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The Best Stuff to Sell on eBay to Earn Consistent Profits
publication date: Dec 19, 2008
Hi,
So many people make a great living from the Internet and many more claim never to have earned a single penny online despite years of working very hard to do so.
I'm going to be very rude now and say I just don't believe anyone who says they've spent years - unsuccessfully - trying to make money on the Internet. I think they're lying or exaggerating, or what they really mean is they've glanced at hundreds of different online business opportunities, spent a few minutes on each, and brushed them all aside because they don't 'think' they'll work. But why do they think those opportunities won't work? And what gives those people the right after a few minutes studying any particular opportunity to say it's a scam or at best all hype? The problem with most people who don't make money online is they don't give the business a fair chance, and I can prove this with just a few recent forum comments that prove how short sighted some of us really are: - "I did my first listing on eBay the other day. My product didn't sell, I ended up losing money; you told me people were making money on eBay and you're nothing but a bl**dy liar!" A forum member asked: "Did any of your other eBay listings work?" The answer: "I only did one listing, I lost money, do you expect me to list all bl**dy day just to put money in eBay's pockets?" - "I uploaded a web site more than two years ago and I haven't made a single penny since." A forum member asked: "What do you do to get visitors to your site?" The answer: "Nothing! I did my bit, I uploaded the site, now I'm waiting for the search engines to send people to buy something from me, that's how it works!" - "That book (poor unfortunate and very honest named person mentioned here) sold about making money from AdSense. It didn't work for me! I want my money back!" A forum member asked: "What parts of it did you try?" The Answer: "None of it, you only have to read the first couple of pages to know it isn't going to work!" Of course professionals like ourselves know not every eBay listing works; they know there's more to making money online than simply uploading a web site and leaving it to run itself; they know it's always the person who buys the book that does the work, not the book itself! My sympathies do, however, always go to people who genuinely do try hard to make an opportunity work, but for some reason they discover the business doesn't quite suit their personal requirements or it genuinely won't make the kind of money they need to survive. Making a good living from AdSense, for example, can take weeks or months of creating content and uploading web sites and very few people can afford to wait that long for money to pay their bills and everyday living expenses. The same goes for article marketing and blog posting, placing AdWords and using eBay Classified Ads. to promote affiliate products, where all intelligent sellers know only time, a tiny investment, a few calculated risks and repetition will prove if a business works, or doesn't work, and most of those ideas work very well for anyone who gives them a determined try. On eBay most sellers learn that the more products you list, the more money you'll eventually make, and few of us expect more than fifty per cent of our products to sell first time round so some money will be lost along the way. Take collectibles as an example. Making a living selling collectibles on eBay is perhaps the easiest way of all to earn a really good living on eBay, even if sometimes all you have after a long day at a flea market is sore feet and a big dent in your car door where someone bumped into you to grab the last available parking place. But at flea markets and boot sales you can just as easily find real treasures lurking alongside household castoffs, such as rare autographs placed for safekeeping inside some torn and dirty film star album, or a rare plate or cup placed precariously under a pile of grotty ornaments. Nonetheless it's just too risky to depend solely on boot sale and flea market pick ups for a regular big income on eBay. It's always best to grow several eBay selling options alongside additional income streams that don't involve eBay. Being successful is a matter of trying various opportunities, deciding which suit the individual best and discarding those that don't quite suit our personal circumstances. We all must keep on testing and incorporating new opportunities into our overall business portfolio, that's the only way to optimise our income while also safeguarding against a major source of income drying up without warning. Remember how digital downloads vanished from eBay almost overnight, leaving thousands of people wondering how to pay their bills once their sole income source had vanished? Thankfully only full time sellers were quite so seriously affected; those who also make money from AdSense and article marketing, affiliate marketing and such, saw just a tiny drop in their overall income. Once you start you'll find so many different repeat income streams to choose from including some that make money right away and others that take time to work but eventually fetch staggering profits. Such as: * Keep a close eye on the events diary in local weekend newspapers where you'll find information about craft and trade fairs