How to Find the Hottest Products to Sell on eBay

by: Brian McGregor

Most people who sell on eBay would like to be in the position of selling highly sought after items. But how do you know which products are the ones that are in high demand?

You might not have realised it, but eBay itself has several ways for you to determine exactly what these items are! In fact eBay gives you four ways to do this.

Whilst this data is only available on ebay.com, depending on the categories in which you operate, the information may well be of interest no matter which eBay country site you use.

Items In Demand

In this part of Seller Central, you will find each of the main categories is listed. If you scroll down, you will see within each category area there is a heading of In Demand. If you click on this, you will see what are the most popular items currently within that particular category. To see the In Demand page, go to http://pages.ebay.com/sellercentral/sellbycategory.html

Hot Items by Category Report

eBay produces a monthly report called the "Hot Items by Category" report. This report lists the fastest growing categories on eBay for the previous month. The explanation for what eBay considers "hot" can be hard to understand on first reading. The important matter is that the categories listed are ones where buyer demand for the items under those categories are growing fastest. This report is a PDF file. You can view it on your browser, or download it and open it with Adobe Reader. Go to http://pages.ebay.com/sellercentral/whatshot.html and select "Hot Items by Category" from the menu on the left.

eBay Pulse

This is an area on eBay where you can find "a daily snapshot of current trends, hot picks, and cool stuff on eBay". With eBay Pulse you can get this information by category, or across eBay.com as a whole. Go to http://pulse.ebay.com/ to see eBay Pulse in action.

Merchandising Calendar

eBay promotes specific categories on its home page each month. Savvy eBayers know that this home page exposure results in more interest in such categories. Fortunately, thanks to eBay's Merchandising Calendar, you can know in advance which categories are going to be featured in each month. Thus you can be prepared with appropriate auction items, ready to take advantage of the increased traffic in these categories. Go to http://pages.ebay.com/sellercentral/calendar.html to view the current Merchandising Calendar.

I hope this insight into eBay's services helps in your selling.

About the author:
Brian McGregor is an internet entrepreneur specializing in leveraging the power of eBay. He is author of 'The eBay Formula' on how to sell successfully on eBay time after time. He is also publisher of the eBay Auction Newsletter - Subscribe free at

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7 Simple Steps To Profit Without Your Own Product

by: Clifford Mee

Copyright 2004 Clifford Mee Most people do not succeed on the internet because they are selling products no one desperately wants. If you want to be truly successful sell only things that people really really really want to buy! Sounds simple? It is. You only need to find out what people desperately want and then give it to them. Unfortunately most people online (and offline) are ignoring this basic fundamental law to sales success. So without further ado, just follow this 7 step system to profits even if haven't made a dime online yet.... 1. Go to Ebay's 'Hot Item Forum' and find out what products and services are selling well. 2. Find a local wholesaler who sells the products or services that are selling well on Ebay who doesn't already sell on Ebay (most won't be) 3. Ask them, "If I was able to move X amount of units of your product, what percentage of your profits would you share with me?" 4. If they are interested and are willing to give you a decent share of their profits, get them to sign a Non-Disclosure Agreement and a Joint Venture Contract. They are both simple documents that you can find and download from the Internet. 5. Arrange shipping with the company. Ask them to dropship the products to the people who have purchased from you on Ebay. (If they won't do this get them to ship pallets of the product to you for you to do the shipping.) 6. Get them to provide you with a complete list of their in-stock inventory. You'll then be in a position to offer related products to any ebay customers who purchase from you as extra backend sales. Just make sure you agree a good profit percentage on each backend product with the company. 7. Advertise the products on Ebay and rake in the cash. If you are a complete Ebay newbie or you have very limited time, go to the 'Easy Trading Assistant' homepage to do the selling for you if necessary. This is a proven, simple, elegant formula for anybody with a few spare hours a month to make good profits online. It requires zero technical knowledge and even a complete newbie can get started immediately. It only requires some surfing of Ebay & the Internet followed by a few phonecalls to some wholesalers. The rest is child's play. In fact you can even use the Ebay Trading Assistant to do the selling for you. (They would take a small cut of course). Remember on Ebay the shipping cost is a standard extra that the bidder pays, so you should have no problem negotiating with the wholesaler a fair price to do the shipping for you. The most important factor to increasing your income is to launch what I call your own little 'oil wells' which bring you in cash like clockwork. The above system shows you how easy this is to do. A fantastic resource for this simple system is available at http://www.hotitemfinder.com/cliffsfriends About the author: Clifford Mee is an author, internet marketer, hypnotist and success life coach. If you want to discover little known 'battle tested' strategies to persuade more customers to spend more money more frequently, then please visit his main website at http://www.marketingpersuasion.com Circulated by Article Emporium

6 Quick Steps to Ebay Income

By Raymond Nesa

It is an eminent fact today that EBay offers Internet users a prospect to make some sober income. Ebay is a remarkable market. Once you master the skill of selling on EBay, it will become a regular source of capital for you. Ebay is turning out to be one of the most lucrative sources of income for Internet users. Here are 6 quick steps to Ebay income

1.Research is the key: It is very important to research the selling price fetched by a similar item that you are willing to sell on Ebay.

