Selling on eBay is a great opportunity for any home based business, but making any kind of steady income on eBay is quite difficult. Out of the millions of people selling products on eBay, less than half of them actually make a living selling solely on eBay.
What separates this group from the recreational eBay sellers? The difference is that this small percentage of eBay sellers have developed
profitable selling strategies to harness the power of eBay.
- Do your Product Sourcing in the Right Order
The biggest question that new online sellers have is, "What should I sell?" Don't begin
your research for products to sell by looking for products first and then look for
suppliers. You could waste a lot of time concentrating on a product line that you don't have
a supplier for and time equals money!
- Put your Research Results into Practice
Many new eBay sellers agonize over taking action for endless weeks, months and years.
If you have done your research properly by finding a supplier and a promising niche, then
take that next step and start selling.
- Start Small and THEN Grow
Don't be eager to sink your savings into a liquidation lot or a container load of imported
products. Because you don't know the first thing about what you are getting, and you will
begin to lose your money and give up on selling online all together. Minimize your risk by
starting small. Try drop shipping to test a product without investing funds into inventory. If
the product proves successful, you can then move up to buying light bulk quantities for a
better price-per-piece. Then if it is still a strong market for you, then you can get even
greater volumes of the products to further increase your profit margins.
- Take Advantage of eBay Stores
If you sell on eBay, you need to capitalize on the benefits an eBay store offers. They are
a lot like regular stores on the internet, because you have a static place to advertise on the
search engines to send customers to. Whereas selling by auctions, you have a time limit
the products can be offered so it isn't worth the time to advertise in the search engines. An
eBay store, you can list the products for sale all the time and gain the ability to send
newsletters telling buyers what promotions you're running and what new products you are
carrying.
Putting these things into practice can help you increase your selling success on eBay.
Successful sellers aren't the ones who get everything right - they're the ones that refuse to quit. Choose to learn from your feedback, your customers and your experiences, good and bad, and just keep going. If you refuse to quit, you will eventually succeed.
Finding Wholesale Products to sell
on eBay
The ONLY way to get true wholesale prices is to get the product directly from a Certified Product Wholesaler. That is why we have spent years visiting tradeshows, visiting
wholesalers and finding genuine wholesale suppliers who will work with new online sellers. It's not easy, but after over a decade we have collected the internet's largest, most
comprehensive
Directory of Certified Wholesalers you can find anywhere...and we add new WBI Certified™ Wholesalers daily!
If you want to try to find Certified Wholesalers on your own, be sure to visit our
Scam Watch page for tips on how to identify the current online wholesale product scams.
Take a quick look at how we locate
genuine certified wholesalers for online sellers who work from home.
Wholesale Tips Videos: These Free videos, hosted by our CEO Chris Malta, covers the top wholesale
questions asked by new online sellers interested in working with wholesale distributors. Simply
click the link if you would like to watch them now on our site.
What You Need to Know When Selling on eBay: (Site Article, Opens below)
eBay Selling has become the home based business of choice for millions of people. Selling on eBay successfully, you need real wholesale suppliers of products to sell.
eBay Selling, when successful, is a combination of legitimate, reliable wholesale sources for products to sell, and proper Market Research. As an eBay Developer, we have spent years creating the tools you need to successfully research and sell products on eBay.
eBay Selling is also about knowledge and education, which is why eBay invited our company to speak several times at the eBay Live National Convention, teaching standing-room-only crowds at eBay Live on how to find real sources for products to sell. Our CEO, Chris Malta, was asked to write a book for McGraw Hill Publishing about finding products to sell on eBay, called "What to Sell on eBay and How to Get It" which can currently be found in bookstores and on Amazon.com.
If you sell on eBay and are looking for products to sell, you're in the right place! Simply use our advanced search tools to find the products for selling on ebay, then use our instant contact form to sign up to drop ship from each particular dropship company. You can test out our Directory of WBI Certified Wholesalers
HERE to see the types of products and brands that are currently available to online retailers from the genuine wholesale suppliers we list.
