I do!  For those of you who are new to selling online you may consider the following business plan.  This plan should help you make money the quickest way possible (now) while building up an ecommerce website in which you can sell your own products from (ongoing) so you can make money now and the most profit possible as time progresses.

  1. Get your business name established (see recommendations below)
  2. Get your products ready to sell
  3. Open an eBay store and sell your products here first.
  4. When you send out your products always put a business card or thank you card in the packages, with an invitation to check out your website for more wonderful deals such as this one.
  5. Forward your domain name to the ebay store for now while you build up your products.  This way you can make money as quickly as possible while advertising your website domain.  For now your website visitors will just automatically be sent to your eBay store to buy. But later, when you’re ready you can turn off the forwarding and have them see your new website instead.
  6. While you’re making money on eBay and establishing a clientele, get your website going.
  7. Work on your website products and content.
  8. Advertise, advertise, advertise. The more you do this, the less dependent on eBay you will become.  Within time you may not need the help of eBay for income at all.  It took me several years but I’ve accomplished this myself.  With the help of social networking your timeframe could be a lot shorter!  Having been able to pull away from Ebay is the reason why my eBay feedback doesn’t have much current feedback posted to it. I just haven’t needed or wanted to sell on eBay for quite some time… but it did take me a lot of work to get to this point.  Ebay is great for getting established and known…. but the plan is to pull away as soon as you can, so you can keep most of the profits yourself, heh!

Recommendations for establishing a good business name.

Consider a name that is easy to use, starts with either A, B, or C… and don’t use numbers in the business name (yuck).  It would be good to have key words in the name, ie. beauty, fashion, makeup or cosmetics; as this will help you in the search engines ratings greatly. So for a Cosmetics business you may consider something like:  Cosmetics Wholesale or Beautiful You Cosmetics.  (just as an example)

But again something easy to remember, easy to spell and early in the alphabet.  When your site is added to a list if you start with A, B or C, then you’ll be more at the top of that list!   You don’t have to take all the recommendations, but the more you get the easier it will be for people to remember, return and recommend!