SaleHoo vs. World Wide Brands
August 6th, 2007 Subscribe To Our Feed
The Ultimate Wholesale Battle
If you’e looking to seriously start a business online with eBay, it’s time to start thinking about how and where to source your products. It might seem like a simple process. Maybe Google up some keywords like wholesalers, dropshippers, how to get millions of items for free and sell them on eBay. But, alas, it’s not always that simple.
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5 Ways to Find What to Sell on eBay
July 26th, 2007 Subscribe To Our Feed
It’s never a bad thing to think of more ways to find what to sell on eBay. I mean, you may feel proud of yourself for finding that one bestselling gem that makes you your first big PayPal deposit, but what if that product’s sales start dwindling.
You always need a good array of ideas for what to sell on eBay. Here are five ideas you can use to find something to sell on eBay right now.
Read about these 5 ideas here…
5 Ways to Drive Traffic to Your Website Using eBay
July 2nd, 2007 Subscribe To Our Feed
We all know that eBay is a great place to make money by selling items. As an eBay seller, you’re essentially running an e-commerce type business through eBay when you do this.
eBay, however has much more power to make you money than its traditional use. If you’re already selling on eBay, and you have your own website, you have the opportunity to make even more money.
Want to know how? Here are 5 ways you can drive massive traffic to your website using eBay.
1. Use Your About Me Page
You know that little me beside some eBay sellers’ names? You should have one. An eBay About Me page is an excellent way to promote yourself on eBay. It doesn’t break any eBay rules to link to your site from an About Me page, and you can even have an opt-in form if you have a newsletter. To amazing resources on this subject are:
2. eBay’s Classified Ad Feature
This is somewhat in the dark, but discovering it was pretty awesome for me. Yes, eBay has a classified ad feature. You can set up an ad in certain categories for a certain period of time. They show up with regular auctions, so you can choose good keywords that will help you show up in popular searches.
Check out eBay’s Classified Ads
3. Give Away a Free Report on eBay
I’m not sure if you know about the “Everything Else” category on eBay, but you should check it out. A great way to get the word out about your site is to give away a free report on something related to it. For example, if your site is about Dog Training, you could right a small 20 page report and put it up for auction on eBay for 1 cent. You can have links to your site all throughout. Giving it away will increase your chances of a lot of people grabbing a copy and visiting your site.
Visit the “Everything Else” category
4. Sell or Give Away Auction Templates
This is something I’m going to test and see how lucrative it can be, but, if your good at designing templates, this may be a good chance for you to increase your web site’s traffic. The concept is, create some really good templates, sell them or give them away on eBay, and place your link in the footer, or a logo somewhere that says, designed by: Your Website. If you start to sell a lot of templates, granted people don’t remove your signature, you could gain a lot of traffic from other people’s auctions.
5. The Regular Auction E-mail Follow Up
This one might be a little lame compared to the others, but it’s still a good one. If you’re selling on eBay, you should be sending out personal e-mails with your website in their signatures. This may not be as effective or creative, but it will drive traffic to your website none-the-less.
It’s pretty amazing what all eBay can be used for other than an auction website. eBay gets so much traffic, you might as well take advantage of it and send it your way. eBay makes enough of its own money, it doesn’t hurt to capitalize on their success.
If you have any more ways to drive traffic to a website using eBay, please comment here and let me know.
The Silent Sales Machine Hiding on eBay
June 28th, 2007 Subscribe To Our Feed
When I first started on eBay, I wanted to learn all there was to know. I read books about eBay, I thoroughly read the eBay website and I bought eBooks online that were supposedly supposed to help me make a fortune on eBay.
One eBook stands out, however, from all the rest. I bought the Silent Sales Machine Hiding on eBay by Jim Cockrum and haven’t stopped using it since.
One of the best things about The Silent Sales Machine Hiding on eBay is that you never stop getting new information. Jim Cockrum provides free updates to the eBook and his newsletter never fails to provide new and unique ways to make money on eBay.
