Jumpstart Your eBay Business

When first learning how to sell on eBay, there’s one thing I can think of that attributed greatly to our success…

It happened in our first year of “business.” This means that although we were starting to learn how to sell, and we had spent lots of money and time learning, we weren’t actually selling yet.

(Isn’t it funny how determined you can be to get started at something, and how you can learn everything about a subject… but it doesn’t matter until you actually get started with it?)

It didn’t matter that we had the top experts teaching us everything we would ever want to know. The only thing that mattered was the action that we took. Instead of taking action, we were procrastinating.

Not taking action is probably the biggest barrier you’ll face when you want to start to make money online. Learning as much as you can about the topic makes you feel like you’re accomplishing something. The more you learn, the closer you think you’re getting to your goal. That’s not true. The only way you’ll get closer to your goal is to put in the work that is necessary to get you to your goal.

So here’s the turning point where we went from absolutely nothing to a profitable $3,000 a month eBay business in less than 60 days.

What was it? A simple contest. Our teachers said that whoever was the first person who could sell $1,000 in one month would win a cash prize.

I’m not saying that entering a contest is going to make you successful. It’s much more than that. It wasn’t about winning the prize or even what we were going to do with the prize money once we won. It was just a goal with a tangible outcome that we believed in and were determined to hit.

So we went for it. We pushed as hard as we could for the contest. We pulled out all the stops. We started selling. We put items up really fast. We did more things that month than the 6 months before. Did we win the contest? No, but what it did was get the ball rolling for something bigger than we could imagine.

What surprised us is that we did more than we ever thought we could. We were very close to hitting that $1,000 sales number in our first month. The next month, we sold $3,000! So it only took 60 days to go from making $0 to selling $3,000 per month.

So what does this mean for someone just learning how to sell?

If you’ve been struggling getting an eBay business going and have been researching and learning, the first thing you need to do is commit. It’s amazing what you can achieve when you believe with absolute certainty that starting an eBay business will change your life and provide you with a passive income in spite of the present economy.

It’s not going to happen in an instant. It’s not a sprint, it’s a marathon. You need to find the proper step by step training by someone who has been there and laid the groundwork for you, and you need to follow them to the letter.

Always remember that success leaves a trail. If you follow in the footprints of someone who is making money online, you can be a success as well.

Jesse Holmes is the creator of the free eBay 101 Start Up Kit. In this step by step video kit he will show you precisely how to sell on eBay quickly and easily! Get your free copy while supplies last.

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