#4 – TAKE Advantage of eBay
There are plenty of people who make a good living on eBay… and you can too!
Just think about it for a moment –
eBay is one of the largest marketplaces in the world.
When you tap into the power of eBay, you don’t have to spend a moment thinking about where your target market congregates and how to reach them.
That’s because your target market comes looking for you on eBay, rather than you having to look for them!
And anyone who’s browsing eBay is likely planning on buying something, which means almost everyone who looks at your ad will be a person who already has their credit card out.
You’d be hard pressed to find “hotter” leads than the people browsing eBay!
So, how can you take advantage of this incredibly large pool of buyers? There are plenty of ways to do it. But in general, you’ll likely use one of two models:
a. Use eBay strictly as a lead generator.
If you browse the closed auctions, you’ll see certain sellers who consistently seem to be profiting very little on every product they sell. And indeed, they may even take a loss.
Why would someone choose to lose money on eBay?
Simple: Because they’re using eBay as a lead generator. That means they’re selling low-cost products to pull people into their sales funnel.
Once the buyers are in their sales funnel, then the marketer works to sell them more products and more expensive products via email or even postal mail (e.g., direct response postcards, letters or even catalogues).
b. Use eBay to directly pull in a handsome profit.
This model is really a combination of direct profits and backend selling. Here, the marketer not only offers low-cost products to pull people into his sales funnel, but he also offers high-ticket products directly to eBay buyers.
So while he may break even on his low-ticket products, his high-ticket products are paying his mortgage.
The model you choose depends on what you’re selling. In certain markets, you’ll find it difficult to sell high-ticket products directly on eBay, because people tend to look for bargains.
But if you’re selling something like antiques, you may find you get higher prices by putting them on the auction block rather than by offering them for a fixed price to your customer list.
Which brings up the next question: What should you sell?
In order to succeed on eBay, your best bet is to choose a hungry niche and focus almost entirely on that one niche.
In other words, specialize.
Once you find the hungry niche, find out what they’re buying… and start giving it to them.
This could be antiques, clothing, information products, collectibles, artwork, exercise equipment or anything else.
You can create your own products, sell products that you have the resell rights to, use a drop shipper to sell products, and so on.
Quick Tip: If you’re selling downloadable products like ebooks, eBay now requires you to mail the product, which means you’ll either need to make a print product, or you need to put the product on a flash drive, CD, DVD or other device.
#5 – TARGET Other Marketers
So far, we’ve talked about different ways to make $10,000 per month which mainly (although not exclusively) focused on selling directly to consumers.
But another way to make a lot of money fairly quickly is by focusing on other marketers.
That’s because people will pay handsomely if you can give them what they need to make even more money.
And one way to do that is by flipping websites (i.e., selling or reselling websites).
There are two ways you can build a business flipping websites. You may focus on either way exclusively, or you may combine them to grow your business.
Here are the two models:
a. You build niche websites and sell them directly to consumers.
Within this overall model, there are a few different ways you can build these sites:
• You can create exclusive websites and sell one site to one customer for a higher price.
• You can create a template site, load it with private label content, and sell it to multiple customers (provided these customers know it’s not an exclusive, unique site).
Some marketers who sell exclusive sites simply create the site, load it with content and sell it directly to other marketers based on the traffic and profit potential.
If you have a system for building sites very quickly, this can be lucrative.
Other marketers choose to spend a few months building the content, traffic and income – and then selling the site at a much higher price.
Since the site is pulling in traffic and a profit (even if it’s a small profit), it commands a higher price because there’s proof that it’s profitable. People are now buying into proven profits rather than profit potential.
b. You buy poor-performing niche websites, tweak them, and resell them for a higher price.
The second way to make money flipping websites is by scooping up cheap, under-performing websites, tweaking them, and reselling them for a tidy profit.
Here’s how:
• Search places like eBay, SitePoint.com, DNForum.com and similar marketplaces for low-priced, low-profit websites where you can clearly see how to boost profits. You can usually pick them up for a few hundred dollars.
• Tweak the sites. Improve the sales process, monetize the site better and start driving traffic.
• Once you have better conversion numbers and the site is making a proven profit, resell it for around 6-12 month’s worth of profits. For example, a site making just $100 per month could sell for $600 to $1200 (or even more, if you find the right buyer).
• Reinvest some of your profits into buying more sites. Rinse and repeat until you’re making at least $10,000 a month!
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