The Weekend Super Deal is live!

November 21, 2006

I forgot to mention that I finally got to finish the weekend offer site at http://www.weekendsuperdeal.com/.  Many customers asked whether I ever did “Firesales” or the like and I had to admit that the thought has never occured - I guess I’ve been fortunate not to have had any fires so far!

 I did decide that weekly 48 hour deals would be a great idea and that’s why I created The Weekend Super Deal. You must subscribe to the newsletter to find out the secret location each weekend but the first 3 weeks have had a fantastic response.

If you are interested in making money using the internet then I suggest you join. It’s free and to be honest, the deals I offer are just silly!

David
The Weekend Super Deal

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Using images in your eBay sales ads

November 15, 2006

A few people who are using my EZ AUCTION AD software have been asking about using the “URL” field for the picture display. I will update it soon with a better explanation but rather than reply to each email I received I have posted a basic tutorial here.

The saying goes that “a picture is worth a thousand words” and that couldn’t be truer than when selling on eBay. Pictures are very important and using EZ AUCTION AD will display your picture as well as creating a great looking sales ad. It may take extra time to get your picture there but believe me. it’s well worth the extra effort. People like to SEE what they are bidding on.

For your product picture to be displayed correctly it needs to be “uploaded” to the internet. The URL is the web address for that picture once it’s been placed on a web site. For instance, if I have a picture called image1.jpg and I place it on my site (www.kiosk2.com) in a folder called “pictures”, the URL would be http://www.kiosk2.com/pictures/image1.jpg and this is what I would place in the URL box. Sounds complicated but fear not - here are three easy ways you can do it at no extra cost:

1. Use a free image hosting service

If you search Google for “Free Image Hosting” you will find lots of sites where you can upload your pictures, direct from your PC, to the internet. My own image hosting site is at www.snapbay.com but using Google you can find lot’s of choice, just make sure they have a free option. You may find that if you need to upload a lot of pictures and your ebay auctions get lots of views (yes please!) that in time you may need to opt for a paid service but for most ebay sellers, the free image hosting services should do.

Once you have created an account, follow the instructions to upload pictures to the site and when this is done you can get the URL. Depending on the site it will either give you the address (remember, it will start http://www.) or when you can see your picture online, right click on it with the mouse and select “Properties”. Here you can see the full URL and can just copy and paste it in to your ad.

2. Pictures already on the internet.

If you have a generic product for sale and have seen a picture of it online, elsewhere (maybe one of your previous auctions) - again, just right click on the picture and select “Properties” and the URL will be displayed. Just be careful not to infringe someone else’s copyright.

3. Edit your eBay ad just before submitting it.

A fiddly way but free and easy. Create your ad in EZ AUCTION AD without the picture. Paste the code in to the eBay listing wizard and then upload your pictures in the normal way. When you get to the preview page (just before submitting it) you will see the picture that you have uploaded to ebay. Again, right click on the picture, select “Properties” and get the URL. Then click “Back” a few steps in EZ AUCTION AD and paste in the URL you just got from the preview page. Re-generate the code and in the ebay preview page, select “Edit Description”. You can now re-paste the new code with the correct URL in place, save the change and submit and your picture will now be displayed in your description.

I hope this is clear enough, if not - contact me and I will help where I can.

Remember, the picture is as important as the description and it’s worth taking the effort to increase bids/purchases.

One final tip; your picture maybe too big to display in the ad so here’s another free tool for your ebay toolkit, a photo resizer. Download it at http://snapbay.com/app/photoresizer.zip and use it to get your digital camera pictures “sized down” for the internet.

That’s all for now, until next time.

To your eBay success,

David Allen

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Hello world! Welcome to my Blog.

November 15, 2006

Welcome to Making Money Online.

The first post of what I aim to be a long running blog!

Stick with me whilst I share my good times and bad times and find out how my hobby, “Making Money Online” is taking over my life - for the better!

David

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