Selling PDF files/documents on the internet through PayPal:

“I want to start selling PDF files online but I don’t know where to begin.”

“I don’t want to have to keep paying someone else to continue selling PDF files for me.”

“What do I need to do to start selling PDF files from my website?”

Do you have questions like these concerning PDFs? Have these questions and thoughts been roaming through your mind for quite some time?

If so, consider yourself lucky for coming across this article. I’ll tell you what you need to do to begin selling PDF files (or any other file for that matter) from your own website.

While there are other ways to start selling PDF files, I strongly suggest you have a few things in order first before beginning. If you’re serious about making money from the PDF document(s) that you’re trying to sell, these things are extremely important.

To appear professional and actually attract customers that will buy your PDF files, you must ensure that you do the following:

1. Get your own website (purchase a domain name and a UNIX webhosting from GoDaddy.com).

2. Set up your website (a page on the web/internet where you can describe your PDF documents for customers to find).

3. Set up a Business Account at PayPal.com (this is the trusted payment system that will process payments made for your PDF documents).

4. Purchase a onetime PHP Code (this is the main ENGINE that will sell your PDFs for you).

Numbers 1, 2 and 3 are the very first things you MUST have completed in order to begin to sell PDF documents online. You may already have completed Steps 1 and 3, which is even better. But make sure steps 1 through 3 are done before you proceed to step 4.

It is important you resist the temptation to be cheap here. Don’t set up a lazy blog and use that for a website. Don’t do it! You must purchase a real website for your PDF documents. Selling PDF files online can be a very lucrative business if you choose to take it seriously.

Once the top three steps from above are in order, all you need to do now is to purchase a PHP code. What that code will do for you is this:

Each time a customer clicks on the “Buy Now” or “Purchase Now” link on your website to purchase your pdf product, PayPal will process their payment. And once payment completes successfully, PayPal will redirect the customer to the PHP code and that PHP code will make your PDF document available for the customer to immediately download.

After customer downloads your PDF document, a notification email will be sent to you (the site administrator) informing you about the PDF file download. This way, you have a record of EVERY single PDF download that is initiated by your customers.

For many recording artists, the dreams of having a successful mixtape will remain that, just a dream. Why? Because most artist, sadly, don’t understand how to promote a mixtape online and sell it. Learning how to sell a mixtape is a matter of learning marketing and sales strategies as well as having a properly developed plan. Many rappers try to find free ways to promote music online,however, in order to have a successful release you will need some upfront capital to invest into your project. Let’s take a look at some of the factors you’ll have to consider in your budget before you start mixtape promotion.

How To Make A Mixtape CD

Assuming you’ll be releasing an all original mixtape AND have prepared a written plan of action, the following should be considered when financing your project:

Beat Leases and/or Exclusive Beat Prices

Recording costs

Graphic Design Fees

CD Duplication/Replication Costs

Music Videos

Miscellaneous Advertising Costs

Beat Leases, Exclusive Beats

If you don’t make your own beats, you’ll need to allot an amount of money for buying beat leases or exclusive rights to beats. Whether you buy beats online or offline is entirely up to you.

Let’s use these numbers for sake of example:

You buy 10 beat leases online @ $50 per lease with a distribution limit of 2,500 units.

Cost: $500

You purchase 3 exclusive beats on sale for $250 per instrumental with unlimited distribution rights.

Cost: $750

Recording

Your recording costs will vary depending on the recording engineer you choose as well as the studio location. If you’re a do-it-yourself musician and are capable of recording your own vocals, then you’ll save big here. Otherwise consider the following realistic figures:

Recording Rate: $50/hour with a minimum booking of 2 hours.

Let’s say it takes you and the engineer 3 hours to record and mix 1 song.

For a mixtape of 13 songs your costs would be 39 hours x $50/ hour

Cost: $1950

Audio Mastering

Let’s say that you utilize discmakers audio mastering services for your mixtape. Your cost for 13 songs would run $599.

