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Let’s say you’re just getting started on eBay. You’ve opened up your account and now you’re looking for something to sell. If you’ve already followed our advice to sell the stuff around your house you may be wondering what to sell next. Sure, your attic and closets may be clean, and you’ve gotten rid of the clutter, but now what?

It’s important to recognize that the lifeblood of your ebay business is products. If you don’t have any products to sell, then you don’t have an eBay business. You need products. How would you like an unlimited supply?

If so, then you should consider becoming an eBay Trading Assistant. A Trading Assistant is someone who “assists” another person sell an item on eBay. This means that you’ll take care of everything related to selling for that other person. You’ll take the pictures, write the descriptions, set the pricing and everything. So if your Aunt Gertrude wants you to sell her antiques on eBay, the you’ll be a Trading Assistant to her.

Now since your Aunt Gertrude is so dear to you, you might do this for free. For other people in your community, you’d likely charge them a commission for your time and energy. Or, you could buy their products and resell them yourself.

It’s that simple to have an unlimited supply of products to sell. Everyone has something cluttering up their house that they want to sell. And if you can help them make a quick buck, why wouldn’t they pay you a small portion of that? According to eBay, most people have over $1000 of items just lying around that they could sell. Not only will you help them get started, but you’ll have product (from one person) for many months to come.

Ok, so you do want to be a Trading Assistant. There are two ways to do it. First, you can do it the “official way” by registering on eBay. This will advertise you in eBay’s official “Trading Assistant Directory.” However, to be put in their directory, you need to be aware of a few things. First, you need to have 100 feedback ratings, with 98% of them positive. Also, you need to have sold 10 items in the previous 3 months. Your eBay account must also be in good standings. For the official details visit eBay at www.tradingassistant.com

If you don’t meet eBay’s requirements, however, don’t let that discourage you. You can still be a Trading Assistant “unofficially.” eBay can’t stop you from helping other people sell on eBay. The only real difference between being “offical” or “unofficial” is whether or not you can use eBay’s official Trading Assistant logo and be listed in the directory of Trading Assistants (so others can go onto eBay and find you). But regardless of whether you choose to be official or not, it’s always up to you to find who you can help.

A Trading Assistant needs to promote their services in order to find products to sell. You can do this by getting word of mouth buzz happening about you. Make sure that everybody knows what you do. Talk to your friends and neighbors and ask them if they need anything sold on eBay. The more people know about you, the more successful you’ll become. Post flyers. Put an ad in the paper. Whatever you can do to get people aware of you, the better.

The bottom line is that there is no end of products to sell on eBay. With a little creativity, you can be the “go-to” person for everything eBay related.

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Do you sell stuff on ebay? If so, you are more than likely trying to make some money by selling things that you don’t want any longer or stuff that you may perhaps have bought in bulk for the intention of selling in an auction listing. You need to realize that there are now hundreds and thousands of people who are trying to sell on ebay also.

What this means is that there is a lot of competition but with a little bit of help you can nevertheless make a profit selling on ebay if you learn how to market successfully.

Many people think of internet marketing as having an online retail store or having a website. When you sell on ebay, although you might not be running a retail store online, you are still hoping to make some cash, which makes you to some extent a retailer.

By listing your stuff for sale on ebay, you are getting some exposure to your items but you may want to take it a little bit further. You can get more marketing exposure without having to spend more money.

One example of this is to join the ebay community, also recognized as the ebay online message board. You can communicate with other ebay users via your ebay user name. As you communicate with other ebay members you will be leaving a link to your ebay listing page where you have your items listed for sale at this time.

While some of the members might just look at your page to see what you are offering, it is also likely that someone may see something that they are actually interested in. This will give your ebay listings more exposure since each time you begin a chat on the ebay community site you will be leaving the link to your auction page.

You may also gain more exposure to your listings by posting on message boards. You might find these by doing a general search for free to post on message boards in the search engines. At this time you can just post a link to your ebay auction page and offer a description of the item or items you are at this time selling on ebay.

Make sure that you recognize the message board policies so as not to be accused of spamming the members that might be a part of the online membership there. Using a signature is often allowed but again, be sure to recognize what the signature policy of each member board is.

One more way to get extra exposure to your listings is to let people see that they can see you other items for sale when you add a link from each of your listings to your other ebay auction listings.