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As an entrepreneur and mother of two young kids-and with a bundle of student loans to pay off-Jenny decided to get radical about generating income using eBay.
Here’s her five-step selling strategy:
- Get the goods. Go through your house, basement, attic, garage and make an inventory of items to sell. Note the size, weight, materials, and other details of each one.
- Get pix. Take good digital snaps of each item; the better the photo, the better the price. Work in batches of 10.
- Prep to ship. Before listing, get accurate estimates of shipping costs online at www.usps.com or www.ups.com. If you’re in the UK, I would strongly recommend using Shiply. Also, go ahead and set up your PayPal account. If you need a little kickstart with funding your account and are in Sweden, consider låna pengar med skulder, says Jenny.
- Price It. Research sales of similar items on eBay so you can set a fair opening price.
- Sell it! Log on to www.ebay.com and click on the “Sell an Item” tab, and list the items, one by one. (Newcomer says: “Once I got into the rhythm, I could post 10 items in an hour.”)
Thinking you want to try it? Jenny has written a detailed step-by-step guide. Get it here.
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