Technology Toolkit

Many of those individuals that make money from eBay do not every cent of their money from eBay. There are numerous different money making ventures that you can deploy to your existing business which should result in a helping hand.

The Supply Side

If you have any leftover stock or used items from another business you run, then why not sell them on eBay? You can make this a regular thing, using it to get rid of things that won’t sell for the premium you ask for in a shop, or items that are no longer in demand in the town or city where your business is based.

You can potentially make large sums of money deploying this methodology, providing you do it correctly. You should of course be an expert in the products that you choose to sell, as you would be using them in your business and you’d have a firm grasp of the products that are of good enough quality to sell. There is potentially a whole new market for your entire old inventory.

Not only have that, of course, but remembered that your good eBay reputation will make you a great buyer! If there’s ever anything you want to get for your business, the chances are you’ll be able to get it on eBay for a discount.

The Sales Side

Here on this side of things, is where the true power of eBay exists. EBay typically gives you an ‘about me’ page which you can utilise by writing anything you like in there and linking to any site you want on the web. This essentially means that you can get additional traffic to your personal website by linking to your site via the ‘about me’ page and linking to your ‘about me’ page from every auction you participate in.

To create an about me page, just click on ‘Community’ on the toolbar, scroll to the bottom of the page, and click ‘Create an About Me page’. You then get the option to either enter your own HTML or let eBay guide you through the process. All you need to do is write a little about your website, link to it, and you’re done – you’ll notice that more people start to come to your site straight away.

There are hundreds of people out there that vouch for this method to pull massive amount of traffic from eBay to their website, couple that with a very well written sales on and you can literally sell directly to buyers, cutting eBay (the middleman) right out of the equation. What’s best about this method is that the traffic you will receive will be highly targeted, because of the people who click through, would have done so because they were interested in the product on your auction[s].

This can be a really powerful technique, especially if you’ve already got an e-commerce site. Even if you haven’t, you might find it worth your time to set up a website that does nothing but list your eBay inventory with a few dollars off each item, with a PayPal ‘Buy Now’ button for each item. Then simply make the link to your About Me page read ‘Visit my website for even more bargains!’, and you’re done.

Now that you have been shown an innovative method of driving tons of traffic to your own personal website, maybe you would like to focus on other aspects of your business, like getting your auction in front of the potential buyers face.