| The hardest decision for prospective eBay sellers to | | | | There is no rule that your eBay store has to have a |
| decide on is what products to sell on eBay. You have | | | | certain niche. It's not like you'll get kicked out of eBay if |
| these infinite choices and niches to pick from. Needless | | | | your store sells iPhones and board games. |
| to say, it can be extremely intimidating. After all, your | | | | Certain niches are cyclical. Depending on the season, |
| whole business starts whenever you decide on what | | | | some products will take off, while others plummet. if |
| product to sell. Make the wrong decision, and you'll be | | | | you have a nice diversity of products to sell on eBay, |
| paying for it later. | | | | you'll reduce the problem of buying cycles. You never |
| Ok, maybe that was a little over the top. Deciding on | | | | have to keep up with the "hot" item. |
| what to sell shouldn't be that scary of a decision. Just | | | | If your heart is set on having an eBay store that has |
| remember that markets and items fizzle in the | | | | just one niche, like electronics, bed & bath |
| marketplace. What's hot one day will be yesterday's | | | | products, etc.. you still want to test out the markets. Dip |
| news the next day. There is nothing worse than | | | | into different niches and test drive the products. See |
| having a stock full of products whose market value is | | | | how much activity, bids, traffic, each niche gets. Do the |
| half of what you paid for. So, my recommendation is | | | | math and figure out what gives you the highest profit |
| that of a stock investor. Diversify, diversify, diversify. | | | | margin, and then BAM! you've got yourself a niche. |