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So you think you need a Speaker for your event
I go to a lot of business conferences and events. I get to go as both an attendee and as a speaker. The more I go to business events, the more it seems there are really only three things that make an event successful: the food, the accommodations and the speaker. I know more than a few people who work as an event planner or a meeting coordinator. They would tell you that a lot more goes into a successful meeting. I know they are right, because the number of details that must be considered and the number of moving parts that need to all be moving in the right direction at the right time is mind boggling. However when the conference attendees have been back at home and back at work for a week or two, the only things that stand out for them are the food, the accommodations and the speaker. There are a lot of jokes and a lot of grumbling about conference chicken and yet another Caesar Salad. In my experience it is better to not have any food than to have bad food at an event. I have been to several events that took this tact and I thought they were smart. It is better to have no recollection of the food at a conference than to have a recollection of bad food. I prefer to have a “lunch on your own” than to be served something I don’t care for. Enough about food already! I am getting myself hungry. Getting the accommodations right seems to be pretty easy to accomplish. I say this because I have been to a lot of meetings and very, very few were in places that were not suited for the meeting. Very few have been uncomfortable. I’d say the hospitality business and the meeting planning professionals have done a great job getting us to the point where the facility and the accommodations fall into the column of “low stress” items on the planning list. That leaves us with the speaker. I have seen and heard a lot of good speakers and a lot of speakers I would not put in that category. Some of the good ones have been people who do not speak on a regular basis, but either had engaging information or had a way of relating to the audience that kept our attention. Some of the less than good ones were people who are well known in their fields and had lots of zeros on the checks they received for their talks. Here are a few of the well known speakers in no particular order that I thought were particularly engaging, informative and entertaining: John Cleese, Paco Underhill, Colin Powell, James Carville, Vince Lombardi, Jr., Roxanne Emmerich. I have also seen plenty of speakers who read their power point slide bullet points or read a prepared statement or simply gave out information. You can imagine I am not the only person who finds an experience like this frustrating. Everyone needs to be a public speaker at some time. Whether you are talking to your kids’ teachers, discussing a project with a contractor you want to hire for work around the house, debating policy at work or trying to get satisfaction from the customer service department at any company you do business with, you are a speaker. You need to engage the people you are speaking with so they pay attention to you and process what you are saying. You need to develop some relationship with your audience, so they care about you and what you have to say. You need to pass on good information that will help your audience do better in life. And you need to be entertaining. I do not mean you have to do card tricks or dance while you spin a porcelain plate on your nose. But you do have to create some drama and touch some nerves, You have to make them laugh a little, make them cry a little, scare them a little and give them some hope. You become engaging when you take command of the venue with your physical presence and show that you have an understanding of the needs and feelings of your audience in the first minute or two. This only works when you are comfortable with the butterflies you get before getting in front of a group and when you learn to have fun with the interaction between you and the audience. You are seen as informative when you bring subject matter your audience members can care about and frame it in a way that is relevant to their situations. Although the great speaker knows it is not the information, but the lesson that is important. How does the speaker teach the lesson? If the lesson is taught with illustrations, stories, analogies, active demonstrations and participation from the gallery, the audience is entertained and is thinking. When they think, they are processing the lesson so they can make some use of it later. A good example comes from John Cleese. I loved him when he was in the Monty Python company. He can still get a crowd’s attention with his facial gestures and his posturing. This gives him an instant edge. When I saw him speak, (You notice that people typically say they saw a speaker not that they heard a speaker) he was talking about how people who are so busy working on projects and trying to move fast that they often come up with plans and actions that are not thoroughly considered. He calls this Hare Brain Thinking. This is a great name, because we all have come up with a Hare Brained scheme or two. We right away make a connection to his point and can see ourselves rushing around making a mess of things. Then he talked about how slow and often unfocused contemplation can lead to great insight and well conceived notions. He calls this the Turtle