Best Selling Author and veteran eBay expert and store owner Michelle Angell reveals nine easy ways for anyone to start making money on eBay immediately. If you don't have an eBay account yet, she takes you through the process, step-by-step.
Here's a sample of how anyone can make money quickly from this book:
• How to get started on eBay step-by-step
• Examples of killer titles and descriptions that make people buy
• Your own photo studio for $5 and how to take pictures that sell
• Learn the best ways to pack and the cheapest ways to ship
• One auction near you where you may be the ONLY bidder!
• Selling an item before you commit to buy it? Here’s how to do it.
• How to start converting clutter to cash
• 5 Items you probably own and don't use that can be sold today on eBay
• Thrift Shop Secrets and how you can profit by learning them
• How to use your smart phone to make more money faster
• 110 top brands found in thrift shops that sell well on eBay
• How to use little known features in Craigslist to find inventory
• Numerous real world examples of my actual flips and how I found them and where
• How to buy bulk lots from your friends and neighbors for a win-win
• The best trade shows for profiting on eBay and where to find them
• Best days and times to shop expos for the best deals
• Tricks for buying at craft fairs and farmers markets
• Crushing department store sales by beating them at their own game
• The one key department store person you need to know for big profits
• Couponing on steroids for obscene profits
• The first place to go when you walk into an outlet store
• The best products to buy at your dollar store for quick flips
• How using arbitrage can bring in cash quickly and easily
• Little known searches for finding top items for a flip on eBay that no one else may find
• Lesser known auctions that are great sources for good to re-sell on eBay
• What auctions should be avoided and why
• How to work on other people's money and grow your eBay business fast
• Much, much, more inside
Excerpt:
This book is written for people like me, when I started selling on eBay. My family needed money. My husband works full time and pulls a lot of overtime. He had no time to create a secondary income. We have four children, so my days are full too, just like yours.
eBay was, and remains today, the best option for a person like me with no formal business education, no previous understanding of how to start business, and with less than $100 to invest in a new venture. Fourteen years later, I've sold thousands of items, have a thriving eBay store, and a steady monthly income to supplement my husband's when needed, and to put away for my children's education.
This book is about learning some basic skills to help pay the bills. The chapters are each dedicated to a particular method and model to acquire saleable goods and convert them to cash quickly and easily. They all work. I have used every one of them.
From the time you have merchandise in hand, sales are possible within two or three days. The first day is spent cleaning, photographing, writing descriptions and listing your auction. If it's priced well, scoring a Buy It Now within even hours of the listing isn't uncommon.
Not long ago, sellers, small and large alike, had few choices of online venues on which to sell used merchandise, other than eBay. Today the competition is fierce, with Amazon leading the pack with 80,000,000 people visiting that site each month. Amazon has taken some traffic from eBay, but still have about 41,000,000 people (buyers) on the site every month. Etsy, a newcomer online seller of craft, homemade, and 20-year-old+ items, is ramping up views with 10,000,000 people checking in monthly. Tiny Poshmark.com, a hyper-local seller of what's in your closet, is getting some attention too.
Each venue has its advantages and drawbacks. Amazon is a great place to sell items already listed on their site. If your item isn't already listed, you can't sell yours there. Their customer protection can be superior to eBay, and if one compares venue to venue for net proceeds of the same item, Amazon often yields the seller slightly more.
Yet, all these eBay alternative forums are more restrictive on items that can be sold. For the beginning online seller and reseller, eBay offers the most flexibility in acceptable products, and the method by which they are sold. Fixed price, auction, make an offer; those choices are yours.
Try one of two that appeal to you first. With just a few weeks experience, my guess is that you will be using all nine. You will see opportunities for selling you do not see today. Your mind will be focused on wholesale cost and retail value. You will look differently at every saleable item you see, from now on.
Bonus Package
Book readers also get a great Bonus Package with a case study from a coaching student on how he discovered an obscene way to profit on eBay, and 7 Lessons he learned in the process. A sample Consignment Selling Agreement is also part of the bonus package.
Reader Linda Calahan Doose from Elk Grove, CA says, "Michelle taught me to sell on EBAY years ago. I was completely intimidated by it, and didn't think it was worth the hassle. Thanks to her tutelage, my listings are a success! This book has years of experience and success backing it. Thank you Michelle!! I am so glad you decided to write a book about it so others can see that it's not as scary as it looks!"
Reader Dennis C. Nolan says, "This book definately delivers the ways to make money on ebay with good, easy to follow directions. I have been selling on ebay since their startup and this book could have put me years ahead of my school of hard knocks." Click here for more information.
