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Working From Home Using eBay

Everyone would like to be their own boss and have more control over our private lives and careers. One way to do this is establishing your own home-based business.

Working from Home has many different Advantages:

• You choose your own hours and days to work

• You remain closer to your family, friends and neighbors.

• More time with your family, friends and Neighbors

• Not having to fight that god-awful traffic every morning and afternoon. Which in itself can take almost half of your work day, depending on where you live with respect to work.

• You are your own Boss

• Unlimited Earning potential if you are passionate in this line of work.

• No more worrying about getting laid off

But there are also disadvantages:

• Startup costs that a Low-income family might struggle to acquire

• Investing in more Personal Computers, professional software and tools

• Need some space in which to work, many homes don’t have left over space

• Need training in the tools and services provided for that specific business

So how do we navigate these tricky waters of working from home instead of getting a traditional 9 to 5 job with no guarantee it will always be around to employ us. Especially as we get older… One way is to listen and discuss with others that have become successful at this Like at Commissions from Home.

Drop Shipping is one way of earning an income using eBay and (or) Amazon.

eBay is a pretty easy way to Earn a quick buck, and a respectable income:

• Startup costs are small and simple, usually 50 cents per listing per month.

• Many times, eBay is offering specials where by your first 50 listings are free.

• eBay has very few restrictions on what you can sell, compared to Amazon.

• On eBay you can’t sell fireworks, Fire Arms or body armor, but you can sell everything else.

• On eBay you need special permission to sell Automotive products.

• You will spend most of your time looking for new Products that have a great track record of selling on eBay or Amazon. And before you know it you are selling many different products per day.

• eBay uses PayPal to pay you, and you can use PayPal VISA Debit Card to purchase orders from your supplier

• eBay founded PayPal, but now they are separate companies, but still work hand and hand together.

• So, the way it works, when you have a sell, your customer pays eBay, eBay puts that money in your PayPal account, you then use your PayPal VISA Debit card to purchase the Product that sold. While you pocket the price difference. Then copy and paste your buyers address into your suppliers “Shipping Address”, and then you are off to the races.

• You only must return to your eBay buyer sells page after your supplier provides you the Carrier and tracking number when that order ships, which you must provide eBay to insure you get credit for that sell and fulfillment of that eBay order.

• All you must do is find a supplier online that sells for less than what you are selling it for on eBay

• Spend some time shopping and take notes on what everyone in the stores are buying and incorporate that into your product strategies.

• Remember to use the eBay Listing Notes as documentation on where that product is coming from, so you don’t get confused on where to purchase that product when it sells. These notes travel with that product where ever it goes. But your customers and eBay never see them, only you can see your notes.

What kind of income to expect from eBay:

Keep in mind that your U.S. Bank can barely struggle to pay you 0.1% simple interest per year on your savings account; but using eBay you can earn 15% to 300% or more using other people’s money by purchasing their products for them, using their money they put in your PayPal account. There are many eBay Merchants earning $6,000 to $12,000 per month just selling other people’s products on eBay. However, the more time you put into this business, the more you make and the faster you make your desired income. Have your spouse or other family members pitch in to help your business become more profitable faster. At some point you may find it necessary to hire employees to handle the extra work.

When you establish setting up your eBay store after having about 150 product listings, you can have a switch that permits you to go on vacation and close your store while you are out of town. Then turn it back on when you get back from your vacation. This saves you from having to bring your Laptop on vacation and always needing access to WIFI.

However, there is nothing stopping you from running your eBay store while on vacation, unless you don’t have a laptop or don’t have access to WIFI. Most of the time you only need to spend about 20 to 30 minutes a day fulfilling that day’s orders, and only do that once per day. So, even when you are on vacation, you can still run your eBay store while making sells and still earning an income.

Here are some eBay aids that you will find very useful:

eBay Watch Count is a free tool that helps you search and find the bestselling line of products on eBay, you will find that many have sold countless thousands on eBay. And if you follow their examples you will be out selling your competition in no time at all.