Total recording cost: $2549

Graphic Design

Continuing with our hypothetical scenario, we’ll assume that to get a professionally prepared front and back cover to promote the mixtape online. It will cost $200.

CD Duplication/Replication

For our purposes we’ll use Discmakers CD duplication services, purchasing 500 copies of the completed mixtape for promotion. The total cost here will run approximately $480. These CDs will be used to sell at shows and other performance venues.

Music Video

To help with online mixtape promotion, we’ll create 1 promotional music video to drive traffic from YouTube to the music.

Cost: $500

Miscellaneous Advertising

You’ll want to keep your miscellaneous advertising costs minimal. For our purposes we will conservatively dedicate $1200 dollars into our miscellaneous advertising efforts consisting of:

1 Flash Rotator Banner On Datpiff

1 YouTube Promoted Video

1 Google AdWords Campaign

1 Facebook Ads Campaign

Total Investment Estimate = $6179

How To Fund Your Mixtape

So we’ve estimated that you’ll have to invest a little over $6,000 in your mixtape. The goal for this project is to sell the mixtape at performances, shows, and distribute the music through digital outlets for profit. Here are a few ideas that can help you fund, promote, and sell your mixtape online.

Ask Family, Friends

Although your pride might tell you otherwise, ask your family and friends to help you fund and assist in your mixtape promotion efforts. Even if they only contributed $5 dollars, you are $5 dollars closer to your goal.

Crowdingfunding

Crowing funding has become an increasingly popular way to gain monetary resources. Also known as crowd financing, equity crowdfunding or hyper funding, it describes the collective cooperation, attention, and trust by people who network and pool their resources, usually via the Internet, to support efforts initiated by other people or organizations.

Crowd Funding Websites: Kickstarter, Crowd Tilt, AngelList, Crowd Funder, We Funder, Indie Go Go, Micro Ventures

Loans

Personal, bank loans, and small business loans can all be considered as funding options for your mixtape. Be sure that you clearly understand the terms of your loan agreement and are committed to paying your loan back in full with interest as necessary. If your mixtape project is not-for-profit you may consider seeking out a grant.

Resources: Small Business Administration, Grants

Pre-Selling

You can pre-sell your mixtape before its actual release. This often works well if a bonus offer is included with the pre-order (i.e., merchandise, exclusive downloads, signed copies of the project, etc).

Sell Singles

You can sell individual tracks as you record them, using the money from the first ones to pay for the next recordings and/or other mixtape expenses.

Resources: Tunecore, Cdbaby

Sponsorships/Endorsements

If you’ve built up enough buzz prior to your mixtape release, you may get sponsors to pay for some of your mixtape expenses. Acquiring sponsorships will take some in-depth relationship building and networking, but if you can pull it off it will be a huge bonus for you.

Final Thought

Promoting and selling a mixtape is similar to developing a new product for a business. It takes calculated effort and adequate funding to promote your mixtape to the masses. Hopefully, this post has given you helpful tips to promote your mixtape online.

Good luck!

One thing I never understood was why there is a separation between grinding “offline” and “online”. To me it’s all grinding towards to same goal. In fact you can use local promotion methods to increase your online production business.

Up and coming artist need beats. Period. So you can find local artist who need beats and give them your website. That way you don’t have to waste time trying to set up listening sessions and what not. They can go online and view your portfolio of beats and purchase if they choose to.

This also gets rid of the BUM artist who are looking to use you for free beats. I really do hate those type of people. I’m going to go on a quick rant.

Why do artist that are not even willing to invest in beats, think anybody is going to take them serious enough to invest THEIR money in them. Lets not forget a record label is an investment company. I suggest getting the hell away from these artist immediately. You will only be wasting your time, and beats with these artist.

When you whip out a card or flyer with your website on it, they see you are serious about your business. Let it be known if they want beats they are going to have to pay for them.

Don’t waste time on bums.

OK the rant is over.

So hopefully you realize that you could be missing money by not going local. Pass out flyers at freestyle battles, hip hop events, and anywhere you know artist are going to congregate at.

Have some business cards printed up with your website on them.

