3 More Ways to Make Money On eBay
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When you think of getting a good deal on something you want, you most likely think about checking eBay. When you think about selling something you no longer need, once again, you turn to eBay. There are many general ideas most people have about eBay. You can find good deals, get rid of clutter and get scammed out of your money. While all of those may be true, you can also make a lot of money on eBay.
Selling on eBay may be intimidating to you. eBay has grown so much in size in the last decade; you may think you can’t survive among all the competition and huge eBay stores. You may be surprised to hear, though, that there are more ways to make money on eBay than just selling a particular product. I’m going to talk to you about 3 more ways to make money on eBay than most typical sellers teach about.
Selling Info Products
Everyone is an expert on something, especially if you’ve been in one particular industry for a number of years. If you’ve never thought of writing a book about what you know best, you should start thinking about it soon. You can definitely capitalize on your knowledge on the Web. And eBay is there to make it even easier.
There is an entire section dedicated to Information Products on eBay. If you were to write a book, and convert it into an eBook, think about the potential selling power of that product, especially if no one else has written about it. If you wrote one eBook about how to roof a house, or how to build a media pc and sold each copy for $20.00, imagine if 100 people bought your book in one month. That’s $2000 extra for one product that you don’t even have to ship!
There are several great products that teach you how to write an eBook. One of my favorite is Jim Edward’s How to Write an eBook in Seven Days. Another great product that is specifically written for information products on eBay is Jim Cockrum’s The Silent Sales Machine Hiding on eBay.
Become an eBay Affiliate
eBay has an excellent affiliate program. If you don’t know what an affiliate program is, it’s basically a program in which you promote a website and get reimbursed if a user takes action through your website. To join eBay’s affiliate program, just go to ebay.com and scroll down to the bottom, you’ll see a link there.
One of the best resources on the Internet for using eBay’s affiliate program is called Build a Niche Store. This simple to use software lets you set up a website based around any niche and gives you the power to sell products related to that niche through eBay. Sounds crazy, but it’s actually pretty amazing. Think about having the option to choose from 28,926 niches. eBay has about 25 million products to choose from. Check out Build a Niche Store.
Sell Your Internet Business or Web Site on eBay
This is where you can make some real money. If you have an established website that is bringing in income, you can sell that website on eBay. I was looking through eBay’s Internet Businesses and Websites category and found one social networking site that went for $13,800! It probably took a while to build up that site to be worth that much, but think about receiving over $13,000 at one time.
February 24th, 2007 at 9:31 am
Another way to make more money on Ebay is to sell the same amount of things, but at a lower cost for you.
For example, it is possible to save $1.20 on each listing by only adjusting your price by .01 cent.
I have a lot more tips like this at my website
Eric Carlson’s Ebay Selling Guide
Check it out!