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Ebay - Sell on Ebay
Ebay: Sell on the Ebay auction site using Ebay Pulse, an Ebay tool that identifies top sellers on Ebay. THis article also discusses dropshipping as a way to sell on Ebay. This is a continuation article discussing home work opportunities. For Part I please click here |
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Okay, rather than diving in head first, let's test the market for the product
or service you have chosen. The easiest way to do this is to sell on the Ebay auction site.
Why?
Simply because the market for home work opportunities is overcrowded, and whilst you may have the very latest in home based business ideas, there are very few proven unique ways to earn money online.
Ebay helps you test
your market as millions of people use the site giving you a ready market
place rather than endlessly waiting for your website to crawl up the search
engines which can take up to six months. You're ready and eager to go now,
right? Well when you sell on Ebay can get you up and running in hours and you'll soon find
out whether people actually want what you have to offer before you invest
heavily in time and effort in a project that may end up not being worthwhile.
For a full guide on how to sell on Ebay please click
here.
Try selling through on the Ebay auction site for a while to test the market. Are you're goods selling? What feedback are you getting for your goods? Do you actually enjoy packing goods up, posting them etc? All questions that will inform your developing venture. Once you have achieved this you be in a clearer position as to how you want to proceed. Of course, at this stage, you might decide that you simply wish to continue to expand your activities and simply sell on Ebay and put the website idea to one side, but that would be missing out on some much more potential revenue. Put simply, when you post goods out to people following a sale on the Ebay auction site, why not drop in a note thanking the customer for their purchase and inviting them to visit your website where there are so many more exclusive bargains? One issue that you will face is where to purchase your stock for resale and what you should actually be selling/ Ebay Pulse is a good source of identifying the top sellers on Ebay and can be viewed at the Ebay auction site. Many wholesalers will want evidence that you are actually a trader and may request trade references and/or a VAT number. One, and possibly the easiest way to get around this problem is to start dropshipping. Dropshipping is very much an American creation. Essentially you sign up as a dropshipper by paying a fee (normally around £25), you then get access to the wholesaler's complete catalogue of goods. You advertise these for sale on Ebay or on your own site, then when a sale is made, you forward the order to the dropshipping company who despatch the goods on your behalf. The advantage of this system is that you do not hold any stock and you get the opportunity to identify goods that sell well and those that don't. Additionally there is less work involved. Let's take an example. Your dropshipper is selling good X at a dropshipping price of £5.00 + £2.00 shipping. You sell the goods for £9.00 + £2.00 Shipping. When sold, you simply advise the dropshipper and pay them £7.00 (the cost of the item + postage) and keep the remaining £4.00 for yourself. You don't make as much profit this way, but then again, you don't carry the risk of buying bulk goods that you cannot shift. Once you have identified top sellers on Ebay, you can then normally purchase at full trade rates and keep more profits for yourself. The downside to dropshipping is that the article you are selling may suddenly become out of stock and you have made a sale that you cannot fulfil and have to refund the monies paid. Never a comfortable idea for a business person. There are many good dropshippers around the world and in the UK, simply undertake a search for dropshippers to identify those in the market you are trying to corner. To continue this article, please click here. |
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