Product Description

If you want to build a profitable--and consistent--eBay business, you need to start with strategic product sourcing. What to Sell on eBay and Where to Get It reveals the same techniques used by the most successful e-commerce entrepreneurs and by major retail chains to determine what products will sell well and which suppliers will deliver those products for the best price.

Learn to generate product ideas, research your markets, diversify your product line, and build a direct supply of inventory. Using the proven strategies in this book, you’ll be able to find the products that will fuel your business for the long term and skyrocket your sales!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #26584 in Books
• Published on: 2006-01-24
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 288 pages

From the Back Cover

Sell them exactly what they want to buy

If you want to build a profitable--and consistent--eBay business, you need to start with strategic product sourcing. What to Sell on eBay and Where to Get It reveals the same techniques used by the most successful e-commerce entrepreneurs and by major retail chains to determine what products will sell well and which suppliers will deliver those products for the best price.

Learn to generate product ideas, research your markets, diversify your product line, and build a direct supply of inventory. Using the proven strategies in this book, you’ll be able to find the products that will fuel your business for the long term and skyrocket your sales!

• Find out how to spot trends and discover Idea Hotspots
• Document your product sourcing ideas
• Identify niche markets
• Research products to determine their profit potential
• Set your business apart from the competition using creative product selection
• Up-sell products and offer value added items and bundles
• Locate and purchase products through legitimate wholesalers
• Spot and avoid middlemen and scammers

About the Author

Chris Malta is founder and CEO of Worldwide Brands, Inc., an eBay Certified Solutions Provider helping online sellers find legitimate wholesale suppliers. He hosts Entrepreneur magazine’s "eBiz Radio Show" and is Product Sourcing Editor for eBay Radio.

Lisa Suttora is founder and CEO of What Do I Sell.com, an eBay Certified Service Provider that specializes in teaching retail entrepreneurs how to find the products buyers want most. She is a Contributing Editor to Entrepreneur magazine’s "Product Sourcing Radio Show" and "eBiz Radio Show" and has been a featured speaker on the eBay Live Product Sourcing Panel.

Customer Reviews

Another $$ Black Hole
Don't bother, folks...it's another one of those "how to do it" books that offer a compendium of vague principles and "ideas" that you can find all over the web in free articles, a million other books (some of which you probably already own), with some plugs for the authors' sites thrown in. There's absolutely nothing more here.

(As an aside, one of the authors' sites violates several very basic and well-known marketing principles, so we might question her expertise, and it gives a "suite number" in the mailing address, which appears to be a mailbox rental place when you Google the street address. If so, "box number" would be a bit more straight-up, no?)

...and take the good reviews with a grain of salt. I suspect many were written by folks with an agenda of one kind or another. I don't find any agendas in the negative reviews, however, as none of them that I've read are selling an alternative. I wish they were!

Oh Thank you!!
Thank you so much for taking the time to write these reviews, I was about to purchase ! Thanks for saving my money!!

Great Book
I was a power seller on ebay for a full year but then ebay became so commercial that it made it impossible for the little guy to make any kind of living. Now it's like an online retailer mall rather than a place for the home worker to make a living. But if you still want to give ebay a try then I would recommend this book. It's very straight forward on what it takes to find products to sell. Make no mistake, it does NOT tell you where to go to find things to sell, rather it tells you how to come up with your own ideas and how to research them. It teaches you how to find a niche and exploit it.