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Selling on E Bay has become a popular home based business. It helps you to go into E-Commerce without having the trouble of setting up your own E-Commerce website. The following tips would help you to be successful in your E Bay business:

1. Use good quality pictures of your products. It has been said that ‘A picture is worth 1000 words’. All your E Bay listings should be accompanied by good quality pictures.  If possible, use a digital camera. You can provide multiple pictures of your products so that the prospective customer can see the products from different angles.
2. Before listing a product for sale, do some research about the product. Find out whether similar products are being sold on E Bay and at what price. Try to find out which products are in demand.
3. Find out the best and cheapest method of shipping for your product and mention that in your E Bay listing. Also mention the shipping cost involved. 
4. The description of your product is as important as the picture. Make sure to focus on the item’s benefits. Give complete details about the product. You can use important keywords in the description. 
5. Offer different payment options to your customers. You may offer credit cards, Paypal, Moneybookers, personal checks and any other methods which you may like. The more the options, the better it is. 
6. When you are selling on E Bay, positive feedbacks are very important. So try to get positive feedbacks from your customers. If you have a good reputation, the customers can trust you and would bid for your offers.
7. You can use the ‘About Me’ page of E Bay. It will improve your credibility with the buyers. Just give a small information about yourself, your business and the products that you offer to sell.
8. Mention your terms and conditions clearly. Mention your shipping time and cost, your refund policy and any other terms which you may think to be important. 
9. Try to list more items. Instead of listing your items one by one, try to list all the items at the same time. This will help you to get more sales.

Ebay I feel needs to be an integral part of making money online.  Now one of the most treasured secrets that I use on Ebay is dropshipping.  Dropshipping helps you when you don’t want to go out looking for products, and/or dont have the resources to purchase products.  My next article will help with dropshipping, and I have found one of the best resources for dropshippers here.  It does cost $14.95, but you get more dropshippers than I can deal with.  It is a list of over 2000 different dropshippers, and I am now going to share them with you.  This month so far has been my best on eBay.  I am currently at around $1300 in pure profit from dropship orders.  Anyways take a gander.

Happy Earning

Steve Bents

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Good day everyone, as many of you know I enjoy making money online by selling stuff on eBay.  Well a week ago one of my main distributors for iPods went down and I couldn’t recieve any new product and I had orders on the way.  AGGGGGH….well I started to look for a new distributor when one of my mentors pointed me to alibaba.com.

For a great price I could find anything my heart desired.  I have now hooked up with three new distributors and have also had my profits go up around 48%.  Not to bad for losing a distributor and then picking up a new one. 

Anyways here is the link feel free to peruse them and see if they can help you make money online.

Happy Earning

Steve Bents

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Good day everyone. Today I decided to talk about a few sales tips that I use.
1. Recognize your customer. Recognizing your customer is one of the largest over looked areas in sales. I say use their name and own your sale.
2. Recommend. Recommend your product don’t try to jam it down their throats. Also stay away from data dumping. Don’t just unload your information without knowing what your customer wants.
3. Listen. Listen to your customer needs. Don’t just assume you know what they want.

These steps can help you make money online and also in the real world.

Happy Earning

Steve Bents

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Good Day everybody.  As Promised I am going to share with you my income report for July.  It is decent, yet not the best.  This is not the blog that makes me the most money yet, it provides me with some, and gives me the opportunity to share my skills with other people.  I have always been told that when you make money online, you should always give back and try to share.  This is what I am doing, and hopefully I am helping you along in your quest to make money online.  Now I will be providing screenshots of my income from different networks yet I will explain that not all the money made there is from this one in particular blog.  I will put in my explanation of what was made from this blog and what wasn’t.  I will also be including my eBay profits on this blog since I talk about ebay as a money making source.  Again Thank You all for reading.

PepperJam Network : $886

With the PepperJamNetwork.com I was a member for approx. a whole month.  Now I made around $350 of the total here with this blog.  The rest was made on my different blogs.  It is hard to show that and I don’t do an income report on my other blogs so I am going to include it all here.

PepperJamNetwork Screenshot

EBay Sales : $686.45

Yes I didn’t make this by selling products on my blog, yet I did chat about this source of income on my blog and wanted to show it.  I will be including all my eBay expenses and income’s on this blog.

eBay Screenshot

Private Ad Sales : $0

I didn’t sell any private ads this month.  Hopefully it will get better.  I also concentrated on building traffic this month, where as in the last few months I really didn’t. 

Kontera Ads : $5.82

Sorry No screen shot.  With the traffic that is coming in I feel that this is decent.  I have only used them for about a month, and I have also only been working on incoming traffic for about a month.  Hopefully this will continue to rise.

PayPerPost : $25.75

I just started using payperpost.com and with only a PR of 0 there aren’t that many to do.  It is some more income though.  WooHoo.

Total Gross Profit is $1604.02

Now for my expenses.

Hosting : $9.95

Autoresponder: $19.95

eBay items and material: $212.32

Total Net Profit to help with my 9-5 income : $1361.80

Not too bad.  This extra income helps out my family in many different ways.  Please share your income you made last month, or any thoughts on mine. 

Happy Earning

Steve Bents

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