Mind. Again this is a great analogy because we all remember the story of the Tortoise and the Hare and all its implications. I took a walk along the walking path that follows the creek near my office this morning and saw a big snapping turtle wallowing around in a quiet spot of the water flow. The turtle is a great poster child for thinking things through, for letting inspiration find you while sitting on a rock and for hunkering down to let insignificant activity pass you by. And so it is that I have kept the lessons and the effect of the Hare Brain vs. the Turtle Mind presentation in the sponge of experience I carry with me every day. I try not to take my Hare Brain ideas too seriously without presenting them to my Turtle Mind for deliberation and review. I try not to take my Turtle Mind inspirations too seriously without first seeing if the Hare Brain thinkers could put them into action. Another good example of a speaker who could give an audience a lasting effect is Colin Powell. I had a great deal of respect for him as a soldier and as a person. I knew many people from the Bronx as a young man and was thrilled that a kid from the Bronx was one of our military’s leaders. Apparently from the things we heard and saw of him as a military leader, he was very good at all the various skills and talents one needs to play such an important role in such a dangerous business. I saw him speak (again I say saw and not heard) during his brief hiatus from government service when he was promoting his child education and development projects. He carried himself with confidence and spoke eloquently. We all paid attention immediately. He framed the issue as he saw it. He talked of how he had made a success of himself, mostly because of the people that he knew throughout his life. He talked of how the world in which many children grow up in has changed dramatically and there are no relatives, neighbors and friends to help give positive direction, confidence and motivation to kids coming up in the many rough neighborhoods of our nation. Our eyes welled up. Then he made a call to action and rallied us around the cause. He raised a lot of money for his projects that day and helped many people in the audience make a bigger priority of the children in their communities. I can’t say I have done anything earth shattering because of his talk. But we do make sure to hire high school aged kids to work for us every summer and give them a chance to get a great introduction to the business world. If nothing else, the sense of worth they get and the support they feel from the various people they come in contact with while they are here opens up some windows to the world. What do you do if your budget does not allow for Colin Powell or John Cleese? Ask yourself what you want from your speaker. What should your attendees go home with? I sometimes have people ask me to speak and tell me the reason they need a speaker for a corporate event is “Just to have someone from the outside”. They sometimes say that they can tell the staff what to do, but that the staff will hear it better from someone else. This is an interesting way to look at it. If the company president gets up in front of the crowd and says, “Go write more business and take better care of our customers!”, is that enough? Not all company presidents are great speakers, although many are great managers and leaders. Even if they are great speakers, sometimes their staff people are so used to hearing them that the message does not sink very deeply all the time. So you may just need a different perspective or a different voice saying something similar to make the message hit home. Sometimes you pick a speaker because you or someone you know has read about or heard about the speaker and think there might be some engaging and entertainingly good information in store for your audience. Either way you are placing a lot of trust in that speaker. Because, even if your food is mediocre and the accommodations are less than lovely, a great speaker will save the day and send everyone home raving about the event. On the other side of the coin, if the food and the accommodations are good and the speaker reads a slide show in a monotone voice with no expression, you are sunk. I don’t mind doing a little shameless self promotion from time to time. So I would say the feedback my audiences have given me would make me think I could help you put on a great event. People seem to think I can relate well to an audience and make my presentation relevant to them. They like my stories and illustrations and find my energy level engaging. I am really not trying terribly hard to master one speaking technique or another, but I do really enjoy the interactions with the audience members. I have always had an affinity for teaching and love to see the audience thinking and processing and absorbing. One of my favorite activities in High School was the theater club. I especially enjoyed the comedies we put on. There is something very rewarding about pulling off a laugh line and seeing a few people in the audience burst out in the giggles. I can only imagine how much public speaking skill someone like John Cleese assembled during his years of acting. I am no John Cleese and I am no Colin Powell. But I have done and seen some interesting things in my time. I’d like to think my audiences go home with lessons and illustrations they can use as they move forward and that occasionally I have stirred them to action, as well.

