Simply Sell
Your Stuff On-Line
Do
You Really Need Your Own Website?
There
are two schools of thought here; it is possible to start making money online
without a website of your own, however having a web presence as soon as
possible will help you to further monetize your efforts.
With
your own web site, you can put up a page to capture visitors email addresses
and start building a list. A list can be one of the most profitable assets of
your online business. We’ll cover more on that later.
So
where can you sell online to raise money, without having to have your own web site.
www.craigslist.com you can post any unwanted item for sale
through their classified advertising pages.
http://www.gumtree.com/ you can post any
unwanted item for sale through their classified advertising pages.
http://www.listfisher.com/ mostly suited
for the USA only.
www.ebay.com whilst not free you can pay to
list any unwanted item for sale through their auction system.
www.amazon.com or www.amazon.co.uk again not free, but
eliminates the need to have your site up and running on day one.
The
purpose of listing where you can just sell things is so you can raise money to
fund your online business. No business ever started out without some kind of
initial cost, even Sir Richard Branson needed money to make those phone calls
from the payphone.
Don’t
worry though, you won’t need a fortune a minimum of $49.95 will do, so please
don’t tell me you spent it on that get rich quick idea.
Before
we get going and planting those seeds of money making ideas, there is one
important thing you must do even before you list your ad on craigslist or your
item for sale on EBay, you need some way of accepting money from your prospective purchasers.
One
of the most widely used payment processors on the internet whether you love
them or hate them is PayPal.
You
can open a personal account with PayPal and you can open a premier or business
account too. However, each PayPal account must have a unique email address and
a separate set of financial information recorded in order for you to use it.
If
you only have one bank account and one credit/debit card, you will only be
allowed one PayPal account. The best option here is to open either a Premier or
Business Account.
If
you are thinking of using EBAY you most definitely would be better off opening
a Premier or Business Account.
It
is simple and easy to open a PayPal account, just log in to your local PayPal
site and follow their instructions.
If
you are unfortunate enough to live in a Country where PayPal is not available,
the Ebay option will not be allowed either. There are other online payment
systems you can use. www.alertpay.com
Alert-pay is a little more expensive to use than PayPal but supports far more
Countries. It is easy to set up an
account. Choose your Country, the kind of account you wish to have, enter your
details and validate those details. That’s it you should be up and running in
no time.
PLEASE NOTE BEFORE YOU FOLLOW ANY OF THESE IDEAS CHECK THEM AS INTERNET CHANGES VERY QUICKLY AND SOME OF THESE IDEAS MIGHT NOT WORK.
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