Monday, March 20, 2006
Finding Products for an eBay Business
Once you've gotten a feel for selling on eBay by researching, listing, and successfully selling odds and ends from your home, there's no lack of products you can find to sell.
Hot Item Finder
An extremely popular way to find products for eBay is through Hot Item Finder. This tool uncovers some of the hottest selling categories and products on eBay to help you find profitable products to sell in your areas of interest. And not only does it help you find them, but it helps you determine what keywords to put in your listings to maximize traffic to your auctions.
Hard goods through drop-shipping arrangements
Figuring out what to sell is only half of the equation, though. You also need to find sources for your products.
There are excellent companies that research and list reputable drop-ship companies for you in their directories. The companies they list are manufacturers or official distributors for a wide variety of name-brand and/or unique products.
The scope of companies and products in these directories is massive. You definitely need to have a good idea (backed by solid research, of course) of what you want to sell before you start browsing through the directories. It's too easy to get lost in them if you don't go in with a plan!
As with all drop-shipping arrangements, after you set up your arrangement with the companies, you can sell their products without having to stock or ship anything. Just pass the orders you receive on to them and they will ship them directly to your buyers.
Trading your time for money by handling your own inventory
Of course, having drop-shippers do all the inventorying and shipping for you costs extra. You can make more money buying in bulk and handling the inventory yourself. It means extra work, but the next step up the ladder comes when you start doing this.
And ebooks like Janiece Smith's quirkily titled "How An Overworked, Traveling, Soggy Sandwich Eating Dental Hygienist Made up to $11,212.00 a Month--100% Online" and the training tools she offers help you break down the doors into a world where your business can buy from name-brand manufacturers at below-wholesale costs and sell brands that people are really searching for.
Finding hidden treasures to sell
There are also ways to find products at next to no cost—if you're resourceful and know where to look. The Silent Sales Machine Hiding on eBay is one of the best eBay selling ebooks I've found. It shows you opportunities to build your business that most eBay sellers are completely blind to.
And its large section on product sourcing ideas gives you a treasure trove of ingenious sources for low- or no-cost products to sell.
And there are ebooks, as well, on what kinds of items to look for in garage sales and storage auctions, two sources where you can pick up profitable items for next to nothing and sell them at huge profits.
Product that give you 100% profit
Then, finally, there are products you can sell at 100% profit. That's right—products that don't cost you a cent. Plenty of people are selling kits, ebooks, and self-made videos on eBay as a source of nearly hands-free income once you put your product together.
And it's easier than you think. Check out this course "Sell Books and Videos on eBay" to see how other people who have no formal training are making huge profits by putting together e-products for niche markets on eBay.
Or check out "How to Write Your Own eBook in as Little as Seven Days" for a simple pattern to follow to quickly write a profitable ebook.
Really, the only limit to the profitable products you can come up with is your own imagination.
Jeff
Once you've gotten a feel for selling on eBay by researching, listing, and successfully selling odds and ends from your home, there's no lack of products you can find to sell.
Hot Item Finder
An extremely popular way to find products for eBay is through Hot Item Finder. This tool uncovers some of the hottest selling categories and products on eBay to help you find profitable products to sell in your areas of interest. And not only does it help you find them, but it helps you determine what keywords to put in your listings to maximize traffic to your auctions.
Hard goods through drop-shipping arrangements
Figuring out what to sell is only half of the equation, though. You also need to find sources for your products.
There are excellent companies that research and list reputable drop-ship companies for you in their directories. The companies they list are manufacturers or official distributors for a wide variety of name-brand and/or unique products.
The scope of companies and products in these directories is massive. You definitely need to have a good idea (backed by solid research, of course) of what you want to sell before you start browsing through the directories. It's too easy to get lost in them if you don't go in with a plan!
As with all drop-shipping arrangements, after you set up your arrangement with the companies, you can sell their products without having to stock or ship anything. Just pass the orders you receive on to them and they will ship them directly to your buyers.
Trading your time for money by handling your own inventory
Of course, having drop-shippers do all the inventorying and shipping for you costs extra. You can make more money buying in bulk and handling the inventory yourself. It means extra work, but the next step up the ladder comes when you start doing this.
And ebooks like Janiece Smith's quirkily titled "How An Overworked, Traveling, Soggy Sandwich Eating Dental Hygienist Made up to $11,212.00 a Month--100% Online" and the training tools she offers help you break down the doors into a world where your business can buy from name-brand manufacturers at below-wholesale costs and sell brands that people are really searching for.
Finding hidden treasures to sell
There are also ways to find products at next to no cost—if you're resourceful and know where to look. The Silent Sales Machine Hiding on eBay is one of the best eBay selling ebooks I've found. It shows you opportunities to build your business that most eBay sellers are completely blind to.
And its large section on product sourcing ideas gives you a treasure trove of ingenious sources for low- or no-cost products to sell.
And there are ebooks, as well, on what kinds of items to look for in garage sales and storage auctions, two sources where you can pick up profitable items for next to nothing and sell them at huge profits.
Product that give you 100% profit
Then, finally, there are products you can sell at 100% profit. That's right—products that don't cost you a cent. Plenty of people are selling kits, ebooks, and self-made videos on eBay as a source of nearly hands-free income once you put your product together.
And it's easier than you think. Check out this course "Sell Books and Videos on eBay" to see how other people who have no formal training are making huge profits by putting together e-products for niche markets on eBay.
Or check out "How to Write Your Own eBook in as Little as Seven Days" for a simple pattern to follow to quickly write a profitable ebook.
Really, the only limit to the profitable products you can come up with is your own imagination.
Jeff
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