.
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• 25 PLR articles per month - Use your PLR articles with your affiliate links inside to generate you traffic for years to come. Submit them to article directories blog, and content hungry websites to earn your affiliate commissions and a steady influx of traffic.
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• An eBay sales template - Simply paste the template to eBay and we host the graphics for you. There is no need for a website hosting service for this one!
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• CD graphics - Use your CD graphics on your auctions and your mini websites. Print the covers to your CD’s and sell them as physical items.
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• DVD graphics - Why not advertise your product as a DVD and burn it to a DVD! You can charge more for a DVD than a digital delivery item.
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• eBook graphics - Use the eBook graphics for your auctions, your mini sites, your sales letters and your physical printed Book creations.
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• Header and Footer Graphics - we supply for you the graphics for your headers and footers for your mini sites and your auctions, which are all professionally prepared by our graphics team.
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• A PLR request service - This service will give you mini sites, websites, graphics and PLR eBooks (NB: for this service, certain terms apply.

As you can see the amount of content you get is phenomenal. Not only do you get all of this, you get full support for your products and a bunch of tutorials to help you move your business along. All in all this is one of, if not the best PLR opportunities I have ever seen. It’s a complete no-brainer so get involved with PLR Monthly today.

http://hurleypix.com/plrmonthly

So by the way, if you’ve been wondering how to write an article, now YOU know that one answer lies with private label rights…

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How many of us pour our heart and soul into creating snappy looking websites, inspirational photo blogs, image rich presentations and then find out the only people visiting our sites are family and friends, or the occasional waylaid visitor?

I’ve been there and done that, and it’s not much fun. You become disillusioned REAL quick with just a dribble of traffic to your websites. It’s like a healthy, growing plant… if you never water it, eventually it curls over and dies. Please don’t let this happen to your website, especially if you’ve spent a LOT of your time on it.

So, what are we going to do about it then? Well… I read that there were only 3 ways to grow your business, and here they are…

• Increase customers.
• Increase the transaction value.
• Create a backend product/create more products.

So, let’s focus on the first one. How we can increase customers, or increase website traffic?

Before we jump into that, let me say that the whole ‘normal’ process of getting ‘bums on seats’ or visitors (traffic) to your website is not exactly a walk in the park. In other words, it does take quite a bit of effort on your part.

In this case, we’re focused on ‘organic’ traffic, or ’search engine traffic.’ In a roundabout way, that simply means I want you to find my website (or blog) in the first page of Google when you type in specific photo marketing or photography tips related keywords. I personally focus on Google, but Yahoo also works well for some niches too.

In the articles on this photo marketing blog you can read about many of the different ways to increase website traffic, including a free download-able guide about Article Marketing (click to download), so I won’t get into all the methods here.

But thankfully there IS an easy way… a method that allows me to get a whole bunch of my websites on page one in Google, for a number of different photo related keywords…

Basically I use a service called 3 Way Links ($47 per month). I won’t go in to the mechanics of how it works exactly (you can read more at the 3WayLinks site) but it sure has made it a LOT easier for me to hit page one in Google much faster (and with very little work on my behalf - all I did was add one page to my blog).

As you could imagine, a page one in Google for a few particular (highly searched) keywords gives me a LOT more eyeballs, plus get more sign ups to my ezine, etc.

Having said that…

• You need to choose your keywords right.
• You also will want to know how to monetize your website or blog effectively whether that’s with Google Adsense or other methods. (That is, if you want to make some money from this!)
• You also need to post regular content (often) to your website or blog (that’s why blogs are SO good for this!)

So if you’ve got a nice little WordPress photography tips themed blog or brand spanking new website, and you’re struggling to increase website traffic… then at least consider the 3WayLinks method. No matter what niche you’re in, this ’set it and forget it’ method is one way that makes getting that highly desirable page one in Google rather attractive, and very achievable.

Read more about 3WayLinks here.

How about becoming a featured artist or photographer for PhotoBox?

Sometimes opportunities reach up and grab you by the hair. (Head? Neck?) When they come it’s often good to make the most of them. Otherwise, they can be like ideas… if you don’t hook them on the tip of your pen, they can slip away into the night faster than you can blurt out “thank you Elvis.”

