| What are the best things to sell on eBay-that's the | | | | worth it. One strategy that works is to just look in the |
| question of the hour. Many people dream of making a | | | | yellow pages under the specific product you want, and |
| full time income from home on this popular site, and it's | | | | most times there will be a wholesalers section for that |
| definitely very possible. | | | | item. |
| In my opinion, this is one of the quickest methods to | | | | Then just give them a call and ask for a product |
| start generating income from home, and you can | | | | catalog; make sure you are professional, and get a |
| realistically start earning a six figure income in your first | | | | business name and address. They aren't going to give |
| year if you know what to do. | | | | a catalog to somebody with no business name |
| Of course, if you market the wrong products you can | | | | working out of their home office, trust me. |
| easily lose thousands of dollars in a big hurry. The | | | | Market research is CRITICAL |
| most important determinant to your success will be | | | | This is a good technique and you can generate a |
| finding the right things to sell on eBay. | | | | massive list of potential things to sell on eBay. Once |
| How do you find the best products? | | | | you have catalogs, it's time to do keyword search on |
| The best way is to first get a whole bunch of catalogs | | | | the products in them and see what the search volume |
| from wholesalers with their products listed. This is | | | | is like. If it's sufficient, then it might be a niche worth |
| important because when you have a catalog, the | | | | looking into. |
| merchant has basically agreed to allow you to market | | | | This is the most important step, and for this, you can |
| their products for them. | | | | use any number of KR tools; two I have used |
| There's no point in wasting time doing market research | | | | extensively and would recommend are Wordtracker |
| on a product you aren't even sure you will be able to | | | | and the Google keyword tool. |
| get your hands on in the first place. Where do you find | | | | Once you see which items get a sufficient search |
| these wholesalers? | | | | volume, now go ahead and check the recently closed |
| There are some great sites online that have lists of | | | | auctions of those products (a good tool for this is |
| wholesalers, but one thing I'd recommend is that you | | | | Terapeak). Notice what percentage of the auctions |
| stay away from just typing in wholesalers into Google | | | | sold in the niche, and obviously the higher the better as |
| which many people do. | | | | this indicates it's a buyers market. |
| You usually won't find many legit wholesalers ranked in | | | | Also look at the quantity of auctions sold; it does little |
| Google because this will give them a lot of unqualified | | | | good marketing a product that had a 75% success |
| traffic. Think about it from their perspective: they want | | | | rate if only 5 products sold. |
| people retailing their products that are going to be | | | | Copy successful sellers |
| making them a lot of sales and spending a lot of | | | | Assuming these numbers are good, now look at the |
| money with them. | | | | top sellers and take note of the way they format their |
| For this reason, it's in their best interest to find legit | | | | auctions. In particular, pay attention to their price |
| businesses. Therefore, they aren't going to give their | | | | strategy (buy it now, fixed price, no reserve, etc) the |
| product catalogs to just anyone. | | | | keywords they used in their title tags, subtitles (if there |
| If they were to get ranked in Google for a term like | | | | is one), the number of pictures in their auction, and of |
| wholesalers, they would have loads of people calling | | | | course their auction description. |
| them up who are just part time home business | | | | Use this as a guideline for writing your auction, but don't |
| owners or wanna be sellers, who aren't going to make | | | | copy them verbatim. This is the best method for |
| a lot of sales and thus buying a lot of their products. | | | | finding things to sell on eBay, because you see what's |
| This is why you often have to look long and hard for | | | | already working and then model that. |
| real wholesalers, but when you find them, it will be | | | | |