Choosing What to Sell Online: A 4-Point Formula for Profitable Product Selection
By Karen Brown
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About this ebook
“What Should I Sell Online?”
If that’s your question, then this book is the answer.
Selecting the best products to sell online goes beyond just choosing products you like. Professional online sellers know that the big money is made when you buy – not when you sell. Therefore, profitable product selection requires many considerations BEFORE you buy products for resale, such as how to price products competitively, how to assess product condition, how to estimate profits, how to gauge product demand, knowing what to pay for products for resale, and much more.
Veteran Amazon.com seller, Karen Brown, answers these questions for you in her book, Choosing What to Sell Online: A 4-Point Formula for Profitable Product Selection. Karen began selling online professionally in 2006 with about $20 of product. Now entering her sixth year as an online seller, Karen closes 2011 with a career total of over $100,000 in part-time gross sales on Amazon.com. At the time of this writing, Karen has a 95% lifetime Amazon.com seller rating from over 1,450 customer reviews.
This book will give you:
-a proven formula for choosing the best products to sell online.
-a list of hot products online customers want to buy now.
-an offer for personal one-on-one help, if needed.
Let this book be your guide to building your own small fortune in e-retail. Enjoy!
Karen Brown
Karen Brown is currently an ESRC Research Fellow at the Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, University of Oxford. She has published a number of papers that deal with environmental and veterinary history in South Africa.
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Choosing What to Sell Online - Karen Brown
Choosing What to Sell Online
A 4-Point Formula for
Profitable Product Selection
By Karen Brown
Copyright 2011 by Karen Brown
Smashwords Edition.
Smashwords Edition, License Notes
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I dedicate this e-book to my soon-to-be-born daughter, Dharma.
I love you already.
Table of Contents
Chapter One: Hello
Chapter Two: Can I Really Make Money Selling Stuff Online?
Chapter Three: Congratulations! You’re A Winner!
Chapter Four: The Buy-Right Formula
Chapter Five: Buy Right Formula Point #1: Compatibility
Chapter Six: Buy Right Formula Point #2: Condition
Chapter Seven: Buy Right Formula Point #3: Demand
Chapter Eight: Buy Right Formula Point #4: Cost
Chapter Nine: In Summary
Appendix A: The Hot Products List
Appendix B: The E-Retail Personal Session
Bibliography
Introduction
What should I sell online?
That’s one of the first questions a person faces when first entering the business of online selling. With that question comes an overwhelming number of choices. Literally millions of products are sold online every single day. The task of choosing just a few of the millions to sell can seem daunting.
This e-book will help you answer that question in a way that considers your personal goals and your situation. It will begin by reassuring you that there’s plenty of money to be made in online selling. So the seemingly overwhelming amount of information you’re required to learn and process to do this business is merely the price of admission to earning a consistent and growing income right away. This e-book will then introduce you to a formula to help you wade through the millions of products you could possibly choose to sell to find the one or the several that are perfect for you to sell right now. The value of this formula is that it grew out of the mistakes and lessons I learned in the six years I’ve spent buying and selling online. It steers you clear of many mistakes and focuses you on some of the considerations that will make your business soar. I feel confident that this e-book offers good guidance for new online sellers as well as for veteran sellers looking to change their business model and increase their sales.
Caution: This is not a book on product sourcing. There is one paragraph on product sourcing in this entire e-book and that’s it. I intentionally wrote this e-book on the very narrow topic of choosing what to sell online so as to focus the reader on the weight and importance of this choice to the success of your business. There are tons of books on product sourcing available on the Internet as well as several online articles. I also have plans to produce an e-book on product sourcing in the coming months, so stay tuned.
So as not to disappoint those of you who are too Type-A to read the whole e-book and just want some quick ideas about what to buy to sell online, I have included in Appendix A of this book a Hot Products List. This list includes the top 10 highest-demand products in 24 product categories on Amazon.com.
You can use this information in several different ways. If you have these products at home, you now know you can sell them online for quick profits. Or, you could try to purchase these items from a vendor for re-sale. Still you could just peruse the categories and get a feel for what brands and products are popular and what you feel attracted to selling online
At the very end of this book in Appendix B you will find a fantastic offer for E-Retail Personal Sessions. Sometimes it just helps to talk to someone who’s done what you’re trying to do and have them give you one-on-one guidance specific to your personal situation. If after reading this e-book you feel like