I want to sell over the internet, but I have no product and only $500 to start. How can I sell sucessfully?

Question

I'm looking to be an entrepreneur. Start my own company part-time, eventually leading up to full-time.

Answer 1

Maybe a transition stage to your own website and company is to practice selling on Ebay which is already set up for you. They provide the website and the big market for your products as well as PayPal to handle all the credit card transactions etc. The downside is the percentage profit they take and the hassles you have dealing with some customers, but your going to have those hassles too when you have your own business.

Answer 2

Think of all your interests & ask yourself if any of those could be expanded into a business. Just keep in mind...what's your expertise? What are your interests? What could you imagine yourself doing?

By researching the prospect of starting your own business -- what it entails, what you need to know, helpful hints, etc -- you'll feel better prepared to take that plunge.

I found some book titles that are relevant to your specific question:

* 101 Internet Businesses You Can Start from Home by Susan Sweeney
* The Best Home Businesses for the 21st Century by Paul Edwards
* Selling Online: How to Become a Successful E-Commerce Merchant by Jim Carroll
* I Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What It Was: How to Discover What You Really Want and How to Get It by Barbara Sher
* I Don't Know What I Want, But I Know It's Not This: A Step-by-Step Guide to Finding Gratifying Work by Julie Jansen

I also posted some article links in the source box.

Hope that helps! I wish you much success & happiness in all your ventures!

Answer 3

Take a look at M2C Global. I started with less than $300, received a FREE website, samples, and earned a check my first day. In less than 60 days, I received checks 3-4 days a week, the smallest are $50; my largest has been $250. I have received as many as 3 checks a day.

The company is growing by more than 1,000 dealers a day. Many of these people will be added to your dealer group, so you earn money from their efforts, as well as your own.

I do this from home, while watching my 3 small children. I'm glad M2C fit the requirements of what I needed. Take a look. You can enroll and get the website for FREE.

Answer 4

There are so many options available to investigate.

Decide what your interests are, what you are passionate about, your available time you have to invest to your business, a good fit for your budget to start and maintain and make sure you're online with your business.

When you find things online that may interest you, request information to be either emailed or mailed to you so you will have your options in front of you to make your decision.

Once you make your decision, thoroughly investigate the opportunity so you know exactly what is expected of you to succeed.

Best of Luck to YOU!

Answer 5

Well you can join hand with me I am having my own Internet Cafe and now I am starting Software Development and Web Designing Company. We are intend to design Softwares and sell it online and other projects for Web Designing.So if you are intrested please feel to contact me.
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Answer 6

Well, what ever you're selling I can help you do it.I get my webpages to come first on search engines, so what ever's being sold can be done online. Go to Google and type in * make contact male victims * and my site is first back out of 20Million. Email me from it and we'll talk then.

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Answer 7

My friend go to Ebay.com first... see how you may like that ask other ppl who are successful with it and/or get a subscription to the Magazine Entrepreneur...they have great pointers... :)

Answer 8

Starting a small business takes a lot of courage. But, as they say, courage does not pay the bills. To be successful – to stay in business – you need more than courage. You need a combination of hard work, skill, perseverance, and lots of luck.

Some things you need to consider:
- "How can I support my family while I build up by business?"
- "What are my abilities?"
- "Is there a market for the product or service I have chosen?"
- "How long will it take this business to reach the financial goal I have?"

You may want to read the article "How to Start a New Business Successfully" http://www.powerhomebiz.com/vol51/launch.htm , which lists six steps to launch a new business successfully:

1. Provide a benefit.
2. Determine the fit with your market.
3. Right timing is everything
4. Be ready to support your business
5. Develop a blueprint for success
6. Market, market, market

To give you ideas on what exactly do you need to start your own business, here are ten things you need to know before launching your own business “10 Things You Need to Know When Starting Your Own Home Business” http://www.powerhomebiz.com/052006/startingbiz.htm .

I recommend that you read the following books:

- What No One Ever Tells You About Starting Your Own Business : Real Life Start-Up Advice from 101 Successful Entrepreneurs
- Starting From Scratch: How To Start A Business When You Don't Have Money
- If You're Clueless About Starting Your Own Business and Want to Know More
- On the Move : How to Succeed and Survive As an Entrepreneur
- How to Make 1000 Mistakes in Business and Still Succeed

However, you have very limited resources to start an online business. For $500, the easiest way would be to find products to sell on eBay and apply for an account with Paypal to accept credit card payments. You cannot start an ecommerce website, selling at your own website for only $500.

The key success factor is: Sell products that people actually want.

Selling on eBay is not as easy as some portray. In fact, go to eBay and check out the number of auctions that end without a single bid. Competition is getting tough, as more sellers go to eBay; even the big boys are joining in the eBay marketplace. Add to that the increasing listing and final value fees.

eBay has several ways for you to determine exactly what the hot items to sell on their marketplace:

Items In Demand = the most popular items currently within that particular category. To see the In Demand page, go to http://pages.ebay.com/sellercentral/sellbycategory.html

Hot Items by Category Report = a monthly report that lists the fastest growing categories on eBay for the previous month. Go to http://pages.ebay.com/sellercentral/whatshot.html and select "Hot Items by Category" from the menu on the left.

eBay Pulse = "a daily snapshot of current trends, hot picks, and cool stuff on eBay". Go to http://pulse.ebay.com/ to see eBay Pulse in action.

Merchandising Calendar = eBay promotes specific categories on its home page each month. Savvy eBayers know that this home page exposure results in more interest in such categories. Go to http://pages.ebay.com/sellercentral/calendar.html to view the current Merchandising Calendar.

As for items to sell, you can:

1. Buy bulk liquidation items such as those at Liquidation.com. The capitalization may be big, but the idea is to sell the items individually and profit from it.

2. Find manufacturers of items you want to sell and buy discounted items from them

3. Make deals with retailers in your area, and offer to buy their unwanted items for deep discounts. jayandmarie - the most successful ebay sellers - made deals with music stores where they will buy the entire inventory in the discounted bins, and then sold the items on ebay for 1-cent starting bid.

4. Look for possible partners on the Web, preferably outside of the US. Import items from them and sell them on ebay. There's huge profits to gain from this approach.

I suggest you read the articles on Success with Auctions http://www.powerhomebiz.com/internet/auctions.htm

Answer 9

You really need a product first, try ebay with bits and pieces around your house you are no longer using see how that goes first.

Answer 10

you know the kinkos guy started with 350.00. work hard, and try to sell stuff that people will want that is good quality,and price don't buy one of those programs on tv.