eBay is THE most popular home business in the USA, but it's not without its
problems. Many have tried to succeed but have failed due to confusion over
what products to sell, giant numbers of competitors, copy and picture theft
from other sellers and eBay and Paypal that eat into profits.
One way to avoid this swamp, though, is to do a Joint Venture with established
eBay sellers. This allows a JV partner to build her own mailing list and
sell products off eBay.
There are multiple advantages to this way of doing business on eBay:
1. The biggest uncertainty for would-be eBay sellers is what products to
sell. Sometimes vendors risk large sums of money on untried products, only
to lose their investment, become sour and give up. With a Joint Venture there
is no risk except for a few hours of time.
2. Since there are no auctions listed on eBay, no one can steal copy or pictures
from JV sellers - because there is nothing to copy. In effect, we become
invisible - no one even knows we exist and this hidden aspect has many
advantages.
3. eBay JVs are usually done with a digital product that can be instantly
downloaded. This is great for any entrepreneur because inexpensive autoresponders
mean that her entire business is handled via autopilot. Contrast this with
the usual way of doing business on eBay which involves mailing dozens, hundreds
or even thousands of boxes.
4. eBay and Paypal have lots of rules. It's easy to break some unwittingly,
and even the most honest seller does so from time to time. A JV merchant
isn't answerable to eBay, however, but only to her customers.
5. A JV seller never directly lists on eBay, thus avoiding eBay and Paypal
fees.
6. Successful Powersellers have large numbers of customers and there are
lots of administrative details involved. Implementing a sales system can
cost time and money because without attention to detail packages won't be
mailed in a timely fashion, payments won't be accurate, items will be sent
to the wrong buyers, and so on. A JV partner eliminates all of that because
all transactions can be funneled through a hands-off system.
7. eBay selling lives or dies through the 'feedback' system. Negative feedback
can kill sales instantly and lack of feedback causes buyers to hesitite and
choose other sellers. Feedback is totally irrelevant to a Joint Venture seller
because she is using the reputation of carefully chosen other sellers. She
knows in advance that their feedback is high quality or she doesn't do deals
with them.
8. Inexperienced sellers sometimes drag wiser merchants into price wars.
In a panic over sales, they foolishly slash prices, beginning a chain reaction
that results in bare bones bids that allow no one to make any money. A Joint
Venture seller floats serenely above such hiccups in the marketplace.
9. Best of all, a JV seller doesn't settle for a one time sale. She concentrates
her efforts on a mailing list of happy customers that she can sell to again
and again and again. In this way, not only is she ensuring repeate profits,
but she gets paid for creating this list, rather than having to pay someone
else for names.
With its 147,000,000 registered users, eBay is the best source of targeted,
Net-savvy buyers on the web. By putting together Joint Venture deals with
established sellers, anyone can add large numbers of qualified buyers to
their database efficiently and inexpensively.
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