Everyone hates when at work you are told by the monkey on your back how to do your job that you have been doing for a long time. Maybe that scenario will not happen anymore. That is right get out from under the thumb of your boss and start your own business. I know it sounds like it is extremely difficult to do but it is almost as easy as falling off a log. Sign up to Ebay and get an account, there is a learning curve but there is so much information on ebay to help the newbie out. just read everything on there and if you don't understand something then get live help. that is what it is there for. When starting out take it slow and get the hang of it. I suggest you get a small web host to host your pictures. one that is not too expensive but you can upload photos so you don't have to spend money at ebay with this cause they charge way too much for this.
Don't go out and look for ebay business on Google cause you will run into so many people trying you to buy their website that holds a millions of products and tells you that they are so in demand and you will make so much money. Sure people buy those things all the time they sell. but it is not something you want to start out on ebay doing at first cause you would have stiff competition. Lots of people sell the exact same things but lower cause they had big pockets starting out and by wholesale lots and you can not compete with them. Or should you want to starting out.
You need to treat your new ebay business just like a new brick and mortar store. Do research into what is selling best go to places like ebay pulse, google trends, yahoo buzz. and look at what is the best sellers. Then find products that include this. Do a keyword search for your product on google and put quote marks around it. That will tell you how in demand it is by doing a keyword search at free keyword tool like the one at Wordtracker. You can see how many people are search for the item that you are interested in.
The first thing in any thing you need to know about where you are selling the product and how to best put together your site at Ebay. You can start out relative inexpensive and use places like auctiva for their free and you can get listings and lots of neat gadgets for your selling. Invest your time into making your store the best looking selling magnet you can. Go to auctions and buy stuff at first to get the feel of ebay and how it works. You need to be a customer first before selling there.
You need to go and look at auctions of similar items to what you are selling and see how they are selling it take note of the sales messages and how they price it. This is called learning for what others are doing. do not ever copy their sales copy but get ideas from it and then write your own. Remember you need to tell the customers how they can benefit from your items.. Cause people buy stuff for the benefits for them.
