What To Sell Online

Here is a little advice on what to sell online.

Make $3,000 Selling Small Items on Ebay

This is a guy I follow that has good ideas.  Kinghuman has tried many money making things over the years and talks from and personal experience he has had.  I think he brings an educated approach to the simple things we have all thought about, at one time or the other.

Niche Research With Amazon

I really appreciate this guys quick video on Amazon Niche Research.  Showing the average person how to find hot niches for you to market to.  I feel that he gives a lot of value in this video.


Thanks Waldorff Edison for a great video!

Amazon Affiliate Program

The holidays are coming up and if you are not an Amazon Affiliate, you need to be! Lots of people shop on Amazon for their favorite things, and you need to get a piece of the action. All you need to do is to go to www.amazon.com/affiliates and sign up for an affiliate account. If you already shop on amazon, then login and go down to the bottom.

 

Once you're all set up to promote affiliate offers, then you need to build a webpage that advertises that product. Places (that I am not endorsing) that you can do this at are hubpages, weebly, squidoo, webs, wix, blikpage, etc. Find a place that will let you post for free. Next setup the page to have your keyword (the searchable name of the product) in the web address, the header, and the article heading. This is very important, because it will help you out in the google rankings. Then write an article or product review of the item you are promoting. Lastly, grab the product link code from Amazon and insert it in your text like this:

 Keyword   which is done with     <a href="site to link to">your product keyword</a>

 FYI, this is html. Or you can post an active picture that will link to your affiliate offer. This can be achieved by downloading the picture that you want to use. Go to wwww.photobucket.com and create a free account. Upload the picture to photobucket and then grab the html code off of the picture you just uploaded (check your album). You will need to change the html code to use it. Just youtube this part if you you need help with this. Publish this page and then you are ready to get commissions. To improve your site authority and pagerank with Google, create 4 or 5 web 2.0 sites that also review the product or product accessories for the main product you want people to click. On each web 2.0 site, build a backlink to your main page and this will help it out rank better and faster on Google.

Craigslist Research

So you want to write killer Craigslist ads so that your product or service sells?  Here are some tips I found to help me out tremendously.

Outsource Your Startup

Just because you can create an affiliate campaign online does not make you a real web marketer or web-trepreneur.  

With everyone and their mother calling themselves Online Marketers, who are the real marketers?  Who are the real web entrepreneurs?  Who are the real movers and shakers of new ideas and ways of thinking?  One trend that I am seeing among the big boys (like Jeremy Shoemaker, Tim Ferris, etc ) is a new way of going about creating products, services, and opportunities online.  They simply sub it out to other people online.  

The idea of only doing a fraction of the real work, and reaping 100% of the profits is very attractive.  You just have to have the cash on hand to pay your contractors, and the time and patience to finish your projects.  With the large majority of people looking to start home-based business using an online platform, it seems they want a turnkey operation that costs them almost nothing upfront and can start making them money NOW!!!!  Most of them not having the skills and abilities, nor the desire to learn how to create the product themselves, this leaves the door wide open for those who can actually CREATE the tools to succeed........or who can bring the developers together to create the tools for them.

What a wonderful opportunity for entrepreneurs online.  Because there are sites like www.elance.com and www.odesk.com that offer programmers, developers  and creators to earn extra cash by working for those who are willing to pay them for their abilities.  The smart entrepreneurs are already employing these bright individuals to work on their projects.  And in most cases, completely outsourcing their design and operations online.  Say bye bye to the days of hiring a graphic designer making you a business card and charging you $300 to do it.  You can now go on Odesk and post your job and the price you are willing to pay, and developers from all over the world will respond.  Many of which will work for pennies on the dollar to do your work for you.  My good friend and entrepreneur Jon Giles pays less than $10 for a guy to develop quick-site designs for small online ideas.  They are quick, professional and responsive...........and CHEAP!  But you can also hire guys who are at the top of their game (in the world) for what they do.  They just charge a bit more than most.  What got me excited, was that I found a guy who specializes in Facebook Marketing and he only charges $4/hr for his work.  Why would I spend my time learning FB Marketing when I can employ a specialist for $4/hr to run my campaigns?  

If you are not using these tools for your business or ventures, then you are wasting your time and money!

You can hire the personnel who have the expensive software that you don't have, and you can employ them for dollars on the hour.  Exciting...I know, but do be warned that not all developers are equal or as cracked up to what they say they can do.  You must be aware that you might find some guys who just are terrible designers, but at least they are super cheap.  If you are afraid of poor quality, then just pay more per hour or per job.  Hire those who have better ratings, completed more projects and can communicate well. 

I am well aware that there are more sites than Elance.com and Odesk.com.  They are more well known and written about, and maybe I will compile a list of legit sourcing sites for labor/talent.  Good Luck!

How to Make Money on CraigsList

One of the best ways to earn cash online is through classified sites such as CraigsList. But most people simply over look it and most are afraid of it because of all the make money CraigsList scam stuff. Since Craig Alexander Newmark started CraigsList in 1995, CL has come a long way. It serves over twenty billion page views per month! CraigsList is one of the most popular websites in the world and millions of people visit it each month. And that makes it easy to earn money on CraigsList.

If you know how to make money on eBay, you may have a little easier time making money on CraigsList as it has some similarities. To make money online with CraigsList for free, you have to look into “For Sale” category. In the “For Sale” category of CraigsList, there is a section called “free stuff”. In this section, people give away stuff they don’t want, for free. You simply have to go pick them up. Some times people even include pictures of these items.

Register for free
Go to CraigsList and register for a free account, if you already don’t have one. You can register for free and it only takes a few seconds.

Find free items
Search your local CraigsList and look for free items that are in good shape (whcih most of them are). Sometimes you have to contact the owner to let them know you are going to pick it up, but in most cases, they will put the item in front of their drive way, which you just have to go there and pick it up.

Clean up
This step is the “hardest” part of making money with CraigsList. If possible, spend a few minutes to clean it up or whatever it needs to make it look better. For example, if its a desk, put a fresh coat of paint on it. Just make the item look as nice as you can.

Take pictures
When people look for stuff to buy on CraigsList or anywhere else for that matter, they tend to click on ads with pictures. People want to see what it looks like. So, spend a few minutes taking a few pictures of the item from different angles.

List your item
Now you need to list your item on CraigsList. Log in and list your item in the “for sale” category, under the appropriate section. This is very important, make sure you find and list your item under the right section. For example, if the item is a chair, listed under “furniture”.

If the item has some history to it, or there is anything interesting about it, use that to add a nice description of the item, even if its just a few words. In your ad, make sure you put your phone number or email address, so people can get in touch with you quickly.

Repeat the process
Now that you have listed your first item, go back and keep looking for other free stuff. Do this over and over again. After a while, you will know what items sell easier and faster, and what kinds of items don’t. As you do this over and over, you will gain some experience and the process becomes much faster and easier.

This is all it takes for making money on CraigsList, free. In a few hours or so, you will start to get calls and emails from people who want to buy the item. It is unbelievable how easy it is to make money with this method.

You may not believe it, but there are people who make (close to) living picking up free stuff from CraigsList and selling them back on CraigsList. It doesn’t take any skills, you don’t need any money, you don’t need a website, nothing. You don’t need anything but a free CraigsList account and internet connection. Its as simple as that.

If you want to make money without spending a dime and you don’t have any skills to offer, this is the way to do it. Finding free stuff on CraigsList and selling them back on CraigsList is how you can make money on CraigsList.                          

by Satrap

Origional article found on http://www.blogstash.com/how-to-make-money-on-craigslist/ and has  been written by Satrap