If you truly want to pursue a career in the music production field then you need to get off your @$$ and grind. Don’t be afraid to let every artist know about your production website.

Now go take action.

The music industry has grown, but the way music is delivered has shrunk over the years. People with old album collections who want to sell LPs online can do it themselves, or get the assistance of dealers, who can make the process much easier and still quite profitable. Resellers know how to price records, and they’re got more experienced in selling them online than the average person.

But before taking your records to a reseller and thinking you’re going to make a ton of money, consider several things. First, what condition are your albums in? While most people today don’t own turntables, there are plenty who still do, and they aren’t going to pay very much for scratched and played-out albums. You don’t want to try to sell LPs that are damaged.

On the other hand, if you have kept your albums in decent or excellent condition, you have the type of albums that people want to buy. Many collectors, thinking ahead, bought albums 20, 30 and 40 years ago and never even opened them. These people sell LPs online – by themselves or through dealers – and often receive top dollar for them.

Another thing to consider is who are the artists and what are the songs on your albums. This will affect the price. Vague artists or bands that hardly anyone heard of “back in the day” and nobody at all knows today will not bring a high price. However, if you have albums in your collection that were (and maybe still are) popular and contain songs that were once hits, you’re in a better position to make more money when you sell LPs online.

One advantage of selling your music to a reseller rather than directly over the Internet is the dealer will have experience and know the value of your records. When you sell LPs on your own, what will you use to determine the price? Likely you’ll either over-price, in which case you won’t sell much, or you’ll under-price and let go of records for a fraction of what you could have gotten for them.

Like with any collectibles, dealers can look at two similar albums and immediately know there’s a huge value-difference between them. Inexperienced people who want to sell LPs online usually don’t know this difference.

To sum up, just because you can’t play your records any longer doesn’t mean that others can’t. If you want to sell them and make some cash, a qualified dealer/reseller can help you and also give you a fair price that you might not get if you sell LPs on your own.

Are you interested in selling sports equipment online? What kind of sporting equipment can you sell on your retail store? The answer is anything! The real trick to attracting buyers to clicking the buy or order now button is to sell stuff that you are interested in or that you have a vast knowledge of.

LEVEL UP WITH YOUR CUSTOMERS
In sports, you should be knowledgeable of the stuffs that you are selling. There are some buyers who would ask for the special features of the products that you are selling. If you cannot answer their questions, chances are buyers will look for another seller who can satisfy their requirement. Buyers would want someone who they can ask tips or advices on what is best or more appropriate for their playing needs.

BADMINTON PRODUCTS THAT ARE IN DEMAND
Badminton is one of the sports that have been gaining popularity in the court. If you are a badminton enthusiast then this is the right niche for you. Like any other sports, badminton has an enormous product line which you can merchandise. Here is a list of badminton products that are in demand online :

1. Rackets
2. Strings
3. Grips
4. Shuttlecocks
5. Badminton bags
6. Badminton shoes
7. Clothing
8. Net
9. Badminton sets

Badminton has also been widely recognized because it can be played by any group age, by singles or doubles, in badminton courts and sometimes even in the streets. This craze has increased the demand for gears, accessories, clothing, shoes and nutritional products related to the sports. You can opt to drop ship your products for your selling advantage.

DROP SHIPPING BADMINTON EQUIPMENT
When you already have a buyer for a particular item, it is the only time that you need to place an order from the drop shipping company. The benefit of drop shipping your badminton items can do so many wonders for your business. You can call and order your items from drop shippers and everything gets done for you.

In drop shipping be sure to keep in mind this important notes :

– Give your drop shipper specific details of the item that you are buying;
– Determine all the costs involve and negotiate to get a bargain deal from your drop shipper;
– Know the payment terms of your drop shipper;
– Provide your drop shipper with the complete contact details of your customer;
– Make sure that your drop shipper delivers the item to your customer on time; and,
– Most importantly, be wary of individuals claiming to be drop shippers.

