Make Money On Online Auction Site


by Juhani Tontti - Date: 2007-01-08 - Word Count: 629 Share This!

As an example, look these figures of the leading company: 2 billion items listed, $ 50 billion annual sales from 170 million shoppers. Over 2 million daily visitors, who spend in average two hours navigating around the pages and listings. Amazing!

Every single second this site sells with $ 1.000, times 60, times 60, times 24, makes $ 86,4 million per day. Over 70 % of online auction site users earn more than $ 50.000 per year, they have what you need. This makes you even more excited: 95 % of users are individuals or small business owners.

The figures show that the people and the money are there, the traffic is huge
The online auction site is a marketplace and a newbie can start to sell right away, in less than an hour and he can get immediate access to millions of buyers, who are actively looking for items.

You may be already excited and think what items are you going to sell on auction site? This a real beauty of this business. There is a market for practically everything in the world.

How To Start On Online Auction Site?
1. . Decide What You Want To Sell.
A good start is to start slowly. Sell something from your home, an item which you know and can describe well enough and which you do not need any more. Just one item. This will give you a picture about the selling process.

Later you can expand your market and start to sell items from the garages of your neighbourhood. What a blessing to your society.

2. Learn from the Learning Center Of The Sites and Utilize The Advertising Material.

Some of these marketplaces have a really professional and easy to follow learning sections, with a lot of articles and other useful material about the business. You can get tips about the products, which are hot sellers right now, how to price them and how to promote your offer.

The key question is to find the products to sell. To be honest, it happens very seldom that a home business owner can find a hot product, a real novelty, which sells like a hurricane.

Much better strategy is to find a group of products, which sell over a long period of time, slowly but steadily. This can be slower way to riches, but at least you can control your business much better and keep it in your own hands.

After you have made a test selling with some item from your home, it is time to buy products for sale. Now it is extremely important to know, whether that kind of a product has market, what is the estimated customer profile and how to price the product.

But the most important issue in the long run is, that you know the product and are really interested about it. You need a deep knowledge about your product. It can be from your hobby or profession. It does not matter, the important issue is that you know and like your product.

Get it? Sell what you like and know. That way you can get your own style and be ahead of the competition. Nobody can copy your feelings, your personal touch. If some of your competitors will sell the same product, it will be your personal touch, which will differentiate you from the others and build a brand for your business.

This all means, that you must be able to build up reliability and trust among your target group. They have to trust you as a person and a business owner. And when you are an expert on your field of online auction site marketing, you can easily transfer that expertise into new products, because you are the category expert, not a product specialist. That is very important in selling on online auction site.


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The writer is a full time internet marketer. You can download 3 free ebooks about home based business opportunity here

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