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Long term I always recommend dropshipping from your own website rather than auction and classified websites, mainly because of profit margins. However using auction sites is a great way to build up a customer database and get used to running an online business. eBay is the website of choice for the majority of dropshippers due to the amount of shoppers on eBay, here are 5 really simple ways to increase your conversions (auction listing visitors becoming buyers).

1. Have at least 1 image, and it must be top quality. You must have at least 1 image of your product, this goes without saying. The higher the quality of the image the better, and also the larger the better, this allows potential customers to see the product clearly. If the photo provided by your dropshipper isn’t very good you should buy the product and take your own photos (use a bedsheet to create blank background for photos). Taking your own photos can also give you a competitive edge.

2. Make your sales copy well laid out and clearly show each section. Using graphic headers for different sections is a great way to lay out your listing. Sections may include ‘Product Description’, ‘Delivery’, ‘Returns’, ‘Guarantees’, ‘Previous Customer Feedback’, ‘Payments’. You can create these graphics with free software like Serif PhotoPlus.

3. Offer a wide range of payment options. Always offer paypal, but try and offer as many others as possible. It may be annoying taking cheques to the bank, but it is another transaction for the cashbook and another customer in the database who may buy again!

4. Tell the customer why to buy with you. The visitor doesn’t want to know about you personally, they want to know how you can help them and they need to trust you if they are going to buy. So if your postage is ’1st class recorded’ and dispatched next day then clearly state it! Clearly state your ’100% refund if unhappy’ promise and also clearly show your positive feedback.

5. Pay attention to the little things. Pay close to attention to the small things and it will remove your listings rough edges and give you a professional listing. Spelling mistakes, bad grammar, ugly font, bad quality graphics and no information on returns all make your listing/business look unprofessional and the visitor will soon be clicking the ‘back’ button to see what others are selling.

These aren’t the sort of tips you need to test and monitor to see if they are having an effect, if you have hundreds of listings running at any one time they WILL increase sales (unless there is something categorically wrong like a bad product/ridiculous price).

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If you search in Google how to make money or something sinilar you will find tons of pages that tell you to have an option for that question. The truth is there are very few people making money online.

It is surprising how newcomers get lost in the sea of internet marketing. You just need to review financial results of the companies that provide internet services. Please go to Google.com, Clickbank.com, Amazon.com. Ebay.com or some similar internet giant and review the financial results.

Please review the sales numbers. You will find some surprises. After that you check the cost of sales, and inside that the row for partners expenses. Take a close look to the amount of money those companies share with their external partners.

This is the money you can work to get a part from. There are billion of dollars, just check it, you just need to check the sales of Amazon for example and realize how much the give away to their affiliates.

If I do not put the figures here is because they are open to any body who search for them plus if you are really entitled to earn cash from internet, you better accept that it is going to take you time. You may invest some of your time to search those figures by yourself.

If you are a user of Google, and I am 80% confident you are, just go to the company site, not the search engine page, and inside investor relations are you will find the quarterly and yearly reports.

Those numbers will give you a clear image about the size of the market on which Google is the leader. It is the advertisement market and it moves billion of dollars. By now USA is the biggest market but not the only one. Actually a big percentage of the revenues for Google come from non USA customers.

You can do the same with other companies listed here and similar ones. If the company you are making partnership with is this reliable then go for it. If you are not able to find how that company gets money, then you may ask yourself how they will hand over money to you.

You may take some time to analyse a different perspective to make money online. Selling stuff through slaes pages is not the unique form you can create to earn some cash online. Becoming a memeber of the advertisement industry may be an option for you and your pages.

This industry is gorwing every day and you need to learn how it works to start a project. Do not think you already know all about it. There are a lot of new things to learn.

Dave Martin has a place where He teaches people to get money in several ways. He says this is how I get money and can show you the way.