In Salehoo, you can have access to a wide selection of suppliers including wholesalers, distributors, manufacturers and drop shippers who can supply your badminton products at a really bargain price. Their suppliers also carry top brand names of your badminton equipment and accessories and it is all made easy for you with just a click of your mouse. At such a reasonable price, Salehoo offers their directory list for a one-time payment only.

In this article I will explain to you how to sell funny pictures online for a big profit.

Perhaps you don’t know it but if you have some original funny pictures you are sitting on a gold mine.

If you do a Google search for funny pictures you will find more then thirty five millions of results for that keyword alone.

Such large numbers may impress you but after all everybody wants to be entertained.

In this article I will explain to you how to sell funny pictures online.

1 # Funny pictures: Submit them to break.com.

A great place to sell funny pictures online is by registering a free account on break.com.

If your pictures make it to a gallery you get paid a cool 25$ bucks.

If you have some original funny videos make sure that you submit hem as well.

Break gives you an awesome two thousand dollars for this kind of videos that make it on their homepage.

The best thing you can do is submitting your funny pictures or videos to break.com right away.

But keep in mind that it is break’s staff who decided if your pictures will make it trough the gallery or not.

2 # Ebaumsworld.com

Ebaumsworld.com is a site similar to break.com they also pay you to submit your funny pictures and videos.

However it is possible to upload jokes and mp3’s as well.

3 # Shutterstock.com

One of my favourite places to sell pictures online is trough shutterstock.com.

They pay you 20 cents per download of your picture.

Twenty cent per download doesn’t look much but the user doesn’t have to pay a dime to download it.

Sites like shutterstock.com are called online stock photography sites.

4 # Additional stock photography sites.

Buying and selling pictures is a very large market so shutterstock.com is far from the only website that offers a similar service.

To help you out I will give you five additional websites where you can send your funny pictures to it.

– Fototopic.com

– Istockphoto.com

– Fotolia.com

– Spymedia.com

– Canstockphoto.com

Before you submit your pictures to similar sites make sure that you have read their faq and their guidelines.

Most sites don’t allow you to submit pictures with people on it.

I hope you have an idea now how to sell funny pictures online.

So far I have spoken about who I am, what I did and how I got involved in internet businesses as well as different models underneath the same way traditional ones are run in shops, restaurants and offices.

In this article, I am going to explain what is the right way to sell other people’s and your own products online and the information I am providing you below is what most gurus charged a lot of money for in their coaching programs.

1. Identify Your Niche

The very first thing is to identify your niche.

A niche is what you are good at, knows a lot, likes the most and spends a lot of time in.

It does not have to be making money online unless you do not have a niche in mind or are unsure if what you come up is what the market wants.

Can be other things like cooking, drawing, entertaining like dancing and singing, investing, photography and sports such as bowling and golf just to name a few.

And the reason why I say those is so that when you shared with others, they will perceive you as more authentic as in being real instead of trying to fake just to make money out of them.

2. Identify Your NIche Market

This is what you should do next.

As in finding a group or better still, groups of people who shared your interest and whom you can connect and relate to.

The main questions you probably have in mind like others are:

A. How and where to find people?

B.Even If I do, how am I going to approach them?

My answer is any place with a lot of people talking about a common topic, passion or problem is a potential market.

Offline, you can go to networking events such as those in Meetup and organized by your family and friends, join courses and local community clubs based around your passion or what you are keen on.

Online, you can join Facebook groups and forums.

But whichever, your goal is the same.

To build relationships with those people to let them know who you are and how you can help them before earning their trust.

And in order to do that well, you need to give yourself at least 2-3 months.

Though there are other methods as well like SEO and paid ads, this one by far works the best since it does not require you to spend money but just your and others’ time.

3. Identify Your Niche Market Needs And Wants Through Product Research

Once you have established strong rapport with those people who will be your prospects and potential customers, you need to find products that can either solve their problems or fulfil their desire.

This is where you did research through Google and affiliate networks like Amazon and ClickBank.

Before coming up with a list of 3-5 of those products that are best relevant to what they are looking for as solutions or achievements.