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Ebay Tips For Buyers & Sellers
As a buyer you are trying to find bargains i.e listings with the best price (Buy It Now Items) or listings with the fewest bids (Auction Items). Generally these listing are the ones that get the least amount of visitors, and most of the time it is because of missing keywords (Product Serial, Manufacture Name…etc) in the title field. Thus, the key is finding listings that contain misspelled keywords or listings that are missing important keywords in the title field. Since the default eBay Search box only searches the title field, you can often increase your chances on finding deals by checking the ?Search title and description? check box.

The next thing you will need to know is the “Art Of Gaging An Item Price on eBay”. A nifty way to find the going price for an item is by looking at the ended listings. To search for ended listings, simply click “Advanced Search” link found under the upper right hand search box. And then check the “Completed listings only” check box before beginning the search.

Always ?Find Reserved Price Auctions?. You will be amazed at how many people just don?t bother bidding when they see the reserve price tag, most of times the reserve price is less then 10% of the item going rate which means huge savings. Remember however to place your bid in the last 10 seconds.

A nifty way to save cash on items is by offering sellers an end bid early option. The key here is that you will have to find recently listed item (less then 100 views) and from sellers with fewer than 50 feedbacks. Try to keep your initial offer to no lower then 10% of the regular eBay price (See Gaging Item Price).

If you are a pro on eBay then you will mostly likely only bid twice on an item. The first bid is optional and it meant to take the item out of the ?Buy It Now?, since you will be more likely to win the item at a lower price through an auction. The second bid should come on the last 10 seconds of the auction, this maybe longer if you are on dial-up

You can tell a lot about your competition (fellow bidders) by looking at their previously won items to see their bidding pattern. You will be amazed at how many people keep their last bid to a whole dollar, meaning you only need to add a cent to snipe them in the last 10 seconds.

You will be more likely to win an item at a lower price on a weekday then a weekend. The reasoning is simple, less competition, most people with jobs will be unavailable or less likely to bid, and thus increasing the probability of winning the item at a lower price.

Did you know eBay occasionally issues Paypal coupons that could save you anywhere from (5 % -10 %) when paying for your eBay items.

You can save a lot from buying from sellers with little or no feedback. But again the key is knowing your seller so you don?t get burned. Here is what I do before I place a bid, first I email the seller, asking him/her about the condition of the item. If he/she replies back then I check the email headers to get the remote ip address, I then go to a WHOIS database and verify the location of the seller. If everything is OK so far, I contact the seller through telephone to verify the item, its condition?etc. Remember that eBay only covers up to $175, so it?s best to ask for insurance and always ask for shipping with tracking. Also I found its best to stick with Paypal as payment option.

As a buyer you need to be aware of the following points:

? Be suspicious of sellers with low rating.
? Be suspicious of sellers using stock pictures (pictures from manufacturers website).
? Sellers who use free email (Hotmail, GmailScience Articles, Yahoo..etc).
? Sellers who do not accept Paypal.
? Sellers who do not reply to email.
? Low rating sellers with 1 day listings.

Randy Mzik A University Student <a href="http://www.onimoto.com" title="http://www.onimoto.com" target="_blank">http://www.onimoto.com</a>

