| If you've purchased or sold anything on eBay, you | | | | just $3. |
| know that it's a great place for selling almost anything. | | | | Therefore, in order to sell a service on eBay, your first |
| Everything from cars, boats and leather coats are sold | | | | job is to pass the credibility test. Let's take a look at a |
| on eBay. However, you may not be aware that selling | | | | more typical example. There is a service advertised |
| services through eBay is also possible and can in fact | | | | on eBay right now offering advice on how to get |
| be incredibly lucrative as well. So, today we're going to | | | | approved for a college application. This is not |
| talk about how to sell a service on eBay. | | | | something which sounds outrageous. It's a service |
| Before we discuss the question of how to sell a | | | | offered by a great many companies all over the world |
| service on eBay, let's define the term "service" as | | | | and one which people pay handsomely for. However, |
| opposed to anything else sold through the eBay | | | | even here, your customers need to have some form |
| system. Most items sold through eBay, whether they | | | | of reassurance. Anyone could put up an ad on eBay |
| are household goods, such as books or bubble bath, or | | | | offering advice on how to get into college, but if they |
| they are larger items, such as motorcycles and cars | | | | have no track record, their advice is not exactly worth |
| are tangible. That is, you can hold them in your hand | | | | anything (my advice by the way: study hard and get |
| and inspect them. A service by comparison is | | | | good grades). |
| intangible. If for example, I offer to tell you how to | | | | So if you want to sell a service on eBay, how do you |
| make a million dollars and all you have to do is pay me | | | | prove that you have something to offer your |
| $5 in order for me to tell you, then I am offering you a | | | | customers which have genuine value, Credentials and |
| service, since you can't touch or feel the thing you are | | | | testimonials. If you are a college advisor for example, |
| buying (by the way, I'll tell you for free: get your boss | | | | you might list which schools your clients have gotten |
| to pay you $250,000 per year and after four years, | | | | into. You might also offer links to reputable college |
| you'll make a million dollars). | | | | advising companies you've worked for in the past, or if |
| The reason I bring up the silly example of making a | | | | your business is already successful in this field, simply |
| million dollars is because there is (with good reason) a | | | | explain that you've expanded to eBay and allow |
| healthy skepticism of services sold on eBay. For | | | | people to see your regular web site. You can also |
| example, a recent search of eBay for services shows | | | | offer testimonials from clients. The ideal is to request |
| someone selling a work at home opportunity for just | | | | your client's permission to publish a scan of their actual |
| $3 where they claim you can make $65,000 a year | | | | letter with their name and address blacked out. Seeing |
| working part time. I'm not going to pass judgment on | | | | words that you say your clients wrote is not the same |
| this particular opportunity; however it does seem fairly | | | | as seeing it from the client's own hand. The actual |
| implausible that you can really work part time from | | | | letters will make a much more powerful statement and |
| home and earn that much money, especially with a | | | | get your new customers to trust you and the service |
| system that "anyone can do" and which will cost you | | | | you wish to sell on eBay. |