where you can approach local manufacturers about selling their products exclusively on eBay. This works like a magnet, most manufacturers prefer to make items, most hate marketing them or don't have time, and it's a rare artist or craftworker who won't fall at your knees for a chance to increase their usually tiny income from local sources. Most manufacturers, including craftworkers, sell purely at local events and to customers within a short radius of base. Offer to promote their products worldwide, on eBay, and see how many clients you sign up in one day at local craft and trade fairs. Be sure to have a contract drawn up stating you are the only person allowed to sell your clients' products on eBay, with the exception of sales by private buyers, and get clients to sign up to specific delivery times so you don't miss out on Second Chance Offers for your most popular products. * Build an entire site and selling experience around one popular high commission affiliate product, from ClickBank for example, or Amazon, and spend an hour or so each week blogging about the product, writing articles, testing a few cheap Google Adwords, promoting through Squidoo and Twitter and other inexpensive online sources. The secret is to spend several days choosing different products from ClickBank, and writing articles promoting those with your affiliate link embedded in your article resource box (some article directories prohibit affiliate links so use domain forwarding instead). Then check out which product earns the highest commissions and make this product the focus of your future article endeavours. Do this once a week and set time aside each week to write a new article about each of your chosen affiliate products. This can prove amazingly profitable and only recently I discovered someone who spends his entire working day writing product review articles for ClickBank products which he uploads to dozens of different article directories and uses a separate ClickBank nickname for each article directory to show which directories generate the highest visitor and buyer conversion rates. * Here's the best money making idea I've tapped into for many years. eBay Classifieds are back on the menu at ebay.com and they represent the perfect way to grow a massive mailing list to promote your own or affiliate products potentially for many years to come. They say "The Money's In the List!!" - yes you know that already - but oftentimes you need money to grow a list before it starts generating profits. That's because conventional ways of growing a list, using high profile advertising, for instance, or Google AdSense, can mean spending a pound or much more for every name added to your list. In reality, most big list owners take weeks or even months to recoup the cost of adding names to their list and that's an unlikely option for you, or for me! So would you be interested to know it's perfectly possible to add three or four hundred new names to your list each month from a single Classified Ad costing less than a fiver a month? And that explains why many American PowerSellers have hundreds of Classified Ads. running concurrently to grow a profitable sideline business selling affiliate products from hundreds of different companies. The secret to using eBay Classified Ads. is to offer a free report to invite sign ups to your mailing list and to make sure your free report is different to those competitors are offering. The rules are still a bit grey surrounding Classified Ads., especially concerning sign up boxes and email addresses, but only recently eBay reported it has no objection to outside links being used in Classified Ads. as long as they don't lead to pages with products for sale!!! So you mustn't promote ClickBank products directly inside your Classified Ads, even though you'll currently find hundreds of eBayers doing just that. I'm trying Classified Ads. myself right now, with great success, and in the next few weeks I'm going to write up my findings as to how many names each ad. garners for my list and exactly how and when those names begin gathering profits. I'll let you in on the details some time in early January. Happy eBaying! Avril *******Publisher Recommends ************** £600 a week income... negligible start-up costs... easy to set up and run... no previous experience or qualifications necessary... self-financing... this is the home business "holy grail"... and yet hardly anyone in the UK is doing it! Click here for more details: -------------------------------------------------------- The Best Stuff to Sell on eBay to Earn Consistent Profits by Daniel Curry So you are trying to start an eBay business right? Even if you don't want a business to consume all your time, maybe because you have a day job or just have many activities throughout the day - you still have time to run a profitable business, and you can start by finding the 'best stuff' to sell on eBay today! The problem is, what exactly sells on eBay? It can be a rather hard decision that people face on a regular basis, however, this does not have to be you. In order to find out what sells on eBay, you may want to start with several amounts of methods. What are some of these methods? You can start by selling your own stuff out of your garage! What are people bidding the most on? What items are the people mostly looking for and willing to spend money trying to get? By learning what people want - you can increase your income. What's a Good Way To Tell What People Want? There are an unlimited amount of ways to tell what people are trying to buy. You can try to Google search trends, go to article directory sights to see what products are receiving the most views as far as article topics go. You can even try testing the market by simply buying a product from a store and putting it up - seeing if it gets tons of sales. The trick to selling on eBay is finding out what's hot. Some items will always be in high demand for long periods of times while other items will be the king for about a week and then plummet dramatically. Your key to success is to find a product that consistently stays on the top for a long period of time. Okay, I have an Item That I Think Can Sell, Where to Get It? There are many, many people who simply do not have an inventory - if everybody had inventory, there would not be a need for stores; would there? You can access other people around the world for their inventory. There are many people who are willing to sell your cheap products at bulk. You can then put these products into your selling list - and start selling them for more than you bought them. If you just cannot hold any inventory - then you still have an option - it's called dropshipping, you simply order the item and have it shipped to the customer, it's that easy and that profitable. The problem is just finding a credible supplier - once you find that; you'll be able to succeed in no time! Are you interested in making 100$ a day on eBay? In order to do this, you need to be able to consistently find products to put on eBay and let the customers bid on them. Find out where you can find 1000's of products to sell on eBay and make at least 20$ profit on each sell by visiting: http://ebayzer.blogspot.com ----------------------------------------------------------- Selling Products From Wal-Mart on eBay For Profit - (Editorial Team: AKA 'ASDA' in the UK by Vickie Sayce When you think of sources to find products for selling on eBay, Wal-Mart is likely the last place on your mind. Many eBay sellers mistakenly think that Wal-Mart is available to everyone, so there isn't a reason to find items for resale there. On the contrary, while Wal-Mart may be available in many parts of the United States, it has very little prevalence in most other countries around the world. And the ones that are located in the U.S. have varying items from store to store, which means someone in a different state wouldn't be able to purchase the same things as you at their local Mart. These factors are what make Wal-Mart a great place to pick up items to sell on eBay. Remember that eBay is an international site that attracts customers from all over the globe, and put this to your advantage. Things that we take for granted as being easy to find for a low cost can be turned around for a decent profit on eBay. To get started selling items on eBay from Wal-Mart, know what items sell the best. Sports apparel is probably one of the hottest items that you can turn around on eBay for a profit. Many sports fans are displaced from their favorite teams, and they can't find clothing or other goods with their team's name branded on the front. Wal-Mart usually carries a few local teams at your area's store, and for a much lower price than officially licensed items go for. Start with these items, and list them on eBay during the height of the sports season, when they will be most in demand. If your local team makes it to the play-offs, you can turn an even bigger profit by listing these items when everyone is on the lookout for them, and they are willing to pay slightly more for them to receive them quickly. Children's toys are also a big hit on eBay, and your local store has quite a large selection. Specialty branded items, like those from Hannah Montana or High School Musical, can sell very well on eBay. Wal-Mart often has exclusive contracts with these teen stars to sell licensed items only in their stores, which means they can't easily be found anywhere else. Boost your inventory around the holiday season, when these items are most in demand around the globe. Video game systems have always been a hot seller on eBay, but these can be a little harder to track down. The Nintendo Wii is still very hard to find, even two years after its release date. W-Mart regularly restocks their shelves with discounted Wiis every week or two, so if you are lucky enough to pick one or two up when they are available, you can typically sell one for up to twice what you paid for it. Again, when the Christmas season rolls around, you'll be able to fetch a higher dollar on these systems than you can during the rest of the year, so keep this in mind. There are literally hundreds of other items available at your local store that you can sell on eBay for a hefty profit. Know what's popular with children, sports fans, and moms to get some good ideas on what you can sell. With Wal-Mart, you can turn your eBay home business into a very lucrative endeavor! If you want to make money on eBay, visit: http://auctionpaydaykidsplay.com/ to find out how. Vickie Sayce (dotcom) teaches others how to get started on eBay, and has been buying and selling on eBay since 2001. She has written a very informative book on starting an eBay business to make money from home while raising the kids. |
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