Wholesale Dropshipping For eBay Sellers!
Copyright © 2006 Ron Keegan Ebay is the ‘BEST’ opportunity you can use right now to make money online in the dropshipping business from the comfort of your own home. Thousands of people just like you use eBay auctions on a daily basis to sell and buy products on the Internet; now it’s your time to START your own dropshipping home-based business and succeed in the eBay auctions ‘game’! There are no special skills required for this dropshipping business, all you need is a computer, Internet access and some basic computer / Internet knowledge. Dropshipping is when you sell products on the Web, forward the orders to the dropship supplier and, in return, the dropshipper ships the product to your customer (buyer). You act as the middleman between the dropshipping supplier and your buyer. You can take orders by credit card, fax or any other method you can think of. You can sell via your own Web Site or even through e-mail. Your profit is generated on the difference between your selling price and the price the dropshipping supplier charges you. Thanks to dropshipping you can start making money ‘instantly’ without any investment in inventory, warehousing, shipping, equipment, employees or office space. How do I find something to sell on eBay? Of course, finding something to sell isn’t hard. Finding something at a “Low enough price” to make a profit on eBay is much more difficult. That’s because eBay is a price-driven model and buyers expect a bargain. If they don’t get one, they’re not buying. So, the REAL question is: How do I find something at a ‘low enough price to sell profitably’ on eBay? Answer: THE LIGHT BULK WHOLESALE DIRECTORY 1. WWB has an entire research section in their Florida office that ‘personally interviews’ each and every wholesaler and dropshipper. Without an interview, no one gets into their directory. No one. 2. They have ‘Very Exacting Criteria’ for being listed. If the source doesn’t meet those criteria, they aren’t listed. For example, they must be ‘genuine wholesalers’ and they must be willing to Sell to eBayers in Low minimum quantities. Most wholesalers want to sell to big retailers with huge budgets, so finding dealers willing to work with the little guys that’s us isn’t so easy. And, as you probably know, way too many so-called wholesalers are only ‘middlemen’. That won’t happen with the new Light Bulk Directory. Having products drop shipped by suppliers, allows you to concentrate on truly important aspects like advertising, sales and promotion. Pay attention! There are lots of companies claiming to be ‘Drop Shippers’. However, a legitimate drop shipper is a factory-authorized wholesale distributor, or sometimes the actual manufacturer of the product. A legitimate drop shipper should not charge you an ‘account setup fee’ or ask you to place a ‘minimum quantity order’. Make sure you find some legitimate drop shippers who have the product(s) you want to sell, talk with them on the phone / by e-mail and let them know that you are truly serious about doing business with them. Customer support counts in the dropshipping business, so don’t hesitate to contact some dropshipping suppliers before you want to work with them. This will help you decide if you really want to do business with a particular drop shipper or not. To succeed in the dropshipping business you’ll have to LOOK for hard-to-find products that people desperately need and want to purchase. The key is to sell products with little or no competition. I suggest you RESEARCH for quality products & legitimate dropship suppliers, MONITOR the eBay auction listings to see if there’s any competition and TEST the market (e.g. find out if people really want to spend CASH on the product you want to sell) Remember! Dropshipping makes it EASY for you to start and run your own home-based businesses on a shoestring budget; and eBay is the ‘perfect’ MEDIUM to expose your product to potential buyers all over the globe! By Ron Keegan Megastar Distributors http://www.megdis.com.com

Ron Keegan runs http://www.Megdis.com an eBay Information Web Site with lots of *FREE* Resources, Tips & Reports on DropShipping & eBay.

Powering Your Web Store With Shopping Cart Software
This article explains the differences between merchant and shopping cart software available to website owners

History of e-Bay
e-Bay was created in September 1995, by a man called Pierre Omidyar, who was living in San Jose. He wanted his site, then called Auction Web to be an online marketplace, and wrote the first code for it in one weekend. It was one of the first websits of its kind in the world. The name e-Bay comes from the doman Omidyar used for his site. His company’s name was Echo Bay and the e-Bay auction web was originally just one part of Echo Bay’s website at e-bay.com. The first thing ever sold on the site was Omidyar’s broken laser printer, which he got $14.00 for. Now that you know the history of e-bay perhaps you’d like to know how it could work for you? To Learn More Click Here: http://internettips4u.blogspot.com

Get Rid of the Biggest Pains in the eBay Business
How would you like to get rid of some of the biggest pains
in selling items on eBay?

How would you like to have a product where there is:
No scouring the internet or your community looking for
saleable products
No researching for, or dealing with, suppliers,
wholesalers or dealers
No investing hard earned dollars, upfront, in products
No inventorying of products or packaging to store in your
home
No packaging of products after they are sold
No traveling to the post office or wherever, to ship them.
No charging outrageous shipping fees
No more making minuscule profits of only 20 to 30%

What is the answer? Sell digital products!

Digital products can be ebooks, DVD’s, reports, videos,
CD’s and more.

Digital products are reports, files, or movies that are
digital (or electronic) and are meant to reside on the
computer and be transferred digitally.

All these above products are similar so let’s focus on
ebooks. Ebooks are basically long reports, stories or how-
to’s which are written, sold and downloaded directly from a
web site or e-mailed to the buyer. Then, if the buyer
prefers, he can print a hard copy of the ebook to read in
his leisure.

Where do you get these ebooks? Well, that would take a
long explanation, but briefly, they are generally written
by the seller. However, they can be purchased from others,
have others write them for you, or interview an authority
and transcribe the interview.

