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The other day someone asked me a question regarding Ebay..
They wanted to know…how would they know a product would sell before they make it. I mean…what good would it be to spend all that time creating a book or video and find out it wouldnt sell on Ebay?
Hmmmmm
Great Question…..
Now Im going to let you on to a little bitty secret that I use to guarantee a book/video/ebook will sell before I create it……
Here is what I do…….
I go to Amazon.com….and search under these categories…..
Learn How To ….
Learn To……
How To Make A…….
100 ways to
Create A…..
And then I looked at all the hundreds of books/DVDs under those guidelines……
I would then will buy 3 of those books ( retail price) on one subject of the same title.
Using my methods I taught you in the book in www.sellbooksandvideos.com
I would sell those books as if they were my own……..on Ebay
I would write a sales page, provide the pictures and plug in my formula.
It would not matter that I would not make a cent over what I paid for because my entire goal was to see..if the information would sell on Ebay………
If I bought the books for $20.00 each and all three sold for 19.95 per book it was still a HUGE SUCCESS and I knew I had a money maker in my hands
So then I went to the library, read other books, read the internet and then created my own version of the same thing…….
Let me give you a REAL example on how I did this last year
….I went to Amazon.com and did research on and how to subjects and found a video on how to get your child into TV Commercials …
….. I then bought 4 videos on the subject.from Amazon…..they were great videos. I tested them on Ebay by making a sales page describing the video and then see..if they sold….
.I sold the videos as though I made them….
I sold all 4 of the videos for 19.95 per video..
…Now of course I didnt make a cent because I bought the videos from Amazon at the same price……but again that was NOT my goal…..I just wanted to see if they sold first…and they did
So then..
I did my own research, interviews and and created a product called How To Get Your Child On TV..( It took me one weekend to do this)and sold it as a ebook..on Ebay for $9.95 and sold 23 copies the very first time……which brought in about $250.00 for that week..and about 26 copies the second week .and about $1,000( in profit and I deducted the 40.00 in fees) for the month……I didnt even have to ship anything….it was electronic…..so it was all profit
So…if you want to test the waters before you create a product….research Amazon, buy a product…..that you think might be interesting…..sell it on Ebay..
If it sells, then you know that you have a money maker before you write a single word.
You just have to go and create your own version…
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