eBay or Amazon or both

I finished reading an interesting e-Book and I cannot wait to share with you:

Selling on “The River”

The eBook Seller’s guide to Amazon.com

by former eBay University Instructor Steve Lindhorst,

foreword by Skip McGrath.

I was surprised, intrigue, and delighted in the same time because usually people are bias but Steve and Skip are really open minded and talented business men.

The general ideas are:

• Don’t put all your eggs in just one basket! There are good benefits coming out from Multi-Channel Selling
• eBay and Amazon are different, the rules are different, the audience is different
• Both Steve and Skip want to use eBay and Amazon because they can compensate each other and they totally ignore “eBay Alternative Sites”

I cannot agree more. I looked at what we call “eBay Alternative Sites”, and I am not impressed. The software is poor, rules are simple and loopholes will be easy to create and abuse. If one of them will get as sophisticated as eBay application is now, maybe, but this is going to happen many years from now. Nobody can compete with eBay over the night.

To use both make a lot of sense to me.
EBay remains an “auction” company, still perfect for collectibles, antiques and vintages items, art and craft as well.
But the market place is changing as we speak. In the last 2-3 years people are more inclined to buy “fix-price” items, they don’t have time, and patience to follow an auction.
Amazon is perfect as a “fix-price” place to buy and sell.

I know the eBay rules but never had time to discover the Amazon rules, mainly because eBay use to educate people about eBay, but Amazon through you in the jungle and let you to discover how to get out of it and use it properly. If you meet a lion they don't care.

Steve Lindhorst is a very good teacher, he explains in details:

• what eBay and Amazon have in common,
• what is different and
• when is better to use one or the other.

Finally I discovered the Amazon rules, and YES, make sense to use both eBay and Amazon not one against other. Use one to compensate the other.

After you read the 50 pages Steve’s e-Book you can jump and sell on Amazon as well.

Good luck!
Regards
Michaela
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10 Highly Profitable eBay Niche Businesses Anyone Can Do

My review for:

10 Highly Profitable eBay Niche Businesses

Anyone Can Do by Skip McGrath.

Finding a unique niche is one of the fastest and easiest ways to start making money on eBay.

As an Education Specialist trained by eBay I chat with my students, especially with the ones from the beginner class.

I use to ask simple questions as: what you want to sell on eBay, and the majority of answers are: electronics, cars, books, movies.

With other words, there are big dreams in areas with a lot of competition.

I gently ask if any research was done about the competition.

The typical answer is NO, and no wander that only 20% of new eBay sellers succeed and 80% fail. I don’t want to scare the beginners but I don’t want them to start with false promises.

To be successful on eBay you must understand the eBay phenomenon. Especially now, with millions of people on-line selling and buying, the items with a lot of competition are not a good start for a beginner.

EBay itself has changed over the years. There are hundreds of large companies, warehouses included, selling on eBay and this has made it harder for the little guy to compete.

I did 2 years ago some drop shipping with a warehouse I trusted. One year I made decent profit. All over sudden my products from that warehouse stopped to sell. I did some research and I discover that the warehouse itself started to sell directly on eBay, and the prices warehouse offered on eBay was lower then prices warehouse offered me to buy items. As you can see, I wasn’t able to compete with the warehouse, my own drop shipper, on eBay.

In 2 month I gave up doing business with the warehouse, I started to search other avenues to make a profit.

This is other crucial lesson, the market trends are changing rapidly and we must find our quickly enough and adapt at any new changes.

What Skip McGrath accomplishes in his new e-Book is:

• He explains the advantages of small niche marketing and why they are working on eBay
• He shows proven niche markets that anyone can work in
• He finds niches that people can enter with very little investment and no risk

And as usual, everything Skip preaches is coming from experience and quality research. He is an excellent researcher, an open mind seller, and an honest teacher.

Any advice I got from him over the years was pure gold, never hype or bragging.

The e-book is for people who know to sell on eBay but never bother to search narrow niche, specialized niche which can be a real good source of profit.

I bought Skip McGrath e-Book, and after a couple of years being an eBay seller, I still found out good ideas and a lot of surprises coming out from his fabulous bonuses.

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Regards
Michaela
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