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Have you ever got an email which claims to come from eBay and your not quite sure if it’s a eBay scam or spoof with some one trying to get you to click on one of those links which sends all your personal details on your PC to the dodgy person who sent you it?
I feel pretty safe behind my wall of firewalls, early warning devices, anti hack software and so forth and I would have to be a total dip whit to send my information to these scam merchants. But even so it’s a worry isn’t it? Wouldn’t it be good to know how to stay safe from these people.
Lets start with the obvious ways of stopping things going wrong and then we can build from there…
As you start to build your eBay business you are at some time in the not too distant future going to need to find wholesalers who can provide you sufficient volumes of products to expand your business.
Surely it can’t be that hard to find wholesalers willing to provide you goods to sell can it? Well my fellow eBay entrepreneur I have some rather disappointing news for you. The vast majority of wholesalers would rather sell to their established off line customers rather than a newbie start up on eBay.
So where should you start when trying to find a reliable wholesale source?
A common problem for newbies to eBay when starting a business is knowing what they could sell.
I am often asked should I sell electronics or should I sell the ipods or questions of a similar nature.This is a question everyone asks when they first get started on ebay and it’s hardly suprising that many people don’t really have a clue how to even get started.
So what is the excited newbie supposed to do when it seems that every original idea has been taken.Well I find that a good starting point is your own interests and hobbies after all there is a saying if you are doing what you love you aren’t really working anyway … that seems a good place to start to me don’t you think?
If you have an idea for products in a specific niche market and are not sure how popular your choice might be you could use eBay to check out if the market has brought your type of products in the past. After all there is no point at all in selling stuff no one wants is there?
Dropshipping what is it anyway, now that’s a good question if you live in the US you might well of heard of it but much of the rest of the world hasn’t caught on to the idea yet.
This is a quick summary of Dropshipping for those who don’t know. What happens is instead of you ordering a huge pile of stock and then after you sell it you ship it direct to your customers with dropshipping the supplier send out your orders for you. Once you make the sale you send the dropshipper your customers details and they send out the goods. They even use your shipping labels so your customer won’t even know or care you aren’t supplying them.
I find that a lot of eBay sellers like the idea of dropshipping as it takes a lot of the tedious work out of selling on eBay which is one of a few pluses to using a dropshipping service. But the less experienced eBay sellers needs to be wary of the negatives also.
There are a number of reasons to choose an eBay business but in my view one of the best reasons I personally believe is you can be in business very easily and at minimal cost.This must be a good thing, especially as you don’t need the thousands and possibly hundreds of thousands of dollars for setting up many offline brick and mortar businesses.
One thing that attracts some people to running an online ebay business is the opportunity to expand the interest in their hobby to making money from something they are really passionate about.
I believe that eBay is as popular as it is because on the whole we all love buying things. But with our busy lives we don’t have the time we would like to give to our interests or hobbies. On the whole people can’t travel across the country persuing their hobbies which is why being able to fulfill these needs with your ebay business offerings is especially attractive to niche buyers.
Those new to eBay are sceptical that such a system can really work fairly. Few people understand with such a vast market that eBay is in fact a good indicator of supply and demand for most products. It carries with it almost a mystical honesty. It often shocks people when rare and valuable items sells for such huge sums where most people fear the products will sell too cheaply. It seems that market forces come into play and rarely is the market wrong.
Putting items for sale on eBay is a delicate balance of cautious optimism and thorough research done the right way will lead to a some what predictable outcome. By buying with a degree of thought the profit potential of most items can be established before the item is even put for sale. It is similar in nature to the real estate entrepreneur buying below market value of property.
Whilst the basic idea might be familiar if you do not grasp the mechanics of this idea I suggest spending a few bucks on a copy of Robert Allen’s Road to Wealth it will inspire you.
If you listen to Sydney Johnston in front of live eBay seminar audience she asks everyone first an really easy question. More often than not people get the answer wrong. It is all to do with how people percieve things and experienced internet business owners have learned to think outside the box.
Your level of achievement in an virtual business is going to hinge on your preceptions an how open and imaginative you are.
Sydney Johnston was in on the ground floor with sites like eBay but she has never viewed it like the general public tends to. The question she asks her live audience sounds like a no brainer: “What is eBay?” But, it’s a trick question.
Why is it we always associate making money on eBay and with business generally with hard work and subsequently something we shouldn’t enjoy? So many people believe it is not possible to do something you really enjoy and make money at the same time.
I have noticed the cynical attitude of people with regards to the thought of having a good time. People believe they should feel almost guilty if what they do to make money is enjoyable and they should stop doing it and get real job.
The interesting thing is that the people who are really earning good money on the Internet are having lots fun.
How would you like to earn $12,000 a year for an few hours work a week? This is the potential income from the sale of one successfully rehabilitated website a week.
But what’s a rehab website. It’s simple you just spot a website that has got poor marketing but everything else seems ok. In other words a decent product or a ton of traffic or even both if your really lucky. Or if that fails get one off eBay or elsewhere on the net.Remember the difference is in the marketing.
Can you imagine that you could actually create one of these sites every day. Just think thats more than $8500 a month for around 10 hours work. Do you think you’ll be able to manage that?
What makes the internet so unique it it offers a whole set of new opportunites that until now would have only been available to big business and all from the comfort of your office PC.
Now once you’ve learnt how to spot a fixer upper website you’ll want to do something with it that other people aren’t doing. The whole point is you need to use your imagination and not be afraid to stand out.
By taking ownership of that shabby run down website you are looking to convert it into that luxury apartment of a web property with a few strokes of your cyber paint brush and a little marketing magic.Then put it back on eBay and wait for the rush of eager buyers.
It seems everyone these days can create a product worthy of buying with millions of websites offering almost everything you could imagine wanting and much of which no want would ever want in a million years. It seems not knowing your market and how to attract them leaves you as a marketer in the driving seat.
You probably heard this way too many times as a child, but doing your ebay homework or ebay research if you like is one of the best tips that highly successful people like Internet marketer and businessman, Dale Calvert can offer.
Do your homework and research on eBay.Also spend a couple of hours at local auctions every weekend. These are his top tips for making the kind of money that could end up allowing you to give up your day job faster than you might imagine.
If you heed Dale Calverts advice you won’t try and compete by selling main stream stuff on eBay where sellers look to make miniscule profits in overly competative markets.