So, how would you like to become a featured artist on PhotoBox then?

After all, you get to…

- Showcase your photography work online

- Earn royalties (10%-20%) per card volume sold

- Potentially set up a recurring income stream

PhotoBox also…

- print the cards on environmentally friendly pulp

- Soon to include A4 and square cards (big!)

- Offer send-to-me cards where they send the card to you with envelopes, and you can sign the card and send on to someone else… (Or you can choose send-to-someone-else cards as well. They’ll post the card on your behalf using First Class post or Airmail…)

Anyways…

To get your photography work showcased online and hundreds of future customers potentially browsing and buying your photo greeting cards - just visit PhotoBox here…

The process to submit your photos or artwork is step by step (and doesn’t cost any $). You have to submit a design, choose a template, and fill in your artwork submission form…

Yes… a little bit of upfront work involved, but great potential for ongoing income… Never know where your photography might end up, and in whose hands…

Go for it…

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Let me introduce Yahoo Answers to you with this quote…

“When your focus shifts from getting rich, selling more ebooks, and banking more cash to a mindset of adding value to more people’s lives, helping them get richer, healthier, happier, more successful… a paradigm shifts in your success level.”

The above quote by my friend Dr.Mani does a lot to explain ultimately what is at the heart of all successful businesses… whether that’s in Internet marketing, digital photography or any online niche. It’s all about giving. It really does pay to give your knowledge away.

And one great way to give is by using Yahoo Answers. Basically this is where you can go to ASK any questions you have, or answer other people’s questions. (To answer other people’s questions, just search for questions on your preferred topic, and post with an answer. Make sure to drop in a link to your website too!)

I love Yahoo Answers because you get some really, terrifically HONEST questions being asked. And to be able to help these people out is very rewarding. There’s a photography section too, and so you constantly get people looking for photography tips, printing photo questions, selling photos, website help etc.

IF you are knowledgeable in a particular area, it’s worth contributing, and posting your perspective. I try to get in there every week and give it a blast. If your answer is chosen as the best answer, you can end up (down the track) with some good search engine rankings. Yahoo comes with a LOT of link power!

Answers.Yahoo.com - remember to add to Yahoo Answers with quality input.

Yahoo! Answers allows you to make someone’s day each time you reply, give value to people no matter where they live in the world, and share your intelligence (and depth of knowledge) for a good cause.

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One of the most important things I study and constantly watch is the amount of traffic or visitors that flow through to my websites. With my SiteBuildIt (SBI!) site I don’t need to worry too much about how to increase website traffic - I just focus on creating LOTS of content, and let the SBI! submitter engines purr away, working like magic to get my web pages discovered in the search engines like Google and Yahoo.

If you want an all-in-one solution (for $299 a year) then SiteBuildIt wins hands down.

So, if you’re the type of person that just wants to focus completely on creating your web pages, over delivering with great content and helping your visitors get what they are looking for, then SBI! is for you.

Click here to find out more about SiteBuildIt!

But if you don’t have a SiteBuildIt site then there’s other options available out there too. In fact, I use a variety of different tools to increase my website traffic - the newest is this one. (This is one tool so darn valuable that I’d prefer to keep it secret - but I’ve decided to reveal it to the passionate photographers that are reading this!)

This amazing software tool (created by Jon Leger) has allowed me to score 4 top ten rankings for specific ‘photo niche’ keywords in Google within 36 days (since I’ve been a member). And I have no doubt there’s many more top ten rankings to come.

Was I reluctant to fork out $47 a month for this? At first, yes. But it all depends on what you’re selling or offering, and what you want to achieve. One digital photo book sale, a few days of Google Adsense earnings, or a few stock photo sales and you’ve covered your membership fee…

So, from that perspective, it’s definitely worth it…

Click here to read more about this amazing tool.

The other way to attract visitors - and increase website traffic is by writing articles. (The resource box at the bottom of your article will link back to your website or blog). This is the ’slow and steady wins the race’ method that also works wonders. Of course you need to put the time in to actually writing the articles to make this fully effective!

