The Zippi solution has been carefully constructed to address three of the major challenges within the eBay community: (1) the major imbalance of buyers (90%) versus sellers (10%) which is constraining growth, (2) the lack of unique products being offered, and (3) the shrinking margins as a result of these other factors. The enormous success and growth of the eBay Marketplace to 147 million current registered users, from 150 countries,, with 50 million listings at any given time, is being threatened by the above factors. The continued increase in ease of access to wholesale / discount items has forced eBay sellers to continually bump into one another for the same product at the same wholesale prices, which is slowly eroding the perceived inherent value of the eBay brand.

The principal elements of the solution include the following:

Networking
The Zippi solution is to gather products, gather sellers, and teach others to do the same! By tapping into the source of unique products and promoting the growth of social networks through a “Super Affiliate” incentive program coupled with a “direct marketing” approach, Zippi converts a shrinking margins business into a profitable, commission driven opportunity for all. Through this “Super Affiliate” marketing and incentive program coupled with “direct marketing”, Zippi will stimulate organic and viral growth of social networks across the country. Regional access to (self-storage type) facilities as (eBay Drop-off StationsTM) will make it simple for our “Affiliates” to direct or drop off product and facilitate the sales process on eBay. The growth of Zippi’s “Affiliate Network” becomes significantly enhanced and supported through these drop off stations.

Training Tools
Zippi has aquired many essential eBay training products and key elements that are being re-branded for inclusion into all Zippi related product offerings. These products are a key component of the Zippi Solution and prepare a solid foundation of understanding supporting the growth of the “Affiliate Network”. The hallmark product and model for all future training materials consists of an award winning CD-ROM co-developed with the experts at eBay. This multimedia CD-ROM provides an interactive user experience, allowing users to learn at their own speed, while explaining the ins and outs of buying, selling, and navigating the “eBay” Marketplace.. The environment is set in a 3D virtual city with it's “expert cyber cabbie” as an interactive guide who trains users how to buy, bid, and sell on eBay. Utilizing movies and tutorial overviews and step-by-step guides, the training and examples of online auctioning in this CD-ROM are one of a kind.

eBay Drop-off Stations
By leveraging existing businesses and infrastructure locations (self-storage type), Zippi will be overlaid onto existing locations, creating co-branded “eBay Drop-off StationsTM”. Zippi strongly believes this is the future of gathering unique product and facilitating a commission based sales movement on eBay. Each and every location (self-storage type) has inherent and built-in access to an enormous quantity of both customers and continually renewing product, at each of these “Storage facilities” across the country. The Zippi “Affiliate Network” can sell a percentage of this product and many of these customers can be targeted to join the Zippi “Affiliate Network” as well. This strategy provides Zippi with a built-in expansion opportunity, with predetermined location growth, establishing a national presence virtually overnight. This business combination, in the vein of the “Fed-Ex / Kinko’s” style locations, provides easy access to “eBay Drop-off StationsTM” across the country. These stations will be utilized by Zippi partners and their social networks of “Affiliates” and create an additional opportunity to bring inventory in from the existing storage customers (whether moving in, or moving out) to eBay. This natural business combination creates rapid and expansive revenue growth opportunities for Zippi, the (self-storage) partner, its “Affiliate Network”, eBay, and all new and existing eBay buyers and sellers.

PayPal Transaction Services
Through prior and ongoing discussions between Zippi, Inc. and PayPal, Zippi Networks, Inc. has achieved a working relationship with PayPal (an eBay company). PayPal has designated key management and staff to support the launch and growth of Zippi Networks, as a key service and solution to the eBay community. The support that has been outlined comes in several different forms, including PayPal’s willingness to market the Zippi solution to over 100,000,000 current and existing PayPal members. In addition, they will facilitate tracking and distributing commissions within the Zippi affiliate network. This transaction and commission distribution system has been recently deployed and is known as “Mass PayTM”. The nature of the Zippi / PayPal relationship is positioned for growth on several fronts, and represents a business relationship aggressively pursued and rarely achieved by most eBay service providing companies.

Zippi believes this solution will re-connect eBay with its roots as an auction house and attract more sellers with unique products to offer to the eBay marketplace. Such access to product inventory will enable new and existing sellers to quickly build profitable and sustainable businesses. This results in a winning situation for all involved; buyers, sellers, Zippi (and its partners), and eBay. The Zippi platform is user friendly, fun, simple, exciting, effective, and in general an invitation to do better business. Zippi training programs will play a critical role in the development of Zippi affiliates and the Company’s overall success.

The Company’s revenue model provides multiple and ongoing revenue sources from the ever expanding Zippi partner / “Affiliate Network”. This solution, provided by Zippi, will also help restore the level of sellers on eBay and deliver a volume of unique products back to eBay’s online auction marketplace. Zippi’s community will embrace and allow each individual’s unique talent to be rewarded through promoting our reward system for each Zippi affiliate. Zippi makes it easy to understand the phrase “some people’s trash is other people’s TREASURE”; we are truly reaching into the closets, storage lockers, and garages of America!

Several unique turnkey solutions are provided to help make the eBay experience faster, easier, and more profitable. Zippi offers a wide variety of unique and diversified training programs that includes video streaming, national training calls, live opportunity meetings, and the Zippi online “virtual office” Whether you are simply shopping for products, looking to sell your items, searching for hidden treasures in consigned goods, looking for an extra monetary boost, or truly seeking a business opportunity and lifestyle change; there is a place for you with Zippi.