The URL you’re on right now is CybaSumo.com. You may only have heard about us as CybaSumo. We’re more than that, though.

When we sat down to come up with a simple, profitable way to sell your digital goods online, we looked at what was out there on the Internet – what was working and what wasn’t.

There are hundreds of digital storefronts out there. For most of them, you’ve got to know they exist first – or a friend or an ad has to tell you about them.

That’s why we came up with CybaSumo: the portable store. You can use our tools to create your own store that fits in a Flash widget you can embed in your Facebook page, Web site, blog, and more.

That’s one half of the story.

The other half is SumoStores.com. If you go there, you’ll see a more traditional Web store divided into the categories we’re currently supporting: the Bookbarn, Digital Art, Music, Photography, Video, and Fashion.

Your customers have two ways to buy your products now. If they’re part of your social network, they’ll see your CybaSumo store widget on Facebook, blog, Web page, or other networking site. Or they can visit SumoStores.com to browse your storefront along with hundreds of others.

Afraid of competition? No need to be. The other sellers on SumoStores actually help you make money. Here’s how: Remember that when anyone buys something through a CybaSumo store, they have to check out using SumoStores.com (it’s just one click away). So if someone’s buying a photograph from another seller, they end up SumoStores anyways It’s an ideal opportunity for a buyer who’s already bought digital creative work to browse and buy your work.

Encourage your friends and social network to visit SumoStores.com as well as shop through your store widget. Increasing traffic to SumoStores means more prospects, more views for your store, and ultimately, more customers.

Happy selling!

Update!: Now it’s even easier to buy and sell original works - CybaSumo.com has now absorbed SumoStores.com and sports an even simpler navigational scheme. Your works are now more accessible to your fanbase than ever.

Yes, eBay has decided that you can no longer sell your digital goods directly through their site. Seems like they’re worried that sellers might sell thousands of copies of the same (near-worthless) thing in order to boost their feedback rankings.

It’s a real shame for people who were trying to sell their digital art, photography, or writing on eBay, though. You can still post on eBay using a ‘Classified Ad’, but that’s pretty much the same as posting on Craigslist - you’re still responsible for making the actual sale and working out the transaction.

What’s worse, you have to sell your stuff under “Information Products.” Take a look at this page from Information Products - we don’t think music, photos, writing, and other art belongs with ‘Make Money Quick’ schemes.

CybaSumo was designed from the ground up so you can sell your digital goods, including:

• Music (MP3s)
• Photos (JPGs and other formats)
• Writing (PDFs and text)
• Digital artwork (JPGs and other formats)
• Video (multiple movie formats)

We’re also working on features that will let you sell tangible products like crafts and collectibles.

No classified ads here - CybaSumo gives you a real store and we handle all the transactions and downloads.

We do the heavy lifting so you can concentrate on your art.

We’re working around the clock here at CybaSumo to get things ready so you can start selling your music, photography, video, art, and writing online to your friends on Facebook, MySpace, and everywhere else they go.

Just create a CybaSumo store and you’ve got a widget (an interactive shopping site in a box - see below) that you can put anywhere.

One of the issues that a lot of artists online have had is how to sell without giving away the store. You want to give people a sense of what they’re buying, but you don’t want give it away for free so that you can make some money!

CybaSumo to the rescue. When you upload your music or video, CybaSumo lets you define part of it as a tease or a taste of your product that anyone can listen to or watch. You can set how much or how little you want people to be able to see for free. CybaSumo can even auto-generate your previews for you.

The same goes for photography. Give your customers a lower-resolution image as a preview - and you can even embed a watermark that’s not there in the full-sized version.

The best part? Customers can preview your stuff no matter where they are, right inside your widget. So they don’t have to leave your profile page on Facebook or MySpace to - even if they’re on Facebook looking at your widget. Then it’s just one click to buy.

Cybasumo’s previews turn window-shoppers into paying customers. Look for this feature on our site, launching soon.

We’ve been working very hard on the CybaSumo Web site and services, and we’re really looking forward to opening our doors very soon to you. The wait’s nearly over.

What is CybaSumo?

It’s a place where you can sell your MP3s, e-books, artwork, photographs, and any kind of digital work you create. But it’s more than just a place. It’s a store you take with you.

With other e-commerce sites, you have to get your friends and family to visit the store, spend money on advertising, or hope your store shows up at the top of Google searches so everyone will find out about you. Not with CybaSumo.

We give you a store in a widget - a box where customers can browse and shop - that you can put anywhere. When we launch you’ll be able to easily place your store widget on your Facebook profile without any programming or HTML. Soon you’ll also be able to place your store on your MySpace page, blog, and more.

That means that every time your friends see you on Facebook, they can browse and buy your stuff. Your profile does the advertising for you! No need to send them to another site - they come to CybaSumo.com when they’re ready to check out. And it’s free to sign up.

That’s where there’s strength in numbers. You’ll find hundreds of other artists in our CybaSumo catalog. Every time their customers come to the site to complete a purchase, they’ll be able to see what you have to offer, too.

Keep watching this space for more news about our (very soon) launch. And get ready to become a paid artist - over and over again.

CybaSumo - your portable store.

P.S. Want to sell non-digital products like crafts or collectibles? That’s coming too.