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May 09, 2007
Finding Your Niche on eBay
By Corry Cummings
Finding your niche on eBay can be a long and tough road. The most important thing to remember about finding what you will sell on eBay is that nobody can tell you what to sell. My job is to point you in the right direction, and inform you of what I know. I am very experienced in the field of eBay and have helped many people get on the right path to starting a career on eBay. I never once claimed that any specific eBay path would work for any specific person. Finding your eBay niche must be done within yourself. Nobody knows you like you do. If you have absolutely no interest in antiques or art then why would you attempt to become a specialist within this niche. Think about something that you really truly have a high interest in along with some passion. Don’t you think that you would be much more successful doing something within that niche? This is what many people don’t understand.
The first step of finding a product to sell on eBay is to discover what you enjoy and have a passion for. You probably don’t even need to discover it, because chances are you already have some sort of passion or interest. Whatever it may be, you can find a way to put that passion into a career on eBay. I personally never had a problem finding my niche, but that is because selling on eBay and running my own business is my passion. For most people, finding a niche is the key.
I will use one of my clients as a good example. He is an expert in the poker field. In fact he makes the majority of his income just by playing poker. However, he wanted to find a way to use poker to bring in his income that didn’t consist of the long nights, and stressful hours at a poker table. He came to me like he had a big problem, but what he didn’t know was that he was the easiest client I have ever had to deal with. He already had his niche figured out, and he had a passion that could easily be pushed into the eBay/internet field. I am currently building a poker website for him, and he is on his way to making a full time income from eBay. He writes e-books about poker, and he has hooked up with a good poker wholesaler. He has a poker store on eBay, and will soon have a website devoted to poker.
Whatever your niche may be you can find a way to incorporate it into eBay. The incorporating to eBay part may be the phase where you could use some help from someone that knows what they are doing. As far as finding your niche goes, you will only need yourself. Fortunately, once you find your niche the rest will all fall into place. It just takes some hard work and dedication.
If you still haven’t figured it out by now, the point of this article is to show you that finding your niche is really up to you. Nobody can tell you what to sell on eBay. You really could become a very successful eBay seller just by using the information given in this website.
To get all the free information about buying, selling, and making money on eBay visit my website at
www.eBayMysteries.com
Posted by Dave Bromley at May 9, 2007 09:12 AM