To sell a digital product on eBay, you simply write a good
sales page and list it. When someone buys the e-book, you
just e-mail the buyer (with the ebook) or tell him where he
can download it.

Let’s look at the benefits in a little more detail:

1.) You get to keep 100% of the profits. Once the products
are written (or developed) there is no further cost and all
profits are yours.

2.) You don’t have to sell a physical product, i.e.,
something you can hold or handle. This results in many
benefits, namely:

You don’t have to buy every product you sell! This frees
up a lot of your money that you would have to invest in
inventory. It also eliminates buying products and not
selling them. How many times do we see something and say
that would be good to sell on ebay. Then we buy it and
either never list it, or list it and it doesn’t sell.
Digital products on the other hand are free to create.

You never have to worry about running out of products.
Since they are all digital you make one copy and it can
last indefinitely.

You don’t have to worry about looking for new dealers,
suppliers or wholesalers. This can be very time consuming
to find the right dealer at the right price. But just as
important, you don’t have to deal with them.

You won’t need any storage space for the products or
packaging materials. All you need is space on your hard
drive.

There is no shipping and handling costs. You can even have
an automatic downlink link where it all happens instantly
and automatically. Your customers are happy because they
get it without paying any shipping charges and you are
happy because you don’t have to handle, package or
transport anything.

You eliminate the single biggest reason people refuse to
buy stuff online: paying too much for shipping charges.

There you have it - eight benefits of digital products.

Remember by selling digital products you eliminate the
most painful aspects of selling on ebay.

Some people are selling digital products on eBay and are
making a ‘killing’. You can be one of them too. Just
consider it!

For more information please visit http://www.five95ebooks.com/ebay_info_profit.html and see how you can make a killing selling info products on eBay. To see our growing list of other $5.95 eBooks, please visit www.Five95eBooks.com

Are You Ready For eBay Success?
Thanks to eBay I quit my corporate job and now work a lot less and earn A LOT more money…”

Pemu Yolmo Kurseong Darjeeling West Bengal India

Guide to eBay: eBay University & eBay Research tools.
You ve probably heard about how easy and how much money can be made on eBay. With dreams & promises of quick riches and easy money, you are probably ready to jump in with both feet ” right now!

The best thing you can do if you are serious about making money with eBay, however, is to slow down. In fact, just stop for a minute. Don t rush straight in. Take your time, and do it right.

eBay has over 100 million members. Think about that number for just a minute or two. When you get your eBay business set up, that is how big your customer base will be ” instantly. 100 million people - 100 million people who are just waiting for you to get set up and running so that they can throw money at you!

Well, not quite. It is true that there are over 100 million members, but at this point, they don t know that you exist. In fact, no matter how well you do on eBay, most of them will never know that you exist. 100 million is a very large number.
The most successful eBay sellers started out as buyers ” and you should too. This will give you a sense of how everything works. It will also show you how things are from the buyer s side of the fence.

Let s call this period of time consumer research. You are literally studying how eBay works, from a customer s point of view. You may not realize this, but this eBay buyer experience will actually make you a much better seller ” right from the very start.

(For information and help researching items on ebay, visit
http://www.ebookdeals.co.uk/EbookDeals.co.uk/ebay-guide/ebook_deals_ebay_guide__research_tools.htm)

Really pay attention to the customer service you receive from the buyer. Think about how you want to be treated as a buyer, and take notes. Take your time during this process. Interact with the sellers.

Get involved in hot auctions to see what they are like. In your spare time, start making notes about the hot items that you see. These notes will come in handy later.

eBay works just like any other business. You have to determine what people want to buy before you can hope to be successful. There are very specific items that sell really well on eBay ” you just have to figure out what those items are.

There are many resources for finding out this information. Start with the lessons that eBay offers to their sellers. Strongly consider attending the eBay University as well. This is the next step in the process. After you have had the eBay buyer experience, it is time to learn how to be an eBay seller.

eBay University is the learning program that eBay established to help people become successful eBay merchants. For convenience, eBay classes are held in many locations throughout the United States, and classes may also be completed from home, using your computer.

