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Letter From A Frustrated Newbie To Selling On eBay

Recently I received a hand written letter from a frustrated subscriber who is trying to find a product to sell on eBay that will create an income that would replace the income from the job that this person was made redundant from. I have changed the name of this person to ‘Bob’ for the sake of this post and to protect the individuals privacy.

Here’s the letter..

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Dear John,

I was wondering if you could please help me. I have signed up on your mini course about best selling items on eBay. I have turned my attention to try and make a living out of selling products on eBay as I have been made redundant and finding a job is so difficult. So I was wondering if you could help me to find a product to sell on eBay.

Thanks

Bob

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Firstly I want to congratulate Bob for being made redundant! This may sound a little unusual but being made redundant is often the spark needed to fire a successful entrepreneurial business of your own. Its hard for some to take those first steps to start a business instead of working for others because of the risk factor and doubts of ability to  succeed. The challenge, IF you chose to accept is..

To create your own ‘mini-business’ that can sustain you financially while you build on that to give rise to a business that will generate wealth and freedom for your future on semi-autopilot.  You will need an initial investment to buy your first products to sell on eBay. If you don’t have a little cash to invest you can always raise some money selling old items you have around the house you no longer need or use. If you are new to eBay this will also give you vital hands on experience to selling on eBay.

My first experience with eBay was selling my old items I had around the house and I was hooked when I raised over 1000 dollars  from old stuff I no longer used that I regarded as things that no longer had any value to me. That is exactly how my eBay business began.

In the letter, Bob asks if I can help him to find a single product to sell on eBay and this is the correct way to begin your own successful business once you have a small amount of cash you can invest. First you need just one product that actually sells and generates a profit to make money. The product will be one that can be resold as a buy it now product that you can order a quantity of and resell on the same multiple buy it now listing over and over again.

It’s totally feasible to expect to sell at least one product repetitively each day. Say your product generates 15usd profit after your costs. 15usd x 30 days = 450usd proffit per month. This is a minimal amount to sustain you however, before you can have 2 products that sell on ebay and actually make money, you need one product.

Once you have that first product up and running it’s much easier to find your second product and third and so on. The profit you make soon ads up as you add more and more profitable products to your portfolio. Imagine having 10 products that all generate profits and sell at least one per day and make on average 15usd profit each. Now your upto 4500usd profit per month on semi autopilot!

Simply growing your inventory one product at a time with profitable items soon amounts up to profits much larger than you could ever expect.

But first you must find that first product. When I get asked about profitable products to sell on eBayt the first thing I do is recommend the mini course tutorial fast-lanevideos. Using the research methods and wholesale procurement methods inthese videos will direct you to find your first profitable product. If you are testing the market with more than one product and only one of those three products actually turn a profit, ditch the two losers and keep the winner.

Order your first batch of the product that made the profit and only concentrate on selling that one product until you have created the best ebay listing you can possibley create for that single product. Then go onto finding another product using the same methods.

When You Reach The Highway, Take Your Foot Off The Brake..

If you are actually at the point where you have at least one or two products generating a profit on eBay you are ready to take your business to the next level. I always recommend focusing your efforts on selling just one or two products purchased at wholesale prices to begin your eBay business and to gain esential experience and acumilate knowlegde. When you reach that point you are ready to take your foot off the brake and take your business into the fast lane.

For the first time ever I will be revealing a totally unique and limited edition step-by-step formula to propel your eBay business to a level higher than you would ever imagine using the power of private labeling and niche product branding.

Imagine owning your own products that no one else is allowed to supply because you own them. Imagine expanding your eBay business onto the wider web to release the profit potential the vast internet holds.

This is when your business really takes off and your profits begin to multiply.

I am only going to be releasing 30 copies of  The Ultimate Guide To Niche Product Labeling to a lucky few.…. And you can register your interest to ensure you get an invite. Only the first 30 people to register interest in The Ultimate Guide To Niche Product Labeling will be offered a chance to actually get one of the 30 copies of this limited edition business formula, guaranteed to make you money or your money back!

I promise that if by using this system, if you follow my system step-by-step and if you don’t make a profit within 3 months I will personally refund you twice the value of the cost of the system.

Register you interest by signing up to be one of the lucky few to be invited to obtain one of the 30 copies of The Ultimate Guide To Niche Product Labeling.

By registering your interest you are not commiting to anything. You are simply placing your reservation to be included on the limited edition no obligation offer list. Remember, once 30 reservations have been placed the product will be launched only to those who register. If the 30 copies are not sold I will then open the product to everyone until the 30 copies have gone.

Sign up and register here The Ultimate Guide To Niche Product Labeling sign up page

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Are You Taking Advantage Of Free Google Traffic To Increase Your eBay Store Sales?

Are you taking advantage of free Google traffic to increase your eBay store sales?

eBay isn’t the only place you can get traffic to your eBay listings. If you take a look at some Powerseller’s ebay stores you will see that the categories on the left hand side navigation are keyword rich and designed to be search engine friendly.