4. Building Your Online Presence

Once you have done the first 3 tasks, by right you can begin recommending and promoting to your market.

But if your goal is to build a long-term sustainable online business, you should resist that temptation to make immediate or quick gains for long-term profits.

This is where you get technical as in registering your domain and web hosting to build 2 types of websites.

One is your blog in which you let readers know who you are, what you do and how you can help them while the other is your landing, lead capture or squeeze page – a 1 page site designed to get their email addresses in exchange for your free gift which can either be a 5-10 PDF report, video or both before linking them to your affiliate or own offer.

You also need to set up social media channels which everyone is browsing for maximum exposure such as Facebook profile, fanpage, group, Google+, Twitter and YouTube accounts.

5. Email Follow Up Through Autoresponder

When you first recommend products in your blog or the free gift download page you promised once they opted into your landing page, most people will not buy.

Therefore instead of continuous advertising which requires time, money and creativity, you can effectively cut down costs by following up with them through emails.

However like everything else, there is a right and wrong way to write emails.

The wrong is obviously to keep blasting offers after offers with little or no regards to what your subscribers need and want.

While the right way is to provide them valuable information to educate and nurture them before they can make a more informed buying or not-to-take-up decision.

With that said, this is my 5-step internet marketing system on how to sell other people’s and your own products online the right way.

Many professionals are entering the online retail industry, selling skin care products online. The online beauty industry can be a very lucrative and profitable market. Skin professionals and brands that want to successfully sell products online must have a comprehensive approach.

A company or entrepreneur should incorporate a diverse and more comprehensive approach to sales, marketing, and management of online infrastructures. Online business activities are different in many aspects then running a brick and mortar business.

Professionals such as aestheticians, dermatologists, skin product brands, skin clinics, and other skin related professionals often are selling products online or at least desire to do so.

The skin care industry is a multi-billion dollar business, estimated to be worth US 43 billion per year. It has steadily grown in the past years, and is expected to grow over 7% more this year. Europe and the US are the biggest markets of the industry, accounting for over 50% of global sales. Asian and Latin markets are some of the fastest growing beauty markets for skin product sales.

Start to Sell Skin Care Products Online

In order to sell products online, a business needs the proper setup and infrastructure. A skin professional will have choices and options; this includes budgets and certain levels of service. If a skin care professional does not know where to start or how to choose, considering the help of skin care business consulting can greatly help the process.

A consultant works with multiple business types and can be of great help, avoiding costly mistakes and pitfalls. To start selling products online, a business will need several things in place and properly setup.

Setup for Selling Products Online

– Website Design & Development

– E-commerce Application

– Store Design & Setup

– Merchant Account & Services

– Website Content

– Marketing & Advertising

– Promotions & Shopping Incentives

– Shipping & Handling System

– E-Commerce Sales Management

– Reports & Statistics

Running an online business comes with many benefits, but it can as well be overwhelming. Business activities are different and potentially new, which can add an element of difficulty for skin professionals.

In most cases, skin professionals fail to understand the importance of proper setup to sell products online successfully. In addition, online marketing and advertising requirements are often not understood well or required campaigns are not deployed or well executed.

Skin Care Websites

Websites with e-commerce abilities are the foundation for selling products online. Too often, poor architected and designed websites are used with even more poor e-commerce applications and systems. In order to make money, in a very competitive market such as the beauty industry, e-commerce websites have to be done properly and professionally.

Skin professionals have 2 e-commerce website choices

1. Hosted and Leased E-commerce Website Solutions

2. Open-Source Skin Care E-commerce Websites

Hosted & Leased E-commerce Websites

Hosted or often called leased e-commerce solutions and websites are options that come with a small or no upfront cost, but with a larger monthly fee. There is a third party company that hosts the website, manages merchant services, and provides other solutions around e-commerce and websites.

These websites are quick to launch and easy to utilize for a business. The downside is the lack of control, lack of marketing abilities, no ownership, and long-term benefits. It is not a solution chosen if given a choice. Most pick this path, when there is a small budget or no budget available. In some instances, a company just needs an ability to clear orders through electronic commerce, and chooses a hosted solution that is managed.

