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If you’re going to learn to sell on eBay then what you sell is important if your desire is to make money. I’ve said this a gazillion times, selling information products is the slickest, quickest, easiest way to make money, online or off. The mark ups are astronomical - you are after all creating a product almost out of thin air.Electronic download means no packaging or delivery costs to speak of and makes it possible to create an automated income source that’ll produce good profits with the minimum amount of attention on your part.As far as income generation is concerned this is the equivalent of the Holy Grail. So why isn’t everyone climbing unto this bandwagon if it’s so good?Turns out that a lot of people figure they just can’t write; no way, no chance, no hope and are in fact petrified by the prospect. Somehow, faced with putting pen to paper or perhaps more accurately “keyboard to monitor” - some respond like a rabbit caught in a cars headlights, they freeze and turn into gibbering wrecks.Others seem to have some sort of “Lord of the Rings” or “War and Peace” thing going on inside their heads when all I’m talking about are short reports - anything from two to five pages say - laced with valuable nuggets of information the reader can get their teeth into and put to good use. But there’s a problem, eBay’s the problem.While it’s a wonderfully convenient and straightforward place for any net newcomer to start making money, as with everything good, it’s not by any means all good.The main eBay downer is the mega stiff competition present in many of its markets and means lots of sellers are forced to charge highly reduced prices just to chalk up a few sales.99 cents e-books proliferate across the site like a pox and is what happens when the same product is being pushed in the same market place by many different sellers.The obvious solution if you want to avoid the same fate is for all you scaredy-cat writers out there to ditch your fears, attack your keyboard and produce a few pages of fresh, original material aimed at participants in any market with a strong demand for useful information that’ll help solve a problem.And because your reports are fresh and original they are also unique, only you can sell them which means you can charge a half decent price for your product, I like to sell mine for around the ten dollar mark.You don’t have to be JK Rowling either, there’s a lot you can achieve with just basic writing skills.The key is simply to write pretty much as you speak and as if you're talking to your best friend. Sure your first offering probably won’t be up to much but keep going and things will inevitably improve because practice makes better!My last report was on acne. I auctioned it for $9.97. Not megabucks but read on and you’ll see how to get more…I did the whole thing in about 90 minutes. As usual I made sure it contained some valuable snippets of information useful to acne sufferers and I do mean snippets.It only ran to 3 pages of actual info and I spent another hour Googling for links which I used to put together a resource page of acne based websites I thought might be of interest and help to the readership and among those links was one leading to a best selling instant download acne treatment book.If the reader clicked on the link and bought the book I’d make a small commission – around $20.And where did I get those valuable snippets of information? From the very same book the report promoted - with the authors kind permission of course.And if she had refused?I’d have done it anyway, only I’d have done some fast and furious research and rewritten the snippets in entirely my own words instead of simply using hers!And how did I get the book?I buy them! Only as a last resort though. Usually I email the author, state my intentions and ask for a complimentary copy. You can do the same thing only the author may want proof that you’re genuine and not just a free-loader!And the link clicking thing?That’s what affiliate-marketing is all about, selling for a commission products and services you didn't produce yourself.Learn to sell on eBay? No problem!
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Tony Elliot is the "Accidental Publisher" and online marketer who's run a number of successful businesses from home including a car rental and a contract cleaning concern. He entered publishing "accidentally" when he wrote a Contract Cleaning From Home how to guide and was surprised when it sold!
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