Click here to download a great free guide called Article Marketing Strategies by Alan Cheng that’ll teach you how to write the articles, where to submit them, how to get ideas for your articles, and LOTS more great info…

OK, that’s 3 digital photography tips that I use to attract visitors to my photo websites (including this digital photography business blog). You can easily take one of these methods and use it to get started. Go for it.

Download Article Marketing Strategies Here

“I used to work hard. The 18-hour days. The 7-day weeks. But I didn’t start making big money until I did less - a lot less. For example, this ad took me about 2 hours to write. With a little luck it should earn me 50, maybe a hundred thousand dollars.”

That’s not my quote but you get the idea… The idea is that as a photographer, you want to be utilizing your talents and knowledge and inbuilt genius in the best ways possible. One of these ways is with photography.

You go out and you create art, or beauty, or amazing digital landscapes, or abstract photography, whatever it may be, and you form it into an image. Your genius goes into this image, and then the image travels the globe, end up on magazine stands, posters, postcards, websites, exhibits, t-shirts and a thousand surprisingly different avenues of expression.

For many of you, this is your big mission in life. But having said that, there’s still something missing. You are also capable of expressing your creative talents in words. And if you struggle with this and blurt out “but this is why I take photos, so I don’t have to write!” Then let me assure you that there are an abundance of passionate photographers out there who you can interview at the drop of a hat. In fact, right now, they’re waiting for you to call them!

But make no mistake. Content does rule the Internet, friend.

Cast your mind over the millions of people this very minute with fingers poised, quietly brainstorming within for the right keywords to use to find what they want online. Will they find you? Do you want them to?

But back to the story…

Yes, it’s cool if you’ve got 200 stunning nature pictures on your photo blog or website. But even cooler is if you’ve got articles, reviews and over-deliver with great content on your website, as well as those compelling nature pics.

Because we want to read all about it! We do want to know what makes you tick, what pulls YOU up in the morning, what makes you chase thunderstorms, get up at 5AM to snap the misty start of a new day. All that and more!

And so, after all this… How do you increase website traffic (attract more visitors) then?

Well, one way is by writing articles. (Or do the interview thing I mentioned above). Simple stuff. 500 words or so. Just like you were talking passionately to a close friend. Just talk about what you know best. You can, right? And then you submit these articles to specific websites. Boom.

With a link that points back to YOUR website in the resource box (you’ll put that at the end of your article), your good articles will be picked up by other websites. And all across the web they’ll swim… far and wide. With little friendly links all pointing back towards your website… and LOTS of people reading your article and finding out what makes you tick…

You getting the big picture here? I hope so… Because if I could give you any digital photography tips whatsoever then this one would be HIGHEST on the list.

And now you have no excuse not to take ACTION. Because ‘Article Marketing Strategies‘ (with 51 very revealing pages) is yours to download. All you need to do is click the link above. Or below:

Download Article Marketing Strategies Here

And then go forth and create your digital photography empire!

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Looking out your back door… what do you see?

Where I live I see planes, trucks and automobiles.

Ok not that many planes…

But lots of motorcycles and vehicles and stuff that NEEDS to be insured.

And all those vehicles need a ‘record of documentation’ for insurance purposes. In other words, the ‘insurance people’ need photos of your new Toyota Camry, Mac truck, or Ducati 996 Superbike…

Hmm… So who’s going to gather the photos and REQUIRED info to document the transactions that need to take place?

How about YOU?

In terms of photography careers, this little opportunity TAKES the cake.

The Insurance companies are not going to have their own photographer waiting around in every town, are they? (I’ll just have my 48th Cafe Latte while I wait for the next call…)

It certainly wouldn’t be COST effective…

Now think about ALL the people in your local area right this minute going online for loans, leases or purchasing insurance… (Do people actually visit their ‘local’ insurance, mortgage or loan company anymore?) Would you? After all, it’s much quicker to get it all done and quoted on with a click of a mouse, right…?

Now think about all the companies that need basic and specialized photography work - from leasing to insurance companies and many more.

YOU guessed it… they need photos taken to detail all the essential information they need.

Can you see the potential for your own easy-to-run digital photography business here?

It’d be a GREAT part time occupation or a cosy and FLEXIBLE photography career for the ‘enthusiastic’ photographer who likes to work his or her own hours…

You’d need to have your PC or Mac, a digital camera with reasonable resolution, cell phone, transportation, and the WILL to make this photography career WORK for you…

Need I say more?

