How To Use Sites Such As eBay To Pay Those Bills.

How many times have you had an event in your diary or on your calender for many months. An up coming wedding, Holiday or Christmas, as you know you will be paying out quite a bit of money. But when the time comes, you either have to cut corners on the gifts or food and in worst cases not have that holiday you had been planning. Yes you could save money out of your monthly budget, but do we have that kind of money to set aside?

Some people may take out a loan or put it on the a card, while this works in the short time, that money has to be paid back and with interest. So what are the other options we have. Well one could be get another job, or a part-time job, but most people are too tired or have family commitments to look after. So what do we have left? Well one that has worked for people all over the world time and time again is selling on e-commerce sites such as eBay.

Selling on platforms can be worked along side your family and your work, and if done in the correct way can earn you a nice income which if you put some of the profits to one side will go along way to paying for that holiday or present. Remember you will need to re-invest some money each month back into your business to pay for expenses and for new stock. Also some will need to be put on one side for tax, but a large proportion can be put into a savings account for that special time.

A good formula which I have found has worked for me and many others is this.


Source your items from where you want to
Then spend a session taking the pictures and adding pictures to a file with names you will remember.
Next time you will write up the descriptions for all the items in something like word, notepad etc, again make sure you name things that you will remember.
Next time you will weigh the items and add this information to the descriptions, and make a note of the costings.
Then you are ready to list like mad, by having done all the hard work in the last few days or evenings all you need to do is a cut and paste job.

It is a good idea to have this information saved on a flash drive and Google Docs, this will let you list where ever you are by a computer you are allowed to use. Also set yourself some listing targets. For some people 3 a day works well, over a week it will give you 21 listings, while others could list 10 a day. You need to set this goal not too high it needs to be reachable by you each time.

Remember the more you list the more items there will be for people to see, and the more items there are to see, will mean more items will sell. Thus bringing you in money each and every day.

Andrew Milburn has been an active member of online auctions and other selling platforms such as Amazon for over 8 years. He loves the excitement of the online selling arena, but he also loves helping other people get the same buzz, and regularly coaches and teaches people in small groups or on their own. Andrew does have a blog that gives hints and tips about online selling and this can be found over at http://www.myauctionempires.com

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