You can easily implement a simple strategy for obtaining more free traffic to your eBay store by optimizing your eBay store categories in a certain way so that your eBay store pages are included in all the big search engines search results.

Here’s how eBay store pages look in Google’s search results.

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In the above example I typed in ‘fishing tackle daiwa reel’ into Google and you can see how an eBay store with matching keywords has been included in the first page results.

Read a simillar article about ebay category SEO by Jenn Cangelosi here

To optimize your eBay store categories you need to make your categories and sub-categories keyword rich.  In the example above,  and if you were selling Daiwa fishing reels you would name your eBay store category Fishing Tackle and then name your sub category ‘Daiawa reels’. It only takes a few minutes to set up and can make a massive difference in the amount of traffic that is funneled to your eBay store and listings. More traffic means more sales, so take a few moments now and make your eBay store categories search engine friendly to increase your eBay store traffic.

Learn how to increase your eBay sales even more using the eBay Best Match Boost Listing Strategy

I Received An Email From A Wholesale Supplier Today And I Was About To Hit The Delete Button When..

email-from-wholesale-supplierI received an email from a wholesale supplier today and I was about to hit the delete button when..

It was obvious the email was from a Chinese supplier trying to sell me something. They most probably didn’t have my permission to send me this email because I didn’t opt in to receive the email. In this instance I would usually just hit the delete button straight away since I didn’t recognize the supplier, the name, or who the email was from, or the product that was being offered in the title of the email. On this occasion however, I decided to give this one a chance and I opened the email.

The product being offered was something I’d never heard of and the email didn’t even explain what the product was used for. It was called a ‘dermol roller’ and sounded like some type of medical device.

Curiosity won over me and I clicked through to the supplier’s website. After reading the product description on the supplier’s website I was still none the wiser as to what this contraption was used for. The sales information was in broken English and I really lost interest pretty quickly after I discovered it used some sort of needle that penetrates the skin for health reasons. There is no way I would even consider looking to import such a product without knowing exactly what this thing was used for, or without having an understanding of the requirements and regulations for importing such a device. As I was just about to close the website browser something caught my eye.

Down on the left hand corner of this website was a link to another product that I had heard of. It was an ion detox foot spa. I quickly did a search on ebay.com for ‘ion detox foot spa’ and discovered these things were selling pretty well and at around 150usd each. These small and reasonably lightweight items were interesting.whoelsale-products-to-sell-on-ebay

I’ve sent for pricing information to determine whether these things are worth pursuing. But it just shows how you can stumble across products that could be a hot best selling product on eBay. You might be asking yourself why I share this confidential information with you, that other  seller’s wouldn’t dream of disclosing. It’s because I care, and I want you to succeed on eBay as I have done so for years.

I stumbled upon this product today and who knows, maybe I’ll most probably stumble across another tomorrow! I don’t expect you to reveal your selling secrets like I do, but it would be great to hear what you think? Am I foolish for telling you my product ideas, or am I confident that I can do it over and over again. It would be interesting to hear your thoughts..

How To Make More Sales With eBay’s Mark Down Manager Tool

I want to ask you a question;  Do you use markdown manager in eBay stores to create promotional discounts and sell more items?

SALE! SALE! SALE!

Have you ever walked into a shop and seen something that you might be interested in buying thats on sale? Don’t kid yourself. Those words are not there because the vendor wants to do you a favour, they are there to make you think you are getting a bargain. I’m sure you will have seen this being used in the high street shops and in TV advertising. It’s a marketing tactic.. And it works!
Even if you are wise to this pricing trick (and most aren’t), the fact that the brain has already initiated a thought process about it, the potential buyer is still affected by the offer of a discount and the thought that they might be getting a real bargain. Ultimately it gives the vendor or seller the advantage to sell the product.

I did a test..

In one of my eBay accounts I used eBay’s markdown manager within eBay stores to create a 20% discount sale that lasted one week for selected products . The following week I created another sale with a 15% discount and another sale again the following week with a 10% discount.
Here are the results of how many sales were made on those discounted items and the overall profit made on the accumulated sales for each week..
(These items were priced between 10-20usd each and the market is competitive on price.  I also used 40% as an average to calculate the profit value)

Week 1 – 20% discount sale - Items sold 60 revenue  $827.30  Profit $330.92

Week 2 – 15% discount sale – Items sold 55 revenue $659.28   Profit $263.71

Week 3 – 10% discount sale – Items sold 30 revenue $540.63   Profit $216.25

Week 4 -         (No sale)          – Items sold 27 revenue  $512.29  Profit $204.91

As you can see, even though the items sold during the discount sales generated less revenue individually, overall many more sales were made during the discount sales. Now, this may work better in a highly competitive eBay category where many sellers are selling the exact same item and the difference in price attracts more buyers. If you are selleing products on eBay in a highly competitive market and can afford to reduce the price slightly for a short period of time, this marketing tactic is certainly worth trying.
Another benefit is higher search standing after the sale has ended. Because the eBay listing made more sales during the discount sale week, the sales history will be much higher for the following weeks best match search standing. Your listing will have been moved higher up the search results, even though the sale has ended and your listing has reverted back to a full price. To get you’re listing even higher up the eBay best match search rankings and without discounting your items (in fact you can charge even more) take a look at my eBay Best Match Boost Listing Strategy tutorials

Here’s how to create a mark down discount sale in 5 simple steps..