Go here to see: http://hurleypix.com/wow

Image by Auzigog via FlickrI’ve HAD an ongoing interest in eBay for a while now, sold the occasional photo using my eBay CafePress method, and mulled over the very cool idea of selling e-photos too.

Then eBay pulled the plug on selling digital products from under our noses.

Of course, you can look at that and immediately SEE shining opportunity.

Just think of all the CD cases and DVD cover box design work a good designer or photographer could now get… After all, all those physical products are going to need some pretty pictures to make them stand out…

And if YOU’VE considering putting together a unique digital photography tips DVD, or wants to still sell e-photos and fast track your digital photography business using info-products (plus learn to be an eBay PowerSeller) then there’s still time…

Anyway…

Along comes John Thornhill to the rescue. John looks at the ‘problem’ and thinks it over for a night or two. On the third night he wakes up with the solution, and a brilliant one at that.

John thinks w-a-y outside the square and says ‘why not sell the digital product from your own site?‘ That’s right… deliver digital products from your OWN website (after you drive traffic from eBay!)

OK John, I’m impressed. You win. There is genius in simplicity.

And now he’s re-launched his own eBook Membership website that will show you exactly HOW to do this…

The whole kit is included… tutorials, videos, tools, even the kitchen sink…

And the best thing?

You get a massive $100 discount if you ACT now (before the price goes up on TUE 20th)

Go here to LOOK now:
http://hurleypix.com/90day

Now, here’s a quick rundown on what you’ll get:

# Automatic product updates - Your website will automatically update with the latest products.

# Automated digital delivery - As soon as a customer purchases the product will be delivered via email.

# Search Facility - Customers can search your entire site for their required eBook.

# AdSense integration - AdSense is integrated at the click of a button.

# ClickBank integration - Your ClickBank ID is added to products and all affiliate links throughout the site at the click of a button.

# Aweber integration - Your aweber ID is added to subscription fields throughout the site at the click of a button.

# Add/Remove Categories - The ability to very simply add/remove your own categories.

# Add/Remove eBook Pages - The ability to very simply add/remove your own eBook pages.

# WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) editing - Editing content within your website really could not be simpler.

# SEO integration - Your OWN SEO is added to your site via simple text in the Admin Panel.

In a nutshell it’s ALL specifically designed to be extremely user friendly and amazingly simple! Nearly every single feature on this website is editable from your own admin panel.

http://hurleypix.com/90day

This special will only last for a few days, so if the link is the normal price, sorry!

It’s still worth while of course to learn HOW to set up your own website to sell photos, how to sell digital info products and that cool unique digital photography tips DVD project that you’ve been telling me all about!

http://hurleypix.com/90day

Remember, eBay is where the people GO. And selling information is still as strong as it always was… Why not learn how to do it with an expert?

I’ve always wondered what sort of photography careers you could have yourself in the military.

By the look of some of these revealing images, it seems like a photography career in the military would be a pretty exciting job. Although rather quite challenging at times. Depending of course where you are, and what you’re photographing…

In this absolutely exceptional, compelling photograph, U.S. Air Force Academy graduates throw their hats in the air as the Thunderbirds fly overhead signaling the end of the Air Force Academy graduation ceremony, (Colorado Springs, Colo., May 30, 2007).

A masterful image by Cherie A. Thurlby.

Here’s where you go to see more:

http://www.defenselink.mil/photoessays/photoessays.aspx

In this image (above) U.S. Air Force pararescuemen from the 48th and 58th Rescue Squadrons prepare to load a mock patient into an HH-60 Pave Hawk helicopter during a mass casualty exercise in the Huachuca Mountains in Sierra Vista, Arizona. (July 27, 2006).

U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Veronica Pierce: www.defenselink.mil/homepagephotos/homepagephotos.aspx?month=200608

Sometimes I have pondered what it would be like living the life of a photo journalist who is embedded into military units in hot spots around the world…

Such as photographer (Tim Hetherington) does (above)…

Make sure you go read Tim’s article about US soldiers in Afghanistan. It’s an amazing read…

The images are honest and very powerful.

www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2008/01/afghanistan200801