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Product Sourcing For Ebay: Sales And Marketing Pitfalls

Monday, October 27th, 2008

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Remember that to make money with product sourcing for Ebay, the wholesalers for Ebay sellers provides the products and performs shipping and handling while you do the sales and marketing.

However, you can’t do your sales and marketing in a vacuum. Especially when you are new, the fastest way to start making money is to sell what’s hot on Ebay.

Let us say you partner with a music CDs dropshipper. While the evergreens and golden oldies like Elvis Presley always bring in sales, does your partner react fast enough to also provide the latest chart-topping hits? This could mean the difference between scraping in $100 a month vs $1000 a month.

Here is another example: you might make good money every month by selling cat scratching posts and cat litter from a pet accessories dropshipper, but if you take advantage of seasonal spikes like the summer beach season, this could earn you a nice fat bonus for the same amount of sales and marketing.

Successful Ebay sellers do not fall into the trap of selling only what they like. They find the best items to sell on Ebay, even if they have to look for a new wholesale dropship supply partner.


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