How to make money on ebay in new and interesting ways.
eBay for Fun and Profit
by Stuart Reid
eBay is an often overlooked tool for the online marketer. It's a great source of bargain products, traffic and advertising resources as well as a complete market in itself.
eBay itself is the Worlds Biggest Marketplace. It's in the top 10 Internet Sites (rated by Alexa) and gets millions of visitors. It represents the largest collection of *paying* internet users anywhere. Please take a moment to reflect on this - a massive of community of Internet Users with money to spare!
If you catch the right auctions at the right time you can get all the products and services you need at fractions of their true values! Everything from traffic to resell rights to the latest ebooks and software.
If you're selling anything you can quickly get sales here as well as increase brand awareness. You can promote and sell on eBay!
eBay is still a thriving market for selling Domain Names, something a lot of people have written off. If you keep an eye on expired domain name registries you may be lucky enough to grab a good name and then sell it on at a handsome profit. Look out for short names that are English words, preferably without hyphens or numerals. It should cost you no more than $9.95 to register a domain so anything on top is a profit.
Or you could use the name and build a site on it, then sell that. You can buy complete site templates with the design and code for such diverse uses as Auction Sites, Casino Sites, Traffic Sites, Hit Exchanges etc. It's a simple matter to build a site, and with hosting now available for as little as $5 a month you can easily have a complete website to sell for less than $20 outlay! These sites (especially with a strong domain name) can easily sell for over $400 each. It should only take a couple of hours of work.
I mentioned hosting at $5 a month. You can even get bargain Reseller Hosting deals, such as $15 a month with unlimited bandwidth and space, and room for 15-25 URL's! That was seen at a recent auction. Imagine you charged 25 clients $10 a month ( still a great deal)... $2500 a month - $15 = $2485 a month profit! And that's with one basic reseller account. Nothing is stopping you buying more.
eBay is also a great source for traffic at almost wholesale prices. Much of it is from popunders or start page exchanges but if you are going to resell or just drive your hit counters up (to make your site more valuable, for example) then it doesn't matter. A hit is a hit.
Finally you can also use eBay to buy products for resale. These are often on sale for less than $10, and with a retail price of something in the region of $30-$40 or more you can triple your money with one sale.
eBay is much more than somewhere to sell your unwanted goods. It's a land of opportunity for the online marketer!
It's extremely easy to get started in making money from Online Auctions, of which eBay is by far the most important. To really get your profits sky-high you'll need to tap into the years of accumulated knowledge provided by some of eBays Powersellers. If you read the right books and reports you can quickly become a powerseller yourself! A few choice tips and tricks will get those bids in faster than you can put products up for sale!
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(c)2003 Stuart Reid
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About the Author
Stuart Reid is publisher of Netpreneur News and webmaster of various sites including NetpreneurNow.com, all specialising in Internet Marketing. He writes with a strict "No Bull" policy - and aims to provide the Truth at all times!