So what is this silent machine that you can’t see? Well, it may not be as silent because of Jim Cockrum, but it’s still very effective. Jim Cockrum is the king of teaching people how to utilize eBay’s massive traffic to bring in an incredible and passive income.
It’s more than just one system though. It’s a consistent way to make money online with eBay. Jim has built up a community of eBayers that continuely contribute and help each other. You’ll find more and more ideas and more and more resources the longer you are a part of the Silent Sales community.
The longer you are not a part of it, the more you miss out on.
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The Ultimate Wholesale eBay Success Combo
June 25th, 2007 Subscribe To Our Feed
You’ve found the perfect product to sell on eBay, now what? You have to find a supplier. If you’re tired of browsing discount stores, yard sales and garage sales or any other unreliable source, it’s time for you to find a wholesaler.
We’ve already talked about how to find the best products to sell on eBay. Use software like Auction Yen to find awesome little niches you may have never even known existed. You can read about Auction Yen here.
What do you do when you’ve found that product? Look no further than Salehoo.com
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Salehoo.com is exactly what you need when looking to source your newly found product to sell on eBay. If you have no idea what to do when it comes to finding a wholesaler or distributor, Salehoo.com will give you a list of legitimate wholesalers to choose from so you can get started right away.
What gives you the advantage? Already having a product that you know will sell. That’s why this is the ultimate wholesale combo! You’ve used Auction Yen to find a product you know is in demand, once you find a reliable wholesaler; you can start to make whole lotta money on eBay.
If you haven’t read about Auction Yen, do so here. After finding that perfect product to sell on eBay, visit Salehoo.com and find a wholesaler that will supply that product so you can start to make some real eBay cash.
7 Reasons to Start an eBay Business
June 14th, 2007 Subscribe To Our Feed
It’s amazing how the Internet has become such a great medium for making money. There are so many ways to start an online business and start making money.
But, as you know, Practical eBay Selling is all about eBay and how to make the most of it. So, we’ve compiled a list just to let you know why you should start an eBay business in the first place. It never hurts to get back to the fundamentals, especially when it comes to an online business.
1. You Don’t Have to Be Rich or Go into Debt
How much does it cost to start an eBay business? Zero Dollars! That’s enough to make anyone want to start an online business with eBay. Start spring cleaning early (or late) and use the money you make from unwanted items to put back into your business. Read more here…
2. Low to No Risk
Let’s say for some reason you don’t succeed at selling on eBay. It costs only .35 cents to list an item, then eBay takes a percentage. So, if you happen not to sell something, you’ve lost a dollar or two. You didn’t have to take out a business loan or borrow money from your rich uncle. The great thing about eBay is that you can test markets or even use software to help you find markets with low competition.
3. Set Up a Business Fast
It won’t take you long to start your new online business. Just sign up for eBay, sign up for PayPal (optional, but recommended) and you’re ready to go.
4. Easy Research
eBay is a research model in and of itself. You can use the enormous database of auctions and completed auctions to find just the right product to sell. To speed up this process, read about some great software that could help you find products to sell on eBay.
5. You Don’t Have to be a Marketing Genius
All you have to do is post a product and watch it sell. People go to eBay to buy, not for you to be a salesman and talk them into buying something. It’s always good to know how to write a good post and title, but that comes with time, and you’ll get better with experience.
6. You Don’t Have to Go to an Office
Think about how awesome it would be to be able to work wherever you want. When you start to make a full time income from eBay, you can take your laptop with you… to the beach, to the mountains… even to the bathroom(?). Ya know, wherever.
7. You Don’t Need a Website
eBay provides you with everything you need to start making money online without having to use a website. Now, I’m not saying it’s not a good idea to have one. When you start to make money with eBay, you’ll see that having a website will only increase that revenue. You can drive a lot of traffic to your site with eBay. You can read more about driving traffic to your site with eBay here.
The great thing about making money online with eBay is that it’s fun. You really don’t even feel like you’re working. So, the number one motivation for starting an eBay business is that you’ll love your work.
Who doesn’t want that?