Companies that wish to grow and market their websites to achieve sales and own and/or have more control would choose a open-source e-commerce solution and website.

Open-Source E-commerce Websites

Open-source means free and many e-commerce applications are free these days. A skin care business just needs to pay a website designer or company to setup, install, and custom design a skin care website with e-commerce store and other vital elements.

Open-source website systems that offer e-commerce can be such as WordPress, Magento, and other popular applications. These systems come with complete Content Management Systems (CMS), sales administration, and merchant services setup. Once setup and designed, skin care professionals receive a powerful tool to sell products online.

These types of solutions do not come with a monthly fee. They are free after the launch of the website aside from hosting fees, which are minimal. The upfront cost is greater, but there are no monthly fees. Open-source websites come with a host of benefits, long-term and short. They are the ideal solution for anyone who plans to invest resources into marketing and advertising products.

Marketing & Advertising Products

To sell products online successfully, marketing and advertising will be a key activity for skin care professionals. In order to be successful with an e-commerce website, the following marketing and advertising strategies should be properly setup, deployed, and managed.

Marketing & Advertising Campaigns

– Search Engine Optimization

– Social Media Marketing

– Content Marketing

– Paid Advertising

– Print Advertising

– Conversion Optimization

– Public Relations

Marketing and advertising online can be overwhelming to professionals, who want to sell skin oriented products online. Marketing professionals and experts through marketing consulting services can in more detail explain and review all options and budgets. Skin professionals can educate themselves and examine all options with consultants prior to allocating budgets, hiring vendors, and making decisions.

Professionals can be hired short term to execute and implement the proper e-commerce solutions and give the skin care business the best possible start. To ensure this, experts can guide, advice, and manage aspects of the online business.

Sales experience and talent is something that pretty much every business looks for in its staff. Being able to sell is an incredibly valuable skill and something that will allow you to pretty much make money wherever you are and whatever your product is.

This is true in person but it’s also true online. In fact, most of the highest paid jobs online involve little more than sales. Affiliate marketing literally means you are promoting and selling the products of other creators. This is just like being a door-to-door salesman, except you now have a door to the entire world.

If you know how to use the web and you know how to sell then there is an absolute fortune to be made!

But is this a skill that you can learn? Is sales technique something you just have to be born with innately? Let’s take a closer look and find out.

The Most Powerful Key to Selling is Pre-Suasion

While there are many different nuances and factors involved in selling, perhaps the most important thing to consider of all is the powerful role of pre-suasion. Pre-suasion essentially describes the fact that you don’t tend to sell at the point of the sale. The moment you close the sale is very important of course but this isn’t the point at which the buyer will make that decision and it’s not the point at which you have the most important influence.

That point is long before they come to your website. Pre-suasion means that you’re priming someone to buy your product even before you show it to them. That can mean building trust and authority but it can also mean showing them a video of something inspiring. It can also mean getting them at a point when they’re tired and thus more impulsive. Think about your pre-game and just how important this aspect is.

The Value Proposition

What’s also important is to recognize the inherent value that your product has to the buyer. When you sell something, you are always selling more than the sum of the parts. Most things we buy, we view as a means to an end. Whether that end is to make our home more attractive and appealing, or whether it is to look sexier, healthier and more confident. And why do we want to look sexier? So that we can have more success with the opposite sex.

That’s why adverts for Lynx deodorant are never about the actual smell but rather about attracting women. That’s why men buy Lynx. Likewise, you need to think about what the value proposition is for your fitness eBook. It just might be the very same thing.

Emotion, Not Logic

Once you’re pre-suaded and explained your value proposition, all that is left to do is strike while the iron is hot and get your audience to part with their cash. People rarely buy based on logical decisions and almost always buy based on emotion. Get them to act fast before that emotion fades!