You should note that all of the information you will learn through eBay University can be found on the website ” for free. However, understanding that free information isn t always easy. eBay University will teach you how to open a seller s account, how to conduct research and create listings, how to improve listings for greater success, how to integrate Paypal with eBay, how to monitor your auctions, and how to complete transactions.

Once you ve finished the Selling Basics course, you are ready for the Beyond the Basics course. This advanced course will teach you how to start and grow an eBay business, how to choose and create listing formats that sell, how to use all of the eBay resources, how to market your business, how to pack and ship your items, and much more. Both courses are reasonably priced, and well worth the short amount of time that it takes to complete each course.

Visit http://www.ebookdeals.co.uk to claim your free ebooks and learn all about ebay research, ebay tips & tricks and ebay in general!!

Read all of the information eBay provides for you at the site. The information is free and you will learn a great deal from it. Take full advantage of this ” before you start setting up your first auction or your eBay store!

By reading through all of the resources, you will avoid making numerous mistakes that so many before you have made. This is another step towards building a successful eBay business.

Once you ve made it through the learning process, you should know everything you need to know to get started with a money making eBay business of your very own.

Visit http://www.ebookdeals.co.uk to claim your free ebooks and learn all about ebay research, ebay tips & tricks and ebay in general!!

Ebay Making Money Opportunity
You ve probably heard about how much money can be made on eBay. With dreams of quick riches and easy money, you are probably ready to jump in with both feet ” right now! The best thing you can do if you are serious about making money with eBay, however, is to slow down. In fact, just stop for a minute. Don t rush straight in. Take your time, and do it right. eBay has over 100 million members. Think about that number for just a minute or two. When you get your eBay business set up, that is how big your customer base will be ” instantly. 100 million people - 100 million people who are just waiting for you to get set up and running so that they can throw money at you! Well, not quite. It is true that there are over 100 million members, but at this point, they don t know that you exist. In fact, no matter how well you do on eBay, most of them will never know that you exist. 100 million is a very large number. There are many ways you can make money on ebay, from selling stuff you no longer need, all the way up to selling merchandise from a wholesaler. This is not the limit however, of the wonderful methods of generating cash off of the world of ebay. You can sell property, cars, boats, and even businesses. There have been transactions as low as a dollar, all the way up to business transfers that run into the hundreds of thousands of dollars. Ebay is clearly here to stay, now it is time for you to get your feet wet on this great money making opportunity. Here we will focus on selling for a wholesaler, this is where you will promote other peoples products and sell them for a cut of the profit. Lets say for example you find a product you are interested in such as say, stereo speakers. You will then search for a wholesaler that will accept a contract with someone that deals in affiliates and ebay, with the proof that you are an ebay seller and can verify the account on ebay this should not be hard. Once you have landed this contract with the wholesaler, it is time to set up market strategies, and make sure they conform to what the wholesaler finds acceptable. Make a plan, check it twice and get to work selling. Once you have the site available for the public to view, you need to weigh out some of the business expenses that will ensure you are not spending more than you are making. By having multiple payment options you can be sure you have all your sales basis covered. One of the biggest expenses you will encounter will be shipping and storage costs. It is not likely that you will have the space in your home to store a couple thousand pairs of home speakers, and this notion would require some sort of insurance that will be required in order for the wholesaler to relinquish the product to you. Any notion that you can rent space for cheap is improbable, and again will still require insurance as a measure of protection for you and the wholesaler. So what do you do? Well the answer is simple; you have the wholesaler keep the product, and ship when necessary to the customer when purchased. This will keep the entire product in one place, alleviate the need to worry about shipping, and still ensure that you are able to make the sale. Once the product is sold to a customer, you simply place the order to the wholesaler, they will in turn send the product, charge you for the wholesale cost and the holding and shipping cost and the rest is yours to keep. This is not a difficult task and you do not even need to leave your seat. What you really need to do is research the product, and its competitors and finds a price that is reasonable, and will generate the best profit for what you are doing. What you are really doing is selling the goods like a salesman on a store floor. All the while not even leaving your home, you do not even really need to monitor this whole process, as the customer s invoice will come in to you via e-mail. The most successful eBay sellers started out as buyers ” and you should too. This will give you a sense of how everything works. It will also show you how things are from the buyer s side of the fence. Let s call this period of time consumer research. You are literally studying how eBay works, from a customer s point of view. You may not realize this, but this eBay buyer experience will actually make you a much better seller ” right from the very start. Really pay attention to the customer service you receive from the buyer. Think about how you want to be treated as a buyer, and take notes. Take your time during this process. Interact with the sellers. Get involved in hot auctions to see what they are like. In your spare time, start making notes about the hot items that you see. These notes will come in handy later. eBay works just like any other business. You have to determine what people want to buy before you can hope to be successful. There are very specific items that sell really well on eBay ” you just have to figure out what those items are. There are many resources for finding out this information. Start with the lessons that eBay offers to their sellers. Strongly consider attending the eBay University as well. This is the next step in the process. After you have had the eBay buyer experience, it is time to learn how to be an eBay seller. Read all of the information eBay provides for you at the site. The information is free and you will learn a great deal from it. Take full advantage of this ” before you start setting up your first auction or your eBay store! By reading through all of the resources, you will avoid making numerous mistakes that so many before you have made. This is another step towards building a successful eBay business. Once you ve made it through the learning process, you should know everything you need to know to get started with a money making eBay business of your very own. *****

