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How to find 2008's hottest products to sell on eBay
publication date: Jan 9, 2008
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eBay Confidential Ezine 2nd January 2008 *********************** Hello First of all let me wish you a very happy and profitable New Year! With benefit of hindsight I want to let you in on some of my own resolutions for 2008, which I will definitely keep, as indeed I always do! That isn't bravado or bragging, I actually do always keep whatever resolutions I set to improve my own personal and financial standing for the year about to begin, it's been that since the first most important resolution I set way back in 1979. I was a wage slave then and did what most people do, namely go out drinking to celebrate Christmas and New Year with people I didn't particularly like and would never choose to speak to again should my dream of self- employment ever come real. That night, in a pub in Easington Colliery, I sat thinking about the love of my life, the one I left at home and in whose company I would rather be than spend just another minute with all these two-faced people I worked with. That 'other' person was my dog, Beauty, these two-faced people worked at the same engineering factory which I eventually left just three years later. They were also people who never ever had a good word to say for one another during the day and here they were slobbering over one another just because the drink was flowing fast and free and compliments of the company. That's when I made my apologies and went home swearing to stop doing what other people did just because it's the 'done thing to do'; that was the day I swore never to spend another night out while I had better people waiting for me at home, and I've kept that promise for nearly 30 years. Does this sound familiar to you and, apart from the fact many of you think my doggy obsession is way OTT, don't you sometimes find yourself doing things you don't really enjoy but you do them all the same so no one will think you odd, so you'll get top marks at your next appraisal, so no one will talk about you in your absence? It's this following the herd instinct that keeps many of us from achieving our full potential - personally and financially - and it's also the reason that most people will end their working lives with little or no savings and a meagre (if any) pension to live on the next twenty years or so. All of this assumes, of course, that you follow that other golden rule about retiring when the government thinks you should. My total conviction that no one should be forced to retire is down to the fact I spend lots of time looking at American Internet sites, searching for product ideas, looking for business role models to follow and often finding the best role models are ten, twenty, even thirty years old than I am (57!) So, while we Britons are checking out new bowling shoes and learning ballroom dancing as the Big 'R' approaches, many Americans are programming themselves for the most exciting and definitely most financially rewarding period of their lives. Once the mortgage is gone, once the kids are self-sufficient, once there is a small pension coming in to cover whatever investment might be required, many Americans use these golden years to fulfil the ambition of a lifetime - to become self-employed. Point made, long winded I admit, but let's accept the herd instinct isn't the fast road to business success, let's look at other reasons why following the crowd isn't the best way to make hot profits on eBay: * Too many people selling the exact same products leads to market saturation and low or no profits for everyone. One of the easiest ways to fall into decline is to look for products where other lazy people are also looking, such as at dropshipping sites, on dropshipping lists, by checking whatever other people are selling on eBay and thinking the more people who are selling a particular product the better that product is for you to promote. Don't get me wrong, there is nothing wrong with dropshipping, in the right hands dropshipping is a perfect business model but it doesn't work where every man and his uncle are using the exact same dropshipping companies. By far the better way to make money from dropshipping is to find your own suppliers, independent of lists, web sites, other people's eBay listings. Check these people out, study their products, test market a few products on eBay, then get the supplier to sign an exclusive agreement saying only you can sell their products on eBay. Not all will agree, but some will and this is where the big money really lies. * Be brave, look for products that are in limited supply or even non-existent on eBay but which might have potentially very high demand should those products be introduced and test marketed and later offered via exclusive agreements with suppliers such as mentioned earlier. According to eBay research experts there are certain products which potential buyers are all but begging for in the 'Want it Now' columns which no one is supplying. Find out what the hottest products are - many very under supplied on eBay - by downloading eBay's hot products report at http://pages.ebay.com/sellerce Don't worry that the report is largely US based, many products can be exported from the UK to the