2. Start at low bids: Lower bids helps in greater participation and low cost to list your items. But if you expect that there will be only few bids on the item then start the bidding closer to the selling price you desire.

3. Create your auction title with care: The title of the auction plays an important role in attracting bids

4. Describe your items impressively: Describing your items impressively is very important to allure the bidders. It is always advisable that you put long description of you item with bold keywords and some highlighting in order to give complete details of your item to your bidders. You can also use photographs of the item and post them along with the description.

5.Answer the queries: You will receive number of queries regarding your product. It is advisable to answer them all. Be friendly as well as professional in your answers.

6. Add alluring offers: You can add number of offers along with the listing as free shipping or may be money back guarantee on dissatisfaction on highly expensive items

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Put Free Videos on Your eBay Auctions

By Lisa Page

Vzaar is a free program that lets you add video of the product you are selling. This is great if you have to prove something is in working condition. It seems video has become a big part of our lives online. Having video footage of the product you are selling can skyrocket your sales.Vzaar is not needed if you are selling a brand new product still in the package. But it works great for selling everything like cars and computers. I have been noticing a lot of sellers that specialize in selling used cars on ebay have been using Vzaar. I actually found Vzaar when I was car shopping on ebay a short while back.

Vzaar actually came up with a great idea to add video to your about me page. Social marketplaces are really starting to take over. Having a video on your about me page could make your profile seem more professional and trustworthy. They actually claim you will get a good sales increase by inserting video to your auctions and about me page. I can definitely see the advantage.

Think about how big of an advantage you have adding pictures to your auctions; compared to someone who doesn't use pictures. It's pretty much the same with video. You will have a huge technology advantage over your competition that isn't using video.

My big thing through the years is to change with the times. Most businesses fail because they don't change with technology. Use as much technology as you can. The best way to get the upper hand on your competition is to have more than they offer. Most companies won't move on with the times and will fade away. Take your chances with any new technology that will make things easier or more customer friendly.

Vzaar is very user friendly. All you do is record the video you want with a camcorder, digital camera, or cell phone. Then you upload the video onto vzaar. Then you tell Vzaar what auction you want to put your video in your ebay account. It's really that simple.

That big advantage I see having video over just photos is; You can prove that the used item you are selling is in good working order. In most cases the video speaks for itself and you don't even have to read the description in the auction. You are making it easier for the customer to make a decision about buying from you.

Some people and companies have even taken their ebay charity auctions a step up in the right direction. Instead of typing out a long description of what the winner gets, they make a video and explain/show you what you are going to get if you are the winner of the auction. Videos in your auctions or websites could be a way of the future. I really see so many advantages to putting a video in your ebay auctions.

If you think you are going to use more than 30 videos a month, you will need to upgrade your free account. If the videos are helping you sell big money items, I would suggest upgrading to a premium account. Packages cost $10-$20 per month. This is not needed unless the videos are selling your products though.

You don't need to use vzaar if you are selling plain, non-moving items. For example, you might not want to waste your video on an autograph picture. But, you might want to use video in your auctions to sell a used television or monitor while it is working. Vzaar is made to capture used items while in working condition. It's a great idea. Give vzaar a try it's free to use.

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How to Start eBay Affiliate Business - Free eBay Affiliate Guide

By Ivana Bosnjak

Here I will explain to you a little bit about how to start eBay affiliate business. This is a low cost business. It does not require a lot of money, but it does require a lot of time if you are not willing to invest. For that matter, this business can get started for free, but of course it is better to invest a little bit into it.

So how much does it cost. Like I said, there are ways for you to make money without investing any money. There are websites such as squidoo that will share profits with you of eBay and Amazon modules as well as their Adsense profits. So yes you can start it for free but I believe for the efforts you are going to input into this, it is better to invests a little. I will explain to you why.

To invest a little money, there is a cost of software ($97 one time fee), hosting (approx. $10/ month unlimited stores) and domain ($10-20) per each store. With this software called build a niche store, you can create unlimited eBay affiliate stores, so it is good to have hosting that is also unlimited per each domain. I host 10 all together with my sub domain for the same $10 a month fee. And I have 7 major domains, with few small sub domains.

What it requires to make your affiliate program a success is to actually find the profitable niche market, a proper research of keywords, basic SEO (Search Engine Optimization) of your website and a lot of promoting.

Before I said I believe it is better to invest into the software only because for the amount of work you are going to input into promoting your stores and you probably want to keep 100% of the profit.

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