All kinds of antiques, from dolls to furniture are certainly great sellers. But most of us are not antique dealers and may not know or care enough about them. So here are twelve things that sell like crazy that you can profit from using online auctions. (The list is not in priority order.)

1. Coins

A lot of people are coin collectors. You can buy on the Internet all kinds of foreign coins; pesos from Mexico, and coins from Brazil. Now we have the Euro, coins in the old money can only increase in value as they become a rarity.

These are very cheap coins. Some people have packaged them, like one hundred coins of the world, and they have sold at auction for £60 and £70. Many of those coins, like the Mexican peso and Brazilian one peso coin is less than a penny.

Also, Indian Head pennies and old silver, and even some current silver that’s not that old, what’s called junk silver, but it is still silver, is very popular. Some people bid this stuff up far more than what you can buy it for as base metal. It’s crazy, but that’s how it is.

2. Pocket and hunting knives

Both old and new pocket and hunting knives are very popular items. This category also includes swords.

It’s not for everyone, but if you are interested or have some knowledge of survival skills using knives, or find the history of swords fascinating these items do well online.

3. Watches and Rings

People are into some unusual watches and rings. Some of the turquoise watches and jewellery from New Mexico, was originally popular twenty years ago. But then it went out of fashion and nobody would wear it. Now, once again, it is popular.

If you can buy that jewellery at a good price, you can double and even triple your money.

4. Music boxes

Music boxes are very collectible and highly popular. They are relatively easy to ship to customers. A visit to any junk shop, car boot sale, antiques mall or market will usually yield at least one music box.

5. Holiday Season Items

All kinds of unusual items linked to Easter, Christmas and Halloween are extremely popular. People have bid items in this category way up.

6. Native American Indian Arts and Crafts

Anything to do with Indian arts and crafts is big business especially in the USA, UK, Germany and Belgium. Old arrowheads are popular, blankets, saddles, beadwork, all sorts of things connected with the Native American nations.

7. Religious Items

It doesn’t matter whether the religious items are Christian, Jewish, Islamic, Hindu or any other religion. They are all very popular.

In the Middle East they have “worry beads.” I had an Arab friend many years ago that gave me some. They don’t cost much money. I’ve seen them bid up to £25.

8. Rocks and Fossils

Rocks and fossils are very popular, perhaps because they are so collectible – they take little room up but a collection can be startling and interesting.

9. Bedspreads and Quilts

The star quilts of the North American Indians are very popular as well as the varied quilts made by the Victorians. Still a popular craft today, even modern handmade bedspreads and quilts can fetch a good price.

10. Perfumes and Colognes

This includes perfumes and colognes for both men and women. Especially name brands at a discount where people can bid for it, but get it for lower than the £50 it might normally sell for in a big department store.

11. Regional Items

Regional items have increased in popularity. People, who live in Arizona and New Mexico, California, Texas, can slip past the border and pick up Mexican arts and crafts extremely cheap, and yet double and triple their money on eBay.

If you don’t live in the States, but take a holiday in Mexico or South America, you may still find this lucrative. This category also covers tourist items bought anywhere in the world; such as African beadwork, dolls in the costume of the country, china from seaside towns in the British Isles, handbags from Egypt, it’s endless. As an aside, there is a vast, thriving market in British seaside trivia from pre-1970s.

12. Autographs

If you know, or have, anything that was signed by a famous person; a rock star, movie stars, presidents, whatever, they are bidding these up big time on eBay and the other auction sites. Some collectors’ are also keen to bid for a famous person’s item of clothing or lock of hair.

So, that’s just a summary of twelve categories that sell well through Internet auctions.

Of course you can sell thousands of other items. All sorts of books sell, for instance, there is no question about that. I’ve sold books and I’ve had three or four different companies buy books from me and resell them on eBay, Yahoo and other auction sites. However, you must either buy or print books cheap enough that you can ask for big enough discounts.

For example, a £25 book might get auctioned off at £6 or £7. Now if you bought it for £2, or printed it for £2 it shouldn’t be a problem making a steady profit. The profit margin is big enough for you to walk away with cash in your pocket.