INFINii is a company that provides tools for finding good quality products for eBay, Amazon, Shopify and Bonanza. And advanced tools for creating impressive eBay Listing pages. But it also provides inventory tracking so that you are not caught with your britches down when your supplier runs out of stock or changes their prices before you made your sell. Their tools will make the important adjustments to your eBay listings so that you are always making a profit, and always selling products that are in stock. Their tools are very valuable and useful, but they aren’t free. So, pay attention to the different product service levels. You can get it for as little as $50 per month to use their tools. They also provide training for each of the eStore platforms like eBay, Amazon, Bonanza and Shopify, which you will need so you know how to setup and operate your Stores.

Keywordspy is a very valuable tool that provides a free trial usage. This tool is free up to a limited time. But can help you find keywords to your eBay or Amazon listings that have a track record of selling. This tool provides the keywords used in search engines to find products that people have purchased online at eBay and Amazon. And the best way to get your buying customers; is to use this tool to stand in line for the most frequently used Key word search terms for those products.

How My Vet Helped Me Find Hot New Products to Sell on eBay

Today my vet mentioned the ‘F’ word ….. he’s foreign, Polish I think, and I’m not sure if the ‘F’ word is acceptable in his country ….. but it certainly is not acceptable in mine!

“Fat”, he said, “Your dog is too FAT. He needs to lose weight or he’ll DIE before his time.”

‘D’ along with the ‘F’ word made me sit up and take notice. “Lose the weight”, he said, “and he’ll be with you much longer.”

Enough said, immediately I got home I searched eBay, and ClickBank, for a report about helping your dog lose weight fast. I searched for ‘dog weight’ and ‘dog fat’ and I found ….. tons of huge bags of low calorie dog food and biscuits which I never give my dogs anyway, and absolutely ZILCH in the way of information to help me downsize my dog.

So I ended up searching Google for information about helping my mutt look more macho when the idea suddenly struck me – why don’t I turn all of this information from Google into a low cost information product to sell on eBay and ClickBank? Why not also promote my new infoproduct through eBay Classified Ads and grow a mailing list for products I can recommend later?

Oops, I forgot to say, I wasn’t the only person in the surgery to get a rollicking today, there were three of us with overweight mutts lined up for the exact same treatment …. which set me thinking ….. if three out of three people sitting in the surgery today need help of the kind proposed for my new product, just how many other people might also need it?

So I reckon I’ve found a fabulous new market, one that will help my dog, help other people’s dogs, and could possibly make a fortune for me!

The idea is to write a report and offer it for just a few dollars, and in the back of the report I’ll include affiliate links for other items to interest dog lovers, such as medicines, food and biscuits, holiday kennels, and so on. Think about it, if I sell just one eBook every day at $2 pure profit, that’s $600 plus per year, and that’s before we even start thinking about affiliate commissions.

What does this have to do with you? Well I just wanted to prove how easy it is to find a niche market with countless eager buyers and not one person providing for their needs, no one that I could find anyway!

The moral is to keep your eyes and ears open no matter where you are because ideas are all around you and just one idea is all it really takes to start a profitable business.

Apart from waiting for my vet to throw ideas at me, these are other methods I often use to locate some new niche market for my eBay business and other online ventures:

* Visit forums related to your chosen marketplace, such as dogs, but also including child care, marital problems, expatriate living, debt, and millions more. Find forums by searching Google for “xxx + forum” where xxx represents your chosen market or subject. So for forums frequented by chess players you might search for “chess + forum”.

Google usually returns the biggest and most active forums first on their listings, so note down the address of the first ten or so. Visit them in Google order and study postings by members and definitely, I don’t say maybe, I said definitely, you will encounter problems shared by many members. Study these problems and then look for free or low cost information products to help solve those problems. Look on eBay, look on ClickBank, other places too but those are enough to start with. If you find few or no suitable information products then you should consider writing your own or cobble one together from PLR and public domain text. If along with no suitable information products, you find physical products aplenty, these are the kind of products to promote as an affiliate inside your low-cost, no-cost reports.

