Earning money through eBay is probably one of the easiest ways to make money on the Internet. All you have to do in basic terms is find something to sell, list it on eBay, and wait for a buyer. If the item is at least of general interest to most people and in reasonable condition and not too highly priced, you will most likely sell it.
eBay is an auction site. It is by far the world's largest and most popular auction site. While selling items directly through auction is probably the most common way to earn money though eBay, it is not the only way.
eBay has an excellent affiliate program. They allow affiliates to embed feeds into their own web pages, which will display auction items. If a visitor purchases through the feed, the affiliate will get a percentage of the sale.
This feature can be further enhanced as the feed items can be grouped by searching using a specific keyword phrase to pull in only those items relating to the keyword. This means that affiliates can display highly niche-specific items on their pages.
This in turn means that the visitors to the site can be highly targeted and therefore more likely to be very responsive. It is usually best to target specific items. Trying to be everything to everyone doesn't really work. Targeting items in a tight niche and driving targeted traffic to the site will always work much better and will always be much more profitable for the affiliate.
The eBay affiliate program also lets you sign up newcomers to the auction site. Most people assume that the majority of Internet users have an account with eBay to either sell or buy items there, but this isn't so.
There are thousands of new people coming on to the Internet every day who have never heard of eBay. If some of them find your website and see the items for sale in your embedded feed and decide to buy something, but they don't already have an account, they will most likely join eBay though your link and you will earn a nice and very easy commission.
If you don't have any items lying around at home that you feel could be sold through eBay, or if you have already exhausted your ready supply of items to sell, there is a simple option: drop shipping.
Drop shipping is where a company will send out a product to any address of your choice on your behalf. You pay the company directly and recoup your expense, plus a profit, from your customer.
To put it more simply, you can sign up with a drop shipping company, and then auction their products on eBay. When someone buys through you, all you have to do is pay the drop shipping company and inform them of where to send the product.
If you offer a product for $30 and the drop shipping company will sell it to you for $20, you will make a profit of $10 on every sale. The big advantage of this system for you is that you don't have to carry any stock. You don't have to fulfil orders either, and you still have the entire range of the company's products to offer on eBay.
eBay is an auction site. It is by far the world's largest and most popular auction site. While selling items directly through auction is probably the most common way to earn money though eBay, it is not the only way.
eBay has an excellent affiliate program. They allow affiliates to embed feeds into their own web pages, which will display auction items. If a visitor purchases through the feed, the affiliate will get a percentage of the sale.
This feature can be further enhanced as the feed items can be grouped by searching using a specific keyword phrase to pull in only those items relating to the keyword. This means that affiliates can display highly niche-specific items on their pages.
This in turn means that the visitors to the site can be highly targeted and therefore more likely to be very responsive. It is usually best to target specific items. Trying to be everything to everyone doesn't really work. Targeting items in a tight niche and driving targeted traffic to the site will always work much better and will always be much more profitable for the affiliate.
The eBay affiliate program also lets you sign up newcomers to the auction site. Most people assume that the majority of Internet users have an account with eBay to either sell or buy items there, but this isn't so.
There are thousands of new people coming on to the Internet every day who have never heard of eBay. If some of them find your website and see the items for sale in your embedded feed and decide to buy something, but they don't already have an account, they will most likely join eBay though your link and you will earn a nice and very easy commission.
If you don't have any items lying around at home that you feel could be sold through eBay, or if you have already exhausted your ready supply of items to sell, there is a simple option: drop shipping.
Drop shipping is where a company will send out a product to any address of your choice on your behalf. You pay the company directly and recoup your expense, plus a profit, from your customer.
To put it more simply, you can sign up with a drop shipping company, and then auction their products on eBay. When someone buys through you, all you have to do is pay the drop shipping company and inform them of where to send the product.
If you offer a product for $30 and the drop shipping company will sell it to you for $20, you will make a profit of $10 on every sale. The big advantage of this system for you is that you don't have to carry any stock. You don't have to fulfil orders either, and you still have the entire range of the company's products to offer on eBay.
