http://martin-thompson.com All the Tools for Online Success Tue, 20 May 2008 13:11:56 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en   Hi and welcome to the first of a series of fun articles on how to cash in on eBay. You can modify these and put your own name to them, compile them into an ebook, give them away as a mini-course to subscribers or anything else you can think of If you've ... http://martin-thompson.com/the-opportunities-on-ebay/ Hi all, a bit of a delay since my last post. It's recently been announced where I work that several colleagues and myself will be made redundant sometime in the first couple of months of 2009 (cue sympathetic 'AAAHHH'). I'm trying to see this as positive as my redundancy plus ... http://martin-thompson.com/recent-useful-links/ Just got back from a weeks skiing in Morzine, France and have spent the last couple of days digesting the news from eBay regarding the ban on listing digitally downloadable products which started yesterday. By the way, that's not a photo of me above...if I looked like that it would ... http://martin-thompson.com/back-from-the-slopes-to-ebay-digital-chaos/ Here are some cool links from the past couple of weeks : Derrick Van Dyke Affiliate Cash Secrets : New Squeeze Page Generator. Excellent step-by-step video Derrick's video shows how easy it is to set up attractive squeeze pages with new software to be released anytime now Watch the video here Mike Filsaime : ... http://martin-thompson.com/internet-marketing-news-and-reviews/ eBay has just made some changes to the way your search results are displayed, based on what they call 'Relevance'.  This works partly based on 'past sucessful buyer behavior for similar items' . I understand this to mean that if a similar item to the one being searched for was previously ... http://martin-thompson.com/ebay-changes-making-best-match-the-search-default/ Let the head scratching begin....over the past few days I've been starting to think about the topic for my first online product that I will be working on over the coming weeks.  After a brainstorming session I came up with the broad topics of eBay and affiliate marketing, or something in ... http://martin-thompson.com/finding-my-way/ Here's a roundup of interesting topics and links from last week. Time permitting, I will make this a weekly post   1) Niche Widget by Terry Perdew   This is a plug-in for your website or blog that generates attractive scrolling ads that are targeted based on the subject of your site. According to Terry, Niche Widget is ... http://martin-thompson.com/best-of-the-links/ Hi, my name is Martin and it's been 3 weeks already since I started work on John Thornhills Personal Coaching program (sounds like a meeting of Alcoholics Anonymous).  Unsurprisingly I'm already slightly behind schedule ! This isn't a problem for me personally as I'm in no great rush to become the ... http://martin-thompson.com/the-story-so-far/ I just came across these great free videos about eBay selling.  They are by Jimmy Huber at Sky High Auctions. If you're fairly new to eBay selling there are some essential tips here that will help you increase your sales and profits. On 6 March Jimmy is lauching his new product which will ... http://martin-thompson.com/great-free-ebay-selling-videos/ Over the next couple of weeks I plan to start listing ebooks on ebay.com. I've got my copy of Turbolister downloaded and ready to go.  Currently I'm putting together a collection of relevant, up-to-date ebooks on various topics related to e-commerce and internet marketing, which will be invaluable to lots of ... http://martin-thompson.com/welcome-to-my-ebay-category/