I am 21 and an Engineer from the UK and after 3 years of shift working on apprentice wage i decided to explore how i can start making a bit of money on the side through ebay. I started looking for ideas through going through endless threads on this forum reading self help books on business start ups etc. I needed something that i could do when i got home from work, something that would be quick and an easy way of making money. The whole reason would be that i wanted to start saving my time from doing extra hours and spend more time doing things i wanted to do!
so ive decided just to share where im at after just a short amount of time. i started by searching ebay endlessly at items that i personally have brought seeing how many had been sold and when they had been sold. some items had loads of sales but only sold 1 or 2 a week this was no good to me and didnt really interest me. eventually after a lot of searching i found one particular product that i thought would be a great idea... it wasnt i have 20 sat in my spare room with only 5 sales over 2 months. but i learnt that my competition was too much i was appearing some 3-5 pages down the list.. no good. i decided that it was a lesson and looked again another 2-3 weeks of solid searching i found something that was so obvious and only had 6 competitors! so brought a sample of 10 from aliexpress. i decided to choose aliexpress as im a beginner and it was the easiest option for me for a simple transaction etc. after 2 weeks of wating for my product to come it finally arrived . costings all done prior to order(paypal fees ebay fees postage fees etc) of course. i listed the 10 items . It took 2 days before i had sold all 10. i was suprised... so i had just made £25 in 2 days... sounds like not a lot but when i calculated how long it took me roughly 10 minutes to package and post ( i live 100metres from a post box and im selling an item that fits into a post box.) i then did the maths and worked out that if i could keep up with 5 sales a day and i was trading for 365 days a year i could make £4562 profit a year ... from one item that takes me 10 minutes a day... so i got straight on the interenet and ordered another 50 (very low ammount and regretted ordering this little) i have now sold 46 in a week and a half average of 4.6 a day. so ive ordered more and decided to look into more items and have expanded my product line my target is to make £30 a day by april.
sorry if this has been a boring thread and in the grand scheme of things i am not making millions like some entrepreneurs on here. however, i have only just started and it is a great feeling when you start making a bit of money on the side, it has motivated me to look at what potential profit i can make with very little time needed rather than working long unsociable hours. hope this helps someone push towards their start-up
so ive decided just to share where im at after just a short amount of time. i started by searching ebay endlessly at items that i personally have brought seeing how many had been sold and when they had been sold. some items had loads of sales but only sold 1 or 2 a week this was no good to me and didnt really interest me. eventually after a lot of searching i found one particular product that i thought would be a great idea... it wasnt i have 20 sat in my spare room with only 5 sales over 2 months. but i learnt that my competition was too much i was appearing some 3-5 pages down the list.. no good. i decided that it was a lesson and looked again another 2-3 weeks of solid searching i found something that was so obvious and only had 6 competitors! so brought a sample of 10 from aliexpress. i decided to choose aliexpress as im a beginner and it was the easiest option for me for a simple transaction etc. after 2 weeks of wating for my product to come it finally arrived . costings all done prior to order(paypal fees ebay fees postage fees etc) of course. i listed the 10 items . It took 2 days before i had sold all 10. i was suprised... so i had just made £25 in 2 days... sounds like not a lot but when i calculated how long it took me roughly 10 minutes to package and post ( i live 100metres from a post box and im selling an item that fits into a post box.) i then did the maths and worked out that if i could keep up with 5 sales a day and i was trading for 365 days a year i could make £4562 profit a year ... from one item that takes me 10 minutes a day... so i got straight on the interenet and ordered another 50 (very low ammount and regretted ordering this little) i have now sold 46 in a week and a half average of 4.6 a day. so ive ordered more and decided to look into more items and have expanded my product line my target is to make £30 a day by april.
sorry if this has been a boring thread and in the grand scheme of things i am not making millions like some entrepreneurs on here. however, i have only just started and it is a great feeling when you start making a bit of money on the side, it has motivated me to look at what potential profit i can make with very little time needed rather than working long unsociable hours. hope this helps someone push towards their start-up
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