American site, not forgetting that many popular products across the Pond are also in hot demand on ebay.co.uk * Don't do as most people do, don't look for products to sell, instead look for products people want to buy. The two are not the same and the difference can be immense. It was the late great Gary Halbert who convinced people that sourcing products people are desperate to buy is far better than looking for stuff to sell which you merely hope people will buy! Marketing folklore says Gary Halbert once asked a group of marketing trainees what was the most important thing to have for anyone selling hamburgers. The trainees shouted 'great meat', 'fabulous recipes', 'bigger hamburgers', 'better sauces', and more besides. Halbert admitted these things were important but only one thing really mattered, and the only thing he'd ask for to make money from hamburgers is . . . A HUNGRY CROWD! Now before you find out exactly how to find the hottest products on eBay, I just wanted to tell you about a resource that I highly recommend. It's called The Secret Source Directory and it contains hundreds of little-known sources for in-demand products you could buy cheap and sell or a profit on eBay including government auctions, liquidations and dropshippers. What's more it has just been updated for 2008 with loads of new entries. For full details click here. -------------- Hot Selling Items On eBay - Find What Is In Demand On eBay by Max Suther If you are going to be a PowerSeller on eBay there are a few things that you must understand. The most important eBay selling tip I can give you is you must know what the hot selling items on eBay are. So how do you find what is selling on eBay? There are several ways I use to find out what the hot selling items on eBay are. The first way is the easiest and fastest way. Go to eBay Pulse. eBay Pulse is a tool that eBay provides and is a fast way to find out what items are hot on eBay. eBay Pulse will show you the top ten searches for every category within eBay. Why is this important? Well before you can sell many items on eBay you need to know what items are in demand. When people search on eBay for a product then this is an indication as to how much demand there is for that item. The more searches the more the demand for the item. Pretty simple. Once you know what products are in high demand then it is a matter of finding a wholesale source for the product or a drop shipper. I prefer to use drop shippers because they take care of handling the inventory and shipping. All I have to do is focus on listing and selling items. Drop shippers also give me the opportunity to test what will sell on eBay and at other online auctions. Since I don't have to pay for an item until I have sold it, all I have at risk is the listing fee. I can test hundreds of different drop ship items for pennies a listing. There are also some software packages that help you find the niche items on eBay and those that are in high demand. These software packages run between $19 dollars and $100 dollars. I have a few of them and use them frequently. If you want to sell on eBay start with finding the hot selling items. Good luck. For a free list of hot selling items on eBay companies, try visiting http://www.website-for-free This popular website offers eBay selling tips, advice and articles to include information on how to make money online on eBay and the best free list of lingerie drop shippers. ------ What Is the Best Thing to Sell on eBay? by Ruth Hendrickson There are more people selling on eBay today than ever before, and the number just keeps growing. How do all these sellers know what to sell on eBay? That is a question many would-be eBay sellers would like to know. Many sellers find it hard to decide what to sell on the site. Knowing what items to sell and what items to stay away from is an important part of a successful eBay seller's repertoire. It's true that you can sell virtually anything on eBay, but there are products that are highly profitable and other products that must practically be given away in order to sell. It's not just the number of sellers that keeps growing on the eBay website. The number of buyers continues to grow as well, and there are literally millions of buyers strolling the virtual streets of eBay looking for products to purchase. Many of these buyers are looking for something in particular, and eBay sellers who know what these buyers are looking for have a leg up on the other sellers. The best way to decide what to sell on eBay is to do research and find out what the buyers are looking for: what are they searching to buy? There are several ways for sellers to do buyer research. eBay Pulse is a good tool to use and find out the keywords with the most number of searches by buyers. Go to eBay Pulse at http://pulse.ebay.com (or http://pulse.ebay.co.uk) to see the top ten most popular searches. The most popular searches are also given for each category. Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/ Until next time Best regards Avril PS: Want to start making £1,000 a week on eBay in 2008? Then check out my subscribers-only newsletter - eBay Confidential - where you'll find loads of proven Powerseller strategies, tips and tricks. Full details here: http://ebayconfidential.co.uk/ |
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