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Make Money Selling Information Products On eBay

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Hi, my name’s Des and I have my own offline window and carpet cleaning business. I’m basically an ordinary Joe like anyone else out there. The only difference between me and most people is I make the majority of my income online. You see, I now employ people to carry out the cleaning for me which means I just look after the administration part time. I used to be out in the morning from about 9am to 12pm window cleaning and do a bit of carpet cleaning at the weekends if I felt like it. With my two guys to do all of the cleaning now leaves me more time to build my eBay business.

What’s that got to do with making money on ebay you say?

To be honest with you, Zip, Nada, Nothing!

Don’t get me wrong. I’m not one of those guru millionaires that’s gonna tell you that I make a million pounds a week, get up at 10am, have breakfast, make a couple thousand pounds while the kettles boiling and have made a hundred thousand pounds by tea/dinner time.

You’ve probably heard enough of these get rich quick type stories to last a life time. I know I have. No, what I’m going to show you is how I have 1 part time job which I love very much and now just look after the admin and how I also make a decent living online. The only difference is one of them is on complete autopilot.

What to know how? Read on and I’ll show you.




I SELL
INFORMATION &
MULTIMEDIA PRODUCTS
ONLINE




Why sell eBooks and Multimedia products?


EBooks, (Electronic Books) are, without a shadow of a doubt the world’s best selling items on eBay. Forget your PSP’s, Nintendo Wii’s and Granny’s 90 year old doll that’s been in the attic forever. EBooks continually outsell all of these items and win the race hands down.

EBooks are simply one of the best online business ideas that exist today. You can create an eBook for next to nothing and sell it for almost 100% profit! Which is a great deal better than the 10% - 25% profit offered by most traditional business. Even my cleaning business won’t give me this type of return.

PUBLISHING

The best thing is you don’t need to go through a publishing house where they take the bulk of your sales. You get to keep 100% of any profits generated from the eBook.

If you are dedicated enough to writing an eBook, you can get it published without any of the barriers of the traditional publishing route and with none of the drawbacks. Sound good?

The growth in the eBook industry is absolutely enormous and growing substantially each year. We’re looking at close to a 50% increases in eBooks sales this quarter compared with that of the same quarter last year! If this is certainly proof enough that this is without a doubt, the best time to start writing or distributing your eBooks right now!

With my cleaning business, I clean carpets and windows in the Peterborough area and sometimes venture outside the city to grab that little extra business. With your own eBook business, you have a worldwide audience that have many needs and wants, thousands and even millions of niches are ready to be tapped right now for those that want to.

I practically sell my ebooks, multimedia products , videos, courses all around the world. Forget about a national market, this business is truly INTERNATIONAL.

The ability to sell your items internationally is basically the secret to giving up your day job and making some real money online.

The majority of these products can be easily downloaded and read on your PC or can be sent through snail mail and downloaded or viewed on a computer.


"eBay allows you to manage the sales of your eBooks/Multimedia products on ALL your Websites and eBay Accounts from a SINGLE Centralised Location...."

Did you know, as you you’re reading this eBook, there are 100,000s of people just like you and me making a decent living creating, selling, and distributing eBooks/multimedia products each and every hour of the day. I’m going to show you how to join these sellers and get you on track to making some real money from selling them.

What you will need to get started?

1, You’re going to need an eBay and PayPal account if you haven’t already got one? I’m kind of assuming you do? If not, don’t worry, I’ll give you the link in the resource page.

2. Zip software

3. PDF software

4. EBay turbo lister

5. EBay selling manager

6. A Paypal account.

8. Some web space and a domain name (not too important at this stage, but if you’re serious this will make you look professional)

What are Zip files?

Zip files are single files, sometimes called "archives” that contain one or more compressed files. Zip files make it easy to keep related files together and make transporting, e-mailing, downloading and storing data and software faster and more efficient.

Why do people use Zip files?

Zip files compress data and therefore save time and space and make downloading software and transferring e-mail attachments faster.

How you can produce your own eBook?

I was in two minds whether to write this article but I reckon 95% of people won’t do the things I’m teaching anyway. That’s fine. Just remember, you can start or take up what I’m teaching you in your own time and at your own pace. It took me 6 months before I gave myself a kick up the bum and started to take action!  I now earn more money selling ebooks on ebay than I could have ever dreamed of and would like to teach others how I did it.

Write about what you know

The best place to start is to try writing about something that you are knowledgeable and passionate about. It’s a lot easier to write about what you know than what you don’t know. (Sorry to state the obvious).

This isn’t to say that this is the best topic in order to make money. What I’m simply saying is that it’ll be great practice to get you used to writing and structuring your ebook. I’ve placed a few links to further reading in the resource page.

When I started, I was writing about lettings, tenants, carpet cleaning and window cleaning, basically, things that I knew. Not huge markets to try and sell ebooks to, but it was a start and it allowed me to hone the techniques needed to be a successful writer. Though, I’ve got to say, my window cleaning toolkit (UK only I'm affraid) brings in over $400 per month from ebay and my own website alone. Bear in mind this was the first product that I’d written myself and it still brings in a good income.

Granted, this took me around 8 weeks to write and edit, but I now have a nice little income stream that will probably make me money for several years to come. There are some days where I make $50 just from this product alone.

A note of caution!

Information that is both time sensitive or subjects that regularly change from day to day I’d stay clear of. For example, you may be a whiz on search engine optimization (getting websites to the top of search engines like Google) and feel that the world should know the best ways to achieve this. That’s fine, but please bear in mind, search engine algorithms change daily and your new ebook may be out of date by the time you’ve even put it up for sale. Be careful.

I’ve seen some people spend months on a project only to find out that their subject matter had literally expired. A waste of time really.

Information that satisfies an immediate need

I’ve noticed that cookery and recipe ebooks sell really well. Extremely competitive since there are so many out there, nevertheless, a good place to start if you’re a talented cook with your own super duper recipes!

Do Your Research

Yep, I know, you’re exited and you feel like a caged animal just waiting to put your creative talents to use. Wait. Don’t start typing away just yet until you’ve done some basic research. Ask yourself the question.

Will people be willing to pay for the information you’re about to present?

Is it actually readily available anywhere else? If it is, don’t stress. You may even be able to find a sub niche on this subject.

The most important tip I can give you is get started. So many people dream about having their online business. You just need to start applying yourself like I did. It won't be easy, since everyone would be doing it. But you won't find a greater opportunity to start your own business working from home selling info products on eBay.

Good Luck!

DesDrec.
My eBay Store



Guide ID: 10000000008115194Guide created: 07/29/08

 
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