* Study niche market publications on newsagents’ shelves, such as baby magazines and investment newspapers. Study various same subject publications that normally sit side by side on the newsagents’ shelves making studying them very easy indeed. Look at the headlines, notice if two or more publications feature one problem or theme which might be construed as applying to the entire niche marketplace. This indicates a problem or theme that you can profit from. So if, for example, you see two or more collectibles magazines focussing on one specific collectible, this could be the perfect product for you to sell on eBay. If two or more publications aimed at guitar players feature a new and revolutionary kind of guitar accessory, then this could be another perfect product for you.

* Watch the telly, listen to the radio, keep your eyes and ears open for problems and trends you might capitalise upon. Think about obesity and the belief that soon the majority of children will be morbidly FAT (that word again), then look for products to help parents reverse the trend.

Think about pension funds going belly up in line with firms going out of business and leaving lifelong employees facing a miserable old age. Now go to eBay, go to ClickBank, is there anything suitable for them to read to help grow their pension pot without outside help? No! Then that’s a perfect infoproduct for you to create, one with mountains of affiliate opportunities to promote on the back end. You could write a short report about alternative investments, for instance, or running a small business on eBay, suggesting both as a means of growing retirement income free from banks and employers. Just be sure to pack the product with links to Amazon books about making money on eBay and growing an affiliate investment portfolio and …..

….. oh I could go on for hours dreaming up new products to sell which would leave me with no time at all to actually promote those products. So I’ll leave you now to do your own research and to find products no one else is providing, all it takes is a few minutes but the rewards can last a lifetime!

Use YouTube To Generate Heaps Of Traffic To Your eBay Listing

It’s no secret that eBay listings with embedded video will convert more sales than listings with no video. Yet it’s surprising that many people don’t think to do this.

It is actually very easy to embed video into your eBay listing. You don’t need your own website or hosting account. All you need is an account set up with YouTube.

Just go to YouTube and follow the directions to set up your own account if you don’t already have one, and upload the desired video from your computer. You want to make sure you provide a good title and keywords people will use to search for your video. You then have the option to embed the video. Just copy the “embed” code provided, then go to the description for your eBay listing, open the “HTML” tab and paste in the code. It is that simple.

Once you have your eBay auction listing complete, go to the listing and copy the URL from the address bar. Go back to the description for the video you uploaded to YouTube and paste the URL with a plug for visitors to purchase your product. For example: “Click here to purchase this product”.

By imbedding your YouTube video into your eBay listing and then linking the video on YouTube’s site back to your listing, you are doing two things to increase the chances of someone purchasing your items:

1. By adding video to your listings you are giving potential buyers more information about the product or products you are selling. These days buyers like to have a lot of information before they commit to a purchase, so the more information you can provide, the better it will work out for you.

2. By linking your YouTube video back to your eBay listing, you create the possibility of bringing more visitors to your listing. More visitors mean more sales. Just make sure to go back and remove the links when your auctions end.

As you can see, embedding YouTube videos in your auction listings is a very simple and effective way to increase sales. Just make sure you own the rights to the videos, and make sure your videos are high quality. Otherwise, some buyers may interpret the quality of your products to be similar to the quality of your videos and if your videos are poor or unprofessional, then potential buyers may be turned off.

So what types of videos should you use?

You could have someone create a video testimonial or review for your product. Video reviews are very powerful marketing tools and if done right they could significantly increase your sales conversions. If you don’t know someone who will do a video review, check to see if you can have it done cheap on fiverr.com.

You could also do a video demonstration of your product. Maybe emphasize how easy your product is to use or how much benefit your customers would receive if they purchased it.

If you are selling a video or video course you could put a small sample of the video so your potential customers can get an idea of what they are purchasing.

As you can see, it is really a win, win to embed your YouTube videos into your auction listings. It’s simple, it’s effective, and it’s good marketing practice. Just remember, if you want sales then make sure the videos are high quality.