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Make Money on eBay ~ How to Cut Costs
Let s face it, eBay buyers want to find bargains when they make purchases on eBay. Those bargains equate to high quality items for low prices. For the seller who simply views selling on eBay more as a hobby, or as a method to clear out excess items from their house, attic or garage, getting any amount of money from items is a bonus.

For the seller who views eBay as a business and wants to make money on eBay selling at bargain prices creates a challenge. For that seller, items are purchased for resale with the goal of making a profit on every sale every time.

The secret to make money on eBay and still offer bargains for your buyers is lowering the costs associated with products that you purchase for resale. In fact, the goal is to buy at a low enough price that profits are possible, even while selling to bargain hunters. The savvy seller must pay the lowest possible price while minimizing associated sales cost.

There are several actions that can be taken to reduce the price of items that sellers purchase for resale. Each of the strategies that follow can greatly reduce the cost-of-goods-sold for the seller with a goal to make money on eBay.

Combine Orders
Just as many buyers on eBay will make multiple purchases and then combine shipping to reduce cost, so can you. Often there will be excess room remaining in boxes and on pallets of merchandise that you have purchased. That room can be used for additional products. Often those extra products will cost almost nothing to ship. That is especially true when you buy pallet loads.

Buy Wholesaler Closeouts and Specials
Wholesalers often offer closeouts and specials to move excess or end-of-life merchandise. The discounts can be significant. Just be sure that there is a market for the products that you purchase. Use this strategy in combination with combining orders and you could save a boatload of money!

Negotiate for a Lower Price
Many wholesalers are willing to negotiate for lower prices. Typically the trigger to make this happen is to increase the quantity in the order. Just be sure that you don t purchase so much of an item that you cannot profitably resell. One of the worst things to have happen would be to have five-thousand left-handed flanges sitting in your garage for the next 20-years!

Split Wholesale Purchases with Other Sellers
This is a strategy that we have used. We have split loads of merchandise as well as freight costs with others. This strategy requires developing enough trust so that both feel there will be a fair and equitable deal. It works especially well with sellers who are in marketplaces other than eBay.

Cherry Pick Loads and Resell the Rest to Others
Caution: this strategy does require some labor. It does open the opportunity to make discounted purchases of mixed lots. Upon receipt of the merchandise, simply inspect and remove the products that fit your need. Inventory the balance and resell it on the wholesale market.

Each of these strategies has some real strengths and could work for you. However in every case, be cautious that you are not simply buying a wholesaler s problems. If you do, those problems can sit in your basement, garage or warehouse eternally as merchandise that you cannot sell. On the other hand, with care and planning you can make money on eBay by using these strategies.

To make money on eBay requires that sellers never lose sight of profit. The goal is to minimize the cost of goods sold. Reducing the price that you pay for items allows your buyers can get a bargain and you to make money on eBay


To Your eBay Success!

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