1. Goto Manage My Store in eBay and click the ‘Mark Down Manager’ link

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2.In Mark Down Manager click ‘Create Sale’

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3. Give the sale a title, chose the start and finish date and the type of sale you want to run, for example a 20% discount

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4. Select the eBay listing you want to apply the sale to. At this point, you can also chose to email your ebay list subscribers to alert them to the sale. Then click ‘create your sale’.

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5. And thats how to create your eBay sale with Mark Down Manager, easy!

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This is how an eBay listing looks to the buyer. Notice the sale icon over the product photo showing the amount of discount and the original price has a strikethrough, with the new discounted price underneath.

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Depending on the type of products you are selling, I would certainly experiment with this simple marketing strategy tool that has worked in all types of marketing for centuries, and it can work for your eBay listing too.

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What do you think?  Have you had similar experiences with Mark Down Manager?  Have you had the time to try?  Please let me know in your comments below, I’m really curious.

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Wholesale Suppliers

As an eBay seller you will no doubt have your own places to get things to sell on ebay. There are literally thousands of wholesale directories accessible from the internet listing products, wholesalers, distributors and manufacturers from all over the world. Here is a list of several resources that I have used to find hot products to sell on eBay..

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Alibaba.com is probably the largest directory of wholesale suppliers and manufacturers. As seen in my step-by step video tutorials which you can get here, products are available from almost every country in the world with many providers China based suppliers.

Doba.com – Product Sourcing. Simplified. is a large directory of dropship suppliers. Doba.com play the role of connecting sellers with dropship providers enabling you to pick and chose products from the large directory and sell them without having to buy the stock upfront, ultimately minimizing the risk of investing in products up front. (Membership fee applies) You can sign up for a free 14 Day Trial to browse the extensive product catalog.

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esources.co.uk is a wholesale directory with products from suppliers around the world however esources.co.uk has a specific UK based wholesale supplier list.

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Salehoo.com (Membership fee applies) Boast 8,000 pre screened wholesalers, dropshippers, manufacturers and liquidation stock suppliers offering competitive pricing for resellers.

ECplaza.com & Tradekey.com are both trade directories listing thousands of suppliers from around the world

ChinaVasion.com is a dropshipping company specializing in electronics. Orders are shipped swiftly from Shenzhen, China and prices are discounted according to a tiered pricing structure based on the amount of sales you make from Chinavasion.

The Best Products To Sell On eBay

eBay-businessEbay is an incredibly huge worldwide marketplace where products are bought and sold every second. When you start your ebay business or are looking to start a new product line, how do you know which are the best products to sell on ebay that will make you the most money in the least amount of time?

Which ever products you chose to sell it will most probably take you the same amount of time and work to do the research, sourcing of wholesale products, organizing your images and photos and writing listing descriptions to sell a hot selling product as it would to sell products that are not as successful. So you want to make sure you chose a product that is going to sell quickly with good profits. Here is a criteria for selecting the best items to sell on ebay;

  • Chose small lightweight products where possible but don’t sell exactly the same as someone else unless you can add value to that product.
  • Consumable products – products that are consumed and used up so the buyer will be looking to replace the product time and time again, giving you the opportunity to sell to the same buyer again and again. Examples of consumables include printer ink, batteries, office stationary and also things like car polish.
  • Products that can be bundled together in packs or use add on products which you can cross sell and up sell the buyer, once the original product is purchased. For example, someone who buys an electric toothbrush will probably need replacement toothbrush heads as well.
  • Products that are unique or have a unique selling point in comparison to other products which are already selling well.
  • The first product you think of usually isn’t the best product to sell on ebay so do your research first
  • Finally and for some, this might be the most difficult for most sellers to adhere to and that is to sell products which are successful but cannot be sourced, sold or copied by other sellers easily. This makes it harder for any competitors to enter your market selling the same products as you. My ‘eBay Product Mastery’ course shows you in detail, exactly how to do this. When you can fulfill this criteria point when choosing your products to sell  you can potentially dominate any market on ebay.

Invest a little time into researching your niche or market you are thinking about entering before buying your stock. This will make sure you’re not buying a ‘dud’ product and that your new products have the best possibility of success to make money on ebay, over and over again.

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“How To Find The Best Products To Sell On eBay & Buy Those Exact Products At Wholesale Prices To Make Huge Profits”

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