Here's How To Get The Sales Snowball Rolling.

I'll second that advice.

Many people don't seem to take ebay seriously as a marketplace, but remember that it's filled with buyers.

You can put up an item for sale and have 25 people view the item and 12 of those people will actually place a bid. That's an insane percentage.

You don't have to spend weeks or months trying to get people to trust you while they decide if they want to spend $27 on your e-book.

You can put something up for auction and see bids on it very quickly (within an hour sometimes) which will inspire you to keep going and list more items.

This is very good. I was actually just thinking of selling my iPod Touch to get some more money to invest in my business. I think ebay is a grand idea.

That's absolutely brilliant, and you're right - after you start seeing $$$ coming in, confidence comes right along with it, followed by motivation, work and more $$$!

I've never thought of getting the ball rolling through eBay, but you're right - it's the perfect place to start seeing results. Just to make sure you're successful, look at what you have to offer, and do some research - see if similar items are selling, and what they're going for. This way, you can make sure to sell stuff people want, and will know about where to price it so you get the best deal for yourself while increasing your likelihood of a successful sale.

Craigslist is a great place as well. In fact, in the last couple weeks I've sold a Plasma TV on Craigslist, a fridge, some surfboards, and I'm about to unload a host of other things cluttering up the garage.

I've also done this plenty of times and highly recommend it.
Great way to de-clutter your living- and working environment! Plus, it's marketing training 101, since you have to create an offer for each item you want to sell.

That's more or less how I got started, the only difference being that I wasn't actually intending to start anything. I chucked three items up on eBay just to give me something to think about other than a health issue my sister was having at the time (this would have been about seven years ago) and then immediately forgot about them. A week later my sister got the all-clear and I got an e-mail from eBay notifying me that I'd sold an old diamante brooch that had been hanging round doing nothing upstairs since Mrs Noah decided it didn't fit the ark image any more.

I actually remember getting my sister's news more than I remember getting the e-mail, but it obviously must have motivated me towards the world of online sales because nine months later I was an eBay Powerseller with a house full of wholesale stock and a whole new extended family in the form of the local post office staff. Even though I've moved house and no longer do eBay, we all still keep in touch to this day.

Like I said, I never intended online sales to play much of a part in my life when I first started eBaying, but it was a different story by the time I'd stopped doing it. It did change my mindset and my expectations and assumptions of myself, and these days I can't imagine a way of life that does not somehow involve making sales online.

You can kick-start your eBay enterprise for less of an investment by waiting for one of the cheap listing days they have (approximately once a month). In the meantime, you can use Turbo Lister (eBay's free bulk/multiple listing creator app) to create listings for all your items whenever you've got a spare minute. This saves bags of time, especially if you have lots of similar items like books or CDs. Once the next cheap listing day rolls around you'll be ready to go. Check first to make sure that there have been no increases in postage prices since you created your listings, otherwise you'll risk being out of pocket.