What Would You Do If You Had $10,000 And Wanted To Start An Internet Business. What &where Would You Sell?
By b2b on December 5th, 2009I am wanting to build a retail sales business on the internet. I have been selling corporate liquidation items on ebay and am a power seller($1000+) every month for several. It is a good business but it is too high of maintenance. I want to sell something small and manageable. Ebay or Website or both.
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It sounds like you are a good entrepreneur. Excellent. But the ideas need to come from you. Ive been setting people up on internet for as long as its been called internet. You can sell anything you want on commission thru the tons of affiliate programs available.
But such sites make it or fail based on the attention of the owner. Pick a subject, choose affiliate items, get a free website, make a webpage, get it on search engines, make money. Any subject. It can be an item, hobby, games, craft, sport, pet, country, any subject at all. I dont care if its strange flowerpots or the latest in dieting. It can be something you know a lot about or it can be something you WANT to know a lot about. Is there something that you bug your friends because when you get on the topic you talk about it way too much?
Lets say that its golf. You setup a web page then you search for affiliations on the topic of golf. You can offer golf equipment, training videos, books, funny tshirts with golf sayings on them, etc etc.
Then you need to get attention to your site. You can try out and write reviews on everything you offer on your site. You can link to news and how-to articles about golf. You can add a discussion forum about golf, you can do a newsletter that people sign up for which covers hot golf news items (and mentions new items in your shop). Do you begin to see why it needs to be something you love?
A couple of strong affiliate programs are Amazon.com and CafePress.com, or you can go to CommissionJunction to shop thru their affiliates. These work because the companies know that a “golf” site is better for selling “golf” items. Check those out and think “can I pitch this better than they are pitching it”.
Whatever subject you pick, you can make it THE site to go to for information on that subject. Those are the sites that work. The ones that the person is in love with. When you get a subject, come back and ask how you can build a site around it.
Well Ebay and a company website are both good to have. Depends on the type of products being offered. For instance you could have a product on your site for $29.95 if the customers were to just land on your site. Also having it on Ebay, you can offer it for auction with a buy it now price of $29.95 if you have playroom in your price. Also you could just use it as a second website an offer it only with the buy it now price. But as for your investment, you should defenitely take some time out to come up with all the descriptive terms for your site and then use a pay per click account once up and running. This marketing targets your main field of customers, as long as you dont use terms that are too general and cover too many areas. An example is something like “Air compressor” as opposed to just compressor. There are many types of compressors, so every time someone would search for compressor, find your site and click on it, you get charged, but then they leave your site because they wanted a refrigeratoin compressor. Specifics are a major key.
Hey! here is a great wholesaler that gives you access to thousands of high ranked products on ebay!http://www.salehoo.com/secrets/?hop=frig…
-check it out
I tried ebay before
too much time consuming
Maybe you might like to try this
http://www.earn997persale.com
Build a website and sell digital products. Easily managed and can run autopilot after everything has been set up.