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The Pros of DropShiping with eBay

Mon, 19 Aug 2008 19:42:00 GMT

posted by rileymarketing
Drop Shipping is the hottest money maker for anyone with an eBay account. The way drop shipping works is that a supplier offers products for you to sell, you sell them however you want (mainly eBay or auction sites) with a markup to the price. You then collect the money from the customer and place the order with the supplier, giving them the amount for the item and you take the difference as a profit.
The problem I have found is finding a stable and trustworthy drop shipper with low enough prices to turn a reasonable profit.
A lot of these drop shipping sites cost a fee to join, usually a monthly fee of $24.99 - $49.99. The big drop ship sites like Doba.com and Shopster.com have thousands of brand name products for you to sell. There is a free site megagoods.com I have come to find that has no monthly fees and has a good set of products to sell. The only downside is they do not accept PayPal...
There is one main problem I have found, you should see if the drop shipper accepts PayPal before signing up. This makes the whole process easier. If you sell an item on eBay and collect the money through PayPal it is a lot easier to send the cost of the item to the supplier through PayPal as well. Leaving the profit in your PayPal account.
Also watch out for shipping charges. I have had better luck getting customers to message me before they bid to get a shipping quote. I then message the supplier and get the correct charges to send to the customer. A lot of times wherever your eBay account has been set up it will say thats where the product is located... and using the built in eBay quotes it would give a very inaccurate quote and you will probably be out money by the time you pay the supplier to ship it.
The eBay market has been flooded with items over the past year, so finding unique items at the lowest price is the most important. But to be honest there is still a lot of money to made with drop shipping.
Good luck at this venture. Let me know how ya make out.

Using BANS to build your own portfolio

Wed, 24 Apr 2008 23:30:00 GMT

posted by mlinkous

Caution!!!

This may become Addicting.

Join the fastest growing money making concept on the web...

Build your business and make money online by becoming an eBay affiliate. This affiliate program is done in 5 steps.

Each eBay marketplace has an affiliate program which enables you to promote eBay listed products in exchange for a healthy share of eBay’s revenue for each sale that you refer.

When you become an eBay affiliate you will have 60 + million consumer products to choose from and market.

So How Does It Work?

Successfully using BANS revolves around following a simple 5 step system...

Step 1: Choose Your Country

Your country choice will determine which specific eBay marketplace products you will be marketing.

Step 2: Choose Your Niche

With your target country chosen you then install BANS and once installed your first choice inside your new BANS admin panel is the niche you want to target.

Step 3: Develop Your New Website To “Match Your Market”

With your basic store built next comes development…

BANS is a complete content management system with the development features to match any professional website builder.

Step 4: Market Your Website To Your Target Niche

Once you’re “happy” with your new niche store it’s time to turn your attention towards marketing.

Step 5: Begin Building Your eBay Affiliate Empire

Once you have familiarized yourself with the software and have built, developed and marketed your first site you will have a good understanding of how the system works.

So what are you waiting for?

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Making Money Online With The eBay Affiliate Program

Tue, 9 Jul 2008 13:10:00 GMT

posted by nitu
Making Money Online With The eBay Affiliate Program
You hear about it all the time. Someone you know knows someone who is making a living over the internet. You hear about people making some extra spending money. You also hear about people making thousands of dollars a month.

How do they do it?

Well, there are lots of ways to make money online. And they don't involve spamming or any shady techniques.

One way is to make month promoting other people's products or services for a commission or fee. This is called affiliate marketing.

One of the biggest affiliate marketing programs online is run by eBay. eBay pays people a percentage of their earnings for every visitor you send to eBay who buys something. They also pay out at least $25 for every new user you get to join eBay.

Many people make good money setting up websites that consist entirely of eBay products. When a visitor clicks a product on the site, they are directed to eBay. If they buy something, the owner of the site gets a commission.

There are many ways to set up an eBay site full of any products you want to

sell. If you know how to program, you can use eBay's API or RSS feed to show products on your site. But I prefer using and out-of-the-box software like phpBay Pro (which allows you to easily make an eBay site using wordpress blogging software), or BANS (stands for "Build A Niche Store"). Both are relatively cheap and much easier to use than the eBay API. I prefer phpBay Pro because it can easily integrate with wordpress to great great sites.

If you are familiar with wordpress, you should be able to get your first eBay site up in a week using phpBay Pro. If you don't know wordpress and do not want to learn it, you can try BANS, but keep in mind you need to know some basic HTML using BANS.

How much does it cost to get started? The eBay API is free. phpBay Pro for wordpress costs about $49. BANS costs about $97.

How much can you make? I currently have three sites made with phpBay Pro and I make about $500-$600 a month total from all of them. And every month they earn a little bit more.

Now that you have the information on how to start making some money online using eBay, give it a shot and see if you can start earning some extra cash!
source-http://www.themauritius.com/news/articles/39854/1/Making-Money-Online-With-The-eBay-Affiliate-Program/Page1.html

Making Money Online With The eBay Affiliate Program

Tue, 9 Jul 2008 12:29:00 GMT

Creating Bans Headers

Sat, 4 May 2008 16:00:16 GMT

posted by theaffiliatepost

I was just reading a comment left by someone on my previous post about bans and it got me thinking. Whilst anyone can make money with niche ebay stores using the bans program it does help if they look the part!!! So, Kelly Blue Book, this is for you. Here is a nice demo on how to knock up bans headers for your site.

Thanks to AuctionZeal for a great demo but I have to point out that as google does not currently read images….it is seo unfriendly. Personally I would advise that you create the background image and play with the css headers in bans to make a search engine friendly title. Leave me a comment if you need advice on how to do that !

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